Like I said, he didn't "officially" win the vote according to Hasbro, whether that was the reality or not.

 

Having watched PvP's Scourge video, I feel further vindication in cancelling my pre-order. That's not a £55 toy, no matter how cool he looks.

If he goes on sale for a voyager-ish price, I'll bite.

 

Unfortunately out of my budget but thanks for the offer!

 

Does anywhere still have Legacy Dragon Megatron i stock? Mrs Toadimus was going to get him for me fkr my birthday but we can't find him anywhere

Speaking of Megatrons, I'm quite enjoying GI Joe Megs. He's very much a GI Joe toy first, but if you accept that he's pretty good fun. The HISS tank is spot on and I quite like the headsculpt. The cannon/articulation are obvious niggles, but I like him. I wouldn't pay full price for him, mind, but for the hefty discount at Game he's worth it

 

There was a couple at my local Smyths last time I checked

 

I had a look in the one Falkirk in my first proper venture out since the op, and nada. There's one in Clydebank according to the website so I might have to send her there!

 

Just Amazon for a whopping £63, far as I know. Not only will he get a package refresh though, there's no way there won't be a fire sale on him anyway like every modern leader.

I was thinking about some of their nonsense last night and it's like where do you start?

The Skids mold is apparently the new Lambo or Seeker despite being a shelf warmer. Also completely highlights how many Selects were jammed into the main line.

Core class has been way overproduced AGAIN.

Trying to start a new subline like Shattered Glass? We've put the chief bad guy in a Selects package. G2 Prime? We've stuck his nemesis in Selects.

Package refreshes on leaders and deluxes that had to be half to a third of the price before anyone bought the remainders... sweet Liz Truss. I feel sorry for any retailer getting more G2 Primes in. Even Smyths.

Between the above and the fact they don't even waffle full on cavities now while asking £26 for a deluxe, it's probably safe to assume the Transformers budget has been slashed. Hell, look at the state Haslabs have been arriving in. They need a new CEO again.

 

Thon isn't gravy. It's some kind of devilment

.... ingestion by any means really.

Preach brother

Hells yes. Still that daddy titan.

 

It does, doesn't it.. And my experiences with Thorilla and his wolf like zoid friend/generic IDW background lad can only suggest further wonderful things from them as individuals.

However, and I say this as a massive Bayverse design fan, what the fuck am I supposed to look at at any given time when trying to evaluate that thing as a whole? That combined form sends my eyes on a quest I don't think even it knows the outcome should be.

 

From the looks of it, Strabismus.  

 

Good afternoon Thredolysers! Am amused by ROTB "Core" Voyager Rhinox's disgruntled-looking glare:



And here's a somewhat less-focussed pic of the accompanying Rotbop.



Am sure nobody would be tempted by these "Core" Beasts and then the Studio Series versions too. Ha, whoever would ever even think about that?

Heavendevilment! It's got bacon in it.

 

But... its not brown!! Mental note made to add bacon bits to gravy

 

It's not much like actual gravy either, it doesn't pour so much as flow. Like lava, or perhaps industrial sludge. Delicious industrial sludge, certainly helped to keep the cold out. As much as anything could.

We lived off free hotel breakfasts for weeks, it was great. Bacon sludge-gravy was the best bit!

If you find a way to replicate it in these green isles you will be carried through the streets to your TV appearances by a throng of stamping chanting gourmets.

Hmm. I wonder if it would go in custard? Let's ask Kitchen Cat:



As you can see, he's taking it very seriously!

 

I am wondering... G1 fans, the core Generations audience, are meant to be a dwindling species, especially because of cheeseburgers.
We now have a cohort of young adults in their twenties ready to spend in Bayverse nostalgia.
Rise Of the Furries gives us a G1 OP (like BB, of course). One would think that today a generous part of the target audience is more familiar with Bayverse OP? I mean, even when BB came out the ratio should have been similar, cheeseburgers are quite tasty.

 

Generations, too.



