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Sounds like you have figured it out. Thanks, Paul.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Anyone planning on sourcing their Siege Ratchet from the many in HK? How would I go about it?
According to Justowen, his friends over there have been looking for a Ratchet for him, but were having trouble finding them... so the collectors (and scalpers) may have already cleaned out the small amount of stock they got over there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidoofdude
Damn, apparently there were like hundreds on the shelved over there at TRU. May end up being a shortage or shelf date. The flyers they put out apparently said early August. I haven’t seen any on eBay, which surprised me.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Anyone know if Walgreens is a viable source for Ratchet with the help of a forwarder?
He isn’t out yet at Walgreens, nor even a preorder. When/if they go up, you should be able to.Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
Really hoping Hasbro Australia can do something to get him here.
Was Hubcap hard to find here back in 1986-87?
I got as many of the Minibots as I could in those years but never got him. I don't recall if it was because I didn't see him, or didn't want?
I don't think his lack of appearances in the comics and cartoon would have turned me off getting him.
So I was wondering if his lack of appearances was somewhat related to a shortpacking of the toy? Even if it only happened in Australia but not in the US? (Doubtful huh?)
I've always assumed he's unpopular because of his lack of cartoon appearances. There would have been at least one Hubcap per case of Season 3 Minibots and he was unpopular so I don't see supply being an issue. ???Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
The records I have say there was three of him in a case, so he should have been as common as everyone else that debuted in the 1986 Minibot line.
I guess I was curious if everyone bought him and I was just the odd one out who left him on the shelf for reasons I do not recall.
Does anyone know what happened to the Season 2 and 3 Transformers Prime soundtracks? I have Season 1 and would like to get the other seasons if they exist.
I don't know that they did them. I never heard anything about more Prime music CDs.Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
According to TFWiki, there is just that one... and a few google searches came up with nothing as well.
I'm pretty sure there aren't any. If you find them, let me know.
Where are people getting their Omega Supremes from? Amazon is $266 but I haven’t seen any others.
I pre-ordered mine from TBI at the start of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidoofdude
Forgot I actually preordered this guy at HLJ, not ideal at $290 before shipping & gst.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidoofdude
Can you cancel it? I’ve cancelled orders with them before and it’s never been an issue. In fact many times I’ve preordered stuff with HLJ in Japan and BBTS in America and then down the line cancelled whichever order was the lesser value for money.Quote:
Originally Posted by tinyJazz
One from left-field:
We have redecos, retools, repaint, pretool, etc etc...
What is the fan/collector term for the engineering-sharing helicopter Drift and Dropkick molds?
Seems to me the differences are too much to use the term 'retool.'
:confused:
Does anyone have a size comparison image of the original Black Shadow Pretender? I'm wondering how tall he was.
I've been calling these types of toys that are using the same basic engineering and re-use some existing parts, as "new with some recycled parts"... if it the reused parts are less than 50% of the toy. And more recently I've been finding toys that are identical, but have every panel resculpted, which I would call a "completely resculpted"... which I think it is just a result of their more recent design processes, which appears to have everything done by computer now, and that computer program seems to be able to use the transformation "skeleton" and essentially reskins it, while using as many existing parts that they can to save them tooling money (like the arms and thighs of some figures - why spend a fortune on new moulds on those parts if they can re-use the moulds from a previous toy).Quote:
Originally Posted by klystron
I don't have Black Shadow, but it is just Thunderwing with a resculpted shell... if you or someone you know has one of those toys.Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
Comparison pic (of Thunderwing) with G1 Optimus Prime here.Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
Oh wow, he's tiny compared to what I thought. I was expecting PM Optimus Prime in Super Mode size given his status as a Phase 6er in IDW.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
From G1 - do the Triggerbots/Triggercons have the largest techspec cards? There are the biggest ones I have - much larger than other carded robots from the time and larger than the largest boxed toys I had (Optimus or Megatron) for instance. I never had any Citybots or Combiner box sets as a kid, were the techspec cards on them bigger?
I’d have to have a look but I think some of the tech specs on the large Actionmaster & Micromaster bases were pretty big.
I didn't think about those... never had any of those in a box!
I pulled some randomly from my files. Turns out the Firecons/Sparkabots are also slightly larger than average. Combiner limbs are the smallest.
https://i.imgur.com/x3MeMCHl.jpg
Back in the day, my brother and I would transform Ironhide and Ratchet into a one-module robot mode, as show in this photo of a photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/725155...7673654823481/
Did anyone else do this? I'd be surprised if it was unique, but have never seen images of it online.
Note that the missile launcher would be extended out before almost closing the side panels back but you cannot see that from the front.
I've literally never seen that before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan
I reckon it must have happened a few times in the world but possibly was never documented. Or possibly it just sucks. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
We sometimes did a similar thing with Rodimus Prime - it gave him a huge bustle.
Does anyone know if the Walmart G1 Reissue Starscream had some sort of worldwide release, not just USA and Canada ? I recently purchased one from e-bay and when it's arrived it's got the same type of multi-lingual packaging as the G1 Minibots that were sold at cotton on here, with about 12 languages on the box. I bought it from a UK store. Just hoping it's official and not a KO.
Possibly. The multilingual packaging is typical for UK stock. The tfs I bought from TRU last time I was over there were like that.
You have some photos? My Walmart Screamer is mainly French/ English, along with the various multilingual Hasbro contact blurbs that have been a standard feature for years nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Rodimus Cron
They were also available from Asian stores like Robotkingdom etc
No sorry I don't. If it helps the writing on the front top corner of the box is in 4 languages instead of the usual English/French and the tech specs are done in 4 languages as well. It also states 2017 as the year of manufacture not 2018 as I would have expected. There seem to be heaps available online in this packaging but I just cant work out where they're sourced from, certainly not US stock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
Was there ever any canon reason given as to why Skyfire was absent from the '86 movie? Or was he simply assumed to be babysitting the gestalts etc..?
Nothing canon.
Darn!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Thanks!
As it is he was hardly in Season 2 except for a few episodes and in Season 3 all he did was show up to get blown up! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tober
I'm fairly sure I've seen some cartoon production materials telling people not to use the character (due to the licensing issues) and that probably applied to the movie too. Although that note is also against Reflector and he showed up in the movie.
I double checked what that comic spread with Omega, Superion and Defensor showed but even that left Skyfire out.
Probably stuck in ice again.
RIP Skyfire. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
Which comic spread is that? I sorta remember there being a comic adaption of the movie that showed Shockwave's deleted scene...Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Yeah, just chillin' somewhere again :cool:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim Prime
The IDW adapation of TFTM had an extra two pages in the collected edition, you can see it here:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tober
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:TAM_TPB_Gestalt_Fight.jpg
Shockwave was killed off in that adapation too:
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:TFTM_Ma...kwave_dies.jpg
Thanks Paul and Trev. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot