I don't collect Transformers purely to get them all as soon as possible though. I just like collecting the line, and the pace is fine for me. They feel more special as each one comes out, rather than the rocket pace of the 3rd party products that are more expensive, don't quite hit the mark entirely and are not actually part of the line I am collecting.
There is a certain feel with Masterpiece figures, that comes from the packaging, booklets and all that stuff that do really lend a sense of history to the character and toy - which 3rd parties don't have (does not make them an inferior product, just they are not Masterpiece).

Each to their own, but all of these 3rd party efforts are taking away a bit of the shine of what makes the Masterpiece line its own thing.

I don't really understand the Gold rush to get all of the characters just in some form or other, rather than in the actual style you want them to emulate.

Lets face it, if Takara do an MP Hound next year, many will replace their 3rd party efforts with it anyway.

S'all about individual preferences and tastes though  

 

Mines showing same, I'm sure they will end up winding quite a few people up by changing the style but I'm not finding it too intrusive

Also am I the only one childish enough to lough at the name of fanstoys new effort? Willy? Seriously?

Not seen anyone mention gravity builder? I think he looks nice and would probably be a good option if I was up for mp scale constructions.

As it stands I'm out for both and a whole lot of stuff still

 

Pretty much what I've been thinking, only 3rd party figure I have with my MP's now is Wardog and considering moving him on.

I also though the Willy's thing was funny.

Gravity Builder, looks very Warbotron to me. Name change already  

 

Wonder when Andy will have Willy in stock...  

 

Plenty of Willy's in places like Ann Summers, FT reckon it'll be out November......so, sometime around July next year, around the same time we see MMC Overlord  

 

No, it's the same for Supporters and Staff.

Smaller screens will relocate the sidebar to the bottom.

 

I really don't think the new design is that bad, certainly not enough to jump ship to another forum. Give it a few days and it'll be like nothing's changed.

 

It's not bad but like lots of sites, if you are on a phone, you can't seem to get back to the desktop view of the site. It's a massive problem that people don't seem to understand. If I want to view the site like a desktop browser would then let me do so.

 

NP. Glad they got to their new home safely.

It's just the add bar that's too big. It's kinda uncomfortable reading now. May as well go to bed.

 

New devy isn't warbotron. Head sculpts are not right in my opinion, it is what warbotron are really good at.

Reminds me to pay for warbotron. Will get that sorted tomorrow!

Also need to order a fair few figures. I was waiting for in hand feedback but they seem to be sold out or pre order prices have gone already. The dangers of third party!

 

Yeah i got no sidebar on ipad mini. Its nice and clean. I think its fine even if had a bigger screen because it saves reading right across it... I always the first to complain after an upgrade, either im getting soft or yall are terrible. Ok im soft.

On titan devy, i would never get over the arms not having treads included on either side of combined, that would be my first add on buy... Otherwise he looks like a plank in combined mode. Come to think of it not seen him posed much in combined mode. Maybe he is a total plank hmmm.

The individual bots is what has impressed me most and still does. Despite the terribly hollow nature of mixmasters arms and his terrible, like he's half pooping, back kibble(there has got to be a mod that lets you rotate it up so it is not such) you cant get more g1 looking individual constructicons than that. Even Long haul doesn't look too horribly out of scale all of sudden(ok maybe he is)

Liked this picture from sigapore collectors.

 

Join me.

Say wow.

All the best
Maz

 

Looks awesome mate, got any scale reference pics?

 

Is this just a test? Are the ads defo staying this big?
I like the update, but the ads really are too invasive, went from nothing to a third of the screen.

Good work on the rest though.

QFT! this, this and thrice this.

 

Meant be about 37cm tall, so around Warbruticus size.

 

I can appreciate that ad bar annoying people, but, on an iPad, this is pretty damned good! Much clearer and easier to read, and the ads are at the bottom, so they can be seen when quick replying, but otherwise, they aren't in the way. I

can imagine that the moving ads must be maddening when they take up a third of a screen, though.

 

Nah it's just that some of us retailer types are fucked off with third party being shit so aren't stocking them in quantity anymore. Personally I'm getting fed up with getting abusive emails from customers because a 3P item was missing pieces out of a sealed box or had other defects. There will be plenty available if you need to buy once the items are released.

On my screen they are at the bottom which I can imagine must be brilliant for the retailers paying $250 a month to have advertising at the top.

 

The end of the road




All the best
Maz

 

I don't think Willy is a bad name at all, in fact, I always thought Hound WAS a Willy jeep?

 

Back just in time for the Nite Wotch!

Loving the kittens/spiders/kitten-spiders. I think.

Very long trip home, on 4 hours' sleep, so crashed out once I reached sanctuary. Not flying BA economy again, would rather rent a sarcophagus from the British Museum and get someone to push it into the ocean. Still ache all over. Will berate cheapskate travel peeps when I get back to Spiderland.

Wünderthread ist wünderbar. New ad system not wünderbar. Am already tuning it out though, soon I won't notice it at all.

PubeConJuneCon: Can do any day next week besides the Tuesday (will be stuck in the lab) and can also do Monday and Tuesday the week after (flying back to the Arthropod Lands on the 1st; seriously, the place is nothing short of infested, just popped out for a *** at my parents' and it was so weird not to be immediately standing in a cloud of flying things that are at least 25% bitey. It's good to be back!  )

Steampunk Han and Chewie? Okay then: