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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 26, 2017 2:58:28 GMT
I think I'm still driven by the desire to fulfil collections. I don't need every Generations toy released, but I would personally like to have all the original characters at least up to 1987 represented in the current style as Hasbro seem intent on doing that. It's funny how perception works - MP Megatron at £170 seems ridiculous to me, completely preposterous, yet I bought Takara Fort Max last year for the same price and got almost no pleasure from him, yet that seemed okay because of his size. Why didn't you get pleasure out of Fort Max, Pins? |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 26, 2017 8:15:23 GMT
Because despite the changes made to the mould, he's just too like Metroplex to me. Metroplex was a jaw dropper, an amazing toy with an awesome city mode. Fort Max felt too compromised. The robot is not different enough and the base mode doesn't look right because it's basically a make-do reinterpretation of Metroplex instead of actually being Fort Max. There just wasn't anything exciting about it.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 26, 2017 9:13:55 GMT
FORT MAX GETS THE AXE!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 26, 2017 9:29:47 GMT
Hmm. Well, I did feel a little shafted it has to be said.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 26, 2017 9:50:48 GMT
Classic Remolditis. If you force a mold too far, it under-delivers as the new character.
Pinwig, I- I'm sorry.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 26, 2017 10:38:31 GMT
His strength needs fort-ified. We nust max-imise his positive energy once again.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Feb 26, 2017 11:02:34 GMT
I'm the same with Fort Max to be honest. I mean he's BIG but both of his modes are rubbish.
But hes BIG. I don't regret it.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 26, 2017 11:13:53 GMT
I suppose I don't regret it, because he is part of the TR crew and completes the Headmaster set. If anything I wish I'd held out and picked off a Hasbro one when they were going for £120; the added extras the Takara one has don't really justify an extra fifty quid. Heaven forbid the £215 he ended up at.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 26, 2017 11:47:15 GMT
Ive never really had either of them in anything but robot mode so Max' less than convincing alt modes have never bothered me. As robots Max has a lot more going on than Metroplex, its more filled out, it has the headmaster gimmick and even the colours are a bit more interesting tham Metroplexs all white, but because I got Metroplex first I never got that wow factor from Max.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 26, 2017 11:47:44 GMT
What Im saying is I think of them as giant Actionmaster elites.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 26, 2017 12:43:23 GMT
I suppose I don't regret it, because he is part of the TR crew and completes the Headmaster set. If anything I wish I'd held out and picked off a Hasbro one when they were going for £120; the added extras the Takara one has don't really justify an extra fifty quid. Heaven forbid the £215 he ended up at. Yes but doesn't the Takara one play the Headmasters theme and go "HEAD ON!"? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2017 12:52:53 GMT
He does.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2017 13:09:22 GMT
Conversation bumped to the Max thread, cos.
I think the robot on Max is great, no real complaints there.
The Battleship mode is good. Could be improved if the leg ramp connectors had meshed together.
Both improved with the 3P gun.
The city mode is where it really could be better. Doesn't look like the existing city, just the mistransformed version from the catalog. Needed long arm ramps that reached the floor and longer shoulder ramps.
Japanese version is worth it IMO. Better coloured legs and the sounds are great.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 26, 2017 13:13:52 GMT
The city mode is poor as there's nowhere for the legs to go and look good
The battleship mode doesn't have enough panels to cover stuff so it just looks like he's lying down. I mean given his size you'd think they'd be able to tuck more panels there
BUT I do really like his robot mode! I sort of wish the'd have just kept the same transformation as Metroplex!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2017 13:16:31 GMT
The Battleship is comparable to the original though.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2017 13:21:15 GMT
Needed long arm ramps that reached the floor and longer shoulder ramps. This is poking a memory from the review that where the ramps are mounted on the shoulders there should have been longer ramps. Having thought about it if they wanted a different base mode it needed to be stunning and this isn't. |
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Post by blueshift on Feb 26, 2017 13:24:20 GMT
The Battleship is comparable to the original though. You say that like it's a good thing! Honestly though, whacking on some windows on the legs and making them form proper towers would fix the city mode, and a few more flaps would fix the battleship |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2017 14:01:45 GMT
Phil *LOVES* the original Max Battleship mode all the way back to it's only comics appearance in US 47/8, with Blaster and PM Op standing on it. It was the only glimpse I got of what he TF'd into for years!
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Post by blueshift on Feb 26, 2017 14:13:05 GMT
Phil *LOVES* the original Max Battleship mode all the way back to it's only comics appearance in US 47/8, with Blaster and PM Op standing on it. It was the only glimpse I got of what he TF'd into for years!  |
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Post by Toph on Feb 26, 2017 14:36:50 GMT
Max's city mode just looks like a dude doing yoga.
Granted the original's two modes were barely more than that, his city at least ended up actually looking like a city.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 24, 2017 22:33:14 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 18, 2017 16:38:23 GMT
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Post by Bogatan on May 18, 2017 16:41:55 GMT
But they still have mountains of the SDCC that wont sell dont they?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 18, 2017 17:26:59 GMT
That's because we want a proper Cerebros.
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Post by Llama God on May 18, 2017 17:35:40 GMT
This is very true. Cerebros with a mouth is not Cerebros!
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Post by Pinwig on May 18, 2017 18:54:25 GMT
Tsk. Should have been Metroplex. Just because his head doesn't transform.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 28, 2017 18:41:54 GMT
Shall we have a book on if they'll do a Power of the Primes Grand Max repaint with a Pretender shell for the Titanmaster?
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Post by blueshift on Jul 28, 2017 18:50:41 GMT
Oh my god we can only dream. But then again we never got a single Metroplex repaint, which was a shame  I feel these SDCC repaints are a wasted opportunity Also waaaaaaaaaait, there was no SDCC Trypticon was there??? |
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Jul 29, 2017 14:32:17 GMT
There wasn't but they did repaint an existing mold for Skateboardy Prime.
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Post by blueshift on Jul 29, 2017 14:43:14 GMT
It's a shame. I was enjoying the 'this year's super big mold gets blinged up a bit' that they'd been doing for the past few years. I guess SDCC Max did badly across the board last year!
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I feel these SDCC repaints are a wasted opportunity
