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Who's got 2 thumbs and just paid a 50% markup to get ahold of 3 used Refraktors off of ebay this Monday? 👍 THIS GUY 👍 *sobs* They haven't even arrived in the mail yet.

So, uh, if I wanted ot buy somehting off of ebay that's from a seller in autrailia, would I still be hit with a tariff?

Only mentioning this as it relates to the tariffs, but apparently a Federal appeals court struck down the tariffs for now. https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-trade-court-0392dbd59f548e49ad4f64254ae3f94a

Oh hey, mine shipped. Finally. Hopefully it's not cracked.

Mine still hasnt' shipped.

I made a bunch of preorders before they were shut down, but nothing's been canceled so far.

*shrug* Nothing lasts forever, unfortunately I think the challenges facing the franchise, the toy industry at large and even the world in which we live don't exactly fill me with long-term optimism.

Like, I could see them getting a cameo in a TF One sequel, but that doesn't seem like it's happening. It's unlikely they'd show in a live action film, which would probably go with more bankable names an a smaller cast. Maybe Cyberverse's 5 minute episodes will be a fluke, but I can't see that...

Is Roche still working on Transformers?

Maybe in the comics, if someone with a vision beyond G1 gets writing duties, but other than that, probably not. Well, maybe in 10-20 years, but I think assuming Transformers will even be still around at that point is pushing it, IMO.

Yup, I was going to mention that, alongside the whole deal with Megatron's gun mode, but I didn't want to get too in the weeds with that post.

The thing is, that's not really true and never has been; it's just been easier to obsfucate the connections in the past, especially decades removed from them in some cases. Like, it's not a coinidence that so much manufacturing got moved to China, and then so much started getting moved out of...

If I had a nickel every time I heard that, I could probably afford to cover the tariff costs.

Apropo of nothing related to Transformers, I just want to say thanks to the people who decided to get the hell off of Wikia back in the day and make the TFwiki independant. A move that proves more and more prescient every day.

I backed early on and still nothing for me, but that's pretty par for the course for Haslabs. If they haven't shipped it by Friday then I'll worry.

You don't copyright names, you trademark them, and I don't see any trademarks for any of these bots in the USPTO.

if it's sealed in box, it's sealed in box: neither you nor the person you buy it from have any way of knowing the quality of the item inside, just like every other person whose buying one.

I guess there are enough examples in the films of old robots that they do go through some form of aging rather than just falling into disrepair that can be fixed.

That was the point I was trying to reach: they're robots; they can change their forms and voices as easily as the plot requires them to. "Aging" and "Growing" don't really play into it.

They're robots, they don't really age to begin with: their voices are synthasized. I mean, growing doesn't work backwards either but Arcee apparently shrinks ten feet in-between the BB movie and RotB, yet they share the same page. But whatever, this is apparently a conversation that's already...