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by Clay
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:17 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Replies: 207
Views: 3331370

Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management

Worth a watch for ex-employee perspectives on Hasbro's second round of mass layoffs. Like clockwork: https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/news/dungeons-and-dragons-ai-generation-chris-cocks-comments-dice-summit Transformers and Peppa Pig are mentioned. Apparently for D&D th...
by Clay
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:03 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Replies: 7408
Views: 3650113

Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!

Overall, the new Lio Convoy's sculpting is really good, and it's a better and more durable figure overall... It's got few, if any, gaps in it like the previous figure (excluding the underbelly). A year later and I'm playing around with this figure again and discover that his robot head can, in fact...
by Clay
Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:47 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Replies: 207
Views: 3331370

Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management

Really emphasises that the best days of TFs (as a brand capable of doing big fun things like this and some of the Unicron Trilogy releases) are mostly behind it, doesn't it? It's a bit of an ouroboros in some ways, but I think we're also blind to new content. The current show (Earthrise?) has its o...
by Clay
Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Replies: 207
Views: 3331370

Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management

But I do think they are all equally applicable to this year's Magmatron as well, and I'm curious what it is about this one that brings you down on the opposite side of the argument, so to speak. Hmm... good point. New Magmatron is considerably larger than the old one, and more importantly has a mea...
by Clay
Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:49 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Replies: 207
Views: 3331370

Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management

Most relevant thread for this, I suppose. What do we reckon about Haslab RID2001 Prime and Magnus ? Seems close enough to the original that a reissue (w/o the issues of the Encore version) would be more appropriate. I guess Bluebolts is neat? The number of backers this has after a week is crazy for ...
by Clay
Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:14 pm
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Replies: 7408
Views: 3650113

Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!

After seeing the Nemesis move from in stock back to preorder on BBTS, I went ahead and had the one I'd ordered shipped. I had intended to wait as long as possible for it to go clearance, but if they're refilling stock at MSRP even when taking preorders for Tidal Wave, that may not reliably happen. S...
by Clay
Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: What was your best set of figures of the year?
Replies: 20
Views: 220612

Re: What was your best set of figures of the year?

Binalts were fun as a fad, but I'm not sure licensed vehicles are worth the restrictions, mark up or additional size to do them justice. Funnily enough, I think they were ahead of their time by exactly the moment they ended in 2007/8. The movie had made everything high-profile again along with all ...
by Clay
Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:29 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: What was your best set of figures of the year?
Replies: 20
Views: 220612

Re: What was your best set of figures of the year?

Please tell me you're going to pull out the card and mark it right in front of the students' faces when they make the excuse, not after they leave the room. Especially if they make the excuse in front of the whole class. Can't say that I won't do that, but it'll depend on the situation/student. For...
by Clay
Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:03 pm
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: What was your best set of figures of the year?
Replies: 20
Views: 220612

Re: What was your best set of figures of the year?

Deluxes from Siege onwards haven't been too bad, it's just that Voyager and Leader are more likely to mean "more complex and therefore supposedly worth more" now. Not all Voyagers, the Grapple design is lovely with poor QC; shit plastic and tight pegs. Out of all the ones I have, only the...
by Clay
Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:03 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: What was your best set of figures of the year?
Replies: 20
Views: 220612

Re: What was your best set of figures of the year?

I <3 alternate Transmetal Tarantulas. /jealous It'd be funny if the leader Springer is just a repack of the voyager figure with extra parts like Blitzwing had. The rest of the 2023 crop are either genuinely bad (Bombshell, SS Cheetor, the tiny Snarl) or so inoffensive that I actually forgot I owned ...
by Clay
Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:42 pm
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Replies: 207
Views: 3331370

Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management

And rather strong evidence that the company intends to switch a load of art requirements over to AI and pay college grads to clean it up: https://twitter.com/girldrawsghosts/status/1736835665952686502 or https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1736835665952686502.html Was coming here to post screencaps ...
by Clay
Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:00 pm
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
Replies: 441
Views: 855522

Re: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!

eBay example of whatever it was went wrong with the BT Bluestreak paint... I haven't looked at mine in years (and truthfully, never even opened it). Funny how that one has basically redeco'd itself into a variation of the diaclone blue Bluestreak scheme. RE: Siege and on onward, yeah there was a de...
by Clay
Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:14 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Replies: 7408
Views: 3650113

Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!

BBTS have already marked down the Super7 stuff, so I went ahead and grabbed a Bludgeon on a slight discount. Haven't fully experimented with him yet, but initial thought is that, well, he's huge! He's far more substantial than I was expecting. Also, given how the tank turret was included, and given ...
by Clay
Wed Oct 11, 2023 1:59 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Living in interesting times
Replies: 20
Views: 61800

Re: Living in interesting times

I mean, river of shit causing erosion with the slow persistence of water is a good analogy. The particular thing at the moment is the Israel/Hamas war; it's got me ruminating over whether Dedicon is okay. He hasn't posted in... 13 years, but I still have a PM from him saved from when one of my trans...
by Clay
Tue Oct 10, 2023 2:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Living in interesting times
Replies: 20
Views: 61800

Re: Living in interesting times

Still in interesting times. :(
by Clay
Mon Sep 25, 2023 2:30 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Replies: 207
Views: 3331370

Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management

Also there seems to be a SG pre-tool of Armada Wheeljack done from the thoroughly over-exposed Sideswipe mould? I'd go for a Wheeljack/Rampage if one shows up. Actually had that set (with SG Rodimus) turn up last week. It's pretty fun: they note in the instructions that you can swing the doors up w...
by Clay
Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:30 pm
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Replies: 207
Views: 3331370

Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management

Well, what do we think about the selection for the new Legacy figures? We've got a broad swath of series represented, and I feel that we in this thread should take full credit for it.
by Clay
Sun Sep 10, 2023 3:26 pm
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Replies: 7408
Views: 3650113

Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!

That chart you posted what what I was thinking of as well, and it seems to agree with my foggy old memories. He lines up about right vs. a Seeker but he looks half a head too short compared to the other early Autobots they've released lately. If they hadn't bumped him up a price point I probably wo...
by Clay
Sat Sep 02, 2023 2:34 am
Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Replies: 207
Views: 3331370

Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management

A bit of a non-sequitur (though we are talking about G2 decos), and maybe not the right thread, but it would seem that Denyer's affinity for robot Tyrannosaurs has reached a certain referential status. Sure, they'll say it's named Denver because that's a city within its geological range, but I think...
by Clay
Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:38 pm
Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
Topic: James Roberts project news
Replies: 6
Views: 23444

Re: James Roberts project news

For the moment. I think everything got delisted from Comixology for new purchases at the turn of the calendar year, with Hasbro not having made any arrangements. Ethical piracy or dead tree would seem to be the extent of the current options. Not quite the scorched earth and radio silence of, say, t...