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Post by dinosgamez on Aug 7, 2019 16:58:21 GMT
Hi I'm new here so I hope this post is ok. A few weeks back I went to Drayton Manor and found that two of the shops there had a selection of KO (and some seemingly original) transformers  |
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Post by dinosgamez on Aug 7, 2019 17:05:53 GMT
So I picked up few of the better looking ones. The prime master is there for scale (as I can't find my hasbro version of the over sized Optimus KO)  Sorry for posting this separately (and for the compressed image) the forum would only let me post one 1MB image per post |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2019 17:08:01 GMT
I haven't seen these before!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 7, 2019 17:58:23 GMT
Sorry for posting this separately (and for the compressed image) the forum would only let me post one 1MB image per post Hello and welcome to the forum. Yeah 1mb is the attachment size limit, thanks to us being cheap and unwilling to pay for more. There's also a limit to the number of attachments overall which we're fast approaching so you're lucky it accepted them at all! I use Flickr for my images, decent and free for a reasonable number of pics - 1TB iirc. I like the KO of the RTS Legends Prime! |
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Post by dinosgamez on Aug 7, 2019 18:32:51 GMT
Thanks for letting me know : ) (and for the welcome) I'll set up a Flickr account.
The Optimus KOs honestly pretty good for what it is.
Starscream is less so. If he'd been better I probably would have also picked up one of the white ones hanging up in the first picture as well.
For reference the only others they had were the KO bumblebees movie in the first picture and a few 2007 movie legends primes.
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Post by dinosgamez on Aug 7, 2019 18:48:27 GMT
Both the KO deigns and the smaller seemingly original designs say there were made by PMS seemingly in (or for its not clear )the UK. Surprisingly at a traders stall at a car boot sale about a week later. I found the exact same toys with identical plastic colours and paint, with the only differences being different packaging and a fantastically stupid name. So I give you........................  In case the image refuses to load that's what they are actually called it seems....... The box does also proudly proclaims the smaller slogans of SUPER FIGHTER CAR PEOPLE TURNED DEFORM EGGS |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2019 20:53:23 GMT
DEFORM EGGS.
Amazing.
-Ralph
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Post by dinosgamez on Aug 11, 2019 15:41:43 GMT
A few days ago I found these out in front of an antique shop.  They are not to bad and seem to be based on the RID 2001 re colours Also they potentially may have more articulation than the originals, due to added ball jointed shoulders.  I don't have a G1 combiner torso though, so I cant really see if they would function as arms (Though I suspect a G1 combiner hand would not attach properly to vortex)  |
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Post by dinosgamez on Aug 11, 2019 15:48:17 GMT
More recently I wend to the B&M in Wolverhampton and found they now have new ko transformers. Sadly they are oversized versions of the robots makeing up FOC Bruticus    Honestly I quite like the look of this colour scheme on this design, but TFNation has a greater priority than seeing if this KO's any good . They also had these  |
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Post by dinosgamez on Aug 11, 2019 15:52:28 GMT
To my surprise I also found in the Wolverhampton Entertainer on the same day. These Mars Converters including one I picked up for a G2 Megatron custom.    These giant apparently licensed chevrolets, which have clearly have had the same level care and effort put into them as the Alternators and Alternity figures.  |
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Post by dinosgamez on Aug 11, 2019 16:08:12 GMT
I also found next to the carbots these reduced to £4 Roborg Metamorphosis figures, which I have never seen before. Annoyingly they don't picture the actual robot mode anywhere at all on the box (excluding the artwork), so Until I found one upside down and loose in its box I want certain they properly transformed at all.  Before buying one I did try to search for any information, or images about them online and could find nothing whatsoever even searching on the site of the company which apparently made them.  The closest thing I could find were (annoyingly I cant find it again now, but it was an aliexspres page showing multiple different transforming cars of this type, with a video showing off some auto playing on it). This looks like it uses the same mold, as one of the cars pictured on the back of the Roborg box (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1000003558594.html) This ones not to bad as a background genericon and all parts of the car body except the roof are diecast.   The spoiler has to be removed to separate the legs, but if it was cut in half this would not be necessary. I'm not sure why they did not make it that way. The only potential issue is you are supposed to remove the roof and have it act as a shield, but its held in place to securely. However I think it looks fine it attached anyway.  Sorry for all the large posts I did't expect to suddenly find so much. |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 11, 2019 16:11:54 GMT
Loving the madness of the tube of Morphbots.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 11, 2019 16:18:28 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2019 19:00:22 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 16, 2020 8:20:14 GMT
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Post by Benn on May 16, 2020 9:33:18 GMT
Not gonna lie, I'm tempted
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 8, 2020 12:37:16 GMT
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Post by Benn on Aug 8, 2020 13:01:48 GMT
Oooh
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2020 15:05:08 GMT
The Fort Max? I used to have one of them. The quality is really nice.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 8, 2020 15:07:10 GMT
No, 15. Liokaiser.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2020 15:11:54 GMT
Your link was to Fort Max. Buy it. It is good.
No idea about the Liokaiser.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 8, 2020 15:18:46 GMT
No, my link is to an auction that has multiple items, which is why I said 15. Use the selection drop down. To pick 15.
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 8, 2020 19:17:49 GMT
Ive resisted buying one of those for years.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2020 15:54:53 GMT
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Post by Benn on Sept 8, 2020 16:03:42 GMT
ooh
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Post by Slack on Sept 9, 2020 12:27:20 GMT
I saw a giant CW Hotspot KO in B&M a week or so ago. I wish I had taken a picture.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 9, 2020 12:35:48 GMT
It - and the limbs - have been seen loads, unless it's a newer one. There's probably some pics upthread
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 9, 2020 14:20:47 GMT
Nick bought it and the limbs only to find there was no combiner head.
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Post by Slack on Sept 9, 2020 14:25:19 GMT
Hahaha, sorry I shouldn't really laugh but that's funny. You just cannot trust counterfeiters anymore
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Post by duffism1981 on Sept 9, 2020 14:27:38 GMT
I believe that was the FOC Bruticus that was headless, unless the overseized Defensor was the same.
My locla B&M has had the Combaticons back instock for a while in the 2 for £20 range, and has also had the odd Protectobot instock as well. So they are the same ones from a couple of years ago, possibly just in different packaging.
I only ever handled the Rook mould which had next to no articulation. The arms in robot mode were stuck in jazz hand position.
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