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Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; It costs you four hundred thousand dollars to change this avatar...for twelve seconds.

If you don't feel like watching the show, here's clips of it set to the original TF theme so you get the gist of the parody/tribute. No little anime girls at all, don't worry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffYBjfyE7L0

# ? Nov 14, 2010 16:44

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# ? May 18, 2013 05:54

3: Aug 26, 2006; -tagonist

WaynesWorldGirl posted:

I can't believe how many Generations Megatrons/Darkmounts I have seen without seeing a Soundwave. It's gotta be like 10+ stores now. It's a good thing I dont really care much if I get one or not.

That's weird, because I've been hard pressed to find a single WFC Megatron, yet I'm practically drowning in Soundwaves.

# ? Nov 14, 2010 16:46

Xenomrph: Dec 9, 2005; AvP Online Encyclopedia

3 posted:

That's weird, because I've been hard pressed to find a single WFC Megatron, yet I'm practically drowning in Soundwaves.

Ditto, I've seen Soundwaves and Darkmounts all over the place, but I only saw Megatron once (and passed on him).

# ? Nov 14, 2010 17:44

MinionOfCthulhu: Oct 28, 2005; I got this title for free due to my proximity to an idiot who wanted to save $5 on an avatar by having someone else spend $9.95 instead.

1 Side of the 0 posted:

I did not plan on buying Terradive. Bought it as there was nothing else of interest on the pegs. This thing is awesome.

I can't find him, but I want to. I've passed over tons of Darkmounts and WFC Megatrons/Soundwaves and even that helicopter guy, but no dice...

# ? Nov 14, 2010 23:08

Gammatron 64: Nov 28, 2007; "Well, I gave the Dinobots simple brains because I wanted them to be authentic."
"Hey, I bet real dinosaurs had metal skin, too!"
"Fuck you, Huffer."

Spiderdrake posted:

And not all anime sucks either, just I don't know, 98% of it!

Compared to network television those are great odds!
On a non-polarizing note, TFW2005 has confirmed the Thunderwing instructions gives suggestions of a remold into Black Shadow which looks to be a great deal better colored for that mold.

Don't know if it saves that transformation though. Poor Thunderwing.

Really gets me excited to see what Tomahawk is remolded into. Does anyone have shots of his instructions? (Many of you own this toy, correct?)

edit: dang I just realized Black shadow was confirmed to be a phase sixer in IDW. I wonder if a toy release will get him into the comics.

It's totally awesome that Hasbro is making an toy of an extremely, extremely obscure character from a Japanese show that never even made it here. Transformers fans should never complain about anything. The Transformers toys are getting so well-done and are so aimed at fans, collectors of every other toyline, even ones from the same company, look like battered housewives.

The Transformers team just loves its fans so much. Even the G.I. Joe devs would screw their fans with multipacks and things (want Alpine? Here's another Duke and Cobra Commander!) and let's not even get started with Star Wars. Or anything Mattel. Mattel. *shudder*

# ? Nov 14, 2010 23:08

GD_American: Jul 21, 2004; SCHW�RTZESTES HERZ
IN ALEMANIA

For a short time around the turn of the century I modded at TFW2005, and the "Hasblo is loving US" crap was the most annoying of all

also they didn't give mods there the super-Nazi gently caress you, shut up banning powers that SA does, so I really couldn't do anything about it

# ? Nov 14, 2010 23:12

Gammatron 64: Nov 28, 2007; "Well, I gave the Dinobots simple brains because I wanted them to be authentic."
"Hey, I bet real dinosaurs had metal skin, too!"
"Fuck you, Huffer."

Really, you were? Small world.

Though really, I am so in love with the Transformers brand as of late, and it seems a lot are. If you're going to collect one toy line, collect Transformers.

Also I think Dave from moonbase 2 put it best: "Here's a massive love letter to the fans. Buy all these awesome toys this Christmas, because we know you guys aren't going to buy that horrible movie 3 crap. We'll see you again next year, though!"

