>>11723788
holy shit, does the new one look awful

>>11723788
All they had to do was smooth out the greebles like they did for Shockwave. But I guess the allure of functioning train wheels was too strong for autistic designers.

Funny, now SS86 Astrotrain won't scale with Blitzwing if it's still the Legacy mold.

>>11723788
Siege Astro at least came with a bunch of cool weapons at the cost of being dirty and having a fat loco mode. I think I'm gonna stick with him until I die.

>>11723788
It looks like a dollar store toy. And for $60? Genuinely, what were they thinking? This has to be an elaborate scheme to sell an overstock of Dramatic Capture Astrotrains, right?

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The average Transformers fan experience

>>11723788
Its time for Ejima-san to retire

>>11723822
This guy is a retard.

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>>11723814
It's not that Blitzwing is too short, Astrotrain just has weird proportions.
You'll notice both their bodies more or less line up to the shoulders except Astrotrain's head is too high up.

>>11723822
That guy is quite literally a braindead redit soigolem who mindlessly shills for and slurps up everything
Of course he's retarded

Starting to think the OP calling everything "slop" is a marketer trying to convince everyone to buy the toys. He's forced it for the last four or five threads now...

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>>11723788
People are just jealous of Astrotrain because contrary to them he managed to lose weight.

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>>11723788
So instead of convering like the g1 toy, it has one half be the train and the other half be the shuttle, with a biiiig shell that you fold around to form the other half of each
I mean, it's a cool way to reinvent it, just absolutely dogshit execution

>>11723870
Looking at the first pics of the alt modes it was pretty obvious that this was the case. It's neat, shame that the robot mode looks like it does.

>>11723822
I don't give a fuck what cunts on twitter are doing fuck off faggot

>>11723792
If you haven’t already packed it up because it’s over, feel free to do so now.

>>11723788
My Siege Astrotrain can't even stand up so I'll gladly replace it with the one on the left. Won't even sell it because I don't want anyone else getting that stinker.

>>11723788
But the coupling rods on the choo-choo mode move! That is its only redeeming feature.

>>11723788
>>11723792
toonerism is a mental illness

>>11723895
I love how a poorly designed toy is because of the cartoon
Cunt, you’ve seen the cartoon, you know very fucking well this looks nothing like it

>>11723895
This does NOT look anything like he did in the movie
You're fucking braindead and trolling

>>11723906
Of course he's trolling, he used his meme word again.

>>11723895
Based

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I’ve been watching Victory since it’s up on YouTube and it bothers me so much when the subs leave in a Japanese phrase and don’t bother explaining what it means. It’s especially bad when you look up the phrase and find out that there’s a perfectly good English translation they could have used. Kisama is a rude way of saying “you” and easily translates as “you scumbag” or “you bastard”. They even have the same number of syllables

>>11723915
That’s just how shitty old subs were

>>11723915
>>11723918
And still manages to be better than the shit subs Hasbro forced them to use in the official release.

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>>11723788
I can't unsee the miekun meme, bulkier arms would unironically do a lot of heavy lifting for this figure, but my goodness he's so scrawny where he shouldn't be and it just accentuates the other weakpoints. I love the 86 line and think it's the bee's knees but 86 astrotrain is just a laughably (or would be, if I didnt need an astrotrain to the point this just hurts my soul) weak link and let down.
Of all the astrotrain toys, this sure is one of them.

>>11723915
>Translator Note: Kisama means bastard

>>11723798
these are pretty minimal greebles

Oh you mean, all they had to do was recycle an existing figure that you like better, and smooth ITS greebles?

>>11723915
I hate how modern anime dubs don't do this, during the times when you SHOULD do it.
Just because they're overcompensating for this.

There's no fucking excuse for having people address each other as "big brother Shouten" etc. We know what a nii-chan is, use it. But don't fucking leave in keikaku.

Now that Paramount won the WB bid. Will we finally get that Transformers X DC crossover?

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>>11723788
>>11723791
>>11723792
Fuck it. I'll just rebuy Transportation Captain.

>>11723945
Knowing Warner's history, Paramount will own them for like 6 years, do nothing with them, then sell them to the next highest bidder

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>>11723915

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>>11723936
How does this screenshot make you feel

>>11723948
>who you calling pinhead

well, that discounted Razorclaw turned out to be missing his forearm gun. Oh well, I'll just ask for a little money back and live with it. I'm sure I can find another suitable gun...

>>11723945
There was a batman collaborative leaked like a year ago.

>>11723958
Now see that sounds right. Particularly when it's appended to a name. Proper nouns are always excluded from translation, everyone knows that.

>>11723936
>>11723970
It's crazy how scared of honorifics official subs are

>>11723974
It’s because they don’t really exist in English outside of stuff like Mr., Ms., Sir, Ma'am, etc. so they can be hard to translate directly into English without just keeping them unchanged

>>11723915
Well, back in the day fansubbers were the opposite of the fags running around today. I'll take extraneous kisamas, nakamas, ah mous, -chans, -kuns, and yare yare dazes over amogus references and trying to own the chuds.

>>11723980
It's the same reason sentence enders tend to be ignored completely, because things like that are so uncommon in English they come across more as annoying than anything if they're let in. TFwiki still has a ton of "uuugh these Japanese people are doing Japanese speech THINGS" on a lot of their Beast Wars dub difference pages.

