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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2024 7:42:15 GMT
"Unlock the power of the decepticon cyberkey! The key can insert in the back of Starscream’s translucent weapon for a powerup blast or it can insert in his back to infuse the chip forces power cosmic."
Could this be...a play feature??!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2024 7:45:30 GMT
Fine child-bearing hips. -Ralph |
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Post by Rich on Apr 9, 2024 8:06:30 GMT
A mental image I did not need at 9 am.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 9, 2024 8:10:52 GMT
We can do far worse....
I'm liking this. Yes it's not a Dodge Viper, but licensing costs will have put paid to that. Shadowstriker was nice, but obviously going to be Sideburn and this has turned out better than I was expecting.
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Post by Jim on Apr 9, 2024 9:27:39 GMT
"Unlock the power of the decepticon cyberkey! The key can insert in the back of Starscream’s translucent weapon for a powerup blast or it can insert in his back to infuse the chip forces power cosmic." Could this be...a play feature??!! -Ralph Depends on your threshold for what constitutes a play feature. I have him in front of me right now. The key can peg into a slot in his back or the back of the gun, but neither is connected to anything. So play from the point of it inspiring imagination, but it doesn’t cause anything to happen on the toy… |
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 9, 2024 10:03:26 GMT
Phil gets immense pleasure from the millimetres and they're a big part of putting things in holes. Must be a play feature.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2024 10:19:31 GMT
Depends on your threshold for what constitutes a play feature. I have him in front of me right now. The key can peg into a slot in his back or the back of the gun, but neither is connected to anything. So play from the point of it inspiring imagination, but it doesn’t cause anything to happen on the toy… Oh. That seems a bit pointless. Why include a key if it doesn't do anything? -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 9, 2024 11:11:19 GMT
I'm told some people use imagination when playing.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2024 12:29:06 GMT
Yesssss, but the point of the Cyber Planet keys is that THEY DO SOMETHING.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Apr 9, 2024 16:49:44 GMT
I’m enjoying Cybertron Starscream. He fits nicely with Legacy Armada Starscream as an update where they get away with hitting the play features by just making it very, very nice.
Like the original he shines in robot mode, which has a lot of presence and some surprisingly nice colors in-hand - the very dark blue is lovely. Not a lot to say about the alt-mode. Is there and he won’t spend much time in it.
Surprisingly he comes with some assembly required - the parts that mount on the arms and the tail fins are separate, presumably so he could fit in standard voyager packaging. He’s lanky but he spreads out a lot.
Amusingly, as my daughter pointed out, three of the steps in the instructions make it look like he’s doing a Cossack dance or something.
That same portion of the transformation had me wondering if he could have a BM Jetstorm pretool in there somewhere, the way his legs both form a point and also spread wide.
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Post by legios on Apr 9, 2024 16:57:05 GMT
"Be sure to utilize his energon cyber blades that can manually flip out from his massively cool shoulder pilons." The tweet from the person says.... Pilon is a French surname. Why does he have massively cool french people attached to his shoulders?  Karl |
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Post by Benn on Apr 9, 2024 17:25:10 GMT
Well, the French are renowned for their coolness, maybe shoulder seats are 'in' this year?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 11, 2024 23:03:55 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 12, 2024 9:07:10 GMT
Even the Cyber Key is smaller??!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 15, 2024 22:09:42 GMT
GEARS IS SUPERB!!! ABSOLUTELY SUPERB!!!!
I LOVE HIM!
He's excellent, such personality.
I ONLY NEED ONE MORE!!!! Well three really 'cos I'm still desiring a Powerglide and Seaspray.
BUT ONLY ONE MORE TO COMPLETE 84!!!!
The night is darkest before the dawn...
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2024 16:04:19 GMT
I hate to break this to you, but updates to Powerglide and Seaspray were done years ago.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2024 16:07:38 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2024 16:10:14 GMT
We really have reached the point of remakes being utterly pointless!
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Apr 16, 2024 16:19:55 GMT
If the new one is the one without green firing missiles, I might be inclined to agree.
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Post by Toph on Apr 16, 2024 16:43:08 GMT
Not really.
Because not everyone was around 30 years ago to get the original.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2024 18:02:35 GMT
Ebay and conventions exist. Sometimes I have looked at a new version of a toy and then went online and bought the older version instead. Sometimes works out cheaper. I'll be doing that for Cybertron Starscream.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2024 18:31:29 GMT
If you want a Voyager Cybertron Starscream at that size for the price of the United Voyager, you'll be lucky to find it
The Voyager version of Cybertron Starscream in his show colours doesn't exist in the western Cybertron line
Voyager Starscream was sold in Galaxy Force in Japan at the start of the line and is £££ because people wanted him due to the lack of a western Voyager in the right colours
Cybertron got a MASSIVELY oversized version or a version in different colours.
Legacy United Cybertron Starscream at Voyager size is one of the more worthy redos that they've done
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2024 18:53:48 GMT
We really have reached the point of remakes being utterly pointless! -Ralph If the new one is the one without green firing missiles, I might be inclined to agree. The new one is the one without the green firing missiles. I had thought the new one was smaller but it's much of a muchness height wise. New one is less bulky but it doe have a wider wing span. The original had two positions for the outer half of the wings: swept down/back or up/forward (robot/beast mode) The new one removes the trigger mechanism there which then allows the wings to be stretched out to the sides properly. Colour mix is interesting on the new one: the blue is now purple, ala show, and they've ditched the green. I hadn't realised quite hoe show accurate the goldy brown is: I thought the designers were throwing it in so Airazor's colours had more representation on the new toy and to make it different enough to do a toy accurate version down the line ;-) Tigerhawk is, like Cybertron Starscream, an absolutely top choice for a remake but for different reasons. Popular show character again but his toy was barely available at the end of the Beast Wars line as Transformer toys in the US got cleared out for Episode 1. I think I saw the UK version ONCE. When Nick got a boxed one the other year I can recall him commenting on the call "How often do you see those?" And he is TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD! |
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Post by Benn on Apr 16, 2024 19:02:39 GMT
I do seem to remember Ed having one, but not at the time the show was out. Might have to enquire how that came about.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2024 19:38:39 GMT
They were definitely available here, I saw one in a small toyshop in Twickenham, and I found a Biocombat boxed one on eBay tonight that went for £85 quid!
I could also believe there was some excess UK stock that never reached shelves at the time and popped out the system somewhere that I never saw!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2024 20:05:17 GMT
Legacy United Cybertron Starscream at Voyager size is one of the more worthy redos that they've done All I can say is: I saw it in a shop, thought: "In no way is that tiny thing worth £35" and choose not to buy it. -Ralph |
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 16, 2024 21:53:21 GMT
I hate to break this to you, but updates to Powerglide and Seaspray were done years ago. -Ralph Silly, foolish, beautiful Doctor. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2024 22:59:14 GMT
Those are in the previous round of updates not beholden to the hallowed cartoon designs and holy scale charts!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2024 23:16:37 GMT
Legacy United Cybertron Starscream at Voyager size is one of the more worthy redos that they've done All I can say is: I saw it in a shop, thought: "In no way is that tiny thing worth £35" and choose not to buy it. -Ralph Which is a very fair decision. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 17, 2024 3:58:22 GMT
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