numbat wrote:I'd love to get a Cybertron Metroplex one day.
He is awesome indeed. I got him for less than half the original price thanks to Cybertron stock being cleared out to make way for Movie toys. Not knowing the slightest thing about Metroplex or the Cybertron line, the only real choices were Metroplex and Primus.
'Why would I want a toy that turns into a stupid looking ball?' I said. 'And his robot mode has all these ball halves hanging off him.' So I got Metroplex, plus Crumplezone (who I liked from the show). I have never regretted that decision.
Denyer wrote:I like that ROTF Bruticus blue helicopter, it'd probably adapt to Rotorstorm nicely. Shame the set seems to go for daft amounts now.
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I have never even considered that. Bruticus now has Air Raid for an arm and
Vortex Undercover Rotorstorm hangs out with Guzzle, Kup, Whirl, Springer and the Jumpstarters.
Skyquake wrote:Beast Wars Bonecrusher
I've always thought that toys that shoot missiles through their mouth (Bonecrusher, Jetstorm... and there's one more from Beast Wars, I think) are a little bit daft, but I did have the chance to see Bonecrusher in person and I thought it looked pretty charming. Though my massive bias for all things Beast Wars may have miscoloured my perceptions.
electro girl wrote:Time after time I always go back to playing with Beast Wars Polar Claw, gotta love him.
Ooooh Polar Claw! Polar Claw is easily the favourite Beast Wars toy I own. Will talk about him in a later post.
Notabot wrote:I kind of go in spurts of thinking animal TFs are great and thinking they're really stupid, but one that always makes me smile is Stampy.
Warcry wrote:I don't have a Stampy, but I do have one en route!
I want a Stampy.
I want a Bunny Wobot.
I'll have to dig out my Beast Wars stuff and talk about them all.
Warcry wrote:Longhorn is a redeco of one of the greatest molds of the Beast Wars, Ramulus.
Ramulus is freaking awesome.
He's, like, my second-favourite Beast Wars toy after Polar Claw.
The rest are Cicadacon, Torca, Prowl, Buzzclaw and Retrax in that order, though that new Terrorstrafe is quickly gaining on me too.
Warcry wrote:(the other one is Longhorn's original BM toy)
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Warcry wrote:Stalker Scorponok has a really cool beast mode. I definitely like the BW-inspired deco that this version got over the grey and bronze colours of the screen accurate 2007 figure. He's barely a Transformer, though, and that really takes away from his value IMO.
I have the original movie Scorponok. And while it might not mean much to you all, Scorponok was the most awesome villain from the 2007 Movie... which you all will know as
the defining moment for my descent into Transformers madness. It took so long just to kill this one little bugger, and he was even just this little attack dog of the helicopter dude that blew everyone up!
And the visuals -- I never thought a robot scorpion jumping out of sand could look in any way realistic. But Scorponok did! And the way he went in and out of the sand like this monstrous creature... Scorponok was one of the most awesome visual spectacles that will stay in my head forevermore.
I have his toy, and it's poop -- the gear system in mine seems to have cracked -- but he's still awesome for all that reason.
Skyquake wrote:COMBATICONS COMBATICONS COMBATICONS! WE ARE MIGHTY AND HAVE LOTS OF GUNS! WE DO SHOOTING AND FIGHTY THINGS!
I have two full sets of Combaticons (G2 Fall of Cybertron, regrettably, and Energon) plus Universe Onslaught, Animated Swindle, the other Universe Onslaught, Movie Brawl and the PCC Bombshock Combaticon thing. So yeah, consider your Combaticon love shared by me!
A bunch of extra toys from me, while I take pictures for the site:
First up is
Cicadacon, who is a wonderful robot:
He's just so posable, and comes with two pretty funky-looking swords. You'd think being a part of a combiner would kind of ruin him, but no. Cicadacon has a ridiculous amount of articulation and stability, even outperforming some other Beast Wars toys that doesn't even need to combine. His limbs are just free of any sort of kibble, which help out, and his facesculpt is this devilish-looking thing that looks pretty awesome.
And those wings! Each of them are ball-jointed, so Cicadacon can splay them out like a butterfly out to murder you, or have them trail behind him like a cape. They also double as really awesome sword-sheaths.
He turns into a cicada, which is sorta cool -- my review probably details about the extreme amount of biologically-accurate detail they fitted into this toy, so I'm not going to bore you, but Cicadacon is an awesome Cicada. And he combines with the nearly equally-awesome Sea Clamp (which I'll talk about later) and Ramhorn (who sucks) into the mightily awesome Tripredacus! The combination is just a bonus, though -- Cicadacon himself is pretty damn awesome.
Next up is
Henkei Mirage. People's talked about the original Mirage and Fracture in this thread, and he is indeed a beautiful, athletic mould. Granted he looks pretty much nothing like the original G1 Mirage, but you know what? That's a good thing! The original Mirage is this blocky-looking dude who I wince every time he shows up in a comic or a cartoon, because this toy right here? It has taken root firmly in my subconsciousness as the one true Mirage. He's just so awesome and posable and just hands-down cool.
The definitive Megatron in my collection for a long, long time was
Henkei Megatron. Sadly, unlike Mirage, the years haven't been kind to Megatron. Thanks to actually playing with the Henkei toys when I was younger, Megatron's purple chrome on his insignia and his chest have worn off. There are some chipped black paint on his legs as well -- but, eh, battle damage!
Megatron's kinda cool, but is starting to show his age. His hip joints are pretty ratchety, and it's rather hard to get Megatron in a position where his feet look normal. His arms are rather weird as well, with each fist being static and pointing in different directions.
Despite all that, though, Megatron is probably the only Henkei toy that outright shines above the original Classics deco, doing away with all the loud green and orange, and replacing the purple with a nicer tone of black. As my various other toys have shown, gray is a pretty boring colour, but Henkei Megatron adds some red to the mix which makes him look pretty attractive. And while the Nerf gun wings really ruin the look of the Classics toy, on the Henkei version they sorta look like wings, which again makes him quite cool. He's not the best toy out there, but I think he's the best Megatron toy I own.
And he now hangs out with my Lost Light boys.
Also, he turns into a Nerf gun... which I don't really mind. Robbed away of the silly orange and green pain, Megatron just looks like a random space-gun the way Shockwave, Sixshot and Galvatron looks like. And it fits my hand perfectly and the trigger makes a really satisfying click sound when you pull it.