>>11723974
Like I said, they're hypercorrecting.
Just like how their translations are all way overly literal now, even when it makes no sense, and everything's super sanitized because they've been fed the 'japan doesn't have swears' meme

>>11723962
aaaand the replacement hand jumped off the table, hit me in the lap, then hit somewhere on my floor where I can't find it. awesome. This is fantastic.

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>wide body tiny arms

Is this 86 Astrotrain starman?

>>11723997
no because I actually like looking at starman

>>11723934
My only real complaint with Siege Astrotrain was the greebles. They make his bot mode look like he was chewed up by a dog. His Titan Returns toy struck a great balance with detail, giving him probably the best looking bot mode of all the modern Astrotrain figures, but both alt modes are kinda awful, and the headmaster gimmick being shoehorned in is annoying.

>>11724022
got it. yeah I would like to see recent-but-flawed toys redone with a few tweaks too

>>11723788
Can 3rd part addons salvage this mess?

>>11724035
If they melt him down for the molding of a new parts.

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>>11723997
Fucking lmao I was gonna make this comparison earlier but I didn't get around to it

>>11723948
Johnathan Joestar ahh build

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I still can't figure out what the problem is. The original toy wasn't THAT complex. They really can't just refine the original design with better proportions and articulation.

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>>11724080
bigger

>>11723822
That guy unironically became a fake fan because the movie he built his personality around failed and literally everything he does now is TRANSFORMERS... SUCKS?

>>11724081
>Booba

>>11724095
I see it as more of a sign of how bad hasbro is getting that a dedicated shill account can't even defend it
The guy is buying and praising fucking power core combiners

>>11723788
>>11723791
>>11723792
This one is a easy skip for me.
Thanks for wasting my time, Hasbro.
Again.

>>11724080
I mean, that's basically what siege did, just with some fattening and choking on greebles. For some reason hasbro thinks they're capable of reinventing the wheel on already perfectly good triple changers from the G1 era but, fucking hell, at least legacy blitzwing had a good robot mode

>>11724156
tank mode is fine too honestly. It's cartoon accurate and I don't mind the cockpit/thrusters. I don't get the hate.

>>11724191
It's that jet mode with the undercarriage junk.

>>11724216
Yeah, the jet mode sucks shit. At least you can use the tank pack kibble as a makeshift flight stand.

>>11724191
The tank dick looks stupid and it stretches out too far and is too uncovered to even be toon accurate. That aside, I don't like the tank because it's completely the wrong fucking tank. It's far too blocky with itty-bitty teeny-tiny fatbread-like treads. Proper G1 blitzwing has a round turret with giant treads showing loud and proud. But I guess it's a lot to ask from modern hasbro to make a tank mode that doesn't suck shit.

>>11724227
what do you think of the TR one?

>>11723994
My condolences. There are few feelings worse in this hobby than a tiny piece of something ricocheting itself into oblivion.

>>11724243
i cannot believe how far it went. I did eventually find it. Had to tear my entire-ass up-against-the-wall shelving unit away from the wall...

>>11724250
I lost Wildwheel's hat in that manner due to the lack of a proper vehicle mode storage location for it.

>>11724257
for fuckin YEARS i thought i'd lost one of RotF leader class starscream's missiles, because I thought I'd had both of them on him when I got him out of the box.. turned out I hadn't, it was always in there. so I never 'lost it' I just NOTICED it later..

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Should I get Galaxy Shuttle instead of Astrotrain? Or get Sandstorm instead?

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>>11724287
I was not a fan of Sandstorm, and Galaxy Shuttle is so clean

>>11724301
They should have created a new character to homage the original Diaclone toy instead of slapping the name "Galaxy Shuttle" on it. A retool of Armada Jetfire would have made a more convincing Galaxy Shuttle.

>>11724287
He looks cool and he does share the same mold as Astrotrain
But a lot of his colors are painted and when you transform him you will scratch them bad

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Yea
Definitely the best Astrotrain

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is AI bad

Yes
Now fuck off

>>11723822
I forgot this guy existed because I muted his annoying ass, but seriously, there's like a billion reviews that said they're lackluster, but anything for that sweet pathetic twitter outrage clicks I guess

>>11724081
It's funny how Siege actually nailed both of the alt modes far better than this new one - all it needed was a back cover for the top of the shuttle.

>>11724418
>nailed
Arguable, but yeah, it was majorly better than this
They shouldve rereleased it without greebles and sized it up to be taller

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Anyone else really excited for this?

I'm excited for Basara Prime this month. I think Fire Convoy would have been a better name for him, but that's already taken I guess.

>>11724451
I've got one of each mould so far but I don't know if I'll get him

>>11724423
We're in the Siege Astrotrain gaslight arc now. He was ALWAYS the BEST Astrotrain and every one of his three modes is immaculate.

>>11724498
It really is strange how oftten that happens

>>11724498
No one ever said he was perfect - just that he was superior to the shitty new SS86 one. We've now seen the SS86 from enough angles in all three modes that there's no point in denying it - the new guy is crap and a clear downgrade.

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>>11724451
Yes - but I desperately want a Missing Link Starscream to put on him.

