This is a long shot. Does anybody know in which of Thew's Transformers review he says something is "a bit Naked Lunch, isn't it?"? I recently watched that movie and want to finally get the reference. I think it was one of the older reviews.

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>>11792919
I expected you'd do it a cheapo way, with an actual yknow 'radar sweep' motion. But good on you putting in the work.

>>11792917
Mine will ship out just in time for the big manufacturing fuck up to be revealed.

>>11792917
>Are you glad Nexus Prime got cucked once again?
Surely nobody expected him to be a commander class? Really it's Defensor who got robbed

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>>11792938
They really could've just did a mini combiner and everyone would've been happy

>>11792940
I wouldve bought it if it actually had heatwave instead

>>11792938
>Really it's Defensor who got robbed

Does anyone actually care about Autobot combiners?

>>11792930
so people have to buy YET ANOTHER figure?
So glad I decided not to collect these guys

>>11792942
Only in how they serve as foil to the combaticons

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How big do you think he'll be? In the comics he looks to be a similar height to powermaster optimus.

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>>11792889
If they did picrel as a modern leader class I'd have to pick him up, wouldnt step on the haslabs toes either

>>11792942
I only like computron

>>11792956
Magmatron probably

>>11792956
I really gotta keep going with the Marvel UK stuff. This guy seems fucking badass.

>>11792976
This is normal Marvel US.

>>11792940
>they could have made it $80 dogshit

Oh I would have been so so happy!

>>11792956
Since he isn't a nu-titan hopefully he's at least got the mass of jetfire, though since he'll probably be the most fuckered up amalgamation of shit nobody wants he'll be Optimus/Megatron sized in his shell and his brute mode will be large leader sized.

>>11792979
It's mostly 80's hokey marvel writing with the occasional memorable Furman dialog. The overarching story is average, and there are a lot of strange liberties taken where lore and characterizations change issue to issue.

Lots of uncreative ultra violence and character death, and the attempt to shoehorn every toy possible into somewhere results in a monstrous number of extremely under developed characters.

As inconsistent as early idw is, Stormbringer Thunderwing is the definitive version to me. Stormbringer itself is also a pretty solid transformers comic on its own and works great as a standalone story.

>>11792982
It would mog the nexus we got by being a combiner instead of one guy. Who thought that was a good idea.

>>11792988
did you mean to respond to someone else

Fossilizers, weaponizers, rocks
New gimmick line when

>>11792995
Techno Organics that posses other figures ala The Thing. With touches of space barnacles and Quintesson designs.
Also id love to see the Robosmasher, Vok, a stand alone Transmutate figure, and The Dweller in this horror line.

Since that was a Haslab joint, what are the QCs people are finding on their copies?

Quake's like 20 USD
Is he good or still dogshit

>>11792988
Stormbringer Thunderwing is a cool design, but he's more of a mindless monster than an actual character in most of that story. In the old Marvel comics, there was at least something interesting in the idea that he was a Decepticon with a strong enough affinity for the matrix that he could properly wield its power for doing more than just creating new robots. Because there's actual characterization there, for that reason alone I personally consider Marvel Thunderwing to be the definitive version of the character.

But like I said, Strormbringer Thunderwing had a great design, so I'd be in favor of seeing elements of that incorporated into his new commander class toy, kinda like they did with his old deluxe figure from 15 years ago. The biggest question will be whether they'll make full use of the larger size class to include his inner robot, or if they'll give him the ability to power up into his final form from Stormbringer. Either (or both) sounds fun to me.

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Finally got Liege Maximo so my 13 Primes are complete.

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The tank is laughable bullshit, but I honestly like the robot mode. Same with Skullgrin.

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shite alt and transformation but his robot is solid

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>>11793065

dude just make a gallery somewhere, no one wants you to spam the threads with your endless stream of photos and customs
like, literally, what the fuck, dude

>>11793028
>>11793033
Can the turret at least rotate, are the targetmasters even worth having

>>11793070
I forget, I only put him in tank mode once and thought 'yeah, never doing this again'. I'll take some pics in both modes when I get home though. I barely did anything with him after taking him out of the box and it'll be a good excuse to mess around with him.

Thankfully I don't think I've ever engaged with any fiction that gave a fuck about the thirteen primes, so I have no interest in collecting them and no fomo

>was hoping they change the skirts on liokaiser from the one piece to two piece
>Still the same after all these years

You know what. I think I finally find it within myself to be ok with this.

The waist movement is not connected to the abdomen-pevlic but the lower crotch.
Because of the center piece, they can't really cut the skirt without the center piece looking weird in different positions. And they can't really remove the center part by having it be part of the moving waist or it would hit the skirts on the side and lock the waist in.

As to why they have to put the articulation point in lower crotch? It is probably because if they did not do that, Garuga wouldn't able to form the abdomen

Still. Could be better but I am starting to warm up to it.

>>11793083
That just means when you eventually do get exposed you run the risk of regretting not getting into them earlier and now suffer late tax.

