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Post by Bogatan on Apr 11, 2015 17:36:21 GMT
G1 Ironhide in Gobot Ironhide colours would also have been very nice.
Gobot Mirage colours too.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 12, 2015 18:16:02 GMT
I would have bought the F*** out of G2 tapes. We all would have. -Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 12, 2015 18:48:55 GMT
Amen, brother.
Andy
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 14, 2015 8:42:45 GMT
Week 101. Soundwave.
Soundwave is my third favorite Transformer. Iconic to say the least.
5. Could not decided my number 5 for ages. Finally I went for Cybertron! I think I love the idea of Soundwave as a spy-plane. It suits him. And there's a Laserbeak!
4. 6" Titanium. I love my 6" Titaniums. Despite having a dose of Nappy-formation, this figure is gorgeous. And they gave him a Laserbeak! They gave him a Laserbeak!!!!!!
3. Animated. I have Animated figures of two characters, Prowl and Soundwave. This Soundwave is just so much fun! And Laserbeak is a guitar!!!!!!
2. G1. Just a 1984 amazeballs figure. The cassettes, the alt mode. And the cartoon sealed his immortality.
1. Masterpiece. I must disagree with the Mighty Big Phil here. This is the G1 toy upgraded and improved. Very nearly perfect. Love mine.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 14, 2015 10:03:32 GMT
The entire point is to disagree with me! It'd be a dreary place if we all liked the same thing.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 14, 2015 16:04:22 GMT
But... but you're the best of us! Wise Big Phil.
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Post by legios on Apr 14, 2015 16:14:34 GMT
Phil's Kung-Fu is indeed strong, but it is not the only School. Have pride in your style and in your Sifu's teachings. Do not apologise for your styles differences from others, show how they make your Kung-Fu strong!
Karl
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Post by legios on Apr 14, 2015 16:16:39 GMT
3. Animated. I have Animated figures of two characters, Prowl and Soundwave. This Soundwave is just so much fun! And Laserbeak is a guitar!!!!!! The guitar was Lazerbeak? Despite actually owning the toy at one point I assumed it was Buzzsaw. Shows that my age is starting to catch up with me (along with the inability to sustain a long duel standing on a thin tree-branch these days). Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 14, 2015 16:19:26 GMT
Oh I only assume it was Laserbeak, as he is most often associated with Soundwave. I've never watched Animated to know for sure.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 14, 2015 16:31:56 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 14, 2015 18:20:12 GMT
I've never watched Animated to know for sure. Did you hear that thud? did you? that was my jaw hitting the floor. First the IDW debacle and now this earth shattering revelation. You're only making it worse for yourself you know!
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 14, 2015 19:59:09 GMT
I've never watched Animated to know for sure. Did you hear that thud? did you? that was my jaw hitting the floor. First the IDW debacle and now this earth shattering revelation. You're only making it worse for yourself you know! Oh crap. Me and my big mouth... I... I... I just don't have tiiiiiiimmmme!
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 14, 2015 20:20:30 GMT
That i can sympathise with. Too much media of all kinds around these days. There's always a pile of shame lurking of unwatched discs and unread books. Oh, unplayed games. Unopened toys. Comics. Unmade beds... Umm... Unwritten top 5 lists? That much is certainly true.
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Post by Bogatan on Apr 14, 2015 20:24:26 GMT
Yup, had victory and masterforce on dvd for years and still havent got to them. Ditto energon, but I doubt anyone will blame me for that.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 14, 2015 20:35:56 GMT
With that trilogy I'm making progress. Done Headmasters and Masterforce in recent years but haven't managed Victory yet. Which probably accounts for why I have no interest in MP Star Saber.
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Post by legios on Apr 14, 2015 21:08:52 GMT
I've not seen the third season of Animated, it is available to me through Amazon Streaming video but I had lost interest completely by the end of Season Two so I didn't bother.
Not seen any Robots in Disguise (2015) yet either. I think we've all got TF media we've either not got around to, not had time to consume or just decided we aren't interested in.
Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 14, 2015 21:27:39 GMT
And I've only just seen the Sunbow cartoon! And even then still haven't finished series two! So, I think I'm in last place in the Transformers Media race.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2015 6:13:33 GMT
Thursday Tease:
This week's subject is first in more ways than one!
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Post by legios on Apr 16, 2015 9:56:09 GMT
Week 101: Soundwave
Soundwave, possibly the most effective Decepticon leader from the original comic. A Decepticon who rose to take overall command by an alternate 2008 by dint of being the last candidate standing, and who believes that knowledge is power and leverage... Yeah, one of my all-time favourite Decepticons.
