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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 9, 2015 12:20:00 GMT
I am but you have incurred the wrath of Major Vex by dissing M.A.N.T.A Force.
*Strafing run by Red Vipers*
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Post by primenova on Jan 9, 2015 12:34:11 GMT
Back when they where out I saw more Supers than Vis in the shops (apart from the boxed Vis stuff)
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 9, 2015 18:23:32 GMT
The comic of Supernaturals was good. Visionaries though, did have a fantastic animated show.
There were loads of Supernaturals toys in my neck of the woods as a kid, very few Visionaries, but the same was true of Action Force/GI Joe. That was not all that widespread in the shops I visited as a lad.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 9, 2015 19:16:46 GMT
We had Visionaries and Action Force in our area but not in huge amounts. The latter vanished completely not long before it was rebranded as Gi Joe. Wouldn't see Joe toys in shops until the early 2000's. Supernaturals were everywhere, especially in corner shops/small newsagents in baskets.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 10, 2015 10:35:06 GMT
Didn't see much of the figures at the time (too much Firecon hunting and Manta Force I suspect) but piles of the vehicles eventually appeared in a local cheap shop. I remember getting a couple for birthday ans Christmas one year.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 10, 2015 12:11:17 GMT
I never saw Action Force vehicles at retail. I never saw them in the plastic until at TF cons in the early 2000's!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 10, 2015 12:15:21 GMT
Everywhere at the time down here. Sometimes, especially in 88 (year 2), easier to get than the figures
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 10, 2015 13:59:47 GMT
I saw Action Force figures as friends had them, but they were somewhat thin on the ground, at least until around 1991 when I moved to Perth as their Woolies had loads.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 7, 2015 21:35:37 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Nov 7, 2015 22:10:52 GMT
I refuse to believe that hologram would have worked. And mains powered? Wow Hasbro. Wow. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 8, 2015 13:08:29 GMT
My mind has just exploded.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 8, 2015 16:04:18 GMT
That picture of the mountain itself is old, but I always thought the story was that it was a mockup and they'd never found a way to make the hologram work.
Given the small projector and the huge field it apparently displays, and it being, you know, some magic sci-fi hologram thing that is mains powered, I still can't comprehend the idea that it would have worked in any way shape or form. Has there ever been any other sort of rear projected hologram available?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 8, 2015 19:28:29 GMT
No idea, but that is immense.
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Post by blueshift on Nov 8, 2015 20:01:36 GMT
If you put your head under the hologram projector, would you die?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 8, 2015 21:21:27 GMT
You would be made into a supreme being.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 8, 2015 21:33:40 GMT
Either that or become transparent.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 15, 2015 22:05:35 GMT
I vaguely recall Andu telling me there was a book coming out about Visionaries. Or did I imagine it?
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 15, 2015 22:06:46 GMT
I vaguely recall Andu telling me there was a book coming out about Visionaries. Or did I imagine it? -Ralph It this an informative factual book or a novel? |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 15, 2015 22:09:51 GMT
A book about the toys.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 15, 2015 22:11:44 GMT
A book about the toys. -Ralph I hope it has a hologram with magical powers on the front |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 15, 2015 22:21:26 GMT
Damn it, holograms need to come back into fashion!!!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 15, 2015 22:23:37 GMT
Damn it, holograms need to come back into fashion!!! -Ralph I remember when I was little we went out somewhere and came across a hologram shop. A shop dedicated to selling holograms. But proper swanky holograms, like in frames as if paintings, not a shop full of Visionaries and pen tops. |
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Post by Jim on Nov 15, 2015 23:46:20 GMT
A book about the toys. -Ralph I hope it has a hologram with magical powers on the front That might have helped assuage the disappointment many backers had with the final product. To be fair, it's not terrible. The content isn't bad, and the design and layout is pretty decent, but the paper quality and binding aren't quite up to scratch and it's a tiny little A5 thing. -Jim |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 16, 2015 21:04:43 GMT
It's this a thing that is for sale or is it a 'had to be there at the time' thing?
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Nov 16, 2015 21:18:14 GMT
It was a kickstarter thing; they were going to put details up on the page for how non-backers could order it, but there hasn't been an update there in ages:
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-Jim
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 16, 2015 23:20:27 GMT
I remember JiiDee talking to me about it a while back.
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Sept 8, 2017 21:14:42 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2017 21:31:33 GMT
I just can't be excited by a Visionaries V Transformers series before they've even had their own comics yet! Though if there are hologram variant covers no power on this Earth will stop me from acquiring them!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Sept 9, 2017 12:22:21 GMT
Seen a lot of people throwing around accusations of racism at people who don't like the new Visionaries designs.
Only I've not seen anyone actually criticise that Leoric is now black? Just that they don't like the design.
Sometimes if someone doesn't like a redesign it's because they don't like the redesign not that they're a frothing racist. But I guess that's what all debate has become nowadays.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2017 12:28:37 GMT
Racism? Eh? How do they work that one out? Is it the usual self-entitled twats screaming about something who have no knowledge of the actual original thing anyway rather than real world issues? That's the usual pattern.
I looked at the designs and they don't personally appeal to me but they could grow on me if I saw them properly in a sequential comic story or in toys.
If there are toys, I hope there are holograms or it's pointless doing them. That was the main selling point of the original line.
-Ralph
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