Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!
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Yep, that's the one! I thought I recognized it.
Discovered it somewhat recently, and I'd love to get the BWII version.
I saw them for sale in Japan when they came out and they shelf-warmed alongside the other "faux-KO" official BW2/Neo Merch (Tako Tank, Maximal blaster, The Niagara base, etc). I passed up on all of those, as they all looked a bit cheap and naff at the time.
I only recently discovered the existence of Andro Base myself, after someone here posted a picture of one (Haywire maybe? don't recall), but my wife found one at a local garage sale and bought it figuring it for a Gobots base of some kind, which does check out as it really does look like the forbidden love-child of the Guardian Command Center and Thruster.
An old photo, but we have 2 Thrusters, Trypticon, the Diarobo Gas Station base, 2 Command Centers, a Machine Robo Battle Base (Japan version), a Space Hawk, Andro Base, Omega Supreme, and Machine Robo Rescue Wing Liner. Wish I had gotten the other big MRR sets, and would love to find an Australian Battle Base and the BWII ship, but I can still put together a pretty fair TF city. (Need to set up a new one with Core Prime's Combat Deck added in, though)
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Never knew this was a thing. Looking at it, it reminds me a LOT of a Beast Wars equivalent of a Citybot I came up with long, long ago... I should see if I can draw it or something.
Pretty sure that's the picture I'm remembering!
You've heard of Plastic Crack? Well, this is Thundercrack!
New theme? Alrighty then!
From the Holiday TF gifts thread:
From the Holiday TF gifts thread:
My small haul of TF Christmas presents:
Is this picture color accurate? Does the blue really look that good?
Not a Christmas haul, but the whole of everything I got throughout 2023. It seems fitting that the year was bookended by those little goobers in front. I think they were definitely highlights for being such an upgrade over the last iterations we got in Siege.
I'm not liking the continued trend of the minibots being upsized like they have. Though at this point, it would probably be easier just to redo 'Bee and CJ to match everyone else. That said, I found Brawn to be an absolute delight, and is likely the favourite of what I got this year.
The Junkion deluxes were fun, though I would have traded Trashmaster, who isn't appealing to me, with a third deluxe (like a junkcopter, or something). Ah well.
The Tarn mold made for a fantastic action figure for the articulation and balance that it has. But...I wish I liked it more? Maybe the character no longer being a going concern in fiction has something to do with it.
Pointblank made me mad. One of the only characters I really wanted a modern update to, and we got something that just didn't pass muster. Shame there won't likely be a second go at it ever again.
Sludge and Dirge fall into the "buying for completionist's sake" category. They're fine, and they don't excite me at all, but they're absolutely necessary for completing their teams. Snarl was cool, though!
2024 is looking to be pretty light on the wants, which is fine, I suppose. I'm feeling like I'm getting priced out of the hobby as MSRPs go up, and the bang for the buck feeling continues to go down. I am glad that lots of folks are excited by the expansion into the other TF continuities. If budget wasn't a factor, I'd likely be right there with you!
Here he is next to Thundercracker to try to give a good color comparison.
The jet mode picture somehow looks a bit more blue.
I'm just going to have to buy one to see for myself. Either way it's a beautiful Seeker.
All I see are just two different shades of blue: deep blue and faded blue.
Just in case anyone needs help with the language gap this weekend:
