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Post by Pinwig on Feb 24, 2024 16:25:10 GMT
So is Prime the new United?
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 24, 2024 16:40:21 GMT
This is giving me... Stirrings. I feel the magic returning. I've been a bit down on transformers for a year or so as the line seemed to have lost its way, but all of a sudden there are things to look forward to in the dim distant future. Sub group collection excitement has been reawakened.
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Post by Toph on Feb 24, 2024 17:43:00 GMT
And as I don't give a flip about The 13, there are seven things on that list that are immediately boring to me.
Weird, how again Pretenders get the shaft (only four for their year in the spotlight) while the 13 get at least seven.
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Post by legios on Feb 24, 2024 17:56:19 GMT
I know that they are just slavishly copying the pattern of going from "Best First" to "Rodimus First", but for some reason both "Onyx First" and "Alchemist First" make me chuckle mercilessly as names go. Hopefully they'll include some sort of Godmaster or weaponizer with the latter that they can call Issac or Nu-ton or something. Mind you, just typing out "Alchemist First" means that I am doomed to forever think of this toy as robot Supana Kurogane, because it just immediately makes me think of his tendency to bang on abvout being an "a-rated Alchemist" in Kame Rider Gotchard. :-)
Karl
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Post by shaggydave76 on Feb 24, 2024 18:29:47 GMT
Excited for the new, larger Deluxe sized Combiners.
Should be a huge improvement over the sometimes flimsy and inaccurate Combiner Wars figures.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 24, 2024 18:54:09 GMT
WHOOPEE indeed. This might just get me interested in the line again. Whereas I think: the market has been saturated by combiners in recent years so this doesn't interest me. I'd rather go back and fill out some CW/UW gaps than start another combiner system for the same characters. -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Feb 25, 2024 20:46:20 GMT
I'm kind of unmoved on the Prime's I'll admit. Several of them are at price points that it is going to take a lot to get me to drop on Transformers these days. And much as it is funny, if Fallen Dave is the original version then almost a ton is a lot to spend on a brick-on-fire. They'll need to go some to do a better Trion than the Barbarian Lion King version that they did a while back (one of the few CW toys that remains in my Transformers box).
On the other hand Heatwave would be nice, and could team up nicely with Chase - not quite a new character, but one that hasn't had a treatment outside of Rescue Bots yet (C'mon Hasbro, where's my generations Silverbot...? :-) ) And this Flatline is essentially a new character, coming in as a tertiary media exclusive. I'll see how they turn out in the actual plastic.
But I have no real interest on another run at a Superion, especially as it is likely to be hampered by being overly respectful of a fairly rubbish looking, nearly forty year old, animation model. Not for me I feel.
There are one or two things in there to interest me, and I don't think getting the stuff I want is going to be too expensive, so I'm pretty happy. And I'm glad to hear that they seem to be still hitting the mark as far as collectors are concerned. Always good to see people happy with that is going in in their hobby.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 25, 2024 21:32:41 GMT
Alpha Trion - Thundertron recolour? That makes me wonder if any more of the 13 are recolours Onyx looks like a Dragon Megatron remould to me. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2024 22:52:10 GMT
Do any of them have clearly defined form? Alpha Trion was the one I thought of but one of the others is categorised as the first beast TF...
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 25, 2024 22:53:30 GMT
I must dig out my COVENANT OF PRIMUS.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 26, 2024 10:22:10 GMT
Strongly suspecting a Unicron-derived Primus to be the HasLab project during this year.
