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That's what I'm saying. The best way to "make use" of the Messianic hoopla is to not. It's rough and at best is making the most of a dumb situation, I agree, but it's better than the option of "he IS The Guy! ... Now what". A lot of story mileage and character interactions came out of that...

All the more reason to not have that Messianic archetype be the anchor for the Thirteenth. Frankly it's more boring and constrictive than it's really worth. Barber made the best use of it, and that's by kind of sidestepping it, having Optimus leverage the possibility of it despite its not...

Thanks for that. It'll go on the "someday if there's room after the current list and these obscene bills". I do go back and forth between the colors because the Silver Rathalos sometimes reads a bit flat (I just like it as the apparent nonstandard option... Not really an MH guy). Either way, not...

I mean, if the task at hand is to draft something that's supposedly going to align everything and provide a basis for what would come later, you'd think there'd be a more exhaustive effort to gather, well, that everything. I've toyed with the idea of just combining the Megatronus and Liege...

That Cybertronian Laserbeak is neat! What's the, uh, bloody one?

This is equal parts "makes sense", "at least", and "yeeesh". (I like the idea of Rodimus at least being teased or hinted to link to it, since the 86 movie did have a sorta chosen one, prophecy vibe attached to it. Glad IDW went a slightly different direction and made him insufferable just in...

The proportions are a bit silly and the clunky skirt is a problem. And it looks like it might not be reconfigurable as a cape instead. Still, this has a great look. I wonder if the black and white one will be harder to get or more expensive; I haven't really been keeping up.

Both are problems, to varying degrees, and they're going to have (or are having) the expected effects. Costs are being felt by buyers, and the more that becomes a factor the more of a chilling effect that'll have. But the bigger issue at the moment is logistics. Even if people could afford to...

Should probably get while the getting's good. They may go down a bit once the current generation becomes more available and more people start offloading their CWs. (Although the Legacy Stunticons have gotten similarly hard to complete, I think.)

Well, blurple. And it was offset by different enough colors in different enough proportions that it didn't really look like G1 Soundwave, whereas the current effort is to map the colors more closely. It did look quite nice though, I'm with you there. (I don't recall if I ever got that Space...

It comes down to what you're looking for from "dynamic", but it happens. Basara Prime wasn't in too static a pose (wearing guitar, arm raised to strum), and ML Sunstreaker was just standing, but in an A stance with arms up a bit, both in ways the G1 toy couldn't manage. Neither were exactly...

That's Sabrblade for you, always showing off. Literacy, pah.

Yeah, this is the perfect line to do that with. Especially since "can also basically double as the bricky original" is part of the way to illustrate the cleverness of the reengineering.

Despite myself, I'm starting to talk myself into at least one framebiner torso. The thought of buying one thing and having a passable approximation of the combiner (a somewhat... Bare one) is not unappealing.

If I had a nickel for every lazy-ass "MEN/WOMEN/TRANSFORMERS" restroom meme I run into, I could retire tomorrow. Alas, I just have eye strain from rolling them so often.

That's right. I was trying to place it within memory as the thing I saw, and where I might have seen it. Love this packaging. That circuit board background, in fairly accurate green no less... Lovely.

That does look very familiar. I do recall seeing the Microchange Laserbeak (in that packaging) in person more vividly (I know I definitely had a "damn, should've gotten that" moment after I came back and saw it had been sold). Maybe I only saw this online later on. (Googling it now, there was...

I really dig the vague TM2 Megs vibes of that chest design. It's almost a mashup of that and RID Megatron. With, uh, eyes from TM Megatron that make me unable to unsee those gold details on top as eyebrows. If there were maybe one more articulation bend in the limb bots (their hip joints maybe)...

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I was thinking something similar, but Battle Masters. A lot of them can kind of fall into a few mold categories (Glitch/Fistfight/Push-Button/maybe Anti-Tank Drone, Scorpulator/Razor-sharp, Vanguard/Road Rocket/Basher).