Recent content by CrockAlley

Age of the Primes first draft

My dumb take on the 13: I loved them at the beginning, how the reveals were slow and haphazard. Vector Prime in the club comic, the Fallen in Dreamwave, reaching back to grab Prima from the old Marvel comic. Nexus being the culmination of a five year story. Logos from a Takara story (I know that...

Does Micronus have a real Mini-Con port? I can see a regular 5mm port (?) in the back of his head, and his bike has a post on it. The Unicron Trilogy ports and posts were so satisfying, I'd love to see it on Micronus.

I don't know what I was expecting, but that 4-pack is a bit more expensive that I can handle right now. I wonder if it'll go on sale like some of the pervious 4-packs.

I'm a fidgety person and I haven't stopped fiddling with the set I bought. I imagine I'll cave in and buy the Jungle set as well as most of the second wave. I like the characters and I want to mess around with mixing and matching. (All of that put together is still less that what I spent on Wild...

“Who’s more marketable” is undefinable for a small toyline that includes Clench, G2 Sandstorm, Botcon Ape-Linq, and Shadow Panther. There don’t seem to be any limits regarding obscurity.

Walmart has the "original" price as $13.99 for the 2-packs. I sure hope all the new ones are $8.00! ---- The photos in the original listing are larger, but weird to download. https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m14833316659/ Presumably Shadow Panther and Ravage use the Cheetor/Tigatron molds...

So I ran out and picked up this set. (Cheetahs for size.) I always really wanted the Jungle set, but I don't want to spend $30 (inc. shipping) on Walmart's website. These 2-packs are great at $8 on sale, but I'm not sure about the full $14 each. However, I am very drawn to a lot of the...

I've been thinking about what happened to this toyline. Then two new sets revealed this week. https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/05/30/transformers-swapticons-nemesis-prime-clench-first-look-538723...

I first thought about using POTP Skrapnel. McDonald's Beetle might be a fun organic alternative.

I just bought this Mini-Con and started wondering what a Beast Wars version would look like.

I agree with this somewhat. I think the Movie designs are gorgeous on paper. But what an odd choice, to go with the curving, organically-shaped aesthetic that could not be well reproduced in that toyline.

Bonus Mammoth convention: