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Dang it, I was just getting a new OP together

>>11694975
why? we were on page 6

>>11694987
At 146 images, so I was dusting off the pastebins and such

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NO NO NO

What is our response MPG bros?

>>11695004
I've said it before and I'll say it again
MPG should have just been a high end CHUG line rather than another MP subline

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>>11695004
I've seen a handful of people say that but I'm not sure what they think deserves to be a MP. How can something like MP-10 or MP-12 be MP-worthy but not MPG-17? Of course previous MPs had better alt modes (though I'm not sure MP-10's is much better), but they're also worse elsewhere.

To put it another way, where else would it go? Would they feel better if the line were just called Style Gen. without the MPG label? People would still be comparing it to MP-10, rightfully so.

>>11695004
Ending MP for MPG just get stranger as time passes and every new release seems to erode whatever little identity MPG had

>>11694990
oh, i did not notice.
well, I've long since given up on an orderly thread process. It's one of those things where even a single bad egg spoils the entire bag of apples.

>>11694975
It feels like part of it's missing.

>>11695004
I mean he's right
MPG has been a fucking joke with almost zero good releases

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Where's that list of "The good Comics to read"?
It had like Movie Prequel/Sequel ones, Hearts of Steel, the good IDW before it became fake, gay and cringe and some others

Most of the thirteen have turned out either boring looking or just lame as toys so I'll probably try to piece together my own set from randos from other TF lines. Pretty much the only one I'll actually keep is the fallen and maybe Liege if someone fixes that stupid head

I would have honestly preferred Liege Maximo to have been a Rampage pretool.

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>>11695022
Its not the looks imo, its more the pushing of the envelope MP used to represent. MP-10 & MP-12 at the time felt like something we hadn't seen before. It was the OP & Sideswipe that felt definitive to most & leagues above the chug options at the time.

Now MPG-17 doesn't feel like iys pushing the envelope anymore. Chug has progressed so far again that these new mpg figures don't look or feel like the MP's of old. A figure that punches above all the rest

>>11695144
True. SS86 Prime's engineering feels more like a MP than what MPG-17 does.

>>11695144
And this is the best opportunity to introduce Armada/Micron Legends into the MPG line. Make them faithfully recreate the lineart/animation designs unlike the CHUG toys that decided to do a slightly different interpretation instead and retain all and every single Mini-Con gimmick that each of the original Armada/Micron Legends Transformer toy had without sacrificing articulation.

>line is called Age of the Primes
>didn't get any of the Primes because I didn't know who any of them were or what they're from
Quickstrike and Big Convoy are fun though

>>11695162
SAME, except it’s Quickstrike, Venin and the G2 Dinobots. I never cared for the whole “13 Primes” thing. I’m an old school G1 guy (and Beast Wars) fan.

>>11695162
Only Liege really interests me Prime-wise, but I'm happy we got Sky-Byte, Venin and Cybertron Sideways. Excited to see how Armada Sideways turns out too.

>>11695168
>Excited to see how Armada Sideways turns out too.
It looks like absolute shit, what else do you need to know.

>>11695162
>didn't get any of the Primes because I didn't know who any of them were or what they're from
If you don't even know who Alpha Trion is what are you even doing in this thread?

>>11695035
>That moustache
Congratulations, now it looks like a walrus.

>>11695035
I want those stickers for the book. It looks so much beter with it.

>>11695004
>Actually watched the video in Chinese- not autodub or subtitle translate

>His opinion
>The thing is literally the best of the best leader class toy that you can get that is just labeled under MP. Even the cheaper price reflects this.
>It is not a MP, but it is definitely the best quality toy you can get now.

I really not sure what to think

>>11695184
They made Alpha Trion at least twice already. Also the famous one wasn't called a 13 Primes because the concept didn't exist then.

>>11695236
You said you didn't know any of them, and Alpha Trion was retconned as one of the group in some continuities and is one of the toys released in AotP, so it's logical to think you didn't know him either after what you said.

>>11695236
Add on top of this most of the 13 Primes are borrowed shit they are working backwards with. The now infamous Aligned Continuity started this 13 Prime meme, that was 2010. They borrowed the Vector Prime from the 2004, Fallen from 2002, Liege Maximo from 1994 and Alpha Trion from 1984. Others for sure but those four are showing how much a fanfic monstrosity the whole idea was and the only reason it even holds any weight in the fandom is because of how low bar quality the whole production was (ie 30 minute/page toy commercial)

>>11695298
He might not have by pure technicality. AT didn't start as part of this 13 Primes shit. By your logic he wouldn't know Optimus Prime either. If anything is shows just how inside track this 13 Prime thing is even.

>>11695298
Does his box say he is one of the 13? That's been the biggest issue of them abandon real bio/spec cards is you have no context to what you are holding.

>Brawl, Vortex and Blast Off look really good
>Onslaught needed that extra detail from the og toy

The combaticons are such a mixed bag.
>Beuticus looks like a mess from the waist down
>Swindle looks like complete shit
>

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Just found out what those "darts" are based on.

>>11695439
i don't even know what the fuck his lore is
i think all i know is that he is evil

>>11695446
He was conquering planets, and turning them into new Cybertrons. Then, he was connecting them togheter, creating a gigantic network of connected planets. Somehow that was supposed to help him open portal to gods real, where he planed to kill and usurp Primus.

>>11695449
so he's megatronus except he didnt sell his soul to unicron

>>11695452
I guess one could argue, that Megatronus was corrupted, and made a lot of wrong choices that led him to become the Fallen, while Liege Maximo was always an evil asshat, just biding his time.

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Mark trying to run damage control on instagram kek

>>11695319
>Does his box say he is one of the 13?
The Thirteen are the only releases with their names written in gold letters, that's a subtle thing but still obvious if you take a look at the boxes.

>>11695314
>By your logic he wouldn't know Optimus Prime either.
Maybe he didn't know Star Optimus Prime specifically. In fact, I'm sure most fans know jack shit about the Battlestars lore, so that's not surprising.

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scramble city was a mistake

>>11695506
It's the only kind of control they have

>>11695506
>>11695512
Is he missing a chest piece?

>>11695506
I'm actually fine with this, I'm collecting all the frame combiners so I can use this gimmick and that head sculpt is pretty cool.
Also anyone who was expecting anything else after it was revealed that Nexus was going to be a Voyager was just coping hard.

>>11695512
So the solution to Nexus being barely visible in the frame is to just put him in backwards

>>11695517
Superion's chest is the back now, the waist is rotated 180 degrees.

>>11695520
So if you actually transform it right, the only difference would be the head.

>>11695506
>>11695512
This will be a significantly huge missed opportunity if they don't make unique limbs for him.

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>>11695506
>>11695512
>Making a figure of "The Prime all about combining"
>Could have made him a smaller dude who combines with a vehicle to become a bigger guy like Star Saber
>Could have made a combiner made up of several core-class figures like Volcanicus
>Hell could have made a throwback to Power Core Combiners where a single Deluxe figure combines with four vehicles without robot modes based off the Energon combiner limbs
>Fuck that, make a single figure who can't combine without 5 other purchases (Not even 4 just for the limbs, you still need to grab a Commander class fig for the combiner frame)
>Also make him the most bland looking out of all of the Thirteen while giving him a literal rectangle as an altmode and calling it a space ship

How do you fuck up THIS badly? Like at the end of the day even some of the weaker Primes like Solus and Alchemist were still decent figures at the end of the day. This is just plain bad.