>>11793083
I never have either, I just bought them because they look like cool toys. Though in retrospect, I probably could have been good with Star Convoy, Megatronus and Liege. Unfortunately, I suffer from the affliction that is completionism.

>>11793083
that's flawed logic
someone who has never seen any fiction of them can still be interested in them
some who has seen fiction of them can be disinterested in them

>>11793090
yeah. I would have been into onyx prime if they'd just done a better job with him.

>>11793074
Well I hope it doesn't suck ass, looking forward to it, thank you

>>11793025
Honestly, just have the inner robot look like og Thunderwing while the shell is Stormbringer Thunderwing.

>>11792942
I actually have a soft spot for Superion as he was the first combiner I got as a little kid.

>>11792917
Good god that's ugly

Brother
34 Image posts
You're %70 of them. Come on now

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>>11793069
>>11793108
Anon just got a little excited about his new toy. It happens. Friendly bit of advice that I only recently put into practice myself though: collating images is a nice way to incorporate multiple shots while conserving the thread image count. That way everyone gets more of a chance to post their own stuff.

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>>11793107
Looks how Lio should to me, it could be worse. What the fuck were they smoking when they designed these proportions.

>>11793069
NTA, but i'd rather have someone posting pics of actual toys (you know, what this toy board is about) than another 100 posts of schizos whining about tfwiki and culture war bullshit.

>>11793131
or we could just do neither. you don't have to choose between spam or bait.

>>11793114
I’ve never understood the audience for the God Fire Convoy Haslab. It’s not to scale with the original figure, so you can’t use it as a replacement, it’s not to scale with Generations, so you can’t fit it in with the rest of your collection, and it’s not to scale with Masterpiece, so you can’t display it with the other high end toys. Where is this guy supposed to go?

>>11792861
I for one think Kingdom Rodimus is kind of crap, but I'm not confident the new one will be better so much as just different. Hasbro is hard to predict, though. It could end up worse. I never would have imagined that the new Laser Optimus would be so awful, for example.

>>11793134
you're too focused on scale

>>11793134
Nah he's a big figure and one of the rare cases of an upscale in these modern times where bots get smaller and more expensive for what you get. While God Fire Convoy is expensive as fuck at least he is fuckheug and I at least appreciate him for that in spite of the problems the toy suffers. I just wish the other Convoy's similarly don't get downscaled too much. I can already see them trying to downscale Grand Convoy to fit in the Commander budget even though in Super Mode he should be as big as Ultra Magnus and that worries me.

>>11793132
Why are you so offended by someone posting pictures of toys on the /toy image board?

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>>11793134
"It's the only Fire Convoy makeover we're gonna get" was a big part of it, I imagine, which is why the inital reveal suckerpunched me. Perspective is a funny thing.

>>11793134
Just like Studio Magnus, they decided to make HUGE because "dude the car carrier has to carry cars". Even if every transformer collector is a robot mode only autist.

>>11793134
I like God Fire Convoy, I pussed out on the encore due to QC, and I don't care about scale as long as things are close enough in my mental mapping. God Magnus and the combination not being a brick is a decent bonus.

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New Legends new chapter has:
>Noisemaze and Doubleface teaming up as Team Sideways
>Nemesis Star Convoy tearing Cybertron in half in visual homage to IDW's Unicron story
>Nexus Prime using Silverbolt's frame in jet mode
>G1 Unicron's spark revived by Micron Legend/Superlink's Unicron's power fighting Nemesis Star Convoy created through G1 Optimus Prime's corpse and Micron/Superlink Unicron's spark guided by Team Shockwave (Unicron's mind)
>ends with tease that next chapter is titled Liege Maximo's Ambition
It's impressive that Sakamoto is able to work so much fan wank into anything remotely coherent.
>>11793134
Have you considered it's just a cool toy?

>>11792942
I guarantee you more people know Superion, Defensor and Computron than know Thunderwing.

>>11793211
Sakamoto is one of the GOATs.

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>>11793135
>new Laser Optimus
It's impressive that they managed to fuck it so hard. Even the RTS deluxe is more ambitious and impressive than any update we've gotten in WFC/Legacy/AOTP.

star convoy should have been smaller and a commander class
why is there not a single commander in the 13 anyways

>>11793188
>dude the car carrier has to carry cars
that's supposed to be a bad thing...?
>>11793233
I love that little RTS laser prime, all I want is a version of it that's upscaled and has more range in his hips and knees. I remember Maketoys did something like that a looong time ago

>>11792982
>>$200+ dogshit we got now is way better
shills gonna shill

>>11793211
>Nemesis Leo Prime is Unicron
huh?

>>11793239
Star Convoy is the perfect size, he's meant to be a base for micro masters.

>>11793276
you do remember that they stopped doing micromasters right? and the fact that they locked one of the most popular micromaster teams behind a haslab pay to play haslab dlc is egregious.

