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Keldroc posted:After being introduced in the series he mostly functioned as a bus for the other characters to get to and from plot points, which is basically all Astrotrain ever did after "Triple Takeover," too. One presumes Jetfire, being a scientist, knows the difference between weight and mass, though. Also, ye know, Transformers fans.
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The other Jetfire cliche in the fandom is how fragile he is, but I don't remember Astrotrain being particularly easy to shoot down, so I figured that wasn't the reference in this case.
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May 3, 2017 07:17
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If you never managed to get one, CW Skylynx is rather reasonable on Amazon UK right now (and with free shipping): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017KIQRQU
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May 3, 2017 11:35
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Gammatron 64 posted:But, there is a secret, easy way to transform him. What you do, is you take MP Megatron, move him conveniently out of the field of view, then put one of those little Megatron guns that come with other MP toys in someone's hand. Presto! Then, to change him back, just put the little gun in a ziplock bag, then place Megatron back on the shelf. Easy! Seems legit.
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I like Astrotrain because he's a space shuttle and a steam locomotive, which are both very cool in my book. I like Springer, but he might as well be a single-changer, because he's a helicopter, and then sometimes a car that looks a lot like his helicopter. He's more like Tracks and Perceptor who kinda sorta have a third mode slapped on but aren't considered triple changers because their extra mode is so lazy and is just kind of a bonus.
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The_Doctor posted:If you never managed to get one, CW Skylynx is rather reasonable on Amazon UK right now (and with free shipping): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017KIQRQU Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I wanted one but got back into TFs quite recently so missed retail availability.
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How the hell is TLK Barricade even a $15 transformer in the year 2017? I thought deluxes this nice were a thing of the past! Like even the recently good ones haven't felt this nice in hand.
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This figure really fills the police brutality vibe that I was missing among my toy hoard
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Why cookie Rocket posted:How the hell is TLK Barricade even a $15 transformer in the year 2017? I thought deluxes this nice were a thing of the past! Like even the recently good ones haven't felt this nice in hand.
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Spiderdrake posted:Because it's not a $15 transformer. There was a five dollar price hike. I'm visiting Texas this week and picked it up for $15.29 at Walmart. Does it usually retail for 20? That's...less great.
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May 3, 2017 23:01
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It's been spotted around here fir 27 and 28 euro 
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Why cookie Rocket posted:I'm visiting Texas this week and picked it up for $15.29 at Walmart. Does it usually retail for 20? That's...less great. 29.99 CDN, which is currently about $22 USD as well. Good to hear they're solid, though, feel more confident in getting the voyager Megs at least.
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If you are wondering how TLK voyager Hound can have Red Cross logos all over it but not MP Ratchet, wonder no more: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/changes-to-transformers-the-last-knight-voyager-hound-deco-due-to-red-cross-issues/38000/
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Spiderdrake posted:Yeah I saw them on sale the first time I saw them too, but yes, MSRP is 19.99 USD The Backpack is muck like The Struggle in that it is real. But it's a good solid deluxe of the 2010-ish feel. I'd rather pay $20 for deluxes like this than $15 for warmed-over "pretty good considering how cheap everything has gotten" deluxes like we've been getting.
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Except we haven't been getting that for a while now. TR has been uniformly good-to-excellent in the Deluxe class.
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Keldroc posted:Except we haven't been getting that for a while now. TR has been uniformly good-to-excellent in the Deluxe class. Disagree. There's a lot of great deluxes in the TR line, but there's some serious missteps as well. And there's good but then again there's wrist swivels and higher-quality plastic good. Like I have no great personal love for RTS Jazz but I'm not stupid, he's a high water mark for deluxes and Barricade reminds me of that level of quality. I'm over the moon about getting a great Topspin from the TR line and enjoy him quite a bit but he's not even in the same league as RTS Jazz or Barricade because he just doesn't have the same number of moving pieces and the plastic isn't hand-candy in that same way.
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Skullsmasher and Twinferno suck hard balls. Every other deluxe is good to great.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Disagree. There's a lot of great deluxes in the TR line, but there's some serious missteps as well. And there's good but then again there's wrist swivels and higher-quality plastic good. There are exactly two missteps in the TR Deluxe class, and Rhyno already mentioned them. More than satisfactory. At some point I'd love to see some chemical engineer TF nerd actually analyze the plastic through the years of TFs because I'm pretty sure the "higher/lower quality plastic" schtick is complete bullshit. Also RTS Jazz is your example of bygone quality? The catalyst of the Great Chest-Locking Wars? Yeah, okay.
