The UK Toy Discussion

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Boardwise, Feb 23, 2011.

  1. privatespoon

    privatespoon Well-Known Member

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    It’s not often you see Punch transformed the intended way. He was was one of the few I never managed to obtain when I was hunting G1 toys so I am slightly jealous.
     
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  2. Insurgent

    Insurgent The Amazing Tango Mysterio

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    Hugs! Been feeling a bit low myself today for various reasons. Burnt out, not sleeping well and just overly tired.

    Punch is an awesome character concept that has never been realised. He needs a mini series. A proper james bond esque thriller where it turns out his blofeld is actually CounterPunch, gaining sentience. Tf needs more spies! My custom is just about done. Expect pics in the next few days. I must say, this punch looks a lot nicer than my old original. And the shapeways head uses his rebirth face so yey!
     
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    I'm still sad that DoubleDealer only got a tiny bit of fiction - lovely looking bot/(con) that one is.
     
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    Both are correct, think i may only pick up the sideswipe as he is still one of my top ten all time favourites, no one knows why he's so popular just like Skywarp they looked way cooler than their exposure warranted. He was just a bot I obsessed about as a boy i mean he's a red Lamborghini without a spoiler, truly spectaculae
    I'm a Jets fan, and happy belated burfarama Braddock
     
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  5. Insurgent

    Insurgent The Amazing Tango Mysterio

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    Oh! Forget counterpunch, the blofeld role is filled by doubledealer. But his autobot persona is a friend of punch. That's how he stays ahead so much, and feeds bad intel to the bots. This fact is never revealed on page in the mini. But maybe in a future issue. Or revealed tothe reader but not to punch. And it's this continuous bad intel that makes punch start questioning who is in control. Punch or CounterPunch.

    GIVE ME SOME SPY ACTION DANGNABBIT!
     
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    Dealer should be best friends with Punch, and Counterpunch with Doubledealer, but neither know that the other is a double agent for the other side.

    Every episode/issue ends on a cliffhanger when one is about to discover the other's secret...
     
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    Seeaich Inaction Master

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    You lads have just written Transformers: Infernal Affairs/The Departed (depending on whether you go Lau & Mak or Scorcese)! :lol 
     
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  8. Convoy

    Convoy 90's Robot

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    @Avon @Insurgent I think it's that time, summer coming to an end and we've all probably pushed ourselves a bit .I think it's our bodies reminding us autumn is coming, and with our a chance to rest and recuperate

    I too am feeling exhaustion setting in. The last few months have been non stop for me. Currently trying to find out how to complain to aunts care home. They denied her acres to hospital after a fall claiming it never happened and it was all dehydration induced imagination as there's nothing recorded in her log. After fighting with them and getting her to a&e it turns out she has a fractured spine. Not sure how she's imagined that , which means that the care home staff were actively trying to cover it up.
     
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    Convoy 90's Robot

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    :lol :lol :lol  yes please !
     
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    Insurgent The Amazing Tango Mysterio

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    Bloody hell, i hope she's gonna be ok. Get some standards agency on those buggers, trying to cover up something like that is utterly disgraceful.
     
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    I concur, hopefully it's Johnny Law for those folks, @Convoy?
     
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    Trying to collect a 90s X-men cartoon cast in marvel legends and getting lost finding a Jim lee styled cyclops/ pheonix without paying for scalper prices or buying full waves. Got me on eBay like....

    Jean where are you?

    :lol 

     
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    I had a Go bot Optimus Prime wannabe when I was a kid (still love him :D ), then picked up some Robo Machines ones in the late 90's. My Crasher has black stickers instead of blue as seen earlier in the thread. From what I can gather Go bots were released by Tonka, Machine Robo was released by Popy, but only in Japan, and Robo Machines was released by Ban Dai.

    It's a crying shame Punch/Counter punch got most story in the Headmasters series.
    also a belated happy birthday to @Braddock who is no longer missing in action ;) 
     
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    Now just need a MP Rhinox, Rattrap, Tigatron and Airazor.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Love this idea, with the music to Hart to Hart as the theme tune.
     
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    Yes hope she's safe fella
     
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    It even has a Master System'ed macaron *faint*

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    Also, I didn't post any speedrun in a long time cuz I was waiting for Teej to beat Celeste 30 minutes any% run and he just did.
    And it's beautiful.
    I mean, when he was at 34 minutes it was already incredible to watch, now it's pure drug.




    Des bisous !
     
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    Imperator and he drove the fastest milk-cart in the west.

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    Christ, it's kinda weird seeing the X-Men as a vanilla team like that, compared to how complicated things have gotten in the last decade or so in the comics. I'm not even a reader of the X titles but have absorbed enough vicariously to have a vague idea of how much of a clusterfuffle it has become.
    Agreed on the others (especially Airazor) but does Rattrap need to be MP'd seems decently detailed and the right size in his T30 toy.
     
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  19. AkibaSilver

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    When there's £100 a pop to be made, TakaraTomy will leave no character unturned in their search for the dollar. Or yen, I suppose, in this case.

    Also, these boys arrived today.
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    I never thought I'd find a Slugslinger for less than scalper prices, so this is a blessing. Krok, I got because I love the crocodile mold, and those colours! That scavenging! Those colours!
     
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    I don't suppose anyone has an idea where one might avail oneself of an OTFCC 2004 Exclusive Omega Spear or the Rodeo Magenta Energy Spear besides trawling Ebay and/or taking the US shipping hit?
    I have nefarious plans for a spear of such a hue!
     
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