The UK Toy Discussion

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

  1. drmick

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    Thanks for the tip. I blummin LOATHE these credits scenes...or at least the lack of signposting for them.
     
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    Because I am a Fool, I watched these edited HighLowlights of Fort Max's showing in the Machinima...
    ...and got Steaming Mad again at how the Now-RT Team haven't improved at all despite a clearly, if still not that big, less modest budget for their production efforts. As well as poor Max getting punked, there's that wee bonus snippet of a Cullen voiced OP getting utterly wasted (in multiple senses) as well.
    All of the exact same flaws of WFC are there, with them terribly, awfully failing to compensate for budget by writing. It's almost funny how obvious the wheel-spinning padding of the shorts was from the example of Max's Simpson's Gag-esque very...gradually...joining...the...fray float along, then when he arrives they didn't spare any cash for his shin guns so the only weapon he uses is his wee helipad/cannon side leg gun, and when he does actually use the Master Sword it's easily batted away by MarkHamilltronus!
    Trypticon got a good show in comparison, and by the time it came out he was probably the contemporary Titan release but, dangit, what a total flubbing of the other prestige, high pricepoint flagship figure of the line. I think this is where I began to suspect DeSantos just straight up prefers villains.
    Ah, well, at least that's me steeled for the stupidity that will likely occur in KingdOwOm.

    Keep forgetting to mention that I have taken a punt on another pair of sets of the Shockwave's Lab SL-88 Roads that are hopefully winging their way, they're so great BUT I do wish they'd do some alternately coloured runs of them in, say, basic Black, or some factional-y options like Autobot Orange/Red, and Decepticon Purple. Cybertronian Cities need some fresh colours, dangit!
     
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    Randomness...

    PS Plus has Black Ops 4, WWE Battlegrounds and Innocence: Plague (or something) for July.

    The Marvel Legends Fantastic Four wave will also include High Evolutionary and Psycho-Man.
     
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    Just prior to the pandemic Shaw was on my ever increasing list of players United should get rid of ASAP as he never stayed fit for long, always seemed a bit overweight and was too timid going forwards.

    It's fair to say he's bounced back in some style, he's just had his best season for United and got back in the England squad and is now one of only a handful of current United players that doesn't have the stench of mediocrity all over them.
     
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    Oh. Yeah. That sort of behaviour is crazy...
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    #WindbladexChromia4Life!
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    #AlsoVelocityXNautica4Life
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    The elevator music type is best aye. Soft tones help too. As you say you don't want to be drowning out the person talking.

    For some reason I find that very sinister and I'm not sure why.
     
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    Ooof. I'm assuming it's a form of cover somehow? But I don't know how many times I've had a WTF moment with card charges that weren't actually anything at all.
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    I did sell it fella, sorry
     
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    Got a new toy... I'm pretty pleased with it to be fair. Now I'm wondering if I should keep Maketoys and Deformation Space on pre-order... probably will.

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    It's more the obsessive need to ship TFP Optimus and Megatron, or Starscream and Megatron, or (for some reason) Animated Blitzwing and Bumblebee (it's been a while since I watched Animated, so it's possible I missed something? Maybe?). There's people out there who don't just take it seriously, but who are so deep down that rabbit hole that they no longer remember what it was like before they started inhaling rabbit droppings.

    I don't want to take the joy of shipping away from people, as I know it's an important way to find engagement in media where the representation may not go far enough for everyone. But at the same time it rubs me up the wrong way where people force different relationships where perfectly decent ones already existed. Like, shipping Velocity and Nautica doesn't contradict anything, and fits in quite nicely (but makes me even more sad about Skids). But, say, shipping IDW Chromedome and Brainstorm is (to my mind) kinda icky and wrong when a key part of both their characters as written was their romantic attachments to others. It's also super-mean to Rewind.
     
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    First (and possibly last) figure in a while:
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    Probably a long shot, but if anyone is considering parting with the trailer from the Nemesis spoiler pack, give me a holler as I have need of a spare :D 
     
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    Holy crap I was not ready for the visceral nature of that flashback!

    The whole episode was gold and that mid/ post credits scene is sublime!
     
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    RoboW4rrior298 Maximum blast!

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    I’ll keep you in mind mate, I’m unlikely to have space for it in a few weeks so I’d rather it go to someone who will get use of it :) 
     
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    Ah right, yeah crack ships are wild. And like, TFP OP and Megs is something I think if it ever had a chance of anything more than platonic, it was before the war as they were friends, but after everything that has happened by the present of the show? Yeah no.
    Poor Skids :(  but yeah, I get what you mean with your Chromedome and Brainstorm example... though funnily enough I never really picked up on anything between Brainy and Perceptor but I digress... I must admit though with Nautica and Velocity I have a tendency to start imagining female characters as potential couples when they've shown the slightest affection for each other x'D but I do think there's certainly the foundation for something there :) 
    As for icky ships, the type I dislike the most are hate ships where people ship characters who have literally shown nothing but distain for each other yet somehow people think that would be healthy? There was a particularly bizarre example in another fandom I was in back in my Tumblr days where people seem to ship it so hard they cited events that never even happened in the show itself, when in the show itself one of the two characters was an absolute psycho!

    With Transformers my least favourite common Tumblr ship is Windblade and Starscream... just... no. At best Windblade comes to pity Starscream but she also downright detests much of what he stands for. A mild form of hate ship I guess. Probably best summed up as, in another life perhaps they could have been friends.

    I'm assuming the post quoted is in relation to Slammer?

    Oh and I've opted against getting SS Soundwave. I looked up some reviews and while the size comparison didn't have TLK Megatron, it did have the SS Tank Megatron and man is that Soundwave tiny, the head would be a pinhead on Voyager or larger!

    Speaking of Megatrons, I'm thinking I might turn my Cyberverse Megs into some kind of Tank Drone bot or something.
     
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    We've not been fully briefed on what its about, only that it's not really a Tesco thing, more to do with individual banks/cards (Mastercard, visa etc.) don't know why Tesco are the first though, but eventually it'll be all petrol sites with pay at pump, not just Tesco :confused: 

    Anyway to keep on topic, I'm a little bit bummed (but not surprised) that Smyths pushed back their date on most upcoming Kingdom figures, was kinda hoping I might be able to pick up a Rodimus in the next couple days.
     
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