The UK Toy Discussion

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

  1. Convoy

    Convoy 90's Robot

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    nice! is that the one with the rubber skirt?
     
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  2. Astro-Furby

    Astro-Furby Life is strange

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    Oh I would love for someone to do the ME trilogy justice in terms of merch...the original figures were crap, the PAK ones were good but styleized and limited in numbers. The Andromeda figures were ok but again you only got the 2 Ryders.

    Hopefully, with ME4 on the horizon, someone who knows how to make figures will get the licence
     
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    barry Well worn member

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    To be fair, it was Roberts with the problematic societal norms, but I take your point. I'm already moved on.
     
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    JSpaced10 Not Predacon: PREDAKING!

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    I wasn't around for the "Wars" Trilogy, so I'm just discovering a LOT of cool stuff, like Titans Return, Combiner Wars and... ok, what the hell is up with Power of the Primes? Nevermind. It's OK.

    To answer your question about stability, no. I had the articulation of the cab/ trailer squashed up as for his robot mode. So with that popped out, his hip/ groin unit and wheels are all pretty much level.

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    "Bunny ears" are an aesthetic choice of course...
     
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    Xaran Alamas The Snow Guard

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    There was a point in time when IDW had both the Doctor Who and Transformers licenses :cry 
     
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    Ottertron Moon-faced assassin of joy

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    I expect, no, DEMAND, drunken attempts at a spider/crab/tank fan mode.

    Cannot WAIT for Megatank!! Hopefully next month, after CNY.

    You see the white one more than the black version but they're frequently reduced. I think Omegalock had the white version for under £70 for quite a while.

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    Speaking of Omegalock, my XTB Perceptor and Definitely-Not-FansToys-Guv Acoustic Wave tapes arrived this morning (Acoustic Wave himself is due in the next hour!).

    Haven't had a chance to transform Perceptor or look at his accessories but I can report that there don't seem to be any of the issues straight out of the box that others have reported and also the boy has quite some heft to him!

    Been transforming the cassettes whilst I'm working and they're mostly pretty intuitive and look pretty cute, aside from Frenzy's shoulders, whch I'm not too keen on. Laserbeak is brilliant though! :) 

    VERY much looking forward to getting the big lad.
     
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  7. w00dimusPr1me

    w00dimusPr1me Well, that's just Prime!

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    No, I think it's an older kit as I didn't realise when I ordered it there was a 40th anniversary HG that looked a little nicer (but this was only £12 I think so not that fussed).

    I've got a HG Gouf and a RX-78-2 to play with also.
    Can't go too mad as space is a proper premium in my study right now so the MG/PG's will have to wait.

    Also stock is still a pain in the backside it seems most places.
     
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  8. G1 Mirage Owner

    G1 Mirage Owner My alt. mode is an Antikythera Device.

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    Another Dinobot?

    Going to be 'toy colours' isn't it?
     
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    Lothar Hex Perverted Sociopath™

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    I got mine brand new fromOmegalock for £65. Think he's about 70ish there now?

    EDIT: Nevermind he's sold out.

    Murder-Wife & Slaughter-Husband.

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  10. MyTea Boc

    MyTea Boc Do you smell that?

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    Oh what could have been....

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    They aren't the only ones - sure Marvel had both on their roster at one time. In fact, pretty sure Deaths Head cropped up in the doctor who comics at one point.

    EDIT: google to the rescue

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  11. motorthing

    motorthing Too old for this $hit

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    Holy Flurking Schmitt!!!! Screenshot_20220125-132335.png

    So if anyone else took a speculative punt on Big Evil coming through.......it's paying off.
     
