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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 8, 2020 18:23:09 GMT
That tape set makes me so angry. It'd be bearable if it was Buzzsaw instead of that orange Ratbat! Goddamnit! Twenty, thirty, FORTY quid for just Frenzy?!?! SON OF A BITCH!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2020 18:31:41 GMT
You know the "orange Ratbat" is Soundwave's Action Master? tfwiki.net/wiki/Wingthing_(G1)This is now Wingthing's third outing as a Ratbat repaint Buzzsaw would need a Ravage repaint too, who would you do that as? And would you deprive Doubledealer of his Powemasters? |
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 8, 2020 18:37:53 GMT
YES! I would deprive him of his Powermasters, BECAUSE THOSE ARE TAPES! NOT POWERMASTERS!
A simple two pack of Frenzy and Buzzsaw.
And then, if you want, a two pack of Doubledealer's engine-tapes (WHICH SHOULD HAVE COME WITH HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE!) Would have sold like hot cakes. Instead- this mixed up guff. It's stuff like this that's made me stop actively collecting!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2020 19:26:55 GMT
But Frenzy and Buzzsaw can't be done. Frenzy is moulded with a bat tape, and Buzzsaw with a jaguar tape. So to do both Frenzy and Buzzsaw you need a bat and jaguar to go with them.
It's quite possible robot & bat were chosen to go together to facilitate the Doubledeler pairing. You might think it sensible for robot & bird and bat & cat to be paired, thanks to the main line having two robots, two birds, one cat and one bat but there's also another cat and bird pairing out there that might be coming..... If they're eliminated can anyone ink of another cat tape to go with Buzzsaw?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2020 19:29:58 GMT
Shockprowl is right.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2020 19:30:28 GMT
You know the "orange Ratbat" is Soundwave's Action Master? tfwiki.net/wiki/Wingthing_(G1)This is now Wingthing's third outing as a Ratbat repaint Buzzsaw would need a Ravage repaint too, who would you do that as? Cobalt sentry! -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2020 19:31:59 GMT
If they're eliminated can anyone ink of another cat tape to go with Buzzsaw? Was there a pink cat in Kiss Players? I might be misrembering. -Ralph |
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 8, 2020 21:44:23 GMT
But Frenzy and Buzzsaw can't be done. Frenzy is moulded with a bat tape, and Buzzsaw with a jaguar tape. So to do both Frenzy and Buzzsaw you need a bat and jaguar to go with them. What? Laserbeak and Ravage are separate figures, separate molds... What? |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 8, 2020 22:14:32 GMT
When figures are made they come off the production line like airfix kits, Shockers. In the case of the smaller ones you often get two toys on the same sprues, so you can't separate them. If you make one, you have to have the other, and it looks like the way that's been done means the condor figure has parts that share a sprue with ravage, so if you make a condor you have to have a ravage too. Which means it isn't cost effective to make just a condor.
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Post by Toph on Mar 8, 2020 23:34:45 GMT
But Frenzy and Buzzsaw can't be done. Frenzy is moulded with a bat tape, and Buzzsaw with a jaguar tape. So to do both Frenzy and Buzzsaw you need a bat and jaguar to go with them. It's quite possible robot & bat were chosen to go together to facilitate the Doubledeler pairing. You might think it sensible for robot & bird and bat & cat to be paired, thanks to the main line having two robots, two birds, one cat and one bat but there's also another cat and bird pairing out there that might be coming..... If they're eliminated can anyone ink of another cat tape to go with Buzzsaw? Glit. |
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 9, 2020 23:21:53 GMT
When figures are made they come off the production line like airfix kits, Shockers. In the case of the smaller ones you often get two toys on the same sprues, so you can't separate them. If you make one, you have to have the other, and it looks like the way that's been done means the condor figure has parts that share a sprue with ravage, so if you make a condor you have to have a ravage too. Which means it isn't cost effective to make just a condor. Oh, fucking hell! |
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 9, 2020 23:22:31 GMT
But Frenzy and Buzzsaw can't be done. Frenzy is moulded with a bat tape, and Buzzsaw with a jaguar tape. So to do both Frenzy and Buzzsaw you need a bat and jaguar to go with them. It's quite possible robot & bat were chosen to go together to facilitate the Doubledeler pairing. You might think it sensible for robot & bird and bat & cat to be paired, thanks to the main line having two robots, two birds, one cat and one bat but there's also another cat and bird pairing out there that might be coming..... If they're eliminated can anyone ink of another cat tape to go with Buzzsaw? Glit. Same to you but with brass knobs on! |
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Post by Toph on Mar 10, 2020 0:04:39 GMT
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Post by Toph on Mar 10, 2020 0:12:38 GMT
When figures are made they come off the production line like airfix kits, Shockers. In the case of the smaller ones you often get two toys on the same sprues, so you can't separate them. If you make one, you have to have the other, and it looks like the way that's been done means the condor figure has parts that share a sprue with ravage, so if you make a condor you have to have a ravage too. Which means it isn't cost effective to make just a condor. Oh, fucking hell! The easiest examples of gang molding are the g1 micromaster molds. Each micromaster shares it's plastic colors with another one in the same set.  You can see it real well here. The yellow car and yellow robot are on the same sprue, while the blue car and yellow robot are on a different sprue. |
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 10, 2020 7:20:02 GMT
Well I think that's the silliest name yet... But it could work! GET ON WITH IT HASBOLLOCKS!!! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2020 9:05:21 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2020 9:21:10 GMT
If they're eliminated can anyone ink of another cat tape to go with Buzzsaw? Was there a pink cat in Kiss Players? I might be misrembering. -Ralph There was, but it was a repaint of the Eggbot cat tfwiki.net/wiki/Sparkbottfwiki.net/wiki/Eggleo |
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Post by Llama God on Mar 28, 2020 9:57:55 GMT
Did that Selects Micromaster pack ever turn up anywhere online for ordering in the UK? I did look but I'm wondering if I missed it...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2020 10:01:29 GMT
No. I have a security preorder with BBTS but I think that must now be rated dodgy so going to pay the cash at Robotkingdom when they get their site back up.
I need to mail Kapow on another matter later, will ask.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 28, 2020 10:24:58 GMT
Yes. Please let me know if anywhere has it up for order.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 28, 2020 10:54:01 GMT
#ANGRY!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 30, 2020 13:05:20 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 30, 2020 15:27:46 GMT
UNLIKE! UNLIKE!
#BASTARD!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 30, 2020 16:26:58 GMT
If only some UK based store actually had pre-orders for them.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 30, 2020 17:19:26 GMT
I'm sure they will, our online retailers have had all the other select stuff. I'd imagine they're waiting on Hasbro UK.
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Post by Llama God on Mar 31, 2020 6:30:39 GMT
Odd that it's taken this long, though. I guess Hasbro have just given up that brief pretense that they actually cared about non-US markets.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 10, 2020 1:33:09 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 10, 2020 7:03:44 GMT
GAH Still no pre-orders for it!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 10, 2020 21:59:10 GMT
My rage is endless.
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Post by Llama God on Apr 11, 2020 9:28:44 GMT
I'm hoping that the pre-orders will appear once I don't have quite so many newborn-related expenses.
That's a thing that'll happen, right..?
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