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Same. I appreciate the premise of compatibility with actual Joes, but they're just too big. A MicroVerse-style Joe line with compatible Transformers, some of whom are Joe/Cobra vehicles? That's right up my alley. Hasbro could use the same scale as the current Star Wars vehicle line, even.

how about bitching at the champ?

That's how the TMNT-MotU collab worked. They were MotU toys infused with/featuring TMNT characters and concepts (Also compare the Hot Wheels cars with Twin Mill/Other Guy.)

The MotU/TMNT collab lasted a while and gave us a bunch of fun ideas, so I'm cautiously hopeful on this one.

The fact that they used friggin' SCAREGLOW and not any of the main Evil Warriors makes Bumblebee Armor look worse. They can dig deep-ish for one IP but not the other? (Scareglow is awesome, but that's not my point.) in this rant I will

I'm a little late to the accessory/blind box discussion, but... Blind boxes make sense for army-building and mix-and-match kind of stuff. (Like 5mm-based weaponry.) The best time for Hasbro to do that was during Energon. The second-best time is now. (I guess Dark of the Moon and War for...

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It'd be hilarious if it was three of the Deluxe Insecticons in black and purple. (I'm sure it won't be.) I could go for color-reversed 'normal' Insections, though. (I.e. switch up the black and purple and whatever else to make them look different but still consistent.)

I only have Galvatron now, but he's pretty good, especially for a $10 toy now. He'd be close to great with elbows. It's the weird "some articulation but not enough" unhappy medium. I can accept bricks (like the One-Step types). I don't *need* ankle and wrist or waist articulation. But if...

One of the fun things about novelizations and comic adaptations is that they're typically based off a not-quite-final script, so some orphaned references and the like sometimes have some explanation. (On the other hand, sometimes the author adds his own stuff in that wasn't in any of the...

Like I said, it's harder than it looks. Does Trap Jaw work as Soundwave? Not sure Beastman and Merman work as anyone, at least from early-ish G1. I guess they could all wear various Seeker/Conehead armors.

I was a little skeptical of a few of the listings from that leak, and Kranix was one of them. Part of that is how much I want an actual Kranix toy and I don't wanna be disappointed. (The others IIRC were Armada Sideways, which again, NEEED, and BW Quickstrike, so, maybe I should dare to dream.)

Re: Quintus: I'm reminded of the bit from Men in Black: "Congratulations. It's a squid." I absolutely love the variety in the Primes. Alchemist is very normal, Solus and Prima are futuristic-but-not crazy and then the wild gets cranked up with Onyx, Quintus, and Algamous. Jalopy looks fine...

Orko in Wheelie armor.

This is one of many many times Hasbro's insistence "Optimus vs. Megatron" lets us down. How about Skeletor in Galvatron's armor, Man-At-Arms as Kup. Rodimus/Hot Rod as He-Man/Adam, and, uh, Trap-Jaw and Tri-Clops as Scourge and Cyclonus. Or Demolishor and Cyclonus. I don't know. This is...

The price is a little baffling-- IIRC it's been a while since convention-exclusive toys have had a real markup from the originals. The listing refers to Nemesis as Voyager-class, so that's less than half of the set's cost-- no way the Star Saber is also a Voyager. If Nemesis is closer to...

Once and again, side-by-sides of the older toy and the new one would be very interesting and useful. (In-hand is obviously better so you can see size differences better, but even switching between two images is helpful.)

Especially as exclusives, which are a special category anyway. "Only this store carries it" is IMO significantly more important to know/remember than "which very similar trade dress to look for."