(As an aside, apologies my photos are always just 'toys randomly on my desk snapped badly with a phone' quality. The snaps you guys take are always mind-blowing!)

It is amazing, but yeah - I love a stylised take, but this thing is a bit much for me. Very very cool, but perhaps too very very spiky.

Very interested in the Legends-scale version, though...

His little brother Grand will always be tops in Paving Towers.

He looks like a disapproving Victorian schoolmistress who's just noticed Optimus has let his chap out on the box art again.

As I understand it, thanks to China a noticeable majority of the target audience is Bayverse...

 

Note: my Transformers Legends LG-EX Metroplex and all my WFC Earth-style seekers (T&S, plus coneheads, plus Sandstorm, plus G2 Ramjet, plus Coronation Susie) are all going to ebay. 15% off by buying directly.

 

Hah, nice way of rationalising it  

As I'm making Quintessa the first beast-former too, I'm kind of tempted to say her beast mode is some kind of space squid or octopus type critter as a nod to the Quintessons  

I will share my little Google Doc of my designs on this Seven Primes concept at some point but right now my head is doing weird things so I can't check over it first.

Heh, fire sale.

 

So here's a question I was pondering while falling asleep last night - are the Transformers the worst at fighting in the History of Everything?

Never mind the fact that a war that lasted millions of years (thanks, 80s Marvel number-generator) would leave every participant a) shellshocked into insanity; b) an expert in literally everything rendering specialised roles redundant; and c) so bored of fighting you'd have sorted peace out eons ago - just how do you have a war that lasts millions of years? Even if you only killed one Decepticon every thousand years it would have been over ages ago. Exactly how rubbish at actually killing each other are they?

The timescale needs redoing into sensible numbers*. Creatures being 'millions of years old' is just stupid.

*And don't get me started on how literally nothing on Cybertron changes in the four million years the lads are having a nap in a volcano, but three hundred years later everything about Cybertronian society and its inhabitants is completely different...

 

Thanks for asking, I am an expert in Transformers lore, and I was morally present when every single concept about TF history was generated, actually I have to drop this post in a minute to go listen to Da Costa's comeback pitch.

The key to understanding the Transformers' lore is Bumblebee.
See, Bumblebee is a prick. It's useless, it's yellow, and it smiles all the time like an inebriated, emaciated parody of Winnie the Pooh.
Just look at this face


and you'll understand.
See, nobody wants to stop the war. Stopping the war means having to do something else. And that something, sooner or later, will mean having to sit down and spend some quality time with Bumblebee.

You say "more has changed in 300 years than in the millions of years before", but of course.
When Transformers discovered humans, that was a game changing discovery, and they stalled their war as long as possible to have the time to crack the code.

And when they finally found compatible partners on Nebulon, everything changed.
Transformers had found a chance to survive, for the first time in millions of years of war, misery and Bumblebee.

Thanks to Headmasters technology, both Autobot and Decepticon forces had perfected the ultimate survival technique: when everything else fails and you are stuck in a conversation with Bumblebee, you can throw your head away and start running away, leaving Bumblebee to converse with your decapitated, deaf body.

Have you ever wondered how Ginrai found an "abandoned Optimus Prime body" on earth? Now you know: Bumblebee wanted to chat.

Now excuse me, Mike is calling...

 

I think some of the fiction has tried to contextualise it as Cybertronian perception of time being different, but that falls apart when they're interacting with humans all the time.

I think some fiction has everyone on Cybertron in stasis for a similar amount of time due to lack of Energon so technically the war wasn't actually going on for much of that time until Megatron got back in contact... but yeah.

As for the volcano nap, I actually think it'd be really interesting for a Transformer story to ACTUALLY go with that idea. Like Optimus and Megatron continue their fight on Earth but when they contact Cybertron they find the war has been over for a very long time, society has moved on, heck maybe there aren't even the traditional factions anymore and they're viewed as dangerous relics of a bygone era?

Edit:

 IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!