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I managed to get this right before quarantine hit, iirc, for a decent price (I mainly mention the timeframe because prices have probably shot up in the time since). Later on, went and got the Toyhax set as well, partly because it corrected the REFRAKTOR bit and partly because it was expansive...

Yeah, I remember this more than any hate. I never really followed the discourse around it because my focus was more on stuff that got more regularly imported at the time, but I recall "this is cool" being a common sentiment. Although of course there were people who were aware of its flaws...

If you've seen AOE you've basically already seen TLK. Replace dinos with dragons, neither set being on screen much, and a slight change in the unfunny/unsympathetic human lineup.

There's also some intangibles in the impressions sometimes. Like SS86 Op was clearly designed to be as animation-modely as possible, and he's constantly cited in this very thread for that as a result. But whether in pictures or in hand the toy has just never seemed or felt (not in a tactile...

There's just no un-slendering that man, but these colors are very nice.

"Whose side are you on?" "Rub me and find out!"

I agree, but "seriously interesting designs" is something Hot Wheels does have plenty of... I just hope they keep leveraging ones that interest ME. Well, I don't know about equally, as barring that one Prime they don't seem to transform (and don't need to, for the line). But I'm sure they'd be...

Let's just start over. They had the right idea with Charlie and then Noah. But the former is done with her story and it's better to leave her happy, and the latter got lost in a Bay-lite movie and at the end got sucked into the GI Joe space. But trying to recapture anything with two leads whose...

This is partly why I'm so glad that Hasbro and Mattel are keeping things going (apparently). Hot Wheels designs as Transformers is a fun ride that can basically go forever.

Not even kidding, Collaborative.

I kind of appreciate it purely on the level of flexing the capability of wringing one out of the other. Sort of like the 3P figures that improbably make an actual transforming thing out of the absurd AOE/TLK etc designs (especially with little in the way of faux parts) that seemed like there was...

This just makes me want the Timelines line to dip into making the four of them classic cars. It'll be retro on multiple levels, from the vehicle choices to bringing back Go-Bots or Alternators. Modern/contemporary altmodes would be interesting too (again, like Alternators was for its time, or...

I don't think flattening either demographic to have one overriding opinion is really helpful or remotely accurate. "Casuals" get bored by long and drawn-out but directionless battles too. And if I had a dollar for every time fans sexualized a female character I could afford multiples of every...

A not-insignificant part of it for me is that in the last decade or so I've mostly seen this aesthetic tapped into by higher-ends like Takara's Masterpiece toys and a lot of 3P stuff that aims for that niche. And it's always seemed weird to me that they bent over backwards and spent (and charge)...

Just early to mid 2010s Hasbro (and Hasbro adjacent) things. I actually kind of miss that energy. Hell, I'd like a remake of this design with those retools pre-planned. Obviously ditch the auto melting treads and find a new approach for the hands and non-rubber swords. But have a bit more in...

Yup, it falls right into the same "are they STILL fighting" final battle mess as the Bay movies. But you're right in that despite the Chicago situation also sapping interest as it goes on, at least the layout and landscape give them SOME stuff to play with (also, Chicago is a pretty cool city)...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the answer for me is somewhere in the middle. Stege just looks diseased, like 3D Frank Milkovich artwork. But the smooth boxes thing just feels so uncanny valley in many ways, and just... plain otherwise. (Not a pun.) I don't know if the upcoming Shockwave errs too much...

And taller by just enough to "justify" remaking everyone else by that same margin.

2007 remains great. It's slick, has a good amount of that new visual language that makes the live-action films so notable, and doesn't yet luxuriate in the worst aspects of Bay film writing. But that last does remain a heavy asterisk for this one. Bumblebee is excellent. Bee and Charlie are the...

As always it's a chicken-and-egg situation, but I miss when Hasbro would be able to have a solid design that they could then slap additional ideas or gimmicks on to, rather than (perhaps) the budget being able to accommodate only one of those interests. Engineering and material that enables one...