>>11695319
>Does his box say he is one of the 13?
Yes. It's written on top of their names.

>>11695506
This is stupid.
they should've just made him a Titan class full combiner set

I don't really wan't to buy Superion or Menasor twice, to give Nexus combined mode limbs. Any chance they make a San Diego Comic Con special edition, with his own dedicated frame and members (not a totally new mold, I'm fine with recolors of existing ones)?

>>11695525
>scrombled

>>11695528
>Could have made him a smaller dude who combines with a vehicle to become a bigger guy like Star Saber
That's a super mode, not a combiner
>Could have made a combiner made up of several core-class figures like Volcanicus
Core class combiners suck, Volcanicus was ass and it would have made the combined mode of a Prime look pathetic
>Hell could have made a throwback to Power Core Combiners where a single Deluxe figure combines with four vehicles without robot modes based off the Energon combiner limbs
Those also were also shit.

I can understand not liking watch they did with the toy, but those are all worse ideas.

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>>11695537
>Those also were also shit
Opinion discarded.

>>11695537
>>11695545
PCCs were a neat idea and most were cool but a lot were fragile. A modern take could probably improve the idea though...

>>11695512
mark needs to be fired

>>11695545
I was really hoping that they would make him a better PCC. Core voyager, with dron deluxe limbs would be awesome.

>>11695545
Is that supposed to look better than Nexus? Be cause it clearly doesn't.

>>11695512
Scramble City is based, frameshit is just goddawful.

>>11695560
No one says it's better, just that they could do it like PCC, but better, with current enginering, and bigger price point.

>>11695560
Smolder at the very least has a proper alt mode.

>>11695562
honestly

I really don't have an issue with frame combiners when they're being used to enhance the structural stability of a single character. BUT NEXUS IS RETARDED

frames shouldn't scramble. It looks completely wrong and nexus should have been a duocon or something. Mark needs to be publicly castrated.

>>11695512
Still awful. Should have just made him a commander torso that's compatible with other figures, a v2 Bruticus like the original, or just an amalgamous retool.

>>11695166
>I never cared for the whole “13 Primes” thing
>I’m an old school G1 guy
Pretty sure the whole "original 13 Transformers" concept comes from the G1 comic, whether they were explicitly referred to as "the Primes" back then or not.

>>11695512

I'd be madder if I didn't already have Menasor and plan to get Bruticus, but I guess its better than before.

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>>11695512
>Can't even Scramble City properly since Menasor's legs are shorter than Superions
Yea Combiner Frames are the worst shit Legacy has pushed honestly

>>11695572

Nah, Furman came up with the idea for Dreamwave.

>>11695506
Most of you TF fans are such insufferable faggots.

>Nexus is revealed
>omg, how come they don't show his combining stuff?

>they show his combining stuff
>lol, look at them damage control and cope!

It's like you guys just want stuff to be mad at.

>>11695581
>omg, how come they don't show his combining stuff?
and the speculation that came from the question was that it was gonna suck ass
and it sucks ass

>>11695581
The problem is said combing stuff looks like garbage.

>>11695572
>>11695576
And even before them, there was Covenant. Basically proto Thirteen.

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Covenant_(story)

>>11695575
>>Can't even Scramble City properly since Menasor's legs are shorter than Superions
Wait, seriously? Then why did they even bother making it a thing with frames. Jesus, Hasbro.

>>11695581
>>Nexus is revealed
>it looks like shit

>>they show his combining stuff
>it looks like shit

it's not that hard to comprehend anon

>>11695575
I honestly hate how the arms work. They generally have just enough to stay in place. I had to get 3 Superions because the left arms couldn't hold up with a figure attached. The other issue is not making the upper arm connection using pegs, the current connection is those thin bars with pegs at the bottom and I haven't been able to push them all the way on the Superion frame with any of the compatible figures for fear if breaking them since the bar connection is super tight.

>>11695593
The issue is
>it looks like shit
is what some of you would have said no matter what it looked like.

>>11695593
It's honestly insane. How does this fuck up so hard? Silverbolt, Onslaught and Motormaster all look fine in all 3 of their modes. This guy only looks good in his robot mode despite having the weakest vehicle mode I've ever seen on a Transformer.

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The thing that annoys me about Nexus is that fact that HasTak figured out how to do smaller scale combiners that would have been perfect to recreate Nexus's original toy, but we can’t get that because the higher ups decided that Core doesn’t sell enough to justify the cost

>>11695600
The fact that people aren't screeching about Liege Maximo who was revealed at the exact same time proves you wrong.

>>11695607

Liege looks good though.

>>11695600
We don’t live in an alternate universe where it’s good.
And pretending that we did when we have what we have is a denial of reality

>>11695607
Yeah, even if someone doesn't care for Liege, one can't deny that they did a good job with him.

>>11695613
Yeah. I wish he was fatter, but it's a miracle he looks as good as he is.

>>11695511
>Maybe he didn't know Star Optimus Prime specifically.
That's another damning fact of this, Star Optimus Prime wasn't the title of the 13th until this toy line.

>>11695537
>but those are all worse ideas.
No, none of them are, wheat we are getting was the worse idea. Look at >>11695506
>>11695512
and tell us how the fucking hell that's a better idea?

>>11695528
The problem with most of these is that Nexus Prime himself IS the combiner. He is supposed to split into separate individual characters, having them be compromised defeats the purpose of him being the combiner.

Then there is the other issue at hand that the end result not only looks like dogshit but also removes the purpose of the character.

>>11695572
>>11695590
>Anon notes the whole thing is like really bad fan fiction
>it actually is really bad fan-fiction

>>11695604
Nexus shouldn't be a small combiner.

>>11695600
The problem here is that it does, in fact, actually look like shit.

Given his size in fiction, Liege Maximo should be the Titan for this line. And they should make Arisen some voyager at best.

>>11695639
anon most of AoP is turning out to be a lot of "shouldn't be"

>>11695572
When I say I’m an old school G1 guy, I mean the cartoon.

>>11695637
I wouldn't say fan fiction, but Club fiction is pretty obscure. I tried to read it few times, but its mostly boring wank service, and wiki fodder. When they came up with Universal Stream names, it was way to nerdy for me. Pretty sure only like 5 people in the fandom cared about it, and all of them are tfwiki editors.

>>11695646
So say that then. Especially since the comic is even older.

>>11695648
That's been the issue with these brands is much like the cape comics the market keeps shrinking which leads to the inmates running the asylum so things grow worse and worse because they are feeding an ever shrinking base. Naturally it will hit a failure point if it shrinks too much but that might be more a question now of "when" rather than "if" looking at how the brands are going forward now.

>>11695650
By about a year anon. It's nothing impressive and I doubt you know much of either the comic or the show for how vague you speak on topics.

>>11695655
Actually by less than a year. And I've probably forgotten more G1 lore than you've ever known.
Imagine openly bragging about only knowing the G1 toon and BW out of a huge franchise and then trying to flex about your superior knowledge in the same breath.

>>11695655
Not anon, but I actually know more about the comic than show. While I did watch it, I only saw maybe like 30% of it. It's just to silly/boring to me.

>>11695655
The comic came out in I think May of 84, and the cartoon in September.

