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Sabrblade wrote:Registered! Primus Package + assemble custom class figure.
This toy is just "Ginrai". The old "Fire Guts" toy deco is being used as his standard form deco this time. While he can likely still power up for his attacks, he'll be an orange & red bot on fire this time instead of a red & blue one on fire. There is no need to refer to his non-powered form by his attack powered form name this time.
So Option B is out.AUTOBOT KNIGHT GINRAI – He is the gruff, pragmatic and downright paranoid military leader of the Autobots/Maximals. An old-school warrior “Bot of Action”, Ginrai has earned the rank of Knight Commander. A veteran of the old conflicts, he’s not entirely comfortable with the peace, constantly waiting for the “other shoe to drop”.
LOL, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone, too. This is gonna be an awesome BotCon.Diem wrote:This all said I look forward to arguing with you in person! See you there man.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Rated X wrote:Im skipping this year. I didnt like the pasadena vibe back in 2011. Ill attempt to buy a non attendee set but im not gonna kill myself staying glued to a computer screen. If I cant get one, ill just get it on ebay and help some poor scalper pay his monthly electric bill. And I dont see nothing nerdy about the shirt. Its black and has a nice throwback G1 style drawing. Just rock some black sweatpants and a fresh pair of Nikes and that shirt can go anywhere. A shirt doesnt make someone look nerd. Not having swag is what makes someone look nerd.
Technically, he's no more new a character than Devcon. He was in the Marvel G1 comics issue "The Smelting Pool!" and reappeared in the IDW comic mini-series "Last Stand of the Wreckers".Windsweeper wrote:What I like about this set is that how much Ferak looks like my KO oversized white Cyclonus. Always nice when a repaint is an actual new character.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
wait what? the loose sets are sold out? arent those for the non attendees, which can register for another week?ScottyP wrote:Yeah, bagged sets are sold out apparently. Crazy quick!
shajaki wrote:wait what? the loose sets are sold out? arent those for the non attendees, which can register for another week?ScottyP wrote:Yeah, bagged sets are sold out apparently. Crazy quick!
*phew*mooncake623 wrote:No those are extra sets that you can buy and resell. Non-attendees gets a box set too. the bag sets is $100 cheaper.shajaki wrote:wait what? the loose sets are sold out? arent those for the non attendees, which can register for another week?ScottyP wrote:Yeah, bagged sets are sold out apparently. Crazy quick!
shajaki wrote:*phew*mooncake623 wrote:No those are extra sets that you can buy and resell. Non-attendees gets a box set too. the bag sets is $100 cheaper.shajaki wrote:wait what? the loose sets are sold out? arent those for the non attendees, which can register for another week?ScottyP wrote:Yeah, bagged sets are sold out apparently. Crazy quick!
still debating if im going to sign up and buy it from the source, or just get it from ebay.
this is one of those sets i fear wont drop... like the beast wars figures.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And buy from scalpers? No way, my advice is to wait a few years for the prices to drop, or to look for members who are splitting up their sets and selling at cost.shajaki wrote:*phew*mooncake623 wrote:No those are extra sets that you can buy and resell. Non-attendees gets a box set too. the bag sets is $100 cheaper.shajaki wrote:wait what? the loose sets are sold out? arent those for the non attendees, which can register for another week?ScottyP wrote:Yeah, bagged sets are sold out apparently. Crazy quick!
still debating if im going to sign up and buy it from the source, or just get it from ebay.
Va'al wrote:Check out below Devcon, Ferak, Scorponok with Olin Zarak, Fire Guts Ginrai and Cannonball, and of course, the box.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Rated X wrote: Just rock some black sweatpants and a fresh pair of Nikes and that shirt can go anywhere. A shirt doesnt make someone look nerd. Not having swag is what makes someone look nerd.
Diem wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Registered! Primus Package + assemble custom class figure.
This toy is just "Ginrai". The old "Fire Guts" toy deco is being used as his standard form deco this time. While he can likely still power up for his attacks, he'll be an orange & red bot on fire this time instead of a red & blue one on fire. There is no need to refer to his non-powered form by his attack powered form name this time.
Sorry Sabr but I'm calling foul on this. All we know so far is that canon-wise the toy is just called Ginrai, which isn't especially meaningful (unless we're all calling Tracks "Turbo Tracks" nowadays). Until the comic comes out I don't think we can call it; but I see it going one of three ways:
A) This character's origin is unrelated to Masterforce and he has always been orange - sure, he's plain Ginrai
B) This character is Masterforce Ginrai or has an analogous origin, and is now permanently or temporarily orange - then he's bloody Fire Guts Ginrai.
C) This character's origin is unrelated to Masterforce but the orange represents a powered up form - then unless they name him something different he's still bloody Fire Guts Ginrai.
While I appreciate that the letter of the law here is that his name is just Ginrai the spirit of law shows that he is deliberately designed to be intentionally evocative of a specific incarnation of the character Ginrai.
This all said I look forward to arguing with you in person! See you there man.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
MGrotusque wrote:Rated X wrote: Just rock some black sweatpants and a fresh pair of Nikes and that shirt can go anywhere. A shirt doesnt make someone look nerd. Not having swag is what makes someone look nerd.
If you say so dude.
Sabrblade wrote:It's not about the fiction, it's about the integrity of toy publicity.
It's like when people refer toys of Strika and Tankor as "Stryka" and "Tankorr", and consider those the official names.
Journalistic honesty/authenticity and that stuff.
Rated X wrote:MGrotusque wrote:Rated X wrote: Just rock some black sweatpants and a fresh pair of Nikes and that shirt can go anywhere. A shirt doesnt make someone look nerd. Not having swag is what makes someone look nerd.
If you say so dude.
Ive worn transformer shirts to bars and strip clubs and met girls. Its called self confidence. Guess not being a nerd also helps too.
It Is Him wrote:Rated X wrote:MGrotusque wrote:Rated X wrote: Just rock some black sweatpants and a fresh pair of Nikes and that shirt can go anywhere. A shirt doesnt make someone look nerd. Not having swag is what makes someone look nerd.
If you say so dude.
Ive worn transformer shirts to bars and strip clubs and met girls. Its called self confidence. Guess not being a nerd also helps too.
Girls at strip clubs don't care what you look like as long as you give them money. Besides, you're a nerd. You have hundreds of posts on a message board about cartoon robots, and could probably name everyone that was released 1984. Own it. It's cool. I'm a nerd, too, and it's okay. You can do it with whatever swag is, but you are still a nerd and that's not a bad thing.
Preach it, brother!It Is Him wrote:Besides, you're a nerd. You have hundreds of posts on a message board about cartoon robots, and could probably name everyone that was released 1984. Own it. It's cool. I'm a nerd, too, and it's okay. You can do it with whatever swag is, but you are still a nerd and that's not a bad thing.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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