Armada Optimus Prime: I don’t like the art style of it, in that to me it looks more like the design choices a 3P company would make. It’s too anime and angled looking, compared to the boxier neutral design choices HasTak tends to take. But I too am curious to see more and I do want something new.
Dreamwave is a great example.
I did that too. I couldn’t figure out how the cab nose of Armada woulda fit in the armor.
Star Convoy: Meh. Not a huge fan of the mold in general. I have Nemesis already, so its a pass unless it does something hella new.
Ironic moment: I have been saying for a while that if Hasbro wanted to give us Armada rime, they could do a co-tool of Star Convoy and kill 2 birds. Here we are getting two very different toys of the characters at the same time. So close on that call and yet so, so very far from the true.
These are also very very early looking prototypes. It would not surprise me if these go the route of Prime Breakdown or the combining trio dudes but it also wouldn’t surprise me if its just still to early and Hasbro is waiting to announce the imports closer to time.
Crisis on Infinite Primes?
Now you need to do the sceptor with Diac and Ginrai as trophy scalps.
Is this gonna be another case like Cyb Thunderclash???
QuickStrike was more Scorpion than Spider, but maybe we get Scorponok first and then Quickstrike can amalgamize from both of them.
Of the 2, the first Bee is far better overall. The Pennyracer vehicle mode is really cool and I like it, but the head looks too big for the body and its too many folded panels.
Bottom line is that its just serving a different market. Same with the Siege and T30 Springer, or Siege and CW Magnus, we want to pick a
better toy, but the truth is both figures are fantastic but doing two entirely different things, like Green Apples to Red.
I didn’t pre-order the Studio figures, gotta draw a line somewhere. I agree, Drift as a Triplechanger is an afterthought at best, but I liek Helicopterz, especially Futuristic Helicopterz, so I want this.
Maybe I will finally find that mold. (Nitro Zeus)
Even if we do get SS Triplechangers down the road, I suspect it will A) have been a noted enough amount of time, and B ) That Dropkick figure is still really cool and does neat things to turn a fully dimensional robot into a paper thin helicopter.
As someone who has not hit ny of the SS Primes, I think if I had to choose it would be Jetwing Prime for me. As bland as the arsenal trailer is its a more complete figure package to me. Jetfire would be on his own anyway if I had them.
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Ectotron: I am very glad it sold out so quick. 1, that means it will lead to more I think. For me, I couldn’t justify the $50 as someone who is not a huge fan of the Ghostbusters, but I woulda paid the $40, especially since the Shipping was Free, that woulda been $10 there, so basically $30 for an exclusive Voyager is not that bad. Saved me the money though so I dodged that bullet
It was less than that.
I love the use of the G1 Box It’s ironic, the Ghostbuster toy uses a Fire Truck Transformer as its base, given that the Ghost Busters use a Firehouse AS a base.
Make it its own verse. Please, for the love of Primus do not try to shoehorn the comic story into another Universe.
Cybertron Crosswise? The Monster Hunter and the Ghost Buster together?
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I really want Skyfire. I am not sure I can justify pre-ordering though. Too much stuff to order and while that toy is 110% worth the $80, I’m just not sure I will get my money’s worth.
I thought they finally settled once and for all with Harmony Gold on using Skyfire
I disagree, to an extent. T30 Skyfire was a fantastic toy, but its more a Neo-G1 in the style of Classics, not a faithful reproduction of the G1 design.
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I think the clear rocket hand is suppposed to be an alternative to thrust. On the ground its going to be flat flames bursting out, and when it takes off the fingers close into a ribbon of flame.
....Aaaaaand you guys just said that.
I can see the concerns about the clear plastic though.
Supreme is for me my most anticipated Titan in terms of seeing the reveal and now waiting for the release. I want this. I want this a lot. I like the new take on the elevated track, I like the rocket base’s transformation is mostly integrated. I do hate the tank overhangs, the G1 did too, but its more noticeable since the track is elevated.
You guys didn’t see it until after recording but the tank has vacuum cleaner rollers under it between the treads.
I think its all Light Piping.
Did we see Countdown in gun mode? He clearly has a 5mm trigger.
YAY Pokemon!