>>11724515
Patience
Probably

>>11724461
>I'm excited for Basara Prime this month. I think Fire Convoy would have been a better name for him, but that's already taken I guess.
Nekkimus Prime was the way to go, they really fumbled it.

>>11724513
Eh, new one has better vehicle modes but the robot mode is dire. Old one had nice robot mode proportions but that was all. Astotrain keeps losing.

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>Not G1 prime

I don't know how much the city paid Hasbro for this

But I am a bit disappointed

>>11724529
I wish Astrotrain wasn't one of my favorite 80s show Decepticons. Is it almost entirely because of Triple Takeover and his cool voice? Yes. But goddamnit he's cute, and oddly pitiable. Probably the coolest choices of vehicle modes too.
He's like, the only triple changer I love now that I think about it, besides Octane for obvious reasons (he will NEVER get a good toy at this rate), TFA Blitzwing (ditto), and IDW Springer (I will never get that decade+ old toy and I hate they'll likely never surpass it). Man... Triple-Changers are so fucked over, dude.

>>11724536
You a train guy?

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>>11724451
It's neat but I already own a G1 reissue Magnus and the ML Convoy mold, so I decided to pass. Also that armored mode isn't as much of an improvement compared to other MLs due to the original toy having decently articulated arms already and the fact that they had to work with a plank for the legs.

I have enough G1 Magnuses already anyways.

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>>11724287
interestingly, he has the color scheme of the Japanese Astrotrain. I feel like Hasbro missed an opportunity by not including an alternate Astrotrain head,

>>11724451
I want a CHUG Power Buggy

>>11724543
Galaxy Shuttle is from Victory

>>11724498
Shut the fuck up, you shill. There's not a single person that said that. People are just saying the new one is worse.

>>11724542
I don't have a G1 Ultra Magnus and I don't really care for the SS86 UM or the MP, so it was an easy buy for me.

>>11724543
>interestingly, he has the color scheme of the Japanese Astrotrain
That's the reason I bought Galaxy Shuttle, always loved how clever the Takara guys were with the design of the original toy as they actually managed to make the colors change between alt modes so both of them looked realistic. Then Hasbro turned him gray and purple ruining that, but oh well.

>>11724536
I don't think Octane's TR toy is that bad.

>>11724546
I know but the new toy uses the Astrotrain mold in colors very similar to Astrotrain's old Japanese toy. They could've tossed in an Astrotrain's head and let buyers decide which character the new toy is.

>>11724552
which came first? the Hasbro version or the Japanse version? Unlike Blitzwing, the mold was never used before Transformers

>>11724546
We know. It's still an excuse to release that mold in his original realistic colors.

>>11724551
>I don't really care for the SS86 UM
I hated the broad shoulders at first but the transformation of the whole thing is super clever (more than the MP one) and it's a solid and chunky toy all around, I ended up liking it a lot.

>>11724543
Y'know...while I already have Galaxy Shuttle and have no intention of "upgrading" from my Siege Astrotrain, I *might* be tempted to bite at the new mold if they released it in these colors. It'll still look like shit, but at least I can use him as a whole new character and throw him with my Toxitron dudes.
Alternately, I might just track down and buy the original G1 toy for the hell of it.

>>11724557
The japanese colors were the intended ones for the mold, but it ended up being released in America first with the purple.

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>>11724552
>Then Hasbro turned him gray and purple ruining that, but oh well.
No they didn't, that was in the cartoon, the hasbro toy is still white
The grey was the prototype colouring and of course the cartoon production was before a lot of toys went to market so there were always going to be discrepancies

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>>11724451
Absolutely. I opted for Delta Magnus myself, but it's really the only Transformers purchase I'm planning on this year. Even if the armored mode is a bit limited, it'll still be more than worth it for this sexy blue boy.

>>11724542
>G1 reissue Magnus
So is there any diecast on the original G1 Magnus trailer at all? The ML looks like it's going to do the rear/feet of the trailer in diecast for stability, but I've never handled the original.

>>11724553
I think TR Octane and Blitzwing are both really great triple changers and just plain fun toys in a way that seems alien to the current mainline shit. They have the kind of simple yet effective transformations where you can't pick them up without wanting to change them around, and it's fun to go between any two modes.

>>11724568
As someone that had the original Magnus, no, it was only on the white Prime
Also I'm hopeful they do him in Anime colours

>ordered dramatic capture skywarp and Insecticons months ago on HLJ
>listed as discontinued
>got nothing not even a payment request
HLJ strikes again, good thing I'm not using them ever again

>>11724574
They've been a few days to a week behind getting pre-orders in lately. Give it a few days and hopefully you should get charged for it.

>>11724564
Yeah, I remembered that the actual toy still had white instead of gray after posting.

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>>11724539
Not really. I like trains, they're cool, but they're not a hobby/fixation/etc for me lol. A space shuttle and steam train are just both singularly-cool vehicles that have cool contrast together :)
>>11724543
I really like this guy, for the realistic colors on the alt modes. That's really fun.

