Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

[SilverDragon]

How exactly do the G2 Colour changers work? I was watching the commercial on YouTube and the colour change appeared to occurr instantly, and in the exact shape of the water splatter (which, considering the paint turned white, looked extremely unfortunate). Does the colour change occurr that quickly?

Also, do the G2 Dinobots go for less than their G1 versions?

[damnyouhussies]

It was that hot/cold water technology that was all the rage in that period of the early 90's. In my experience it was never that accurate it when it changed, it would be quite a slow bleeding process. Also whatever the chemicals used seem to die quickly and the gimmick would cease to work.

[canofwhoopass_87]

Lol yeh I had one when I was a kid. Far from what they had us seeing with those crazy commercials at the time I'll tell you that much. Mine had to sit underwater for hours before anything remotely exciting happened. Half of the car hood changed colour...that was about it.

As for the G2 dinobots, I believe the silver (or g1 style) g2 dinobots, the blue grimlock and green slag + snarl tend to go for cheaper-than-G1 dino's. Maybe $25-$40 loose complete each?

I'm pretty sure the red g2 variants of slag + snarl go for a bit higher, with the torque grimlock being the rarest at about $60US+ ?

That's my understanding anyway. Maybe try the "What's a good price?" thread.

[d*r*j*]

...do the G2 Dinobots go for less than their G1 versions?

Firstly, the price of G1 dinobots fluctuates pretty wildly... especially if you look on ebay UK. You could assume that a normal G1 dinobot (excluding swoop) goes for roughly $100 including postage in reasonable condition and complete with weapons... Usually G2 dinobots are cheaper than $100, but hardly ever come with nice/ complete stickers. The main problem with G2 is that most american sellers that sell these don't ship out of america.

There is some discussion on this here;
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=3755

[bruticus]

anyone bought one of these?
mine will be the US release max, and i know he aint coming with a sword, so im looking into this as an option.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-20t...3286.m20.l1116

im not sure if what i have is the same as the one in your link, but my unofficial master sword came in a beautiful black hard case with velvet lining, the blade is made of hard resin, its slightly thicker than the original japanese master sword, slightly more rounded sword tip and the handle is made of die cast metal with a very very sharp tip at the bottom...

In fact, im quite surprised how my one ever passed through customs all those years ago...

It fits well in fort max's hands in sword mode but because it was top heavy, omega prime and mp prime could never hold it properly in spear mode....

too bad the one you want is unopened, otherwise, id ask for some more detailed photos from the seller....

[blackie]

im not sure if what i have is the same as the one in your link, but my unofficial master sword came in a beautiful black hard case with velvet lining, the blade is made of hard resin, its slightly thicker than the original japanese master sword, slightly more rounded sword tip and the handle is made of die cast metal with a very very sharp tip at the bottom...

In fact, im quite surprised how my one ever passed through customs all those years ago...

It fits well in fort max's hands in sword mode but because it was top heavy, omega prime and mp prime could never hold it properly in spear mode....

too bad the one you want is unopened, otherwise, id ask for some more detailed photos from the seller....

can you remember how much yours cost you approx?

[blackie]

also
how rare are the single packaged powermasters?
like Aquastar et.al.?

[bruticus]

can you remember how much yours cost you approx?

sorry dude, i dont know how much it cost.
the boxed master sword was thrown in as a sweetener when my friend needed to sell his MLC fort max to raise quick cash...

on the topic of master swords, this is pretty interesting:
http://forums.hobbyhype.com/showthread.php?t=9655
too bad its been scaled down to fit voyager size and not fort max...

[griffin]

also
how rare are the single packaged powermasters?
like Aquastar et.al.?

THe recent set of 3 (packaged I think) only went for like US$150, which was really cheap for fairly rare JP figures, but the demand just isn't there because they were straight redecos (unlike the Headmaster Heads, which were new moulds).
I think they are fairly rare, because I don't see them very often on ebay, but when they do show up, they don't fetch much.

[Omega Supreme]

Question about Scale.

In the Beast Wars show, the end of Season 2, when TM Megatron is inside the Ark and we see him in comparison to G1 figures, he looks so small. Also in other parts of the show, the local "ape" creatures are supposed to be the human race right ?

So does this mean that in the Beast Wars era, Transformers have been scaled down in size to be just slightly larger than humans ?