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Oh, drat, it's out. Well, I know I've got a while yet. It wasn't at my local Walmart (College, BR Goons) last night.
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| # ? Oct 27, 2007 20:33 |
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arioch posted:How's the quality on the wal-mart starscream? He's made of plastic instead of die-cast so it's a bit more fragile than prime so don't huck across the room yelling "WHOOOOSH PACHO PACHO". The joints are kinda stiff which makes transforming him kinda tough and I'm always worried that I'll break something. The paint apps really do make the figure and even with the weathering Hasbro did, his colors are very bright and rich (like DVD prime) which make him look really cool. This is the best incarnation of G1 Starscream hands down. I guess someone in Texas was able to find him to but decided to  http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-TRANSFORMER...1QQcmdZViewItem
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| # ? Oct 27, 2007 20:41 |
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shut up Just need your paypal email so I can send you the money for prime. $30 all together sound good? I might head down to Walmart to see if they have any Starscreams tonight. I wouldnt be able to buy but I'd like to see it still. That white plastic is going to make dying for Thundercracker and Skywarp really easy. Good to see that the scorch marks arent as bad as the prototype.
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| # ? Oct 27, 2007 22:42 |
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Dr. Phd. posted:He's made of plastic instead of die-cast so it's a bit more fragile than prime so don't huck across the room yelling "WHOOOOSH PACHO PACHO". Well there goes my afternoon.  Does he have any die-cast in him? How does he compare to Seafoam-Screamer?
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| # ? Oct 27, 2007 23:11 |
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That metal dude posted:shut up Just need your paypal email so I can send you the money for prime. That should be about right. My e-mail is henry.n.m at gmail.
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| # ? Oct 27, 2007 23:44 |
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Payment sent sir! 
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 00:17 |
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Got it  I'll send it off Monday, since the post office is closed tomorrow.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 00:58 |
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Just double-checking, 56 for my haul, right? (Crosswise, Starscream, UNICRON)
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 01:07 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:Just double-checking, 56 for my haul, right? (Crosswise, Starscream, UNICRON) Yep.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 01:31 |
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In on this Secret Santa like Prime goin right up Megatron's rear end! Ewww... Anyway I'm a pretty standard nerd in terms of what I like. I'm a college student at UC Santa Cruz and I'm a political science major. My author of the moment is Christopher Moore, and I've read Lamb, Coyote Blue, The stupidest angel, Fluke, and A Dirty Job so far, so anything like him or something of his I hadn't read yet is great. I really like slick looking robot figures with blades like this guy: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/...ail&picture=out Pretty much every revoltech figure is awesome though, and I don't have any. Winter is coming and hoodies are always in...I like ones that fit me and aren't all loose and lumpy. I like subtle designs that aren't gaudy..like this one: http://www.backcountry.com/store/BU...1923&mv_pc=r111 not that expensive of course, just an example of what I mean. Oh and I wear medium shirts and jackets. In terms of transformers I'm in desperate need of Decepticons, and I like ones with real world alt modes, or at least something that isn't a vague space thing like movie megatron's alt mode. My robot tastes extend to transformers, and the fallen and wreckage fit the profile quite well. My current transformers are: Classics Starscream Cybertron Cannonball Classics Skywarp Wreckage The Fallen Blackout Real Gear Meantime G1 Soundwave Reissue Dropkick I have autobots as well, but I'm really looking for 'cons right now. I just got a new computer a Dell Inspiron 1520, so accessories like sweet mice, cool usb gadgets that are useful, and generally cool poo poo you can find on think geek or something are also likely to be well received. I'm also a dandy gentleman and have been looking for dandy gentleman accessories like automatic card shufflers, flasks, watches (I really need a watch), Valets, lighters, cigarrete cases, cologne and other stuff you might find. My favorite TV Shows are House, Heroes, Entourage, Dead Like Me, and The Office and I only have the first season of House on DVD I like other shows but that's just to give you my tastes.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 01:52 |
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Shut Up posted:Yep.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 01:59 |
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Dr. Phd. posted:
That's awesome. I can honestly say that he is nowhere within 30 miles of Bolingbrook, IL (or at the one in West Peoria). I hit up five Walmarts today in hopes of completing my LH Monkeyman, and I had no luck in finding/completing either. Shiftypenguin fucked around with this message at Oct 28, 2007 around 04:46 |
| # ? Oct 28, 2007 04:43 |
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DarkPrime posted:Well there goes my afternoon. Pretty much just a half priced repaint.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 04:46 |
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Shut UP, $49 for my order, right? \/\/\/Sent catch22 fucked around with this message at Oct 28, 2007 around 11:17 |
| # ? Oct 28, 2007 08:55 |
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catch22 posted:Shut UP, $49 for my order, right? That would be correct, yes. Edit: Got it. I'm still waiting to hear from Xenomorph, Dantewyrmfoe, Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur, Smoke, and Rei_. Rei_, I need to know if you still want Superion, and The Goon I need to know if you still want the BW Megs/Primal pack. A Bad Poster fucked around with this message at Oct 28, 2007 around 21:20 |
| # ? Oct 28, 2007 10:20 |
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Shut Up posted:That would be correct, yes. Also, I want that Masterpiece Starscream. Glad to know he's out. 