Actually guys, here's a question. Why did some fans convince Hasbro that the left >>11723788 is the "correct" colors for Astrotrain's wings? Picrel is the toy the show model was based off, and they use this pattern several times in the show. True, most times they painted the entire wing purple for expediency, but the pattern was always the same as this toy, with the outline around in the lineart.
When did it ever get depicted like the SS86 toy, with a solid purple wing and a gray stripe near the top? And why do people say that's the "correct" design, while the picrel/Siege wings are "an animation error"? That doesn't sound right, if anything these look more correct. Even the final US toy and the JP toy both have the same wing pattern as this toy, despite different final colors.

Oh lol i somehow missed that >>11724564 alreasy posted the same image and context, my bad XP
Nevertheless, still odd on the wings bit.

>>11724584
>>11724587
Because it's on their design notes and the intro song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqV1cf-pZag

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>>11724593
But it's not. This is what I described, this's the toy wing design but the center is painted purple for expediency. You can even still see the lineart of the outer stripe, as if it was supposed to be two separate colors but they didn't bother. Yeah there's some gray near the top, but so does the toy design.

This's not what the SS86 is. >>11723788 the SS86 has no implied outline even molded in, there's a gray stripe *near* the top but not *on* top; instead the top of the wings are purple. This is just a wholly different design, I don't even know where this comes from.

>>11724596
>supposed to be two separate colors
Nah, even in the show it's like that
Only in TT did they use the prototype colours, which I think are better

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>when you're reminded of ozempictrain
How did this happen, how did they mess up so badly, a case of re-inventing the the wheel, new designer?

>>11724596
>there's a gray stripe *near* the top but not *on* top; instead the top of the wings are purple
I really think they've been consistently mistransforning that. The gray piece should be on the border of the wing like in shuttle mode instead of being folded, that also would cover the kibble junk that peeks from the top of the wings in robot mode.

>>11724575
I'll do it but I've not had much luck with them recently

>>11724599
Oh of course, agreed; it's like the gray stripe on Optimus Prime's truck cab. It SHOULD be there, it looks BETTER with it, they even rarely did paint it in the show, but most times they didn't. That's what I meant by "Astrotrain's wings 'should' be gray with a purple outline", even though the inside was 9/10 times also purple on the show.

>>11724603
Oh as in, the SS86 wings are mistransformed you think? That... that would explain a lot actually, yeah damn. That hinge on the wings seems to only exist for folding away in train mode, I guess they forgot to fold them back up in bot mode. That is fucked up man.

>>11724616
>they even rarely did paint it in the show, but most times they didn't
AKOM was the ones who would consistently put it there, meaning the stripe was part of the earlier color schemes but revised out. Funniest thing is that AKOM would color the side stripe but not wrap it around to the front.

>>11724601
Hasbro purposefully makes bad molds of popular characters because the day they make a "perfect" one, it will drastically cut into future sales. That's why SS86 Magnus has no neck and super-wide shoulders, or why the SS86 Megatron has blue shins, and only the battle damaged version got the correct color. It's also why they're absolutely fine without addressing they yellowing plastic issue; they know it just means you'll rebuy something down the line.

The problem is that all these toy companies promise their shareholders that they're going to earn more money than last year, every year, forever. But there's no room for market growth in posable action figures (and many other markets), so companies are doubling down on jewing the fuck out of their existing clientele. For Transformers, that means focusing on older G1 fans with disposable income and a room with shelves full of plastic.

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>>11724368
This. Some collectors are such checklist cucks that they don't care how good or unique any given figure is as long as it fills an empty spot on their shelves, but I want a Galaxy Shuttle because I genuinely love his original design and want to see it remade.

I want a big dude with a space shuttle nose for a torso, thruster heels, and a tailfin gun. Not "white astrotrain", and all the compromises that entails.

I hope we see Armada Jetfire soon

>>11723788
They both look like shit.
Holy fuck Hasbro just say you dont give a shit anymore.
89.99 +tip

>>11724683
Megatron has gray shins though

>>11724703
Then why are the SS86 ones blue?

>>11724368
You know you can call the toy whatever you want.

>>11724703
If you can't see the blue tint on 86's shins you are literally colorblind anon, sorry you had to find out this way.

>>11724707
Megatron was sad that day

>>11724719
honestly, it's fucking sad how bad these two figures look together. >>11723792
Especially in a line that's about accuracy and consistency.

>>11724406
Make me.

>>11724719
You're the one looking at gray and seeing blue

>>11724685
>Some collectors are such checklist cucks that they don't care how good or unique any given figure is as long as it fills an empty spot on their shelves
Dude, pretty much nobody has bought Legacy Galaxy Shuttle for the Victory character first and foremost, the whole appeal of the figure is to have an Astrotrain mold with realistic alt mode colors like the Diaclone prototype. It being a reference to a different dude is just a bonus.
And this is coming from someone who watched Victory as his first Transformers cartoon when I was a kid, so I doubt there's someone here with more nostalgia for that show than me.

>I want a Galaxy Shuttle because I genuinely love his original design and want to see it remade.

Good luck with that, he's a non-character in one of the most obscure Transformers shows for western audiences. The fact Hasbro made space on the Astrotrain mold for his head is already a miracle.

>>11724766
Im color blind, everything in grey

>>11724779
>Victory as his first Transformers cartoon when I was a kid
Unless you were a sibling of one of the 12 people that had it on vhs I don't believe you.

