Transformers Venting thread!

[Keidatron]

SS Gamer Ed Bumblebee. Trying to get his legs into car form infuriates me no end.

[Bemblebuu]

SS Gamer Ed Bumblebee. Trying to get his legs into car form infuriates me no end.

The trick is making sure his lumbar is tabbed securely into the roof shell bit, otherwise grief will ensue. The first time I transformed him, it was an untabbed squeeze-fest.

[Dimi194]

Not sure what's going on with the BB Jungle Mission 3 pack, but the first set I got had 2x Wheeljack's blaster and no weapons for Nightbird, and then the replacement pack had 6 instruction booklets (i.e. 2 copies for each figure)... might be one to open soon after you buy it in case you need to do a return.

[Skyfire]

Not sure what's going on with the BB Jungle Mission 3 pack, but the first set I got had 2x Wheeljack's blaster and no weapons for Nightbird

You and SarhBear are reverse twinsies.

http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showth...178#post659178

[SarhBear]

Haha, dang, so that's where Wheeljack's gun went

[Dimi194]

Ooops! Well, I can confirm at least at Big W Menai they were very chill about the return, even before I explained "this figure is meant to have a sword and this one a gun but they both came with guns"

[GoktimusPrime]

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I'm gonna cop flak from lovers of obscure-referencing toys here, but I'm personally not a fan of Hasbro prioritising toys based on aborted G2 prototype variants over CHUG toys based on the regular G2 versions. We're getting G2 prototype coloured Dorito-Jazz, but we've never had just a regular CHUG G2 Jazz toy. G2 Jazz is a part of people's childhoods; i.e. 90s kids who had this toy. That Dorito Jazz is part of nobody's childhood.

Heck, even the Diaclone, Microman and other pre-TF redecos are still part of people's childhoods. Diaclone and Micro Change toys were also released in North America and Europe (as Diakron, Trasformer, Diaclone etc.). Heck, I explicitly got Galactic Man Shockwave because I grew up with "Shackwave" from Tandy, since the original G1 Shockwave toy was never sold in Australia. That Galactic Man Shockwave is from my childhood (as it would be for a lot of 80s kids). Magnificus is also from my childhood, because I had a (probably counterfeit) Microman Perceptor toy from the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Heck, even red Diaclone Ligier (Mirage) would've been from some people's childhoods (at the very least, kids in Japan who had that variant). Nobody the hell ever grew up with Dorito Jazz!

I don't mind if they want to make these more obscure repaints as limited exclusives, like Gens Selects or Hasbro Pulse etc. But it's weird that we're getting these toys before their regular versions... and will this mean that we may never get the regular versions? Will a regular CHUG G2 Jazz never see the light of day? The abandoned prototype G2 Sideswipe looks weird, but at least we have had a regular G2 Sideswipe toy in CHUG. So I don't mind if they do it afterwards; it means that the aborted-G2 Sideswipe CHUG hasn't supplanted the regular one.

Thank you for attending my TedTALK.
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