>>11695657
>Imagine openly bragging about only knowing the G1 toon and BW
who's doing that here?

>>11695658
>>11695659
bro we can track IPs again.

>>11695664
>who's doing that here?
>>11695166
>I’m an old school G1 guy (and Beast Wars) fan.
This is who I was talking to. So if this isn't you, why are you even jumping in faggot?

>>11695659

May 29th, specifically.

Nexus died so we could get inexplicably gigantic Star Convoy instead

Grim

>>11695665
how is that bragging? It's a statement.

>>11695664
>bro we can track IPs again.
Cool, go and track it to see I'm not the anon he was responding to, Colombo.

>>11695669
Falling apart over nothing anon.

Must be lonely. I'll leave you to it then.

>>11695668
Ok, and how would that "statement" mean you somehow know more than me then?
>it doesn't

>>11695512
A set Thirteen that each has to be the patron saint of specific transformer gimmicks was a mistake.

>>11695671
>Falling apart over nothing anon.
Lol. You made a stupid accusation, trying to sound smart. But now you're acting like "yeah, cool, whatever, didn't care in the first place". What are you, 12? But go on, prove me wrong. Entertine me, my monkey.

>>11695676
And yet no Head, Target or Power master gods. Tsk, tsk, tsk Hasbro.

While I didn’t see the 1986 movie in theaters (I was too young) but I did see it when it came out on video (March of 1987). It was one of the top five most important days of my life. Oddly I wasn’t upset about Prime dying. I was too enthralled with Unicron.

>>11695682
The movie was probably the first TF media I ever witnessed. So for 6 year old me everyone that died in the begining was kinda "who cares, first time I see them".

>>11695681
I think that’s because the various “Masters” are meant to be non-Cybertronians, hence why none of them are represented by one of the Thirteen

>>11695676
I think it's cool. The only part where it starts to get stupid for me is the idea that each Prime has "descendants" somehow, IE all beasts from Onyx, etc.
I much prefer when all TFs (including the 13) were birthed from the planet Cybertron itself through Primus. I don't like characters being created off-world (like the Dinobot origin in the cartoon) for the same reason.

>>11695687
The micromasters are represented via Micronus, and both western fiction and japenese fiction brought up that they are basically the same thing.

Meanwhile, it gets murky with Headmasters due to the differences in fiction, but at their core, are just combiners.

>>11695687
>“Masters” are meant to be non-Cybertronians
Fair, didn't think of that. I might have got confused by IDW introducing "ancient headmasters", now that I think about it.

>>11695692
I should have specified the binary bonded Masters. Honestly, it’s weird Quintus isn’t the one that represents binary bonding given he’s mostly known for his experiments on organics

>mark returns to immediately reveal the worst toy in the line

lmao

>>11695506
>>11695512
Looks bad in both individual and combined mode. So any justification is discarded.

>>11695693
Those were titan masters. And titan masters are.. well

lore time.

According to titans return,
Titan Masters are a small type of natural cybertronian created to maintain the inside of Titans. They're also able to be 'gifts' to societies and civilizations titans encounter on their journeys across the universe. The ability for them to be become headmasters to share their unique abilities with cybertronians is secondary to their standard purpose in lore. (but obviously not in toy form)

Since they're small and provide power ups to other cybertronians, they are most likely related to micronus and do not need their own prime.

POTP prime masters are just titan masters with the power of a prime. The pretender shell gimmick was made to hide their powers from detection.

>>11695699
This is a good idea. Quintus experimenting on organics to turn them into power-ups like titan masters and mini-cons..

>>11695699
I'd probably split the difference:

-Nexus makes the HM, and TM (Japan version)
-Quintus takes that reasearch and uses it as a basis to also make pretenders tech. (He made western HM and TM

>>11695715
Amd forgot that Micronus would also contribute to Nexus research on TM and HM.

>>11695708
As much as I like IDW, I am glad we’re past that era of the franchise where they felt the need to explain every part of Cybertronian “biology” being due to ancient history. Like the Titans being the servants of the Primes and requiring Cityspeakers to communicate with them instead of just being big Transformers. Heck, they make such a big deal about ancient Titans but never acknowledge the Last Autobot, an ancient Titan created by Primus

>>11695581
>just eat the slop, bro

>>11695722
IDW
the answer to a question no one asked.

>>11695730
Wasn't it Roberts who started overexplaining, and then Barber tried to keep up with him, and it was even worse?

>>11695734
No? Roberts stuck to his own corner of space adventures and relationship drama, it was basically all Barber doing the deep lore shit.

>>11695635
I already did. All the other ideas in this thread suck ass. The only way Nexus was better is to make it a full combiner, something we knew for months wasn't going to be given his Voyager size class.

Every other option said here is even more half assed than having him connect to the frames as a torso. A super mode/duocon/core class midget combiner/half-assed combiner with non transforming drones? All of them even more removed to the original idea of Nexus than what we got.

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All you had to do, is add two more guys and make him bigger, Hasbro.

>>11695749
But Roberts pretty much took over the entire Megatron origin, to make him misunderstood victim of the system.

>>11695581
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Here's the biggest complaint.

>they show his combining stuff
>Now he's completely unsalvageable. The way he combines goes completely against what he's supposed to be in-lore!

Now they just explode in flames about how this Nexus Prime is completely unsalvageable to the point where even his combined mode sucks for being a hollow mess that SHOULDN'T BE CRADLED FROM THE BACK OF THE FRAME!!! Now people are just gonna beg for the true Nexus Prime to be HasLab at the last minute as some form of damage control, because my god, this horrible excuse for the "Prime of Combination" is the worst thing I ever saw in my life.

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>>11695592
Somebody else can post it since I don't have them on hand without digging em out but somebody pose Superion next to Menasor and swap a leg
It's JUST off enough that he'd been like big boots lol

>>11695595
The arms are so god damn dogshit
They're so horrible to me to even start with, then you slap bots on them and it still doesn't feel good
I really do think not even 3P can save them

>>11695512
I'm not even mad about it, just numb. What a shame, I wonder what happened to the design they had on the boxart with all the primes?

>>11695035
Also curious on this and this reminded me
So the Vector Prime from Legacy that sucks and basically needs 3P is it right? We probably won't get a remake/touch up or anything in Age of the Primes?

>>11695755
That's expanding an individual character's backstory; that's not what anyone's talking about. We're talking about how the lore in the comic linked every single TF trait back to the 13.
I will say though, IDW Megs was one of the only situations where you could get away with making him redeemable like that. Compare him in Marvel or Dreamwave/MegatronOrigin, to his characterization in the early IDW Furman run, or even AHM: in the former stuff he's very blatantly a psychopathic ragemonster, even in his State Games origin story which gave him good motivation. In IDW from the start, Megs was shown as much more pragmatic and reserved unless showing his force was absolutely necessary. He always had a straighter head on him than 90% of other Megatrons; taking that and showing him to be tired of the war makes sense, imo.

>>11695769
I'm guessing it got scrapped when it was decided that Nexus had to be a voyager?

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>>11695769
I think that design is supposed to be a vague representation of his combined mode. At least the head is fairly close.