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>>11724821
>Unless you were a sibling of one of the 12 people that had it on vhs I don't believe you.
It's true. I live in Spain and we got the latin american dub (that was in turn translated from the terrible Hong Kong english dub) here back in the early nineties.

>>11724766
>NO, no YOU are colorblind
Great comeback idiot. I wasn't trying to be funny though. You legit need your eyes checked out.

>>11724523
is he nekkid?

>>11724536
There is something thematically neat about his two altmodes being one that is stuck to a track and another that can escape the bounds of gravity itself and go to space. But due to fuel expense, it still basically follows the track of its parabolic arc and can't really change its mind and go somewhere else.

>>11724874
I imagine him like the Galaxy Express 999. A big ass ramp to space but he transforms into a spaceship at the end. Space trains are fucking awesome.

damn, they won't send me that spare part for razorclaw. I dont suppose anyone got two of them by mistake.

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>>11724423
He JUST needed a little spot or so to be cleaner

>>11724685
I feel bad for obsessives who don't even seem to digest what they chew before jamming more into their gobs, but I think the industry relies on them for now.

>>11724891
>>11724685
>>11724368
I like him *shrug*

>>11724902
Then you're not one of those hopeless obsessives, you're just a guy who likes a thing. Donmai.

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Redditors are actually saying this looks good. I think they just hate fembots.

>>11724962
Fuck off back to r3ddit because I dont want to know what a r3dditor thinks.

The fucking auto filter got me but not you fuck you twice more.

>>11724962
It doesn't look good but it looks less bad

>>11724962
Suits a female much better than a male with those little arms, skinny legs, and hourglass figure.

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I got RID Sideswpie, Drift and Cyberverse Optimus in today
The Optimus is custom painted and nice and despite a kinda loose shoulder he was entirely worth the $5
I'm really liking the Drift

>>11724962
I would totally buy a new female character in black train, white shuttle colors from that mold.

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>>11725001
A solid $5 purchase really

>>11724962
>Redditors are actually saying this looks good. I think they just hate fembots.
They hate ones that look slim and feminine.and I guess even this is too much for them

>>11723788
Seriously what the fuck happened here? why are his arms so noodley? hell his whole design feels like a first draft they decided was the finished product.
>>11723791
god he looks so bad trying to pose, like you put some arms on a brick
>>11723792
yeah this has to be some first draft they just threw together, might as well used the siege mold, maybe smooth it out if you really wanted to a cleaner look, surely they still have the CAD files for it still.

>>11724451
Wait is that a missing link silverbolt or just the g1 toy?

>>11725030
new rule
shoulders can never be lower than the part of the torso they connect to.. that torso has to STOP or have, at most, a small trapezius area IN BACK, and then the neck and head.

>>11725083
g1 toy

>>11725001
Never got into RID 2015 but always wondered, those symbols with what I presume are codes you scanned for some app thing, those are stickers, right? Not tampos? That's one thing that puts me off of a lot of figures. I absolutely HATE stickers on toys, especially on stuff that has so many moving parts that could scuff it up. I have no idea how you guys can deal with all that Toyhax stuff.

>>11724558
>I hated the broad shoulders at first but the transformation of the whole thing is super clever (more than the MP one) and it's a solid and chunky toy all around
I just don't care about Ultra Magnus figures without the armor gimmick. The white Convoy deco inner bot is probably the most appealing thing to me about Ultra Magnus, actually, and the Siege one being a mixed bag on those grounds is why I didn't care for that one either.

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>>11725098
Yea it's a sticker but you could remove it or yea Toyhax it
The Toyhax set's didn't fully cover RID 2015 sadly but did make them basically the JP version+
https://toyhax.com/for-rid-prime/1807-labels-for-rid-drift.html

>>11725083
Just a funny teaser

>>11725083
g1 toy. It's specifically being used because the original Diaclone powered convoy (later used as the Delta Magnus deco in transformers), was specifically promoted as being able to be used as a launch platform for jet robos (starscream/seeker mold) as seen in >>11724515. Takara advertised this feature with silverbolt when they released their transformers line because I guess they thought it was cool.

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>Now you shall witness the power of my FUSION CANNON!

>>11725213
Dihcepticon
Sorry, I had to lel

>>11725246
did you mean dickcepticon?

The shuttle mode on the new Astrotrain is a complete mess in the back half and less accurate than siege in the front half. It really only has the train mode going for it.

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>>11724962
Back to the fucking cyber kitchen

>>11724560
they more likely will do Galaxy Shuttle again out of the Armada Jetfire as Jetfire's design is based off Galaxy Shuttle.

>>11724962
are you so desperate for conversation you'll bring reddit here?

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>>11725331
Obligatory video
https://youtu.be/R-ItfWY3xMQ?si=XHgenEWBiasEzJhD

>>11725249
no, >>11725246 is outing themselves as a zoomer. 'dih' is the new slang for dick. Because it's funny(?)

>>11725338
I doubt it. Commander molds rarely get reused.

>>11723895
You really can't blame toonerism for this when the new Astrotrain looks less like the toon than the Siege one and in fact looks nothing like he did in the toon at all. So much for the "screen accurate" line.

