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Post by jonathan85 on Feb 2, 2021 21:42:26 GMT
I see Kapow had the Rainmakers back for preorders... for about five minutes.
Jonathan
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2021 21:49:51 GMT
Sigh.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2021 22:03:19 GMT
I see Kapow had the Rainmakers back for preorders... for about five minutes. Jonathan Import stock. IDToys say they'll have some but are waiting to see if they can get them from Hasbro UK. BBTS and Entertainment Earth have them too. |
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Post by Jim on Feb 3, 2021 15:33:13 GMT
Is this the Takara release or an unexpected rerun of the Hasbro release?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 3, 2021 16:14:26 GMT
It looks like it's getting a rerun, like several other toys
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 3, 2021 21:33:17 GMT
If the pics are of the right toys they're the Hasbro paint job.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 14, 2021 11:40:01 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 6, 2021 17:11:17 GMT
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Post by jonathan85 on Apr 6, 2021 17:13:24 GMT
It looks like it's getting a rerun, like several other toys Do we know what else is expected to get a re-run? Ta, Jonathan |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 6, 2021 17:14:49 GMT
Jetfire, Omega Supreme, Scorponok, Black Roritchi......
Redwing had one last year and now I have the Rainmakers I need one!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 6, 2021 21:00:51 GMT
Will chuck an order in at Star when they have it up in the hope my finances are better come August!
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Apr 20, 2021 2:40:51 GMT
So it turns out that if you do a limb swap with Blowpipe and Aimless, you get a really effective Derrick Yaniger G2 style BFG.
...and a completely useless (to me) solid sky blue gun that someone who likes Targetmaster or Battlemaster toys could figure out something to do with.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 20, 2021 7:38:05 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 20, 2021 7:50:03 GMT
Redwing arrived Saturday. Very loose shoulder cannon on his left :-(
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Post by Jim on Apr 20, 2021 8:44:41 GMT
My hope for a Siege Ratchet has ended with a fail
As a price of sixty euros I found past the pail
And yet at this sum it sold out quite quick
Some people are so rich it makes me feel sick
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Post by primenova on Jul 15, 2021 20:01:13 GMT
Hasbro missed a good toy - they did do Ratbat. But he should have been like the Orion Pax/Optimus Prime toy. So we get a IDW like Ratbat with the cassette Ratbat coming out of the head section. unless a 3rd party toy has been done?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 31, 2021 18:31:54 GMT
Hmmm, what happened here? IDToys were saying August...... 4 1/2 hours left to go! |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 31, 2021 21:30:17 GMT
Many, many, many things in retail are delayed or in short supply at the moment due to brexit/covid/rising shipping costs and problems/shortage of drivers.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 1, 2021 5:29:46 GMT
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Post by Jim on Sept 2, 2021 8:50:01 GMT
Yesterday I saw that a local pharmacy somewhat randomly now has Siege micromasters on the shelf, Powertrain/Highjump and Stormcloud/Whisper, after previously only having a bunch of Jumpstarter KOs!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 17, 2021 23:34:16 GMT
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Post by dyrl on Dec 18, 2021 12:56:10 GMT
My Siege Thundercracker too. Redwing arrived Saturday. Very loose shoulder cannon on his left :-( |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 14, 2022 11:01:48 GMT
Phil had to visit this thread to get some quotes earlier and saw this post: Cheap line for Burns! -Ralph That turned out well didn't it? |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 14, 2022 12:21:53 GMT
Oh yeah. Absolutely fine.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 7, 2024 12:17:50 GMT
I do miss the lovely battle damage deco of the early Siege era. I am sad it went away. It was a bit different! -Ralph I think you're on your own there. Retrospectively I think Siege would have been better if the alt modes had been more interesting. At the time we were willing it to be G1, but with hindsight if we'd known Earthrise was coming, Siege could have pushed the envelope a bit more. That way the battle damage would have been fine and it would be a worthwhile collection in it's own right. |
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Post by Toph on Jan 7, 2024 14:16:01 GMT
Of every character to make an appearance in siege that was in the sunbow pilot, only two were shown with alt modes (Starscream and Soundwave). Meanwhile, the other three (Bumblebee, Jazz, Wheeljack) were completely ignored.
The likes of Optimus, Prowl, and Sideswipe, I said at the time had absolutely no canon reason to look like regular earth cars with a bit of scifi gribble on them. Particularly when the existing examples actually looked like alien vehicles.
Siege was an absolute abominable failure. Even at the time it was only acceptable in a "This is pretty close update to the 84/85 characters" sense. Which was then completely decimated the following year when almost every single one got a proper update.
The more time goes by, the more unreasonably angry I get about what a waist of their resources, my money, and how creatively bankrupt Siege actually was.
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Post by Toph on Jan 7, 2024 14:18:25 GMT
I mean hell, CW Hound makes for a better Cybertronian Hound than Siege does.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 7, 2024 18:45:27 GMT
Generally speaking I liked Siege, but mainly because of where it lead me too, i.e., a very nearly complete collection of the '84ers in a unified scale, with some excellent figures in amoungst.
But I agree, CJ, Siege was very strangely executed. Just not Cybertrony at all! And then they re-did so many of them in the very next line! I can't complain too much, 'cos it gave me good Prowls, and good '84ers. But the entire thing was odd and disjointed.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 7, 2024 20:21:42 GMT
Siege might have worked better if it hadn't immediately been followed by Earthrise and Kingdom which redid large portions of the Siege cast in Earthmodes which rendered the nearly but not quite Earthmode of Siege redundant. Of the deluxe and larger mainline toys the following all have a subsequent Earthmode toy: WFC-S7 Sideswipe
WFC-S9 Autobot Hound
WFC-S21 Ironhide
WFC-S23 Prowl
WFC-S35 Red Alert
WFC-S41 Barricade
WFC-S43 Autobot Mirage
WFC-S11 Optimus Prime
WFC-S12 Megatron
WFC-S24 Starscream
WFC-S25 Soundwave
WFC-S39 Thundercracker
WFC-S13 Ultra Magnus The following Siege toys haven't had an Earthmode remake, mainly cos they didn't need one WFC-S8 Cog (Weaponizer)
WFC-S10 Skytread
WFC-S20 Chromia
WFC-S22 Autobot Sixgun (Weaponizer)
WFC-S36 Refraktor
WFC-S37 Brunt (Weaponizer)
WFC-S42 Autobot Impactor
WFC-S48 Spinister
WFC-S49 Crosshairs
WFC-S38 Autobot Springer
WFC-S50 Apeface (w/ Spasma)
WFC-S14 Decepticon Shockwave
WFC-S40 Galaxy Upgrade Optimus Prime
WFC-S51 Astrotrain
WFC-S28 Jetfire
WFC-S29 Omega Supreme (w/ Autobot Countdown) The real annoying thing is the lack of the three Cybertron mode Autobots we do see Transform in MTMTE. The MTMTE jets, Soundwave and Laserbeak are all reasonably well represented by their Siege versions |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 7, 2024 20:46:40 GMT
The thing is you can see from the difference between the Siege Alt modes and what they've done with the Sunbow Bumblebee and Jazz that Siege was never supposed to be Sunbow-centric. Siege had to be close to Earthrise so they could reuse the moulds/engineering. We had to have Siege to make Earthrise economically viable.
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