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Post by Philip Ayres on May 27, 2016 7:10:43 GMT
Week 160: Military Vehicles
Your top 5 toys that turn into a vehicle used by the armed forces please.
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Gav
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Post by Gav on May 27, 2016 9:28:02 GMT
5: RID Brawl: Blue Camo is gorgeous! All square and lovely - a beautiful tank!
4: G1 Warpath: He's BOOM the absolute KABLAM best. Simple stuff but that adorable wee HEAD. What a tank!
3: Animated Ultra Magnus: All the DIGNITY in this one! Great colours, fantastic voice and a rugged as hell military vehicle.
2: Animated Ironhide (Bulkhead) (Voyager): That shiny GREEN. Packed with personality and a fun transformation. Big Mobile Transport.
1: Animated Swindle - probably my favourite in the whole line. Full of character, full of gimmicks and a nice wee mustard Army truck.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 1, 2016 15:44:50 GMT
Week 160: Military Vehicles 5) CW Blast Off One of the very few Transformers jets in a military colour scheme 4) Strongarm Fantastic jeep! 3) Legends Warpath Great tank! 2) Generations Warpath Bigger great tank! 1) G1 Onslaught Just love it. The vehicle mode can transport other Combaticons and the base mode is nearly plausable as a military vehicle in itself.
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Post by Bogatan on Jun 1, 2016 16:19:07 GMT
Help me out Phil, how far behind am I?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2016 6:00:48 GMT
Dunno! Will see if I can work it out later.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2016 6:03:01 GMT
Week 161: Deluxe toys
Your top 5 toys made in in the deluxe size please
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2016 11:51:21 GMT
Help me out Phil, how far behind am I? 136 Inferno was your last one I think
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 6, 2016 20:48:24 GMT
Animorphs!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 9, 2016 6:53:22 GMT
Lots of great toys here including Generations Wheeljack, Universe 2 Cyclonus, Armada Wheeljack, Supercon Optimus, Cybertron Defence Hot Shot, Cybertron Excelion, HFTD Tomahawk, GDO Springer, CW Rook, Classics Mirage, T30 Skids, BW Japan Tigatron & Shadow Panther. Very narrow miss for TM AirazorSo... 5) Night Slash CheetorBest Beast Machines Cheetor and probably best Cheetor overall. Needs a proper bright yellow repaint. Still. 4) RTS JazzFab toy. Big too. 3) Movie 3 Pack Classics BBFinally a BB with decent articulation. For my eye this mix of colours works best. 2) Generations WarpathAmazing toy. 1) Armada HoistLess common vehicle mode, decently articulated robot, fun special feature. LOVE it, hardly ever leaves my desk.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 9, 2016 7:30:48 GMT
Thursday Tease:
Slide into some cowboy action, loose your face and go missing for years twice with this week's top 5 toys!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2016 5:57:16 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2016 21:56:18 GMT
The field is slight limited here without going down the Movie route.... 5) Quantum OperativeWrong colour but an OK repaint. But when it comes to Skids recolours I prefer all the Diaclone versions to this. 4) AlternatorsAlternators Skids ate all the Energon pies. 3) Movie ClockerCybertron Clocker = Galaxy Force Skids This is the same toy in the Skids colours so must be Skids too right? 2) 1985 G1My original was a jumble sale find. Since bought as Transformers Collection and Encore (did he get Commemorative seriesed?) 1) LegendsNot yet in hand but the darker blue looks fabulous and a big improvement on the pale blue of the T30 version. Not sure about the neon pink though. Fab fun toy with lots of guns :-)
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 11, 2016 21:37:07 GMT
SKIDS! My first Transformer, and one of my all time favorites.
Can't really come up with a top 5, 'cos I haven't owned that many. But the G1 toy is brilliant, and the Alternators toy is one of the few Alternators I've held onto, great toy, great Skids. The Generations toy really doesn't look like a true Skids.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 11, 2016 22:10:08 GMT
Skids was your first? How did that come about? He doesn't strike me as a must have, first toy.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 16, 2016 6:39:32 GMT
Thursday Tease
Time to enter the world of the seller of stolen goods.
And I don't mean Swindle!
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 16, 2016 18:55:44 GMT
What? How many Transformers turn into fences?
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Post by blueshift on Jun 16, 2016 18:59:08 GMT
Thursday Tease Time to enter the world of the seller of stolen goods. And I don't mean Swindle! Swindler? Is it Micromasters again?
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 16, 2016 20:17:16 GMT
What? How many Transformers turn into fences? Ah! Of course! Panelformers!