>>11793239
They should have waited on Onslaught and made Nexus a Commander like >>11792940. That way they could also do Gen Selects versions of Bruticus Maximus and Superion Maximus
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>>11793279
A Commander scale Star Convoy already exists with the Gen Selects toy, if they’re going to make another one they might as well make one that has similar gimmicks to the old one

>>11793112
>conserving the thread image count.
Only retards care about this. I'd rather have a thread filled with bad pictures than bad discussion, which is what we usually have.

>>11793279
>you do remember that they stopped doing micromasters right?
That doesn't mean every single micromaster has disappeared from people's collections. Star Convoy still being compatible with older gimmicks like micromasters and titanmasters is good, same as keeping the ramp connections. All baseformers should be like that.

>>11793276
I don't mind them making Star Convoy larger to fit more Micromasters, but upscaling Hot Rod too is a crime and totally diminishes your point.

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I decided to take the plunge and get a modern combiner since I really liked Bruticus in the Wfc game I went for him. Brawl arrived and I really like him even as a solo figure, got blast off coming tomorrow so i just need to keep a eye out for vortex at a good price while I wait for the other two to come out in the UK.

>>11793265
Dark Amber Leo Prime was created a few years ago in JP from instilling Angolmois Energy in Lio Convoy's corpse.

>>11793139
>most toy posting is good, so all toy posting is good
come on, anon, you can be smarter than that.

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The real reason Thunderwing is a Commander is because he's frameslop, they're doing Thunder Mayhem. He's an Onslaught retool.

>>11793279
It's almost hilarious. What was considered the cheap entry point for children and new fans, of the franchise for over 20 years has been gutted entirely from retail in favor of scout sized deluxes and $300 boxsets. Someone really needs to put these market research people out of a job

>>11793360
cursed

>>11793360
Why wouldn’t they just make it Bludgeon instead?

>>11793067
til all are cum

>>11793370
They just put out two Bludgeons.

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I still don’t understand how retards are able to defend frame combiners

I hope they're fucking done with the 13 primes now, I never want to see most of them ever again.

>they didnt retool the shit out of 86 magnus for a new nova prime
Oh well, legacy nova prime is rad at least

>>11793211
I know you explained what's going on but what the FUCK is going on, unicron on unicron action is hilarious

>>11793399
they still need the rest of the guys to make Nexus work and Vector Prime 2.0

>>11793333
The combaticons are by far best solo combiner fragments that they've released so far, helps that none of them are simple retools. I like the effort they put into bruticus' legs, but unfortunately they didnt even try for the arm combination.

>>11793404
God dammit I am sick of these ancient losers, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE MYTHIC PAST OF CYBERTRON MOVE THE FUCK ON

>>11793384
>no frame=weak knees

Some reviews for liokaiser have come out.
While people are praising the thing, it is very clear the knees are compromised because the articulation point is with the bots so the rachets are not abel to be big enough (strong enough) to handle either the weight of the calf nor the upper body.

Devastator does not have this issue with the knee point being part of the extra crotch section. It also help devastator has those really thick thighs where as liokaiser is more vintage japanese robot design of thinner thighs/thick calfs.

Having a frame system solve the issue

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>>11793408
Oh, but I want a Voyager Logos Prime and toys of the Guiding Hand

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>>11793408
It will never end, anon.

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Anon was asking about Quake earlier, so I took a few pics. I don't really know anything about the character besides that he's an asshole who loves violence, becomes Bludgeon's bitchboy once he assumes leadership of the Decepticons in the Marvel comics. I think Bumblebee also killed him in IDW2. I'll take some pictures of the tank mode later, just to remind everyone what a truly shit alt looks like. Also, couldn't remember at the time, but his turret does rotate.

>>11793311
You know what? That's completely fair, especially considering how quickly these threads cycle compared to other generals.

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Crossovers I'd like to see

>>11793426
We need a Robocop redeco for Armada Red Alert.

>>11793410
>[combiner that does not have a frame] does not have this issue
So frames are still worthless, got it

>>11793384
Well, at least you can actually play with them

>>11793445
Yeah no one was able to play with combiners before they invented frames, that's why the scramble city crew have been historically unpopular and SS86 Devastator a laughing stock.

>>11792942
jetfire convoy?

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>>11793458
samefag

>>11793112
he looks like I could put him in my snes

>>11793481
You're so right, only one person dislikes frames, this is known.

>>11793020
Joke alt mode, boring bot mode, entirely painted statue target masters and they got the fucking colors wrong.

So long as we're reminiscing about the 13 literal whos.... I've known about Solus Prime since 2012 or whenever they got the forge in TF Prime. I was so disappointed to find out over a decade later that he wasn't like the ancient chad meme but a deluxe class purple woman

>>11793134
>it’s not to scale with Masterpiece
It actually is though.

>>11793135
That's what happens when you cheap out and try to reuse legs on a mold you know you could repaint at least 5 times. Everything wrong with the base bot came from the plastic color layout and transformation limitations caused by having to work around those stupid fucking legs.

>>11793233
I just want this guy upscaled and with the chest windows on a rotating panel so you can switch between real chest windows or grey and silver details for scourge.

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>>11793020
Nah. Get the Titans Return one. He's way cooler, as long as you're not triggered by forced gimmicks, and the fact that he's really just Hardhead.

