Titan Returns Appreciation Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Lady Slipstream, Nov 20, 2015.

  1. DrOblivian

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    I don't know if anyone else has already figured this out or if it was pointed out by someone somewhere previously. but it turns out that the landing gear on Highbrow's guns ARENT useless and i believe i have found the intended vehicle mode integration for his guns that make use of the landing gear.

    when attaching the guns to highbrown DON'T use the blue 5mm peg handle. it's actually THIS random chunk of nothing right here that you use to attach the guns to Highbrow. They are SLIGHTLY larger than 5mm.
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    However the hexagonal 5mm ports (the flat areas in particular) create a hole that IS slightly larger than 5mm. As you can see from the other side i already have the gun attached in what i believe is the intended way.
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    Doing this puts the landing gear in the correct orientation for vehicle mode.
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    And here come the "we already knew this" people, lol
    Well i didn't and hopefully others who don't, now do.
     
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    Could someone do Shuffler on Blitzwing?
     
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    Finally found Octane around here. Now I have all three Decepticon Triple Changers.
     
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    Octane is great and he has one of the best headsculpts/face-paints of the entire line, IMO.
     
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    "Random chunk of nothing"? More like a magazine for his antique-looking machine gun.
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    Highbrow's guns have to be one of my favorite seat weapons from the line. You have cases like Hot Rod and Triggerhappy where one could think "it's some space guns" then out comes Highbrow's guns and it's like "you already know what these are".

    Well, that's just me.
     
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    oh is that what they are? sweet. well either way fair enough. I knew it was some kind of earth machine gun but i didn't know that was supposed to be a magazine. Hasbro's creative liberties and all, it could have been anything.
     
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    Honestly, that's how I'm interpreting the sculpt. My hope is the guys at Hasbro and Takara are just (frustratingly) clever and not just doing things out of pure coincidence.
     
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    I handed over money in transaction for the item in question at a shop :D 

    Seriously though, one of my comic book stores was opening the boxes while I was there. I picked up Twin Twist and Windblade literally three seconds after they were priced up :lol 
     
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    Thanks for answering my question.
     
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    Finally found Sixshot today at Target. 20170703_142317.jpg
     
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    So who's gonna be first to customise a Shock & Ore from this then?

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    FYI Another gem involving Highbrow and his guns, which you may have seen before, is what I like to call the 'jackhammer pose'; combining the guns, and then taking full advantage of Highbrow's ball-jointed arms, and the fact that his elbows can bend inwards towards his body, while his wrists can can fold outwards a little (some of the other deluxes aren't able to do this, or at least not as easily):
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    Still my fav pose of HB :D 
     
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    Oh my god the titan master sitting in the gun! i forget they can do that half the time because i never do it, lol. Its such a goddamn stupid gimmick but i love it to death. bless this line and its bathtub guns.

    "why is there a guy sitting in your handgun?"

    "hes the gun's pilot, duh"

    "fuckin WUT?" *gets shot*
     
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    Spray and pray, boys. He's not afraid of waste.

    Yeah, those guns make Highbrow for me. Not only resembling his original guns (fat, cylindrical tube with a tiny barrel sticking out at the end coming out of a box body), but also having that boxlike peg that makes it more useful for vehicle mode and driving my own imagination (Highbrow, of all Cybertronians, going out of his way to shoot lead bullets and loading magazines), and (in Hasbro's case) being painted in those colors? It makes Highbrow hardcore.

    Also, his movie-esque rendition in 2010 and Fansproject's Browning were fairly mean-looking in terms of firearms choice, gatling guns in their cases, but nothing says "snob" like fielding giant M1917s.
    You can take down the man, but that doesn't mean you took out the man behind the gun.
     
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    Anyone have some Titan Returns Deluxe figures they can post next to Masterpiece figures? I'd like to see how they look scale wise. Thanks!
     
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    DaGarn's Drill Lander! Totally reminds me of him, just with wings.
     
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    I only have Road Rage on hand currently.
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