What types of 3rd party stuff do you get?

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by DocSeth81, Oct 9, 2015.

  1. DocSeth81

    DocSeth81 Well-Known Member

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    What types of 3rd party stuff do you get? I know some people only get the "new" characters like Steel Core or Glacierbot out of respect to Has/Tak and not breaking copyright laws. Some people only get upgrades to figures. Some people just get the 3rd party accessories. What do YOU do?

    I'm pretty open to getting anything and everything. the only line I wont cross is getting something unpainted (aside for a gun on shapeways) and I won't get something that I have to take apart the transformer to do. I am just not confident in my abilities to do that. So the Goldbug add on to Classics Bee I want but I'll never get, and heads I am afraid of taking off.
     
  2. Slave IV

    Slave IV more wealth than you can imagine!

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    I'm only interested in certain G1 characters and I will buy any version of those characters from any company provided the design is to my liking.
     
  3. Alteron_Sheng

    Alteron_Sheng 'Tis an Kitbasher & Elder TFW2005 Supporter

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    Mostly whatever fits in my (mostly generations) collection and/or is the best representation of a character I want. I tend to only have one toy per character, so I want the best version (for me) there-of^^
    But yeah... I prefer a generations aesthetic, but I'm fine with a fair amount of variance too, as long as the toy's high quality and looks cool^^
     
  4. deaculpa

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    MP, with a dash of whatever i find cool. e.g., warden, 3rd party revoltech, and also the new SD citibots. all my gestalts are technically classics sized, like MT Giant and FP Collossus.
    hastak is almost nonexistent to me, last offical MP i bought was soundwave.
     
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    This is me all the way, though I do buy Legends sized 3rd Party too. The only Masterpiece 3rd party bots I'm considering are Maketoys Hydra and Buster since Takara won't likely make them.
     
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    I'm "open" to everything. I used to have a TON of 3P classics-styled figures, but have moved almost totally over to MP, so my purchases at the moment are 3P MP-related (accessories or full figures). I don't have a strict one mold per character rule per se, but apart from Optimus that is how it is in practice. Since I dabble in some other action figures and lego to an extent, I end up being fairly selective about my purchases (for transformers and everything else) - only so much money to go around.
     
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    I mainly buy upgrades for Hasbro/Takara figures, but I'm starting to get into buying the figures.

    Base on the 3P figures I own/will own, I'll buy:
    * Figures I find look pretty nice (Warbotron "Swindle", Generation Toys "Devastator")
    * Figures of characters I like/interested in who official figures are crappy to me (Microblaze Creations "FOC Onslaught", Maketoys "Fallen")
    * Figures who may never get official releases (Mastermind Creations "Vos" and "Kaon")

    The only kind I don't see myself ever buying are Masterpiece style figure since they're mostly too big.
     
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    Oh I buy legends as well, as I love a lot of size variance^^ Also, YEEEESSSSS on Hydra and Buster. I'm hoping their color scheme will be the first one out^^
    For MP... well, characters that I WANT to be larger tend to be MP due to the scale there-of (Shockwave, Seekers, Dinobots, etc)...
     
  9. Shogen

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    Legends mainly now. Figures I find cool that hasbro hasn't made, I stay away from "mps" now.
     
  10. Electro Rush

    Electro Rush Just a guy waiting for the perfect Whirl

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    Right now I'm mostly interested in MP figures and the legends scale stuff. I'm mostly done with CHUG though I'll probably get MMC's Impactor and Overlord to complete my Last Stand Of The Wreckers shelf.
     
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    Mainly stuff I have other plans for or I just simply like how it looks. Though price does have a huge factor in it.

    One of the plans I have is to use figures that represents characters in my fanverse that survived the Great War. Naturally most of the updated Dinobots are too much for me, but Planet X worked for me. Got Slag, Snarl, and Swoop to go with my mainline Grimlock.

    When it comes to likes, that's when stuff like MMC Hexatron or MT Swerve comes in. I just really liked the looks of the figure.
     
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    Whatever is closer to the IDW comics.
     
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    I'm pretty much done with 3P MP except for MT and FT (and when their is competition between the two MT wins). Even further I'm pretty much done with season 1&2 3P MP figs from the aforementioned companies because Takara still trumps all for MY masterpiece collection.

    My main focus is matte finish 3P CHUG. More specifically everything MT, FP, MMC, UT, and Warbotron. I'm giving GT a chance and I pretty much buy all TW stuff as well. Also I'm really digging 3P legends at the moment, but IF is starting to lose me with the cybertronian stuff and the fact that they're ridiculously overpriced compared to the DX9 legends and not as good of quality (IMHO of course)
     
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    I pretty much collect MP or MP-ish stuff.

    I am about to buy my first 3p upgrade set though, for cw Dev when it comes out.
     
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    Mostly MP figures and combiners. The occasional non MP figure that catches my eye.
     
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    Mostly IDW stuff for me.
     
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    I'm collecting certain characters, mainly in the CHUG scale. :) 
     
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    Masterpiece and some of the Legends.
     
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    MPs only, mostly of the American G1 Sunbow cartoon. Maybe a few of the characters from the Japanese Headmasters series but I generally avoid the Japanese continuities.

    That being said, I wouldn't mind if 3Ps did some toy only characters, like Whirl or Seacons, but only if they were Geewun.

    Also, add-ons, like replacements for when Takara fudges things up (MP-21 replacement head for Spaniel) or just fun little extras (Dr. Wu's Rambo add on).
     
  20. Cyclonus79

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    For the most part , MP figures that I feel Takara will never , EVER , in my life time get around to making. FT's Dinos so far are my main concern. Also I own an Apollyon ( which I can't wait to replace with an official release ) .