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Post by blueshift on Oct 30, 2015 22:50:51 GMT
Fixit is a minicon and neither of his two toys have minicon ports I believe 4 points to blue Otside of the range of what we're dealing with as is Cyclonus' Nightstick which is Universe 2 originally. Oooh fair enough, I still claim Energon High Wire though! What one were you thinking of? |
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Post by blueshift on Oct 30, 2015 23:02:02 GMT
Cybertron Laserbeak? Does he count as a minicon??
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 30, 2015 23:06:18 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Oct 30, 2015 23:11:21 GMT
I had never heard of that one!
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 30, 2015 23:55:31 GMT
Fixit is a minicon and neither of his two toys have minicon ports I believe 4 points to blue I think there's a grey area with him. He's definitely called a minicon in the series, but his toys aren't minicons. The Legion certainly doesn't have the I bar hole. I think that's the show pigeon-holing him because of his size when the toy range wasn't quite thinking that way? He doesn't function like the other minicons do because he doesn't have a Deployer parent. |
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Post by Toph on Oct 31, 2015 0:26:57 GMT
Well hasbro decreed a few years back that everything small and partnery is a minicon. All nebulons going forward are minicons. All cassettes are minicons.
I don't know if they retcon actual G1 toys into minicon category, but certainly all post G1 (universe Nightstick, universe Ravage, the micromaster/targetmaster hybrid homages with the gen legends, gen arcana) are all classified as minicons.
If it's a little guy, it's automatically a minicon. And unlike most of their more recent decrees (aligned is the only "real" continuity, the 13 are multiversal singularities, primus/unicron exist in every continuity no matter what writers say), hasbro doesn't seem to have gone back on this.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 31, 2015 0:39:42 GMT
Yeah, Fixit doesn't fit that bracket. He's a step larger and he isn't a partner to anyone. Legions aren't minicons.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 1, 2015 10:47:57 GMT
Black Shadow looks a bit not black hereP
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Post by blueshift on Nov 1, 2015 10:50:01 GMT
O-oh.. Wow.
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Post by Toph on Nov 1, 2015 11:29:16 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 1, 2015 11:30:20 GMT
Phew!
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Post by Jaymz on Nov 1, 2015 21:38:36 GMT
yeah, looks like it's supposed to be the Pretender shell for Grand.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 2, 2015 19:30:53 GMT
Aaarrrgh so many posts about millimetres and the letter C. Makes no sensssssse.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Nov 3, 2015 11:59:11 GMT
I think we should talk about Cmm and 5-clips.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 7, 2015 20:26:18 GMT
Clip evidence! C? I? I've no idea. All my Armada toys are in the loft. Wait, didn't they have pegs with a hole in the middle? that isn't a C or an I! Anyway, this is what's on Grimlock's shoulder. The connector is the bit on the circular rim, not the centre.  Returning to this particular pressing issue, now I've got one of these little buggers I can't see any 'I' shaped hole on him for the purposes of fixing him to a larger figure. Nothing like the peg on Grim's shoulder. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 7, 2015 20:50:02 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 7, 2015 22:59:49 GMT
Looks like you're right on that - they're definitely on his knees. Thing is Jetstorm definitely doesn't have anything like that on it. All his armour pieces have different shaped holes.  In fact having looked at the others I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that Divebomb is the only minicon with that shaped hole. Which is really quite odd. |
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 8, 2015 12:54:11 GMT
These minicons are beginning to interest me. I've finally removed the eight bits from the sprue that attach to Jetstorm, and the first thing I would say is that complete examples of these toys in years to come will be as rare as rocking horse poo, because I nearly lost two bits just trying to cut them off the plastic. Eight tiny bits of plastic in the hands of kids? everything about these goes against what's logical - these are more easily swallowable than guns.
anyway - each piece has a unique connection peg so they will only fit in one hole. Which makes me think that every minicon has unique connectors, which means Divebomb is the only one that will go on Grimlock's shoulder.
Don't get it. Why even both to put the peg there so he can connect to a Decepticon? these minicons are designed to attach to the launcher - no where else. Drift has no mount points for Jetstorm to attach to him. It's a really weird system.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 14, 2015 14:15:07 GMT
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Post by Benn on Nov 15, 2015 9:59:02 GMT
I think you killed Shockprowl. Or Mrs Shockprowl saw the picture mid-post...
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 15, 2015 10:50:08 GMT
I have an uncontrollable desire for small but complete displays of interesting looking robots. Season One of RiD just needs Warrior Bumblebee, Strongarm, Sideswipe; Legion Fixit; Deployer Drift; Minicon Jetstorm and Slipstream; and THIS LOVELY BIG OPTIMUS and you've got all the major Autobot characters.
I am going to have to summon huge reserves of 'be sensible' power to stay away from this. It's a Prime with a trailer! how rare is that! even if the trailer is his legs... err...
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 15, 2015 11:20:44 GMT
Resistance... buckling... light up features and sounds... crucially doesn't look ridiculously large with the Warrior figures... shields failing! incoming need attack! AIEEE!! higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-2562.html[img alt=" " src="http://blog-imgs-85.fc2.com/h/i/g/higekumatoytoy/20151113083940c16.jpg" style="m ax- width:60%;"] I've no idea what happened there! Pinwig, live the dream, baby. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 15, 2015 13:00:03 GMT
BZZZZZZZT DESTROY ALL HUMANZZZZZ BZZXTTCCXWWZRRT.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 16, 2015 11:36:11 GMT
Resistance... buckling... light up features and sounds... crucially doesn't look ridiculously large with the Warrior figures... shields failing! incoming need attack! AIEEE!! Pinwig, come about to zero nine zero mark zero five, we are coming in to cover you. *launches spread of plasma torpedoes and antimatter-warheaded missiles* I do rather like that Prime's toasting fork. It is rather useful, assuming that he is more outdoors and campfiry than some of his predecessors... Karl |
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Post by Llama God on Nov 16, 2015 11:37:52 GMT
Optimus Prime is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain..?
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Post by Toph on Nov 16, 2015 13:02:13 GMT
Well, it's not going to climb itself, now is it?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 16, 2015 14:05:53 GMT
'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier' is the greatest film ever made.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 16, 2015 16:45:56 GMT
1 No it isn't and 2 why bring it up in the TF Adventures thread?
Will Rumble, Frenzy & Black Shadow arrive tomorrow?
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Post by blueshift on Nov 16, 2015 16:55:48 GMT
'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier' is the greatest film ever made. -Ralph As a small child I loved that film! |
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Post by Llama God on Nov 16, 2015 17:18:50 GMT
1 No it isn't and 2 why bring it up in the TF Adventures thread? Ralph's response to my response to Karl's comment about the big-ass Optimus Prime being all outdoors-y. Of course. Naturally, it made me think of this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ |
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