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Rhyno posted:So all the Exclusives are exempt from the 20% coupon AND the free shipping. $120 for that set after shipping means I'm not buying one. Booooooo! gently caress them haters!
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pubic works project posted:Booooooo! gently caress them haters! I ain't worried. Most of the TF box sets were available for a long time after and they ended up on their Ebay store for a nice discount.
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Endless Mike posted:Which one of you is this?
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Rhyno posted:I ain't worried. Most of the TF box sets were available for a long time after and they ended up on their Ebay store for a nice discount. Oh that's cool. Gives me some time to focus on some other stuff TF-wise.
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Woo woo, preorder processed, payment confirming on my Siege set. Gonna ship the POL tonight! Edit: or now! Whoooooo! More TOYZ Rhyno fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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Aug 14, 2017 20:33
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Opened MMC Turben/Whirl and he's really good! A large voyager size, nicely articulated. Close enough to IDW to scratch that itch. Altmode is a bit messy, and transformation is simple enough, although those loooooooong folding back spurs are frightening. He's one that's only ever going to be in bot mode, honestly.
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The_Doctor posted:Opened MMC Turben/Whirl and he's really good! A large voyager size, nicely articulated. Close enough to IDW to scratch that itch. Altmode is a bit messy, and transformation is simple enough, although those loooooooong folding back spurs are frightening. He's one that's only ever going to be in bot mode, honestly. Can you post some close ups of his head at a few angles? That's really what's keeping me from pulling the trigger.
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Rhyno posted:Can you post some close ups of his head at a few angles? That's really what's keeping me from pulling the trigger. Like this?    
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Yeah, he's cool but his head is too G1 and not enough IDW for me. But he is probably the closest to IDW we'll ever get.
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At a Kmart right now, and good God is it depressing here, you know a store is dying when they don't have any display televisions or a even a barebones videogame department, as for their Transformers selection, barely anything and what they do have is overpriced, they do have a tube of knockoff figures available for sale that I should take a picture of though cause they are hilariously blatant in their IP theft
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Aug 14, 2017 22:49
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Kmart - where 1994 never ended.
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drrockso20 posted:At a Kmart right now, and good God is it depressing here, you know a store is dying Target was buying out a dying chain, and they were dying when I first got back into collecting, so me and my sister visited a bunch of these stores - Zellers - and it was just an endless parade of misery. Every toy aisle looked like a bomb was dropped on it, with basically no new product or anything from the last year back. The final store we went to, the lights above the toy aisle had gone out and most of the product was covered with a thick curtain of dust. Zellers was already a lovely walmart, but man, these were sad rear end stories. Target announced they wanted to enter the market to replace Zellers. It went really well for them! Spiderdrake fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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I stopped in a mid Indiana K-Mart a year back and it was clean and very well stocked. I was shocked but found out the nearest similar store was nearly an hour away so it made sense that they'd do good business.
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I found out Gonzales in Louisiana (just outside Baton Rouge) had a KMart a couple of years back, and it was just a 10 minute drive further along from my friend's house so I stopped by. It still had the feel of when I first encountered these huge American stores when I first visited the US as a 10yo back in the early 90s. There was no electronics section, no video games. The toy aisle was surprisingly up to date, and I remember snagging some legend class or other for cheap. But it had this weird air of both still being very much in business, yet slowly dying at the same time. The staff were directing people to the Walmart up the street for certain items.
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Spiderdrake posted:So when Target was planning to come up here there was a chorus of excitement at the idea of Canadians getting Target. As an American I only know about Zellers from those animated Batman ads they did back in the 80s for their toy department
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The_Doctor posted:Opened MMC Turben/Whirl and he's really good! A large voyager size, nicely articulated. Close enough to IDW to scratch that itch. Altmode is a bit messy, and transformation is simple enough, although those loooooooong folding back spurs are frightening. He's one that's only ever going to be in bot mode, honestly. The spindly things are super scary when you have them all extended but before you tab everything together, at least they fold up completely in robot mode. I really like how expressive the weird claws can be too!
