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Captain Invictus posted:"block convoy" It kind of reminds me of that cheesy BUILT TO RULE line that came out around the tail end of Armada/beginning of Energon. I'm almost certain I have enough lego to build my own Optimus though. I just need to steal their design  .
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JohnThermos posted:It kind of reminds me of that cheesy BUILT TO RULE line that came out around the tail end of Armada/beginning of Energon. I'm almost certain I have enough lego to build my own Optimus though. I just need to steal their design Get Mindstorms and see if you can get it to transform at the touch of a button 
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 11:08 |
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JohnThermos posted:It kind of reminds me of that cheesy BUILT TO RULE line that came out around the tail end of Armada/beginning of Energon. I'm almost certain I have enough lego to build my own Optimus though. I just need to steal their design I actually got a few of those at a yard sale once. It's pretty amazing how they hosed something up as simple as copying legos. However, "lego" style pieces with autobot/decepticon symbols on them were worth the 25 cents I paid
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 16:04 |
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I'm really excited Voyager Prime is here, I've been waiting on him and FB Jazz so I'll have all the autobots.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 16:15 |
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livewireo posted:Are we RUINING the film for people in the UK? 
Somebody fucked around with this message at Jul 15, 2007 around 03:16 |
| # ? Jul 14, 2007 16:21 |
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What's a UK? but seriously, that sucks. I'm glad I'm not the one who did that.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 16:24 |
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I've Just been to Toys R Us in Manchester and they have a huge transformers display at the front of the store. They have all the fast action battlers, Leader Prime and Megs, Voyager Ratchet and Blackout and various other items as well didnt see any deluxes. They also have Cybertron Primus on sale for £25, might go back tomorrow and buy one. They still don't have the classics I am missing though, think I might have to pay ebay prices for them  .
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 16:48 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:Either Wal-Mart and Target haven't restocked since Monday, or whatever new arrivals came in this today have been picked dry. Nothing at Target but Wreckages, a Jazz or two, and the lame tie-in products, and Wal-Mart had the usual Protoform Starscreams and 3 Unleashed Bumblebees with the tops ripped off. Ugh, I'm starting to hate this town more than usual I just noticed this post. The Walmart on Pinhook had a fairly decent selection of movie toys last time I was there. And the Walmart on Ambassador Caffery had a couple of "Jaguar" Ravage Alternators. They were tucked in between some stuff on a bottom shelf in the die-cast cars aisle.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 16:58 |
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Someone checked the Target, Wal-Mart, and K-mart back where I'm from. All three were scalped out of EVERYTHING..... except a couple Voyager Ratchets at each place. So this sucks. Back to trying to just order them online now.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 17:51 |
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I'd imagine the new wave probably won't be stocked until Tonight or Sunday night. Even though some stores have them now apparently.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 17:52 |
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drat, I killed off my Ratchet's decals when I was repainting him and cleaning him up with paint thinner. I underestimated the power of the paint thinner... Maybe I'll buy Rescue Ratchet, but he looks so bland, he'll need even more paint then the green one did.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 18:28 |
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Sigma-X posted:So I haven't officially thanked Dies Irae yet for picking up and shipping me Soundwave, so let me do that now! (also I just got him from my mailbox a few moments ago because I forgot to check my mail wed afternoon and on thursday) 
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 18:48 |
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Rhynoooooo, what is the status of my Cybertron Megatron? 
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 20:17 |
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Blueshift posted:Are we RUINING the film for people in the UK? No one cares about the UK. 
