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This is just making me want to see a toy with the creepy eyes.

It's so pretty. They always are. But that price tag means I'll have to content myself with the AOTP 4-pack Magnus cab for the foreseeable future.

I generally agree, but a key part of those fables is the somewhat broad strokes in the narration. Fabulation in general is partly characterized by that abstraction and flatness, where everything is taken at face value and more contemporary approaches that dig into the complexity of characters...

This was part of the problem. You'd think getting a whole-ass book to themselves would give them room to be fleshed out and made compelling, but no, even there they were just chess pieces moving a plot forward. "We don't need to actually write much, this'll sell just because it's finally them...

I think this makes sense if we're approaching them more as characters and not bodies built around a gimmick (oh, Transformers). Their "personalities" in the Covenant book are so generic as to be interchangeable and overlapping anyway, and it's unsurprising that there was this attempt to have a...

I think they don't let you do that with wives anymore.

I'll see your Cybertron Galvatron (gorgeous) and raise you an Armada Galvatron (beautiful). Still can't quite bring myself to get the Legacy one unless I find one cheap enough to be worth tanking (heh) the resale value with a repaint.

The 0.13

I endeavored to get the Henkei one as soon as it was revealed for that reason. All I'd ask is for different pegs for the hologram gun thing. And more weapons instead of Ravage (although that's a pretty good Ravage). That Hound is pretty near timeless, and suffers none of the other design...

Me, over time I've cooled on the Thirteen as a concept. But yes, I'm admiring the toys from afar. Sadly having to skip them due to budget and space reasons, at least for now (except for Micronus, y'all get out of my way when that hits virtual or physical shelves; maaaaybe pencil stache book...

Some people just need to be motivated to sit down

I think the Allspark forums have historically been a bit different, in terms of intensity and general positivity/negativity. It's a big reason I've only ever stayed in this community, if and when I feel the need for one. But it's also true that individuals and communities alike tend to outgrow...

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I think the hype needed for such a thing would have to come from at minimum an actual announcement of another run at the game. Which would mean at least some work done on the actual game. "We're making toys for a game that doesn't exist yet" was, well, exactly what already happened. While doing...

You'll have to speak up, I can't hear you over the sound of putting names on toys in L33TSP34K.

That definitely sounds like it has the vibe of one of them awesomely mind-boggling "let's use all the toys in this line and then some" mangas we used to get. The Aerialbots are here, the Stunticons are around, short stache Trion, Vector Prime for some Vector Time (Travel), why not.

Well, there is a mispronunciation involved, but mercifully this isn't one of mine. That was more of a reference to people in my local community misreading HenkEI as HenkIE, and pronouncing it like "hankie". Some spell it i-e to this day. Just language thangs.

Eh, tropes are tools. And that at least explains why Star Optimus' artifact is the Zetaiac. I mean, the Zodiac. Yes. No.

Love both of those, and the Megatron that goes with that Primal (or Prime, iirc, in Cybertron). I love a redeco I can more feasibly/comfortably repurpose, since most of the time I'm going to change up the names anyway. Currently, one that comes to mind is DOTM Nascar Sideswipe. There's also...