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It does look like EE is eating the majority of the tariff bump, given that the toys are coming out of 46% tariff Vietnam. Unless their wholesale cost for a Deluxe is $4, they're not passing on the entire tariff cost to customers. ---Dave

Autobots, Transform and Get Ready For Some Football! ---Dave

"Good Force" and "Evil Force," it's like they didn't want to own trademarks. I still have a bunch of those knockoffy not-quite-Spychangers in my kitbash drawer, I made several of them into other characters. ---Dave

And we'd see that on a national scale in 2020-21, with parents demanding schools reopen so they could warehouse their kids again. ---Dave

Narrator: Trixie could not, unfortunately, be trusted with the bomb. ---Dave

Five Below's latest KOs, you can definitely see the Starscream in one of them, and elements of other Transformers in the tank and helicopter. This time I didn't bother buying any, I know the quality is going to be crap even for $5 knockoffs. ---Dave

I'm curious where they'll stick the fifth element and associated limb.... ---Dave

Just in time for DairyCon. ---Dave

Orange Crunch is very happy to see you. ---Dave

Camera-headed evil scientist with a penchant for purple and brain transplants, Arnim Zola or Shockwave? Why not both? Some minor modding of the head, plus added a sheet of styrene on the chest for a better surface for painting the upper face. ---Dave

Oh, I did play through the tutorial and a couple of missions, very quickly bored by the stock footage and annoyed by the constant, "No, you can't do that either." ---Dave

I know, right? Dove face-first into that cliche. ---Dave

Two seasons and that side series where they seem to have tried to do a Schoolhouse Rock homage, not too bad. ---Dave

Moon Girl is not in the MCU, she lives in a universe that is similar in the large scale things but divergent in a lot of others. As Devil Girl put it, "We live in a multiverse!" Even if Moon Girl shows up in a live action movie, it won't be exactly the version from the cartoon. If you want a...

Yah, the Walmart I hit yesterday also had an untouched case of TFOne Blokees. I'd have grabbed it, except I already have that set. ---Dave

The beasts don't have identical cores, but very similar cores with similar transformations, and they all seem to have the heads pegged on. The elephant and trike are the closest to being just color and head swaps. ---Dave

I doubt the Moon Girl Beyonder has any particular connection to the "half of a Cosmic Cube" original Beyonder. Sounds like the comics have retconned his origins a few times since the original revelation that he and Molecule Man were halves of a failed Cosmic Cube. ---Dave

I watched part of the first new ep (ended up skipping most of it) and the second, and haven't really felt compelled to continue. I'd thought the whole "grounded from being a superhero" impending cliche was prevented at the end of S2E14, but nope. ---Dave

Huh, totally missed that they dropped the last ones. Guess I'll need to catch up this week. ---Dave

What does or doesn't go in BOT Talk is kinda hazy. Heck, a lot of stuff posted in the Knockoff thread isn't even remotely a knockoff...or it might be a knockoff of something that was never a Transformer. I do think BOT Talk is the right place for threads about transforming toys that aren't...