>>11695769
It's definitely the outlier now, even beyond Star Convoy

>>11695314
>>11695572
>>11695576
None of that is quite right. Basically, while it wasn't fully formed until the early-2000s, the idea has existed since Furman's run on the Marvel comic. The Last Autobot and Liege Maximo were both heavily laying clues that they were part of some mysterious long-gone pantheon of "original Transformers", but details were intentionally vague. Prima was also introduced here, but only as "the first Prime/Matrix bearer" and one of the first TFs created (if not the first?) - which makes him a member of these guys by proxy, but I'm not entirely sure if Furman thought about that angle at the time.

Come the Dreamwave comic and Furman'a introduction of The Fallen, he basically said outright "his story is building off ideas I had wanted to explore with The Last Autobot” during Marvel. There was also a guidebook he wrote around this time, and that was the first mention iirc of "the 13 original transformers", but I don't recall if it actually said 13 yet? It did introduce the idea that Macaddam was rumored to be one of them by drunk patrons, tho.
Behind the scenes, Aaron Archer had crafted up his own version of the 13, and this is what'd later evolve into The Aligned 13 - he took Prima, Liege, Fallen, and Alpha Trion, and added a bunch of others meant to represent different TF gimmicks. He was also the one who created Vector Prime, who I'm actually fond of specifically because "TF god of time" isn't exactly "embodying a toy gimmick to be an ancestor" lol.
Around this time, Nexus Prime was also invented separately by a 3rd group of people, for the collector's club comic.

Anyway, Nexus got folded into the group and the full 13 roster got publicly unveiled for the first time when the Aligned continuity was first announced (all with dramatic redesigns, of course). The rest you guys all know.

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>>11695506
This just isn't what Nexus Prime is supposed to be. He's not a combiner torso, he IS the combiner.
They essentially just made a new Heatwave and called it a day.

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>>11694973
>Behold: Guy.

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>>11695818
Also Guy.

>>11695162
The only good ones are the ones they slowly dripfed as part of Furman's schizoposting over the years. The one's Archer shit out in an afternoon for his lore bible who only had boring Aligned designs are all lame as fuck.

>>11695162
The only ones I bought so far are
>The Fallen
I read a lot of Dreamwave back in middle school and fuck me I'd be lying if an edgy black and purple tank bot on fire wasn't the coolest thing to me (Also back in the day I didn't really get the full story of The War Within so I assumed when Prime and Megatron got lost in the space bridge I thought that The Fallen was a fusion of the two)
>Micronus
Minicons are cool, simple as.

I'm considering Alpha Trion if I can find him cheap since I can just give him a moustached head and all my troubles with the figure would be placated, and Liege Maximo because I'm a Marvelfag also. Onyx Prime too if they ever do a Blue version, but if there's no sign of that I'll probably buy him within the year. There rest I don't give a shit about.

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behold, Nexus Prime

>>11695528
>>Hell could have made a throwback to Power Core Combiners where a single Deluxe figure combines with four vehicles without robot modes based off the Energon combiner limbs
I really thought they were gonna do this.

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>>11695785
For me the biggest disappointment is that head sculpt, its so ugly.

I like how the base robot mode gives a bit of old school 70s super robot vibes and the jet mode reminded me of the very early "transforming" mecha like Raideen where its just kinda laying down and hiding the head under a cockpit

it was obvious just looking at him that he was gonna form a torso for any frame so what i was hoping for was that the head would look similar to those old school super robot heads, make him both the first combiner in terms of lore but also in terms of real world aesthetics, I imagined the whole cockpit would be hiding a corny head like voltes v

>>11695004
Ginrai was the last true MP.

They need to redo Vector Prime and whatever this is.

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>>11695870
>For me the biggest disappointment is that head sculpt, its so ugly.
for me it's the exact opposite, the CoP combined mode head is literally the only thing revealed about this toy that I like.

I just want a toy of this design in general.

>>11695722

>Heck, they make such a big deal about ancient Titans but never acknowledge the Last Autobot, an ancient Titan created by Primus

They always forget him. Aaron completely forgot him when creating the first 13 roster.

>>11695916
His design was used for Veccy and overlaps Prima in other aspects. Can't be helped.

Titan Ark already pulls a lot from the Last Autobot anyway

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>>11695506
That's literally the head of a bootleg robot I had when I was kid lmao
Why couldn't they at least keep the cool FunPub head?

>>11695931
I really like the idea of one of the 13 being a giant sentinel to protect people, I think it's a fun archetype :)
I dont blame them for not making him in AotP though, design-wise he likely has too much overlap with the Titan The Ark they made years ago, still. Shame because I think The Ark is kinda ugly and frumpy. Also lacks that more teal-ish silver the comic gave The Last Autobot, that looked cool with the dirty gold.

>>11695880
I think this is still possibly achievable. Maybe that future prime artifact pack is coming out itlll have some dudes in it. The arms would be two deluxe figures and the legs could be two core class figures. like a shrunken down version of the frame combiners

>>11695870
>For me the biggest disappointment is that head sculpt, its so ugly.
He looks like a bayverse guy

All this Nexus stuff could be solved by just giving him his own damn trailer-frame

>>11695976
To be honest, they could just release his own set of limbs, based on the original. Simple.

>>11695976
No, just redo the entire guy with modern engineering, NO FRAME, and all of his components work as two Deluxe, two Voyagers, and one Leader with all original molds sold in a set. And I don't fucking care if this guy is sold in HasLab, just make a Nexus Prime faithful to the FunPub design, even if it can create more Energon Maximus-style combiners that will also be HasLab!

>>11695985
>>11695984
>>11695976
None of this will fix the generic-ass fucking design. Its just a bad design. A bad robot design.

>>11695987
Then what do (You) want your Nexus Prime?

>>11695988
I don't. As soon as they commited to releasing thirteen of these stupid things I switched to Warhammer

>>11695439
he shoots out dildos and butt plugs?

>>11695994
All the baddest bitches do

>>11695987
Frame should at least add on to his altmode, since you can't change that at this point.
>>11695994
Cybertronian Space Cocks

>>11695991
THEN FUCK THE FUCK OUT OF THIS FUCKING THREAD AND NEVER FUCKING RETURN! YOU ARE A FUCKING DISGRACE TO FUCKING TRANSFORMERS THAT YOU NEVER FUCKING DESERVE TO BELONG HERE. BEYOND FUCKING GEEWUN, BEYOND FUCKING REEDUN, GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE, NOW!

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>>11695785
lol, LMAO
>>11695870
Don’t you dare bring up Voltes V in the same sentence with this abomination

>>11695162
I got stick with Solus Prime in a Walmart Black Friday Christmas two pack. Hated her at first until I realized she looks a lot like Nautica, so I'm repurposing her as Windblade and Chromia's BFF.

>>11695667
Could that listing for a Sentinel Prime Artifact Pack in actuality be a Nexus Prime Artifact Pack, with new limbs

Walmart has Sideways and Excellion on clearance for 12. I already had two Sideways, but I was very tempted to grab a few more for army building. I did get an Excellion for the hell of it.

>>11695512
>scramble city was a mistake
Everything wrong in this picture comes from avoiding Scramble City in favor of toonslop accuracy

>>11695512
HNNNGGGHHH IM GONNA URGH I CANT ANYMORE IM GONNA IM GONNA TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN

>>11695506
>>11695512
Holy KWABoli
Copers eternally BTFO

>>11695581
>Nexus is revealed
>background generic robot mode and box-with-wings alt mode
>"SHUT UP CHUDS THE HIDDEN TORSO MODE WILL BE SO GOOD"
>torso mode is garbage

>>11696010
FunPub has never met a headsculpt they couldn't fuck up

>>11696062
What does toon mean today, retard-kun?