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    I was, and I think always will be, a huge Dredd fan amongst all 2000AD achieved, it doesn't always get it right but when it does it is absolutely bang-on, mainly for me in the great one-shot episodes rather than the longer series that always seem to drag on (I recently re-read Cursed Earth and save the President and dino bits and a few good fights a lot of it could have been done elsewhere, I also picked up a few Anderson collections and the longer stories do drag), the underwater heist Dredd story is a particular highlight and the art was at times a revelation, in all its forms, from painted Bisley and precise Bolland to the poppy Sampson.
    Nowadays I will just pick up what is cheap or hallowed to me (Doom Patrol, Faust, Swamp Thing, Tick).
    I have recently dipped in again, always liked a vicious Christmas story, but I was disappointed as the lead JD story this Christmas has old Stoneyface shifting a whole planets culture to nick the resources.......the exact opposite of such as the Tweek ethos in earlier issues, it does irk me when established characters act out of character (later Era Homer Simpson and recent Hellblazer I am looking at you), and the other stories aren't exactly on fire so not sure I will stick with it.

    Nicely done.

    Possible clearances from my hoard for a trade-in visit to the shop in WSM this weekend...?
    • Star Wars TF?
    • The non-core Animated cast?
    • 'Classic' Rescue Bots...admittedly not sure this exists....
    • Doubles of figures mainly movie...but such pretty doubles!!!

    Laters.
     
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    Robots in rubber skirts - there's a Manga comic for everyone. And a Netflix series almost nobody will watch, but that's because Netflix.
    ...

    My recent Headmaster acquisitions don't have instructions so it's off to see Emgo (I genuinely can never remember how transformations go these days short of the cars) :oops: 
     
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    I agree. The great MEGA-EPICS like Oz stand the test of time for me, but none of them had the lasting, and deeply subversive, impact on me as something like 'John Cassavetes is Dead'. A Dredd story I still show to people when I'm trying to illustrate the power the medium had.
     
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  15. Embee Prime

    Embee Prime Well-Known Member

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    Marvel UK -
    I used to get both Transformers and Thundercats comics reserved at the newsagents. I still have all the issues with my surname written on the top by said newsagent, which no doubt hurts the value, but just adds to the nostalgia hit for me when I look at them!
    IIRC Thundercats fizzled out, with the later issues just reprinting older stories, before it got cancelled.
    However, Transformers was still going strong when my Mum cancelled my subscription as I was "too old for comics" now... This was at issue 321, meaning I missed the end of the Edge of Extinction story (issue 322), the biggest story of them all! Randomly I did get issue 323 somehow, so I saw some of the fallout, but then nothing, it took me years to finally discover how the story ended. I've still never forgiven my mother for that one!
    10 years or so later I picked up the Titan reprint "End of the Road" and I was able to finish the story I'd started way back in 1986 with my first issue (62 for anyone wondering).

    2000AD -
    As a kid I was aware of 2000AD, and I did get an issue once when on summer holiday. As I already had the previously mentioned Transformers and Thundercats every week/fortnight, my parents weren't going to buy a 3rd comic regularly for me, I was lucky to get 2! A lot of kids I knew certainly didn't get regular comic books from their parents.
    My Dad, being the car boot sale legend he was during the 90's, bought two huge job lots of 2000AD progs when I was a teenager, so I did eventually get to read a lot of them. This was when I was firmly starting my collecting hobby and even my mum realised that I was not "too old" for comics or toys (and never would be! :lol ).
    So many great characters in those books - obviously Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dogs, ABC Warriors, Slaine, Finn and Button Man to name a few of mine.

    As others have said, season 3 was only if you were lucky enough to have Sky. I wasn't.
    I think like a lot of us who were around at that time, my exposure to the cartoon was mainly through the episodes made available on VHS tape. Before the season box-sets were released on DVD, I remember wondering how the series had progressed? How did it end? Little did I know that the Rebirth VHS I'd lovingly watched so many times held the answers! I had no idea as a kid that those episodes were the entirety of season 4 and the end of the series (outside of Japan).