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 22:37 |
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Shut Up posted:That would be correct, yes. I'm still around! $68, right? I'll send it out tomorrow after work.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 22:49 |
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So I'm kind of interested in getting the classics ultra magnus and I've always wanted to know the reason for ultra magnus toys always just being a white version of optimus prime. Were all the toys just one character and hasbro made them two or what?
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 23:31 |
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Kingtheninja posted:So I'm kind of interested in getting the classics ultra magnus and I've always wanted to know the reason for ultra magnus toys always just being a white version of optimus prime. Were all the toys just one character and hasbro made them two or what? The G1 Magnus toy was a white and blue optimus prime that game with a transformable trailer that turned into the G1 Ultra-Magnus appearance. In the show however, they only showed his combined form and never the white and blue form because it was a separate character and I guess they didn't want the iconic look getting confused at the time or something. It goes back to the original Diaclone toys where, if I remember correctly, the "Ultra Magnus" trailer/armor was an upgrade for the diaclone "Convoy" toy. It was neat the first time they made a white/blue repaint of Prime as Ultra Magnus for the "Oh hey, cool! they're acknowledging that little piece of trivia!" factor, but because pretty much every UM figure since then(much like every scourge figure since RID, sans the Titaniums of both) have just been Optimus Prime repaints, it just comes off as a very lazy way to cash in on collectors without designing a new toy. Which sucks because UM does have his own iconic look which hasn't been reinvented much at all unlike most of the other iconic G1 characters.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 23:43 |
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Ace Rockhawk posted:The G1 Magnus toy was a white and blue optimus prime that game with a transformable trailer that turned into the G1 Ultra-Magnus appearance. In the show however, they only showed his combined form and never the white and blue form because it was a separate character and I guess they didn't want the iconic look getting confused at the time or something. RiD magnus was awesome however and it both upgraded his design while paying homage to the "ultra magnus is just some armor on a white optimus". There are a number of good reasons to hate Robots in Disguise (lovely cartoon, a number of lovely toys) but UM, the three autobot cars, and the repaints of a couple of the original gestalts (Bruticus!) more than made up for it.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 23:47 |
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Kingtheninja posted:So I'm kind of interested in getting the classics ultra magnus and I've always wanted to know the reason for ultra magnus toys always just being a white version of optimus prime. Were all the toys just one character and hasbro made them two or what? In addition to Ace Rockhawk's explanation of where the "White Magnus" look comes from, there's this... Teletraan-1 posted:Why redecos? http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Recolor tl;dr - New molds are expensive. Recoloring an existing mold lets them milk it for more money
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Ace Rockhawk posted:It goes back to the original Diaclone toys where, if I remember correctly, the "Ultra Magnus" trailer/armor was an upgrade for the diaclone "Convoy" toy. Close, but no cigar. Diaclone Convoy and Powered Convoy(The later Ultra Magnus) were two separate releases, both consisting of the cab and a trailer. PC's cab is a different color from Convoy's as well. They were supposed to be just one character in Diaclone, but split into two for Transformers. The reason we get repaints of Primes as Ultra Magnuses(Magni?) and Nemesis Primes is fairly simple though: The mold needs to be used more in order to make it profitable, and there's not much else you can turn an iconic figure like Prime into without having to do some remolding. Let it be known that there are two Magnuses that didn't suffer the white Prime fate though, and those are RiD Ultra Magnus(Who is awesome) and Energon Ultra Magnus(Who is an blue, grey and red Armada Overload repaint with white Minicon)
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 23:49 |
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I always thought that the white Magnus came from the Dream Wave comics. Didn't they show him breaking out of his power armor in one book or something? Just going off old pictures I'd seen. Anyway I heard Ultra Magnus is supposed to be in the new Animated show so perhaps we'll see a power armor version again. I think the G1 Titanium figure was a good try but would have much rather had a Leader or supreme class. Hell even a good deluxe would have worked.
