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LordGigaIce replied to the thread Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++.I wouldn't say "from the get go." Again, the pack-in material and wave one bios definitely tell a story that's not what Mainframe gave... -
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I agree that there are a lot of non-Mainframe directions that can be taken. I did say "hard" but maybe that's not the word I should've... -
LordGigaIce reacted to CoffeeHorse's post in the thread Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++ with Like.
IDW had time to do more than they did. They chose to have the story move slower than continental drift.
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LordGigaIce replied to the thread Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!.Their "Ultimate" stuff seems like it could be fun, but every time I look at it, it's always way overpriced compared to what you get.
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LordGigaIce reacted to CoffeeHorse's post in the thread Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images! with Like.
Just like their Transformers stuff being less articulated than Action Masters. Super7 has absolutely lost the plot.
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LordGigaIce replied to the thread Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!.Spin Master's been killing it with their DC offerings at that scale. It's kind of nuts what you get at that size and price point from...
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LordGigaIce reacted to Haywire's post in the thread Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images! with Like.
They had the Retro Collection, but the last releases in that were a Duke/Cobra Commander 2-pack and a Cobra Trooper/Officer 2-pack, and...
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LordGigaIce replied to the thread Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++.On one hand good on 'em for that, because "it's the Mainframe show but they don't find the Ark because it isn't Earth" is a fun twist...
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LordGigaIce replied to the thread Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!.From Hasbro, yeah. But Super7 has licensed GI Joe for their ReAction line, which mimics late 70/early 80s five pints of articulation...
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LordGigaIce replied to the thread Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++.That's my problem with it. IDW, near the end of their time with the licence, made a big deal about rolling out a new Beast Wars story...
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LordGigaIce replied to the thread Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++.Of all of Sorensen's... creative... flourishes that stuff and the FFoD name drops were by far the least egregious for me. The FFoD stuff...
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LordGigaIce reacted to lastmaximal's post in the thread Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++ with Like.
I'm not wild about that bit in the Almanacs, which like the rest of the Almanacs seemed to just want to cram name this into homage that...
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LordGigaIce replied to the thread Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!.Star Wars and Marvel kids stuff has sort of homogenized around a four inch scale with basic articulation. It's honestly not too bad...
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Hasbro's marketing department at the time: "OH NO! That's way too scary for children! We can't sell body horror like that to...
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LordGigaIce replied to the thread The “Other” G2 Dinobots….I think I prefer that. Forcing human forms into a toy that had to transform into an animal was never going to work. Might as well lean...