    Depends which G1 continuity you refer to. In the comics, Fortress Maximus was just a big bot, he'd suit Commander scale in the current toyline, so maybe Deluxe/voyager in your proposed Micromaster line. Whereas Metroplex should be the biggest as the only true city-bot in Marvel comics (Trypticon was also 'just' a big bot). I would have 'Plex as Titan scale to interact with the micromaster scale bots accurately(ish).
    G1 cartoon (US) you never see Plex and Max side by side, but I'd say they're meant to be the same size.
    Going by toys though, yes G1 Max was the biggest.
    Hasbro have definitely missed a trick over the years with the Micromaster concept. They should have done classic characters as Micromasters, not only increasing desirability but doing exactly what you have said and allowing for better scale and interactivity with Titans and other larger bots. I suppose we had a few World Smallest figures that sort of did this.
    I agree with your concept and would buy the hell out of that line! :) 
     
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  16. RoboW4rrior298

    RoboW4rrior298 Maximum blast!

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    Anyone want any of the following?

    £150 posted for MP Starsaber
    £80 posted for MPM7 Bumblebee
    £30 posted for MAAS toys Skiff

    £35 posted for Warbot Defender because he’s incredibly loose
     
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  17. Convoy

    Convoy 90's Robot

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    Thanks guys, thats a good guide price!
     
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  18. Seeaich

    Seeaich Inaction Master

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    I know you said, "Nevermind." buuuuttt from the outside looking in it would seem that Team Warden actually did their best under a seeming budget crunch, because the line is hugely ambitious, if somewhat lacking/limited in execution.

    For the duffer's like POTP Jazz (among the worst potential QC-fail flappy shoulders but otherwise a radical reinvention of the CW carbot limb that exceeds the originals massively if not for those darn shoulders, and taunting non-wrist articulation on mushroom peg wrists) we still got a couple of the best CW-type combiners Abominus (Near perfect execution of G1 with knees, and a bit of beautification, only marred by the experiment with absolutely atrocious pre-applied foil stickers on Hun-Grrr, & sorely lacking a big gun), and Orthia (the 'Screamer torso is unduly hated IMO, and I'd still take a do-over CW box set of Lio Kaiser swapping out the "Dezarus" Sky Lynx for a proper Leozack torso from the mould/engineering), speaking as one of the four or five people that actually love the way they managed to get a passable G1 'toon Fembot bod to work for combining (the POTP Female Autobots work way better than the Torchbearers for me for not including the flawed Lambo Limbod, or Jumpstream's awful alien head, it's so wide and bulbous it makes her look more like some kind of Quintesson offshoot to my eyes. Plus give me mismatched individual character colours over that awful mint they ended up any day!), it's still a travesty Chromia got her G1 alt mode that all the others were clearly based on WITHOUT a combiner peg but still a godawful rucksack of kibble!
    I believe that's the fallout of his solo issue 8, their first meeting was rather more explosive, and gorgeous because Geoff Senior innit?
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    Sadly, cannot find the iconic page of the Doctor using a confiscated-from-the-Master Tissue Compression Eliminator on DH which is (the IMO genius bit of creativity) how he transitions from Transformers to human scale. And I doubt it'll get reprinted anywhere else soon. A shame, yes?

    So instead of a studio series splurge, it's a £20 3P LEGO punt from me to set the scenery of Metroplex:
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    MOAR Non-LEGO-but-for-LEGO Transit crates for stacking, with an overspill of an energon spill, and some drums with liquid effect cores I can paint clear pink for some raw energon drums for the Power Station. Ignore the last pneumatic life claw, that's picked up on a whim as I reckon I can 5mm post-ize it for a neat additional gadget mitt for Inferno.
     
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  19. G1 Mirage Owner

    G1 Mirage Owner My alt. mode is an Antikythera Device.

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    IDT just posted that they are expecting Lift Ticket on 1st Feb.
     
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  20. CZ Hazard

    CZ Hazard @DiabraveSid

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    Marvel UK did it. Sort of.

    For those who might not know, Tom Baker's 4th Doctor met Death's Head, he's the one who shrank DH down to human proportions ready for his wider Marvel Universe adventures.

    Edit: @Seeaich best me to it in much grander fashion. Good stuff.

    False memories. I distinctly remember Tom Baker's scarf and even Jelly Babies. My brain failing. Timeline makes much more sense with #7.
     
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