The 86 line prevented made me reconsider a new years resolution.

And Devastator because I'm a sucker for combiners

Decided to stick with the main cast from 2007 and a few assorted ones here and there.

I said I wouldn't buy a lot, now I have seven. And at least three might be on the culling pile.

"I'll just get one" I said now I have almost twenty Studio Series figures.

The geese are fleeing... death comes soon...

Not even head, just a faceeven

Just stick a Megatron head on Optimal Optimus.

There was also an evil-looking black and gray redeco of the RobotMasters toy

That's KIND-OF what I consider the Throne of the Primes Primal to be...

I would buy the hell out a nemesis primal...

I'm surprised there's not been a Nemesis Primal given all the Nemesis Primes.

The real Drifts were the Windblades we made along the way

Drift-kun 2 Electric Boobylube

I'm pretty sure Drift 2 was Empire of Stone.

I thought people said Prime Wheeljack was Drift 2.

Windblade was Drift.2.

Drift with boobs.

I can't imagine a live action movie version of Windblade being all that different from Drift. Not my thing, but not the worst thing I've ever seen.

The thought of Movie aesthetic Windblade makes me feel sick.

Though, the fact that Japanese people would pay for Windblade toys in the $30-40 range doesn't mean they'd pay however much MPs are going for now.

Back when I made a habit of checking Mandarake for pre-owned TFs, Windblade's toys went for surprisingly high prices. By which I mean not lower than the original price.

If she's in the next movie you might get her.

Japan didn't get most of the IDW comics and are the target market for MP. They basically know windblade from a few crappy pack-in comics and a show that wasn't particularly popular there. Unless they start cranking out Cyberverse MPs, it's not very likely.

Again, depends if she's popular enough in Japan to warrant it. Our view of which characters are popular is not the same as Takara's.

So characters like Windblade then.

They're complicated and expensive to design. By necessity, they're gonna be restricted to well-known characters who are more likely to sell.

I don’t think Masterpiece toys should be restricted to only show characters.

If she wasn't in the Sunbow cartoon, Live Action movie or Beast Wars and can't be repainted from someone else, she's not getting an MP.

They'll make their money back if they include the metal thong...

Is she popular enough in Japan that Takara would even try?

depends. will that one also have a giant metal thong?

Should there be a Masterpiece Windblade?

EIGHT WORDS! THATS A RECORD! XD

So you were hired by a middle easterner! AHA!

that's eight words

"I only want to hear one word from you... The name of the guy who hired ya!"

It's great how they reference G1 concepts like this one features the harmony from the episode Carnage in C Minor and and Slugslingers featured anti electrons from Grimlocks New Brain.

Or at least those little story blurbs like Beast Hunters had. Especially for stuff like Selects which tend to exist in their own little side world

I got me Legends Soundwave, Be cool if the next Generations toyline had a mini comic with the instructions.

Aw no unusual activity on my Paypal Ebay, Amazon and Netflix account in one day! All I have to do it verify on those E-Mails and I'm all set..... wait a mo, I'm not on Netflix!

I swear though.. The idea of "Catch up" is stupid.

That's irritating, but it sounds par for the course with new hardware release. Within a year, there'll probably be some good stuff out there that does it all.

4K/HDR switches are.. iffy.. Because most of them can't do 4K and HDR at the same time.. Or can't do 120hz... and all sorts of things the new TVs have built in, and the new consoles use...

Maybe now that the PS5's made the whole 4K thing a little more mainstream, the hardware will start becoming more common. I know that's one of the hopes the physical media community has for the 100GB discs the PS5 is going to be using. Prior to this, they were very expensive tor replicate compared to a regular blu-ray and not used very often

Up to now, there really haven't been a whole lot of 4K disc players to choose from... Samsung stopped making them altogether when they couldn't compete with the others, so your main choices are a few models of Panasonic or Sony

Is there no such thing as a 4K/HDR switch yet?

Which is fine.. But that still doesn't explain why they arn't putting out up to date HDMI switch boxes to get.. more money.

My only TV with a respectable number of ports is my OLED 4K/3D, which has 4 HDMI, 2 USB 2.0s, 1 USB 3.0 and some weird proprietary thing that acts as both component and composite, depending on what you need. But it retailed for $10k when it first came out (I bought it 14 months later for less than half that). THey're going to get as many corners on less expensive sets as they can, which usually means only providing 2 HDMIs.

I mean, there are some decent ones for under a grand. But yeah, I imagine that's what they're thinking. Most people I know, unless they're film or A/V aficionados, all they've got hooked up to their TV is a digital cable receiver and perhaps a game console and dated DVD player