5. Masterpiece Soundwave: It isn't that there is anything wrong with this, it is just that it brings less to the table than the original in too many ways. The lack of the ability to stow the weaponry in the battery compartment is a shame, and from what I have seen it seems to have changed scale so that the alt-mode is no longer an "actual size" replica? (Pleas correct me if I am wrong folks) If accuracy to the Sunbow cartoon animation model is your thing then this is probably a superb package. But for me it doesn't give me much I'm not getting from an original Soundwave. (His cassettes are really nice though - It was always them that made MP Soundwave interesting to me, and having had some experience with them now I think that they justify his existence all by themselves).
4. Galaxy Force Soundblaster: A complete reinvention - going from squaredness to being all edges and facets. It suits though, I can totally see Soundwave as a Low Observable Recon aircraft, and his ability to air-release Buzzsaw as a Recon drone is a nice touch. Love the way that all the accessories can be either carried in the drone bay or blend into the wing once they are on their hard-points. The colour scheme is great as well, suitably ominous and works much better on this mould than the blue.
3. Machine Wars Soundwave: Fantastic repaint of Stalker, proving it can work in colours that give it a more real-world aesthetic. The mould has a squared and blocky feel to the humanoid mode that suits Soundwave and preserves the feel of his original humanoid mode. (Indeed, the colour scheme suits his personality too - grey, colourless and standing back to listen and remember)
2. "The Transformers": Soundblaster; All the good bits of Soundwave, with a redesign to hold a second mini-cassette in his deck. I like the new colour scheme but I am kind of split on the dual tape storage - on the one hand it is a fun gimmick, on the other it spoils the real-world accuracy of the alt-mode which is something I found fun about the original. Hence why New Soundwave trails the original slightly.
1. "The Transformers" Soundwave: Fantastic toy, the one of the best Microchange descended toys for my money. Love the 1:1 scale alt-mode, it means you can pretend the toy might actually _be_ Soundwave in disguise. The weapon storage is fun too. The humanoid mode is fantastic. Enough articulation to give it loads of play value and the character design (done by a young Shinji Aramaki I discovered from TFWiki this week - he may have gone on to make a hash of Appleseed but The first half of his career has given me such joy..." Is marvellous, with tremendous shelf-presence. When I was a kid I had a Soundwave but no Megatron, but I never once felt my Decepticons were hard done by for a leader.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2015 17:47:39 GMT
I love AM Soundwave and the original SW toy equally. A nod to WST Soundwave though. Really well done wee toy though WST Ravage is a pain!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 17, 2015 6:50:43 GMT
Week 102: Gold Boxed ClassicsYour top 5 toys that features in the gold boxed classics toyline, Transformers first reissues of some of the earliest TF toys, in the early 1990s See tfwiki.net/wiki/Classics_%28Europe%29#Releases for a list of the toys involved.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 17, 2015 8:02:58 GMT
Classics! Oh this was a fab time! A chance to own or reowned some great older toys. I had my own money at this point, and could buy whatever I wanted! Ahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!
1. Prowl. My old one was falling apart. But now I could have a new Prowl! Joy of joys! Regret not getting a new Jazz at the time.
