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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 30, 2010 20:35:05 GMT
Replying BY PERSONAL MESSAGE TO ME rather than responding in the thread*, can you tell me the names of as many of the 1988 Dual Targetmasters Robots (*NOT* the guns) as possible *without* resorting to any referance book, internet resource etc.
I'm not trying to find out how good your memory is, I just have a theory that you'll all forget the same one.
While you're at it, again without having resorting to external resources have a guess at how many G1 Autobot Helicopters vs how many G1 Decepticon Helicopters there are ........
* so you don't give anyone else a hint and bias the results.
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Post by blueshift on Aug 30, 2010 20:53:32 GMT
First I thought you meant the guns and was all "oh god am I supposed to know what they are?"
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 30, 2010 20:55:50 GMT
Matt did not read the bit about replying by PM ! That's so you don't give anyone else a helping hand and bias the results!
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Post by blueshift on Aug 30, 2010 20:58:09 GMT
Sorry I thought I had clicked on pm, then my internet crashed so I couldn't fix it  |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 30, 2010 20:59:27 GMT
I haven't a clue what the guns are called. I'm going to have to look em all up when I write the reviews.
Come to think of it neither do half the ebay sellers out there. When I was arming my set I had to check description and picture and frequently get the seller to crosscheck with TFU what they meant!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 30, 2010 21:12:26 GMT
I have made the Target Master guess! I'm sure there's one I forgot.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Aug 30, 2010 21:19:53 GMT
PM fired off. Now I find myself wanting to break out the books to see what I have forgotten...
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 30, 2010 21:22:15 GMT
Karl got em all! Ralph missed one.
Thank you all for replying so far, more PMs please !
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 30, 2010 21:23:21 GMT
Damn it!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 30, 2010 21:42:00 GMT
One tale of trauma due to the dual Targetmasters has already reached my ears.
And it appears I did not pay enough attention to the comics.
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 31, 2010 2:30:54 GMT
I have PM'd you!
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 31, 2010 2:31:43 GMT
I thought this thread said 'Surrey Time' at first! Naturally as a Yorkshireman I very nearly didn't enter it!
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Post by legios on Aug 31, 2010 21:52:57 GMT
Looks like my misspent youth was useful for something after all... Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 31, 2010 22:22:02 GMT
I thought this thread said 'Surrey Time' at first! Naturally as a Yorkshireman I very nearly didn't enter it! As a former Surrey resident: "Oi! What do you mean by that ? ? ? ? It's a great place" |
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 1, 2010 7:49:33 GMT
That's as maybe, but it is still in the South. Not it's fault, like.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 3, 2010 17:50:22 GMT
So what are the answers to the questions then?
I didn't bother send in an answer because it's clearly going to be more than the obvious six Double TMs, or Phil wouldn't have asked the question. And I can't get my list of helicopters out of single figures.
Martin
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Post by jameso on Sept 3, 2010 18:26:02 GMT
No, it was just the regular Double Targetmasters, Phil couldn't ever remember Needlenose and he was wondering if everyone else kept forgetting too.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2010 19:20:16 GMT
Needlenose and Spinister were the first ones I thought of due to their memorable appearance in the Marvel comics.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2010 19:22:38 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2010 19:26:35 GMT
I shall have a gander at that over the weekend.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 3, 2010 19:35:22 GMT
Incidentally, I always thought they were called Double Targetmasters, not Dual Targetmasters, but I'm not sure where I got that from. Maybe the 1988 UK toy catalogue. Can't find a scan of it on-line. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2010 19:36:34 GMT
I thought they were Double TM's too!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 3, 2010 19:43:14 GMT
Also, wasn't it odd how just for one year, everything that wasn't a one-off came in multiples of three? Sparkabots, Firecons, UK & US Pretenders, Double Targetmasters, new Headmasters, Triggerbots, Triggercons, Monsterbots, Seacons, Autobot Powermasters... Only the Decepticon PMs and the Pretender Beasts came in twos.
Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 3, 2010 19:54:41 GMT
Needlenose was the last toy I remembered, but didn't get the name. Landfill was the other to cause me trouble.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2010 19:59:51 GMT
I've been convinced they were called dual TMs but have had plenty of information to the contrary since I put the reviews up
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Post by blueshift on Sept 4, 2010 7:32:43 GMT
I had Quickmix when I was little, I still remember getting him for Christmas!
Also Needlenose's role in the Mayhem Attack Squad has made me never forget him. The storyline where Carnivac kills him for revenge was the one where my mum decided I wasn't allowed the comic anymore because it was too violent!
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 4, 2010 7:43:51 GMT
I was always puzzled why Quake (a toy I had) wasn't part of that group. He just got to fight Megzatron that time instead. Any idea why Quake wasn't in there?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2010 9:28:11 GMT
He was in Disneyworld, eating pie.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 4, 2010 9:37:07 GMT
I was always puzzled why Quake (a toy I had) wasn't part of that group. He just got to fight Megzatron that time instead. Any idea why Quake wasn't in there? Yeah, and for some reason Thunderwing's crew in Matrix Quest was made up of two out of three DTMs and two out of three Triggercons. But the missing members got even with appearances in the Unicron battle, its aftermath and G2... where both Quake and Crankcase got ignominiously bumped off by Jhiaxus's crew, alas. Martin. |
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Post by Nigel on Sept 4, 2010 10:08:36 GMT
Incidentally, I always thought they were called Double Targetmasters, not Dual Targetmasters, but I'm not sure where I got that from. Maybe the 1988 UK toy catalogue. I thought they were called Small Targetmasters for the same reason, though I can't remember which catalogue called them that. Likewise Nightbeat, Squeezeplay etc were Small Headmasters. What irritates me is when people refer to the binary bonded Nebulan (or human) partners as Targetmasters rather than the Transformers themselves. eg in an eBay listing, "Sureshot is supplied with his Targetmaster." No, Sureshot is a Targetmaster. (Same with Headmasters and Powermasters.) |
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