Power of the Primes (PotP) Appreciation Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by TyrantGalvatron, Jul 20, 2017.

  1. DanLyons

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    It was already announced and confirmed by Hasbro that POTP will only have 4 waves and the next trilogy War for Cybertron will officially start January 2019. We should be getting toys for War for Cybertron by November 2018. Similar to how wave 2 of POTP doesn't "officially" come out until April 2018 but many stores started to get them early in February.

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    FINALLY managed to find some POTP stuff, Windcharger, Liege Maximo, Vector Prime and Starscream, bought all except Windcharger.

    Unfortunately, Starscream has two left arm panels instead of one left and one right. Anyone got one with two right arm panels?

    Prime Masters are pretty great though!
     
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    Still haven't found the Wave 2 Deluxes or Legends near me. I want my two Volcanicuses completed! :cry 

    The Walmarts near me suck, and even the Target and TrUI haven't had anything new in a while. :( 
     
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    Oh the TRU's around here are a mess in regards to figures. I'm shocked they all haven't gottten the chopping block, although it probably helps being a BRU too in their case.
     
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    F18Starscream Commander of the Skies

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    Here in Orlando it is hard to find good stuff. The damn scalpers go in and buy everything up and we the true collectors are left with crappy pegwarmers.
     
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    Lazerwave My Most Prized Treasure

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    I'm going to a swapmeet this afternoon. I don't expect anyone will have them, but hopefully there will be someone who has POTP Snarl and Sludge for sale. Wish me luck.
     
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    ultraman zoffy Out here making whatever whenever

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    The trick to toy collecting is to wait until the "hot, new" thing becomes the crappy pegwarmer. New release hype is the quickest path to wallet destruction and mental breakdown, my friend... =)
     
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    same here. so far, i literally saw wave 1 once, and just legends/rodicron once as well. no wave 2 deluxe, no voyager, no primemasters....
    can't pegwarm if they never reach the pegs....
     
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    Reminds me the ridiculous stuff alleged in Hor Wheels collecting... where sometimes they literally don’t reach the pegs thanks to unscrupulous employees and “collectors. “
     
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    I love these guys. Submarauder is definitely the pick of the pair, inevitably, but there's more to Landmine than I was expecting. I really thought he'd just be Metalhawk in yellow and white, so it's nice to see some unique part on the front of the armour. AND very nice to see a wee paint app on his face. i was really worried the Prime Masters would have no paints apps.
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    True.... and I have noticed Hasbro puts out there Q.C. Issues first. I had to get my springer from Ross to get one that tabbed together perfect.
     
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    The basic theory of many toy collectors is that anyone that buys something from the stores before they do is a "scalper". Personally, if I'm looking in stores for something and don't find it, I just consider the buyer before me to be "faster" and leave it at that. I never drive out before calling ahead though, so I'm rarely disappointed. Lol
     
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    Well thankfully you never see cart-fulls of Transformers or pulls of a half dozen of a rare specimen in one person's haul plastered all over Instagram either.
     
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    Maybe I’m late for the Rodimus party, but well... seeing as I preordered this figure twice and cancelled it twice, the third had to be the one!

    And boy, Am I glad I finally got this figure... not suddenly blind to its flaws and shortcomings -which are there and plain to see-, but still, in spite of them, manages to deliver loads of FUN and channels the character so well, and gotta say, the headsculpts are impressive.

    Currently enjoying the Hot Rod side of the toy, since I prefer not having two Primes sharing presence/leadership B3ACE53D-986A-4236-8850-6711B77A27B7.jpeg 93D8D5B3-A735-4220-AB84-27BED8E59E91.jpeg ...
     
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    When I see that kind of stuff, I figure they just wanted it more than I did. If those folks want to wake up at the butt crack of dawn on a weekday to look for new releases to sell to impatient collectors (which, lets be real, is the reason scalpers exist anyways), shot out to them, because I got real life stuff to do with my time. Anyone salty about scalper sh*t needs to just step their game up if it means that much to them to be "first" on the new stuff.
     
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    Almost forgot to mention Taligate!
    Not much new to discover, as he's a very straight redo of Windcharger, but I love the super G1 head and toy colourscheme. The T:30 version, being such an IDW faithful take, had a much lighter blue on the chest. It's quite refreshing to see his chest in such an old school rendering. Enjoy this slavish G1-ery before we go sideways with War for Cybertron.
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    btw, did anyone do a paddles yet from sludge? because i want...
    Hor wheels. fembot gone wild!

    i get want you mean, but in my local case, we never GOT cases... heck, i'm pals with the walmart toy dep. manager, and he tends to keep an eye out on these toys for me, but he knows better to hide the figures.
    in my book, a scalper is "someone who purposefully grabs rare/new toys/games/others with the sole purpose of getting an unreasonable markup sale" not a fan of those guys. my brother KIND OF does it, but it's usually laptops on clearance. they just sat there...
     
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    Hey all! Thought I'd try something I haven't seen on the boards yet: bulking out Volcanicus with TR Twinferno (LG Doublecross), the idea being that he'd be repainted as Strafe.

    It's not perfect but it does hold in place :) 

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