That legends green devastator looks horrid compared to the Japanese version. I'm aware that the physical toy in the box looks unpainted but even the photos look shit.
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That legends green devastator looks horrid compared to the Japanese version. I'm aware that the physical toy in the box looks unpainted but even the photos look shit.
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Oh yea, forgot that one, and for a good reason. It's all frigging green. Very lazy repaint there.
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As for the rest
1. What's the deal with that brightly coloured Brawl? Is that some kind of homage that I've missed or was it just a bad day at the office for the designers?
2. As much as I've had no desire to get the mold yet that blue Fallen looks really nice.
3. That Soundwave is looking a better proposition every time I see it.
4. Darkmount. Meh. Whats the big deal? It looks like Universe Galvatron all over again - except that mold was boosted by having a realistic (cannon aside) alt mode that hid all the purple and snapped together well. As opposed to this bright blue gappy monstrosity.
5. HA Jazz - DEAR GOD YES.
6. HFTD - All the new mold stuff looks amazing. Stop releasing Bumblebees and Ravages for crying out loud. (Rescue) Ratchet actually looks really really nice - the paint job is much better than the original on that mold (too much green, not enough detail).
7. Is Animated Hot Rod setting some kind of record for consecutive appearances at Botcon of a completely finished and painted toy that is still unreleased?
8. Seacons - Why has everyone been really excited about these for about half a decade now? I don't get it.
9. New packaging - paper twine and slimline boxes for voyagers - I like it a lot.
And finally
10. The lack of anything new (except the repaints of the Fallen and Ratchet) - getting me down a bit. We've known about everything on display here (hell most of us now own everything on display here) for a while. I'm hoping that the Hasbro presentation has the same wow factor that last years one did (with all the new RotF molds being unveiled - Dirge, Ratchet, Scattorshot etc etc).
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4. I don't get the hype around screaming miner joe either. Feet look spastic.
8. If you don't get it, don't worry, you never will. Not totally a bad thing, if you love them, you'd get it, you don't get it, so nothing will get you to get it. Got it?
Dirge is the winner in the generations line. Now all we need is thundercracker.
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I'd say the latter.Originally Posted by SharkyMcShark
It's a massive deal for those of us who grew up with G1.
Yeah, they're not gonna stop releasing Bumblebees any time soon. Just cast your mind back to pre-2007 _before_ people gave a crap about Bumblebee!
Because we all know that HasTak have the moulds (since they used it for Beast Wars (II)'s God Neptune in 1998)... then in 2008 they reissued Piranacon in non-G1 colours (IMO they're just awful - but like them or not, they're not G1 colours), and on top of that the reissue was a limited Club exclusive toy (which are prohibitively expensive for anyone outside North America). And in the last couple of years both Hasbro and TakaraTOMY keep reissuing G1 toys that have _already_ been reissued before (do we really need more Optimus Prime reissues?!?) and yet don't reissue stuff that we know they probably still have the moulds for like Piranacon.
So the news of a proper Piranacon reissue is exciting news for G1 fans.
It's exciting news for me because I've had all the Seacons for ages, but I've never had the gestalt parts for Piranacon (head, fists, feet etc.) - so I've never been able to form Piranacon. I can understand that G1 reissues are probably meaningless to people who didn't grow up with G1, but for those of us who did it's quite exciting.
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I'm really disappointed with Dirge's wing deco
After keeping it simple for Thrust I didn't expect them to make Dirge's look like that...
Beyond that I'm looking forward to new toys announcements - like how last year had all those awesome announcements like bludgeon and skystalker/mindwipe etc...
Current Wants: Shadow Scyther
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Just a reminder:I'm really disappointed with Dirge's wing deco
After keeping it simple for Thrust I didn't expect them to make Dirge's look like that...
http://www.tfu.info/1985/Decepticon/Dirge/dirge.htm
Generations looks fine to me.
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http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-...isplay-170058/
Blurr - Guns instead of swords. Awesome. But I'm not digging that car mold still.
Tomahawk - "snapping fingers" What? Really? *oh SNAP* "Oh yous just a piece of trash girlfriend *snap snap*.
Oh yea, tfw also have this:
THERE WILL BE A LIMITED RUN OF 300 MORE PUNCH COUNTERPUNCH EXCLUSIVES. LIMITED TO 1 PER CUSTOMER, IF YOU ORDERED ONE PREVIOUSLY YOU CANNOT ORDER ANOTHER.
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Loving the Generations figures, Dirge looks pretty good. Buying the others. Pirahnacon looks great, and will be buying him for a cheaper alternative to complete my G1 figure. Plus the sword is shiny
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Blurr looks better than I expected. I like how they've replaced the swords with guns too.
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