>>11793276
>he's meant to be a base for micro masters.
He's literally so oversized that they had to upscale his micromaster partner and trailer to be core sized.

Why do some people get so angry over partsforming? Its like ANY level of partsforming triggers a storm of autistic rage.

>>11793518
Wdym, they could've reused the legs and then not needlessly overcomplicated the upper body

You can tell star convoy was just a commander they upsized in CAD to justify their minititan concept because of how stupid the ramp connectors look on him.

>>11793536
No, they had to overcomplicate the torso specifically to make room to suck in the waist/thighs for the truck mode proportions since the reused legs don't collapse like the originals.

>>11793518
The reused legs were awful, but so were the new parts, such as the miserable shoulders. Legacy Laser Prime managed to fail on every single level.

>>11793532
>oversized
That just means you can fit more micromasters stupid

>>11793542
The new parts are horrible BECAUSE they're working around the reused parts.

>>11793540
The legs dont collapse on the RTS either, they had a better way to do that

>The reason Energon Shockblast/Laserwave is called Shockwave in the comic, is because he's apparently revived with aspects of Shockfleet (Mirage), explaining the spaceship mode. He fucking hates it since he hated Tidal Wave/Shockwave.

This makes the name fuck up when pre-orders went up, even funnier.

>>11793444
You forget (or "forget") that Devastator functionally has a seventh member in Long Haul's trailer (which you probably also complained about). You need either a frame or extra pieces to make a combiner that's sturdy and posable, 5 or 6 bots held together with just CW-style ports and hope isn't going to cut it.

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THE ONE PIEEECE
Sorry the Allspark

Finally have the whole gang
I still don't know who to use for a 13th
Star Convoy is cool but he is WAY too huge and out of place

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>>11793550
Btw, if you're wondering what they mean by incorporating aspects of Tidal Wave, they're basing that off of his original alt mode all the way back in Armada, where he looked like a spaceship with Shockwave'a cannon up front.

>>11793553
That's fucking cope lmao

>>11793058
Scrolling and thinking "huh, 13 seems a lot more than it used to be"

>>11793549
RTS had a good amount of his lower legs length disappear underneath the truck along with much larger wheels that help mask any proportion issues

>>11793561
Nice counter-argument anon, very intelligent.

>>11793554
Armada Prime? He's still big but not huge and does the base + super optimus thing as well.

>>11793532
>He's literally so oversized that they had to upscale his micromaster partner and trailer to be core sized.
The fuck are you talking about? It's well known that they made Hot Rod too big, he can't even stand inside the torso room now. Micromasters and titanmasters work way better.

>>11793553
>You forget that Devastator doesn’t use a frame
So frames are still worthless, got it

>>11793550
Did he get the gay as well?

>>11793591
>hurr durr
Read the whole sentence next time faggot.

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>>11793554
John Hasbro: Sentinel Prime is the true 13th Prime. You all know it's true.

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>>11793566
He's just baiting, Devastator has 2 members to fill the torso while the quint combiners dont, and yet 86 still has a hip and thigh frame to sidestep the issues there. Nobody is actually that unintelligent.

>>11792956
My guess (assuming he’ll be two bots) is that the smaller toy will be a small Voyager, i.e. Leo Prime, while the larger toy will be around SS86 Magnus in height, give or take a half inch

>>11793069
Your on 4chan anon. Its most likely that fucking retard from tfw that spams all the threads there with his shitty Custom work. What are you expecting from a brown

>>11793384
Better question is why you're so buttblasted over frames but you're fine with combiner thigh pieces that barely even do anything else?

>>11793619
Isn't this just further proof hasbro have fuck all clue about designs these days and are happy to give customers low quality shitty products at a retarded high asking price

They literally give you half arsed slop and yet you get retards thanking hasbro for having to pay triple now for a voyager or several times more because of Haslab and the lie they peddle about stores not stocking them

>>11793546
The legs didn't cause the shoulders to be like that. While the legs were bad, they weren't the sole source of all of Laser Prime's problems. There can be more than one thing wrong with a figure.

Do you ever feel like we just talk about the same thing over and over but nothing ever gets settled

>>11793628
Welcome to the world of the Transformers, anon

>>11793616
>How dare he post pictures of transformer toys on a /toy/ board. We need to talk more about tfwiki and walky and retroblasting.

Modern /toy/ in a nutshell.

>>11793628
Tbh I kinda lost love for transformers :( like I dunno the new stuff isn’t for me and it doesn’t sparkle joy anymore

>>11793638
Spamming his autism here isn't.....wait...sorry I forgot what place this is

>>11793639
I honestly advise looking into other transforming robot toylines if Transformers aren't tickling your fancy right now.

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>>11793640
that has to be the same guy because who defends someone elses image spam? It would be sadder if it wasnt

>>11793639
Takara get forced into the closet.
Hasbro raise prices.
Hasbro do poor quality designs.
Scam people with selects and haslab.

