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Hey, remember a while back I asked you to fill in a survey? I finally got around to sorting the answers! So, I present the 2016 Emirate Xaaron Awards! AKA The Emmies! Best Legends Class... Shockwave!  Best Deluxe Class... Triggerhappy!  Best Voyager Class... Skylynx!  Best Leader Class... turned out to be a tie between Blaster and Sixshot!   Best Masterpiece... Inferno!  Best 'Other' thing AKA I forgot RID exists.. RID Bisk!  Best Third Party Toy... Maketoys Despotron!  And now... the Worst Transformer of 2016 with waaaaay more votes than anyone else... Stripes!  Overall Best Transformer of 2016... another tie! Bisk and Triggerhappy!
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gently caress you Stripes sometimes I forget I own you and then I remember and I get angry again about what a piece of poo poo you are. You're never getting out of Blaster's chest.
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Can't see anywhere in the UK selling the Bisk toy, and all the oversees sellers need as much again for shipping as for the toy. I keep hearing good things about it too! Anyone got any leads on where I can get Bisk for less than the £30 it'd take to get it from the states?
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Feb 3, 2017 17:03
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mehall posted:Can't see anywhere in the UK selling the Bisk toy, and all the oversees sellers need as much again for shipping as for the toy. Just pay what it's worth, i.e. a fat bucket of money.
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Feb 3, 2017 17:19
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I would love to get Bisk Sixshot and Triggerhappy but have seen none of them anywhere in the US so far.
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Bisk reminds me of Scrounge from the Marvel comic. And I realize by saying that, my age is showing... Just out of curiosity sake, have they made or plan to make any figures of the Decepticon Justice Division? In the meantime, I still have plenty of other Transformers for sale if anyone is interested. Updated my list and everything. ARMADA Thundercracker ----------$30 Megatron--------------------$20 Galvatron--------------------$40 Starscream ----------------$20 Wheeljack ------------------$15 Blurr----------------------------$10 Thrust-------------------------$10 Scavenger-------------------$20 Smokescreen--------------$10 Skywarp----------------------$30 Sideways---------------------$15 Hoist----------------------------$10 Hot Shot----------------------$10 Optimus Prime (Small)--$15 Sideswipe-------------------$10 Red Alert---------------------$15 ENERGON Mirage (Japanese Version)--------$20 Ironhide-----------------------$15 Landmine---------------------$30 DrRockso20 (Maybe) CYBERTRON Galvatron-----------------------$30 Scourge-------------------------$25 DrRockso20 (Maybe) Soundwave--------------------$15 DrRockso20 (Maybe) SkyShadow--------------------$15 DrRockso20 (maybe) Excellion------------------------$20 ROBOTS IN DISGUISE Optimus Prime----------------$30 Ultra Magnus------------------$30 Megatron Megabolt------ $35 Classics Voyager Optimus Prime------------$35 Classics Hot Rod (NOT the G1 version)---$30 Cryotek---------------------------$40
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I don't think they're going to make official figures for the Torture And Murder Squad who are already dead anyways, no
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Captain Invictus posted:I don't think they're going to make official figures for the Torture And Murder Squad who are already dead anyways, no Heh, shows how behind I am. Ahh well. They look like they'd make cool figures.
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They would, but Guy Who Literally Transforms Into An Electric Chair probably wouldn't sit well with most people probably.
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Captain Invictus posted:They would, but Guy Who Literally Transforms Into An Electric Chair probably wouldn't sit well with most people probably. Well I mean, they wouldn't sit well in him for long...
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I saw some new 3rd party is doing leader class movie megatrons for both his ROTF and DOTM design. I never liked the ROTF one too much but truckatron was an interesting design. Apparently the guy who lends his designs to weijiang also finished his own redesign of that figure, too.
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Captain Invictus posted:They would, but Guy Who Literally Transforms Into An Electric Chair probably wouldn't sit well with most people probably. I'm imagining the old 80s commercials advertising the DJD, and I'm just giggling. "Kaon transforms from robot to electric chair!"
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Blackheart posted:I saw some new 3rd party is doing leader class movie megatrons for both his ROTF and DOTM design. I never liked the ROTF one too much but truckatron was an interesting design. Apparently the guy who lends his designs to weijiang also finished his own redesign of that figure, too. That would be Black Apple. His DOTM Megatron is being prepped for mass production. Honestly the other guy's Megatrons look better.
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Heckie Holmes posted:I'm imagining the old 80s commercials advertising the DJD, and I'm just giggling. Just give it a suitably kiddish name. "In 5 easy steps the decepticons can unleash the devastating power of the Thunder Throne!" 
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Heckie Holmes posted:I'm imagining the old 80s commercials advertising the DJD, and I'm just giggling. No no, he only transforms into what looks like an electric chair to the untrained eye. Flip him over and you realize he's actually a...um...command post! Yeah, that's it.
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Don't read BSS too often so IDK how the thread feels about hobby thread type posts, but I've been taking a break from models to line the Titans Return Astrotrain and man, this thing has an obscene amount of lining (this is a good thing): Only read one review of it which was pretty meh about the figure because of G1 accuracy reasons, but as someone with no TF nostalgia I think its pretty cool that all three of uts modes look convincing (past TF experience with triformers has been "meh robot, ok vehicle, lmao command station"). My only complaints is that it has no swivel ankles and the train fronts (which look way better than the shuttle nose for the feet IMO) don't rotate far enough to have him standing upright with them.
