Search results

This has been me from the beginning of this line. Race car Sky Byte. Junkion Dinobot Snarl. Remember Botcon 2009 Elita. Megabull. Spinowave. Frying Dutchman Scourge. Somehow Soundwave With Tentacles Returned. Munky Trukk. Forbidden Yoga Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus. This is a great, fun, remixing...

And we can see how.

Yes, good, let's get back on topic.

The angle doesn't do much to help that that's kind of a small, er, cockpit. I mean, maybe if the torso front panel slid down to form a pointier jet/spaceship front that would also reduce the obviousness of them splits... Anyway, glad to see more characters, and that exploration of new...

This resonates, and generally this is one of the easier ways I talk myself into stuff, lol. And thankfully the bills and such are covered. But there's also so much available and so much I need to catch up on that getting an improved thing I technically already have will have to go a few steps...

I generally have no problem with knockoffs. I've definitely embraced getting them when they're the only game in town other than prohibitively expensive versions. The only way I have a Botcon 2008 SG Optimus Prime is by having the surprisingly high quality KO of it. But this isn't what's being...

Got to see the retooled Shockwave in person recently, and it looks really nice. Bit surprised that the back shows both the submarine mode (as the main altmode) and the upside down submarine mode, right next to a picture of him holding the altmode-Shockwave accessory. It's VERY tempting...

Gorgeous. This, Animated G2 Sideswipe, and combiner Toxitron are (among) the last Botcon things I'm after. Some others would be nice too but these three are top of the list. It's never going to happen, but it's a nice list.

Coke addicts?

I remember some people not wanting to call it "Classics" because the name was just in listings and nowhere on the packaging. I also remember at least one person suggesting people call PRID (the white-card Prime line subtitled RID) RID2. I also remember a lot of uncertainty about whether to...

LordGigaIce, that's basically what I said, I thought? Except for the bit about the retailers; I think my idea there was I remember it being done similarly to how Phazer mentioned, but have no way of knowing how close to that or far from that it is now. I think all we're left to quibble over is...

I'll set aside the.. critique of the correction and highlight the main relevant point from that : connecting to the discussion from LordGigaIce et al, Generations has been the general label for the collector-aimed portion of the line since at least AOE. That line had the same overall name and...

The only one I can think of is the one following the linewide packaging change (no plastic window). But I feel that that was so close to the first release that it seems more like a running change, and then years passed without another chance to get one. Especially with the toy-based Velocitron...

I've had a fun time just taking lore bits and designs from the live-action movies and fitting them in my headcanon, so I'm always down for more and better takes on those showing up. The Voyager Megatron was such a great take, and I wish he'd come with the fire effects. Would also welcome a...

Yeah, that's what I was referring to as the effort toward firming up the distinction -- a bit more deliberateness and structure. We'll likely know more and better as time passes and we're able to see how they concretize that intent further. I do wish the packaging could be more distinct again...

I think we have gotten or will have gotten a bunch of the AOE Autobots. There's been a Crosshairs (or was that TLK), we got blue/black copter Drift, Optimus just came out, Evasion Optimus and AOE Bee are coming. Hadn't realized we didn't get a blue/black car Drift in Studio Series yet, just the...

Been seeing scattered preorders for the 4-pack from local specialty stores, and the most recent one is a little under $200. Not wildly off (especially once I remind myself the exchange rate has changed by SO much), but definitely out of my price range.

Definitely, especially for things that were exclusive and brought additional hoops to jump through and/or costs. I first noticed the uptick of these with Earthrise; I missed out on Siege Astrotrain but got the Earthrise refresh. Rung was a a similar case, I think, but I'm not sure now. Some...

That's just it though, that's more focus creep. Currently that's the main remaining distinction; Studio Series/84 is now movie/games+ G1 cartoon+ I guess comics? While the rest of the franchise history, whether series (Beast Era) or G1 adjacent takes (not comics anymore, I guess) gets...