Takara even with no budget these days still has to fix hasbros half assed figures such as down syndrome lio convoy.
All hasbro do these days is make low quality figures without any heart or soul. If the company goes bankrupt due to loss in sales they really only have themselves to blame. No one wants 1 million Bumblebee toys from the Michael bay movies

People always downplay takara's involvement and complicity

>>11793628
Give me your face.

>>11793628
How do you expect anything to get "settled"

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>>11793315
>That doesn't mean every single micromaster has disappeared from people's collections
The most recent micromasters and star convoy are about 4 years apart from each other. It doesn't make sense to make a playset that isn't compatible with the running line because if you're just getting into collecting or picking up

>>11793625
The sole cause of Laser Prime's problems would be the designer. It still baffles me how they took a very simple, iconic design and fucked it up to such an insane degree. How is the figure less posable and less photogenic than not only it's previous iterations, but the original from 30 years ago? I'm glad they didn't make that E-Hobby Magnus because I'm sick to death of that mold.

>>11793679
No ankles!

>>11793333
Mine fell off my desk the other day. Head went flying off and I haven't found it yet. Feels bad, man.

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First time with the new seeker mold, it kinda sucks? Shockwave still having greebles despite being supposed toon release.
>>11793639
Everything is so half-assed, you are better going with 3rd party stuff these days for transformers.

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>>11793676
only one way

>>11793628
That's it! I'm switching to He-Man

>>11793594
No idea, but he somehow got smarter and is apparently doing all this since Doubleface and Noizemaze said he could use Unicronnto revive his brother, turns out they were lying.

It also brings up an old theory that Doubleface/Sideways is actually a puppet for Unicron, but at least this comic seems to firmly establish the ML version as his own character... for now.

>>11793597
>the whole sentence confirms Devastator doesn’t have a frame
So frames are still worthless, got it

>>11793605
>maybe if I pretend this thing that blatantly isn’t a frame is a frame I can pretend frame combiners aren’t dogshit

>>11793705
Really it's the seekers that are wrong for not having enough detailing. SS86 has had em since Kup and Hot Rod.

>>11793625
>Need to make room for the waist to collapse
>Make the torso out of panels that compact tightly
>No more room to put the double hinge+rotation assembly of the original in the now compressed panel torso
>Have to have the arms fold back instead put shoulders on simpler floating assembly.

>>11793733
The bad legs didn't cause all that.

>>11793679
Star Convoy having his classic base mode and being compatible with other baseformers and small figures is a good thing. Not everything needs to cater to people who started collecting yesterday and don't even know who the fuck Star Convoy is. Also the toy is still fun even without titanmasters or micromasters, but if you own some of these it's better. I don't see the problem.

>>11793736
Exactly. The main problem of that toy is that they tried to reinvent the wheel for absolutely no reason. Just keeping the same simple transformation of the original but with added articulation would have been enough.

>>11793736
>Needing to make room for the bad legs didn't make it so there was less room for other stuff.

>>11793719
>It also brings up an old theory that Doubleface/Sideways is actually a puppet for Unicron
Wasnt that just in the show? He merges into Unicron and then dies when Unicron dies

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>>11793655
>No one wants 1 million Bumblebee toys from the Michael bay movies
At least kids bought those. Every single one of those old Bumblebees is a million times better than the shit we got for studio series.
What will really kill this franchise is the fact that shit like this is what they expect kids to buy

>>11793737
I'm not talking about what or who should and shouldn't be catered to, I'm just going by the logic that most toylines usually operate by. Rodimus comes with Star Convoy so that is fine and it's still a good figure but like I said, It gives the toyline a sense of unified synergy. Something all the toylines had until Legacy.

For example with Titans Return.
You have the smallest class, Titan Masters, they can be integrated into the play features of every subsequent class in the toyline. Individual titan masters came with a little figure that can turn into a drone or weapon for bigger figures. Legends could have them as drivers in the canopy, Deluxes, Voyagers and Leaders could use them as pilots and as heads or seated in their guns. Titans usually had nearly all of the above with lots of play features for those smaller classes. It creates a sort of synergy, buying the cheapest figure makes you want to buy the more expensive larger figure and so forth and so on and it felt rewarding. They've worked this way since at least the Unicron Trilogy. As it is now, more and more it just feels like they've fully embraced Generations as filler for some fat retard's shelf as a form of admission to their own lack of creativity. It's nice that Star Convoy's base mode is compatible with the old micromasters but why couldn't they just release new ones in the current line if they're going to do that.

>>11793761
I mean it's a movie toy of Optimus Prime, kids will buy hose no matter how shit

>>11793655
It's funny, all those bayverse bees and not a single one satisfies me so far.

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>>11793729
Is it really too much to ask for a little consistency?

>>11793763
Yeah, that's why hasbro's been reporting losses on Transformers for the last 5-10 years. This shit may have worked in 2007 but it doesn't work with kids that didn't go to the theaters and don't have an incentive to care about transformers

>>11793665
People really downplay that the way to have Takara quality is to spend way more money in basic toys when they already complain about rising costs.
Make your only option spending $40+ for a deluxe and let’s see how many people are grateful for extra paintapps.

