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Post by Benn on Feb 16, 2021 16:00:58 GMT
It's less important to me than it used to be, I find. Soundwave broke the all scale mindset. But SS is built around scale, SS Jazz (not the 86 one) is tiny! In discussing Studio Series, scale has to come into the discussion.
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Post by The Huff on Feb 16, 2021 16:25:54 GMT
There are lots more figures they can do in SS86 as well as Blaster, Perceptor and Co mentioned, we have Blitzwing, Insecticons, Coronation Starcream, proper Kranix, proper Quintesson Prosecutor (please!), more Junkions with that good coffee flavour for you and Brawn.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 16, 2021 16:53:37 GMT
Yes, when SS started Hasbro made a point of saying one of its purposes was to deliver robot modes that were consistent with the height of the characters on screen. That then bled over into Generations when Siege started.
I really like it, the one issue I had with TR was that within the size classes the robots were almost identical in shape and size. The only time I worry about scale is with robot modes that are established in media as having a height related to others, so although TR Blaster is just as big as the G1 version, he really doesn't work with Earthrise Soundwave.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 16, 2021 17:57:37 GMT
Scale is meaningless. -Ralph You're not writing one of your weird essays now, Dockotor. |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 16, 2021 18:53:27 GMT
Before scale was, imagination was.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 16, 2021 19:06:10 GMT
Hmmmm, yes, I have a great imagination when I'm re-living the battle on the Dam with MP-10 and little tiny Legends Megatron. That really works.
NOT!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 16, 2021 19:17:51 GMT
It's easy. You just hold one in each hand and wave them around while making beep-beep noises.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 16, 2021 19:34:22 GMT
ILLEGAL NOISES!
Megatron's fusion canon does not go 'beep beep'!
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Post by The Huff on Feb 16, 2021 20:13:30 GMT
No - the beep beeps would surely be the robot's talking to one another as they battle.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 16, 2021 21:14:49 GMT
And the 'whuuuuuuuuuum' noise when they transform, as per the Ladybird tapes.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 16, 2021 22:08:41 GMT
KEE-KRR-KUR-KURGH.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 16, 2021 22:50:10 GMT
And the 'whuuuuuuuuuum' noise when they transform, as per the Ladybird tapes. -Ralph I wonder what an episode of the cartoon would be like if you redubbed it with the ladybird sound effects. |
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Post by Llama God on Feb 17, 2021 7:52:01 GMT
Yes, there is precident of them -eventually- completing groups across different lines. It's gonna take forever... Provided they can resist the urge to go back and start again with Grimlock before they do. Which they won't be able to. |
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Post by Llama God on Feb 17, 2021 7:55:08 GMT
There are lots more figures they can do in SS86 as well as Blaster, Perceptor and Co mentioned, we have Blitzwing, Insecticons, Coronation Starcream, proper Kranix, proper Quintesson Prosecutor (please!), more Junkions with that good coffee flavour for you and Brawn. There are certainly other possibilities, and the Bayverse Studio Series figures have shown that they're not averse to putting some obscure characters into the line if it means they get a cheap mold reuse (I'm looking at you, KSI Sentry, and so forth). Certainly there's some easy mold re-use with the Junkions, but I'm not sure about any of the others (aside from Starscream, of course) - but that doesn't mean that it's not beyond Hasbro's abilities to somehow find a way... |
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Post by The Huff on Feb 17, 2021 8:46:50 GMT
I woyld prefer it though, to have had all the main movie cast stars (including Cyclonus, Magnus, Galvatron, Arcee, Springer etc) in SS86. I don't know why, as I'd display them opened anyway, but just for uniformity. Im sure a lot of SS only collectors would like the entire main cast boxes to match and have the key players from each movie.
There is also the backdrops and maybe it's just seeing that 1986 movie logo on the packaging.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 17, 2021 9:41:47 GMT
Now you've done it. Wave 2 will be 'movie accurate' repaints of all the figures that have come out in Generations.
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Post by Benn on Feb 21, 2021 16:44:20 GMT
Just as a quick question, has anyone else whose ordered Hot Rod had any update on when he's dropping? I've not really seen anyone with him yet, and the rest seem to have all arrived now.
Oh, wait, no Scourge yet either, is there...
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 21, 2021 16:48:22 GMT
ID say March on their release list. I remember when Star got the others in they said the Voyagers would be a few weeks.
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Post by The Huff on Feb 21, 2021 17:06:01 GMT
Just as a quick question, has anyone else whose ordered Hot Rod had any update on when he's dropping? I've not really seen anyone with him yet, and the rest seem to have all arrived now. Oh, wait, no Scourge yet either, is there... I was meaning to ask this too, so thanks for saving me the trouble. I'm waiting on Scourge from them. |
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Post by Llama God on Feb 22, 2021 7:54:26 GMT
Yep, I'm also waiting on Hot Rod, since I pre-ordered hum and Jazz together...
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 14, 2021 10:32:48 GMT
Hot Rod is amazing.
Arrived yesterday and I can honestly say I doubt they will be able to top him. Far and away a better take than either MP version as well.
Belter!
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Post by Benn on Mar 14, 2021 11:03:23 GMT
As much as I'm looking forward to getting Hot Rod and Scourge, I am quietlty annoyed at (if I understand why) Pulse dropping these instantly while months old preorders are yet to be fulfilled!
Happy to wait and support the smaller business, but sneaky sneaky Hasbro!
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Post by The Huff on Mar 14, 2021 11:32:08 GMT
Still waiting for ID toys to get Scourge in too. I hope they do. Is there some sort of delay on the Voyagers?
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 14, 2021 11:37:43 GMT
There does seem to be. The sellers were saying a few weeks ago that the Voyagers would be behind the deluxes by a few weeks, and having had a look around myself this morning after Andy's post, it seems while Hot Rod is beginning to come out now, Scourge is still behind. Smyths have Hot Rod down as imminent and Scourge a month away.
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Post by The Huff on Mar 14, 2021 15:13:47 GMT
Makes sense I suppose. Are they waiting for Scourge to grow his beard or soemething?
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Post by Benn on Mar 14, 2021 15:47:18 GMT
As far as I can tell, all the Hot Rods and Scourges are coming from the recent grand opening of Pulse UK.
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Post by Dezzeh on Mar 14, 2021 19:18:04 GMT
I certainly just had a Scourge from Pulse, so I cancelled my Zavvi order. F Zavvi.
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Post by The Huff on Mar 14, 2021 19:38:36 GMT
Does he have a beard?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 14, 2021 21:37:38 GMT
He has a Cyclonus.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Mar 14, 2021 21:58:18 GMT
They have a cave troll.
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