2. Sandstorm. I was really surprised how much I liked this triple changer.
3. Ironhide. My 1st Ironhide!
4. Sunstreaker. My 1st Sunstreaker!
5. Motor Master. My 1st Motor Master!
Great times.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 17, 2015 9:14:20 GMT
Week 102: Gold Boxed Classics You're not the only Ian! These were coming out while I was at University, had a TRU a short drive away, had money and was really getting into buying TF toys. Oddly my list of favourites from this line coincides with which haven't been reissued elsewhere and almost exactly with what I bought. It's odd, when assessing what's best in a reissue line the better toy that's been reused often, Optimus Prime, sinks down under the toys which are good but not been out so often. Special mention to the Combaticons, which allowed me to complete a set started with Onslaught & Brawl in 86, and the Protectobots, which almost certainly have contributed to at least one of the Defensors I've built since. 5) SnarlI almost certainly didn't own a Classics Snarl. But I did get a loose one off a market stall around then and Snarl's current availability allowed me to write off for the weapons. He gets placed down here due to always being available when the Dinobots got a UK release and somehow being easier to find. 4) SludgeWhereas poor Sludge didn't get a G2 release so he beats Snarl here. Poorer Slag who has never (yet) been reissued inhis original colours. 3) WheeljackI already had Action Master Wheeljack but the character was a cartoon favourite. I had some experience of Prowl, or one of the toysthat shares his mould, but not Wheeljack so he got bought. And he was fab. It's interesting looking at the Autobot cars from Classics: Jazz Sideswipe
Sunstreaker Wheeljack Ironhide Prowl
Inferno Tracks That middle series of cars, the one that was meant to come out here in 84, but didn't until 85 and then got cut in 86, is very well represented with just Trailbreaker loosing out. For the record the Diaclone cars that do miss out are: Ratchet Hound Mirage Bluestreak
Trailbreaker
Smokescreen Red Alert Grapple Hoist Skids All the moulds that are used more than once get a showing, save the Hilux. It's also interesting to see how under represented the Decepticons are. Two combiner teams and two Triplechangers, each of which have similar Autobot opposition. Optimus, the 8 Autobot cars and six Throttlebots have no one to fight save for Woolworths Devastator who was out at the same time. 2) SunstreakerI can remember my first TRU visit in October(?) 1991 and seeing loads and loads of Autobot car reissues. Had I inherited my friend's Transformers by then? Not sure. But I had considerable experience of Sideswipe and what I wanted was his brother. And I loved him with a passion. Especially once I had Sideswipe to stand alongside him. I miss my Classics Sunstreaker. And his replacement. It's the only Autobot car I don't own a version of at the moment. (although my Wheeljack still needs repairing!) 1) GrimlockBut for all that Grimlock still tops ANY poll that includes Dinobot reissues. I had the Action Master by then but Grimlock totally blew me away at how much bigger he was than the Autobot cars and how much better he was. Top toy.
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Post by Bogatan on Apr 19, 2015 18:27:06 GMT
5. Tracks - Just beats out G2 Prime who just isnt quite a s much fun as it should be. Tracks isnt quite as good as Wheeljack, but is still good in its own right. Plus was an important step down the massive remoulding going on now. 4. Fallback - a mould I really like, the colours arent as good as on Brawn, but stil loads of fun and comes with a great pair of Transformers hand guns. 3. Mind Set - G2 homage and unusual transformer. 2. Big Hoss - Reverse Actionmasters and just to troll us they designed the robot mode and stuck it on the box. 1 Jazz - Still pretty much perfect. Worst that can be said is that Jazz colours dont really pop. Bubbling under: The legends, Wreck Gar (along with Prime I want to like it more than I do) and Windcharger.
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Post by Bogatan on Apr 19, 2015 18:40:38 GMT
Week 99: Non Special Team Combiner PartsYour top 5 Non Special Team Combiner Parts please. We're talking toys that transform into a combiner components that AREN't part of one of the special team combiners or their repaints. 5. ?? Nothing is jumping out from the options. Hmm Cicadacon. For all the same reasons as Prowl, plus green. Loses points for tending to get very loose joints and things popping off during transformation. 4. Leokaiser arms - okay they arent the same mould but essentially are the reverse of each other with different planes on their backs. The arm mode transformation is clever, looks great and includes a self contained hand. 3. Rescue Force Drillhorn. Fun toy, rock solid leg mode. 2. Prowl - The Lio Prime repaint is nicer to look at but I dont have it, Prowl is one of my favourite basic class toys in its own right. 1. Build Boy - Still a favourite, also a favourite basic class toy.
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Post by Bogatan on Apr 19, 2015 19:15:15 GMT
Really there was only one choice Week 100: Action MastersI suspect, knowing how much we like this line, that there's ample opportunity for multiple lists. Enjoy! 5. Mainframe - For years I thought Mainframe was a character that must have been in the cartoon a back ground character on Cybertron or something. Hes just got that generic cybertronian that hasnt taken a Earth alt mode look too him. At the same time few if any Transformers that project their personalities so clearly. The 70s 80s droid look and suggestion of old school super computer scream compuuter geek. 4. Skyfall - really nice looking design but probably makes the list thanks to Top Heavy which is such a fun little toy. 3. Powerflash - of all the new characters I think Powerflash and Mainframe most grabbed my attention, but Powerflash was the more interesting design and came with my favourite type of partner. 2. Sideswipe - Captures the animation model far better than most actionmasters that wind up look a bit skinny or out of proportion. Actionmaster partner is awesome. 1. Thundercracker - Was there really any doubt? Actually yes. I am a really really big fan of Powerflash and Sideswipe and I like their partner head exo suits far more than TCs full body exo suit. Having said that TC exosuit is the best of the four that were done. It was also better than the first series of boxed Actionmasters. End of the day though Thundercracker was already my favourite jet becasue I got given one (minus everything) by a neighbour. I cant remember if I already had pretender Starscream but it was certainly my first original jet and it wasn't until G2 Starscream that I got another. So TC was my fav. And then AMTC did those colours. Gorgeous. I honestly cant remember my reaction the first time I saw these colours. I'm pretty sure it was positive, because I do remember buying it, I got all four exosuited AMs, but dont remember actually getting the others. It is possible I was only completing the set, but I didnt do that back then, Blaster and Shockwave got passed over because others grabbed my attention so no way was a spending boxed Transformer money just for completeness. If I was being more impartial I'm sure some of the AMs deserve more consideration, but as I said I bought what I though looked best at the time, even if it meant picking up an unknown Mainframe or Skyfall over Shockwave and Blaster. Grimlock and Devastaotr did miss out because I already had original and pretender and recent Woolies releases respectively, but mostly I got the best looking to me. They are all bubbling under, but special mention to Soundwave and Bombshell, both look great and have great fun partners. Wing thing was my first minon of Soundwave so wa very happy when he finally got cassette status a few years ago. Rad too probably should be on that list. And Inferno, Kick Off, Slicer (oddly never much bothered about Wheeljack, but think the colours on Slicer sell the mould) Banzaitron and.. well almost all of them.
