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Are there any cool non-Masterpiece Transformers to buy right now? I bought Armada Starscream and the Silver Knight Optimus/Generations Grimlock 2-pack last week and I want more Transformers now because these few are pretty great, but everything else I look at in stores kinda looks like rear end. I wish the AoE Grimlocks were half-decent. G1 Grimlock is the only transformer from my childhood that I still have, as best as I can tell, and has traveled with me from my parents house to every place I've lived in my adult life and I got all excited for new loving dinobots and they all kinda look lovely in one way or the other. Animated Grimlock looks really cool but I totally missed the boat on that one and they run like $40+ now which sucks but uh Yeah, cool Transformers right now? Gonna try to find a Skywarp, I think.
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Jul 11, 2014 21:29
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The Taint Reaper posted:If this means movie lines will decrease I really don't have that much of an issue. I've yet to see Rattrap or Tankor. The Grimlock/Optimus 2pack was on sale at a Target while on was on vacation for $20 + a $5 Target gift card. Optimus is meh but a nice bonus on top of a pretty decent Grimlock. Shame his shoulders are assholes.
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Jul 17, 2014 16:53
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The chest opening to show the Spark/Matrix of Leadership is pretty cool. Have any other Primes done that?
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Jul 23, 2014 16:15
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Wanted a new Transformer this weekend, drove around for a long time going to different stores looking for (?) (I seriously don't know what I was expecting to find I have all the cool ones right now) and I ended up buying Evasion Optimus. It's pretty cool. Is there a trick to getting the arms to fold up right when going from robot to truck? It seems like I'm always bending plastic bits out of the way to get them to fold in right when they should just slot in real nicely.
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Aug 11, 2014 20:27
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Whirls legs tab into his body as his arms. That may be your problem there.
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Aug 12, 2014 05:22
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Pittsburgh seems like it gets toys way late. Between Transformers and Lego I'm always behind the curve.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:25
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Thew's review finally sold me on Springer. All the photos I'd seen of him had the drat gun attached to the alt modes and it ruined the whole thing for me. Seeing him without the weapons completely changed my mind. Also order DotM Megatron off Amazon. Woo.
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Aug 13, 2014 04:46
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If the actual retail ones looked like that I'd actually buy them.
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Aug 13, 2014 16:33
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Generations Springer and DoTM Megatron came in the mail today  Springer just doesn't seem to want to piece together into his car mode at all. All the tabs and slots are there and are just a hair off of actually fitting into place. Or if you get one in, suddenly the other all pop out. Really quite annoying. DoTM Megatron is... uhhh... it feels like I got a chinese knockoff or something. All of his important joints are super loving loose so he's really hard to balance, but then the erroneous joints like his grill and his shoulder... uh, grills, are stiff as hell. And putting him into vehicle mode is weird as gently caress because there's so many chinsey little bits. Is this what all the movie toys are like? Evasion Prime is a solid loving rock in both modes and then one movie back and this dude just feels super cheap. On the bright side, he holds Evasion Prime's gun and looks badass doing it, so there's that. Now I guess I wait for new bots to come out 
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Aug 15, 2014 04:43
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I'm sure this has been asked before but why does that cover say "Are all dead." It's otherwise pretty great, but shouldn't it be "All are dead." or even "Are all dead?" MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE THE TRANSFORMERS ARE ALL DEAD
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Aug 18, 2014 15:41
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Ka0 posted:I got a lot of green Is that a voyager Crosshairs  it's gorgeous!
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Aug 21, 2014 15:03
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Aug 21, 2014 17:12
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So wait, does the Crosshairs deluxe not actually look that lovely??
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Aug 21, 2014 18:33
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Blackheart posted:It's the same mold that Kao posted! YMMV if you like him or not (I do) .... Jesus christ, Hasbro. That's not how you loving sell toys.
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Aug 21, 2014 19:00
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Is there any way to get a masterpiece Grimlock for under $100? I just got back into transformers last month and seeing that there was a reissue only months ago is killing me and my pile of Grimlocks feels like it needs him.
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Aug 23, 2014 05:30
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Bought a used Binaltech Grimlock on eBay, and it arrived like 75% into robot mode. Finally got it transformed into car mode and uh, well, uh, I guess I have a scale model of a Mustang now, because there's no loving way I'm transforming that monster again.
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Aug 26, 2014 05:38
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I honestly spent two goddamned hours figuring out that you needed to twist his waist and his pelvis around, and then probably another hour figuring out how to do the doors/front wheels Which, for the record, I'm not sure how I got to work. Thing is absolutely insane.
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Aug 26, 2014 05:50
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DoTM Megatron is a bastard to transform, but I think that's just because my particular one is put together like poo poo. Some things are stiff as a board and then some joints (like his loving hips) are loosey goosey and just fall all over the place. And that Generations Springer doesn't loving tab together right infuriates me because it's so drat close.
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Aug 26, 2014 19:45
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Speaking of, is there some shop somewhere on the internet I can buy 3d printed repros of G1 accessories?
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Aug 27, 2014 05:09
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Today I bought AOE Drift instead of saving my money for a hypothetical much cooler thing and now I am sad. I bought leader Grimlock because my masterpiece Grimlock was supposed to arrive today and didn't and I wanted to play with a new dinosaur and I'm super disappointed.
