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Nefud posted:"Decepticons, they do things like this, nahmsayin? and us Autobots, we be doing things like this" quote:Oh come on, that's Sinbad. Chris Rock is like a million times funnier than that. Still wrong. D.L. Hughley is the White People EET EET EET Black People DOOT DOOT DOOT guy. Chris Rock is the boring "women and men sure are different, they buy a lot of shoes" guy. He's basically Jeff Foxworthy with less money and more cursing. Edit: And he's actually kinda funny whereas Foxworthy is horrendous. Brick Hardmeat fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2007 around 21:46 |
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The new show sounds like pure distilled amazing. I love it already. My only worry is that the human villians don't sound that well designed, but everything else about it is awesome.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2007 21:54 |
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Yay for more Classics. Boo for no more Alternators/Binaltech. Three Ultra class Classics, eh? Wonder what those will end up being. Unbelievably kick-rear end Omega Supreme? Combiner teams with accurate vehicle modes? The Aerialbots are due for an upgrade, IMO. I just hope they don't waste the Ultras on more Prime and Megatron.
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Keldroc posted:Yay for more Classics. Boo for no more Alternators/Binaltech. Classics Devastator. A LEGIT Classics Devastator. All 6 of them, realistic alt modes. Come on!
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Smoke posted:Some more Botcon 2007 news:  OH GOD YES! More Classics!!!I really really hope Shockwave comes out in this line instead of the Titaniums. After all the joint problems I've heard about this would be a welcome thing. I'm glad Hasbro is keeping the line alive because it really was an awesome re-spark to an already kick rear end toy line. I look forward to Prowl and I hope Blitzwing gets another toy. Be it in the new cartoon style or classics. It kind of sucks that they're neglecting some of the more obscure characters like the Dinobots and Insecticons. I'd like to see some bugs crawling around on my desk next to the movie guys. Edit: I checked the article and Blitzwing IS getting a new figure! Voyager class baby! 
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Smoke posted:And even more unfortunately: Tooling dollars in Alts and metal parts on Tits weren't getting the return, so they decided to focus on Classics for collectors. gently caress Somebody fucked around with this message at Jul 4, 2007 around 04:02 |
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Smoke posted:Classics WILL return with new molds in Deluxe(4-8) and Ultra(3) size classes. *SNIP* Ironhide, probably Ratchet eventually.  Finally. Finally a Classics Ironhide and hopefully Ratchet too, but mostly just whoo to Classics Ironhide.
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Brick Hardmeat posted:Classics Devastator. A LEGIT Classics Devastator. All 6 of them, realistic alt modes. Come on! That would probably be my first choice, but I just wonder if they'd do that after already putting out the crappy repaint version.
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Here's hoping more classics means mass-market seekers.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2007 22:54 |
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Question: Is $15 a good price for Classics Optimus? I don't recall his original price point. My local Walmart has him on clearance. I did get Alternators Ravage for only 8 bux!
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| # ? Jul 1, 2007 22:56 |
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DarkPrime posted:Question: Is $15 a good price for Classics Optimus? I don't recall his original price point. My local Walmart has him on clearance.
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Keldroc posted:That would probably be my first choice, but I just wonder if they'd do that after already putting out the crappy repaint version. What repaint version? That abomination Wal-Mart exclusive that had repaints in the box to total 5 guys with 3 molds? Cuz that was bullshit.
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Brick Hardmeat posted:What repaint version? That abomination Wal-Mart exclusive that had repaints in the box to total 5 guys with 3 molds? Cuz that was bullshit. That was the Energon version I believe. Hey, I collected that version as 5 Deluxe figures, and I still don't think I had anything to complain about ...
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Rhyno posted:Here's hoping more classics means mass-market seekers. Sadly, it doesn't. The Botcon set stays an exclusive, apparently because releasing any of it at retail would "devalue what people have paid for the set", and because they didn't know Classics would return when the set was greenlit.
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That metal dude posted:Edit: I checked the article and Blitzwing IS getting a new figure! Voyager class baby! Oh gently caress yes.Hagetaka posted:FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK 
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Smoke posted:Sadly, it doesn't. The Botcon set stays an exclusive, apparently because releasing any of it at retail would "devalue what people have paid for the set", and because they didn't know Classics would return when the set was greenlit. drat them and their love of the convention crowd. Put them for sale on their website for the convention price or some poo poo. This is going to turn a botcon Ironhide/Ratchet situation.
