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That is substantiated by my interactions over there. Some folks believe shipping Chinese toys from a UK store to the US won't incur tariffs because tariffs are "based on country of origin." 🤦‍♂️

My home county in NY State got rid of plastic bags a few years ago. I've since lived in a couple different states and the cashiers look at my reusable bags with question marks over their heads. I just end up bagging my own groceries. About toys: I poked my head into the dinosaur toy community...

40th Anniversary photoshoot: CHUG Part 3, Unicron, Decepticon characters from 1986 (Movie) More photos behind the spoiler:

40th Anniversary photoshoot: CHUG Part 2, Decepticon characters from 1984-85 More photos behind the spoiler:

Sunstorm used to be so popular 20 years ago. I don't understand how they haven't done this easy repaint yet.

I went on a lovely vacation last week, but sadly I missed the pre-orders for the Elite Seeker/Ground Trooper. The wiki says this are Target exclusive, so maybe there's a chance I can find it in stores. I'm super bummed. I've been obsessing over this set since it was revealed. It's one of two...

Bare minimum: include the darn Mini-Con. Even if it doesn't activate a feature. The new Armada toys are objectively less fun without their little buddies.

Hydrophant = Blue Big Convoy Junior. Seeing how small the beasts are next to Prime and Megatron is startling. But, based on the 5mm (?) peg holes, the beasts look a tad smaller than deluxe, larger than core. Not too bad. I'd like to see them next to some other figures to get a better idea of size.

I know they look dorky, but I can't stop looking at them. I want the giraffe and elephant.

Highly doubt we'll be seeing the back kibble in any future release. That kibble seems to be the outboard pontoons. The added engineering to get them where they need to be in both modes would be beyond the scope of these very simple toys, I would think.

In exacting detail. Very interesting.

I just remembered the "orange" box art and now I'm sad that he's not actually orange. I liked the idea of him matching his Titan Master/Predaking.

40th Anniversary photoshoot: Animated Bay movie stuff will come a little later, but now I’m jumping ahead to Animated. One of my favorite TF toy lines. There was recently some discussion in the Legacy thread about Cyberverse and Earthrise, and it makes me so happy that these earlier main lines...

I like cassettes that aren't cassettes anymore. There's an implied story there. My Classics display includes the Reveal the Shield/United Rumble and Frenzy tanks (and the Eject/Rewind versions) and GDO Laserbeak drone. I don't own (but would love to) Universe Overkill (Classics Grimlock repaint)...

I assume we're getting a Big Convoy sooner or later (surprised it hasn't happened already.) I highly doubt they'd do it, but I'd gladly take a retool to represent this Hearts of Steel OP.