>>11793533
Because it’s an aspect that ruins the puzzle feeling a lot of us like. Trying to get point A to B

>>11793775
>hasbro's been reporting losses on Transformers for the last 5-10 years
Source or you made it up

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>>11793782
But puzzles are the ultimate partsformers

>>11793533
It seems that alot if not most people like when a weapon is intergrated into alt mode. Plenty of BW, CR, UT toys do that.

>>11792917
What are some good Transformers model kits? I know there's that Arcee and Windblade with the nice booties but that's about it.

>>11793761
What the fuck are you on about?

>>11793757
Due to the dub doing it's own thing, they make it sound like Unicron and Sideways are one and the same (the sub made it seem like it was partially true, he was his own guy and Unicron was possesing him). Only on Cybertron and a toy bio did it imply otherwise (but the shows nature makes it hard to say they're the same character anyway.

So yeah, his vary nature made it hard to say if he was ever an individual, but the new Legends fiction has him working separately from Unicron and even wishing to control him, establishing him as his own guy.

>>11793775
to be fair toys have to compete with ipads now

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>>11793710

>>11793812
I figured it was like a jesus thing where he's simultaneously his own thing and unicron

>>11793814
Gigatron is compatible with that? or is there tape and rubber bands at play.

>>11793814
>gigatron hand
glorious

When is the next dang Timelines set going to be available?
I want my dumbass Bumblebee and boar Megatron

>>11793836
I assume at SDCC.

>>11793745
Not all the bad things about that mold are a sole result of "needing to make room for the bad legs." You're starting to sound obsessed.

>>11793813
why didn't toys have to compete with TV

>>11793888
You don’t play with a TV, you watch it. It’s the same reason why toy sales started to slump after video games started getting popular

>>11793888
You don't need your hands to watch TV, so little Tucker can set up all his action figures to watch with him.

>>11793888
1. who says they didn't?
2. did tv exist before or after transformers?

>>11793895
Before?

>>11793899
correct. now consider how far into the era of television we were before transformers came out, where it was already determined that tv shows can be used to sell toys.

>>11793848
I gave very logical reasoning why a bad design decision would lead to other design decisions being made to work around it. Your the one just covering your eyes and going nuh-uh while adding nothing to the conversation.

>>11793769
Time to go 3rd party anon

Trying to imagine how much better things would be if cocks gave takara the majority of transformers in exchange for another yacht

>>11793906
I've tried once. If you've got any recs for dotm bee I'm all ears.

>>11793888
The TV wasn't on all the time, cartoons weren't on all the time, it wasn't portable, it wasn't in every room in the house, you couldn't take it outside, it allowed you to play with toys while watching, and 90% of children's programming was toy commercials anyway.

>>11793908
I honestly think the best course of action for Hasbro would be selling Power Rangers to Bandai. They paid a ton for it, do nothing to advertise it, and basically only make retro figures that kids aren’t going to buy

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>>11793418
He seems a clean enough bot, just that the altmode looked extremely unimpressive. I know there's tank destroyers with non-rotating turrets, but that, the targetmasters looking rather dinky, and that the tank mode looks like things just sandwiched on top of a tank chassis... The robot looks pretty damn impressive though, and I'm glad he can at least fire while in robot mode.
https://files.catbox.moe/yqrpc1.jpg
>actually rotates
It's all coming back to me now
>>11793493
Yeah...
>>11793528
I don't know if I can still get him so easily

>>11793919
Would bandai even pay a good amount for it now?

>>11793936
Given Super Sentai seemingly died without it, I’d say so

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Reliving my dreams if being a Botcon toy recolorer dont mind me

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New Cryotek when?

>>11793947
Interesting colors.

>>11793069
Fuck you I enjoyed the collection.

>>11793952
It's just paradron medic colors because Arcee was a Spider in Beast Wars for some reason.

>>11793908
You'd get better figures but much less of them and probably at a far higher price on average.

>>11793814
This image rocks.

>>11793943
But bandai didnt even want it in 2017, much less now that sentais already dead. Hasbro basically paid $22 million for a useless franchise, mighty morphin crowd can only be pandered to so much

>>11793943
Sentai's decline predates PR being sold to Bandai. The reason it got cancelled were because toy sales were shit due to the toys also being shit and also being too expensive for the average Japanese household.

Here's one article in Japanese explaining the problem in regards to the price of the toys:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260227162626/https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/85720dd627c44d4ab71ee88c995a16afb01028ae
>>Bandai conducts an annual survey regarding Christmas gifts for children (titled the "Christmas Survey"). According to their findings, the average budget for 2025 is 8,378 yen. While this represents a 240-yen increase over the previous year, it falls far short of the 16,720 yen price tag for the "DX Boonboomgerー Robo: Explosive 4 Big Robot Set" This creates a price disparity of nearly two-to-one.

Why pay for an overly expensive Super Sentai brick when there's so much more competition like Shinkalion and Jobraver domestically in Japan with regards to giant robot toys?