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Vaporware posted:I got the DS game, but I can't tell how to join the clan. I PMed you john thermos to see if that lets you add me or something. Pretty good game, I'd say. I can't add anymore people strangely enough, the clans are capped at 10 right now(even though we have more than that somehow  ). If they lift the cap, you'll be the first to know.Vaporware posted:drat them and their love of the convention crowd. Put them for sale on their website for the convention price or some poo poo. This is going to turn a botcon Ironhide/Ratchet situation. I hope they release a new version. The Energon repaints were nice but I wouldn't mind an Ironhide more in line with the Classics style. I think they pretty much have to in order not to DEVALUE ANYONE'S PRECIOUS BOTCON EXCLUSIVES!
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JohnThermos posted:I hope they release a new version. The Energon repaints were nice but I wouldn't mind an Ironhide more in line with the Classics style. I think they pretty much have to in order not to DEVALUE ANYONE'S PRECIOUS BOTCON EXCLUSIVES! I expect the Classics Ironhide/Ratchet will blow the BotCon version out of the water, so the Con folks can keep their exclusives on that front. As for the Seekers, it really is a shame that such prominent characters will be out of the vast majority of TF fans' grasp. Nothing to really be done about it now, though. I guess a lot of people will just have to take a crash course in repaints.
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| # ? Jul 2, 2007 00:23 |
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Am I the only one who doesn't mind the end of Alternators? I feel they've done all they could with the concept, what's done is great but more aren't that necessary. Really not feeling the loss of titaniums either. More classics are exciting, and I also am excited for the new show and its stuff.
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I would have liked to have seen Alternators/Binaltech branch out into classic cars or something like that. I think Ravage and Rumble show that there was still room for creativity in that line.
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Woo, alright, just got back from Botcon. First off, it was awesome. I haven't been to one in many years and it has become absolutely massive. The coolest sights: -The Optimus big rig from the movie was there courtesy of Hasbro, along with display cases full of the upcoming movie toys. Ultimate Bumblebee looks great, and so does the new lineup of deluxe figures that includes Arcee. -A Sector Seven interactive event was there. You went into this black trailer and 'Men in Black' type guys started telling you about 'rumours of non-biological entities in the area', and then a transmission comes in and shows a not-before seen clip of the movie starring Scorponok. It was neat. -The movie premiere Thursday night. One producer showed up, whose name is lost to me, as well as the actress who was the blonde hacker in the film, and Tyrese Gibson showed up too. People were going absolutely nuts, and there were dozens of moments where the entire theater was standing and cheering. Some really great nods to G1 stuff are in there...and there are some funny scenes. The film is pretty long, and as far as PG-13 films go it's not a soft-ball. Lots of 'poo poo', I think one or two 'gently caress's, and a whole lot of violence/death. Also, the movie was really, really good - and there are some pretty incredible scenes. -Peter Cullen autographed a table in the convention hall for some reason. -That giant Devastator that you saw pics of earlier in the thread, plus an even bigger giant Bruticus. Both lit up and moved around a bit. -A massive Autobot hand breaking through the floor holding a clock counting down the time to the movie. I'll have tons of pics and a few video clips up later. Not too many costumes this year. One pretty good Starscream, a couple who went as Red Alert and Ironhide, and some chick who came as the Baroness. And of course, the loot. I walked away with -Masterpiece Megs and Screamer -'Hybrid Style' Convoy. If you haven't seen this thing yet, it's probably one of the coolest TF figures ever made - http://www.tfsource.com/Reissues/TH...HX02-Convoy.htm -About a dozen various movie posters, which they were basically just handing out. -Revoltech Megatron and a Revoltech Unit-1 from Evangelion -The box set of exclusives, the clear Mirage exclusive, and the Huffer/Springer exclusive pack. All of which are great. Also a brilliant target gift-card that transforms into a little Optimus. -A few random shirts. -A signed copy of that Arcee pinup poster. -Signed up for the Collector's Club finally and got a ton of back-magazines and a couple of the toys. -BC '07 light up mug. -That Toys R Us Soundwave -The Robot Heroes Prime/Unicron and Jazz/Cracker pack -Pretty much the set of World's Smallest Transformers -A teeny, tiny little Arcee model kit I've never seen before that I have to assemble/paint. -A crazy little Silverbolt model kit that I got for $1 mostly because of the great insane Japanese packaging. -A boxed set of the entire G1 cartoon and the movie all in one beautiful book-style case that comes in a great tin. -The Saturday Night party goody bag, which had another movie poster, a reproduction of the great air-freshener Bumblebee has in the movie, a sheet of trading cards, and a 'Party like it's 1984' shirt with a picture of Optimus holding Soundwave. Anyway, it was a great time. I overslept my goddamn Hasbro tour so I'm not sure how cool that ended up being. I'll have pics up in a day or so. GrimGypsy fucked around with this message at Jul 2, 2007 around 00:59 |
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Keldroc posted:I expect the Classics Ironhide/Ratchet will blow the BotCon version out of the water, so the Con folks can keep their exclusives on that front. As someone who paid $200 for a Botcon Ironhide, I sincerely hope the upcoming Classic version makes mine look like a pile of poo poo. Everyone deserves a good G1-based Ironhide toy, not just those of us stupid enough to waste a lot of money.
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Geeze man... how much did that all total? 2-3 grand?
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SpikeMcclane posted:Geeze man... how much did that all total? 2-3 grand? All told I think it came in around $800. A decent amount of it was freebies of some sort, and I knew I'd be going for the better part of a year, so I set aside a lot of cash leading up to it. I don't think it's too bad considering the haul, and I managed to shop around/haggle pretty well.
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GrimGypsy posted:Since it looks like you didn't get the Classics Seekers for yourself, did you offer to buy a set for anyone else?
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The Canton Repository featured Transformers on the front page today (the actual story was the front of a later section) due to the design lead being from Canton. So if you hate the Hasbro side of things, blame Ohio!
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Were you local? Also, I just looked and the primus package wasn't as much as I thought it was. For some reason, I was thinking it alone was about $500. Still, seems you got some pretty good deals. I'm just jealous because I'm debating how bad it was that I finally broke down and bought Leader Megatron today for $36. By the way, completely unrelated, but I learned how to tell when stuff is going to go on clearance soon at Target today.
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McSpanky posted:Since it looks like you didn't get the Classics Seekers for yourself, did you offer to buy a set for anyone else? GrimGypsy posted:The box set of exclusives, the clear Mirage exclusive, and the Huffer/Springer exclusive pack. All of which are great.
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SpikeMcclane posted:By the way, completely unrelated, but I learned how to tell when stuff is going to go on clearance soon at Target today. Are you gonna give us a heads up?
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You know, if they're doing a Classics Ironhide/Ratchet they could easily do more Seekers. All they have to do is alter the paint and do different wing molds. There, problem solved.
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GrimGypsy posted:... a 'Party like it's 1984' shirt with a picture of Optimus holding Soundwave. 
