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I thought the torso guys were decent. I’m just baffled by the limbs since thearms just need to be robot mode with the head hidden and the legs literal boxes. This one in particular stands out because he doesn't even have a reference that he has to look like. I legitimately expected the torso...

The base molds look unsalvageable. I'd expct just new beast and robot heads if anything

How do these things keep getting progressively worse?

Namedropping companies is pointless without knowing what they’re in the market for.

Twitter is toxic as hell but I’d still have to give it to Facebook comments for sheer stupidity.

Could be worse. You could be reading Facebook comments.

I guess i should have qualified transforming figures. Either way, I don’t think Hasbro or Takara pays for licensed figures so they’re far more trigger happy on that end.

There will always be a market for more accurate high end figures. Problem is that TF as a franchise is next to finished in Japan and Hasbro doesn’t want to shell out for expensive figures Walmart won’t carry.

Imagine only winning over the dude who was leader for about half his series and the representative of the objectively worst TF show ever.

I could’ve told them that. Leo only ever got so many toys because of the obsession to complete the leader-types in Japan lines and because lion molds need to be repainted into something. Nobody likes the BW animes.

Eh it was the same as Hasbro’s leg but they painted it to look like the old cartoon.

Hey, there was that other guy who insisted that these robots with goofy names that look exactly like HasTak properties were all just homages and/or coincidences. It all balances out.

Way I see it, corporations don’t give a jive about you so just buy whatever you want from a competitor. It’s their job to enforce their IP, not ours.

I believe the generally accepted use in the TF fandom for the term “knockoff” is copies of existing toys. New mold figures meant to be HasTak IP are usually “3rd party” or “unofficial” toys.

Got some new orange paint in that I think matches the native orange better so I redid the head. painted the paws red as well since i had time to hug around with the pins. Considering doing the cannons as well but i don’t see any accessible way of dismantling them.

Mixed up a shade of orange closer to the orange on the toy. Mostly hidden but also painted the silver paws in metallic red for teh geewun and the silver being kinda out of place

Maybe in twenty years or so when the kids who grew up on PoTP and netflix Transformers start making disposable income. Then again they might preserve the hollowness and jank because accuracy lol

I don't think anybody's missing out on anything by skipping the POTP Dinobots TBH. Mediocre bot and altmodes that the Studio series Leader class toys do better all around with a stick figure for a combined mode.

Definitely sounds dubious to me. Under-3 could only be a Titan class toy as the first 1:1 transformer and also doubles as a voice changer

They definitely don't have the status that would warrant refurbishing or reverse-engineering the molds. Unless they find the pristine G1 molds in a warehouse somewhere, the best we're getting is that 3rd party one that is passable if you can look past them looking like they were made of Lego and...