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| # ? Oct 28, 2007 23:50 |
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Nah, Dreamwave's impact isn't big enough to have influenced the Prime repaint decisions. It's more of a cost issue, and Magnus isn't an important character anymore who deserves his own mold, just a good name to slap on a repaint and call it a day.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 00:03 |
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Smoke posted:Close, but no cigar. Diaclone Convoy and Powered Convoy(The later Ultra Magnus) were two separate releases, both consisting of the cab and a trailer. PC's cab is a different color from Convoy's as well. They were supposed to be just one character in Diaclone, but split into two for Transformers. I knew DC And PC were sold seperately but the same character, that's what I meant to say but you said it clearer. Also RiD Magnus was drat awesome, Energon UM... not so much(it was a poo poo figure to start with). It's just... coming from a guy who eats the nostalgic reinvention stuff(like Classics) up, I find myself frequently saying "oh come on!" at stuff like white and blue prime repaints. I want another figure that looks like his cartoon-self, dammit!
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 00:07 |
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What's crackin, little bitches? http://img.waffleimages.com/fb0b3dd...pensor4Ever.jpg So I went ahead and repainted that Legends Megatron into Dispensor of TF Movie cameo fame. The actual figure is a lot shinier than that and the pics don't do too much justice to the thing (I'm a bad photographer is the main reason) http://img.waffleimages.com/ac0049b...rMaximShoot.jpg This is straight form Dispensor's Maxim shoot, and yeah, I didn't actually make it transform into a soda machine. I played around with crap to stick on his back, but ultimately it just would've looked dumb and made a failure out of an already cool custom. http://img.waffleimages.com/87a9cdd...sor&MegsBFF.jpg BFF 4 EVAR http://img.waffleimages.com/dd776ee...ensorLagann.jpg  Legends Dispensor will pierce the heavens with his... can.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 01:17 |
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IroncladTomato posted:http://img.waffleimages.com/87a9cdd...sor&MegsBFF.jpg That is pretty drat adorable. Nice to see you finished that up.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 01:53 |
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Smoke posted:I'm still around! $68, right? I'll send it out tomorrow after work. Yep. Sounds good.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 01:53 |
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Shut Up posted:Yep. Sounds good. we agreed on 15 dollars for megs right?
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 02:22 |
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$16, says my magic sheet of orders.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 02:26 |
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sent for great justice!
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 02:34 |
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So has anyone outside of Missouri seen WM SS yet? Figure I'll check mine tonight, but not gonna get my hopes up.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 04:16 |
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Yes. (not here, but they're showing up across the country; It's really a matter of if your store got it yet and then whether or not they actually put it on the shelf yet). I'd imagine stores that have whole shelves of DVD prime clogging up the transformers section may be a bit longer in reaching the sales floor due to lack of a place to put it. Edit: Actually, I know they've been showing up across the mid-west, but it looks like neither coast has them on shelves yet. SpikeMcclane fucked around with this message at Oct 29, 2007 around 04:33 |
| # ? Oct 29, 2007 04:29 |
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"Hay guyz! Check out my awesome new masterpiece skywarp! Yeah it's imported from Glorious Nippon! Cost so much drat money it's crazy! Now watch as I apply these stickers to make it look cheep! Man I love money!!!"  Good concept I guess but are people really that G1 spastic that they have to turn everything into G1 or nothing? They have the sticker sets out for the classic Skywarp and Starscream that do the same thing. It looks bad on these figures that are supposed to look more realistic. Anyway Reprolables new update also features movie Blackout upgrade sheet and Barricade upgrades. I could see myself buying both because Blackout really could use the 4500X on his tail. Barricade just looks more badass with the 911 on him also.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 18:50 |
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On the subject of Walmart MP Starscream, I was looking on their site and found none other than the entire G1 Encore line.  http://www.walmart.com/search/searc...mers+G1&ic=24_0 I'm not too sure how legit this is (since the product descriptions don't seem to have a clue what they're talking about), or how new it is, but it surprised the hell out of me.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 18:52 |
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IroncladTomato posted:On the subject of Walmart MP Starscream, I was looking on their site and found none other than the entire G1 Encore line. Except for Prime they are all really overpriced, even with Site-to-Store (no shipping fee)
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 19:12 |
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They were up a couple of months ago. Ultra Magnus came up for almost $90 USD. Somebody bought him, returned it to an actual store, then re-bought him for like 20 or 30 bucks. Crazy poo poo. Either way, I'd love a megatron but thats way to drat much.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 19:15 |
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That metal dude posted:They were up a couple of months ago. Ultra Magnus came up for almost $90 USD. Somebody bought him, returned it to an actual store, then re-bought him for like 20 or 30 bucks. Crazy poo poo. what. poo poo I dropped $80 on him.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 20:11 |
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Shut Up, your money has just been sent. I have to say I'm lucking out a bit since the dollar is at a fairly ridiculous low.
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| # ? Oct 29, 2007 22:06 |
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Just got it. I'm a little strapped for cash at the moment, so I'm waiting for the transfer from Paypal to my bank account is finished so I can get everything shipped off. Gotta say, my timing was pretty drat good, MP Starscream was one of the major reasons why I'm selling this stuff
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