Well got a 2nd 59 'days' warning. This time for Q Magnus. So had to ship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaxius._
Let's see how many hours until Shockers arrives :rolleyes::p
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Well got a 2nd 59 'days' warning. This time for Q Magnus. So had to ship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaxius._
Let's see how many hours until Shockers arrives :rolleyes::p
So I read Transformers: Exodus (apparently the story of WFC/Aligned continuity)
It's not very good
47 hours :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
It might just make it. I just got the payment request from AmiAmi :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
I had the same thing with BBTS last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
I asked them to hold off on my Pile of Loot because I like to have loot hit around $900 AUD before shipping and the Combaticons were just about to hit (and would have fit quite easily within the dollar limit). However, BBTS said they couldn't hold off on the order and it would automatically ship at 180 days.
The day after I got my shipping notice, the Combaticons landed. :rolleyes:
I shipped a bunch from BBTS voluntarily last December and the next day a bunch of the 2016 bots came in like a month early - was kicking myself!Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim Prime
I read through that as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by prjkt
It was a chore
i've heard that the exodus novel contradicts itself and the games/tv series it is supposed to be bridging multiple times...is it also just badly written?
It's all this person does that, that person does this, not much character development at all for anyone other than PrimeQuote:
Originally Posted by philby
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Originally Posted by prjkt
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If you can still find them anywhere read The Keepers trilogy based on the Dreamwave comics. They are far far better. Heck, even the likes of Viewfinder & Spectro get more character development than most of the big names from the Aligned novelsQuote:
Originally Posted by prjkt
What? The Keeper trilogy? Oh Primus that first book was bad. So bad.
I only got about halfway through Exodus but at least it didn't feature gratuitous graphic descriptions of humans being killed by giant robots.
I may be the minority that liked them. Don't have the third book though.
Did you read all 3? The sequels are less human-death intensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
And I think it was quite interesting to show just the kind of collateral damage and even accidental loss of human life that TF fights on earth cause
I've heard that the second and third books are better (and different author I believe) but book one was enough for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
The collateral damage angle could make good fiction, but I was put off by the first book where I was reading something that thought explicit violence, swear words and sex made it an "adult book". Not to mention the sloppy editing.
I think I saw a MP-11 Skywarp sell on Ebay for $US599.
This is madness!
I'm in the same boat as Paulbot. The first book was such a pain to read that it put me off reading any more.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...pitdrink-1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Ralph Wiggum
Proof that some people have more money than brains.
Jazz has certainly seen better days
(I saw the preview image and that's what came to mind)
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Originally Posted by Paulbot
Well id recommend you both read the second and third books as they are much better and all 3 make the Aligned novels look even worse than they already are, but it's a moot point as they have been out of print that long you'd have a bugger of a time finding them anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
I bought Book 3 from a clearance bin many years ago. Just because I didn't like it didn't mean I didn't buy it. ;)
Unless i am wrong, the Autobot army, including all the japanese g1 transformers and those introducsed in the IDW books is 185 characters.
Not a huge army.
Looking purely at all the G1 Autobots released during G1 - just Hasbro's - and excluding all repeat characters (e.g. Goldbug etc.), then there are a total of 239 characters. This would be larger if we included Takara and non-toy characters, but it would still not much more than say roughly 300 characters. But yeah, even that wouldn't be a big army. Even the Spartans had a great force than this in the Battle of Thermoplylae*.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Scream Man
But I see them as being the 'hero characters' in the Autobot army, with the rest being populated by generics. I do wish that they would release generic troops for the Autobots, similar to how the Decepticons get say Vehicons. :o
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*Although there were 300 Spartan warriors, they were also reinforced by 300 Spartan slaves (hoplites), various Peloponnesian forces (e.g. Arcadians, Corinthians etc.), as well as various Opuntian Locrians (e.g. Thespians etc.), bringing a grand total of up to 7700 fighters. Although this was still outnumbered, as modern historians estimate the Persians to have had up to 300,000 soldiers.
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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Autotroopers and Autorooper says hi.
Thinking about the Latin terms used by IDW -- real vs fake Latin.
Conjunx Endura
* Conjunx does indeed mean "spouse," although it is spelt "coniunx" in Classical Latin, as the letter J did not exist in the original Roman alphabet.
* Endura is a Neo Latin word that comes from the actual Classical Latin word induro, which means, 'to make difficult.' So "coniunx induro" means, "a spouse that makes things difficult." :rolleyes:
* Some people, including tfwiki (although I can't remember if IDW has done this) incorrectly pluralises Endura as "Endurae." The truth is that 'Endura' is an uncountable or mass noun and there is no plural for it. An examples of uncountable nouns in English include information and milk.
e.g. "That's a lot of information", not "informations" etc.
Amica Endura
"amica" means friend in Latin, but only a female friend because this is the feminine nominative singular form of the word. A male friend would be called amicus, so a male Cybertronian's BFF would be an Amicus Endura. Also, the stress on the Latin word amicus/amica differs from the English stress on descendant words amicable, amiable and amity. In English, we place the stress on the first syllable (e.g. amicable = AM-uh-cuh-bull), but in Latin the stress falls on the second syllable. So Amica should be pronounced, "ah-MEE-kah," and not "AM-mi-kah."
To be fair, using messed up Latin is nothing new to Transformers. Optimus Prime should possibly be either, "Optimus Primo," or "Optimo Primus," and "Ultra Magnus" should probably either be, "Ultro Magnus," or "Ulter Magno." Ultra is feminine. :o
The new Rodimus and Galavtron set, along with the Autobot warriors, the battle on the planet of Junk and the Cyclonus and Scourge sets make up a good range of the movie cast, but there's still gaps.
