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The_Doctor posted:Huh, see that sounds like a great and workable system. A big sandbox play area to drive around in, hide in, etc. You could scan different vehicles to give your character a new altmode as needed (e,g mission requires something off-road, or you need a new disguise). That's what it's like yeah! You can name and customize your transformer, scan different cars, trucks, and helicopters, choose their colors and stuff. Some missions require different alt modes. Like some require flight so you gotta scan a copter. It's pretty cool! Sadly the combat is pretty mediocre. But the customization and stuff is really cool.
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That DS game was great, but Fall of Cybertron can't be beat. Vehicle mode is for hauling rear end. In unrelated news, here's Earthrise Arcee: 
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Jul 9, 2020 21:44
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Jul 9, 2020 21:47
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:In unrelated news, here's Earthrise Arcee: I am so sick of female transformers just being shellformers carrying around their entire alt mod on their back. Just let them be regular robos PLEASE. The best ladybots are Titans Return Arcee and Nautica because they're both just repaints/slight retools of TR Blur, meaning they actually looked like transformers and weren't just overtly sexualized robots with giant backpacks of car kibble.
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Jul 9, 2020 21:50
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Jul 9, 2020 22:03
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Prime Airachnid had good ideas iirc but was just too small to pull them off. Anybody getting a Studio Cell Unicron?
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I got my first Siege tf today, Sideswipe for just a tenner (or sidesweep according to the tag at Home Bargains). But if they got in that Arcee for £10 I really don't think I could got for that...
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Jul 9, 2020 22:08
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At that point, what's even the use of making them a transformer? Just make them a full action figure with a car shell you can drape over them. It's the same drat effect.
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Jul 9, 2020 22:15
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TheDK posted:Prime Arcee was really good Oh yeah the FE was dope Tough to make a bike a shellformer though e: CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:That DS game was great, but Fall of Cybertron can't be beat. Vehicle mode is for hauling rear end. My favorite altmode integration bit in the WFC/FOC games was the Aerialbot space level, specifically the part just before you bust your way inside Trypticon Station. Wide open arena, hardly any terrain, so you're boosting around in jet mode and transforming to break out your heavier weaponry or a melee attack It was basically five minutes of Macross Phy fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Jul 9, 2020 |
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Jul 9, 2020 23:11
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:That DS game was great, but Fall of Cybertron can't be beat. Vehicle mode is for hauling rear end. It looks like someone broke her legs to stuff her in a suitcase
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banned from Starbucks posted:It looks like someone broke her legs to stuff her in a suitcase Ah, the action figure line of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is finally coming
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Jamie Faith posted:I am so sick of female transformers just being shellformers carrying around their entire alt mod on their back. Just let them be regular robos PLEASE. The best ladybots are Titans Return Arcee and Nautica because they're both just repaints/slight retools of TR Blur, meaning they actually looked like transformers and weren't just overtly sexualized robots with giant backpacks of car kibble.
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Ripclaw from Prime had a couple of neat gimmicks to her TF as well. But man, at least Generations Arcee used her thighs and chest as part of the car mode.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:In unrelated news, here's Earthrise Arcee:  The one good bit I've seen is that it actually doesn't have to partsform, you can just leave the back half of the car attached and fold it up. The backpack is ridiculous, but I think it looks better than the "hoverboard" or whatever the back part of the car is supposed to be when she's standing on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTwPUhuCgVA&t=330s
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Jul 10, 2020 03:26
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Captain Magic posted:Prime Airachnid had good ideas iirc but was just too small to pull them off. It's on the way but I opted for the slow shipping. Who knows when it will arrive.
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Knormal posted:The one good bit I've seen is that it actually doesn't have to partsform, you can just leave the back half of the car attached and fold it up. The backpack is ridiculous, but I think it looks better than the "hoverboard" or whatever the back part of the car is supposed to be when she's standing on it. "I do indeed fink I sound like SEO metatext." But he's always first or nearly so. He's gotta step up his catchphrase game if he wants to overtake Emgo, though. Light partsforming doesn't bother me though, seriously. If it all stores in vehicle mode, that's a different story than, say, extra combiner kibble. Might be able to use the hoverboard as a shield?
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Anora posted:Ripclaw from Prime had a couple of neat gimmicks to her TF as well. But man, at least Generations Arcee used her thighs and chest as part of the car mode. Oh yeah Ripclaw! I even got the repaint Bakudura (sp?) which looks great.
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Jul 10, 2020 06:38
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I really love Ripclaw's description as a dim decepticon mom who just wants to look after her teammates. It's a shame all the female villians in previous TF series were femme fatales, at least Cyberverse and from what I understand, the new IDW TF comics are moving away from that too.
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Anora posted:I really love Ripclaw's description as a dim decepticon mom who just wants to look after her teammates. It's a shame all the female villians in previous TF series were femme fatales, at least Cyberverse and from what I understand, the new IDW TF comics are moving away from that too. A pity Strika never got a toy, who was essentially like female Onslaught in Animated.
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Jul 10, 2020 12:09
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Got my TCP box the other day but been too busy to get to it. First out is Zeta Fort Max and he may be a bit dated but he's true to the original and will look great with the WJ headmasters.
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Dawgstar posted:A pity Strika never got a toy, who was essentially like female Onslaught in Animated. I want a Bonnie and Clyde team of Strika and Rampage from Beast Wars
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Reviews of the KOMP-44 are coming out and, well, it shows the KO’s knees have been fixed from the original, tabs together better, and it’s missing the gloss paint finish (possibly why the tabs are improved).
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Jul 10, 2020 16:23
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How much is he going for?
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Jul 10, 2020 16:25
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You know you've hosed up when the knockoff of your toy is better quality.
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My legit MP10 is probably the worst QC’d/general quality toy I own out of all the primes I have that knocked off that mould, this isn’t a new problem. Edit: VVV ehhhhhh unless he’s pretty loving perfect that’s not low enough to hook me. I have enough primes, it would just be to play around with the new mould more than anything else. Happy for anyone taking the plunge though because lol at $400+ History Comes Inside! fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jul 10, 2020 |
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History Comes Inside! posted:How much is he going for? I got mine from Baba's eBay store for $90 USD. No trailer, roller, or Diaclone Carly/Spike/Sparkplug, just the main figure and weapons and I think the different heads.
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Jul 10, 2020 17:14
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The spoils. Pictured from my sadness closet since my photo area has been packed away.
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Dawgstar posted:A pity Strika never got a toy, who was essentially like female Onslaught in Animated. She did get a toy. This is her toy.  Which there's a lot of ideas I like in there, although the way it all gets put together is a hot mess. You can do a lot of interesting engineering when you're willing to make sacrifices on the robot mode for the vehicular mode, and there's lots you can do if you're not anchored to a real-world vehicle (the most interesting real-world vehicles tend to be unique one-offs anyways, and there's tons of toys of weird sci-fi vehicles out there), but when you're not anchored to anything with either robot or alt-mode, it's real easy to lose something in the mix. And vehicons, with their cybertronian vehicle modes and deliberately more alien and inhuman robot modes live in that territory, so there's a lot of room for error. Obsidian was perfect, although no thanks to the showmakers who from the look of pictures apparently wanted to make him into more of a mermaid.
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I should put up some pics of Azalea tonight to contrast with the Earthrise mold. She's broadly doing the same thing, but at the same time, better. Like, yes, she still shellforms a bunch which I think is kind of unavoidable if you're going for the Floro Dery woman-wearing-backpack design. Which also leads to the whole unfortunate woman-folded-up-under-a-car look. (That's not limited to ladybots, per this shot of SS Lockdown but it is more common for them, due to woman-with-backpack syndrome.) The difference is, Azalea's practically a mass shifter given the way her legs fold up. She goes from a car mode the size of a mainline deluxe to a robot mode a head taller than MP Tracks or Bluestreak. Forget Galvatron, she oughta be canonically related to Lockdown.
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Azalea has a few moments that are a pain in the rear end in her transformation but I’m always impressed with how sturdy she is to pose, and I like her in both modes.
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Dawgstar posted:A pity Strika never got a toy, who was essentially like female Onslaught in Animated. God I would have loved S4 of Animated. I think that was my favorite of all the TF series by the end of it.
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DX9 Deadend is more fun to transform than FT Wildrider and a whole lot less stressful. Sadly he does not feel worth the $100 price tag.
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SlothfulCobra posted:She did get a toy. This is her toy. There's a reason I was talking again about my idea regarding Vehicons being Cybertronians who are natively in vehicle mode with the robot mode as their alt-mode* when Blastcharge got brought up a couple pages ago, it's a really intriguing concept *and yes this means that there's Monoformers out there who are a car rather than a humanoid robot(I'd probably have Roller be one of these)
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Captain Magic posted:Prime Airachnid had good ideas iirc but was just too small to pull them off. Not for the amount they're charging at that size. Just doesn't fit anywhere. It's bizarre that they didn't at least make him as big as their combiners. I guess he'd work okay for a Legends class collection? I dunno. Every video I've seen of the transformation makes it look infuriating.
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drrockso20 posted:*and yes this means that there's Monoformers out there who are a car rather than a humanoid robot(I'd probably have Roller be one of these)  Just... Just pretend you're a monoformer...
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Spiderdrake posted:After watching the recent toy galaxy on turbo-teen, I want robots who are actively unhappy to not be in vehicle mode too That's basically the idea, for many Vehicons they only use their Robot modes for interacting with other tribes of Cybertronian and otherwise stay in vehicle mode full time
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Some new Studio Series listings with some new '86 movie figures:quote:TRA GEN SS JOLT $18.84
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Studio Series Blurr!??!? I am here for that.
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STUDIO SERIES GNAW
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Spiderdrake posted:After watching the recent toy galaxy on turbo-teen, I want robots who are actively unhappy to not be in vehicle mode too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI7596AdA3o
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