And note that hosing down the customers for all their money strategy is being repeated here stateside by Hasbro with TFs.

>>11793954
They only had one female mold to use, so she became a spider by default.

>>11793919

Nah, they have it made, paying Playmates to make toys for them (which actually do sell).

>>11793961
>DX Boonboomgerー Robo: Explosive 4 Big Robot Set
that cant be the ac-
>it is the ACTUAL NAME
my fucking sides

>>11793965
how tf they pronounce that? buunubuumugaa? seems like kind of a mouthful

>>11793968
M and N make a similar sound when next to a consonant in Japanese so it’d be more accurate to say Buumbuumgaa

>>11793961
The average budget for christmas is only $50? Am I reading that right?

>>11793971
ah, boom boom gah
sounds like a chant

>>11793903
All your logical reasoning consists of is repeatedly saying, "This thing (which is NOT responsible for every problem) is magically responsible for every problem!" If you want to convince people you aren't being obsessively autistic about this, you're gonna need a much more compelling argument. The burden of proof is on you, and repeating the same nonsensical claim over and over again doesn't prove anything.

>>11793972
I’m guessing it’s because Christmas isn’t a national holiday in Japan, but then it seems like a weird metric to judge toy sales by if that’s the case

>>11793705
>3rd party
Third-party has its merits but it's also a tasteless clownshow with all precaution and prudence thrown to the wind.

>>11793777
>Takara quality
"Takara quality" is overstated anyway, and has been for a long time.

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Special grade cursed object

>>11793984
Buy brands that aren't Transformers

>>11793985
I love that the wiki just straight up links to a video of someone crushing this toy to pieces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjAUN5Ssj8
>>11793986
This is a Transformers thread, anon, we’re going to focus on Takara's quality in terms of Transformers

>>11793954
Maybe, but they make an interesting spider.

>>11793985
One of the last Randys in one piece

I have assembled Liokaiser.

The chest armors for the arms and upper torso sort of just get slapped on the back in combined mode, clearly an afterthought. The arms aren't noticeable from the front. But the Lion Chest Armor? He sort of takes center position on the top of the back. So he's sort of peaking over the looming menace of Liokaiser. It's honestly just such a stupid design oversight, and somehow a little adorable. Just a cute little bat looking over things.

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>>11794001

>>11793961
I love how the solution is to rebrand the shit as Gavan and still make the toys as shitty as ever.

>>11794003
Aw that is kinda cute. Isn’t he the most dangerous combiner though?

>>11794003

>Breast Animal Bat is watching you masturbate

>>11794003
Yes. Exactly. Just a lil guy. "Hello!"

I don't really do all the cutesy internet meme talk, but look at that little bastard. How can you not?

>>11793893
no they didn't. they both peaked at the same time. They went up together and went down together.
>>11793894
do people hold their ipads in their hands the entire time they watch a show? no stands or anything?

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>>11793913

>>11794007
Liokaiser is intelligent, a martial artist, armed with a bunch of weapons, and can turn invisible. So considering Predaking is an enormous jobber, yes Liokaiser probably is the strongest G1 combiner.

>>11794014
Quiet, zoomer. Adults are talking.

Liokaiser is rolling out and I'm not hearing about any QC issues. So far at least.

Soooo..... what's the next Haslab? Almost more than getting a thing, I'm really curious about what it will be. They ruled out going back to Victory a third time, right? So no Road Caeser. At least not now.

>>11794019

You'd think it'd be something from the 86 movie for the anniversary.

>>11794020
.... Rails?

>>11794020
Is there anything left? Spaceships?

>>11794021

Oh damn, maybe. Or the Anibeast.

>>11794022

Maybe the Quintesson ship I guess?

>>11794022
Mostly combiners and larger characters.

>>11793994
>16 years ago
Dang. Imagine how much more brittle the plastic would be nowadays lol

>>11794023
Honestly, if we go by ships, they might as well do the one's from Armada, they had some bitching ships.

>>11793980
>Waist has to go somewhere
>Other stuff that was there before have to go somewhere else.
You're the type of nigga who can't rotate an apple in his head.

>>11793069
>crying about someone posting Transformers images on a Transformers image board at 3 in the morning

>>11793401
...why the fuck would Nova Prime be necessary from 86 Magnus? If anything we need a smaller Nova that isn't stuck with an inaccurate inner robot that shits up the main toy.

>>11793971
more accurately, japan USED to have a nasal 'm' but they dropped it in the 60s. Now it only exists as "n but you say it funny before certain consonants"

>>11794004
Gavan is pretty cool at least
>>11793961
wait why do they cost more when theyre shitty now
>>11794018
what the fuck would a gen Z know about tv?
yes it was on all the time. yes cartoons were on all the time. yes it was in every room, at least two rooms, which is good enough, and the living room connected to the other rooms. and no, toy commercials were heavily restricted because of retards and moms.

Do people not know gen z started 97? CR/UT/Animated/Prime fags entered the franchise with those shows on TV

>>11794036
Don't worry. This isn't about any actual people, but men who are half-straw, half-boogey.

