Looking at Hasbro's youtube channel, and they have G1 episodes, but they don't seem to have the MTME and Transport to oblivion. Or am I missing something?
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Looking at Hasbro's youtube channel, and they have G1 episodes, but they don't seem to have the MTME and Transport to oblivion. Or am I missing something?
No, you're not. It was noted over on TFW this week. Apparently those episodes are indeed present, but set not to show.
If you need them for some reason, I have downloaded those versions of those episodes. I need to get back to it and download Seasons 2, 3 and 4. Because all it will take is some unforseen legal dispute to get them taken offline forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
Also on this note, "A Decepticon Raider in King Artur's Court" is not in their "complete playlist."
However if you do a search for it, it will show up, oddly with comments enabled, so it's not set for the kids setting on YT.
Just on the subject of the Transformers episodes on YouTube. Did Hasbro retcon Beast Wars' episode numbers or does the guy uploading episodes to YouTube not realise season 2 has the TM toys and season 3 has TM2 figures?
I think they don't know TBH, when I was er, perusing and comparing the G1 episodes to TF wikis list I noticed that a fair few of them are numbered incorrectly. It wouldn't surpise me in the slightest to see other ones out of order as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
Following on, I have no idea if this is another example of the people on the YouTube team not knowing what they are doing or if there is something to read into, but in the description of the Transformers Animated episode they just uploaded (again with the wrong episode numbering) they mention TFTM and RID 2001 as both being viewable on the Transformers YouTube channel. It would be great to have them uploaded, but I imagine someone has bought rights to TFTM given there are companies printing Blu-rays of it, and last I heard Darth Mickey still owns RID.
One thing that I thought, was that with the screening of the TF cartoon in cinemas as a special had something to do with it. But that doesn't account for the Decepticon in King Arturs court episode.
I was looking at the many, many places that have Legacy Cybertron Metroplex for $199. For someone that has the original toy from 2005 and thought he was ok, but not amazing is he a decent figure at $199?
I have every Generations Blaster and Soundwave. If I was to use an old Blaster and Soundwave as stand ins for a potential future Action Master Blaster and Soundwave in my Generations display, which do you guys think would be the most interesting stand ins?
Super7 ReAction Blaster and Soundwave would be the literal modern versions.Quote:
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Otherwise, Legacy Blaster for the AM and SS86 for the "main" Blaster? Siege Soundwave since you don't want to transform him but his robot mode is still pretty accurate/
Given we have a Legacy Minerva, do you guys think the mould could be used to make a Legacy Nightbeat or is the bot mode too feminine?
I think they made it much too stylised, a distinct Minerva (and obviously designed with the other fembot uses it has had aforethought), for it to be used as Nightbeat. Plus there's no way to add a headmaster to that design, and I think people would object to a non-headmster Nightbeat.
Well, the last Nightbeat we got wasn't a Headmaster. While I remember people wishing it was a Headmaster, I don't remember people being upset about it.
Question for the Japanese speakers. For a bit of fun I checked out the TF One trailer for Japan. I noticed that Megatron says Decepticon, not Destron. Is this just some sort of a joke I don't understand because I don't speak Japanese or has Takara Tomy replaced Cybertron and Destron with Autobot and Decipticon in the same way they changed Convoy to Optimus Prime?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNkjeIJZbn0
Ever since the Bay movies came along, TT have been dropping the use of Destron/Cybertron for factions and using Auto/Decep. You'll find that Optimus is no longer Convoy and is now Opuchimasu Puraimu.Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
Classic G1 is still using the Convoy/Destron stuff, but anything new uses US names now.
Oh. Have they even changed Seibertron to Cybertron?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
Aside from Gamesmen and Amazon has there been anywhere else that’s getting Tidal Wave, Toyworld hasn’t gotten a titan since Metroplex in 2022 and jbhifi hasn’t put up new Transformers preorders/stock since wave 2 this year, can’t think of anywhere else that stocks titans anymore, just seems a shame that less places are stocking Transformers let alone the big ones
At $319.99:
In stock now, Popcultcha (free shipping), Toyworld.
Pre-order, Ozzie Collectables, with free shipping.
JB Hi Fi has their Tidal Wave in stock, $319 (plus shipping). They've also just advertised a $30 off discount (email code) if you spend $300 for Perks Members.
First of all. I really want Tidal Wave. But given I still haven't found a place for The Nemesis I'm not going to get him unless someone invents a shrink ray.
Second. Have there been any announcements or leaks of an SS86 Shockwave? I'd really like the WFC mould in the sometimers more accurate colour (it was G1 after all) of the MP Shockwave mould, rather than the darker purple most of the releases of the WFC mould have been. The comic version would be fine for me, but the shading effects are not want I'm after.
I've not heard of SS86 Shockwave at all. The Dramatic Capture set with Megatron and Soundwave is probably the closest animation version. My gut feeling is that they won't make another Shockwave mould and will just repaint the WFC one if they decide to do an 86 version.
I was going to get the comics one and ‘clean’ it, it’s probably the best and most affordable option for nowQuote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see an SS Shockwave colouration. He was in the movie and is a more significant character than others that have had the SS treatment. Sorry SludgeQuote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
Random question but does anyone here have a spreadsheet of the G1 tech spec numbers?
I can find several places online that have lists of them with bios, visual recreations, and scans, but not a source that has the info in a format that is in (or would transform into) a spreadsheet format easily.
