The UK Toy Discussion

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

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    If Rodders finalised Prime Alt mode had kept more to those "Future Truck" proportions with the huge trailer truck wheels on a sleeker space cab, I think I could've dealt with that.
    Maybe with his hot rod exhausts as smokestacks for the cab part, and a few more tweaks here and there.
    Kup in TFTM:
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    Speaking of Kup, how old must he be to be considered an old timer? I know most of the cast hibernate for 4m years but Shockwave seems no worse off in that time.
     
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    Are you sure it wasn't a Lion Bar?

    Well, me and Mrs. O just went halves on a Nintendo Switch! :D 

    Getting Pokemon Snap first cuz I bloody loved that game on the N64.
     
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    [​IMG]X-shelves by Brendan Mitchell, on Flickr

    Added Reese, Lady Deathstrike and Arcade to the villains shelf and slightly tweaked the main X-Men lineup following a shelf dusting session.

    Storm has got blu tack on her feet because I'm fed up of the gummy legs causing the figure to fall over and take several others with it.
     
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    Couple of new additions, looking forward to having a mess with them.
     
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    Yeah. I mean, Ironhide is also supposed to be old but he's not got a saggy old man face. (Although in Shockwave's case, I'm not sure how that face could get wrinkles.)

    Maybe Kup's just got beaten up a lot and received a rubbish repair job every time?
     
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    Yeah or maybe it’s all those cigars lol
     
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    To be honest, I never liked the idea that Transformers live for millions of years in the first place. Thousands, sure. But millions is just hyperbole and doesn’t add anything of value to the concept.
     
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    Have you seen DX9 Carry? That thing is a wonderful Rodimus, it has zero Hot Rod about it and screams Studio Ox Rodimus Prime all without ever needing or wanting a trailer. And its an amazingly fun and intuitive transformation for MP scale with a minimal backpack considering the trailer folds up in there.

    I've had a G1 Rodimus since 1989 (last day of Primary school, a kid gave me his Roddy to play with my Countdown for an hour) and I've never done anything with the trailer. Heck, the toy is basically an Oscar, I've had shampoo bottles with more points of articulation.

    All that said, I do want Kingdom Rodimus trailer and all, just not for £90.
     
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    robotmel *All must transform*

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    Dinobot Island Toys have the Matrix Workshop spoilers for the Siege Lambo mold for a tenner each. I got one for Sideswipe but mine snapped coming out of the packet :( 
     
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    I thought I recognised that vehicle for a moment, and realised I had it confused with something else that would also do for Rodimus, and at the very least also needs to be a TF of some sort - the Michelin PLR/Citroen Centipede michelin_plr-53738f1c5beb0.jpg
     
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    Good grief the drugs these designers had to be on back then. That’s awesome.
     
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    Adding to that point, I'm sure someone (Chris McFeely?) has done some investigation and it looks like the original belief that Hot Rod and Rodimus have different robot mode character models is probably false and its actually the exact same design just with a different head and colour scheme. So really the only differences between the two are a different gun, some wrinkles and a trailer.
     
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    Mine uses the dotm leader's shield. It works really well for him.

    Looking at that bottom shelf.... i can hear the music.....
     
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    That thing is wild.

    I'm also still stuck on that idea of TFTM but with Bumblebee becoming Prime as a coming of age story (I seriously may try writing this as fan fiction) and imagining his Prime mode as a VW Camper Van still tickles me :D 

    You're right!

    Man... would love a Thunderbird/Transformers crossover...

    "I do not believe this is a healthy coping mechanism."

    Maybe he peaked too soon? I mean he killed an ancient evil from the dawn of time, hard to go up from there!

    You get one JoyCon each

    Imagine an AU with the usual Nemesis and Ark thing happens but in the time they were asleep the war ended and by the time they actually get back to Cybertron it has changed drastically with Maximals and Predacons running around?
    Though I gather in a way that's what they did with the G2 Comic with Jihaxious's Cybertronian faction?

    They don't make cars like that anymore!

    And this might be why! :lolol 
     
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    Honestly, I’d buy a Hot Rod styled car. That design is sick af.
     
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