It will be interesting to see if Swoop comes back as a Transformers name after Age of Extinction, of if due to the film's level of exposure all Swoops are now Strafes.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
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It will be interesting to see if Swoop comes back as a Transformers name after Age of Extinction, of if due to the film's level of exposure all Swoops are now Strafes.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Noticed for the first time tonight that the AOE Generations toys don't promote the Collectors Club anywhere on them. Thrilling 30 Generations still do though. I figured the AOE Generations toys were still the collector focused toys but maybe Hasbro thinks otherwise?
Or maybe the AOE toys will be in so many overseas markets they know there's no point promoting the Club to an international audience...
Legends Jetfire, the TakaraTOMY version of Generations Jetfire, is called Jetfire! :eek:
I thought that TakaraTOMY would've called this toy "Skyfire," as they did with Henkei Skyfire. I initially wondered if this was the first time that Takara has called a G1 Skyfire toy "Jetfire" (as the G1 toy was never released in Japan), but a cursory Google search reveals that the Takara version of G2 Jetfire was also called Jetfire (I also did not know this, I'd just assumed that he was called 'Skyfire'). :eek: Wow.
This is something that I knew, but the forgot for ages... AoE Voyager Galvatron's front fender section can fold down! This helps to slightly reduce the size of his already unsightly backpack kibble, and cover up a big gap on the back. When I looked back at my old photos of this toy on the review thread, I can see that I actually did fold the fender down in early photos, but then didn't do it in subsequent shots! :o I only just rediscovered this while playing with the toy today. ;)
Or maybe Fun Publications lost their license and the packaging people have advance notice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Theres nothing quite like getting a MISB Transformer from last decade to make you realise how crap the packaging was. Need a bloody chainsaw to get the toy out of the comically oversized packaging.
I find it interesting to note the cost cutting measures that have been implemented over the years.Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
The G1 'Chinese reissues' from the early 1990s. Only realised until a few days ago, thanks to fellow forum users.
A couple of things I didn't realise (or just forgot) from the second volume of the Japanese 2014 Generations book that I got today...
The pre-Transformers Ultra Magnus (called Powered Convoy), had a transformable buggy that looks a little like Trypticon's purple car Full-Tilt.
The pre-Transformers Ultra Magnus also had a different groin-plate/cab-connector, which didn't allow the cab to stick out as far, so couldn't do a tight enough turn.
There was a 3-pack of the pre-Transformers Ultra Magnus with a red/white Mirage and a black/white Sideswipe (ehobby did a homage to this one in about 2003 called Clampdown). The red/white Mirage looks freaky.
Armada Overload was called Ultra Magnus in the Japanese Micron Legend version, so I wonder what TakaraTomy would have called the white/blue Hasbro redeco of Overload (called Ultra Magnus by Hasbro) if they had released it.
MP Ultra Magnus' cab detaches from the trailer.
They include a Choro-Q type toy of Ultra Magnus from 1986 that I've never seen before, or can find on google or tfwiki... so will need to translate the text to find out more about it.
They had 33 different (by mould, colour, name) Ultra Magnus toys from Hasbro and TakaraTomy listed, which makes the new Masterpiece one number 34 in 30 years of official Transformers-Branded toys. (Ultra Mammoth would make 35 if you go by name variations/puns)
I only just found out that Brad Garrett (Everyone loves Raymond) was the voice of Trypticon in G1... Mind blown :eek:
Haha, woah what :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by MayzaPrime
Yeah, something very few know because he had the one minor role (in terms of lines) and so long ago.
He does a lot of voice work, so it probably isn't that unusual to hear that he did a role in Transformers.
Was it mentioned during one of his Australian interviews while he's in the country?
I wrote it in a song ten years ago... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MayzaPrime
He was in Canberra last night, and my mate had a meet and greet with him, then watched his show... apparently he was hilariously inappropriate, and my mate being in the front row right in the middle was picked on all night. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Was checking out some video reviews of Legends Convoy (Optimus Primal) to see how it differentiated from previous uses of the mould.
I have had an original Ultra Beast Wars Primal that I got second hand from my brother years ago and never knew that those little black knobs on his biceps were switches to change what motion the trigger on his back caused the arms to do, until seeing it done in the video review.
