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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 25, 2016 13:57:41 GMT
And a 6" Titanium one!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 25, 2016 14:04:01 GMT
GENERATIONS 30th!
Lots of figures in this I didn't like.....
But lots I did!
5) Shrapnel. I love the Insecticons in this scale. PLEASEGIVEMEKICKBACKPLEASEGIVEMEKICKBACK.
4) Swerve. Nice little figure, nice mold. Apparently he's featured in a popular TF comic or something? But I've liked him since I had the G1 toy.
3) Whirl. I remember seeing the Deluxe Autobots in an American toy leaflet I obtained from somewhere back in the day, and Whirl and his chum Roadbuster always stuck in my head. Weird, odd mold, but a lot of fun.
2) Roadbuster. As Whirl, but this is a better toy generally. Lots of guns!
1) Cosmos. Magnificent. Utterly brilliant awesome figure update. PLEASEGIVEMEBEACHCOMBEANDSEASPRAYRPLEASEGIVEMEBEACHCOMBERANDSEASPRAY
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2016 23:26:21 GMT
Thursday Tease: You'll need a little DIY Protection as you construct your new home to prevent yourself getting screwed up more than once. A clue: It's an alt mode you're looking for.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 25, 2016 23:29:07 GMT
A screwdriver
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2016 23:56:34 GMT
No, but one of these vehicle comes from a line with drivers in and they all have a screw of sorts.....
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Post by blueshift on Feb 26, 2016 0:00:03 GMT
No, but one of these vehicle comes from a line with drivers in and they all have a screw of sorts..... ...Kissplay?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2016 7:29:13 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2016 12:15:07 GMT
I have almost certainly forgotten something important here! Honourable mentions: Dai Atlas (it might spin but it is a very very small drill), Japanese Micromaster Dillbuster and TM Scavenger (a pair of spinning drills are great but the rest of the vehicle mode is a bit odd). The world of Minicons provide us with Cybertron Drillbit, Metroplex's companion. Knockout's Energon Driller is a superb fun toy which was in my top 5 till 2 minutes ago when I realised it was a vehicle and not a Transformer as such. 5) Armada DrillbitOh this is fun. A little minicon that you roll along and the drill spinse. Then you can attach it to larger toys as a weapon and it also uses the criminally underused gear gimmick. Imagine if Hoist or Overload could have powered him too! Points for his repaints Gritbit, which matches the aforementioned Cybertron Metroplex, and Monocle which is not only in Construction Yellow but also matches Buzzsaw the Cybertron repaint of Cyclonus, the toy which does have the gear gimmick. 4) BWII GalvatronMad as a mad thing. A big gold drill that spins when you press a button. OK the rear of the drill tank is a bit odd but I'll let that pass seeing as there's another alt mode to come out this toy. In any other context one of my all time favourite TFs but purely as a drill tank, no. 3) Rescue Force Drill TankThere are numerous things Hasbro got wrong repainting Breastforce into Rescue Force. Leaving two of them out for a start. But Drillhorn's repaint they get very VERY right. First they paint it like Thunderbirds' Mole, the grand daddy of the Drill Tanks (Did the Japanese do drill tanks before Thunderbirds?) Then they include two weapons that can attach in vehicle mode and elevate using the wrist joint, something not covered by the Japanese version. Top toy. A silver weaponed Rescue Force Drill Tank is high on my wants list. 2) NoseconeNosecone is great. Earthy colours, just right for his role. I want to like the CW version but from what I've seen the original just looks so much better. 1) Twin TwistI wanted Twin Twist as a youngster. We got Topspin. There's no justice in the world. How could you not want Twin Tist? Twin chromed drill bits and a BIG GUN! The only way Twin Twist could be better is if the drills span as he rolled!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2016 12:29:17 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Feb 27, 2016 13:01:22 GMT
Where does the whole drill tank concept actually come from, given how popular they are and yet they're not a real thing.
OR ARE THEY?
