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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 15, 2024 21:44:10 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2024 16:05:46 GMT
"I avoided it as many buyers reported QC problems with the build quality of the Bruticus Encore set."
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Apr 16, 2024 21:51:47 GMT
And yet, it sells for crazy money...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 21, 2024 20:01:18 GMT
Finishes TOMORROW, when we take a two week extra poll break prior to the Minicon Marathon.
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Post by legios on Apr 21, 2024 20:32:22 GMT
Mo-vor. Mo-vor has taken it, just purely because it is such a hilariously silly colour scheme on him.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 22, 2024 8:52:13 GMT
Armorhide wins
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 22, 2024 8:57:51 GMT
Two weeks off now before the Minicon Marathon begins!
We'll start Bank Holiday Monday with a matter not covered by the main Minicon poll. THAT poll will have the 11 original Armada Minicon teams up against each other.
Then on a week by week basis we'll vote on which member is best on each team - 11 weeks worth.
And then we'll move onto the pack in Minicons.
By the end of that we'll have voted on each Armada Minicon mould
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 22, 2024 8:58:57 GMT
In the meantime... I've been doing some future prep the last week or so and have some estimates on how long each series post 2007 till cT30 will take us in the main poll.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 22, 2024 10:43:53 GMT
So UP TO the 2007 Movie I have dates to the end of June 27. My current estimates for what follows is: 2007 Movie - 55 weeks Animated - 24 (needs Japanese) Universe 2 - 24 ROTF - 14 HFTD - 20 PCC & United EX - 10 RTS - 6 Generations (pre FOC) - 12
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 22, 2024 11:12:17 GMT
Two weeks off now before the Minicon Marathon begins! We'll start Bank Holiday Monday with a matter not covered by the main Minicon poll. THAT poll will have the 11 original Armada Minicon teams up against each other. Then on a week by week basis we'll vote on which member is best on each team - 11 weeks worth. And then we'll move onto the pack in Minicons. By the end of that we'll have voted on each Armada Minicon mould I think that may kill us. -Ralph
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Post by Jim on Apr 22, 2024 12:59:15 GMT
So UP TO the 2007 Movie I have dates to the end of June 27. My current estimates for what follows is: 2007 Movie - 55 weeks Animated - 24 (needs Japanese) Universe 2 - 24 ROTF - 14 HFTD - 20 PCC & United EX - 10 RTS - 6 Generations (pre FOC) - 12 I've occasionally idly wondered at what point these polls will catch up to current releases. Now I'm hoping I'll still be around to see it!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 22, 2024 22:48:26 GMT
So UP TO the 2007 Movie I have dates to the end of June 27. My current estimates for what follows is: 2007 Movie - 55 weeks Animated - 24 (needs Japanese) Universe 2 - 24 ROTF - 14 HFTD - 20 PCC & United EX - 10 RTS - 6
Generations (pre FOC) - 12 Generations (pre DOTM) -7 DOTM 29 + EXCLUSIVES Generations GDO 5 Generations FOC 8 Prime 50+ T30 CW RID 2015 TR POTP
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Post by Llama God on Apr 23, 2024 7:26:03 GMT
So UP TO the 2007 Movie I have dates to the end of June 27. My current estimates for what follows is: 2007 Movie - 55 weeks Animated - 24 (needs Japanese) Universe 2 - 24 ROTF - 14 HFTD - 20 PCC & United EX - 10 RTS - 6 Generations (pre FOC) - 12 I've occasionally idly wondered at what point these polls will catch up to current releases. Now I'm hoping I'll still be around to see it! Pretty sure the Scraplet will be at University by that point. (He's currently approaching his fourth birthday.)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 23, 2024 8:05:10 GMT
I make that 3 years worth, which will take us to 2030 by which point he'll be 10. Some of those numbers will stretch a bit..
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Post by Benn on Apr 23, 2024 8:37:02 GMT
Over a year of Movie toys?
Ooof
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 23, 2024 9:17:38 GMT
I make that 3 years worth, which will take us to 2030 by which point he'll be 10. Some of those numbers will stretch a bit.. Yes, but by 2030 there will (hopefully) be another 6 years of toys to poll. -Ralph
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 8:30:07 GMT
I meant current releases, not just the movie to pre-FoC generations. Fairly sure we're looking at mid-to-late 2030s, not including everything that's been released in the meantime. So maybe early-mid 2040s?
Out of curiosity Phil, do you have a plan for Alternators / Binaltech? ISTR the waves they were released in were 1-2 toys each spread over quite some time.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 25, 2024 8:57:47 GMT
I do.
Take the line as a whole over both ranges. Do the toys common to both ranges then the toys unique to each range, usual Autobot/Decepticon, New Mould/Repaint splits. After Cybertron, before Classics and about the same time as some matters arising from the reissues
Incidentally.... the ROTF count above is obviously complete ********!
The spread sheet was only counting size classes. The correct count is 48!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 25, 2024 8:58:46 GMT
I make that 3 years worth, which will take us to 2030 by which point he'll be 10. Some of those numbers will stretch a bit.. Yes, but by 2030 there will (hopefully) be another 6 years of toys to poll. -Ralph But we are catching up and polling toys faster than they are released.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 25, 2024 12:28:48 GMT
But if there is another big boom in popularity and output increases etc...
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 5, 2024 16:44:56 GMT
Two weeks off now before the Minicon Marathon begins! We'll start Bank Holiday Monday with a matter not covered by the main Minicon poll. THAT poll will have the 11 original Armada Minicon teams up against each other. Then on a week by week basis we'll vote on which member is best on each team - 11 weeks worth. And then we'll move onto the pack in Minicons. By the end of that we'll have voted on each Armada Minicon mould Minicon Marathon kicks off TOMORROW with something that doesn't involve voting for individual Minicons!
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2024 6:37:47 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2024 6:40:24 GMT
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Post by The Huff on May 6, 2024 7:03:35 GMT
Preceptor. But only for the weird reason that he actually looks like something.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2024 7:21:16 GMT
You don't think the others look like a big gun, a shield and a sword?
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Post by Jim on May 6, 2024 8:54:30 GMT
You don't think the others look like a big gun, a shield and a sword? TIL that's a shield
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2024 8:55:56 GMT
You don't think the others look like a big gun, a shield and a sword? Nope. They just look like parts shoved together with an air of hope. -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2024 9:16:05 GMT
You don't think the others look like a big gun, a shield and a sword? TIL that's a shield The name Skyboom Shield does make it pretty clear! You don't think the others look like a big gun, a shield and a sword? Nope. They just look like parts shoved together with an air of hope. -Ralph Philistines, the lot of you!
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Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2024 9:49:37 GMT
I like the requiem blaster a lot, but it's an awkward floppy thing for a figure to hold. Perceptor is fiddly, but it's a proper combiner so it wins by default.
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Post by Jim on May 6, 2024 10:07:02 GMT
This is easily Perceptor for me, it's a really neat little combiner.
I want to like the Requiem Blaster because I really like that team otherwise, but it doesn't quite work.
I think I would like the Star Saber more if I'd ever been in the position to make use of the light-up gimmick (how well does it work?). The retool and recolour in Superlink / Energon works better for me.
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