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Post by Llama God on Apr 3, 2021 8:43:40 GMT
Gah. I knew that, but my fingers betrayed me!
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 3, 2021 11:09:50 GMT
Swines!
Cut them off, immediately.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 8, 2021 9:59:39 GMT
Netflix Deluxe w3 arrived Tuesday.
If I said the worst one is Cheetor and he's merely miles better than his retail release, you'll get an idea of how much I like them in hand!
Deeseus's Soldier (Ironhide) and Sparkless Bot (Barricade) are both interesting new decos. I'd have preferred a Protect Black Ironhide in colours similar to this but he feels close enough with some interesting touches, the green eyes and missiles tips in the axe. Sparkless Bot is clever.
Star of the show is Blue Deep Cover. Gorgeous. First Siege Sideswipe to majorly deviate from white with the arms & upper legs, if you see grey as majorly, but it looks so so nice and easily repurposed as a new character.
You'll want all four.
No bonus ala Ark backgrounds this time :-(
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Post by Toph on Apr 8, 2021 10:04:05 GMT
Cheetor will be mine because Cheetah. And Deep Blue will be mine to either be a new character or G2 Deep Cover (thanks for that observation!)
I'll probably pass on the others.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 8, 2021 10:06:19 GMT
You might, I don't want any of them!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 8, 2021 11:11:13 GMT
How many toys that you don't want can you see?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 8, 2021 11:13:15 GMT
THERE ARE FOUR TOYS.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 8, 2021 15:41:50 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 8, 2021 17:18:26 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 11, 2021 11:13:56 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 11, 2021 11:23:48 GMT
Can never say no to Gallries.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Apr 11, 2021 12:09:05 GMT
Thought I might finally get a chance to get to a Smyths today. Naturally Glasgow does not have a Cheetor in stock. Not going to be too disheartened, though - whilst all the other Scottish stores appear to have one in, they also only have one in, and this exact same thing happened with Bumblebee, so hopefully as they get closer to opening up again more stock will appear.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 17, 2021 21:54:47 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 18, 2021 11:47:21 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2021 13:56:11 GMT
Nice. This and Hotlink are the best decos this mould has had. Lovely picture of the two tetrajets together in that set but seems to be one of those sites where you can't link to images direct.
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Post by Toph on Apr 20, 2021 17:04:31 GMT
Okay so Cheetor is a big improvement over the already impressive Kingdom Cheetor. I get that the cheetah mode was the focal point this time, which is why he lacks blue on his legs. But i don't get why they dropped it on his tail blade, which isn't exposed. Or why they didn't add some color to his forearms to compensate.
Also, Deep Cover being cast in grey but painted blue is a pointlessly stupid decision. Just cast him in blue in the first place! Also, he looks really good with a G2 symbol and g2 style gun.
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Post by Toph on Apr 20, 2021 17:27:53 GMT
My friend told me it's believed that the paint budget for netflix isn't figure by figure, but spread out across the wave. So when one figure gets a premium deco, another one loses out.
So Cheetor loses paint apps so they could cast Deep Cover in the wrong color and paint him blue.
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Post by Toph on May 8, 2021 7:52:15 GMT
Well, I realized that the black ironhide is basically a ready to go BW prebeast Bonecrusher, and now I need to buy one.
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Post by Pinwig on May 8, 2021 10:35:29 GMT
Ooh, good shout.
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Post by The Doctor on May 8, 2021 11:04:25 GMT
Yes, I can see that.
-Ralph
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Post by tomwe on May 12, 2021 11:00:38 GMT
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Post by Nigel on May 17, 2021 20:38:33 GMT
I went to Smyths in Cardiff today, in the hope of getting Netflix toys. All they had was a single Seeker and as nice as it is, I couldn't justify the £40 price tag. I did, however, find a Shanghai Pursuit down to £15, so not a wasted trip.
Edit. The website's showing a couple of others as in stock for click and collect. Perhaps I should have looked at that first.
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Post by Nigel on May 23, 2021 8:51:30 GMT
I just ordered Sparkless and Army Drone for click and collect, only for an email to come back saying that they're not available after all.
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Post by Llama God on May 23, 2021 11:01:56 GMT
A boo :-(
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 23, 2021 11:36:12 GMT
Sparkless Seeker is in stock for home delivery, I have one en route
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Post by Nigel on May 23, 2021 16:10:23 GMT
I read the email wrong. It was another item I'd ordered that wasn't available. The Transformers were there waiting for me! It's a good thing I had to go there anyway, and I was then able to get the third item from the Asda next door. So all's well!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 2, 2021 6:44:40 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2022 16:07:06 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Feb 27, 2022 9:23:29 GMT
Well that's a disappointingly average price. I was expecting either a bargain (not really) or something very over-priced.
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