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Post by legios on Feb 27, 2016 13:24:28 GMT
I can't speak for tracked drilling vehicles, but Japan certainly had "big drill on vehicle" already - Atragon (Gotengo), a submarine with an enormous drill as its front end already existed in novels prior to 1963 when a film adaptation of it was done by Toho. I suspect that they can trace their ancestry eventually back to Burrough's Iron Mole from "At the Earth's Core" the first Pellucidar novel. Although the Iron Mole in that is strictly a drilling machine I believe, and has a slight technical problem with the turning and the steerings... But it wouldn't have taken much for someone somewhere to think "it'd be really neat if you put that on wheels or something so you could just drive somewhere and start drilling". Edit; a quick bit of research puts us at1951 and something called the Cyclotram which looks pretty much like the demented offspring of a rotovator, early tank and an american saloon car. Earliest antecedent I can find this lunch hour, but it suggests such things were not unknown by the 1950s. I suspect that they have stuck around in Japanese toy lines simply because of a trend they have had of wholeheartedly embracing bonkers-crazy vehicles in general. Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2016 22:38:11 GMT
Nosecone was a favourite toy as a child. Immense fun.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 7:25:31 GMT
Thursday Tease:
This week we shall tell small tales of many famed Transformers!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2016 8:10:37 GMT
Animorphs.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 8:31:21 GMT
Animorphs well deserved time in the sun will come very soon, just not this week.
So have your top five ready to post as soon as it goes up!
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Mar 3, 2016 10:31:50 GMT
Action Masters?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 10:39:39 GMT
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Post by The Huff on Mar 3, 2016 12:47:16 GMT
Where does the whole drill tank concept actually come from, given how popular they are and yet they're not a real thing. OR ARE THEY? I've always thought that. And more importantly, I could never understand how they'd work. Surely to bore through the earth the actual vehicle would have to be the same size or smaller than the drill itself. I remember watching Brawn do it in The Ultimate Doom cartoon where he was drilling under the sea with a tiny drill at the front of his vehicle mode and the earth was just giving way so he could drive through. Sorry - this has always frustrated me.
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Mar 3, 2016 14:08:01 GMT
Im useless at this. Have mini-cons been done?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 16:01:37 GMT
Yes, and not that long ago in Week 134. There's a spoiler In the very first post which contains a complete list of what we've done including a link to the week. If you put both your guesses together you'd be pretty close to the answer!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 16:06:18 GMT
Where does the whole drill tank concept actually come from, given how popular they are and yet they're not a real thing. OR ARE THEY? I've always thought that. And more importantly, I could never understand how they'd work. Surely to bore through the earth the actual vehicle would have to be the same size or smaller than the drill itself. I remember watching Brawn do it in The Ultimate Doom cartoon where he was drilling under the sea with a tiny drill at the front of his vehicle mode and the earth was just giving way so he could drive through. Sorry - this has always frustrated me. I'll just leave this link to the Microman Mecha Robot One/Micronauts Microtron here so you can introduce yourself to Microtron's peculiar drill attachment...... www.microforever.com/MR-1.htm
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Post by Benn on Mar 3, 2016 16:14:18 GMT
Yes, and not that long ago in Week 134. There's a spoiler In the very first post which contains a complete list of what we've done including a link to the week. If you put both your guesses together you'd be pretty close to the answer! DECOYS
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 16:15:59 GMT
You're thinking on the right lines. But you're still wrong.
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Mar 3, 2016 17:46:16 GMT
Micromasters?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 18:04:29 GMT
No, but we haven't done them yet have we?
Micromasters does contain the something that's a foreshadowing of this week's topic though....
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2016 18:10:30 GMT
Mini-spies!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 19:20:09 GMT
Least warm guess since your first one!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2016 22:10:19 GMT
Transports?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2016 22:39:44 GMT
No. I'll give you a clue: Thursday Tease: This week we shall tell small tales of many famed Transformers! The Many bit is a biblical reference.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2016 22:45:52 GMT
Goats?
-Ralph
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