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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 13, 2021 15:05:46 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 13, 2021 15:10:39 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2021 15:39:52 GMT
Is that just the ER Screamer exactly the same again with packed in tat and bumped to leader price?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2021 15:50:08 GMT
They were trying really hard to say it's a remould but I don't think it is. Just loads of extra bits like the cape, which is plastic and hinged so it fans out. The chair is the command seat from the Nemesis. Kinda need that for Megs.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 13, 2021 15:52:02 GMT
Is that just the ER Screamer exactly the same again with packed in tat and bumped to leader price? -Ralph Yup, just like we knew it would be!
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Post by Kingoji on Aug 13, 2021 15:52:43 GMT
If they's filled in all that greebly sculpt detail, I might have cared.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2021 15:59:45 GMT
They seem to think we'll be grateful for them simplifying the paint job to match the movie colours.
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Post by The Huff on Aug 13, 2021 16:03:07 GMT
Not screen accurate! Coronation Starscream needs to all extreme pointy manga style proportions just like in the movie scene.
Not that I was expecting it though.
Edit: Could at least come with Ramjet and Thrust figures though.
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Post by Benn on Aug 13, 2021 16:10:18 GMT
A screen accurate Starscream needs the shorter blasters for jet mode, too.
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Post by dyrl on Aug 13, 2021 16:29:35 GMT
Titan class Autobot City. Movie accurate with a robot mode. Gold Metroplex. Would be good.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 13, 2021 16:34:38 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2021 17:15:28 GMT
Madly differing release dates for these three. We know now Kapow/ID/Star etc get stock ahead of Pulse when they're allowed access to it, but Pulse are offering Sweep for Jan whereas the other shops are November, Pulse is April for Starscream and Perceptor, where the other shops are November for Starscream and Feb for Perceptor.
Either way it's a bit spaced out. Doesn't feel like a wave. Maybe other figures to follow?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 13, 2021 17:34:19 GMT
Product numbers
SS86-11 F3164 Perceptor SS86-12 F3201 Coronation Starscream SS86-10 F0793 SS86 Voyager Sweep
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Post by Toph on Aug 13, 2021 18:05:26 GMT
There is nothing that isn't redundant, unfortunately. I certainly don't want to pay twenty bucks extra for a second repack of starscream that comes with a bunch of accessories that lost their novelty 20 years ago.
I might be tempted by perceptor if I saw him in store, but I don't see where this is better than TR Perceptor.
As for the Sweep, I got like... Four TR scourges to be sweeps.
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Post by dyrl on Aug 14, 2021 15:37:17 GMT
*opens thread* Wow! Thanks!!!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 14, 2021 23:00:18 GMT
There is nothing that isn't redundant, unfortunately. I certainly don't want to pay twenty bucks extra for a second repack of starscream that comes with a bunch of accessories that lost their novelty 20 years ago. The word on the Grapevine is that the planned Kingdom repack of Starscream (WFC-K36? F0697 Kingdom Voyager Starscream) is canned, replaced with a toy bumped forward from Legacy. So this will be it's first repack. It's had a somewhat tortuous journey to retail with not only the Kingdom Voyager being canned but a planned SS86 Voyager King Starscream - presumably sans Throne - also being canned and replaced by BB Movie Thrust! (F0791 SS MV6 Thrust www.amazon.com.au/Hasbro-Transformers-Generations-Studio-Starsc/dp/B08TLQX5CY) I can only guess it went over budget for a Voyager with the cloak and shoulderpads leading to the chair being produced to thrust it up a size class.
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Post by Llama God on Aug 15, 2021 8:52:19 GMT
Well Perceptor was a nice surprise to see on Friday... but I don't think I'll be picking one up since it doesn't really bring anything to the table that the Titans Return version didn't also. Starscream... eh, nice try, but not for me.
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Post by Benn on Aug 15, 2021 9:43:36 GMT
This has been the first real disappointment from SS86. Perceptor I'll wait and see, but I suspect this lot and the Sweep are all skips for me.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2021 10:49:15 GMT
Scourge remains a pain in a bum for folk to find so the Sweep might sell well!
Or there will be piles of them for a tenner in B&M in a year. Who knows.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 15, 2021 11:29:09 GMT
It was a big surprise on Friday..... ..... almost as big as the one I got last night when I discovered we did already know about it!
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Post by Benn on Aug 15, 2021 11:32:06 GMT
Scourge remains a pain in a bum for folk to find so the Sweep might sell well! Or there will be piles of them for a tenner in B&M in a year. Who knows. -Ralph Yeah, it'll be good for those that missed out, absolutely. And I am grateful for the chance to save what pennies I can now the world is opening up again!
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 15, 2021 12:02:00 GMT
Woah. Lot of figures from that Cybertron scene in Bumblebee. Sweep was a pass for me but might be back on the cards now we know the colours have been tweaked to make it Scourge G1 toy accurate. Might work better with Selects Galvatron.
Although of course Cyclonus is really the one that needs a toy recolour.
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Post by Llama God on Aug 16, 2021 6:53:21 GMT
It was a big surprise on Friday..... ..... almost as big as the one I got last night when I discovered we did already know about it! ... Huh.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 16, 2021 8:55:29 GMT
I may have ordered 4 Sweeps. I may need 2 more.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Aug 16, 2021 9:01:33 GMT
That's a lotta Sweeps.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 16, 2021 9:06:27 GMT
They saw me coming.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 16, 2021 9:21:23 GMT
Looking forward to the tidal wave of buyer's regret when that lot turn up!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 16, 2021 11:57:19 GMT
There will be no regrets!
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Aug 16, 2021 12:48:03 GMT
You should have got the toy coloured one for Scourge and the movie colours for the Sweeps.
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 16, 2021 14:43:04 GMT
I may have ordered 4 Sweeps. I may need 2 more. -Ralph Dear God, man....
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