Erial/Ariel and Dion are a bit of a surprise. I quite like how we get mainline leaks early on, sating our collective lust for insider info, but then all the sublines and capsules keep dropping short-notice surprises too.

I won't pick this up but I'm keen for them to keep making obscurities, because it keeps belief alive we'll get, say, Velocity or Tappet.

Profoundly off-topic... But who is your supplier?! If they're taking new customers I'll be on the phone to them tomorrow :O

 

I might get the War Dawn pack in a sale like I did with the HIB one

 

I’d say it would be sale material. The question is which one?

Pulse Warehouse sale at non-sale price?
eBay Hasbro Toy Shop at fair sale price?
Ashley’s Game Emporium good sale price?
ToyDip/Bargain Max add a voucher on top to make it even a better deal sale?

 

In the UK you'll be talking around £40 whether deluxe (read 'accessories you won't use') or oversized. Slush Head and Whiplash are store exclusives likely making them £50+ here.

It could have been a 500m dollar brand again within 3 years on the toys alone if Mattel had actually made the figures available to everybody from the get go. Many never started collecting Origins because the figures were and are a nightmare to buy. Masterverse began life as a questionable aesthetics toyline to a toxic TV show and even now they're still making completely unnecessary design choices so often people pick and choose at best. I mean it's bad when month to month a die hard like me continually asks if it's worth it.

 

Hope your mum feels better soon mate.

Hope you find a better job soon dude

Hasbro hates us wildlings!

well that was unexpected. But welcome!

ark is good! Not perfect but does the job!

Oooh you're wrinkling my brain.

 

From front page


“TRA GEN ECOMM SDCC 1
Product Number: F6964

TRA GEN ECOMM SDCC 2
Product Number: F7015

F7828 TRA GEN SDCC DTC
Product Number: F7828

And a Amazon Exclusive

Tra Gen Ecom Capsule Voy Nacelle
Product Number: F6962”

Quite hyped about Nacelle.

 

Sorry that was a Typo, I mean Fossilisers.

 

Convention exclusives can just fuck the fuck off as far as I’m concerned. Being a massive hypocrite, of course, I do own two (and want another).

Nacelle sounds interesting, though, curious to see what he’s like. He won’t be the Siege mould of course, or a core Seeker, so I won’t be buying him - but interested in the lad’s progress nevertheless.

 

Nacelle me!!!

 

Hopefully Nacelle is an actual Voyager Earthrise Thrust repaint. then at least we won't "Only" be getting Ramjet.
Maybe they could do a Shattered Glass 3 pack sometime at least that is one way for people to get the moulds.

Incidentally since the Green/Blue/Yellow Siege jet 3 pack is on sale again I will just mention my original one has now discoloured but I think I actually prefer it now it look less plain now it's 2 shades of the same colour across them all.

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Re: The new reveals I find that smash changer like Optimus Primal interesting as he looks quite a lot like he's based on Beast Machines Optimus Primal specifically and not the Movie one "as such".

The alternative Scourge is kinda interesting too, I like the design, shame the implementation is terrible, but if I see it on heavy sale I'd buy it.

If anyone remembers the oversize Beast Hunters (Cyberverse Commanders) as large Voyagers that sort of style for a kids line I'd be 100% up for as those were genuinely good toys the compromises didn't make them useless as figures. & the Optimus had all 6 wheels that moved too.

Maybe they need to do something more like that and less horrible gimmick stuff that is fun for like 5 minutes until you discover it has less play value than a Rescue Bot has.

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I'm happy with my sale purchases, I put off buying Gi Joe Classified Barbeque from the Hasbro eBay store as I didn't much care for him to buy him up until now but as less than Half Price I'm very happy with him. I hope the Dicelings I bought are at least reasonable too (i.e. not a pile of suck like the Core Class Dinobots)

 

Yay, finally a Nacelle from the Earthrise Thrust mould (hopefully).

 

Got a Pulse email for the Retro Zartan figure I'd always intended to cancel because he was attached to Retro Snake Eyes, and since Snake Eyes was still available for PO I cancelled both and just ordered Snakey alongside the Valkyrie pack for a July decision... (if you believe them).

 

Nabbed a Skullgrin from Hasbros eBay sale, and while I was on Amazon, got Legacy Animated Prowl.

The TF shopping never stops.

 

This week's haul!

Hero is born: It's a good set. I like the remolding they did and I'm glad I got the better end of the QC stick. Looking forward to the War Dawn pack.

SG Soundwave: I don't see any major yellowing, though the joints aren't as good as the Netflix release. The metallic blue is lovely though and I like his headband. The cassettes are also great, with Laserbeak's colours being cool and unique and Ravage being Glit.

Drizzt: Drizzt himself has good articulation, lots of details, and I really like his accessories. Guenhwyvar is cool, though it feels rather light and a bit awkward to articulate. Overall a solid set.

 

As someone who got the VHS tape of "The Key To Vector Sigma" & "War Dawn" for my birthday back in the day, I'm definitely down for Ariel and Dion; hopefully, we'll get the Decepticon flatbed truck and cargo cube 'bots to complete the cast of this episode  

 

Stratosphere looks really cool in the art, I like the design. Was hoping Transit would be a bus, but can’t tell what he is from the pic but I’ll look again after applying caffeine to my system …

He has a Decepticon logo, a hammer, and might actually be a bus….

 

This has made me want a line of Transformers asking 'what if' they'd reawakened in the USSR...

 

I like G1.5. I like Skyquake.

So I'd like some more Predators please.

And Thunderclash. If we keep speaking his name the Algorithm will hear........

 

"Right, so, let me get this straight..."

 

Good morning Thredalii, as @Genodectes said we may finally have a bus-former!

No idea if true or if actually in the flick, but paging @MyTea Boc



Also the designs seem to be veering into TLK territory, which pleases me greatly. Bay on the Downlow!