Do you guys want to see this toy redecoed down the road as Omega Sentinels?
Springer is the Anti-Drift.
2 Short swords that plug into the rotor assembly.
I want this Springer, but as I have so limited space, Do I put this with the Wreckers or not, and I think one of the things I am going to like about this toy is that I am going to leave Generations Springer with the Wreckers on my shelf and that will free this toy up for me to NOT be associated with a big group of toys.
IMpactor: I don’t like it either. I don’t like the head sculpt, even with the in hand image, I don’t like the Tank mode, I don’t think this is a good render of the Marvel. WIll I probably like it when I hold it in the store? Probably. But I am sticking with TFSS Impactor.
So, since I have to defend TFSS Impactor: I think the Club figure is the best head sculpt of the two. And the Club chose a toy that can do the hand spear, so props to them. I do want a new mold for Impactor and not just a Rook repaint but the Siege mold is not an improvement
Since you mentioned him: Mirage is my favorite of the 84 cars in Siege. The alt mode is blocky in places, but the whole presentation, the robot mode, the shoulder cannon, my favorite of the Cars hands down. I can’t wait to get that.
I can’t get behind the Con Voyagers. Megatron is a cool toy, but such a letdown compared to Prime. Soundwave is meh. Soundblaster is only cool because its off the wall
I may get the Tetras since they are Voyagers and reasonable, but I still can’t rank these above having all 6 of the Seekers in the Classics mold (plus Acid Storm... soon, and the Ramjet mold Botcon Dirge as random fodder Seeker)
Isn’t Siege a Quarterly line? And it didn’t even start to trickle until after Christmas? SO Wave 2 shouldn’t be hitting until March/April.
I thought we originally were supposed to get G2 Megatron as the TR figure? I think I woulda liked this deco on that toy. On this? Hard Pass. It’s not a good deco for that particular mold layout.
I am probably only getting the 1 Scraplet figure. If they were tiny rubber figurines I would have a swarm of them (and do, someone made a Shapeways version that was C Joint compatible)
Is it a reworking or just another take of the same source material? If we didn’t have the TR figure I would be all over them but I am happy with what I have.
Of the 35th, I only want Bluestreak, but is Bluestreak worth being a subline figure and potentially exclusive?
Beast Wars Pokemon Characters
I have not decombined my Predaking since I got mine.
Anecdote:
One of my other hobbies is Model Trains, and we have a Toy-Fair like show in Milwaukee every year. Except, year before (2017), one of the major factories in China that about a dozen different Train Manufacturers contracted with just up and shut, so we had almost no new product because thewere was no place to make it.
You mentioned nothing really “new” at Toy Fair, but I feel like we hadn’t seen Omega in all his glory. And even though Takara got Jetfire out first, this was stilll inside of what, a week, since we saw the renders? This was our first real chance to walk around the toy and study it, since no one was at Wonderfest to do so and engage the designers like we can with John Warden. You want a dry show, the last TrainFest show in 2018 was the first show since the manufacturers were able get the last stuff made from the closed Factory stateside and start setting up new contracts with new factories. Many of the physical reveals were stuff that we had either heard about a YEAR ago and had been delayed by factory closing, or had already been announced in a “Hey don’t forget about us we aren’t dead yet this is going to be the first product we make as soon as we can make product so buy lots of them! Pleease?” Kinda way. And frankly most of it was lackluster stuff in the smaller 1:87 (HO) and 1:160 scales (N) Just another perspective, but for me, even though we didn’t have anything really “revealed”, the Toy Fair highlights were still fresh and new. Just another perspective.
Thanks for the show guys!
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:ScottyP wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Question regarding comics: do we have any word on a Volume 5 for Lost Light? I'm waiting until it and Unicron are in to binge grab the remaining 4 TPBs I need, along with the Redemption of the Dinobots trade since I never got Salvation.
Lost Light volume 4 is a seven issue trade collecting 19-25 so no volume 5 to worry about. OP went five volumes because it had two annuals in there, and the First Strike tie-in.
Oh perfect! So all I gotta do with wait on Unicron, nice.
Counterpunch wrote:Crosswise was a ghist/monster hunter in the Cybertron show.
Ah, I do remember that from somewhere
Look in my Signature,,,