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Anybody got mismatched Thrust missile launchers from this year's Botcon exclusives? I have a good friend looking to trade one mismatched one for the other. Have photos if anyone needs the same help.
DasGift fucked around with this message at Jul 20, 2007 around 16:58 |
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Vaporware posted:Dear Abby, I died the a couple parts black on Energon Downshift with RIT dye. My method was to... - Boil enough water on the stove that it would cover the parts I was dying. This was about 2 cups. - After the water boiled, I poured it out of the pan into a plastic container. Let that cool for about 1 minute. - Pour in the acetone. You can find 100% acetone in Walmart with the nail polish remover. Be careful when you add it, if the water is too hot it'll make a pretty interesting reaction. The ratio I believe was 8:2 - Dump the dye powder in immediately after, and stir. Dump in the parts you want to dye. Stir for a little bit. - Just walk away from it, other than to give it the occasional stir. Because it's been removed from heat, the water will only get colder, so you don't need to worry about warping parts. One word of caution: it can make a huge loving mess. DO NOT do it in your kitchen; boil the water and then take it too a container you have outside or in your garage.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 17:20 |
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catch22 posted:I died the a couple parts black on Energon Downshift with RIT dye. My method was to... So you didn't get any warpage or shrinkage? I had a major problem with shrinkage in parts I boiled. Starscream is getting the non-boil treatment to turn to Thundercracker, but I want a midnight blue, so I need to play with mixing some black in with royal or navy blue. edit: I'm also planning on dyeing movie ratchet, but I haven't decided what color. It's a pretty light green so I could probably go dark blue without hitting black. There's also the option of adding more yellow and seeing where that goes. Vaporware fucked around with this message at Jul 20, 2007 around 17:27 |
| # ? Jul 20, 2007 17:24 |
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Looks like the pre-orders for Rodimus on BBTS are gone now. Hopefully I'll get them from HTS.com without having to resort to buying my two from BBTS.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 18:14 |
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Vaporware posted:So you didn't get any warpage or shrinkage? I had a major problem with shrinkage in parts I boiled. Starscream is getting the non-boil treatment to turn to Thundercracker, but I want a midnight blue, so I need to play with mixing some black in with royal or navy blue. No warpage or shrinkage. I should clarify that as soon as the water hit a boil, I shut off the heat and poured it out of the pot into the plastic container. I let it cool enough that it wasn't visibly boiling anymore, and poured in the acetone (in hindsight I wish I had waited just a bit longer, cause when I poured the acetone in it had a reaction to the heat and scared the poo poo out of me). I then put the parts in with the dye. The acetone and the still very hot water I'm sure are more than enough to dye plastic without actually putting them in boiling water. Also, because it has been removed from heat, the water is only going to keep dropping in temperature, so the parts probably don't have enough time in the heat to get to a point that they shrink or warp.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 18:23 |
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Checked Target again on my way to work, and of course they hadn't restocked with new Deluxes. I'll check again later today - I'm going to see Transformers with my father after I get off work.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 18:48 |
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I got the Mini-Formers 5-pack from Wal-Mart. I woulda rather they had Bumblebee, and perhaps Soundwave instead of Mirage. Optimus, Megatron, and Heisman Pose Starscream are worth it though.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 18:57 |
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Checked after work last night, and found nothing. Planning on going up today before I work.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 18:58 |
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Matlock posted:I got the Mini-Formers 5-pack from Wal-Mart. I woulda rather they had Bumblebee, and perhaps Soundwave instead of Mirage. Optimus, Megatron, and Heisman Pose Starscream are worth it though. 
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 18:58 |
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Xenomrph posted:I like calling him "Floatin' On Sunshine Starscream", personally. If you invert his arms, he's Al Bundy!
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 18:59 |
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Found nothing, and actually passed on getting a Titanium Soundwave in case I finally break down and get 08 Bumblebee off of eBay 
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 19:16 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:Found nothing, and actually passed on getting a Titanium Soundwave in case I finally break down and get 08 Bumblebee off of eBay Whenever they update their store.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 19:29 |
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I don't see why everyone is freaking out, they just started showing up this week barely give it sime time sheesh!
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 19:34 |
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I just wanted to publicly thank Rhyno, as my Ravage and Rumble came yesterday. Thanks, I was never going to see them around here and I hate paying more than double retail. I haven't opened Ravage yet, but Rumble is a nice little guy who really takes after his old cassette mode.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 19:36 |
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AlkalinePunk posted:I don't see why everyone is freaking out, they just started showing up this week barely give it sime time sheesh!  Plastic crack indeed. 
