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Post by The Doctor on Oct 20, 2018 20:17:11 GMT
Bugger me, I've still got beast wars toys on the 'to open' pile. Five years is nothing. Are these BW toys you bought back when they were new? -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 20, 2018 20:27:21 GMT
I have a couple of Japanese Beast Wars unopened from the time. A white Tigertron and some remould of Iguanas.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 20, 2018 20:47:54 GMT
I am flabbergasted.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 20, 2018 20:52:46 GMT
My problem with this is they're all not very good in the plastic. In particular Divebomb's wing pack wobbles, and Razorclaw's shoulder guns are just stubs where the art made them out to be much longer. And I just don't like any of the others!
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 20, 2018 21:56:19 GMT
Divebomb just edges it for me.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 20, 2018 22:28:20 GMT
Are these BW toys you bought back when they were new? -Ralph Yes. Definitely Transmetal Optimus, Megatron, Silverbolt, TMII Megatron. Might be more. I'm not opening TM Megatron now. He's been cooked and frozen in the loft for years so his tail will probably fall off if I break the tie holding it. I keep meaning to have a look at TMII Megs, he looks fab. |
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 21, 2018 7:34:01 GMT
Are these BW toys you bought back when they were new? -Ralph Yes. Definitely Transmetal Optimus, Megatron, Silverbolt, TMII Megatron. Might be more. I'm not opening TM Megatron now. He's been cooked and frozen in the loft for years so his tail will probably fall off if I break the tie holding it. I keep meaning to have a look at TMII Megs, he looks fab. I.... I..... The longest a toy goes unopened with me is, a day, 'cos I'm at work or busy with the fam', or something... Unless it's a present in which case I have to wait. But even then, I open it THE FIRST DAY I'M ALLOWED TO. But.... YEARS?! Y E A R S ?!?!?!?!?!!!!!! D E C A D E S ?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!! I'm not yanking your chain, Pins, we're obviously different kinds of 'collectors'. But, D E C A D E S ?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!! |
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Post by Benn on Oct 21, 2018 7:45:12 GMT
Five years. I think.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 21, 2018 8:07:26 GMT
Did TM Primal come here in 98? Or were we later? If not, toy sat there twenty years waiting to be opened. Ha!
Go me. I move with the speed of ice ages.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 21, 2018 8:22:49 GMT
Start of 99
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 21, 2018 8:36:53 GMT
It... It is DECADES then, more or less, rounded up. I thought I was just being overly dramatic, but no, it is DECADES...
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 21, 2018 8:50:33 GMT
Wish I had the receipt still. I could celebrate 20 years.
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 21, 2018 8:53:44 GMT
*Jumps out Window*
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 21, 2018 13:13:11 GMT
I am flabbergasted.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 21, 2018 13:29:55 GMT
I'll get to it. Although ironically I'll probably get to PotP primal first.
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Post by Llama God on Oct 25, 2018 6:35:16 GMT
Hmmm. I should probably vote on one of these bricks, shouldn't I..? Although going by the catalogue, Divebomb immediately draws the attention due to taking the most space in the picture, the one that still grabs me is Razorclaw - just because he's a bad guy death kitty. So... yeah. Him.
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 25, 2018 11:13:54 GMT
Ive got two sets of these thanks to Amazons sending me what Im convinced was a previously returned faulty set and yet I still have not played with either enough to have any sense of which ones are good or not.
They very much could not live up to how cool they appeared in the catalogue image. But worse than that I'm not sure if I would have been impressed by them if I had got them back in the 80s.
Their main selling point is that they are big individual robots, but actually dont do anything that wasn't done by the scramble city toys. They then combine in to a robot that somehow feels less than the sum of its parts. I mean it is big and heavy, but also feels squashed and smaller than I expected.
On the plus side the unified colour scheme was good. Even though it doesnt seem as big as it should be, they at leas hold their own against the post movie toys as they got bigger and bigger. And they are the right size to fight the Dinobots.
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Post by reilly2040 on Oct 25, 2018 12:37:42 GMT
These are another set that I've never actually owned or even seen in person, but going by the catalogue image, I'd probably lean towards Divebomb. The head hidden inside the bird mode's head gives him a nice distinctive look and he just looks the best in robot mode.
Otherwise it probably would've been Razorclaw, thanks again to the distinctiveness.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 26, 2018 6:29:20 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 26, 2018 6:31:35 GMT
Week 36: What is the best Autobot Hero on the 1986 US catalogue?
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Post by The Huff on Oct 26, 2018 6:54:22 GMT
I really don't think I can vote this week - I like both of these the same! If I do vote, it will take a lot of thinking - or a coin.
Also, isn't their proper (UK) name 'Autobot Heroes'?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 26, 2018 7:00:46 GMT
I didn't think to look ahead for a heading! Yes, Autobot Heroes does appear on the UK 87 catalogue. In my defence, I never had a copy of that when younger.
Since I will need it very shortly, has anyone got a copy of a scan of the whole of both sides?
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Post by tomwe on Oct 26, 2018 9:06:27 GMT
Never seen either of these in the flesh. Gonna go for Wreck Gar as the Rodimus figure is a lesser version of the original Hot Rod.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 26, 2018 9:41:01 GMT
Was Wreck-Gar ever reissued?
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 26, 2018 10:01:34 GMT
Very tough. These are both toys I was nuts about back in the day and still have both my original ones. Leaning towards Wreck-Gar at the moment purely on levels of articulation.
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Post by The Huff on Oct 26, 2018 10:34:57 GMT
I didn't think to look ahead for a heading! Yes, Autobot Heroes does appear on the UK 87 catalogue. In my defence, I never had a copy of that when younger. Since I will need it very shortly, has anyone got a copy of a scan of the whole of both sides? Sent Via Facebook. |
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 26, 2018 12:54:27 GMT
My first impulse is Wreckgar. But Im not sure.
I mean they are a weird pairing. They dont share any sense of common design. Wreckgar is more solid and feels much closer to the 84-86 autobot cars, even containing some proper diecast and rubber wheels. While Rodimus is a forerunner of basically all the "master" toy lines, bigger simpler, all plastic.
Wreck Gar is more interesting, but Rodimus with a simple transformation and a base is maybe more fun to play with. But did the west get a more brick like Transformer as big as Rodimus?*
*Knowing Takara designers had to upscale their rodimus design when they found out he was the leader toy explains the simplicity, but Im not sure it excuses it. If both got released today Wreck Gar would be in Generations and Rodimus would be a cyberverse toy.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 26, 2018 13:10:38 GMT
Whoa is that right? But wait, if Rodims is an upscale of an original design, the car mode as intended would be smaller than Hot Rod.
These movie figures are fascinating because they represent Hasbro trying to find their feet with a two year old toy line they hadn't actually had to think about designing until that point. Which probably explains why they're all so different, they're all experiments into what would work and what was commercially affordable.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 26, 2018 13:41:57 GMT
Goink! What are those? Two Roddi prototypes and a wheelie? I knew about the Unicron. Rodimus with a base computer thingie?!
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