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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 13, 2022 11:41:59 GMT
I would admire it from afar.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 13, 2022 12:01:38 GMT
This is like the MP1/MP4 thing. If I'd spent £650 on the first release of this I'd be really annoyed if there's no way to buy the trailer separately.
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Post by Toph on Apr 13, 2022 12:46:41 GMT
The trailer is seperate. But after dropping over 700 on Optimus, I would be very vexed to spend another 700 on his accessories.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 13, 2022 17:07:53 GMT
It's ridiculous sums of money.
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Post by Stomski on Apr 14, 2022 6:53:50 GMT
Not to mention that once the voice command novelty wears off, you've just got an ugly oversized G1 Prime that doesn't display particularly well.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 21, 2022 12:56:39 GMT
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Post by Benn on Oct 21, 2022 22:36:02 GMT
Bet the trailer doesn't fit.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2022 23:11:30 GMT
Hang on. This is the same price as the original release. See post 1.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Oct 21, 2022 23:12:53 GMT
So they've bumped the price of the old one up by $300? Cheeky.
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Post by Llama God on Oct 22, 2022 8:17:22 GMT
Well, you know, global economy and all that...
But what's funnier is that although this newer version is meant to be for people with less space... it's still 80% the size of the original, which is still huge. I will be surprised if this doesn't completely bomb.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 28, 2022 8:38:36 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 28, 2022 9:02:24 GMT
ONE THOUSAND POUNDS?!
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 28, 2022 9:12:31 GMT
Yup. The £1000 Transformer has arrived! Perfect for this economy.
Fans will need to do a lot of Crypt Time for this one!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Oct 28, 2022 10:52:44 GMT
Glad they limited the numbers so scalpers can't hoover them up
Also stop lying guys, it isn't a thousand pounds, it is £999
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 28, 2022 11:04:59 GMT
A bargain!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 28, 2022 12:02:32 GMT
I'm sure it was £600 when Omegalock had the first ones. And this version is smaller?
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 28, 2022 22:39:43 GMT
*Jumps out window*
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Post by Llama God on Oct 29, 2022 8:38:00 GMT
I look forward to picking this up for £50 in TK Maxx.
(It won't appear there. But it's not going to sell.)
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 29, 2022 9:29:28 GMT
It's the cost of 1.5 Unicrons, the currency of our times.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Oct 30, 2022 8:59:30 GMT
I mean they did sell thousands of those, so it stands to reason that they could sell thousands of these...
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 30, 2022 9:22:15 GMT
Nope, I will however drop £70 on the RC Transforming Optimus Prime from Jada toys which is due in March. Which actually looks like fun.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2023 7:07:17 GMT
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Post by Llama God on May 6, 2023 7:53:12 GMT
This must mean that people have actually been buying these. Which seems... surprising. But I'm also going to be surprised if this actually auto-transf- converts.
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Post by Benn on May 6, 2023 7:56:10 GMT
Pfft, those are just pictures of the Masterpiece toy.
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Post by Stomski on May 6, 2023 8:24:15 GMT
"Spurious emission"...  Looks better than Prime, although proportions still a little off. Impressed if the tail to legs transform automatically, I suspect it'll do it by planking. |
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Post by legios on May 6, 2023 11:04:47 GMT
I'm pretty sure that their intention to announce this is why this lot followed me on Twitter last week. (Not terribly effective marketing move mind you - for me to see their tweets I would need to be following them, not the other way around, so I'm not sure that following me gets them anything...).
I remain of the opinion with these that they are a very impressive piece of consumer robotics, but I've yet to get any sense of why I would want one. Programming it to dance about, or letting it run through it's preprogrammed sequences would be amusing for a few weeks but it'd wear thing fairly swiftly. And if I've got a transforming mecha, I'm going to want to be able to fiddle about with the parts manually - which isn't really something you can do with these.
I think they are very impressive, I am glad they exist, but I don't feel any interest in owning one. (And I probably got as much as I ever would out of them from seeing them at the Mini-con earlier in the year).
Karl
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Post by Toph on May 6, 2023 16:38:39 GMT
Okay, I think I have some thoughts that would make sense of things.
Following you on twitter, a lot of people do follow backs, when someone follows them. If they're following a lot of people, this may be a strategy, and likely why they did so.
Alternatively, do you post a lot about TF? They may be following TF fan accounts anticipating you will be talking about this.
As for owning one, I agree. As mind blowing and amazing as it is, it does seem like it'd get boring pretty quickly.
But there in, at a grand, it's not a toy. It's a conversation piece. It's something you're intended to brag about, and to show off to others. So it doesn't matter if you'd get bored with it.
This is the TF mid-life crises equivalent of buying a Lamborghini, when a Toyota suits your needs much better.
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Post by legios on May 6, 2023 17:02:18 GMT
Okay, I think I have some thoughts that would make sense of things. Following you on twitter, a lot of people do follow backs, when someone follows them. If they're following a lot of people, this may be a strategy, and likely why they did so. Alternatively, do you post a lot about TF? They may be following TF fan accounts anticipating you will be talking about this. I've never understood that - I follow people who I know, or who are saying things that interest me. I don't follow people just because they exist. I've never really comprehended the "must follow someone who follows you" (as it was once expressed to me are "The Rules". It just is just alien to my way of existing). Also something I don't really understand. I've never really been able to get my head around owning something for the purposes of showing other people that I own it. I buy things because I need them, because they are useful, because I like them, or because I like to look at them. I may show people something I have because they've expressed an interest in it but I can't grasp the idea of "people will be impressed that I own a thing" as a reason in itself to possess it. I just don't "get" it on a fundamental level. But then, I increasingly have come to accept that I am somewhat of a Space Alien amongst human beings, and I'm fairly ok with that. Karl |
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Post by Llama God on May 7, 2023 9:21:09 GMT
This is the TF mid-life crises equivalent of buying a Lamborghini, when a Toyota suits your needs much better. Ha. I'll be referring to these as "mid-life crisis Transformers" from now on. |
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Post by The Doctor on May 7, 2023 9:23:11 GMT
I am not in the wage bracket that Robosen products are aimed at so I don't pay much attention. They look ok.
-Ralph
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