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 19:36 |
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Sorry all, I wasn't able to get out yesterday to look around up in Orland Park. A door sized piece of butcher block (that's supposed to be our new upstairs desk) falling on your fingers puts a stop to that real fast. However all was not totally lost as I was able to stop in at the Wal-mart on Butterfield road and Rt. 53 after summer school. They were better stocked than most of the places I've been too, but still fairly sparse (plenty of Ratchet, Jazz and misc. merch, but not much else). Shiftypenguin, you had any luck at the TRU on 75th in Woodridge? I work less than a few blocks away and it would be no problem for me to stop in after work. Just want to know if I should spent my time there. The earliest I can get back up to Orland is this Monday. Any IL goons been up there in the mean time? Either way I will be going up next Thursday to meet a friend and that might be the best time to look for all parties. I have no problem paying an extra couple of bucks for one off eBay, but there is no way I'm paying at least double for an 08 Bumblebee.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 19:41 |
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Nothing at Wal-Mart. And there isn't any other place in this town that carries them. Ah, how much this sucks. Hasbro, update your damned site!
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 19:47 |
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AlkalinePunk posted:I don't see why everyone is freaking out, they just started showing up this week barely give it sime time sheesh!
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 19:56 |
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OhMyCod posted:Sorry all, I wasn't able to get out yesterday to look around up in Orland Park. A door sized piece of butcher block (that's supposed to be our new upstairs desk) falling on your fingers puts a stop to that real fast. I usually cover The wal-marts and targets in North Chicago Golf Mill (Niles) Scaumburg and the stretch of Randall Rd from the highway to Crystal Lake including sometimes the super wal-mart in woodstock. This is basically about once a week other the the Chicago and Schamburg ones where I live and work. My GF also sometimes goes to a few places by her moms so if I can get 3 Ill pick one up for you goons (I get one and my roommate gets the other of the first 2!) Also any IL goons that want to meet up at some point for comic con shoot me an e-mail alkaline.night at gmail.com
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:02 |
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AlkalinePunk posted:and the stretch of Randall Rd from the highway to Crystal Lake Yo, get off my porch. 
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:05 |
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On the subject of non-Transfomer transformers, does this look familiar to anyone (UK goons esp.)?  I believe it's a Bandai product that actually pre-dates Transformers, but I'm not sure. Got mine in late '83/early '84. Anybody? Sorry about the lovely camera phone pic, I had to coordinate the photography with my sister, who is 5 states away.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:27 |
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snortpocket posted:On the subject of non-Transfomer transformers, does this look familiar to anyone (UK goons esp.)? That's Go-Bot Bugbite. Whoot! Called it! Or at least the original Bandai version before Tonka bought the rights to them to sell outside Japan (like Hasbro did with Takara).
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:31 |
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GojiraYoda posted:That's Go-Bot Bugbite. Whoot! Called it! Or at least the original Bandai version before Tonka bought the rights to them to sell outside Japan (like Hasbro did with Takara). No poo poo, thanks dude. You just cleared up a two decade old mystery. That robot as a child was my old friend. I told it EVERYTHING. That's the beauty of childhood, if you don't have any friends, you can just invent some. If were to confide in a vaguely humanoid pile of plastic and metal at the grand old age of 28, they'd call me a lunatic! EDIT: I have a red sports car one too. Now I just have to go through the list and figure out which one it is.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:34 |
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snortpocket posted:If were to confide in a vaguely humanoid pile of plastic and metal at the grand old age of 28, they'd call me a lunatic! But I'm not crazy! Am I, Bumblebee, old pal?
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:41 |
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arioch posted:But I'm not crazy! Am I, Bumblebee, old pal? You're only crazy if they talk back. 
