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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 20, 2011 19:12:16 GMT
I am irked by fake wheels on Transformers.
Backstreet, Big Shot, Motormaster, and all you other toys with non-moving fake wheels... you irk me!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 20, 2011 19:19:04 GMT
I agree
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 20, 2011 19:24:34 GMT
Opaque windscreens are rather tiresome also.
Martin
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Post by blueshift on Mar 20, 2011 19:27:45 GMT
Opaque windows can work, it depends how they do it. When you get BIS Hot Rod with his baby blue windows... NO. When you get say, Hot Shot with his sparkly blue windows, then yes.
So really, for me if it is opaque, it better be sparkly.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 20, 2011 19:33:09 GMT
You're evidently not a driver. Still, if your wheels are fake, an opaque windscreen is unlikely to be hazardous to anyone's health. Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 20, 2011 19:46:16 GMT
No toy has 100% fake wheels. Just some faked.
It was the larger Spychangers that really annoyed me.
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Post by Hero on Mar 21, 2011 15:18:59 GMT
I did'nt like Astrotrain's fake wheels And Octane too
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 21, 2011 17:06:36 GMT
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Post by Nigel on Mar 21, 2011 17:17:33 GMT
You're evidently not a driver. Windows aren't needed to drive. Just look at Captain Scarlet's SPV. That had a video camera on the front and the driver sat facing backwards!
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Post by Hero on Mar 21, 2011 17:17:56 GMT
Wrong thread bud. Get back to bed ===KEN
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 21, 2011 17:27:10 GMT
Wrong thread bud. Get back to bed ===KEN I was wondering where that had gone. Can't have too many trios
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Post by bertie on Mar 21, 2011 19:43:36 GMT
Powertrain. Yup. Right.
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Post by shadowynne on Mar 21, 2011 23:19:12 GMT
hmm i dont mind opaque windows... fake wheels though yeah, dont like them. this also goes for fake tracks although i understand why it is done as tracks are hard to work with... still though i am always a bit dissapointed when i transform a tracked TF and the designers dont even try...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 21, 2011 23:34:51 GMT
I'd much rather have faked tracks than rubber ones. Several of my microman rubber tracked toys have snapped their tracks.
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 22, 2011 9:28:44 GMT
Transmetal Rampage was a good use of working rubber tank tracks!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 22, 2011 9:32:53 GMT
I have a Runamuck and a Topspin sitting on my desk. I'm waiting for their brothers before I release the Phil reviewing fury upon them.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 22, 2011 18:48:11 GMT
Battlechargers were awesome! If only they were re-issued.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Mar 22, 2011 20:52:06 GMT
Fake wheels do irritate me a little bit. Mostly because I am forever absently trying to spin them and then remember sheepishly that they don't move.
What annoys me more are actual wheels half-sticking out of the undersides of aircraft altmodes. Proper undercarriage would be nice, if not I would prefer none at all. (But that is an irrational personal quirk)
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 23, 2011 8:09:49 GMT
I like those wheels because then the plane can be whooshed along a table-top!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 23, 2011 8:57:29 GMT
Me too. Better embedded wheels than none at all.
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Post by legios on Mar 23, 2011 12:49:30 GMT
I am fully aware that this is a personal quirk with me. It is part of the weird way my brain is wired that says that 'planes get zoomed through the air, rather than driving over the furniture (in my mind that is what tanks are for).
Even when I was very young I remember trying to work out of the wheels could be removed from Matchbox 'planes and being rather disappointed that they couldn't.
Karl
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 23, 2011 12:59:59 GMT
...driving over the furniture (in my mind that is what tanks are for). I am now picturing a family settling down on the sofa of a Saturday night with a Chinese take-away to watch The X Factor. Suddenly Karl comes bursting through the wall, driving a tank and rolling over the furniture, crushing grandma and prawn crackers alike!
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Post by legios on Mar 23, 2011 20:43:28 GMT
I am now picturing a family settling down on the sofa of a Saturday night with a Chinese take-away to watch The X Factor. Suddenly Karl comes bursting through the wall, driving a tank and rolling over the furniture, crushing grandma and prawn crackers alike! Heavy armour means never being short of a parking space...... Karl
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