Great thing about Transformers is that it has become so huge that they can afford to make crappy little toylines for the kids (Movie series, Power Core) yet still make a lot of stuff that is massive fanwank that us big kids like. We can all agree that the movies are utter trash, but thanks to them Hasbro has the money and resources to make the actual toyline better than ever.

# ? Nov 14, 2010 23:22

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001; Those who would dominate others must first dominate themselves

Gammatron 64 posted:

It's totally awesome that Hasbro is making an toy of an extremely, extremely obscure character from a Japanese show that never even made it here. Transformers fans should never complain about anything. The Transformers toys are getting so well-done and are so aimed at fans, collectors of every other toyline, even ones from the same company, look like battered housewives.

On the topic of obscure figures, here's a pair of crops detailing Terradive's remold (on the left) and Tomahawk's (on the right). While the Black Shadow remold is completely obvious - chest, face, so on all matchs up - I really have no idea about either of these. They look like 86 decepticons. anyone got any ideas?

Click here for the full 1292x467 image.

# ? Nov 14, 2010 23:29

Ka0: Sep 16, 2002; hello

Jackshaft posted:

For a short time around the turn of the century I modded at TFW2005,

Ugh my most heartfelt condolences.

# ? Nov 14, 2010 23:58

1 Side of the 0: Jan 28, 2005; Hyper Viper Beam? No, this is just a gun. It shoots holes in people. Bang.

MinionOfCthulhu posted:

I can't find him, but I want to. I've passed over tons of Darkmounts and WFC Megatrons/Soundwaves and even that helicopter guy, but no dice...

This is the first I've seen of that wave of HFTD, so it may just be hitting where you are.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 01:29

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

I've seen plenty of Darkmounts and WfC Megatrons around Northern California, Red Alert once or twice, but no Soundwaves. I finally got too paranoid about him getting skipped over since he's kind of short-packed and bought him off hasbrotoyshop.com. Which of course now means he'll be clogging the shelves by next week.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 02:15

GD_American: Jul 21, 2004; SCHW�RTZESTES HERZ
IN ALEMANIA

Ka0 posted:

Ugh my most heartfelt condolences.

well it was before I found SA so I was awful about the internet as everyone else

# ? Nov 15, 2010 03:51

Nilryna: Jan 2, 2004; =^o^=

Knormal posted:

I've seen plenty of Darkmounts and WfC Megatrons around Northern California, Red Alert once or twice, but no Soundwaves. I finally got too paranoid about him getting skipped over since he's kind of short-packed and bought him off hasbrotoyshop.com. Which of course now means he'll be clogging the shelves by next week.

I ordered thru BBTS to get mine, and I'm glad I did. All I see is WFC Bumblebee and Prime. I saw a a few Drifts and Thrusts for a while, but now even that's dried up. I kind of dread my decision to try and find Blurr and Dirge in stores now. =\

# ? Nov 15, 2010 05:33

Prophet of Nixon: May 7, 2007; Thou art not a crook!

Breacher is in stock at HasbroToyShop right now if anyone couldn't find him. They have quite a few others too.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 05:54

3: Aug 26, 2006; -tagonist

Prophet of Nixon posted:

Breacher is in stock at HasbroToyShop right now if anyone couldn't find him. They have quite a few others too.

Also be sure to use the code FAMILY2010 (works up to 11/24). It gets you 25% off your purchase, and HTS has a promotion going on right now with free standard shipping on orders over $50 (which for some reason combines very oddly with the promo code, I had to get up to about $65~ for the shipping to register as $0.00)

I ended up grabbing Highbrow, Firetrap, and the Combaticons and Protectobots PCC sets

# ? Nov 15, 2010 20:07

Joe Fisto: Dec 6, 2002; Someone has to pay, Lenny. Somebody always pays.

Here's a nice Kup gallery

http://www.kotoys.com/forum/index.php?topic=1133.0

# ? Nov 15, 2010 20:25

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001; Those who would dominate others must first dominate themselves

That Kup is fantastic. He looks like Kup but with a better design.