What are the odds for:
"Mission to Earth" Platinum Edition set - 3 deluxes and 1 legend: battle damaged deco Ratchet, Ironhide, Prowl and Brawn
"City Under Attack" Platinum Edition set - 1 voyager, 1 scout, 2 legends: battle damaged Wheeljack and Windcharger, and Bombshell and Shrapnel
"Friends Reunited" Platinum Edition set - 1 voyager, 1 deluxe, 1 legend: redeco FOC Grimlock, Perceptor, and Wheelie
"Jettison Some Weight" Platinum Edition - 3 deluxes: Astrotrain and battle damaged deco Thundercracker and Skywarp
"Coronoation" Platinum Edition set - 3 deluxes: redeco Starscream (with new helmet), Ramjet, Thrust
:)
+ "Get On With The Ceremony" Platinum Edition set - UW Constructicons with tiny trumpets (and elbows to use them).
I was just thinking that! LOL :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime
This is good comedy...Quote:
Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime
#sorrynotsorry
Bad Comedy- Tr Galvatron and a Black and grey Starscream (classics mold) with a crushed crown and burnt cape
Oh damn it. I forgot:
"Moonbase Outpost" - 3 legends Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Gears, RTS deluxe Jazz and CW Laserbeak
Not the greatest set. Maybe with a MP Laserbeak!
(Gears is there. I almost put Grappel into one of the sets too!)
And on that thought, those who are me there
"Cutscene" Platinum set - 4 deluxes: Tracks, Sideswipe, battle damage deco versions of Mirage, Red Alert
On a roll!
Planet Quintesson set- Deluxe Hotrod ( :( ) TFP Deluxe Kup (new head) Quintesson (Energon Alpha Q) and Sharkticons from either the rumoured Gnaw or Energon Sharkticon
Also
Light our darkest hour- T30 Springer in a Rodimus Prime deco (no sword so no helicopter) MP10 Matrix, Battle damaged (or perhaps a lava deco) TR Galvatron and the Unicron head that came with Primus
Forgotten Dinobot set -- empty box, although with a tray cutout where missing Snarl should be.
The 'Heroic Nonsense' or 'Nooooo' set.
Battle Damaged Ironhide, Ratchet, Brawn, Prowl with Wheeljack and Windcharger thrown in for good measure
That sounds awesome :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
To compliment that
The new bots
(Toy accurate decos) Hot rod, Springer, JunkionsX2 , Perceptor, Cyclonusx3, SCourgex3
And
The City Commanders- TR Galvatron and Classics Magnus (perhaps a City Commander armour reissue ;) )
Let's face it, we all know what we really want: The 'Innocent' set
An official set of Quintessons. A Quintesson Judge, Prosecutor, Guard, Switch Thrower, Alicon and Sharkticon.
"Me Grimlock kick butt!" set! Somehow a set of G1 Dinobot reissues coming in a Unicron butt shaped boxset. We can then finally say that HasTak gives an arse about what collectors want! :p
Speaking of G1 reissues, and molds recently available, I would seriously be interested in:Quote:
Originally Posted by BruiseLee
Platinum Series box set release of the Anibots! Simba (repaint of Razorclaw), Clump (Headstrong), Pardo (Rampage), Shriek (Divebomb) and
Thump (Tantrum).
(And they'd double as SG Predacons for those fans)
There's an entire Hasbro product placement scene in season 2 episode 5 of 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'. It's very Transformers centric and features the Leader Starscream figure and namedrops a whole bunch of other Transformers pronouns such as Prime, Megatron, Mark Wahlberg, Sky Lynx, Trypticon and the Allspark.
It's a little difficult to determine how much input Hasbro had into this scene. I wouldn't have expected the writiers to namedrop a more obscure transformers like Sky Lynx and Trypticon (which are conveniently on the shelves at the moment), but at the same time the rest of the dialogue seems to reference the movieverse more heavily which is more of what I would expect of the writers.
My guess is that Hasbro simply dropped off a pile of toys and the writers worked from there, mixing in whatever pop culture knowledge they possessed about Transformers.
I wouldn't mind an Autobot shuttle set:
-Universe Ironhide
-Universe Ratchet
-Universe Prowl
-Generations Brawn (Gears redeco, makes up for the Titan Master)
Well giving in to temptation paid off today :D
Stuck in Bathurst whilst dealing with a fairly large family issue and whenever we visit here I try to find one TF to take home with me at the end of my trip. So far both the Target and Big W have had sweet f'all :rolleyes:
Went to Woolworths this arvo to pick up some stuff and noticed they had RID 1-step changers that werent there yesterday. I didn't really want them but figured it was my only chance to get a TF for the trip so grabbed a Springload. It was $18 or so which is way too expensive for a toy I don't want but I figured what the hell. When going through the self-service checkout it wouldn't scan. The service lady came along, couldn't fix it so I got the toy for free!
My wife said she had to go to the same supermarket that arvo to get some stuff I had forgotten to. I told her to grab a 1-step changer Quillfire whilst there on the off-chance it worked again. It did! That's $36-$38 worth of TF's free for me - yay! We didn't ask for it, apparently it's store policy :)
I'd feel guilty except for how Woolworths monopoly (along with Coles) is hurting the Aussie farmers on how much they can expect to get for their meat and dairy produce. And I figure I'm probably paying at least 2 peoples salaries at Hasbro with everything I buy each year so I can take the odd windfall when it happens :D:p