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:47 |
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DarkPrime posted:That's cool. Did they let you know before hand that you had won? Or did it just arrive with no advance warning? Absolutely no warning at all. Waryn posted:So exactly how many caps did you spend on him? I saved up 40 and spent them all at one time. Heres hoping! I only used my first cap, figuring I'd save them up for a while (I get dew from the machine at the law school to keep myself fully alert). I would have done better to spend them as I got them, I realise now, because there's way more people playing it now than before. When I did it, there was about a 1/5 chance from using a single cap to win Pepsi Prime. Sigma-X posted:Headmaster/Targetmaster Prime or whatever he was (Super God Ginrai) was much larger than G1 prime. Sort of funny story about that. I had never seen Powermaster Prime / Ginrai until a year and a half ago when my roommate at the time found out I liked transformers and showed him to me. Stores in Arkansas were even more poorly stocked then than they are now. My parents got me a few gobots because they were cheaper and I had probably a half dozen actual transformers that I got at garage sales, normally a little broken. From memory, I had Optimus, Blaster, Soundwave (no cassettes for either), half of a Jetfire, and a Sharkticon. Gobots pretty much sucked due to some of them not having real heads (see bugbite above), and the better ones broke if you looked at them funny, while the Transformers were fairly sturdy. Anyways, my point was that all I had ever seen until I was in college was G1; I had never seen G2, RiD, Beast Wars, or anything else until the time of Armada, and even then, it was right about the time Armada stuff was on clearance. I know this because I saw Energon Starscream and I thought he was pretty cool, sparking my interest in nifty robots that cost too much and make me feel a bit embarased to own.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:47 |
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snortpocket posted:EDIT: I have a red sports car one too. Now I just have to go through the list and figure out which one it is. probably Zeemon. i always liked those spindly-limbed, fold-in-half super gobots for some reason. not the most imaginative line but fun nonetheless.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:50 |
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Metallian posted:probably Zeemon. GET OUT OF MY HOUSE
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:57 |
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Metallian posted:probably Zeemon. I love how they just threw together car designs and decals from other cars.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 20:58 |
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The Rage posted:I love how they just threw together car designs and decals from other cars. I was about to ask why that Datsun/Nissan (I think that's a Z...) had a firebird phoenix on it.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 21:03 |
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SpikeMcclane posted:I was about to ask why that Datsun/Nissan (I think that's a Z...) had a firebird phoenix on it. Secret GM/Nissan project.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 21:11 |
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One of my Wal-Marts in Columbia, MO got some of the new figures in today. I picked up Bumblbee and Dreadwing leaving the lone RC figure for someone else. I really like Dreadwing and how they've somewhat reversed the way it Transforms from other deluxe class jet figures, also he's got flamethrowers for hands and that's pretty cool.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 21:35 |
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Ok.. in the acetone dye thing, it says an "8-2" ratio? which is 8, which is 2? water or acetone? Just want to know since this is probably the method I'll use, and I'll probably have to do it in my kitchen. Hopefully my nice metal sink works....
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 22:11 |
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Oh look, Amazon's 08 Bee is down to only 30 dollars! 
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 22:23 |
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snortpocket posted:On the subject of non-Transfomer transformers, does this look familiar to anyone (UK goons esp.)? Wow, I have him. When I was little I thought he was like a deluxe Bumblebee figure. He snapped in half at the waist, which I found out later was common for Deluxe Gobots. My Grandfather tried all kinds of different types of epoxy and various metal glues, but nothing worked on him. I came across Bugbite again a couple of years ago and thought about scraping off the layers of glue and epoxies and doing a small spot weld on him, but I left him like he was because I'm way too sentimental and the thought of erasing the work that my Grandfather had done and fixing him when my Grandfather couldn't just didn't sit right with me.  But now he can do an impression of movie Jazz! 
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 22:27 |
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DarkPrime posted:When I was little I thought he was like a deluxe Bumblebee figure. Well, in a way he is: http://tfu.info/2004/Destron/BugBite/bugbite.htm The 2004 Destron version is basically Bumblebee. But white. And a Decepticon 
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 22:31 |
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OhMyCod posted:... I'm gonna head there tonight, but as of last Friday, it was mostly Jazz, Scorpanok and Wreckage. They also combined all their TFs into one section up front, so the pickin's are pretty slim overall. They used to be pretty good though. I'm sure once the movie buzz dies down and the next "big thing" rolls on in, they'll move all the TFs back to the aisles and their selection will go back to its normal self.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 22:39 |
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snortpocket posted:On the subject of non-Transfomer transformers, does this look familiar to anyone (UK goons esp.)? Holy crap, I used to have one of those. I loved that thing! The car part is mostly die-cast right? I used to think he was a super Bumblebee. If only he hadn't fallen apart like the cheap piece of Go-Bot crap that he was   On a much happier note I got Galaxy Force Starscream(The rare Voyager Class one) in the mail today. He's a total badass. edit: More Bugbite info JohnThermos fucked around with this message at Jul 20, 2007 around 22:43 |
| # ? Jul 20, 2007 22:39 |
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snortpocket posted:Well, in a way he is: To clarify, the yellow figure in Japan is a good guy, the white figure is a bad guy.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2007 22:41 |
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JohnThermos posted:The car part is mostly die-cast right? Yeah, he's pretty solid, even for the time. Despite him now being a double-amputee, at 23 years-old, he's held up remarkably well compared to say, Megatron, who completely disintegrated within weeks of me opening the box.
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