Hey how long do you think the encore Ironhide and TM Beast Convoy will take to get here from HLJ?
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Hey how long do you think the encore Ironhide and TM Beast Convoy will take to get here from HLJ?
Average postage time from HLJ is around ten days, benben. This is for Sydney and is an average - I've had stuff take 6 days and others take over 2 weeks. Also, this is from the time that HLJ dispatch, not when the order is taken or the card charged.
dirge, is that for SAL or EMS? there's a difference.
which postage method did you choose benben???
i won't be surprised if you've chosen EMS
My bad. SAL.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between these 2 methods? Which one is better/faster/more reliable?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceburn
Robzy, EMS is faster and has tracking but if you're willing to wait use SAL that has cheaper shipping cost. I'm sure Dirge uses SAL and has no problems with that.
Thanks Iceburn :)
SAL is cheaper and slower, but it's not really _slow_ as such. EMS - which I also use from Japan quite regularly (for my eHobby stuff, mainly) averages about four days.
I find SAL represents a better trade off between cost and delay, but my eHobby source uses EMS, and it's not _that_ expensive and at the prices I am paying for the toys themselves, the overall price is good anyway.
Can someone tell me where I can buy these shelves in this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V540KQBvOrE do they sell these at Ikea? Can someone post me a link on Ikea.com for these shelves if they have them?
They're wall mounted bracket shelves which I imagine you can buy from anywhere that sells shelves. Here's an idea - shop around!
Be aware that this kind of shelves requires you to physically attach the brackets onto your walls, which means drilling holes, so you'd better get your parents' permission first and definitely get an adult to help you install it.
There's something that popped into my head today & it got me thinking.
Back when "World 4 Kids" was around, Were they basically the same store for TFs as TRU is today or did they actually stock anything cool?
If I recall correctly "World 4 Kids" was basically a ColesMyer owned version of Toys R Us. I do recall getting some of the G2 toys from them, but they didn't stock anything that other stores didn't, they just had the really high shelves like TRU. :)
They did have a good Toy Catalogue when they first opened, a big bound book with a page full of the current (at the time) Euro-market G1 TF toys. I saved it and am sure I still have somwhere.
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/e...8/IMG_0702.jpg
is this fixable? (the discolouration...)
go here:
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=66
George
thanks muchly!
welcome :)
George
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Originally Posted by benben2142
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I Think W4K is now the toy section in Kmart.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
I can't remember exactly how they replied after i contacted "the then known as" Coles/Myer, But...... I think they said something to that affect as well ...:confused:
About the Catalogue:
I personally liked how they did that Catalogue. :D
One of the things i can clearly remember seeing in that Catalogue are the Aquaspeeders, if not anything else.
Hey so does reprolabels, stickers come with a manual?
No. You use the 'sticker map' on their site to figure out where the stickers go.
Im not sure if W4K were Coles Myer to begin with, but I know that they were "bought out" by them before 2000.Quote:
Originally Posted by G1Optimal
I loved the catalogue, and had to through mine out after my Waterbed broke a few years ago and flooded my old room. I remember going into Blacktown to get Hurricane and Boss with the catalogue in my hands!
Omg it’s been 2 weeks since I paid HLJ and it still hasn’t arrived and it’s been 13 days since order was confirmed GGGGRRRRRRR… HLJ is going to die if I don’t get anything in the mail by Tuesday!
You'd better keep true to your word (you wouldn't be a liar now would you?)
The best way to get to Tochigi would be to fly to Narita Airport. From there, you'll probably need to take a train to Ueno station and you can change for a Tohoku-shinkansen Bullet Train that will take you quickly to Utsunomiya (the capital of Tochigi Prefecture). From Utsunomiya you catch a train, change at Oyama and get off at Sano station, which is the nearest station to where HLJ is.
I have no idea how near or far they are from the station, but I suppose you could try to walk or take a bus or taxi from Sano station to their location.