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Aug 28, 2014 05:41
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I'm fine with the chrome, and a lot of other bits. I'm bothered by 1. Those goofy hip/shoulder joints that you can't pose 2. No review mentioned this and I didn't notice it until I transformed him but yes kinda like... Flat? He should have a nice round body but instead it looks all smooshed in the y direction and then stretched in the z direction. Still, I needed a movie Grimlock to go with the rest, I guess. Are the platinum BBTS dinobots still happening or did that become the G1 SDCC dinobots? I've been holding off on buying the dinobots because I figured I'd get those but I can't seem to find anything other than the original posts on them.
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Aug 28, 2014 06:03
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TheDK posted:
See, I feel exactly the opposite. I love Blitzwing, dumb shoulder issues and all, and his modes are great (except for jerking off the barrel to fire the tank missile. That's dumb) But Springers alt modes piss me off to no end because nothing quite lines up right. Be it the doors in car mode or the back flap thing in heli mode or whatever. And the dang gaps in between the fenders and the hood or the goofy setup his arms do in heli mode. But Springer's bot mode is badass as hell and Blitzwing is kinda eh as a bot. For what it's worth I have no nose cone issues, but the shoulders are unfortunate. I'd probably have gotten Doubledealer instead, if I'd known he existed. And I can't justify two of them.
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Aug 31, 2014 16:29
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Here are some words about Blitzwing:
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My Armada Starscream is probably my favorite transformer, if only because of his quick transformation, so I'm stoked as hell to pick up a Jhiaxus.
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Sep 1, 2014 17:09
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During my weekend away in central New York I found a Tankor. Woo? Also Slash, a dinobot I did not know existed.
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Sep 2, 2014 00:13
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Tankor kinda sucks.
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Sep 2, 2014 04:17
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Does Masterpiece grimlock have loosey-goosey hip joints or is it just mine? That's probably my biggest peeve with transformers is loose joints. How am I supposed to pose a dude if he's always falling over?
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Sep 2, 2014 16:04
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catch22 posted:I don't recall that being an issue with the first release, but a few people have mentioned it with the new one. Yeah I've got the MP-03 TRU release that doesn't come with the apron/serving tray/sweet-fuckin-bowtie.
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Sep 2, 2014 16:27
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Am I alone in thinking that cybertronian vehicles are dumb?
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Sep 2, 2014 21:01
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There were cybertronian modes in the 80s? Christ.
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Sep 2, 2014 23:08
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I always just assumed they were stylized for animation. I didn't realize the toys were that poo poo as well. Goddamn.
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Sep 2, 2014 23:34
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Why cookie Rocket posted:You're so silly though, what about awesome Cybertronian alt modes like Cyclonus? The ones that still look like real things are cool. like Cyclonus or (I guess) Springer But stuff like CYBERTRONIAN TRUCK  Are not, and constantly seeing poo poo like that on shelves is what made me not want to buy transformers for a long time.
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Sep 3, 2014 05:15
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I should stop buying deluxe figures. The only ones I've been happy with recently have been Statscream, skywarp, and crosshairs. Wasting a lot of money on these loving dinobots.
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Sep 3, 2014 06:38
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You know what, another rework of the Springer/Sandstorm mold would be totally cool by me. These bots are just the raddest, even if the vehicle modes don't quite fit together right 
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Sep 4, 2014 15:55
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DoctorWhat posted:ARE YOU JUST IGNORING MY POSTS? Mine still don't, even doing the wheel covers last. The windows just refuse to tab into the windshield.
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Sep 4, 2014 16:06
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Blackheart posted:There can be small variances in each copy of a toy, you know. Some people's individual copies sometimes are looser/tighter or peg together/don't peg at all. I seem to have extremely good luck in this regard, overall. Either that or I don't seem to have common TF fandom problem of having axe hands. The one shoulder on my Sandstorm is too weak to hold up the blaster so I can't have him dual wield his blaster and Springers 
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Sep 4, 2014 17:34
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My classics Grimlock finally came in the mail today (like a loving month late) and my collection of every worthwhile Grimlock (plus classics and movie) was complete! Or so I thought  What the hell is this baby G1 Grimlock and how do I purchase it?
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Sep 13, 2014 08:23
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Lepecard posted:You should try and find an Alternators Grimlock! I believe I said I had every Grimlock worth having  not pictured: Leader Grimlock because he's off hanging out with the other movie Dinobots If I can find a WST Grimlock for less than like, $30 I'll buy it. I'm also still half-on the hunt for a G2 Grimlock just because.
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Sep 14, 2014 05:02
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Lepecard posted:Nice collection but what's in that jar?? A dead cactus  Anora posted:And when did Grimlock become a Star Sapphire? Hey man, I'm allowed to have other cool toys on my cool-toys-fireplace-mantle  Blackheart posted:What, no RID Grimlock? 
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Sep 14, 2014 17:01
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I should really temper my expectations after all the other movie Dinobots, but man, Snarl looks real fuckin' neat.
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I didn't buy Cybertronian truck Grimlock, why would I buy a dumb steam shovel?  E: though I suppose I still need beast wars Grimlock.
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