>>11695506
>>11695512
Remember in Combiner Wars there was that solo release of Scattorshot before either Computron set?
He could form a torso called "Betatron"?
This is that.

where armada jetfire

>>11696066
How is this FunPub's fault?
>>11696080
Never

>>11696069
>the next stage of cope emerges

>>11696083
Nexus put on blackface.

>>11695506
What's so bad about it? I like it

>>11695528
be realistic though. did any of those feel likely in this day and age?

>>11695534
wait so he's only compatible with the frame guys?
>>11695537
Iunno man I think drone combiners often work out great..

>>11695568
I am okay with frames as long as the frame turns into something useful
it doesn't have to be a robot, but it should be something reasonable for the others to carry. a semi trailer is -okay-. a big weird brick that a plane plugs into is less okay. and I have NO idea how you'd pull it off with beastformers, but I would like to see them try anyway.

fact is, combining robots are a vestige of the brick days. As anyone who has tried to make Lego mechs can attest: It's easy to combine bricks into larger bricks. It's much harder to combine multi-jointed modular bodies into one multi-jointed modular body. These days we demand so much articulation, and every point of articulation means either a separate transformer, or a guy with a huge elbow or knee built into him, or a guy that splits in half while the frame handles the elbow part.

>>11695639
cant disagree with you there. woof. some of the worst modes I've ever seen.
>>11695636
the 13 primes are a difficult enough concept, one of them is also multiple guys?
>>11695648
>>11695652
indeed.
>>11695650
the comics predate the show!?!?
>>11695664
ehh? we can't track IPs

>>11696102
Superion's superjet mode is awesome though, the base mode is the part that sucks. I barely ever have silverbolt in robot mode anyway though since he's just not super fun to mess with.

>I have NO idea how you'd pull it off with beastformers

magnaboss ironhide forms all four limbs of the figure, lmao

Still looks like a better toy than Amungus Prime or whatever. The one that just falls to pieces.

>>11695691
Though in fairness, it is kind of meta-appropriate since that's literally how Transformers was made. A bunch of unrelated robot toys being kludged together into one group.
>>11695730
kek
>>11695753
this one is almost acceptable. fascinating.
>>11695791
>None of that is quite right.
and you guys wonder why I'm so bad at knowing G1 lore. This shit is so confusing and nobody has a consistent story.

>>11696104
>the comics predate the show!?!?
Yep, the original Marvel run started on May 8th, while the first episode wouldn’t air until September 17th. Heck, the original plot of the series was devised by Denny O'Neil, Jim Shooter, and Bob Budiansky, who also wrote the first part of the comic and every single American G1 Name, Bio, and Tech Specs

>>11696010
i actually think the sculpt improves on the original, the eye to mouth distance works better this way. very Alex Toth.
Itis kinda hilarious though seeing this telephone game of 'mouth area becomes glowy mouth becomes glowy visor'.. if I am indeed interpreting this properly.

>>11696110
The extra irony is the original Transformers pitch opens with speculative origins of the race but quickly says NONE OF THAT SHIT MATTERS FUCK OFF WITH IT

>>11696110
Quick correction, Denny O'Neil named Optimus Prime and Prowl, but every other American toy was Budiansky

>>11696113
Dodged a bullet. Imagine if there was Ten-Eyetron or Vibroblast.

>>11696087
Don't confuse anything I said for positive

>>11696115
Fun fact, O'Neil originally named one of the jets Ulchtar until Budiansky came in and renamed him Starscream

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>>11696106
>Superion's superjet mode is awesome though
This is just a tennis racquet.

>>11696128
Way to prove the "nerds don't know what sports are" stereotype if you think that looks like a tennis racket.

>>11695525
the gaps in the chest are just so visually distracting, he looks like hes still missing a chest piece

>>11696106
yeah and Ironhide sucked. and becoming the entire arms and legs also sucked, very unsatisfying.
>>11696110
but... what about their initial production? release dates don't really mean that much if they're only 4 months apart.
>it was written as comic bios and tech specs first
well goll-lee. IIRC isn't that also how GI Joe and Mortal Kombat got their characters sorted out? I'm just really surprised that's the case for Transformers.
>>11696112
I wish more scifi would do that.

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>>11696128
>>11696129
seriously. what a maroon

it's clearly a hagoita

>>11696115
>Vibroblast
He turns into a female sex toy, doesn't he?

>>11696131
more like ninjago mechs where the shoulders need so much reinforcement, due to legos' natural tendency to come apart when pulled in an upward direction, that you get these huge shoulder cowlings and really odd shoulder heights, either high or low.

>>11695976
The only way for Nexus Prime to be a better toy is if Hasbro went all in and made updated Energon/Superlink toys and have him be retooled from Barricade. But of course they'll never do that

>>11696156
I don’t know about Mortal Kombat, but yes, GI Joe was the same way. GI Joe's success is what led Transformers to get the exact same treatment. Another reason is that back in the day there were regulations in the amount of animation a commercial for a toy could have, to prevent possible false advertising, which didn’t apply to comic books, so if you notice, the first Transformers commercials are technically advertising the comic, not the toys https://youtu.be/mAIS8i8f4fU?si=eRdCoASj0NPVJ-rW

>>11694975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgyonkrEWik

>>11696167
It’d be better to do Nexus first because he’s the only one with five unique molds. Then all HasTak has to do is make a Deluxe Storm Jet and they can do all of the Energon Air and Demolition Teams members

>>11696171
ohhhh clever.
fuckin regulators.
>>11696174
Did you see, some guy actually made this product, complete with the packaging, and sent it to Dan Povenmire as a gift.

>>11696160
either way the shape just accentuates how incomplete he feels as a torso. i know about engineering costs add-up, but hasbro didnt even include any accessories that could have helped complete his look (outside the matrix of combination)

>>11696194
it must be intensely frustrating to be a part of any current entertainment franchises
you grew up watching this shit, you thought 'someday, I could be the one making the toys'
and you get there and every exec is a drooling retard and you have to sabotage everything you make to meet their idiot demands.
It feels like a fucking villain backstory.

>>11696010
Man that prototype sculpt fucking rules.

I'd say the biggest drawback to frame combiners is not the frame itself but how prohibitively expensive they are.
You could achieve something reasonably close (though never identical) to funpub Nexus Prime by mixing and matching Bruticus and Superion's molds but that would be a 250$ boxset or it eats up a big chunk of the mainline, including a commander slot.

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I think I might have an idea of how they might've done better and in budget
>Have Nexus be a commander class torso
>Main bot folds into 2 types of torsos
>One for a CW build and the other more tightly folded to fit into his AotP combiner kibble
>AotP kibble becomes feet and hands for his CW combo
>Cover him in 5mm ports, and a few pegs
>Possible to add PCC pegs to him?

Also, if anyone can I'd like to see pictures of the CW torso guys trying to fit into their AotP torso kibble.

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Do you know the frustration of looking for something that’s way too old to be in circulation, but also not old enough to be considered vintage or nostalgic?
God bless Japan

>>11696167
That would be awesome

>tons of new messages on /tfg/
>enter
>it's just autist discussing some retarded figure

I fucking hate modern /tfg/.
back then we had just anons posting our photos and enjoying toys.

