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Post by Pinwig on Jun 25, 2021 19:44:18 GMT
I like Binaltechs. They remind me of what MP felt like before we got to the MP10 reboot. Remember transforming Smokescreen for the first time and being absolutely blown away. That was nearly twenty years ago now.
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Post by Dezzeh on Jun 25, 2021 20:07:46 GMT
Why do you have to say it like that Monsieur Pins?
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 25, 2021 20:23:07 GMT
Because you now want to buy all of them :)
Lovely car modes! Better than the MP cars.
I remember when we were at the point of having Binaltech Smokescreen and MP01. That felt like owning proper grown up Transformers.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 25, 2021 21:37:04 GMT
I like Binaltechs. They remind me of what MP felt like before we got to the MP10 reboot. Remember transforming Smokescreen for the first time and being absolutely blown away. That was nearly twenty years ago now. It wasn't twenty years ago!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 25, 2021 22:01:08 GMT
Very true. It was 18. But I was going for the 'good old days' generalisation.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 25, 2021 22:25:33 GMT
EIGHTEEN???!!!!
NO WAY!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 25, 2021 22:27:32 GMT
No way can it be 18 years since some of us were in a hotel which turned out to be a knocking shop.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 25, 2021 22:35:03 GMT
Maybe 17. Smokescreen was Sept 2003 in Japan. Can't remember now how I got my one. Might have been Epic Heroes in Edgeware.
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Post by Llama God on Jun 26, 2021 8:20:30 GMT
Because you now want to buy all of them  Lovely car modes! Better than the MP cars. I remember when we were at the point of having Binaltech Smokescreen and MP01. That felt like owning proper grown up Transformers. That's a really good way of putting it. Even though you could argue that we've had more poseable toys since with more intricate transformations, and with greater cartoon accuracy, there was something about the early Alternators/Binaltech and MP-01 that made them feel like... yeah, THE next thing, in a way that nothing else has since. "Grown up" is a good way of putting it. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 26, 2021 8:31:13 GMT
Which one? I'd been looking at Binaltech and Alternators this week for future polls. HUGE at the time. Now....... |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 26, 2021 8:34:31 GMT
Maybe 17. Smokescreen was Sept 2003 in Japan. Can't remember now how I got my one. Might have been Epic Heroes in Edgeware. I got Smokescreen's alternator the day the Argos catalogue with him in hit. Bought quite a few of the early ones, bailed after Windcharger, sold them and not been tempted to rebuy.... till I started looking this week |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 26, 2021 8:35:04 GMT
No way can it be 18 years since some of us were in a hotel which turned out to be a knocking shop. -Ralph Dodgy hotels Tunrbull has booked Burns into...... |
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Post by Dezzeh on Jun 26, 2021 15:36:24 GMT
Which one? I'd been looking at Binaltech and Alternators this week for future polls. HUGE at the time. Now....... A red Meister.. something about a red Jazz just appealed! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 26, 2021 16:13:06 GMT
I recall being tremendously excited by Binaltech/Alternators initially. I got Smokescreen and thought it was fantastic. Then my interest quickly died when the others had duff robot modes and/or were a pain in the ass to transform.
Let us never talk of Ravage or Shockwave.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Jun 26, 2021 16:18:14 GMT
I wanted that one (and the blue Prowl) badly.
I'd be eager for a classics scaled Red Jazz (there are enough choices now), but I feel it wouldn't work as well. Feels like that would be preferable to have a new head and be a different character.
However, please give me Kingdom Jazz in Yellow.
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Post by Benn on Jun 26, 2021 16:33:56 GMT
I recall being tremendously excited by Binaltech/Alternators initially. I got Smokescreen and thought it was fantastic. Then my interest quickly died when the others had duff robot modes and/or were a pain in the ass to transform. Let us never talk of Ravage or Shockwave. -Ralph Shockwave was fine, I quite liked that one. The Grimlock/Wheeljack however... |
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Post by Toph on Jun 26, 2021 16:51:16 GMT
Grimjack was lovely in robot mode, and dispite being an ugly car, worked well (for Grimlock at least). But that transformation was awful.
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Post by Llama God on Jun 27, 2021 8:07:02 GMT
There have been some terrible conversion sequences since, but that Grimlock/Wheeljack mold was a trailblazer in being absolutely terrible. He's certainly on the "never again" list...
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 27, 2021 23:17:27 GMT
Alternators blew my mind back in the day. ("Back in the day"....?!)
Superb Transformers toys. Definitely part of the linage that have taken us -weeping and begging- to the Holly Grail of MPish Generations Transformers toys.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 28, 2021 18:43:28 GMT
I think I might have to find mine. Which box did they end up in. I don't think I ever opened Hound or Blue Tracks. Maybe now is the time.
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Post by Benn on Jun 28, 2021 19:03:05 GMT
I've actually got most of my Alternators in a box ready to be moved on to parts unknown, be they ToyFu or Ebay.
Been sitting there for over a year...
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 28, 2021 21:02:56 GMT
I think I might have to find mine. Which box did they end up in. I don't think I ever opened Hound or Blue Tracks. Maybe now is the time. Don't do it! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 28, 2021 21:13:48 GMT
Oh you think Sideswipe instead?
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Post by Dezzeh on Jun 29, 2021 7:18:10 GMT
Blue Tracks eh? On the lookout for one of those next I think, and the GT-01 not quite Alternity Convoy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 29, 2021 7:40:55 GMT
I'd been looking at Binaltech and Alternators this week for future polls. ..... and having done an update on the Generations Book Guide I dug out Generations 2019 to look at the Binaltech/Alternators guide within! |
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Post by Stomski on Jun 9, 2022 15:54:54 GMT
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Post by Someone on Nov 17, 2022 11:55:37 GMT
It is done! The BT Alert I received from the splendid Nick is now who he should be, who the mold was meant to be for! PROWL!!!! Swapped heads with my Alternator Prowl, leaving my BinalTech Prowl intact 'cos I do love this fig and he continues to have pride and place in my Prowl collection. Can Lambor/Sideswipe`s head be swapped with Alternator Prowl to keep Red Alert and Sideswipe traditionally having the same heads? |
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 17, 2022 19:47:46 GMT
It is done! The BT Alert I received from the splendid Nick is now who he should be, who the mold was meant to be for! PROWL!!!! Swapped heads with my Alternator Prowl, leaving my BinalTech Prowl intact 'cos I do love this fig and he continues to have pride and place in my Prowl collection. Can Lambor/Sideswipe`s head be swapped with Alternator Prowl to keep Red Alert and Sideswipe traditionally having the same heads? Oh gosh, it's been a while since I thought about Alternators! Err, I never attempted the swap you're describing, but I don't recall having too many problems swapping heads. Maybe they're all the same size...? |
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Post by Toph on Nov 18, 2022 1:08:28 GMT
They were not
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 18, 2022 23:36:39 GMT
Oh dear. Well I guess Someone has some experimenting to do.
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