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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 15, 2013 17:00:51 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 15, 2013 17:07:30 GMT
Preordered. Will arrive just in time for my birthday. And when I might be out of the country. Drat.
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 15, 2013 17:22:33 GMT
Did Nigel or someone win an auction with a load of Euro stuff that seems like it would be perfect for this kind of book?
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Post by dasi on Dec 20, 2013 18:43:05 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 29, 2013 10:33:33 GMT
My pre-order is in.
Andy
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Post by legios on Dec 29, 2013 21:03:07 GMT
Nice, I can definitely see me springing for this in due course.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 9, 2014 22:23:22 GMT
Disappointed to read on tfw this has been delayed until January. No reason given.
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Post by primenova on Jun 10, 2014 12:07:06 GMT
I think that IDW might have run out of their asigned paper stock for each year - makes more sense than the no statements they give out for the delays
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 18, 2014 10:09:11 GMT
Back on for July 29th but seeing as that's the same date as TFUKv5 I ain't putting much hope on it
"Transformers Legacy: A Celebration of Transformers Package Art"
Previous estimated arrival date: January 21 2015 - January 23 2015
New estimated arrival date: August 06 2014 - August 08 2014
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 24, 2014 16:44:49 GMT
TF Legacy has actually held it's 30th September Amazon date for a couple of weeks now. Is it actually coming out?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 7, 2014 11:21:30 GMT
Hmmmm.
No. October 22-24th now.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 16, 2014 18:23:10 GMT
Got my copy of this today. Absolutely jaw dropping. The only way this could possibly have been bettered would have been to include the tech specs, but obviously this isn't so much an index - more a celebration of the legacy of the art. Massive heavyweight coffee table book, bigger than I expected and glorious to thumb through and look at. It's almost a white glove job; these pages are too nice to get covered in fingerprints. Total nostalgia overload and essential for anyone who has a past invested in G1.
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Post by Jaymz on Oct 16, 2014 21:16:16 GMT
Agreed, it's a very nice book. A couple of interesting unreleased bits which I hadn't seen before and variants I didn't know about.
Waiting for Phil to get his copy now and make a list of all the missing pieces.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 16, 2014 21:41:06 GMT
Have you spotted some?
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Post by Jaymz on Oct 16, 2014 22:16:23 GMT
They mention in the text that they couldn't find everything and didn't want to scan from the boxes as it didn't give good enough quality.
I've not done a thorough check, but there's a few Action Masters missing, the majority of Euro exclusives (a shame as the Motorvator/Overlord back of box artwork is one of my favourites) and some Japanese pieces (Reflector's camera mode boxart, Wildspark (although that's only a very minor change from Fizzle)). The Neo G1 section (ehobby, etc repaints) is missing a few bits like Road Rage, Orion Pax, Gobots, Detritus, Insecticon Clones. I'd like a more comprehensive list of what is missing, guess Jim Sorenson would be the one to ask.
It's still a very impressive book though, don't let the missing few distract from what they have accomplished.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 17, 2014 6:07:45 GMT
I do remember him saying on a podcast that some of the omissions were due to space in the page count, as well as art availability, and he cited euro G2 releases as the area that suffered.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 20, 2014 16:40:23 GMT
Picked this up from FP London on Friday. A thing of beauty, but as has been mentioned, the glossy pages are easily fingerprinted.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 20, 2014 18:00:03 GMT
I keep going back to the double page spreads of the art from the back of the boxes. I think these should be released as limited run art prints at the highest res they'd go. Posters at least. Don't know why no one's done that.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 22, 2014 18:16:38 GMT
Eagerly awaiting my Amazon preorder which is currently preparing for dispatch.
Andy
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 22, 2014 20:15:47 GMT
I think I'll add this to my Christmas list, even though the apparent lack of late Euro content is a disappointment.
Hopefully missing bits will appear in any future sequel rather than a revised edition.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 22, 2014 21:17:18 GMT
Mine is on the way! Fingers crossed it arrives in the office tomorrow or I shan't be able to pick it up from work untill next week.
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Post by Hero on Oct 23, 2014 12:19:27 GMT
Mine finally arrived in a large box this morning! Hefty thing too!
Felt like I pre-ordered a year ago... Well worth the wait.
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Post by Jim on Oct 23, 2014 15:55:54 GMT
Mine arrived a few days ago, have enjoyed flicking through it when I have the time. Very nicely presented book, especially compared to what the same publisher has been doing with the TF Classics lines.
-Jim
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 25, 2014 14:41:22 GMT
Arrived today. It is a thing of beauty indeed. One or two examples where the Masterforce era magneta/red hasn't come out well but very forgivable given the other 99% of the book.
The Technobots have never looked so good!
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Post by Jaymz on Oct 25, 2014 17:41:52 GMT
No Jetfire due to copyright issues, that's a shame.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 25, 2014 22:52:03 GMT
Dispatched yesterday from Amazon so some time next week.
About freaking time!
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 26, 2014 11:05:04 GMT
Think Jim Sorensen said in a recent interview that as far as US G1 goes, it's Jetfire and a couple of Action Masters that are missing.
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Post by Jaymz on Oct 26, 2014 12:46:09 GMT
That's cool, that was my initial impression from first read through. Annoying that they had Jetfire, but weren't allowed to put it in.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 26, 2014 23:07:42 GMT
Off hand I think the Euro AMs are absent as well which is a shame but so much else there to make up for it!
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Post by Jaymz on Oct 27, 2014 1:46:17 GMT
Near enough all the Euro stuff is missing, except Overlord.
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