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Post by shaggydave76 on Oct 5, 2023 13:56:37 GMT
Ooh, and it's the Original part-metal Ravage that will not F*&^*ing stand up!!
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 5, 2023 15:51:29 GMT
The 40 years logo is a tad ugly. Clashes horribly with the packaging.
I reycle most packaging but with these it's a key part of the product.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 5, 2023 16:24:40 GMT
So these are carrying on the retro/movie colouring style of the recent reissues, but rebranding from being 'The Movie' to 40th Anniversary instead?
I get the tie in, but in terms of these being 40th Anniversary reissues, they aren't. They're recolours.
"You had these as a kid and now you can own them again, except they don't look quite like they did back then and in fact they're kinda plain compared to the ones you remember, which you'll probably realise only once you've bought them. Hasbro - we bring the disappointment."
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Post by that_bluestreak on Oct 5, 2023 17:03:52 GMT
i will probably get these because i am a sucker for an interesting g1 recolour thing!
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Post by that_bluestreak on Oct 5, 2023 17:04:30 GMT
and cassettes. whenever there is a cassette to get i always end up regretting it when i don't. coff encore tape collections coff
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 5, 2023 17:21:07 GMT
40th anniversary Soundwave with Laserbeak Illegal 'reissue'. Soundwave comes with Buzzsaw. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 5, 2023 17:38:25 GMT
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 5, 2023 18:19:49 GMT
I seem to be on my own in really liking Soundwave.
Its Action Master coloured.
Really should have come with Wingthing.
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 5, 2023 18:24:11 GMT
Kinda disappointed by the change to g1 packaging (never thought Id say that), its only 4 years or so since Walmart had the last round of G1 Blaster and co and the new art work boxes were nice. Even if the movie setting was ditched I would have liked to see sunbow 1-3 scenes.
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Post by Nigel on Oct 13, 2023 15:09:44 GMT
I'll have to wait until I see prices over here, but the colour schemes (especially Soundwave) are sufficiently different from the originals to make them desirable, even if they do also make them look rather like knock-offs (again, especially Soundwave.)
Curiously, both Soundwave and Blaster are two of the very few original Transformers that I still have the packaging for. Also curiously, I had them both from new not in the 1980s but in the early-mid 1990s and probably both were grey market imports. Blaster, I had from some cheap novelty shop while on holiday in Blackpool; Soundwave was from a mail-in advert that a shop put in Model & Collectors Mart, so may well have been one of those Chinese releases. (Years later, I would kick myself for not taking up another offer that that shop sent me in the post - the actual post, in an envelope and everything - for Sixshot. I think it must have cost too much - and probably only about £30 - for a character that I didn't really know at the time.)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 13, 2023 17:43:32 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 13, 2023 21:44:08 GMT
Soundwave sold out quick, but it's on all the usual sites too.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 13, 2023 21:45:18 GMT
And cheaper too.
-Ralph
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Post by Nigel on Oct 14, 2023 9:04:22 GMT
Has anyone else noticed that almost the first toy in this thread is the 25th anniversary Soundwave reissue? Now here we are discussing the 40th anniversary version.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 14, 2023 9:14:11 GMT
It's a perennial toy classic.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 21, 2023 12:42:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 21, 2023 12:52:23 GMT
I must have it.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 21, 2023 13:45:02 GMT
Those colours are really nice. If I didn't have a G1 Blaster already I'd be up for this.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 21, 2023 16:09:01 GMT
Which is the new one?
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 21, 2023 16:24:43 GMT
The one on the right.
I still have TFC Blaster but this is just different enough that I must have it.
Damn it.
-Ralph
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Post by that_bluestreak on Dec 21, 2023 16:28:00 GMT
Those colours are really nice. If I didn't have a G1 Blaster already I'd be up for this. I already have a G1 Blaster but I ordered this anyway because I need more. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 6, 2024 18:55:54 GMT
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 6, 2024 18:57:37 GMT
Need!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 6, 2024 22:00:47 GMT
Amazing isn't it. Take away the chrome, strip off the detail, flatten all the colours and boom, it looks fantastic. That has no right to work!
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Post by Benn on Jan 6, 2024 22:02:25 GMT
Really? I think they look cheap and nasty.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 6, 2024 22:04:44 GMT
Well there is that too.
I think I've been indoctrinated by the route masterpiece has taken in recent years. It's training me to think bland is chic.
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Post by Rich on Jan 7, 2024 20:26:02 GMT
It manages to pop and look cheap.
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Post by Cullen on Jan 9, 2024 17:03:04 GMT
Yeah I'm going to be needing these.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 9, 2024 17:51:09 GMT
It looks cheap, but also looks like an expansion of Actionmaster Soundwaves colour scheme.
And as nice as original Soundwaves are all those stickers and chrome will wear or fade while Retro Soundwave will.... well it will probably yellow quickly and badly. But thats ... different.
Im still on the fance about Blaster.
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Post by Benn on Jan 9, 2024 18:10:30 GMT
I think Blaster is the best of the bunch. The way some of his line work has been picked out in black is very nice, and I think he's simple enough that the loss of stickers isn't as keenly felt.
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