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Rhyno posted:I was holding out hope that it would indeed get a US release. I don't know if it's worth $70 to get a Takara one. It's not. SpazmasterX posted:My thinking is that this is the first honest, first-party attempt at an update of a figure that hasn't really had another version in over 20 years. So why not? It certainly doesn't look like a bad toy either. Because it is a bad toy. Trailer mode is fine for what it is, but robot mode isn't much better than the G1 toy, and the arms...I don't even care about hollow bits much but Godbomber's robot arms are not only separate pieces that fall off if you look at them wrong but they barely even have what qualify as three sides to them, let alone four. As armor for Prime he kind of holds together okay mostly, but the foot pieces are completely inadequate and the figure falls over backward purely because there's nothing bracing the Godbomber piece against the Prime foot. There's a Perfect Effect set on the way to fix that but overall Godbomber was not worth the money, IMO, even speaking as a huge God Ginrai mark. After getting my hands on it I am not remotely surprised Hasbro isn't bringing it here. It's not even halfway up to their standards of recent years.
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Godbomber kinda sucks but if you poo poo on God Ginrai \ Powermaster Prime, I will literally fight you, as in fisticuffs
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Oh no a gnome might swear in public while I hold him back with my palm on his forehead. The Iron Factory POMP has lived on my desk since I got him. He's real good.
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Spiderdrake posted:Oh no a gnome might swear in public while I hold him back with my palm on his forehead. Well I'm a feisty little gnome, I can nibble your nards
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Are there pictures of that PE kit? e: which reminds me PE are making a TM2 Megatron to go with their Beast Gorira.
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Blackheart posted:Are there pictures of that PE kit? http://www.thechosenprime.com/PerfectEffectPC18
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Oh. Still looks a bit weird though.
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Yeah it doesn't quite all come together right. It's a nice version of God Ginrai, and I do like the colors on the Legends version better than the US release, but Godbomber is not worth the import cost, I don't think. That PE set is pretty much mandatory if you want him to be able to stand properly. The sword Godbomber comes with is also complete garbage, so that's a necessary upgrade, too.
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New Thew! It's Megantron!
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I... I'm not angry at the bathhouse fetish comic pin-up with the lady combiner set, Takara... I'm... I'm just disappointed.
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Gaz-L posted:I... I'm not angry at the bathhouse fetish comic pin-up with the lady combiner set, Takara... I'm... I'm just disappointed. At least it isn't KISS Players again.
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I wouldn't pick Thew out for Steven Universe fan, but I appreciate his remix of Giant Woman.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:New Thew!
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I wouldn't pick Thew out for Steven Universe fan, but I appreciate his remix of Giant Woman. He pulled an awesome SU reference back in his Towline video (from about the 2 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kvU7v6Ocq4
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I know the base mold isn't a stellar figure but I needed practice on something disposable and I'm glad how this turned out: Picture isn't very good and it looks better in hand, I swear. Really want to try something when if I get my hands on Nitro.
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Nice! What types/brands of paint and sealer did you go with?
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I used some cheapo Humbrol acrylics, mostly gunmetal and the other details are blue or black mixed with it too. I disassembled the head to paint the eyes piece (I guess the fig was meant to have lightpiping but it doesn't really work anyway) but man is red acrylic a bitch to apply. It's good that you mention sealing because I've not applied anything to cover the paint and I'd like to know what products to use and if I can brush them or just buy a spray can. I've got a spray I used to seal graphite drawings (it was basically the same as hair spray), not sure if that'll do.
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Blackheart posted:I used some cheapo Humbrol acrylics, mostly gunmetal and the other details are blue or black mixed with it too. I disassembled the head to paint the eyes piece (I guess the fig was meant to have lightpiping but it doesn't really work anyway) but man is red acrylic a bitch to apply. Brushing is fine. I suggest you get Vallejo paints if you're going to do more. They feel a bit more expensive than the Humbrols, but the pigment density means once you've diluted what you're going to use, it'll last longer anyway. The humbrol and vallejo seal/coats are fine. Other strong options are the Tamiyo spray clear coat, or I can recommend checking out acrylic floor waxes. Easy to brush on, usually no need to dilute, work just as well and are real cheap. I don't know what brands are available near you, so do some googling to find something recommended.
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Thank you very much, that's exactly the info I need. I'll see about the acrylic floor wax since it's also so useful for joint and pin tightening. e: btw I did find a hobby store that sells Gundam markers recently, are they good? Blackheart fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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Blackheart posted:Thank you very much, that's exactly the info I need. I'll see about the acrylic floor wax since it's also so useful for joint and pin tightening. Not familiar I'm afraid, so couldn't tell you.
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Blackheart posted:Thank you very much, that's exactly the info I need. I'll see about the acrylic floor wax since it's also so useful for joint and pin tightening. I like them for touch up work on my models.
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Blackheart posted:but man is red acrylic a bitch to apply.
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