The UK Toy Discussion

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

  1. Xaran Alamas

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    Why? No, seriously. I understand if it's down to personal preference, but in a line that has been hitting it out of the park for show accuracy why should they deviate on what is accurate to her show design? I seriously don't get the hate for female characters with big breasts in general, and as for Transformers specifically it seems bizzare to me that a lot of people seem to fixate on female transformers having breasts being somehow more absurd than any Transformer, male, female or otherwise having humanlike features. Jazz and Prowl have bigger chests than any fembot I can think of off the top of my head even :p 
    Don't get me wrong, I am very happy that in media in general we are seeing more variety in female character designs and not a focus on female characters having to be sexy eyecandy all the time. But it seems as if characters who ARE 'conventionally attractive' or in this case happen to have large breasts are now vilified... how is that fair?
    It's just as damaging to women and girls who are naturally busty or have an hourglass figure or whatever as it was when that was the accepted norm for female characters! Representation matters.
    And I'm not saying Transformers doesn't have a ways to go with fembot toys and more body diversity, but they're doing good and I like the variety of female body designs we have had even in recent years.

    Sorry for the rant but this is a serious pet peeve of mine.

    :lol :lol :lol 

    :lolol 

    I was just coming here to ask that. It's hard to tell with the scale but that certainly looks likely to me. Though seems a bit sucky. Like the concept in principal is good but not at the cost of it looking good on the figure it comes with :-/

    Ahahahah :lol 

    Though also illustrates why I have no desire to buy a Titan. I do not need a toy the size of a small child x)

    :lol 
     
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    Oh man, that Kapow listing for all 10 Kingdom figures....

    (Thinks about how much was spent on postage last night...)
     
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    Is that FOC Bruticus? (sorry to be that bitch)

    some good stuff there, I've seen RTS jazz go for more than £20 on ebay due to it still being the best Jazz to date
     
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    Was just gonna say that "I pre-ordered BW Megatron and Cyclonus with ID Toys in the end. Yeah it was a bit of a chew, but at least I knew they were there. Kapow's site may be more stable, but at least InDemand let people know when stuff is up. Kapow said "we'll do it today" and left it at that."

    Then Kapow starts listing stuff.

    The lesson is all sites have their issues and I'm a whiny man-child.
     
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    “AIRWAVE ACKNOWLEDGES. PURSUE HER, RETRIEVE THE CUSTARD CREAM.” 652DFAC4-FE35-45F5-9C21-DDA7A118F0A2.jpeg
     
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    It was an entirely deliberate typo to make sure that people were reading the post and you sir have passed the initiative test.
    Have yourself a thread no-prize.

    That’s my story and I’m sticking to it...:oops: 
     
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  9. TheBritsonian

    TheBritsonian Wildly, Impulsively buying Transformers!

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    I'm probably going to put in the blaster from t30 legends prime upside down, I think that looks better than that one tbh, and if the higher up part is 5mm i'll give the core prime's rifle to t30 instead
     
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    SWEET ENOLA GAY, SON!?!

    Funnily enough that's solidified my resolve I'm doing nothing about Kingdom yet, the prizes I've got my eyeses on are the Netflix 3-packs come December, and keeping my Radar pinging for the ER stragglers Thrust & Runabout, maybe at a push the DOMINUS GOC set dependant on what type of "Master" is in there and who it is.
     
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    Do we know if Vertebreak is female? Something about the facesculpt makes me think female. It kind of reminds me of the Flamewar on that IDW2.0 cover recently, the one with Flamewar, Shadow Striker and Slipstream. Scrappy little lady look. Can't really explain it any more than that.

    Well whatever the case, guess I'll be headcanoning them as female :D 
     
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    TheBritsonian Wildly, Impulsively buying Transformers!

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    Alternatively for anyone who has dx9 Dutch, his rifle looks great and is 3mm, I might just take all of Dutch's accessories and put them on core class prime because I personally don't much care for 3p legends anymore
     

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    Sexist! This is Twitter, right? ;) 
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    Coming in with another question, since I was looking up online stores in the UK that stock up TFs:

    Anyone here ever used geekynerdtoys? Is it reliable or scummy?
     
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    I get a Fembot vibe from the figure myself, and the hood with eyeholes look of head reminds me of someone from prior TF lore I'm almost certain, it's on the tip of my brain but I can't quite place it.
     
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    No Kingdom Megatron on Kapow yet?

    edit: up now....

    So do I order all 10 for £195?
    Or just what I know I want (so no fossilisers or core Prime) for £161.

    Hmmmm
     
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    Aw bless em, they think hiding the listings from us will stop the figures from going out of stock in two minutes!

    I did the maths, in total it’s £198-ish for the lot of them, so you’re not saving much by buying all of them at once from Kapow. (If you were gonna sell off the ones you don’t want, you wouldn’t be making that much of a profit.)
     
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    Had that exact same thought. As the character has no background we can make them whatever we want.
     
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