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Jun 16, 2016 21:54:25 GMT
Hot Spot?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 16, 2016 22:02:37 GMT
Thursday Tease Time to enter the world of the seller of stolen goods. And I don't mean Swindle! Swindler? Is it Micromasters again? No! I will freely admit that the seller of stolen goods bit came as a surprise to me! But that should lead you to a word, also a name, which will lead you to a type of Transformers. And that will be very very good news
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 17, 2016 8:16:41 GMT
Week 163: Cyberverse
Your top 5 Transformers Cyberverse toys please.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 17, 2016 8:19:29 GMT
Thursday Tease Time to enter the world of the seller of stolen goods. And I don't mean Swindle! Swindler? Is it Micromasters again? No! I will freely admit that the seller of stolen goods bit came as a surprise to me! But that should lead you to a word, also a name, which will lead you to a type of Transformers. And that will be very very good news A seller of stolen goods is a Peddler, as in Kit, the co-creator of the Cybermen World of gives you Universe Last night's bonus clue: very very good news would be excellent news. Again Cybermen.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 17, 2016 10:54:25 GMT
There's been some great smaller figures in this line: Cyberverse Ironhide, which was better than the deluxe, All the BH Smokescreen repaints, and Abonminus, which helped learn a few lessons before Combiner Wars, but for my money the real stars here are the vehicles. Most of the initial DOTM Vehicles and Plasysets have faded a bit, and though the Ark is fun at the time we felt it was a bit unfinished with big spaces devoid of decking. Top 5: 5) Smokescreen's SkyclawThe only new new vehicle for Beast Hunters. Superb driver but the vehicle itself isn't a patch on previous years efforts. 4) Optimus MaximusLike Abominus I think important lessons were learned here which affected Metroplex and Max going foward. Yes it's not perfect, made of very rubbery plastic and full of holes. But it's got something, I like it. There's something about powering up Optimus with a huge suit of armour. If it hadn't been so hated by transfandom I reckon we could have got a Magnus repaint with a white commander Magnus figure fitting into a super mode coloured power suit. 3) Wheeljack SpaceshipLots of fun, gret pack in figure. 2) Knockout Energon Drillerspin the drill, spin the drill, weeeeee! Bugger to find though. and the repaint was worse! 1) Bumblebee Power SuitPrime powered up is one thing. Bumblebee powered up is another. Forget the vehicle, it ain't great. It the battlesuit I'm here for. Essentially Bumblebee in Aliens' Powerloader. Hand that flip round to turn into wrist cannons. Big light up gun that subs as a shoulder cannone. Not to everyone's taste but I love it!
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 17, 2016 12:13:21 GMT
No Skids or Cyberverse for me!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 23, 2016 7:24:02 GMT
Thursday Tease
This weeks Transformers were born to be wild and eat chips with Madonna while listening to Tangerine Dream.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 23, 2016 23:02:24 GMT
Animorphs.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 24, 2016 4:37:44 GMT
Week 164: Motorbikes
Your top 5 Transformers who turn into motorbikes please.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 24, 2016 4:45:28 GMT
Thursday Tease This weeks Transformers were born to be wild a song associated with Motorbikes through the film Easy Rider CHiPs is a US TV prograam about the California Highway patrol featuring lots of Motorycles who's first hit was Get Into The GROOVE while listening to Tangerine Dream. who provided the music for motorcycle adventure series Streethawk.
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Post by The Huff on Jun 24, 2016 16:14:09 GMT
Motorbike Transformers! Yay! Here is my top 5 (although I'm sure I've missed some favourites out here)
5) Wreck Gar (Autobot Hero) - The Junkions are probably the only 'normal sized' bike Transformer to make sense as they actually become huge ones that can be ridden by average sized Transformers. A shame the toy didn't have the spiked wheels but (unlike all future Wreck Gars that cheat)his head is the front of the bike so his face can pop out Cy-Kill style.
4) Ransack (Cybertron)
3) Override (Triggerbot)
2) Afterburner (Technobot) - excellent futuristic Tron like bike!
1) Lugnutz (Cybertron) - Hippie bike with lots of personality in both modes.
I should also mention the grandfather of all robot bikes Cy Kill, but can't really include him here. (Just like Transmetal Tarrantulas! I mean - is that supposed to be a bike!?)
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 24, 2016 19:54:59 GMT
Hmmm. Animated Prowl, Cw legends Groove and UW deluxe Groove are fab toys. I liked the Armada minicon bike (High Wire?). I am struggling to think of a 5th good bike.
-Ralph
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