Recent content by Platypus Prime

Alpha Trion has the oddest resemblance to a muppet I've seen, Digit, I think?

All we know is Stay-Puft started noticing it burned when he was stomping cities, the doctors don't have the results in yet...

The alternate universe, where Transformers is brought to you by Willy Wonka's Everlasting Gobstopper! Buy one today!

"And that's when I began to wonder about many of my life choices..." -from the memoirs of Fortress Maximus

Well, I am an idiot, I was trying to figure out why the 1984 pack and wand looked less beat up than the Spangler one, and it only just now clicked in my head that it's the pack as it appeared IN 1984, not one left over from that time. ...This is why I am not in charge of marketing.

Meanwhile, in 'Fun with Inappropriate Accessories' Thing is, I've never had an Animated Prime, but I had two axes from yard sale parts, one my nephew uses with Classics "One Shall Stand' pack Prime, and one I saved for this. I am going to use a small part from a Zoid kit to give it a 5mm...

On the other end of products, I REALLY like this glow in the dark Ecto-1 and Ghostbusters, though I know I can't afford it either right now. https://toynewsi.com/278-58281

Makes me wonder if they will do a variation on the PKE meter and trap.

Ah, ok, I see it now. Putting it in the right thread, the 1984 wand is $150 at BBTS. They clearly don't expect a lot of tariff issues? The pack is $100 less. Though the wand is in-stock so I guess that wouldn't count. I don't know where the original pack was made, if it was Vietnam or China...

I'm assuming this doesn't include the wand, but does include the cable? And I asked this in the Ghostbusters thread, but has any HasLab gotten a remold/revision release?

I think this may be the first ever 'mass market' remold/release of a HasLab? I might be wrong, it wouldn't surprise me.

My nephew loves Wheeljack, but has been using my RTS one made before he was born, and it's falling apart. I did get him the Bumblebee Movie version but it's not quite right. I'm definitely looking at this, and Sideswipe too, for birthday stuff! The lack of clear breakable bits is a bonus.

It's probably been stated and I can't find it, but what IS Horri-Bull based on, mold-wise? These are usually remolds/recolors and I don't recognize it. And it wouldn't surprise me to have a Titan Unicron, the idea that a HasLab makes any future remake of the character a no-go makes no sense...

I think the best modern Thundercracker color released 'recently' was retail Classics, I got one for my birthday, years after my G1. But most of them after always seemed lighter for some reason. I'm debating the Selects Refractor in toy colors. I had the mail-away, and it's in stock at BBTS still.

I'll second wanting a G1 toy colored Thundercracker, it was my first Transformer. A red Bumblebee was my second but that's really unlikely as everyone would just think he's Cliffjumper. Then by pure coincidence the pack gets moved up to January, it's delivered on February 2, Thundercracker...