And I really like that Perceptor.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 20:30

Cobalt60: Jun 1, 2006

I never bought the US Grimlock.

I want to buy the TRU Grimlock.

How should I go about buying this Grimlock? I don't even need it to be 100% new MIB or whatever, just reasonably crispy.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 20:39

Ka0: Sep 16, 2002; hello

Which Grimlock.

Look at this guy:

# ? Nov 15, 2010 20:46

Honest Ray: Feb 10, 2007; Your bargaining posture is highly dubious.

Do we know about any Black Friday deals with Transformers this year?

# ? Nov 15, 2010 20:49

Xenomrph: Dec 9, 2005; AvP Online Encyclopedia

Joe Fisto posted:

Here's a nice Kup gallery

http://www.kotoys.com/forum/index.php?topic=1133.0

I don't get how that site can sell Transformers before they're actually "out", and at basically scalper prices. Do they steal them from the factories, or what? Wouldn't Hasbro crack down on that poo poo?

It makes me irrationally hate them.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 21:21

SpikeMcclane: Sep 11, 2005; You want the story?
I'll spin it for you quick...

Why yes, they go in, tie up the factory workers, loot the factory floor, then go back, sell it on the internet and probably drink some grog or something.

Seriously, though. As I understand it, the guy with that site is located near the factories and is a huge Transformers fan. Since he's closes to the factories, (and has connections with them), when stuff gets "leaked out," he's normally the first to get it, takes pictures, posts them on the internet, and then resells any extras he ends up with. Primarily, though, he sells knock offs, as the site name implies.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 22:12

Xenomrph: Dec 9, 2005; AvP Online Encyclopedia

Well you'd think hasbro would shut him down, right? Like, he's not just selling product that's not meant for public consumption (yet) and they're not seeing a dime of it, but he's also openly selling knockoffs on the internet.

Seems a bit shameless, doesn't it?

# ? Nov 15, 2010 22:33

3: Aug 26, 2006; -tagonist

It's not cutting into their profits significantly enough to warrant an expensive legal response, yet. That's about it, same reason Hasbro doesn't seriously go after groups like Kold or even Fansproject. As long as whatever these groups are doing doesn't significantly impact their sales, they're free to go on doing what they do, but groups like that always have to tread a particularly fine line. The other reason is that China, where most of the KO groups and official Hasbro plants are located, isn't particularly concerned about international copyright law, though they've been taking somewhat stricter action in recent years.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 00:35

Gammatron 64: Nov 28, 2007; "Well, I gave the Dinobots simple brains because I wanted them to be authentic."
"Hey, I bet real dinosaurs had metal skin, too!"
"Fuck you, Huffer."

Plus, most of the accurate KOs meant to be replicas of figures are of figures that haven't been produced for years. I admit, I bought a couple so I could have cheap G1 alternatives.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 00:50

Ka0: Sep 16, 2002; hello

Xenomrph posted:

Well you'd think hasbro would shut him down, right? Like, he's not just selling product that's not meant for public consumption (yet) and they're not seeing a dime of it, but he's also openly selling knockoffs on the internet.

Seems a bit shameless, doesn't it?

Ghenzhao is just one guy, and he's jusy taking a bunch of off-the-plant samples. Though he makes good profit selling them off to peaugh, Vangelus and co. the overall loss to Takara or Hasbro amounts to little more than the value of the figure at the end of the production line, sans packaging, instructions and transport.

In other words, .34 cents.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 02:15

Ka0: Sep 16, 2002; hello

I forgot to add, he got banned from TFW2005 around in March beacause someone made a thread complaining about the poor QC of his KO-lucky draw Optimus figures. The chrome was scratched, rubbed off on several places, plus the brittle translucent plastic used for binding his arm kibble just snapped.
His response? total meltdown, called everyone who complained a whiney bitch, then went on in the most exaggerated way about refunds, customer service, etc. He could have handled the situation polite and calmly but chose to erupt into curses and wailing:

GenZhao posted:

A FULL 100% good replacement is horseshit??? whats your problem

if you got a problem, you don't work it out with the person first??? you just go and bitch to everyone else first?? you don't think its more polite to tell me first?