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 20:20 |
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DarkPrime posted:I just noticed this post. The Walmart on Pinhook had a fairly decent selection of movie toys last time I was there. And the Walmart on Ambassador Caffery had a couple of "Jaguar" Ravage Alternators. They were tucked in between some stuff on a bottom shelf in the die-cast cars aisle. drat, I'd be pissed as hell if I hadn't already gotten mine from Rhyno  I usually only hit the Ambassador & Evangeline Walmarts along with the Ambassador Target, occasionally checking the Opelousas one. Guess I gotta try Pinhook more often then. 404GoonNotFound fucked around with this message at Jul 14, 2007 around 20:43 |
| # ? Jul 14, 2007 20:40 |
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I'm gonna hit Target and Wal-Mart again today in a vain effort to pick up the new Deluxes (priority ones for me are the armored car and '08 Bumblebee, although I also want the lowrider pickup truck and tow truck, and to a lesser degree Dreadwing and Arcee). I'm just waiting for an employee to show up so I can fix his timeclock, so I don't have to deal with it tomorrow morning when I'm writing paychecks and poo poo.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 20:55 |
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Hi, I thought I should introduce myself after lurking for a couple of months. I had avoided buying new toys since Energon (with the exception of Primus) till I started reading this thread, and now no longer feel quite so bad about blowing so much money on toys. I’m thinking I’m going to get the Jhiaxus avatar as soon as I find a good quote from my G2 comics, though suggestions are welcome. Oh, and I’ll be online with the DS games as “Blaargh”. As for my latest sightings and purchases, there are a couple of noteworthy bits. First, has anyone else seen the three-pack of movie deluxes at Sam's Club? It’s $24.77 US, and has Jazz taking on two Decepticons (which ones escapes me at the moment though). I haven't grabbed it yet, but they still had plenty of them as of Thursday. My other sighting was at the local TRU where they still had 8 reissue Soundwaves. They even had 6 or 7 Primus figures left as well. I grabbed a Soundwave and a got me a free Spy Shot 6.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 21:07 |
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I grabbed the little MP3 guy yesterday. Booster something or another. Pretty awesome little bird. The only complaint is the bluetooth? headset thingie that he comes with has to have the lamest "transform!" option ever. You pull a peg downward to stick it onto his back. That's it. No extra fold out laser gun or missile rack or anything, just a friggin peg so that it looks like the headset is jumping a tiny bird. Kinda sucks his neck isn't flexible, or at least hinged ala Lazerbeak, but it is definitely worth the 8 bucks he cost. No luck with TRU here, they have some titanium soundwaves, but no re-issues. Had about 10 leader class Megatrons, so I dunno if they are shortpacked or what. He looks kinda crappy though. If I was a kid, I wouldn't want him to play with. The other guys all look kinda normal (cept for Scorponok), but Megs looks kinda ... odd. Maybe its the grey on grey with pink, and more grey paintjob...
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 21:20 |
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Went looking again today while I was out, still nothing. Toys R Us looked like it had been hit by a tornado. A very slim selection of deluxe Wreckages and Scopinoks, at least 4 movie leader megatrons and a bunch of legends, FABs and OP helmets, Ironhides and Starscreams. Oh they also had a ton of the new WWI Megatron vs. Optimus 2 packs titaniums. Walmart had even less. Bonecrushers, Swindles and lots of Starscreams. I'll check one last time tomorrow before I buckle and buy leader Brawl online.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 21:29 |
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Captain Blaargh posted:Hi, I thought I should introduce myself after lurking for a couple of months. I had avoided buying new toys since Energon (with the exception of Primus) till I started reading this thread, and now no longer feel quite so bad about blowing so much money on toys. I’m thinking I’m going to get the Jhiaxus avatar as soon as I find a good quote from my G2 comics, though suggestions are welcome. Oh, and I’ll be online with the DS games as “Blaargh”. Oh come on, how can it NOT be "I...AM...JHIAXUS!"  G2 needs more love. That comic is one of my favourite sustained Transformer narratives. And it made Megatron awesome, which I did not think possible before
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 21:32 |
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I checked a couple Targets while out buying wood for my new desktop display stand and, as others have said, it looked like a hurricane had come through. Has anyone seen the wave 2s in stores yet at all, or are we all pretty sure that tomorrow is D-Day? Think I'll actually get up and head to the Lynnwood TRU and Wal*Mart tomorrow morning, just in case. Also: Captain Blaargh posted:Hi, I thought I should introduce myself after lurking for a couple of months. I had avoided buying new toys since Energon (with the exception of Primus) till I started reading this thread, and now no longer feel quite so bad about blowing so much money on toys. Welcome! Blowing money on toys is an important part of life. I hope you will soon be as rabidly happy as the rest of us.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 21:36 |
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livewireo posted:Yeah that's what I wanted to know was well The Regular Jazz figure can fit the splitting in half feature if you just removed te waist hinge so it's possible. He comes packed in Robot mode so that could be the reason for it, I mean his cannon really isn't that big. However I want a full blown Frenzy figure, the Action Battlers line has it's own transforming frenzy figure that becomes a CD player, they could easily make a deluxe version that's abit more accurate to the movie version of him. Somebody fucked around with this message at Jul 15, 2007 around 03:16 |
| # ? Jul 14, 2007 21:36 |
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I'll probably end up buying Final Battle Jazz just because of the new gun he gets. It's closer to what he used in the movie, and I can just give it to regular battle jazz and keep FB Jazz in car mode sense he doesnt have any battle damage in alt mode
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 21:42 |
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Captain Blaargh posted:As for my latest sightings and purchases, there are a couple of noteworthy bits. First, has anyone else seen the three-pack of movie deluxes at Sam's Club? It’s $24.77 US, and has Jazz taking on two Decepticons (which ones escapes me at the moment though).
