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I think that's where the emphasis has shifted to. Instead of each figure being it's own intricate puzzle that has to be engaged/manipulated with in a deliberate way (lest you absentmindedly break something delicate), we've now got this design ethos focused on things that are nicely poseable yet can...

The original design by Dave Johnson apparently has enough of a torso to fit vital organs, although there's other non-Euclidean things going on with it.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/jessica-drew ... der-woman/

Yeah, it's hard to see how a "Leader" Springer will be anything but an over-complicated and possibly slightly oversized Voyager. And all of the predictions online seem to be negative. I'd have counted Needlenose if I'd got him in 2023. It's still a nice figure (actually Crankcase isn't awf...

Glad the repaints are giving someone enjoyment... if they'd done blue Grimlock and G2 stickers/accessories Jazz I think I'd have gone for them. Particularly if they'd reworked the car doors for positioning as wings. Leo Prime they really needed to do something with the front lion shoulders, and it s...

How hot does the water need to be, anyway? I've seen a lot of people re: customising MOTU figures say not actually boiling, just hot, but personally I just boil it, pour some into an insulated mug and give the plastic a minute or two in that. Hasn't damaged other Super7 figures, but the sculpting o...

Related content - James Eatock just added a voice recording session for Transport to Oblivion Part 1 with accompanying visuals. Worth checking out his cerealgeek channel for lots of other 80s stuff too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMxn9MrSV94

Cool, might keep a lookout for that one. Legacy Lio Convoy and I don't know whether it's my point of comparison being the RobotMasters one and low expectations but I actually like the dour-faced unposeable brick and don't immediately want to paint pupils on, although will photoshop them to fully bla...

My guess is we're already there with some of the systems already commercially available and some already work around common glitches like hands, etc, so to be honest I wouldn't expect that much need for retouching. Hasbro do have big enough owned collections of art that I suspect they could train on...

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/sta ... 5952686502 or https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1736 ... 86502.html

I think it'd be parentorguardianf*cker.

That's quite a neat retro sci-fi design on the Nightshade alt mode, and the robot mode is giving IDW vibes... is it possible to have the wings point down out of the way or take them off?

Nice clip of Peter Cullen receiving a lifetime achievement award, with TF-related anecdote:

https://twitter.com/AlfonsoNation/statu ... 9746458633

Worth a watch for ex-employee perspectives on Hasbro's second round of mass layoffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyV9gzgcbEQ

Real or Waco / tech-bro end of the scale? He's certainly got a lite version of the Steve Jobs field, but with most of the site's income gone and heavy users being classed as people who visit roughly once a day and share a few tweets, etc, most estimates seem to put the net attrition at upwards of a ...

Wheeljack will presumably still get shoehorned into a Legacy type release, it'll just be annoying if it's part of a bundle. As you say, bigger Spychangers or G1.5 ciphers are there if they can get over the obsession with pre-TF colour variants. I think some of the Siege deficits may genuinely have b...

I think you're right, unfortunately, Hasbro have gotten more scummy in their business practices as global inflation bites. RE: SS -- mmm, apparently not. https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/10wgblg/siege_sideswipe_vs_kingdom_sideswipe/ That would've been a paper cut issue at the time and ...

Oh yeah, Earthrise directly after Siege will have been when people who were less on the fence already really started avoided buying stuff when it first came out, and on top of that inflation and inability to find the sweet spot between "yet another version of a pre-movie character" and &qu...

McFarlane Toys Signs Multi-Brand Licensing Agreement with Hasbro https://toynewsi.com/news.php?itemid=50888 McFarlane Toys has announced an exciting, multi-brand licensing agreement with leading toy and game company Hasbro, adding TRANSFORMERS, POWER RANGERS, G.I. JOE and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS to t...

Joes Classified B.A. (heavy artillery Roadblock). Not an original idea, but I like it.


https://i.imgur.com/BThDSIZ.jpeg

Got a couple of Battle Across Time two pack Sideswipes with a view to doing one in Action Master colours, and dug Siege Sideswipe out of the Dinobot Hunt group he was in on the back of a shelf. And it's a lot better than I remember after watching BAT 2pk auctions for a few months, the more futuristi...

Ta, can't spot one (they seem to be focusing on Batman for now because there's a shortage of figures of him, apparently) but it's definitely a job for a figure base and sod the alt-mode. The story's heavy on anachronisms and visual-only design work so may as well lean into the pretender shell, plus ...