I hate this forum, this is my last post here

Please refrain from posting ANY OF MY PHOTOS from now on

# ? Nov 16, 2010 03:21

Why cookie Rocket: Dec 2, 2003; Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

I don't know why anyone is excited about that enormous backpack with a tiny Kup transformer attached to it. Pass pass passssss.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 03:52

3: Aug 26, 2006; -tagonist

It's an El Camino that turns into an old man robot, everything about that owns.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 04:19

Zaa Boogie: Sep 13, 2007; "Suckle on this receptacle!"

WaynesWorldGirl posted:

I don't know why anyone is excited about that enormous backpack with a tiny Kup transformer attached to it. Pass pass passssss.

Because he looks awesome, that's why. Also overstating how big the backpack is is kinda hilarious. You're acting like it's twice the size he is tall. Besides, G1 Kup had a backpack, too. Think of it as an homage.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 04:32

Yonic Symbolism: Nov 10, 2008

WaynesWorldGirl posted:

I don't know why anyone is excited about that enormous backpack with a tiny Kup transformer attached to it. Pass pass passssss.

THAT'S an enormous backpack? It's just the canopy of the truck.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 04:35

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; ZWAP ZWAP ZWAP

Did they actually mold him with an open mouth or is that the mold damage they sometimes do to the faces of stuff that isn't to be sold? Because I like the idea that he's perpetually yammering about how this particular situation reminds him of something else.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 04:35

Why cookie Rocket: Dec 2, 2003; Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

Yonic Symbolism posted:

THAT'S an enormous backpack? It's just the canopy of the truck.

In most of those pictures, it extends an entire head height above Kup's head! At least Rattrap's head never blended into his giant backpack...Kup's going to look just terrible from more than a few feet away on your shelf.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 04:41

404GoonNotFound: Aug 6, 2006; The McRib is back!?!?

Phy posted:

Did they actually mold him with an open mouth or is that the mold damage they sometimes do to the faces of stuff that isn't to be sold? Because I like the idea that he's perpetually yammering about how this particular situation reminds him of something else.

I figure it's more like they have the head ready for the modders. Just cut in some teeth lines, add the robo-cigar, and BOOM best version of Kup ever.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 04:42

Ka0: Sep 16, 2002; hello

Old people don't have any teeth, also you want backpack? I give you Backpack the robot:

# ? Nov 16, 2010 04:52

Why cookie Rocket: Dec 2, 2003; Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

An even that leaves a hole for the head so it doesn't blend into the mass.

Edit: I was wrong, that thing sucks as bad as Kup.

Why cookie Rocket fucked around with this message at Nov 16, 2010 around 04:59

# ? Nov 16, 2010 04:57

3: Aug 26, 2006; -tagonist

Uh oh, I think Nefud's coming this way with an opinion

# ? Nov 16, 2010 05:47

GrimGypsy: Mar 27, 2007; Such Heroic Nonsense.

In those Kup pics...at the bottom he's chillin with an Ultra Magnus in city commander gear; and a pretty decent G1 Arcee. Is she just some custom, or...?

# ? Nov 16, 2010 06:03

404GoonNotFound: Aug 6, 2006; The McRib is back!?!?

GrimGypsy posted:

In those Kup pics...at the bottom he's chillin with an Ultra Magnus in city commander gear; and a pretty decent G1 Arcee. Is she just some custom, or...?

Short run custom from some Japanese convention, IIRC. And from the looks of things she can't even stand up unassisted, so it's probably not worth it _{_{oh god I want one}}.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 06:06

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# ? May 18, 2013 05:54

Why cookie Rocket: Dec 2, 2003; Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

3 posted:

Uh oh, I think Nefud's coming this way with an opinion

Dont get me wrong i'm REALLY hoping that its mistransformed.

# ? Nov 16, 2010 06:57

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