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Post by Llama God on Feb 27, 2024 8:32:38 GMT
Alpha Trion - Thundertron recolour? That makes me wonder if any more of the 13 are recolours Onyx looks like a Dragon Megatron remould to me. Could well be. Although what everyone seems to miss from his original reference art (including most artists to draw him during IDW 1.0) is that he's meant to be a kind-of centaur thing, so if they were being completely accurate that wouldn't quite work. But I don't think they'll be that fussed, and yes, he'll be a dragon. As for Mr. T. F. Allen I don't think it'll be a Bayverse version of the character since we got him not that long ago in the Studio Series line. I suspect this'll be a version of the Dreamwave art, and I've seen it suggested that it'll be from the Armada Megatron mold, which makes a lot of sense to me. Unless it's a reworking of Tarn, which isn't a Leader class mold, but they'll justify the price by cramming it with fire-like blast effects. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2024 19:40:39 GMT
Wasp is Animated, so he'll be the Bumblebee repainted, no? <edit>Oh, and Flatline is a Decepticon medic, a virtual retool from IDW Trailbreaker/Hoist. Not sure what that means here. He will 100% be a Armada Red Alert repaint. There's another version of him that's a near 1:1 match for Legacy Bulkhead. But between Heatwave being a hood match for a Bulkhead retool, and the G1 version of Flatline being a great match for Red Alert, I seriously doubt there'll be two retail released Bulkhead retools in the same year. Flatline's a Leader, Red Alert a Voyager. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2024 19:41:29 GMT
They've not used that gimmick on toys larger than deluxe before You forget the garbage truck junkion. I did, thank you! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2024 19:42:43 GMT
Is Ramhorn the only non redone 86 toy? Or do we count his Titanmaster as "good enough" even though there's no tape mode? (The FoC Datadisc definitely isn't good enough!) You're right, it is indeed not good enough. It is *the best*. It's *VERY* good, but it's not a Tape Ramhorn |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2024 21:28:41 GMT
Ramhorn can be more than a tape.
-Ralph
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Post by The Huff on Feb 27, 2024 22:03:30 GMT
Ramhorn can be more than a tape. -Ralph Indeed. He can also be a robot rhino! He is in fact a robot in disguise. There's more, much more than meets your eye when you simply see just tape Ramhorn. |
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Post by Benn on Feb 27, 2024 23:01:17 GMT
He's a rhino, a little man, a head, a tank and a weird gun thing! A tape is a downgrade after all that.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2024 23:51:18 GMT
Possibly. But if you want a Ramhorn to fit in Blaster, as Ramhorn traditionally does, the Titanmaster is not up to the job.
I reiterate: I like the Titanmaster Ramhorn
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Post by Toph on Feb 28, 2024 0:46:32 GMT
He will 100% be a Armada Red Alert repaint. There's another version of him that's a near 1:1 match for Legacy Bulkhead. But between Heatwave being a hood match for a Bulkhead retool, and the G1 version of Flatline being a great match for Red Alert, I seriously doubt there'll be two retail released Bulkhead retools in the same year. Flatline's a Leader, Red Alert a Voyager. You are mistaken, my good sir! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2024 0:57:57 GMT
Thank you. It's been a long day and I'd like to sleep cos tmw is radio
So yeah, that looks an easy one then.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2024 8:57:31 GMT
Ramhorn can choose not to enter Blaster if he wishes.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Feb 28, 2024 9:29:28 GMT
Titanmaster Ramhorn however can rip off Blaster's head and steer him around like Racacoonie
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2024 9:59:46 GMT
Why would Ramhorn want Blaster's head??
-Ralph
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Post by The Huff on Feb 28, 2024 11:14:57 GMT
Ramhorn can choose not to enter Blaster if he wishes. -Ralph Well, with a name like Ramhorm, surely it's in the job description... |
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Post by Benn on Feb 28, 2024 12:12:06 GMT
Possibly. But if you want a Ramhorn to fit in Blaster, as Ramhorn traditionally does, the Titanmaster is not up to the job. I reiterate: I like the Titanmaster Ramhorn The Titanmaster itself can, by slotting into the DJ deck of the battle disco that slots in the tape section. |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2024 17:47:51 GMT
Exactly!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 4, 2024 14:35:11 GMT
No sign of a new Outback which must be an easy partial/retool of SS86 Brawn |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 29, 2024 0:06:17 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 5, 2024 20:57:53 GMT
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