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Post by Bogatan on Apr 19, 2015 19:26:33 GMT
5. G2 - What lovely colours ona nice little toy but to repeat myself. WHY! couldnt we had had this? 4. Music Label - Fun concept that was executed pretty well. Kind of wish they made it more expensive, but fitted an mp3 player with display and features, but as a toy it worked great and remain sthe only G1 based classic version. 3. Actionmaster - looks great comes with Wing Thing, nothing to dislike here. 2. MP - I'm still not quite sold on the how the upper legs look, the way they connect at the hips look ever so slightly awkward and if I am being incredibly picky the feet look fractionally too big, but theres arent many Transformers that are so close to the complete package. 1. G1 - Its not so much that it is better than the Masterpiece, but that it did so much more than pretty much any Transformer in the 80s. Masterpiece Soundwave is only as good as the rest of the masterpiece line. Okay maybe its a little better on balance, but original Soundwave was so far ahead of its time I can't not be impressed by it still.
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Post by Bogatan on Apr 19, 2015 20:31:13 GMT
Week 102: Gold Boxed ClassicsYour top 5 toys that features in the gold boxed classics toyline, Transformers first reissues of some of the earliest TF toys, in the early 1990s See tfwiki.net/wiki/Classics_%28Europe%29#Releases for a list of the toys involved. I know I got Prowl and Wheeljack on the same night. I would guess around my birthday, unless I had seen an ad in the comic and Mum and Dad had found out who had them instock and were treating me. I dont know when I got Jazz, if it had been instock I would have assumed I'd have gotten it first maybe I did get it at the same time. I was however worryingly pragmatic back then so having already gotten pretender and actionmaster Jazz (and my cousin having original Jazz) I might have decided not to risk missing out on the two I had no version of and had never even seen before. I remember my mum asking the person working in the shop if they would be getting Bumblebee in and even leaving our phone number in case they did (at that time still my favourite though by then tied with Jazz)so this was before Woolworths got stocked. Yes classics and reissues was an incredibly exciting time. 5. Inferno - With classics it really was about the Autobot cars, before classics I only had Hound and Ratchet and Hot Rod and Kup. So the entire car line was needed, but I was never wowed by Sunstreaker or Tracks, Ironhide was just a red Ratchet so wasnt as exciting as the other all new moulds and Sideswipe was great but Actionmaster and G2 Sideswipe sort of come to mind before him. So that leaves Inferno. What surprised me was how much bigger he seemed. 4. Jazz - Finally I owned original Jazz. 3. Wheeljack - Another brand new to me toy. Not as sleek as Prowl but the ape arms had there own charm. 2. Prowl - Along with Wheeljack my first classics. There was something glorious about Prowl, it was the first time I had seen the mould in person except for possibly a very very junkery Smokescreen. Pritine the mould really did blow my mind. As much as I loved Jazz I think I realised that he looked awkward and blocky in comparison to Prowl. 1. Optimus Prime - I already had Powermaster Prime and probably Actionmaster Prime, but finally getting the original was a big deal. Even back then at about 9 years old, these gold boxes and the Woolies constructicons and Minibots made me feel like I had progressed from kid buying what ever was out to a real fan taking the opportunity to fill gaps in my collection. And considering I needed almost all those releases save protectobots, Areialbots, Dinobots and some Throttlebots my parents must have realised this too otherwise I never would have gotten close to buying all of the ones I was missing. Bubbling under Sandstorm and Astrotrain my favourite two triple changers. Throttlebots. Oh all of them. Until reading that wiki link I dont think I was aware of Octane being released as a classic. If I was it was the only one I didn't get that I needed and then forgot ever seeing it.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 19, 2015 20:33:55 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 19, 2015 20:41:30 GMT
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