This is one of those instances where it's easy to miss context. Honestly I assumed you were just being hyperbolic too. The Simpsons only did it because it's such a common example of online douchebaggery. So while you were joking, many people saying this aren't.
Maybe posting the gif instead of just the text would've helped.
I'm on mobile lol, I totally would have done a Frinkiac gif otherwise
FWIW, I didn't know the Simpsons reference, and I still recognized that the post was a joke, based on who was posting it and the opinions they've voiced in the past. We may not always know each other IRL, but it's not like we're entirely strangers here.
That’s because you aren’t a TRU FAN!
<- Hasn’t watched Simpsons regularly in at least 20 years…
Yeah, and in general, we all skew towards being smart ass man-childs. Outside of the politics section, I don’t take many hyperbolic statements too seriously.
But that wouldn’t be drastically different from the retail version. It would LITERALLY be the sort of “dialed in redeco” he was complaining about to begin with!
I just think he was pissed that he wanted Ruckus and is going to have to get a version of Bludgeon he doesn’t want to do so, thus costing more than if Hasbro had put a deluxe retool with him. (Which would have irritated someone ELSE because the other figure would have been a deep cut favorite of someone else who didn’t want Ruckus)
So I missed that the new figure is actually Orion Pax (as explicitly stated by Hasbro), not Stormbringer Optimus. Which makes total sense in the context of the 2-pack. It's an extremely nitpicky distinction. I guess I never noticed that IDW Orion didn't get much of a body upgrade when he became Optimus.
Thaaaaat's kinda iffy. The internet was still in its infancy at that point...
...though I do believe Comic Book Guy did say he was registering his outrage in a chat room within minutes, so maybe?
In fairness, I feel like this is one of the more common ones, and I think it was from before the cut-off date.
Nitpicking, yes, Hasbro did clearly do their homework on the deco being explicitly Orion Pax. But it’s also obvious that his pre-Prime design was derived from Stormbringer. Either way, it’s not a design I would have expected to see made into a toy in 2024
Also, Mark Maher snapped a couple of shots of the Metalhawk refresh, a final shipping sample so you can tell for sure how it will look
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Again, it looks nice, but not nice enough to justify a repeat purchase.
Also, Mark Maher snapped a couple of shots of the Metalhawk refresh, a final shipping sample so you can tell for sure how it will look
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I can see the thumbnails, but trying to click on them asks me to sign up for an account, and I'm not interested.
From the thumbnails, Metalhawk looks better than the previous version. And since I never bought that one (I think I only saw it once, in a half-crushed box with something rattling around in the bottom, and decided not to chance it being broken), I might pick this one up instead.
From the thumbnails, Metalhawk looks better than the previous version. And since I never bought that one (I think I only saw it once, in a half-crushed box with something rattling around in the bottom, and decided not to chance it being broken), I might pick this one up instead.
I don't either, but I can.
On mobile, I can close out of the sign in message, while on my laptop, I have to open each post in a new tab to bypass the message.
FidoNet had some legendary flame wars.
Usenet was already a thing too (hell weren't some aspects of Comic Book Guy meant to represent the stereotypical alt.tv.simpsons poster too)
Huh. My nearby Target must have gotten some solid case shipments. I remember when he was “active”, they somehow had nearly a dozen of him. WAY more than simply “leftover mixed cases” would justify (Twincast isn’t THAT popular).
Hell, I don’t even think I SAW Twincast more than, maybe, once.
That’s why I order online, distribution is just getting weirder all the time.
I never saw Twincast at all.
Never saw Palom or Porom in retail at all.
I saw Twincast once and I bought it even though I already had Blaster because I'm stupid lol.
But how many Siege Megatron variations do you have?