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Post by The Doctor on Jul 12, 2017 7:08:48 GMT
We need an update.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 12, 2017 7:16:45 GMT
Still waiting on Toxitron, Counterpunch and SG Starscream to complete the CW Combiners.
Not doing then leader jets until they come with opening cockpits and Titanmasters for heads.
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Post by Llama God on Jul 12, 2017 8:12:27 GMT
Now that's something I'd like to see.
Well, that and some other mold improvements. Dunno what - just improvements. I'm not fussy.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 12, 2017 11:52:01 GMT
Still waiting on Toxitron, Counterpunch and SG Starscream to complete the CW Combiners. Not doing then leader jets until they come with opening cockpits and Titanmasters for heads. But Phil then they would be Titabs Returns not CW. You can't expect a past toyline to have current toyline features. Moons o madness! -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2019 19:00:57 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 5, 2019 20:27:58 GMT
Whhh which one...?
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Post by Toph on Jun 5, 2019 21:10:35 GMT
That one. You know the one. It's the one with the thing.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2019 21:10:57 GMT
Leader Megatron.
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Post by KnightBeat on Jun 5, 2019 21:16:23 GMT
WHAT? Leader Megs is magnificent! You didn't break or sell it, shirley?
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 5, 2019 21:18:39 GMT
I love that figure too. He looks magnificent with Pottop Prime.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 5, 2019 21:22:35 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2019 22:14:22 GMT
WHAT? Leader Megs is magnificent! You didn't break or sell it, shirley? I Fu'd it, with FOUR other Megatrons |
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Post by Toph on Jun 5, 2019 23:12:55 GMT
CW Leader Megs is kinda useless. It's out of scale with everything, and weird sculpted. It wasn't very thrilling at the time, and we've since gotten two other megatrons that do the same thing, only better.
I honestly think bringing back the leader class in Combiner Wars was just completely pointless. Ultra Magnus still could have happened in TR, and there wasn't a single other leader release in that line that wasn't pointless. Starscream shouldn't stand almost evenly with Superion.
CW would have been better served by sitting on that pricepoint until TR, and putting it's budget into deluxes and voyagers.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 6, 2019 1:33:16 GMT
I very much suspect that BOTH Megatrons and Ultra Magnus were, like Jetfire, developed for T30. Megatron and Magnus tie into the MTMTE theme while Armada Megatron pairs with Armada Starscream.
All 3 fit far better there.
The Leaders get delayed - either for manufacturing/development reasons or Hasbro just doesn't want a new large size on the shelves the same time as Metroplex - and end up coming out late T30 - Jetfire - or during CW.
Can't fit the leader jets into the theory though: Hasbro's completing the FOC jets in T30 and starts Legends jets too - Starscream was released, and contemporary computer listings show Acid Storm was going to be Thundercracker originally
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 6, 2019 6:44:34 GMT
Another Mad Phil Theory!!!
But...it...makes sense...
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jun 6, 2019 6:51:54 GMT
Don't be seduced by his lies, Ralph!!
I dunno. Combiner Wars was always going to have a leader class, but I think that Hasbro just didn't know what to do with it. It's WEIRD that the leader class doesn't share the gimmick that the rest of the line, even the basics, does.
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Post by blueshift on Jun 6, 2019 6:52:20 GMT
(apart from the basics that dont turn into add-ons, I guess)
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Post by Llama God on Jun 7, 2019 6:22:47 GMT
Combiner Wars was the first, "proper" unified Generations line though (as opposed to the previous Generations lines where they just put out whatever they thought was cool) that was meant to be sharing some sort of theme, so I guess it's understandable that they didn't quite get it right first time. But from that experience they got it right for Titans Return. And then forgot what they'd gone and made a pig's ear of it again for Power of the Primes...
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2019 16:53:36 GMT
I think the proper unified theme for Siege is working for me and activating an unusual completist urge. Everything fits. Other lines have felt more pick 'n mix.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 7, 2019 20:19:18 GMT
Combiner Wars was the first, "proper" unified Generations line though (as opposed to the previous Generations lines where they just put out whatever they thought was cool) that was meant to be sharing some sort of theme Oooooh, what about FoC? |
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Post by Llama God on Jun 8, 2019 6:13:53 GMT
That wasn't a complete line in the same way that Prime Wars onwards have been. Those lines were always kind of "Generations Featuring Toys from a Certain Theme".
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