The next soonest flight you can catch as far as I can tell is on the 8th of February. One-way tickets (because after you get arrested for attempted murder I don't think you'll be flying back to Australia unless the Australian government decides to extradite you) prices range from $636 (Malaysia Airlines, Flight Centre Reference No. AUMH53420/17) to $1549 (Qantas, AUQF53839/6) Economy Class.
You can make an online flight booking here or call 133 133.
Let us know how this all pans out. :)
P.S.: if you don't want to double-back from Utsunomiya to Oyama, you might be able to take a train from Ueno to Oyama, but it'd be a slower regular train as opposed to a bullet train - but the route would be more direct and the ticket would be cheaper too.
benben, international mailing times are always variable. I've had stuff come from HLJ via SAL that took six days, and on the odd occasion, some that took three weeks.
You put way too much thought inot this Gok. It's a bit creepy:pQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
ho ho ho i'd laugh if i didnt know Gok was being serious, thats our Gok:)
At least now I know who to ask for help to when I need something researched....:D:D. Lets see what do i need to know hmmmmm
that's waaaay too much information for Gok to be serious!
Yes imagine IF he WAS Serious :D:D he'd slap you with an encyclopedic volume of a reply to the thread, as well as volumes of PMs :eek::eek::D:D:D.... That'll learn yah.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Saintly
ive read in some places that the g 1 cartoon was meant to be an advert for the toys
In the return of optimus prime he is coloured white to show that he has the immunity to the hate plague, is it possible that white was chosen to tie in with the ultramagnus cab robot?
who voiced pretender jazz?
What's the deal with Pretenders in general? I thought they were supposed to allow tfs to pass as humans but i looked up Bludgeon (after reading the thread about a titanium design for him being dumped) and found he had a skeleton face - hardly a good way to blend in to the population. And the bot inside him turned into a tank, so does that mean Pretnder bots were capable of g1 megatronesque mass shifting? Otherwise it would be one tiny tank...
Pipesqueak, that was the original premise. However the Autobots were generally humans and the Decepticons were monsters - at least in 1988, during the first series.
The second series in 1989 gave us I think only four human shells - Vroom, Pincher, Crossblades and Skyhammer (inner shell). I wont count Doubleheader since two heads make for a fairly poor attempt to hide amongst the crowd.
Bludgeon fits into the Decepticon's monster theme. The only Decepticon I can think of who had a human shell was Strangehold - who was 1989 vintage actually.
i bet BM Megatron used G1 Hardhead as a template for the tank drone design, they are so similiar. Coincedence? I think not
The Decepticons Pretender shells were not meant for camouflage (is my spelling correct?) but rather they used it for added firepower, and armor and shock value ( a psych warfare kinda thing) thus they used the theme of monsters, spikes and all. Such was not the intention for that particular technology when on the autobots end of the spectrum, its for disguise as these shells allow them to "shrink" ( read:mass shift) :D into humanoid sized, well ....humans as seen in the japanese TF series Pretenders. This is so they can operate easily on earth without drawing much attention. Decepticons couldn't care less hence monsters - good for causing mayhem and wanton destruction.
As always the varied way of thinking is very much evidently displayed by both factions with regards to the technologies they use, pretender shells included. Take for example in the G2 Marvel comics. This was thought of by Prime himself with regards to "warworld" - A mobile moonsized battle fortress of mish mashed stolen technology from dozens of conquered planets by the decepts. Prime states in his thoughts - were the Warworld is concerned, He ( in extension autobots) are thinking communication, while Megatron ( in extension decepticons) is thinking weapon.. which pretty much exemplifies it up with regards to views of the gimmicks/ technology for each side. Hope this helps.
Takara initially came up with the idea of having Transformers that could transform into humans, but when they threw the idea at Hasbro, Hasbro suggested instead that they keep the Transformers as vehicles, but envelop them in human-looking shells. Then somewhere down the line a decision was made to make the Decepticons look like monsters.
