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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 23, 2010 12:37:36 GMT
OMG Jazz looks amazing! Oh baby! Tracks and Windcharger too. Yeah not sure about the Dinobots PCCs yet, like them, but the hole PCC line as left me feeling disinterested so far. Where's Trailbreaker? Not that weird motorbike one? And could Mindset be BLOT?!?!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2010 12:40:21 GMT
He's not Blot. He's based off an obscure G2 comic character.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 23, 2010 13:11:26 GMT
Cliffjumper's a very fetching shade, and it's nice to see him get a new head sculpt at last, poor bugger. The rest look pretty groovy all round- if I have one criticism it's that Thunderwing is too close to his original portrayal, and I can't help but think there must have been some way to streamline his jet mode a bit more without breaking the budget. The shoulders sticking out under the wings mean that it'll look like a robot with a jet on its back from any angle, unlike most jet TFs who can at least get away with it from above.
-Nick
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 15:09:29 GMT
Ian: Trailbreaker - and the New G2 Op - has only been shown so far in the club magazine. Hasbro is not happy with anyone who's reproduced images from that. So unless you can find somewhere that they're reproduced.....
Trailbreaker looks like an elongated version of the vehicle mode, but the robot mode isn't too bad if a little blocky
G2 Op looks like G2 Op with a black truck mode with a little red at the front albeit a little thinner of limb in robot mode and with an orange sword which gives the robot a vague Movie Prime look. Repaints are endless: all red Prime, black Nemesis Prime/Scourge, Laser Ultra Magnus and white Ultra Magnus.
There's also better quality pics of Perceptor, whose robot mode looks a bit like the Wreckers version, and Scourge, who now it can be seen clearly, looks like a stealth plane in shape.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 15:27:03 GMT
Cliffjumper's a very fetching shade, and it's nice to see him get a new head sculpt at last, poor bugger. I wonder how easy it would be to swap it with the head on Classics Cliffjumper?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 15:48:13 GMT
Generations & PCC Checklists updated with the new info and photos.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 23, 2010 16:36:31 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 16:41:49 GMT
If you look at some of the photos we've seen today it does look like Generations & HFTD may be merging after Generations Wave 5.
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Post by bertie on Sept 23, 2010 16:52:06 GMT
I like the shiny Japanese versions of the Generations figs. But YES Hasbro are collectively ginger.
El.
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Post by Dezzeh on Sept 23, 2010 17:32:51 GMT
Had best find the cheapest alternative to a UK release.. again. sigh.
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 23, 2010 17:33:39 GMT
Kapows are only slightly over UK rrp anyway.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2010 18:20:54 GMT
OH FFS! I am somewhat displeased. It's the line I wanted to buy. Does Hasbro UK actually have a ******* clue? -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 18:24:07 GMT
No.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2010 18:27:14 GMT
I don't often have 'Fanboy Rage Moments', but I'm having one right now!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 23, 2010 18:31:09 GMT
If you do, fell free to post it here so I can copy it and send one to. What the hey, it surely wouldn't do any harm. Andy
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Post by Nigel on Sept 23, 2010 18:36:42 GMT
I've just composed a lengthy and detailed email to send to my account manager in the morning to find out just what the heck is going on with Transformers' distribution at the moment.
If they're dropping Generations and backing PCC.....
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Post by Gav on Sept 23, 2010 18:39:55 GMT
Get them to release the rest of the Animated toys too, Nigel! I'd appreciate it!
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Post by Nigel on Sept 23, 2010 18:46:59 GMT
Sadly, as I buy from a distributor and not Hasbro itself, I probably don't have the clout. Still, I suppose I could always try popping down to Newport to picket the warehouse. Somebody in London'll have to go to Uxbridge for a simultaneous protest.
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Post by Gav on Sept 23, 2010 19:28:10 GMT
I'll protest outside Tesco in my town. It won't do much good, but I need potatoes as well.
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Post by legios on Sept 23, 2010 19:45:01 GMT
So... Wave 2 and up of Generations not coming to the UK. *sigh* I am resigned to the fact of having to buy most TF stuff on-line as we pretty much don't get it around here. But it does begin to look like Hasbro UK just don't want my business. In which case I will gladly take it elsewhere.
It was mostly the upcoming Generations stuff I was after in all honesty so once more my money shall end up supporting the US economy instead of the UK.
Karl
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Post by legios on Sept 23, 2010 19:51:27 GMT
There are some very nice things in amongst that lot. I can see myself liking a few of those. The Jazz especially is rather well-executed. Like that PCC jet as well - he looks like he has a Super Sabre nose glommed onto a somewhat russian-style main fuselage, and with the Minicon latched on he looks like some sort of demented cut-and-shut of a 'plane. Appeals to me for some reason.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 21:20:26 GMT
If what we suspect if true then the UK loose up till the end of Wave 5. Wave 6 looks like it might be a combined wave under a new name (Reveal the Shield?) with Tracks & Jazz occupying space with Mindset & Fallback.
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 23, 2010 21:34:31 GMT
I'm just pleased they're doing a Trailbreaker at all! With Jazz as well, just waiting on a Wheeljack now eh? Oh, and the other mini-Autobots. Hope they do all six in scout class.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 21:50:04 GMT
Wheeljack's been done. You'll not get better than Energon Downshift.
Skids & Trailbreaker are the sole remaining Diaclone cars not to have a decent dlx (or larger) size update
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2010 0:33:11 GMT
I'll protest outside Tesco in my town. It won't do much good, but I need potatoes as well. I will protest outside a small corner shop. They do nice rolls. -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2010 0:34:14 GMT
Did Skids not get a Binaltech toy?
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 24, 2010 6:28:05 GMT
He did indeed get a BT version. I believe that there was an Alternator release as well. For some reason they made him a four door mini-people carrier thing rather than the city car
Karl
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 24, 2010 6:58:47 GMT
Wheeljack's been done. You'll not get better than Energon Downshift. Skids & Trailbreaker are the sole remaining Diaclone cars not to have a decent dlx (or larger) size update Finally owning the mould I have to say theres no way you can count the Energon toy as a suitable fill in. It looks poor alongside Classics and terrible alongside generations. Better to use Actionmaster Wheeljack. I like the idea of a white tracks with new head as Wheeljack. THe legs would be the wrong way around but otherwise it isn't a bad match. But as you say we're down to a very small number of autobot cars that haven't been done in classics. So whatevers left will likely appear in the post TF3 classic line.
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 24, 2010 7:07:40 GMT
Huh. Can't say I'm surprised. Disappointed perhaps, but them's the breaks. As Bogatan said there are hardly any Classics in the secondary market and they rarely show up on eBay (and when they do they go for crazy money). It's possible that Generations and their ilk just don't have the turnover in the UK that retailers need to justify the peg space.
I could order a large batch of later figures online and distribute them at Scotcon if folks are interested. I'll need a list in advance, natch.
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 24, 2010 7:29:18 GMT
What I don't understand is that no where seem to have had any trouble shifting the wave 1s that have come out. You'd think that would make them want to restock. So is this Hasbro saying "no you didn't order enough in the first place so we aren't doing anymore?
Andy
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