>Skybound turns Optimus into Earth mode ONE Orion and Elita into ONE Elita (+ wings) Prime
Bravo Kirkman

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Got a devastation sideswipe, new in box and all that and just noticed a brown spot. Does my sideswipe have cosmic rust or some factory overflow/spoil? (Gosh I hope it isnt doodoo)

>>11725435
Is Victory an honorary Brave series or is Brave an honorary Transformers series?

>>11725441
Victory is proto-Brave

>>11725441
Yes.

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>>11725435
Nice, took this one years ago.

>>11725441
>>11725446
I like to consider it the Brave series number zero. Even the opening song gives us a title, "Seigi no Yuusha Star Saber".

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>>11725476
Also have this one.

>>11725410
Try to rub it off, but the plastic around it looks melted to me.

>>11725477
>>11725476

Hell yeah motherfucker

Got an Amalgamus from Amazon. It's a mixed bag, but I still like it. My major issues with it are:

-The pegs holes for the claw things is prone to stress, they're too tight and thin.
-The limbs fall out too easily because hasbro made all the pegs too short.

I can deal with these problems and I've liked making weird alt modes, but I can't imagine a kid liking it.

>>11725357
sigh...
i'm sorry, we need to start killing them all. this isnt working.

>>11725558
also don't call anon a 'them'
anon is a 'he or she' because it's a specified person

>>11725557
I'm receiving mine next week together with Brawl. Watched some reviews a while ago and seems like one of the worst pegs is the neck one, right?

>>11725577
Yes, it's the shortest. If you have to tuck something away, it's better to just remove the head and just lower the neck

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Has anyone ever exchanged the battery in Machine robo Cg-03 (pic related). I'm guessing the battery compartment is the chest, but can't figure out how to open it.

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>>11725583
Good to know. I hope the thing is still entertaining to mess with, want to try different configurations.

>>11725583
Forgot to add, be careful with the neck out of the package, this piece is tight on some copies and some people have snapped the neck trying to move it with the head on. I also don't recommend fully tabling the neck in place to avoid this.

>>11725599
i'm impressed by these ones that actually look cohesive and not like a mess of different colors
of course that doesn't change how stupid the mammoth altmode is with its triceratops legs.

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Where's 86 Cliffjumper, Hasbro? That's the only one I'm missing to have a modern version of every minibot I own.

>>11724287
>Should I get Galaxy Shuttle instead of Astrotrain? Or get Sandstorm instead?
I hated this fucking thing, one of the few transformers I've sold off, it's a pain in the ass to transform because the black paint is so thick everything feels stuck, my hands hurt after a couple transformations.
Also, the plastic feels really cheap, is that just a thing with galaxy shuttle or is Astrotrain the same?

>>11723915
Transformers Victory was TEACHING you.

>>11725599
I miss the abominations made with 2 or more Paleotrexes.

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>>11725615
They did one way back. It was a repaint of the Earthrise Cliffy

>>11725631
I must say, I do appreciate how the "If you would say it in Klingon, you can say it in Nihongo" attitude taught me vocab.
But that should work fine with properly-subtitled lines since you'd still HEAR them. albeit maybe not know how to spell them (my brother in law used to draw cool anime guys saying "KSO!")

>>11725639
Man, if only I had more space to display my parasite eve abominations.

>>11725640
Unfortunately there is an SS86 Cliffjumper "remake" on the way. Hope they use the Devastation Bee mold instead of the '86 Bee mold.

>>11725513
Took a cotton swab/qtip to it with a little bit of water, most of of it came away save for a little dug in bit but yeah, the surface around the pin is cratered like it was plastic that never took or something when compared to the other shoulder. It all works fine and I want to say I could smell oxidation if I got close in, but I couldnt say for sure as that's a new one for me.

>>11725615
PRAYING it's Devastation Bee mold than that shitass SS86

>>11725595
best bet is to paste the japanese into google and try to find an autistic reviewer

>>11725665
>>11725677
Forget about it, the robot mode has the innacurate shin panels and they will want it to match the aesthetics of 86 Bumblebee.

>>11723915
Welcome to TV Nihon. I watched Galaxy Force and several toku shows with their subtitles back in the day, they're infamous for the reasons you're discovering now.

>>11723954
Someone post the other one with Prime and Megatron battling with the giant The Touch subtitles on top and Megatron saying "the Autobots are owari you yatsu, I'm the shihaisha now".

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I got X-Brawn the other day and fuck me does he put into perspective how much better things used to be. Fully painted altmode with chrome accents, rubber tyres and a firing missile. This thing is like a damn masterpiece compared to modern deluxes.

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It's oddly satisfying to have something that just turns into a normal everyday car.

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And fuck light-piping. Chrome eyes are the way to go.

>>11725712
I miss mine. Somehow lost him on an airplane as a kid. I can't believe they haven't made a new one yet.

>>11725712
I have the super versions of the three brothers and just the other day I was thinking on how good they look, shame that Prowl's doors ball joint sockets cracked due to stressed transparent plastic.

>>11725707
come on, that has to be made up
i am the biggest weeb in the world and that is completely mechakucha

>>11725712
Unfortunately, the technology to create chrome toy parts has been lost.

>>11725711
heh, yeah.
>>11725712
should have turned into a mom

>>11725725
The pictures, you mean? Yeah, they were a parody of the TV Nihon subs and fansubs in general (the obnoxious fonts and colors), not actual screencaps.