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 21:43 |
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No luck finding the new wave for me. Though I did see the new FABs at Walgreens last night. I probably won't check again until Monday. In other unrelated toy news, I finally got around to buying the 1999 McFarlane Liquid Snake figure. Now I'll have Solid, Liquid and Solidus (among a ton of other MGS figures) I'm just glad to finally have the 3 Snake brothers.
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 22:13 |
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I know that my Target does not have wave 2 and won't be getting it for a while. It's Spiderman's fault too! (Spiderman toys are going on clearance soon, and because the entire aisle is in the computer together, nothing on the entire aisle is being ordered until spiderman is removed.) A pox on you, Spidey!
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 22:33 |
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Captain Blaargh posted:Hi, I thought I should introduce myself after lurking for a couple of months. I had avoided buying new toys since Energon (with the exception of Primus) till I started reading this thread, and now no longer feel quite so bad about blowing so much money on toys. I’m thinking I’m going to get the Jhiaxus avatar as soon as I find a good quote from my G2 comics, though suggestions are welcome. "Who the gently caress is Jhiaxus??"
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 23:14 |
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SUCCESS! Well, sorta. I hit the local Target and they had one left of Dreadwing and about 3 Arcees, so I picked up one of each. Funny they had the 2 Deluxes in the wave that I cared the least about. They also had about 12 of Wreckage, which was a little weird, and a whole lot of Brawl and Jazz (regular Jazz, not the Final Battle one). I then went over to Wal-Mart to see if they got in the new wave, and while they didn't have any of the Deluxes, they had 4 new Fast Action Battlers I'd never seen before: Barricade, Megatron, Blackout, and Frenzy. Frenzy's alt-mode looks awesome, but his robot mode looks like rear end; unfortunately, I think that's pretty much the only Frenzy toy we're going to get, other than the little one that comes with Deluxe Barricade. I'll hit Target again tomorrow and see if they get the rest of the wave. I really want '08 Bumblebee and Payload (the armored car).
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| # ? Jul 14, 2007 23:19 |
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Xenomrph posted:I then went over to Wal-Mart to see if they got in the new wave, and while they didn't have any of the Deluxes, they had 4 new Fast Action Battlers I'd never seen before: Barricade, Megatron, Blackout, and Frenzy. Frenzy's alt-mode looks awesome, but his robot mode looks like rear end; unfortunately, I think that's pretty much the only Frenzy toy we're going to get, other than the little one that comes with Deluxe Barricade. Frenzy is getting a Robot Replica toy if I'm not mistaken so keep your hopes up. Sure it won't transform but hell, at least it wont look like rear end with bad articulation. Speaking of Robot Replicas, I havnt seen any of them either.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 00:15 |
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That metal dude posted:Frenzy is getting a Robot Replica toy if I'm not mistaken so keep your hopes up. Sure it won't transform but hell, at least it wont look like rear end with bad articulation. Let me emphasize, from what I could tell by looking at the packaging and whatnot, the Fast Action Battlers Frenzy actually has articulation, and his stereo mode looks great, it's just there's so much extraneous stuff on his robot mode because there's nowhere for any of it to go, since he's supposed to be such a spindly robot. It makes him look really bulky and awkward. As for Arcee and Dreadwing, I just cracked them both open and they're both awfully cool. Arcee's head looks way better in person, and her transformation is pretty neat (think Lugnutz or his repaint, Hightail, from the Cybertron line). I think my only gripes are that the package's mention of "automorph technology" is really misleading, as it just consists of her crossbow weapon springing out when you load the missile (and then collapsing back in when you fire it, and it's a pretty crappy missile launching mechanism), and Arcee's lack of meaningful elbow articulation. Because of the way the joint is sculpted, her elbows only bend correctly when her shoulders are positioned a certain way, and it interferes with mounting the crossbow on her arm pretty heavily. Otherwise, she looks really slick as a bike (although she's pretty out of scale with the other Deluxes; the Scout-class repaint is scaled much better), and her robot mode is pretty neat. Dreadwing has some "undercarriage" issues when he's a jet, but otherwise he looks pretty cool. Unlike Starscream, he actually has afterburners, which is a pleasant change. He's got dual missile launchers in robot mode, and the missiles are sculpted like flames, so they can be locked in as afterburner exhaust when he's in jet mode and it looks really cool. He's got