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Arquinsiel posted:It's been spotted around here fir 27 and 28 euro I saw him in Berlin for 34 euros. No ma'am.
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Rhyno posted:Skullsmasher and Twinferno suck hard balls. Every other deluxe is good to great. Skullsmasher would be fantastic if his joints worked, and argueably, if he had a plastic back. I don't mind the rubber back, so all I need is the future floor wax windex (which would be awesome if someone had a current label for it)
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Anora posted:Skullsmasher would be fantastic if his joints worked, and argueably, if he had a plastic back. I don't mind the rubber back, so all I need is the future floor wax windex (which would be awesome if someone had a current label for it) He also needs a bigger peg of his tail to attach to, it's too small for the tail to stay on properly
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Keldroc posted:There are exactly two missteps in the TR Deluxe class, and Rhyno already mentioned them. More than satisfactory. At some point I'd love to see some chemical engineer TF nerd actually analyze the plastic through the years of TFs because I'm pretty sure the "higher/lower quality plastic" schtick is complete bullshit. Way to skim and rage out.
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KO OS Bruticus owns. He's way nicer than the Feral/Nero Rex and scales perfectly with CW Devy
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History Comes Inside! posted:KO OS Bruticus owns. He's way nicer than the Feral/Nero Rex and scales perfectly with CW Devy
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Someone got Octane and Blitzwing in the US, if you guys feel like going out toy hunting.
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Guess I'm checking out Target before work but they've generally had jack and poo poo for months now.
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I just hit up the target near work and they didn't have anything new.
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Anyone know if they make dry transfer or waterslide decals for MP Ratchet or MT Downbeat? I know there's reprolabels, but I dunno, they're stickers and look kinda out of place on an MP figure in my book. I guess if all else fails, you could always find Martini Porsche 935 Turbo decals to put on Jazz that would normally go on a model kit. What scale is he roughly?
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Zaa Boogie posted:Guess I'm checking out Target before work but they've generally had jack and poo poo for months now. I still can't find anything new but Broadsides at a bunch of places. It's weird.
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Yeah, just went by my local one and wasn't there. was almost tempted by Barricade.
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Captain Invictus posted:Got a link to a place to get him? I got him from Sirtoys when it randomly showed up in stock about 2 weeks ago. Looks like he's sold out again but most places were saying new stock was due around now
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Gammatron 64 posted:Anyone know if they make dry transfer or waterslide decals for MP Ratchet or MT Downbeat? I know there's reprolabels, but I dunno, they're stickers and look kinda out of place on an MP figure in my book. Someone on TFW made a set that you can get printed on decal sheets at...Staples? Someplace like that. They look good but the stickers for the rear wheel wells look like they can't conform to the curves of the car well.
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Zaa Boogie posted:Yeah, just went by my local one and wasn't there. was almost tempted by Barricade. I just got a Barricade, he's alright-big backpack :/
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That's what I don't get, I was looking at the new Drift re-shell and his Backpack folds up like a motherfucker, like in four parts. If they gave this Barry that we'd be looking at a top tier deluxe. He's still good but what a missed opportunity.
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Keldroc posted:Also RTS Jazz is your example of bygone quality? The catalyst of the Great Chest-Locking Wars? Yeah, okay. Except Wheelie, who is actually pretty great.
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SpazmasterX posted:I still can't find anything new but Broadsides at a bunch of places. It's weird. Ditto for me. Incidentally, is Broadside worth picking up?
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Xenomrph posted:Ditto for me. Incidentally, is Broadside worth picking up? Bot and aircraft carrier modes are very good, jet mode is bad and the fan mode for his jet isn't much better than the official one. The lovely jet mode puts me on the fence about him, but if you're happy with 2 out of 3 I'd say go for it
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I accept that plane mode more on the upcoming Tidal wave version of that mold because he'd be that type of guy to take a jet mode that egregious (both definitions even)
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Xenomrph posted:Ditto for me. Incidentally, is Broadside worth picking up? Jet mode is rear end but everything else is great.
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Arquinsiel posted:Having just recieved mine from Knormal this morning and immediately realising how the roof backpack locks the chest in place I would actually have to say I rate him higher than any Titans Return figure I've had the chance to play with. But but but geewun trumps engineering riiiiight...?
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