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>>11725712
The OG Big Convoy sold me on chrome eyes. Pic unrelated I just had it for some reason.

>>11725763
okay phew, i got it mixed up since you were discussing the real ones too.
>>11725767
chrome eyes can certainly be lovely. I liked my gundams that came with foil eye stickers
I just think lightpiping SHOULD work way better, if they would just use more neon plastic. and if you have to paint it, paint it with CLEAR PAINT.

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>>11725710
>>11725711
>>11725712
Why can't we get this with sharper modern cad and tooling. Wait, I guess that's what Overgear is.

>>11725768
MPG-17's lightpiping is pretty good, but in general I'm not that fond of lightpiping.

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>>11725710
I think a lot of Car Robots/RID is sort of shit, but I appreciate the details and the willingness to do different things with robot mode proportions and the car parts (though obviously have huging vehicle chunks as a "shield" is lazy). Modern Hasbro can't even do good face sculpts half the time.

>>11725767
>>11725768
I still need to pop open the head of my Star Convoy and paint over the translucent eyes it has. I picked up a light blue Gundam marker so I can give him some soul instead of that cold dead stare.

>>11725776
>Modern Hasbro can't even do good face sculpts half the time
I blame this on B Team. Good face sculpts have been VERY good lately, Spinister's head for example is absolute sex.

>>11725733
>(you)

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>>11725780
Some of them.

>>11725786
Accurate to the weird faces of that movie

>>11725786
what the fuck

>>11725787
>weird faces of that movie
How to sink your franchise with one weird trick! Investors hate this method!

I hate those niggerfied faces so fucking much you don't even know.

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>>11725768
The problem with light-piping is even when you have a good example, if you don't have a sufficiently good light source the eyes look dead.

>>11725779
Definitely worth doing.

>>11725780
>Spinister's
Siege Spinister is a release from 2020, try citing a figure more recent than 6 years ago.

>>11725792
The franchise is over 40 years old, anon. The WFC cycle was the cycle just before Legacy. I was just citing my favorite in memory. Of the toys I own from AotP Megatronus the Werehog and Quickstrike probably have the best headsculpts. Looking outside Transformers, Exkaiser is also excellent.

>>11725791
>the chrome head crest
How'd you know I bought that too.

>>11725787
Sort of? The problem is the mouth. I think the intent was a smirk but it just looks like weird little Gumby lips which isn't accurate at all.

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>>11725786

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>>11725791
all the more reason to use NEON plastic.
Look at these here legomen. see how some are plain green plastic, but others are glowy? Not difficult. There's glowy plastic in every color. Though deep blue is the hardest to do.

>>11725790
if investors don't like it, why do they keep supporting it

>>11725800
We've got Dinoking and Monstructor, time for the Micromaster Combiner Six teams.

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>>11725733
>Unfortunately, the technology to create chrome toy parts has been lost.
Like diecast construction, it's a lost art.

>>11725790
They want the Beast Wars audience.

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>>11725790
Of course, it was the faces that did it. Nothing at all to do with the terrible marketing or general lack of interest in the franchise. No, it was the faces.

>>11725835
i'm sure it didn't help

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>>11725814
i hate transmetal 1 optimus's face less every time I see it, but I cannot get past the nose.
I think if you just smoothed out the nostrils.. here gimme a sec...
eh.. maybe..

>>11725838
It's funny how he still has the faceplate shape but it's actually his face. If you remove the nose and mouth it totally looks like an Optimus.

>>11725852
i would have just kept the upper Primal noseplate...

>>11725800
Give me a fucking Legacy Windy
Or MPG

I expect to see pics of you all's SS86 MTMTE hot rods tomorrow.

>>11725838
Transmetal are the worst Beast era style. Metal animal into organic robot is just dumb.

>>11725896
Bait

>>11725896
I think it's a neat idea that works well in concept art (and would therefore work well in a comic or something) but didn't translate to very good toys, which is mostly how I feel about Beast Wars in general.

>>11725891
there are LAYERS to how funny this is.
>>11725896
it had potential, but the best ones really abandoned that idea (rattrap, megatron, tarantulas)

>>11725896
The Transmetal style looks perfect on Predacons and emphasizes the Guyver style. Hit or miss for Maximals. Depth Charge worked out well for example, backpack on the toy aside

>>11725906
oh yeah, depth charge and rampage also abandoned the organic robot mode thing.

>>11725907
No, Rampage especially was very organic, it just works better without fur. Transitions better to metal.

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Chadkara is singlehandedly carrying the Transformers brand right now.

>>11725910
>spending import prices in figures doomed to be outdated in 2 years or less

>>11725911
>SS86 Astrotrain is dogshit
>SS86 Soundwave is dogshit
>SS86 Shockwave is basically just the DCS release but with less paint
yeaaaaah I dunno about that anon

>>11725910
There is only one good mold in this entire picture and it's reflector

>>11725910
Beautiful figures. This lineup definitely MOGS their 86 counterparts (where applicable).

>>11725911
>outdated in 2 years or less
>no you see, you HAVE to buy the new mold of a character at any given time!!
Yeah nah, looking at just Astrotrain tfor a low hanging fruit example I'm good with sticking to my DCS. Stop being such a consoomer and exercise your own personal taste. All the new molds from 86 will also be "outdated" in a few years if you play that game.