>>11794019
The main ones I can see are
>Big Powered
>Primus
>Gigatron
>Rail Racer?
One other idea I saw that I doubt they’d ever do is a 1/12 Optimus Prime so you can scale him with 6" G.I. Joes and Marvel Legends

>>11794041
Stretch Goal of 1:12 scale Spike and Sparkplug.

>>11794041
>>Big Powered
I mean I have the Legends one and he's pretty sweet, but if there's a better one, there's a better one.

>Primus
God I would love it, but I would want it to scale with Unicron 1 to 1. And Unicron barely passed. I can't see Primus being an easy sell. Maybe if there was a Titan Unicron a HasLab Primus could work.

>Gigatron
Valid idea

>Rail Racer
Yeah. Yeah I can see it. The original toy is very good. Just scaling it up a bit can really beef up the articulation.

>>11794049

>Maybe if there was a Titan Unicron

I wish...

>>11794058
>>11794049

Oh I forgot the problem with Gigatron. He's just so... small. He's about the size of Fire Convoy, right? Not much to warrant a full Haslab. Does he have any notable accessories or chief lieutenants he could come with?

Or fuck it, pack him with Splendid Convoy. I'd buy her.

>>11794064
>Does he have any notable accessories or chief lieutenants he could come with?
The three Predacons, but thats pushing it.

>>11794064
If I recall correctly, in the actual show his robot mode is the size of Fire Convoy/Optimus Prime's super robot mode, whilst the OG toy is the same size as Fire Convoy's standard robot mode. Anime Gigatron is fuckin' hueg. Though then again
>Transformers
>Scale

>>11794069
The combining three? Yeah that'd be a lot.

Maybe a Haslab of both sets of three piece combiners, with alt parts for Jr? If Liokaiser is seven bots, six doesn't seem that insane.

Never mind alt parts for Jr. He could be a stretch goal.

>>11794071
No, the goofballs. Gas Skunk, Slapper, and Dark Scream.

>>11794070
You're right that scale is fucked to shit with this franchise, but you're right to point out the anime. They're in general going with anime scale, and if they want that, a Haslab would be a good place for him.

>>11794073
The Optimus isn’t in anime scale though

>>11793986
I haven't handled their new Diaclone stuff but a lot of it just looks like expensive clusterfuckery to me. It doesn't have the same appeal the old Diaclone or Micro Change stuff does to me whatsoever. I'm willing to believe that part for part it's higher quality than what they've done with Transformers for the last decade, but I don't care about it.

>>11794082
The Diaclone reboot toys are expensive as fuck and they're aimed at adults more than trying to attract new fans. Part of it is higher quality, part is their market estimates saying it pays better to sell fewer toys to fans at a massively inflated margin than trying to compete on price.

The new line is focused more on the modular aspects than transformation and that's a step away from the original Diaclone idea.

has there been any info on whether 86 Rodimus is gonna be a repaint/retool of the kingdom figure or an all new mold?

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$300 dollar

>>11793814
Radical

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>>11794108

>>11794107
Takara said they wanna redo him, so probably new.

>>11794108
sigh
why couldnt we just have more oil

>>11794019
My dream is animated Omega Supreme

I wonder if we'll ever get a new Razorbeast.

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>>11794148
I hope he's at least a deluxe. Or if shrinkflation goes slightly further, a voyager. I want him to be somewhere in between Cheetor and Tigatron's size, is my point. Which, I mean, the average random boar you see is the size of a dog, but they can GET massive.

>>11794041
Don't forget Sky Garry and Grandus.

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>>11792917
New Transformers pinball machine revealed

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9JGgUiRlc

Details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLx93Iiy5yw

gameplay footage recorded at Media Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBSfYX244Pc

better gameplay footage coming soon

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Finally picked up this guy since they fucking refuse to make Cryotek. An old credit card and some tinfoil really brightens up that chest jewel and the mouth bothers me less in person, in most lighting I can't even tell it's supposed to be messed up. The downward slant on the port in the dragon mouth is really annoying though. Also did anyone ever figure out why the fuck the dragon chest can't tab into the slot on his back?

>>11794166
>foil behind the jewel
oooooh. wait, credit card? Oh, to glue in place over the foil? course now it doesn't match his domepiece.

might try that with some silver paint or a chrome marker..

>>11794164
That is one thicc Prime. Looks like a fun board!

>>11794164
Who the fuck buys a whole ass pinball machine?
Where do you put it? How often do you play it? Is it just for display? Why the fuck did they spend money making this instead of good Transformers?

>>11794175
>>11794176
Starting price $6,999 USD

>>11794176
you put it in your arcade, and you charge a quarter a play. Then you keep the quarters at the end, unless it's the kind where you can win free games, but even then very few let you -profit- from your free games. That's how pinball began, to dodge gambling laws, but that aint how it currently am.

>>11794166
>Also did anyone ever figure out why the fuck the dragon chest can't tab into the slot on his back?

No and that's what pisses me off about him most honestly. I do like what you did with the chest jewel though, very vibrant.