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Post by Toph on Mar 7, 2017 15:10:12 GMT
AND OH MY GOD THAT PICTURE IS AMAZING!!!! TYRPTICON IS SO ENORMOUS!!!! I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE SMALLER... DUE TO THE EXTRA BULK... BUT OH MY GOD!!!! I am going to buy this now. Very impressive. He is going to be smaller. That photographer manipulated angles to make them look equal. |
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Post by blueshift on Mar 7, 2017 16:44:29 GMT
AND OH MY GOD THAT PICTURE IS AMAZING!!!! TYRPTICON IS SO ENORMOUS!!!! I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE SMALLER... DUE TO THE EXTRA BULK... BUT OH MY GOD!!!! I am going to buy this now. Very impressive. He is going to be smaller. That photographer manipulated angles to make them look equal. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat you mean it's FAKE NEWS?  |
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 7, 2017 17:19:01 GMT
IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!
No I had wondered. Thanks CJ. It's just he is larger than I expected despite the dodgey photography. I'd thought he'd be a stumpy fellow.
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Post by Toph on Mar 7, 2017 17:42:15 GMT
I believe he's equal to, or a bit shorter than CW Devastator.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 7, 2017 19:53:25 GMT
oh
Damn those are crafty camera angles then, aren't they?
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 7, 2017 19:53:53 GMT
Actually, no, that'd be ok.
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Post by Toph on Mar 7, 2017 19:59:03 GMT
Shockprowl, Rough estimate, but looks to be about accurate based on everything we've seen with leaders in his display, and with that takara metroplex pic.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 7, 2017 20:32:58 GMT
Thanks CJ, darling. Yes, I think he'll do. I think he's the size we were expecting.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2017 20:41:16 GMT
Size matters not.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 7, 2017 20:48:32 GMT
It does when you're a fuck-off giant bastard transforming dinosaur Titan-Master squashing murder beast.
Bigger the better, Doc'. Believe you me, 'learned that the hard way, I did.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 7, 2017 21:36:55 GMT
Hasbro have said 20 inches tall, so there may be a bit of angle manipulation going on there given Metroplex is 24, but even so, they're going to look amazing.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 10, 2017 6:45:01 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 10, 2017 6:48:46 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Mar 10, 2017 8:35:44 GMT
So it's a little bit shinier and greener? Hard to tell from that image...
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 10, 2017 17:04:25 GMT
Takara are sticklers for cartoon accuracy. It'll be Sunbow colours. Which varies to be fair, but is probably a shade darker than the Hasbro toy/s.
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Post by Toph on Mar 22, 2017 14:38:34 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 23, 2017 14:26:54 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 25, 2017 8:40:15 GMT
This is well worth a look as there's some new features we've not seen previously: the fold up front of the base, the fold down ramp and how the hips work. Base ramp connectors on the heel spurs, which end up mid side bit in base mode. Is this the finished Takara version? I'm not seeing a lot of differences. |
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Post by Stomski on Mar 30, 2017 18:11:30 GMT
Would I be considered overly critical if I said I didn't like it on account of the fact that it looks like a shoebox with limbs and a head?
If there wasn't a healthy dollop of nostalgia, where would we stand on it?
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Post by Benn on Mar 30, 2017 18:21:08 GMT
I'd still like it, I think. I'm a fan of the Godzilla giant monster movies anyway, and this dude tick those boxes. And he eats people! Always good.
I'm no stickler for making things look like what dinosaurs are supposed to look like (certainly for nostalgic updates), and this guy is a Transformer Kaiju, so all the accuracy rules go out the window anyway. He's a giant city stomping monster who eats people and transforms into a spaceship to fly off and find more cities to eat. There is nothing bad about this!
And I much prefer the kinda boxy aesthetic from the 80's and early 90's for my robots. It ticks all the boxes for me.
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Post by Toph on Mar 30, 2017 18:32:54 GMT
Aye, he's not a dinosaur. He's a kaiju.
Thus While I would have enjoyed a redesign (akin to 90s american godzilla), unlike the dinobots it's not a necessity.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 30, 2017 19:55:18 GMT
I think he looks good. I don't mind that he has a unique appearance. The only thing missing from the modern line to me is variety. Put several waves of deluxes on a shelf and fundamentally they look the same. Same shape, size, finish. Put CW Dead End next to TR Hot Rod and there's no difference, but put the G1 equivalents next to each other and there's variety.
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Post by Llama God on Mar 30, 2017 22:26:25 GMT
If there wasn't a healthy dollop of nostalgia, where would we stand on it? I wouldn't. It's spiky. Looks like it would hurt. That aside, I like the fact that it's bulky. It needs that kind of heft to make it look big. And that's one of the reasons I don't like Generations Metroplex - because he doesn't have enough heft; Metroplex does not look convincingly like a walking city. Trypticon does. And yeah. He eats people and he's robot Godzilla. Boxes? Ticked. |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 30, 2017 22:31:39 GMT
Heft is our watchword.
Heft.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 31, 2017 6:53:20 GMT
He has a spaceship mode? Hefty or otherwise?
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Post by Stomski on Mar 31, 2017 20:15:13 GMT
I'm not saying he shouldn't look bulky, just less like a box with limbs!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2017 21:30:40 GMT
Well done on 3K!
-Ralph
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Mar 31, 2017 22:20:33 GMT
I'm not saying he shouldn't look bulky, just less like a box with limbs! I do get what you mean, the cut off tail and zero attempt at phasing the head down to the square torso throw it off a bit. If the shoulders were rounded or the tail tapered down more to a point then it would smooth it out, as it is there's a touch of 'rectangle with a head plopped on' look about it. I don't think it makes it unappealing though, there's enough detail on there to take your eyes away from it. I think they've actually done a great job in making me want to part with £200 for something I've just called a rectangle with a head plopped on. That might say more about me, mind you. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 1, 2017 12:15:13 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 1, 2017 12:36:14 GMT
Riiight.
So, from this we learn Trypticon can eat 28 Titanmasters at once, and he can... do the funky chicken?
How can you have that in front of you and not transform it?!
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