>>11725906
With this I have just realized that Hasbro seems allergic to anything that is #2 or a sequel. They haven't made any proper Energon updated toys aside from Core Class Megatron/Galvatron and that was the second anime in the Unicron Trilogy. We have yet to get any Transmetal 1 toys updated and they appeared in the second season of Beast Wars. They also refuse to do Skids and Mudflap from the RoTF movie.

>>11725912
>SS86 Soundwave is dogshit
Soundwave himself is fine, it's the cassettes that suck

>>11725910
>4 DCS deception sets with no overlap
>2 autobot sets with a jazz each
>upcoming DCS set is bayverse optimus + jetfire
kinda fucks with my ocd

>>11725909
okay, looking closely at the show model, I think you're right and they did intend that to be (quite shiny) crab shell that he's sporting in robot mode. But in most shots, it looked quite metallic. head, arms, all of it.

>>11725910
it will never stop making me want to crawl into a hole that clever portmanteaux "caught on" like in my dumb animal cartoons
except instead of being clever, dumb kids just cram two words together

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>>11725711
I always thought it was funny how the robot head looks like it’s riding passenger

>>11725933
That's the driver's seat in a Japanese car. Don't have a screenshot but they showed his head there in the anime at one point.

>>11724030
We have, on multiple occasions: like half of the Earth mode characters being remolded from Siege releases, or 86 Shockwave

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>>11725702
Lol thanks. I'll try.

>>11725710
I have the red Ratchet repaint from Universe and it soured me on the mold. Is the original version better and worth hunting down if the repaint sucks?

Hound, Hot Rod and battle damaged Optimus are all back up and ready to ship on the Target site.

>>11725950
Shame Hot Rod is 43, he's the only one I want but that's too much.

>>11725953
I feel that, since I think the new Voyager prices are the hardest for me to swallow. But I'm a massive The Moviefag and my collection needs a Hot Rod, so he's still a better option than paying rape prices for the original release. Scourge will also be nice to fill out the ranks of Unicron's forces a little.

>>11725957
I already own 3 Hot Rod's, since I got 2 in ebay lots, plus the one I got when they originally released the SS version. So yeah, hard ro justify. I was willing for 35, but 43 is too much and the only coupon I have drops it to 38.

Help me find a video I remember from ages ago.
It was the building process of a fairly large custom G1 Devastator statue, made out of Tonka trucks and other toys. The face was this weird screaming expression, and the whole thing's proportions were out of wack. Then the guy had some hired "babes" pose around the finished statue.

>>11725919
>Hasbro will never make a Transformers Two
You might be onto something

>>11725965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AwAvfoY2cE

Is it true the Vector Prime refresh will have new stuff in it?

>>11725988
Nope. Refresh just means they took the old toy and stuck it in a new box, nothing new added. He'll be the same guy you missed in Legacy, though with an upcharge due to inflation. Enjoy!

>>11725988
Just a slight deco change, supposedly.

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I don't know why, but Machtackle sounds less like a Transformer name than it sounds like the name of a Pokemon... in my humble opinion.

>>11725953
$43 is a steal for a Masterpiece figure, which that Hot Rod is.

>>11725988
I hope that Takara will save his design in Legends

>>11726076
It's a fucking repaint of old voyager mold, he shouldn't be more expensive than his old price.

>>11726093
b-but sword and shield and fishing rod?

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>>11725926
the show in general downplayed the organic aspect and just kept it as textures, even though having organic skin on the robot modes would be a perfect way around season 1's use of beast modes for protection. The raw energon was all mostly gone so it didn't matter.
But if you look at the Rampage figure, the robot mode bits are all full of pockmarks and ridges to make it feel like organic parts.
The show just does some textures to replicate that.

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Got them. Had to do an in store pickup. They weren't stocked on the shelf yet and it appears I'm the only one who bought some at my store as of now.

>>11726163
If that Hot Rod vehicle mode stays together better than the original release I'll be interested in buying this mold again.

>>11726163
>this is what 100 dollars gets you in 2026

>>11726167
>$100
It was $75 to be fair, but I had a $50 gift card.

>>11726168
This speaks more to the utter worthlessness of fiat currency and the resurrection of company scrip in the face of relentless corporate greed

IMO I think that Quintus and Amalgamous are probably the best wave-set of Primes released.
And Amalgamous himself is just in a whole other fucking league that I don’t even know where to begin.

>>11726182
Amalgamous is the worst toy among the Primes by a mile.

>>11726174
Just realizing this now lil bro?

>>11726112
They can stick it up their ass (it was in mold probably)
>>11726167
Wait for next price increase

>>11725910
what is Chadkara?

>>11726182
With Amalgamous I could agree but: head barely holds in place, arms have weird elbows and every limb loves to pop out their pegs. I'm getting sick and tired of this gimmick.

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Got an MIB Victory Leo, so finally I completed my MIB Japanese G1 collection.

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>>11725984

>>11726205
man that wave of late G1 Japanese leaders were massive. Same with sentai robo/Megazords until GoGoV/Lightspeed Rescue in '99.

>>11726205
Not very MIB now, is it?

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>>11726182
I agree, I'm a big fan of these two freaks.

>>11726205
Pretty sick G1 collection.