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Post by Toph on Mar 29, 2019 16:00:28 GMT
Got my shipping notice from Entertainment Earth for Red Swoop and Stepper
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 4, 2019 13:10:33 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 4, 2019 13:23:29 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 4, 2019 13:27:38 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 4, 2019 13:30:00 GMT
The more I see them, the more the white patch on the roof and the bonnet, from the shoulder hinges, annoy me in car mode. Need to be black. Surprised I didn't say anything previously! |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 4, 2019 13:53:05 GMT
I quite like the white bits on the car mode: breaks up the black and gives a contrast.
-ralph
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Post by Toph on Apr 4, 2019 14:09:33 GMT
Got my shipping notice from Entertainment Earth for Red Swoop and Stepper Got the package yesterday. Was really excited. Been looking forward to it all week. Opened it up and.... found studio series drift. Talk about disappointment. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 4, 2019 14:21:14 GMT
Were you expecting a Drift or is this a **** up?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 4, 2019 14:28:06 GMT
I quite like the white bits on the car mode: breaks up the black and gives a contrast. -ralph But they're random chunks of white on a black car! |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 4, 2019 14:31:35 GMT
They're evenly spaced out. Doesn't look random at all to me and it's a Space Car anyway.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Apr 4, 2019 14:53:18 GMT
Were you expecting a Drift or is this a **** up? It was a **** up, but my **** up. I saw "dinobot" on the shipping notification email, and thought it was red swoop and didn't read any further. Having not even heard of anyone getting their drifts yet, but with in-hand pictures of swoop and stepper, I never once even remembered drift + dinobots were a thing. |
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 6, 2019 20:31:34 GMT
Seacons aside, I can't help but feel with this line they've gone too obscure. I know the remit was remoulds of fan favourite characters that wouldn't fit the retail schedule, but with the Megatron they went one colour scheme more obscure than fans actually wanted, now we've got a pair of figures from a Japanese manga right off the end of G1, which means another Megatron - incidentally too small to put with the Prime it's supposed to go with unless they've done something mental with the Galvatron mould.
It doesn't strike me as feeling essential like the previous Grotusque, Repugnus, Blast Off, Counterpunch releases did, or as fun as the TR boxed sets were.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 10, 2019 9:59:58 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 12, 2019 17:02:03 GMT
So, what's Generations Select then?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 12, 2019 17:08:04 GMT
The current "exclusive online" line
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 12, 2019 17:08:38 GMT
Shockprowl!
It's Hasbro's recently initiated line of exclusives, sold through selected retailers. Basically the latest version of the exclusives line that last gave us Blast Off, Repugnus and Counterpunch.
They say they want to use it to offer fan focussed releases, repaints and the like. The first two releases are a red chested Swoop and the PotP Jazz mould in black as Ricochet.
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Post by Toph on Apr 12, 2019 17:09:34 GMT
It's a line of exclusives that's divorced from the main linewide gimmick of Generations, whatever that may be (currently it's Siege).
It's, atm, generally the replacement for Botcon/Club exclusives and tend to be a bit more like them, than it does typical store or sdcc exclusives.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 12, 2019 17:51:04 GMT
So, what's Generations Select then? A new line of chicken fillet burgers. -Ralph |
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 12, 2019 19:43:26 GMT
So, what's Generations Select then? A new line of chicken fillet burgers. -Ralph ohhhh yummy... Locally sourced chicken? |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 12, 2019 21:54:10 GMT
Of course.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 13, 2019 7:14:23 GMT
Put me down for a bucket!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 13, 2019 7:24:42 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 13, 2019 7:27:53 GMT
Hmmm. He's WFC-GS06 Smokescreen. Megatron was WFC-GS01. Who are the intervening four?
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Post by Jim on Apr 13, 2019 7:54:54 GMT
Oh, nice, I like the look of that!
We don't have anything for Bluestreak other than the name yet, do we?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 13, 2019 7:56:17 GMT
Not really, this is it:  |
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Post by Jim on Apr 13, 2019 8:04:01 GMT
Ah, and that reminds me of the Gears reissue! He's never shown up at any of the importers / online retailers has he? He was the only one I was after!
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Post by Toph on Apr 13, 2019 14:13:00 GMT
Hmmm. He's WFC-GS06 Smokescreen. Megatron was WFC-GS01. Who are the intervening four? Soundblaster is in that photo, and we know about skywarp. And you said there was Bluestreak. WFC-GS02: Soundblaster (was shown before Skywarp mentioned) WFC-GS03: Skywarp WFC-GS04: ? WFC-GS05: Bluestreak WFC-GS06: Smokescreen This still leaves one completely unknown. It's also plausible Bluestreak is 07. |
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Post by Toph on Apr 13, 2019 16:08:15 GMT
Smokescreen is one of the most visually interesting transformers of all time, thanks to his deco. How on earth did they manage to make this one almost as boring as siege prowl was? |
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Post by drmick on Apr 13, 2019 17:55:43 GMT
Smokescreen is one of the most visually interesting transformers of all time, thanks to his deco. How on earth did they manage to make this one almost as boring as siege prowl was? Lack of sponsors in Soviet-era Cybertron? Got round to opening Ricochet and Swoop today. Very, very loose hips on Ricochet and Swoop not much better. |
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Post by Toph on Apr 13, 2019 18:04:26 GMT
Got round to opening Ricochet and Swoop today. Very, very loose hips on Ricochet and Swoop not much better. That seems to be a very unfortunate trend with both hasbro and takara repaints, over the last couple years. |
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