Now it's autismo-faggots discussing "new leaks" - and then thread slows down and then rinse and repeat

>>11696266
>WTF, how are anons discussing shit on a discussion board
Sorry anon, but I really don't think you should be accusing others of being autismo

I would've made nexus like siege reflector and done him as a 3 bot troop build combiner. He could either form a torso or both a leg and an arm. Make the legs form an arm with the hips acting as a double elbow and the torso form a leg with the cockpit section acting as the foot.

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>>11694973
i am the only guy who likes Nexus in this thread.

I see him as transformer that can "capture" Combiners and when he does that - combiner becomes your ally and you can control it.

So in my play for example Bruticus will be attacking autobot city and autobots will be falling and then suddenly NEXUS COMES TO SAVE THE DAY and he captures Bruticus and bruticus starts attacking Decepticons.
It's the FIRST combiner that can do that!

it will be so much fun. everyboy esle in this thread is a boomer with imagination that died eons ago

What is my best option for a movie Starscream, preferably with the tattoos?

>>11696285
I think a lot more people would like him if he actually turned into a proper vehicle too

>>11695657
>Imagine openly bragging about only knowing the G1 toon and BW out of a huge franchise

G1 and BW spawned multiple seasons, spin-offs, and sequels from Headmasters to BW Neo and it was at it's most healthiest and peak popularity. Not sure what else we're suppose to flex over if not the shows.

The push about the 13 primes just doesnt interest me because outside Alpha Trion being retconned as one and I remember Solus Prime being mentioned in Prime with the hammer they used they're not really a thing, yeah? I guess The Fallen was mentioned but the whole push with this lore seems uninteresting without any actual attachment to these characters beyond retcons. Maybe they are in the IDW comics but I aint readin those things given all I ever hear people talk about them are gay and trans shit on Twitter and how Optimus Prime would abolish ICE. Already tells me what I need to know about those comic plotlines and its fans lol

Anyway, we need actual new Headmaster molds like Targetmasters are getting. I'm tired of Titan Returns recolors and remolds.

>>11696274
I can see two making a torso together, and their weapon making a bigger helmet with 5mm pegs and ports. Though they would have to use Wild King's double pegs.

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>>11696289
He's perfect as a vehicle. it's a flying brick that has just 1 mission:
1) aim to the combiner's chest
2) dash forward and attach to Combiner's chest and transform capturing combiner's Mainfraime and making it your ally

nothing personnel mega-dork, Bruticus is ours now

>>11696066
In this case, the problem wasn't Funpub's headsculpt. The problem was the artist drawing the 13 for the Covenant of Primus not understanding what he was looking at.

>>11696083
Because it was their genius idea to use such a dark color for his mouth, that most people didn't even notice that he has one?

>>11696101
>wait so he's only compatible with the frame guys?
Yes.

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>>11696301
>nexus captures combiner war criminal(s)
>kills dozens of other war criminals with new body, possibly causing severe mental anguish to the limb bots
>then he somehow destroys the combiner to make sure the enemies can never combine again because extra edge
this is such an outstandingly retarded idea that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet

>>11696069
At least the solo release of Scattershot didn't require you to cannibalize parts from an $80+ commander class figure just to be able to connect limbs to him (which would then also render the rest of that $80+ toy unable to combine with anything else).

>>11696317
Have you never seen the toy in person? It's clearly a mouth. In addition to that, it's also clearly a mouth on all of the artwork he's depicted in. The problem is Hasbro's artists/designers relying on half-baked Google searches to look up their own characters, and then none of their bosses bothering to correct them when they make stupid mistakes like that. This sort of thing has been happening again and again and again.

>>11696285
Count me as the second anon to like the new Nexus Prime as I always see Nexus Prime as a duplicitous bot whose combining ability allows him to steal or convert any bots into limbs and enslave them, shutting off their minds so that he himself is the only one in control and ignoring the inherent flaw most Combiners have. The only ones that can defeat him are the Energon Combiners like Optimus and Superion Maximus for employing drones and thus evening the field.

>>11696325
this is the best idea
If i was Nexus i would capture Bruticus and go on a berserk-rampage against decepticons not caring about any damage i will recieve, using my own hand as a shield (so Vortex will be killed).
If i will get destroyed - good.
If i will manage to live long enough (before escape-poding myself out of the battle) before i will do as much damage as i can - also good.
it's like shooting two ducks with 1 shot
>>11696348
b-based

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>>11695791
>There was also a guidebook he wrote around this time, and that was the first mention iirc of "the 13 original transformers", but I don't recall if it actually said 13 yet?

It was from the Ultimate Guide's page on Maccadam's Old Oil House where it says there was a rumor that the bartender was secretly one of the 13 Original Primes. Simon Furman himself later said that this wasn't part of any big plan, but rather he just liked the idea of overblown rumors at this Cybertronian pub. But people then latched onto the idea and ran with it. So other characters previously created before that were never intended to be part of the 13, because the concept of the 13 didn't even exist yet. For example, Liege Maximo's whole deal from the G2 comic was that there must be a balance between good and evil, so when the first prime was created, so was Liege Maximo, and that Megatron is in some way offspring of his. Furman's unofficial story, "Alignment," went on to further establish Liege Maximo as one of the first Cybertronians, but once again, there was no explicit mention of the 13 because that wasn't even a thing yet.

Saying that he exists as an ancient, evil counter-balance to the existence of a prime is a far cry from saying he was himself a prime and just one of 13 total dudes rather that a counter to one guy. But years later, when the idea of the 13 Original Primes was embraced by Hasbro as actual canon rather than a rumor at a bar, Liege Maximo (along with Alplha Trion and The Fallen) got retconned onto belonging to the group.

Also, Nexus Prime never "got folded into the group," because as far as I'm aware, he was always meant to be a member. He was created after the published reference to the 13 in the Ultimate Guide, and regardless of Furman's original intention with that line, FunPub wanted to run with the idea of the 13 as a real thing. But since his toys were released at a rate of one per year, it took five years before he was finally complete.

>>11696333
I'm still furious at how they massacred my boy T-Wrecks' deco

>>11696301
So, he's Starro?

>>11696362
Liege Maximo was always meant to be one of the 13, Furman himself wrote him as such in Alignment and the Ultimate Guide. He predates the concept officially, but that was the intent.
It's just that the 13 weren't all Primes when Furman introduced the idea, that was a Funpub retcon.

>>11696292
has transformers ever had a plot where a decepticon/predacon runs for office as an autobot/maximal and just starts being openly evil and for some reason nobody stops him, instead people just start hating autobots/maximals?

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>>11696319
insane. there's like, two of those. and it makes no sense to combine with them since that means you're using PART of one guy as part of your combiner.

that shit flies in sentai, for sure, but not here

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I'm more interested in a real combiner, if it is not too expensive.

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>>11696373
it reminded me of that Superman Returns movie, where they get basically everything right except they biff the colors hard. deep bright cyan with deep blood red? what the FUCK was that? do you not know hues?

t-wrecks is supposed to be deep, rich, Red Delicious Apple red. They changed that to ketchup red and I cannot imagine why anyone thought that was a good idea.