some classy automorph gimmicks when you're transforming him, notably when you essentially pull him in half lengthwise and some things spring out from his midsection. His transformation is interesting because the directions seem to reverse and repeat themselves, so it almost feels like you're backtracking on some of the steps you'd already done, and then suddenly he's a robot and looks all cool. He has all kinds of articulation, although his knee articulation is rather goofy (his knees only bend "out", rather than forward like, say, a human's do), but his arms and shoulders have good articulation. I also like his head; even though it's just a lens (with light-piping, unlike Swindle), it has a lot of articulation in the neck, so you can actually be "expressive" with it. I'm looking forward to doing stop-motion animation with him, because he's really stable because of his wide-stance legs, and I think I could get good range of motion with all his joints.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 00:46 |
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Yeah.. I'm glad to see that some places are getting the new wave.. I have some friends of mine that are heading to the store in the morning tomorrow (at least to try and beat the normal sunday rush) going to check for me. I hope that they waited until tonight to restock as opposed to having already restocked and been plucked clean... Also glad to hear that Arcee is pretty decent along with dreadwing. Dreadwing is no longer "questionable" on my list of wants now. However, 08 Bumblebee still is along with the low rider pick-up. SublimeDelusions fucked around with this message at Jul 15, 2007 around 01:06 |
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Yeah, G2 is a great comic. Reading the entire run of it when they first came out is good memory from when I was a rather young geek. I'm also glad I've still got them all.Xenomrph posted:I'm pretty sure Jazz comes with Bonecrusher and Brawl in the 3-pack. I thought it was them, but I wasn't quite sure. I figured I'd mention it since I didn't think it had shown up in the thread yet. SpazmasterX posted:"Who the gently caress is Jhiaxus??" I think this might be the winner, though the other was good as well. Oh hell, I might just combine them. I'll probably buy it sometime tomorrow.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 01:05 |
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So I found Arcee and Dreadwing at my local Target. Only picked up Dreadwing as I'm not exactly excited about how Arcee's head looks. So the back of the package shows 08 BB, Bonecrusher, Scorpinok, and Swindle, with the three new ones. No sign of the other new ones. Wonder if they'll be out next week or what.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 01:15 |
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I couldn't resist picking up a smaller version of Starscream, the one for little kids/retarded people because he's just so tiny and adorable. Awww look. Widdle Starscweam needs a hug.  Optimus giving Sam the Allspark.  OH GOD SAM!! NOO!!! 
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 01:46 |
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I just went to target and found that they have the new scouts out, but nothing else. They didn't have Elita One which is the only one I wanted. Also they have at least a dozen wreckages - I don't know why, I thought he was shortpacked. I'm guessing no one is buying him because he is in neither the movie nor the game.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 01:51 |
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drat yous and your ability to actually find Robo-Vision Prime  
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 01:54 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:drat yous and your ability to actually find Robo-Vision Prime I checked my Target today for him, and they were gone. They had like, 9 earlier this week when I bought mine. I'm wondering if they'll get more when the rest of wave 2 comes out. If you don't get one at your Target, I'll see if I can pick one up for you.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 01:58 |
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The Rage posted:I checked my Target today for him, and they were gone. They had like, 9 earlier this week when I bought mine. I'm wondering if they'll get more when the rest of wave 2 comes out. If you don't get one at your Target, I'll see if I can pick one up for you. But on the bright side, Rhyno's "Battle Ravage" should be arriving any day now 
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| # ? Jul 15, 2007 02:05 |
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No promises, but on my next trip to DM I could scout Robo Vision Primes for people. Granted I got burnt out wasting my entire weekend up there, but the smaller Target had quite a few and I have to check a larger store for the DS downloadable anyhow. Hugs for Starscream  !
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SassyRobot posted:Hugs for Starscream Oh great, now I'm imagining Starscream drawn like Phillipe from Achewood. Transformers Toy Thread: Starscream Is Standing On It
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