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DarkPrime posted:Are you gonna give us a heads up? DOH! I'm way too tired right now. I may need pictures to have this make sense, I don't know. Next time you're in target, look at the end of an aisle. Like the backside of the endcap, in the aisle itself. There will be little barcodes posted up there. These are location codes. When something is going to be clearanced on that aisle, the tag will be red instead of yellow. Soon after (not sure how long) something will be going clearance on that aisle. Note: not everything on that aisle will necessarily go on clearance. For example, my Target has spiderman and transformers stuff both on the same aisle. At some point, I'm sure they're going to clearance out the Spiderman stuff; probably before they do anything clearance with transformers. The red tag will go up, then they'll eventually clearance out the spiderman stuff and something will take its place. And now for something completely different. I'm going to repaint my megatron due to the horrible paint that he comes with and have realized that it wouldn't be that hard to make the wings/nose of the jetmode into their own separate entity that can combine with him. The part that hangs down between his legs happens to rotate up, which would give him a pretty decent looking back, too. The question is, should I commit multiple infractions of transformery sacrilege and make the jet drone into Laserbeak? He'd still combine to make a "supermode" with megs. Also, I figured out a pretty decent galvatron-esque artillery platform alt mode with him de-winged. It's atleast as good as the "cybertronian jet mode." Edit: not so pretty pictures.   Why yes... his head does indeed attach to his rear end in that mode. SpikeMcclane fucked around with this message at Jul 2, 2007 around 02:41 |
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SpikeMcclane posted:Were you local? Also, I just looked and the primus package wasn't as much as I thought it was. For some reason, I was thinking it alone was about $500. Still, seems you got some pretty good deals. Primus registration was around $325. I didn't add that into my $800 estimate, so I guess with that I spent a little over a grand in total. Dies Irae posted:I need to see a pic of this ASAP.  Sorry, McSpanky. Like Keldroc showed, I did indeed get a seeker set - but didn't pre-register more, and they were sold out a month before the con even started. EDIT: Bonus pics - Here's one of the Target transforming gift card, that little Arcee model kit, and the Silverbolt model in his crazy Japanese box:  Heres' one closer up of the Arcee model kit, with Exclusive Stealth Mirage: 
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Movie: I can't wait for Desert Brawl; it's been too long since we've had realistic military vehicles. Classics: What more could I ask for? Ultra Magnus need a good figure. Galvatron should be great too. Animated: Show sounds entertaining, I'll get the Weird Al trash truck for the novelty and Megatron since I'm a Megs fanboy, any Beast Wars characters are guaranteed buys too. loving Thundercracker...
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i'll believe that "new animated series toys are awesome, honest!" poo poo when i see it. conventions have a way of getting people so excited that a turd in a box with a rubsign on it could cause mass hysteria. "HOLY gently caress MISB SHITTATRON IS THAT A JAPANESE ORIGINAL(BM-02)?" i realized something that was a little weird today. i'm tearing through this transformers game, collecting all the little energon whossits and faction symbols, and i unlocked the G1 prime model. so i giddily hurry to the menu to enable it, wander around a little as oldschool prime, and then... i changed it back. as much as i love and respect that old diaclone design, for the here and the now, this is optimus prime. bay and his designers and the ilm guys and even the animators on this game have really pulled it off. long hood, chrome, flames, blue lights, hell, even the lips. i thought it would be weird forever but if you just relax and let the property be what it is, it's no different than the update from a new toy line. the movie character conveys such a sense of power and size as well as being agile, even nimble looking. and "emotes" better. and really looks like an actual robot. the more i look at the movie designs, the more the big all-right-angles designs look silly. i really kind of hope the more flexible-looking, intricate designs from the movie filter down into classics redesigns and such. i guess at the end of the day, nostalgia is still a factor, but nerdrage can be put to rest and what it all comes down to is, the coolest looking robot wins. and if that's not a metaphor for life... no. no, that's really not a metaphor for life at all.
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Metallian posted:i'll believe that "new animated series toys are awesome, honest!" poo poo when i see it. conventions have a way of getting people so excited that a turd in a box with a rubsign on it could cause mass hysteria. Actually, I agree with you on this. I love seeing Prime as a Peterbilt truck. He's much more imposing than the old cab-over-engine design.
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Yeah I love the hell out of the new designs too. I love the millions of moving parts look they all have. I still like Optimus' old design, but the new one is pretty sweet, and I think the rest of them (barring megatron) are all awesome improvements over the old style.
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SassyRobot posted:Megatron with the ice cream just made this whole thing for me. XD You're too good at this. I don't know if I can defeat you, but I'm sure as hell gonna try to compete with this stupid comic that I made! (Seriously this is the dumbest thing I've ever written.  )Page 1|Page 2|Page 3|Page 4 Page 5|Page 6|Page 7|Page 8 Page 9|Page 10|Page 11|Page 12 Page 13|Page 14|Page 15|Page 16 Page 17|Page 18|Page 19|Page 20 Page 21|Page 22|Page 23|Page 24 Enjoy! GrimGypsy posted:Here you go, with Robot Heroes Jazz and the exclusive Huffer/Springer hanging out on it: Oh crap, was that con exclusive? I want that so bad. Pharaoh Dust fucked around with this message at Jul 2, 2007 around 04:48 |
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Pharaoh Dust posted:
Yup. That's my girl.
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