What do you guys think the chances are for the Japanese Capture Series set of Optimus, Jazz and Mainframe shelf warming are like? I want that G1 accurate Mainframe. But with it being a minimum of $150 for a Deluxe, so shelf warming clearance pricing would be great. :p
I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this. Been reading through the Marvel TF comics for the first time in years and I got wondering, did we ever get them in Australia, back in the 80s and if so, did we get the UK comics, or just the US ones?
I do remember picking up a couple. But since I was only born in 1984 my memory of that era is not amazing so I have no idea how common of a sight it was to see a TF comic in the wild in the 80's and early 90's.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkAxalonSyde
We did. I still have some of them from my childhood. Many more than the US version.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkAxalonSyde
Oh my, yes we did indeed :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkAxalonSyde
I discovered them at issue 84 (right in the middle of Target: 2006). I have good reason to believe that they only hit the Australian shelves somewhere around then.
Why? Because up until that point we (my sister and I) had been spending our pocket money (oh my god the two or three dollars we got each week seems utterly pitiful looking back now :)) on Disney comics (and even at that young age - I would have been 9 when I discovered TF comics - I had already done what so many Disney readers over the decades had done - identified Carl Barks' work standing head and shoulders over everybody else's, even with no names ever being attached). Anyway, I was keenly aware of what comics were out there, even if I didn't care for most of them. And then one week I spotted Transformers, which simply had not been there before.
UK issue 84 is dated 25th of October 1986; that's the date on which it was supposed to be removed from the shelf if unsold (I know that my local newsagent didn't work like that, because I managed to hide that issue, plus a few others, behind other comics until I decided with issue 88 to start buying them - even at that age I was suspicious of Marvel-style never-ending run-on stories that you could never just pick up and read without piles of background). Add around 2-ish months for transport by boat from the UK (yes, that long, and it's true even today of something like 2000AD), and this discovery happened somewhere around late December 1986 / early January 1987.
Of course, I could be wrong, and they might just, for some reason, have never been distributed way out there any earlier.
Still have them all, too.
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Originally Posted by Kranix
OK, good to know. Well, more good for you guys who grew up back then. It doesn't effect me, with the internet making it easy to get them. But it's genuinely interesting to find out what we got, here in Australia. I do hope most places actually got the beginning of Target: 2006 and not just thrown into the middle of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JJJ
This is a speciality subject for me, I was a TF comic collector before being a TF toy collector.
Transformers UK #78's introduction page says the comic is now on sale in Australia, but earlier issues than that were available locally.
My first issues were UK #79 & 80 as a Christmas present, so would have been on sale here in December. I bought #78 and #83 from the Chadstone newsagent after seeing TFTM in the December 86/January 87 school holidays and collected from there on.
Not sure when availability for the US comics started, but the earliest Marvel US Transformers comics I bought were Universe #3 and #4, Headmasters #1, and Transformers US #35. I saw the TFTM movie comic here (but didn't buy) and the digests too (bought three of those).
Both the US and UK comics were on sale at local newsagents until their final issues.
Marvel US G2 were also at our newsagents, but I never saw Marvel UK's G2 books.
Federal Comics, an Australian reprint brand, released a special edited collected version of the first four issues of the Marvel US comic.
The earliest Marvel Transformers issue I picked up from a newsagent was #23.
I don't recall seeing any UK issues pre-Target 2006.
Great info, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
As in US #23: Decepticon Graffiti? So, it does seem we started getting the comics in '86.Quote:
Originally Posted by snaketales
I've got that one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Loved it until I found the originals and disovered just how much had been excised from those first four issues.
Ah, cool, never knew that.Quote:
Transformers UK #78's introduction page says the comic is now on sale in Australia, but earlier issues than that were available locally.
Is Age of the Primes part of Generations? Because the "Generations" logo and the word "Generations" does not appear anywhere on the packaging.
Note that I'm talking about non-movieformer Studio Series Generations; basically CHUG (including Generations Studio Series 86, but no other movie SSs).
tfwiki describes Age of the Primes as the next iteration of Generations and I'm inclined to agree as the toys are clearly meant to be a direct continuation of Generations Legacy, and some toys are even just repaint/retools of Generations Legacy toys. The "Transformers" logo on the boxes are also the same as that on Generations toys. Also, this isn't the first time that packaging has dropped a logo or title but that I've still included (or excluded) toys as being part of it. I'm more concerned with designer intent.
e.g.
- Generation 2, 1995: Transformers toys released in 1995 were done in G2-style packaging, some of which kept the "Generation 2" text, but others dropped it. Laser Optimus Prime's box does not include "Generation 2," but everyone regards him as a G2 toy. Nobody ever says "G1 Laser Optimus Prime" without looking silly. The Power Masters had both G2 logoed and logoless card variants, but does this mean that a Meanstreak on a G2-logoless card isn't a G2 Power Master, while the same toy on the variant card that includes the G2 logo is? Of course not.
- Classics: toys like Classics Ultra Magnus and Skywarp were sold in the same Classics style packaging, but lacked the word "Classics." Also, reissue Soundwave and Hasbro's MP3 Starscream were released in Classics-style packaging, which I personally reject as being Classics... they're not CHUGs.
...so in this same way, I consider Age of the Primes to be the next version of Generations, or at the very least, the current incarnation of CHUG.
So... CHUGHURtSGCWGTRGPotPGSSGLAofP? :p
https://i.ibb.co/FLRYykwY/meme-chugurluw.jpg
You're right.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Generations does not appear on the packaging anywhere. But you know what does?
Generations is dead. Long live ... AUTHENTICS!
LOL :DQuote:
Originally Posted by JJJ