I always thought that he only could spin his forearms with that trigger. my mind was blown. an almost 20 year old figure, that I have had for probably around 16 years and I never knew it
You should be ashamed! :p I mean, it's a terrible gimmick, but come on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Firestorm
Generations Jetfire does have light piped eyes; and the eyes also line up with the helmet visor too. However the light pipe effect is rather weak on this toy, although the overcast skies we had in Sydney today didn't help much. :o
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps31113457.jpg
I know, I'm an embarrassment to Beast Wars fans everywhere :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Verno
I never got to see any instructions for the figure and to me it just being primal was cool enough, I never worried about what it could actually do, it was primal that was what mattered.
plus my brother never let me play with it while we were kids and once I got it there were so many missing parts that I just put him on my shelf and never really fiddled with him :/
he's missing pretty much every piece that can be removed (Chest/gorilla head, all missiles, swords, mace, even the covers to his shoulder cannons is gone. even though it still looks nice, I may try and get the new Legends version some day if I can find it
Hydradread was originally intended to be called "Hydrodread," but the correction never made it through, thus he shall forever more be Hydradread. And the night. ;)
That's a fun fact. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Well this is cool!!
http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...pshqt0r4s6.jpg
If that's intentional, it's extremely cool!
It is intentional - it was first found around the time of Astrotrain's release, but I can't remember if it was Ben Yee or someone else who found it.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraMarginal
It's a lucky accident. Hasbro.com described it as a "complete design fluke". It's no longer there, but the info is archived here: http://tformers.com/transformers-spr...9293/news.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Zommael
AOE Rollbar is an odd one I noticed lately. In the packaging art for Breakout Battle and the one step changers it shows a head similar to the Crosscut toy, yet the toy's head is based off Skids.
The Gaia Unicron & Optimus 2-pack arrived today, and I was surprised to see a snake deco painted on one shoulder of Optimus.
I'd heard this 2-pack sometimes being referred to as "year of the snake", but since there is nothing on the box anywhere of YOTS, I just thought it was just some dealers using the acronym to help sell it as it came out at about the same time as YOTS Optimus and Starscream.
It's not a clear image of a snake either, as I'd have trouble working out what it is and its purpose if I wasn't remembering the YOTS label from almost two years ago now.
It's still an odd thing to slap onto the toy without anything noted on the packaging (that I could see). And I haven't seen the snake deco on Unicron to make it a matching pair.
Prime and starscream were YOTHorse, not YOTSnake....
Sorry, I meant Omega Supreme not Starscream. (Optimus has been released in all four Chinese New Years, so can get confusing keeping track of them all)
That is so cool! In fact I think I might have to get those figures now :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by aduthie1980
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Originally Posted by Zommael
So does it lock in place or does it just sit there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sky Shadow
I'm thinking about it myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mythirax
Come on griff, post some pictures!Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
This has been around for a while, and probably even posted here before... but these things are always worth re-posting, for the new and old fans.
The 1985 Sears Christmas catalogue, featuring toys... and it's a LOT of toys.
A couple pages of second year Transformers, plus MASK, MOTU, She-Ra, Voltron, GIJoe, GoBots.
The thing that always amazes me though is the GIJoe Flagg aircraft carrier... at four times the size of Fortress Maximus... it's over a foot taller/longer than me.
Now that's the sort of catalogue I'd love to shop from... I'd be so poor if I was this age back then. :p
Constructicons, form... um. On second thoughts, no, don't do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
http://s1.postimg.org/5kdfdmkcf/1956...3aa22f45_o.png
I cannot make out the prices for the TF toys. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Click on the image and then "download this photo" on the far right, and then click on "view all sizes" to select the size you want to view, which includes a size large enough to read the writing and prices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Megatran
It never dawned on me before... the reason why the Exo-Suit is called an Excel-Suit in Japanese.
Excel Suit = エクセルスーツ; ekuseru'suutsu
Exo Suit = エクソスーツ; ekuso'suutsu
...and I'm sure many of you know what that means in Japanese. ;) :eek:
P.S. e-kuso could arguably translate as "to acquire ****" (得糞→糞を得る) :o
Not the strangest Devastator I've seen today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sky Shadow
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8563/...1ec7fd57_b.jpg
That catalogue is gorgeous. Also great to see mistransformation spans back through the decades.
Not limited to Transformers either, some of those Go-bots look like they're in pain.
Talk about leading with the crotch.
After a few drinks, we're all like that on the dance floor. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Thurmus