>>11696382
He was always meant to be one of the original transformers, but not one of the original "13," because the idea of there being 13 of them is what didn't exist. And I looked it up on that page of the Ultimate Guide and you're correct that it refers to them as the original 13 "transformers" rather than primes, so I misremembered that part. So Liege Maximo was meant to be one of the first, and an evil counterpart to the first prime, but he wasn't "always meant to be one of the 13," because there being originally 13 wasn't a concept that existed when Liege Maximo was created.

>>11695955
Is this a winspector bootleg lmao

>>11696388
Then on top of all that, wasn't he the guy they wanted to paint his teeth, but ended up using the headsculpt with his mouth closed for some reason, so the paint for his teeth just ended up slapped across his lips?

>>11696393
ahahaha yes. What a fucking fuckup.
and it's only gonna get worse. We are living in the Idiocracy future, the only difference is instead of people watching like 9 tv stations at once, they're watching nothing but phones. Competence is about as easy to find as fresh water in an african shantytown.

>>11696387
>if it is not too expensive.
LMAO, mate
This shit is going to be more expensive than most third party stuff
It's like 500 bucks USD

>>11696260
I'm literally hunting Prime stuff now and only Japan did the Deluxe Ironhide, Frenzy/rumble and some others it seems
I want the Skywarp and Thundercracker too because they're on the Deluxe First Edition Mold which is based

>>11696285
I unironically like him

>>11696390
>He was always meant to be one of the original transformers, but not one of the original "13," because the idea of there being 13 of them is what didn't exist.
Does this matter, though? It's still the same concept, the only difference is we originally didn't know [exactly] how many there were, and it was a later retcon that they were all Primes of some sort. Obviously the idea evolved over time, but I don't think that it's a lie to say the Marvel's "The Original Transformers" were the same concept that became "The 13 Primes" in the 2000s.

>>11696362
>Also, Nexus Prime never "got folded into the group," because as far as I'm aware, he was always meant to be a member.
After or around The Ultimate Guide's publication, Aaron Archer had internally created his own vision of the 13, including creating Vector Prime. This wasn't publicly shared, he only showed off a sketch exploring his concept from back then, like, only a handful of years ago. But, Nexus was notably not a part of that initial roster - because as we know, Nexus was created by the FunPub guys, not Archer. What I meant was that by the time of the Aligned Continuity, Nexus got folded into that initial Archer lineup to form the one we're familiar with now.

>>11696108
>>None of that is quite right.
>and you guys wonder why I'm so bad at knowing G1 lore. This shit is so confusing and nobody has a consistent story.
Issue is it's -a lot- of speculation and conjecture. Like one anon said it's like bad fan-fiction, vague ideas dragged to the front that you pray the fans will just eat up taking style over substance.
This is a kids toy brand that's whole lore was built around selling said toys so in someways it's expected be we have reached the point that the manchildren that grew up with the show/comic are now making the products and looking over to what happen with Marvel and DC when that took place it's clear we are ahead for some bad times.

>>11696292
>G1 and BW spawned multiple seasons, spin-offs, and sequels from Headmasters to BW Neo and it was at it's most healthiest and peak popularity
I don't disagree, but I also notice you're conveniently leaving out the second half of my quote.

>>11696390
>but not one of the original "13," because the idea of there being 13 of them is what didn't exist.
Kek, is this what all the pedantry in this thread was about? The specific number?

>>11696459
>show/comic are now making the products and looking over to what happen with Marvel and DC when that took place it's clear we are ahead for some bad
idw had tranny bots. the problem is Americans write super hero shit that's all they can do

OK, so now with this whole shitshow and people complaining about Nexus Prime (even in the comment sections of Mark's post), do you think there's a chance of them remaking him at the Commander class price point? Even if it is in 5 years from now
They could take the "cheapest" route (recolored Superion/Bruticus limb bots + recolored Onslaught as Heatwave), the only thing they'd need to do is make a new combiner frame (mostly to accommodate the different leg bot styles). And of course new heads for the combined mode and the components

>>11696268
NTA, but this is an image board, not a discussion board. The point is to post pics of your toys; the problem is that this place is infested with people who don't actually collect toys themselves, so the only way they can participate is by posting "leaks" or other people's images.

>>11696536
>The point is to post pics of your toys
No anon, the point is to discuss and share images

>>11696399
>has Pegasus Saber on preorder
Don't I know it!

>>11696534
No.

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>>11696393
Yeah, that still infuriates me, especially since we know the mold for the proper head sculpt existed - there were a few reports of Kingdom Megatron's that had a grimacing head back in the day, and when they finally got around to releasing T-Wrecks, he was shown using that same exact grimacing head. Combine that with the fact that the machines had clearly need keyed up to apply paint to his face in the EXACT spot where his teeth would have been visible if they'd used the grimacing head, and the fuckup is undeniable.

>>11696551
>red megatron
HOLY SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT HIM
i have regular one. then Jurassic park one...and was happy i have all colors
i forgot this one existed...damn
PS:
I wish they did more like with current Grimlocks

>>11696266
Most of us left to smaller communities that connect in irl, the reason you see nothing is the hack removed any doubt of what this place really is so the few of us that come back are not here for the community or worse they just can't into soc ail networks so this is it.

>>11696519
The issue is broader than comics or country. The moment the teams working on a projects are by majority the fans that grew up with it, things get weird in a bad way. Normally that only happens when the product starts to decline in sales such as what happen with the big two in comics or as a side Transformers: Car Robots anime where the majority working on it are fans of what they grew up with and it starts causing serious shake ups with the designs because it's no longer about making new things, it's about parading the old things and wanting to make them the focus.

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>>11696010

I wish Wild King have recolor version of Ignite Leo as Lio Convoy and Hydrophant as Big Convoy. Sadly there isn't a monke for Optimus Primal.

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>>11695506
>>11695512
Can we fire that retard already?

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>>11696010
Not a misinterpretation but a conscious redesign, we have new info now. https://roseknightmare.tistory.com/2760

>>11696562
Nice

>>11696333
>Have you never seen the toy in person? It's clearly a mouth.
In person, with a closer look, sure. Looking at pictures, not really.

>>11696560
>Most of us left to smaller communities that connect in irl
that's fucking retarded

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>>11696680
Bruticus needs to be added to this image

>>11696680
Man, I am still so disappointed about RID Sideburn. All I wanted was a good update of the original that wasn't 90% clear plastic and instead hes a bad retool of an already bad figure.
And still no word on the other two brothers

>>11696285
>It's the FIRST combiner that can do that!
Galvatronus did that first
Your shitty headcanon won't polish a $43 turd

>>11695537
>>11695750
>but those are all worse ideas.
How are any of these worse than spending $43 on a figure with a shit deco that's bad in both it's main modes and whose gimmick requires you to spend at least $200 to actually work.

Am I certain this isn't just Mark running damage control?

>>11696680
What was wrong with Skyquake other than being the wrong Skyquake wearing Skyquake like a skinsuit?

>>11696285
That's fun, even if I like him for being the genericon-style Prime from the geewun flashbacks. You couldn't pay me to engage with the frame meme past Menasor, and only because I can always remove the arms and shins and use the CW limbs with a couple of adapters.

>>11696385
IIRC Maximals were retconned into being the bad guys while the Predacons were the poor downtrodden underclass, which is a decent idea if we take Dinobot as the model Predacon but that was likely snake lady's doing rather than a real writer trying something interesting.

>>11696770
The mold itself was a bit hit or miss, with it not properly tabbing together. I’m shocked they never retooled it into a G1 Skyquake though, especially with all the promotions of it connecting to the Needlenose mold

>>11696387
>having the bootleg as a child only meant I should've been saving since I was a child for this
Gee.

>>11696782
They've been releasing a ton of shit since then so it likely fell of the schedule, likely never to return.

>>11696782
It tabs together jusy fine, it's just annoying as hell to get the chest to sit just right to complete the transformation.

>>11696385
The closest I can think of is RID15 where Cyclonus becomes the elected ruler of post-war Cybertron and organizes a propaganda campaign blaming the Autobots for the war.
Thus Bumblebee goes from a war hero to a beat cop while a few other Autobots are forced into hiding for being alleged war criminals.

>>11696760
>How are any of these worse
Because they fucking suck at being Nexus Prime? For fucks same, there's someone here who even said that a retool of Amalgamous would be better and you think anyone should take your stupid takes seriously?

>and whose gimmick requires you to spend at least $200 to actually work.
That would have been the cost of an accurate combiner Nexus Maximus though. And that would have been the ideal release. But we knew he was going through be a Voyager for a long while, enough time to reach the conclusion that at most he would be just a wonky torso, exactly what it is. Dislike the thing all you want, but the absolute meltdown happening in this thread is ridiculous.

>>11696643
says the anon that still posts here seriously...

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>>11696560
>Most of us left to smaller communities that connect in irl, the reason you see nothing is the hack removed any doubt of what this place really is so the few of us that come back are not here for the community or worse they just can't into soc ail networks so this is it


Literally where else is there to talk about anything? I never liked tfw2005. Reddit? Twitter? Facebook? They're all horrible. I dont know where the fuck else to go. But 4chan keeps getting emptier and emptier. Where did everyone else go?

What irl stuff are you talking about?

>>11696785
I have never owned any Brave toys when I was younger. After discovering Brave, it piqued my interest. However, I can only admire them from afar because The Gattai and Toyrise are too expensive for me.

>>11696808
What even is your point?

>>11696760
>and whose gimmick requires you to spend at least $200 to actually work.
Here's what I don't get about this complaint. Anyone who cares THIS much about a nobody character like Nexus Prime must presumably be really, really into combiners right?
So why then do you not have Superion or Bruticus or Menasor already? If you're that into it? It's not a question of spending another $200, it's $200 they figured you already spent especially if you're this down-bad for a nobody like Nexus. There are plenty of TF fans who know the Aerialbots/Stunticons/Combaticons and have never even heard of Nexus, whereas the inverse is NOT true.

>>11696819
NTA but I want Nexus AND Superion AND Bruticus etc.
I don't want to have tear apart or double dip on the combiners I already own just make a half-hearted Nexus combiner.

>>11696810
>Literally where else is there to talk about anything? I never liked tfw2005. Reddit? Twitter? Facebook? They're all horrible.
Instagram is pretty good for TF posting. tfw2005 is both better and worse than here depending on the day, but I've been seeing the same kind of faggotry both there and here ever since Nexus-gate.
Any AOTP thread over there has been unusable for like the last year with their speculating and thinking out loud hijacking any discourse, so I like the new Nexus just because it managed to piss them off (along with the autists here kek).

>>11696714
>Man, I am still so disappointed about RID Sideburn. All I wanted was a good update of the original that wasn't 90% clear plastic and instead hes a bad retool of an already bad figure.
And still no word on the other two brothers
bro, are you me?
RID2001 bros, we're forgotten and ignored

>>11696822
Isn't that the very Scramble City play pattern a lot of you guys are always asking for though?
>we want to be able to scramble and mix and match our combiners
>NO NOT LIKE THAT
Maybe not you specifically anon, but I have zero doubt that several posters here are talking out of both sides of their mouths on this issue.

>>11696827
Just get the third-party ones, as Hasbro has become increasingly expensive.

>>11696714
The worst part is, he fucked up FOUR figures with that. I actually saw Side Burn going for 5 bucks and I still passed on it because it's that bad.

>>11696853
I got Sideburn and Nucleous in a two pack for $15 back on Black Friday at Walmart. I like him.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with his robot mode, and his alt mode is fine what it is. There was 0.0% chance of him being a Dodge Viper anymore for obvious reasons.

>another 86 bee coming according to someone on tfw
Re-issue, re-tool/re-deco, new bee?

>>11696827
>Isn't that the very Scramble City play pattern a lot of you guys are always asking for though?
No, you disingenuous retard.
We were advocating for CW-style "1-torso then pick whatever libs you want/can find" like 4 Rooks, or Blots, or Blast-Offs, not spending $143 to have TWO incomplete combiners instead of one.

>>11696883
Cry more for me, I draw delicious nourishment from your tears.

>>11696823
I just could never go back to message boards after I started using 4chan.

What's the best IG tags for transformer photos? Please help me I was always retarded but now I'm a retarded boomer I don't know how this shit works.

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>>11696930
>What's the best IG tags for transformer photos?
I always just use the name of the characters in my pics and current line (#studioseries, or whatever), along with #transformersphotography, #transformerscollector and sometimes #transformershumor if I'm posting some lulzy or parody pics like pic related. Or #autobots, #decepticons or whatever. I don't think hastags matter too much anymore, my IG is cucked and only lets me use up to 5 anyway.

>>11696930
Tags haven't worked right in like 2 years, but I like modul toys and shadowmaru

>>11696819
>Anyone who cares THIS much about a nobody character like Nexus Prime must presumably be really, really into combiners right?
I don't think I should have to explain why exactly this is so monumentally retarded. The gimmick doesn't justify the price you have to pay to get it. It's insane to me how throughout the whole of the 2000s we were shitting on retarded gimmicks that cost the design but now all of a sudden people are defending this shit?

>>11696977
>combining is a retarded gimmick
>so I'll be really MAD if my Nexus isn't a full combiner!

>>11696534
Absolutely not
They will never fix a single fucking thing wrong or improve things people want

real combiners are kino
frame combiners are retarded
a frame combiner with no frame is just insulting

>>11697006
based
fuck frameslop

>>11696770
Looked almost nothing like the Prime design
Every one of the characters shown in the meme are characters who's Legacy release's were a total shit show and they're noticeably worse in every way than the originals with the worst cases being ENTIRELY different nearly

>>11697006
Thoughts on Magnaboss?

>>11696877
Who cares
Devastation Bee bodies him in every regard

>>11697014
>Magnaboss
Fantastic, I would love a remake of him and Tripredacus.

>>11697006
>>11697009
Frame combiners:
>look better
>pose better
>are sturdier
So why are they bad?
>they JUST ARE, ok?!
>le slop meme

>>11696985
That is quite clearly not what I said. You need an IQ test. Like that other anon said, I shouldn't have to dismantle one of my existing $200+ combiners just for the sake of some gimmick which for some reason isn't marketed on the box like it should be.

>>11697006
If the frame was able to do something meaningful in all three necessary modes it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Unfortunately all the attempts thus far have been afterthoughts, with onslaught having probably the most acceptable attempt thus far. Silverbolt's frame is garbage, and Motormaster's is somehow even worse with a large chunk of it not even doing anything besides looking like a very imaginative gun implacement.