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I agree, but I also can't really consider it that fair a comparison for the reason I've stated.

I keep thinking Vortex looks amazing. But then I remember it's fairly easy to look amazing when you don't actually combine so much as get stapled to a combiner. Still, the Combaticons stand the best chance conceptually of getting me to commit to a set. (To be fair, I am still waffling on the...

I'm good with it, although I'd like the facets/cheek shapes to protrude more like the show model. And for the blue/s to be grayer.

I think there are a number of loopholes that are part of the process -- "made in __" doesn't necessarily (legally) ONLY mean "start-to-finish manufactured in __". There are many cases where just the finishing touches (including sewing on the actual "made in __" tag) are done in that country...

And ugh, that's only of my least favorite things to come from the Almanac/AVP. But I've gone into a whole thing about that elsewhere already so no need to clutter the thread with it again. Prime Nova to Nova Prime is indeed one of those elegantly simple things, but I always liked the original...

Ah yes, the brief time when it was The Matrix of Readership.

And wipe after reaping the whirlwind.

It's all innocent whistling until the SHEAAAAAAGHHH

I'm struggling to remember where mine is stored (from that move a decade or so ago) and whether the crystal bits were with the main robot (in which case they're in a separate accessory box) or in the same baggie as the micron (in which case they're still there wherever the micron is stored).

He's my boy forever, and that's always come with a few hurdles to deal with. But I will always wish they'd taken a few more passes for Hot Rod's new name for his promotion to Prime.

Yup.

Also man, early CHUG had such charm to it. I'm oddly more flexible in paring down G1 Remakes Batch 1 from CHUG and replacing it with the 2010s-2020s trilogies stuff than I am with letting go of early CHUG, especially Unicron Trilogy redecos and repurposings. Of course, I'm not longing for a...

why am I here floating in space like this

SNIP SNAP SNIP SNAP

And they'll have to ramp that up more and likely charge more to offset the losses elsewhere. But it's so hard to gauge anything at this point because the people making the situation volatile are so volatile.

I'm very torn on Wasp. I'm glad one finally exists (and the colors look so good), and the sculpt of this Bumblebee mold is pretty nice. But that torso being so much clear plastic on Bee is super unnerving and I doubt much changed for this retool.

Oh no. This is how they get me every time. Exclusive color weapons. (I'm still looking for those damn AOE era Legendary Weapons.) Edit: goddammit it gets worse, FOUR of them

I believe Hasbro/Takara moved production to Vietnam well before the first Trump term; I'm not sure if they've moved more out of China since. The first-tarm trade war stuff seems to have kicked in about partway through it, and then there was some noise toward the end about banning TikTok (which...

So the parent company is what gets the stamp? Makes sense I think. May have to do with ownership of the steel molds themselves. I do miss growing up in that era where there were so many names and companies. Even now, in other sales environments, the illusion of so many brands is mostly kept...

Figures Gizmoboy is army-building THOSE too.