In the G1 series "Super God Masterforce" (effectively G1 Season 5 - spoilers ahead now!), it explains that the Autobot Pretenders modelled their shells after humans to integrate with humans whereas the Decepticon Pretenders modelled their shells after monsters in order to frighten humans. Remember that the Pretenders came to Earth thousands of years ago, before the advent of mass public schooling/education back when people would have been highly superstitious so they would have absolutely believed that the Decepticon Pretenders were actually demons/monsters with little to no means of combating them with pre-gun age weapons (not even a ballista can be loaded with Sabot rounds! :p Although I'm sure that the Decepticons would have been susceptible to Fetchez la vache trebuchet attack ;)).
You can see here how the Autobot Pretender shells allowed them to be robots disguised as humans in the G1 cartoon.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...pretenders.jpg
(that's right, Phoenix (Cloudburst) looks like Wolverine :p)
In the Marvel continuity, they were never robots in disguise (not on Earth anyway). Zarak and Vorath came up with the technology as a biotechnological experiment (something which Nebulans seem to excel in considering that they were the ones who devised Headmaster, Targetmaster and Powermaster technologies) and made the Decepticon Pretenders, who looked like giant monsters (why not?). Optimus Prime - who was a 1337 cyber character (existing only in cyberspace at the time) h4X0r'D the Decepticons' computer and pwned the technology back to the Autobots, who then used it to create Autobot Pretenders - who were giant humans in armour. In spite of this, the Decepticons still fell for their ploy! (when one of the Decepticon Pretenders complained that the Autobot Pretenders looked too big to be humans, Scorponok replied with something like, "Fool! That only makes their cowardice greater!" - yeah right) - the feint didn't last long... soon after the Decepticons began their attack, the Autobot Pretenders came out of their shell and thanks to battlefield leadership from cyber-prime (online) the Autobots managed to prawn the Decepticons z0mg!!111!1!!1~!11
There have been a few times the Autobots' Pretender shells have worked as disguises - but never on Earth. It worked on the planet Femax, where Cloudburst and Landmine met these giant Amazonian women - whose queen wanted to do Shnoo-Shnoo with Cloudburst. She got real mad when she found out that he was really a robot who didn't possess the correct... err... equipment for which to perform Shnoo-Shnoo with her. ;)
http://www.tfarchive.com/comics/marvel/covers/us53.jpg
Now remember that the only Pretenders who were released in Japan (as Pretenders) were Landmine (as Lander), Waverider (Diver), Cloudburst (Phoenix), Submarauder (Gilmer), Skullgrin (Dauros) and Bomb-Burst (Blood). All other Pretenders that were released in the Hasbro market were not released in Japan - with the exception of the Pretender Monsters (released as Dino Force) and 2 of the Mega Pretenders (significantly retooled and released as Crossformers) - but neither of which are classified as Pretenders in the Japanese line/continuity, so they don't count.
The 1989 Pretenders (the line including Bludgeon) was never released in Japan. I once had a Japanese fan look at my collection and was drooling over my 1989 Small Pretenders... they're not really awesome toys, but the fact that they were never released in Japan made them really special for him (much like a Western fan's reaction to say Raiden or Lio Kaiser) - speaking of which, when the same Japanese fan saw dirge's Lio Kaiser, although he did think it was cool and enjoyed playing with it, he didn't have a fan-fap over it like he did with the 1989 Small Pretenders! :)
But yeah, in the Marvel continuity the Pretender shell acted more like a suit of armour that could be deployed as a remote-controlled autonomous unit to either reinforce the host Transformer in battle, or be used as a decoy. The only downside is that whatever is felt by the shell is also felt even more acutely by its owner. If the shell sustains a mortal wound or is destroyed, the owner goes into temporary stasis lock.
"Fetchez la vache!"
"Quoi?!"
"Fetchez la vache!"
(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Thanks guys - so fast and so comprehensive!
Not in the Shoalhaven:pQuote:
Originally Posted by dirge
Or Sesame Street ;)
http://www.whiterose.org/pete/blog/images/twoheads.jpghttp://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/...ubleheader.gif
I really do like how Doubleheader talks through his two heads separately in an attempt to form coherent sentences and sometimes ends up confusing himself! It's a cute quirk. :D
Dammit. I have to clean the Diet Lime Coke® off my desk now. Priceless :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bartrim