Halfshell wrote:Good to see they've even reproduced Takara's quality control, what with Snarl having a flaked torso already and his left fist being backward.
Oh, and Grimlock doesn't seem able to actually hold his weapons. Not gonna bother with the others. Might just display em all in dino mode and switch the WSTF versions to robot mode.
Cliffjumper wrote:Hound's the other one that amazes me, he must have had the same RRP as Inferno, who's about twice the size.
Maybe they justified it as Hound being the price point, and all the others are just extra extra value?
Picked up Backfire and Ravage from Hunt for the Decepticons. Toyed with them a bit last night, don't quite know if I like them yet- Ravage's "jet mode" or missile mode or whatever the hell he's supposed to be seems weak sauce. Not a heck of a lot of articulation but it be tiny, yo... it'll display nice, IMO.
Bludgeon had a bit of stressed plastic when I got him out of the box. I was slightly peeved, as it's close to breaking now. But at least it's a non-essential part. He is pure awesomeness otherwise, so far.
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Just purchased on ebay - HFTD Deluxe ironhide and ROTF Gathering at the nemesis
this adds to my ROTF collection, and also with the megatron figure completes my 2007 movie characters collection (was just awaiting megatron for that one)
i actually have the orange the fallen figure, so will be cool to get the normal colours too to put next to it, also it has a different colour scheme soundwave, so that won't look out of place either!
need to photo my collection me thinks
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So, Backfire is nice. But Backfire would be nicer if the pegs lined up and fit in with their opposite complimentary bits so that when I transformed it into vehicle mode the pieces fit together.
Annoying. It's easily fixed, but IMO I shouldn't have to.
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Bought my first Transformers in several months the other day. The Power Core Combiners Combaticons set. It kind of sucks that they aren't individual robots, but the auto-transformations are so slick that I think that makes up for it.
For those of you (well, mainly Cliffy I'll bet) who've tried several of the funky boxed bootlegs: Are Halfshell's problem's likely to be a one off freakish thing just with his set or are they all likely to be like that?
So my gathering at the nemesis pack came today, it's very cool!
So now I have the normal colour variant of the fallen, I previously had the fiery orange one. Also soundwave has a g1 colour scheme so I now have the normal ROTF soundwave and a cool g1 colour scheme variant!
Now the main reason I bought this pack was for old megatron, now this is ROTF set but has the 2007 movie figure, but with a better colour scheme. This figure gets some bad press in my opinion, it has a cool look and transformation to it, the only issue with it, is the god awful ice parts!
Also does anyone know why both megatron and the fallen have those stupid springy feet, they're a ball ache to get stood up properly!
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So I was cleaning the closet in prep for my move and I found a ton of unopened toys I completely forgot I owned. I'm pretty sure some were gifts from last Christmas, and a couple were impulse buys. It was like Christmas all over again. I found:
There's a couple others that I haven't had time to look at yet sitting in a storage bin somewhere in my living room. I know that Animated Snarl is somewhere and the boyfriend recently picked up an Animated Arcee for me, as well.
I'm really looking forward to opening these once I get settled.
edit: Holy cows. Universe Ironhide, Universe Smokescreen, ROTF Chromia... how the hell did I forget these existed? It's like I just won the toy lottery.
Sades wrote:edit: Holy cows. Universe Ironhide, Universe Smokescreen, ROTF Chromia... how the hell did I forget these existed? It's like I just won the toy lottery.
I wish i had bought a ticket to that
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The PCC Aerialbots and Animated Cybertron Rachet came in yesterday.
Rachets cool, uses a darker red than the first one and is roughly 20% larger as well. In Alt. mode anyways.
Aerialbots are cool I guess. I honestly think Huffer(using Caliburst in armor mode) looks better with them than Skyburst. Either way combined form stands no taller than the average Voyager class.
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Picked up PCC Aerialbots and Combaticons today. Have to say, I am glad the price point was $19.99. I like the Combaticons more than the Aerialbots. I guess they are saving Superion/Bruticus for some store brand recolor exclusive.
Kind of strange paying $20 for what is essentially a voyager class that breaks down into a scout class toy with 4 legends class sized drones. Generic names like "Attack helicopter". Hahaha.
Well I got this today, from a good friend at work who went to SDCC last weekend. I haven't broken it out of the box yet, so I can't really comment on the figure at all, but the whole packaging is fairly nice. I'm still trying to decide if I want to keep it or sell it to be honest...
Does Blaster's visor move up and down to reveal the eyes underneath? I ask because in the old Marvel comics he was first depicted with the visor down (in the Smelting pool saga), and he looked so cool.
I despised it later on when he was stylised as a fat, normal eyed robot. Not a patch on his cool, dynamic, take-no-prisoners roister-doistering-initial-Budianskied self.
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I'm pretty impressed with the little guy. He looks evil and skeletal, plus he's got a pretty unusual transformation scheme for a motorcycle, at least from the bikes I've seen.