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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
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Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Doesn't the official figure have electronics? These have KO retail packaging created for them too, plus they're everywhere. This isn't just a few dumpsters of overstock or fails, it seems likely a mould has been kept... how much of that is down to someone's special interest and how much just opportu...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone else thoroughly enjoying the Twitter dumpster fire?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 110121
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Anyone have instructions for Poseidon Cyberjaw/Bigbite?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 55
Re: Anyone have instructions for Poseidon Cyberjaw/Bigbite?
Sorry, didn't keep anything from Big Bite... can't find good photo reviews, but muted video reviews are probably as good as anything. IIRC there are some fragile extremities on him but apart from that the transformation (and they're sort of the same design) isn't bad for 3P. Bit sharp but that's par...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
hxxps://uk.hasbropulse.com/products/transformers-collaborative-g-i-joe-x-transformers-soundwave-dreadnok-thunder-machine-zartan-zarana edit: Not sure why the forum doesn't seem to like the above link... getting a 403 error when trying to include it. It ties the colour scheme together and obviously C...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80s UK comics Ghostbusters, Thundercats, MOTU, etc
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80s UK comics Ghostbusters, Thundercats, MOTU, etc
Unlike Transformers -- which as Wikipedia points out was one of its star books -- most of Marvel UK's original toy lines tie-in material hasn't been reprinted. Some of it was a testing ground for creators who've gone on to be genre mainstays, like Dan Abnett. There's quite a decent overview at https...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Got one of these very cheap on AE. It's a black KO of Iron Factory's Primal Commander small Optimal Optimus, with the colours close to the Throne of the Primes deco which is more like original Primal. The KO is labelled Captain Gorilla and other than the box getting a bit squashed it turned up in go...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
I try to avoid signing up to sites but sometimes it's advisable to have more tracking or guest checkout turns out to be a bait and switch that creates an account anyway. The main thing is sticking to trusted payment providers. The trouble is when they try to get the PP address details but the addres...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Mmm, it's easy enough to work out from experiences with other sites' checkout systems and sync of addresses (I add delivery instructions directly into the address, which some sites that integrate postal data checking or have weird handling of multiple spaces in phone numbers etc have trouble with) b...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Just the sword and I don't think I binned anything accidentally... there are one or two listings with other sellers that show a white gun. This is the listing I used that someone else linked, although there are some cheaper. First order (don't know if it's different for customers in different countr...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Also a big fan of the lime green and purple, and feel it's a bit of a shame that with the final form for Megs converging on a tank we're losing the distinctive front-of-tank G2 chest because the first mould use is consistently a flat silver G1 homage. Takara/Aliexpress Legends Fortress (Cerebros) fo...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General LEGO discussion (inc. collectible minifigs)
- Replies: 517
- Views: 364742
Re: General LEGO discussion (inc. collectible minifigs)
Searchlight is a fun idea. I think NOOBS is the old installer tool rather than an OS, and most of the Pi project distros are Debian based so you should be able to install most .deb based software or AppImage format contained software will probably work. I like https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ -- ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Yeah, even as a mainly comics/toy fan the Cybertronian vehicle mode designs seem pretty cool (the Jazz one appeared in his TFU profile as well) but they were never really sketched out as transformable so it's always going to be a compromise. And having not picked up the Bumblebee and Jazz already th...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your Latest Non-TF Toy Acquisitions
- Replies: 1650
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Re: Your Latest Non-TF Toy Acquisitions
Not very keen on the MOTU Origins skeleton warriors troop builder, so decided to use some heavily clearanced Skeletors to make https://he-man.fandom.com/wiki/Skelcons from the old books. I might still add a light wash to the bone, but TBH I was going for toy effect with the colours and the materials...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5242918
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Yeah. Having skipped Fangry due to the bundling and being another so-so- reuse of Twinferno, Squeezeplay unfortunately looks like more of the same just with Mindwipe. If they'd been available, I might have bothered, but TBH sticking the TR heads on headless originals is fine, personally. I don't rea...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: TFNation Minicon 2024
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1250
Re: TFNation Minicon 2024
Neat. If it was someone organised enough to have a tripod, might have been Raymond T. Guessing it'll end up on YT at some point. UT (or at least Armada) does feel like a good fit for the Functionists with the whole tiny-transformers-pressganged-into-being-powerups thing. LL/MTMTE... I think to an ex...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Transformers Legacy United Deluxe Class Infernac Universe Magneous Action Figure is what Amazon calls it. Reminds somewhat of movie Ironhide. Looks better than the stock photo as the chest pieces and hood are in pretty much the same grey as the rest, and the roof stays out of the way on his back in...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: TFNation Minicon 2024
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1250
Re: TFNation Minicon 2024
Cool, glad the expansion's going well. Did the fans come around to Lawrence? He seems like a nice enough chap, most of the creators do/did. I'm not particularly picky with art if it tells a story, and tend to prefer fanzine style rather than DW throwback, so whilst I think Milne defined the book the...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4873820
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Not an official TF but this chibi guy reminded me a lot of the Reverse Convoy reuse of Hero Megatron from the Robotmasters line. Maybe the arm panels could have been done a bit more elegantly and some of the pieces snap together a little more forcefully than you'd like, but they seem more robust tha...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5242918
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
It should definitely be possible to build learning models on top of just a company's IP, although by this point the onus is on them to prove it's just their content in there. The fact that modelling is likely to be based on part on experience gained from illegalities is somewhat specious, or at leas...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Who is Cyclonus (G1)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 232
Re: Who is Cyclonus (G1)
The answer seems to be neither and Unicron used raw materials and added personalities. More personality in e.g. the UK comics, of course, or they broke free of their programming more when they were further away from Unicron's control. This does make a reasonable amount of sense if Unicron and Primus...