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This is a 70% toy discussion, 20% comic discussion, 10% movie discuss thread.
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Spiderdrake posted:This is a 70% toy discussion, 20% comic discussion, 10% movie discuss thread. 'Kay, just wanted to say that just in case. Also I've seen some reviewers down on the Titans Return headformers gimmick in general, but I think its pretty nifty; it gives you an added figure where would normally be a an obscured head 50% of the time, it doesn't look out of place, and it frees up some more transforming space that would need to be used hiding the head. My only real complaint is that they didnt bother separating the legs.
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There are no real complaints about titan masters here, but there's also generally realistic expectations for the hasbro line. There's already the third party scene (which has several more g1 astrotrains) and Takara for g1 representations.
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Neurolimal posted:My only real complaint is that they didnt bother separating the legs. Separate legs means an extra mould and extra pins for every single titan master, which means more assembly workers and materials, and more money, and then suddenly every size class is $3 more so you could have two legs instead of one super leg.
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SpazmasterX posted:Separate legs means an extra mould and extra pins for every single titan master, which means more assembly workers and materials, and more money, and then suddenly every size class is $3 more so you could have two legs instead of one super leg. Yeah, I get why they don't do it, it just kind of bugs me because they're -almost- good as figures on their own at their size. They even have balljointed arms.
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Neurolimal posted:Yeah, I get why they don't do it, it just kind of bugs me because they're -almost- good as figures on their own at their size. They even have balljointed arms. On the other hand a lot of the headmaster hate works like this: step 1: character x wasn't a headmaster in g1 step 2: I don't want to be called a geewunner though step 3: I'll complain about all headmasters, as though I always did
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Neurolimal posted:Yeah, I get why they don't do it, it just kind of bugs me because they're -almost- good as figures on their own at their size. They even have balljointed arms. It would maybe be less annoying if the G1 Headmaster figures didn't have separate legs. Still, the range of motion on the arms and head plus the detailed sculpts make up for it well enough. I'm a Headmaster fan from the beginning, though. I admit I've bought TR figures I wasn't all that into just to have another little Titan Master guy to put in Trypticon's city mode when he arrives.
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I feel like it's maybe a size thing? Teeny weeny moving parts on a kids toy are gonna break off more easily, and then you got a crippled robot. I mean there's the arms, but they don't have the kind of motion the legs do, with bending knees and such.
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Captain Invictus posted:They would, but Guy Who Literally Transforms Into An Electric Chair probably wouldn't sit well with most people probably. Well Mastermind Creations has 3 out that Vangelus has reviewed. I would be lying if I said I didn't want them. And just flip the chair upside down. ITS A SUBMARINE JUST LIKE SIXSHOT DONT YOU DARE FLIP IT OVER NO.
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Neurolimal posted:
Those Purple panels near the front fold down for extra wheels and details.
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You mean the ones that cover the legs? Those are already opened in the pic
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Neurolimal posted:You mean the ones that cover the legs? Those are already opened in the pic No he means this here  It flips down.
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Ohhh, I don't know why I didn't notice that, thanks.
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Picked up a Gnaw! He's adorable 
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The_Doctor posted:Picked up a Gnaw! He's adorable I hunted for one forever and kept finding Bumblebees and Kickbacks on the shelves, because those army building motherfuckers just had to have them all so I broke down and bought one for $16 on Amazon. The next day I found a fresh wave at target and bought all the Gnaws because gently caress YOU people I compete with at retail, now I'm revenge army building just for spite.
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I bumped into @The_Macula who's a dude I follow on Twitter, and he gave me the heads up about where I could find one. Glad I did, there was only 1 left.
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Rhyno posted:That would be Black Apple. His DOTM Megatron is being prepped for mass production. Honestly the other guy's Megatrons look better. I couldn't find what you are referring to other than an oversized version of the Voyager figure...if that's what you're referring to I'd go with Black Apple's
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catch22 posted:I couldn't find what you are referring to other than an oversized version of the Voyager figure...if that's what you're referring to I'd go with Black Apple's This is Dream Factory's ROTF Megatron    This is the render of their DOTM Megatron's vehicle mode.  This is Black Apple's that will supposedly be produced in scale with their OS EM Prime   Dream Factory's work is all new, Black Apple starts with an original figure and builds it up from there. He used the available OS ROTF Megatron as his base.
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A shame he didn't give him real hands also I just assembled three Detolfs in a row. My thumbs are throbbing and sore as gently caress, if I never have to assemble another one it'll be too soon, but now my Titan Masters and Combiner Wars dudes have a home.
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Captain Invictus posted:Don't be weird
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Speaking of painful assembly, I liked the legged-cannon mode of TR galvatron for its resemblance to a macross mech and decided to paint him, and goddamn are some of those pins a nightmare to remove. I had to green stuff some places because of how bad the area got chewed up removing the fuckers. Say what you will about Hasbro, these things are built to last. I dread reassembling him.
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