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News Credits: 33 · by **Genocide G2.0** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:44 pm

donny1975 wrote:Been reading the comings and goings...and the only thing I can focus on; is AG giving Cobs what sounds an awful lot like a drag name...

Lift up a drag queens skirt and banana lips is exactly what ya gonna find :lol:

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:49 pm

by **joeprime276** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:17 pm

Care to share some more pics of the new MP Bumblebee?

Just saying, Bumblebee now is my favorite character in G1. I just watched a bunch of season two episodes (that's where I'm at as I progress through the whole show/the first volume of season two), and when Bumblebee and Spike are playing arcade games in town it just doesn't get any better than that.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 8:52 pm

Muddy and crew.

Don't worry joeprime, I haven't forgotten about Bee.

by **donny1975** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 4:19 am

Lovin' it! The TW Dinos are looking pretty sweet my friend :-D

. They scale really nice with the deluxes.

Oh and Cobs...

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Happy Thursday Peeps, Dueces!

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 6:13 am

Cobotron wrote::lol:

A healthy smile you have there.

News Credits: 33 · by **Genocide G2.0** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:35 pm

Funny?...Cos when i searched Banana lips all i found was this :shock:

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:58 pm

Why do I have a sudden craving for fruit salad?

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 3:06 pm

carytheone wrote:Why do I have a sudden craving for fruit salad?

Heeeeey! There you are. I was starting to think you threw in the towel.

Donny - Feel free to leave LOTR memes in here anytime. :lol:

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 3:19 pm

Cobotron wrote:
carytheone wrote:Why do I have a sudden craving for fruit salad?
Heeeeey! There you are. I was starting to think you threw in the towel.

Nah, just taking a break, but still lurking on a few threads.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 3:21 pm

carytheone wrote:
Cobotron wrote:
carytheone wrote:Why do I have a sudden craving for fruit salad?
Heeeeey! There you are. I was starting to think you threw in the towel.

Nah, just taking a break, but still lurking on a few threads.

Ya, I feel you. Kinda laying low myself, but had to take advantage of some spare day light time for Muddy.

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:00 am

Speaking of lurking..

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News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:05 am

Hey Cram, long time no see.

My Ham Solo always shoots first.

Hey Cobs, you asked if anyone knew why CW Mirage's numbers are reversed in another thread and I think you got lost in a flame war.

Do you know why or were you just asking? I've been wondering that myself.

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:16 am

carytheone wrote:Hey Cram, long time no see.

My Ham Solo always shoots first.

WHATUPCARY!! lolz at the Ham. Although Han wouldn't really have to worry about Shockwave, I guess ol' one-eye has bad depth perception based on his G1 cartoon track record :lol:

(Marvel/IDW Comics though, totes different.)

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:26 pm

carytheone wrote:Hey Cobs, you asked if anyone knew why CW Mirage's numbers are reversed in another thread and I think you got lost in a flame war.
Do you know why or were you just asking? I've been wondering that myself.

I don't know. I figured Sabrblade or someone else who has all the answers might know a thing or two. Seems strange though. Does anybody or, can anybody own the copy rights to a number? It's one of Mirage's most constant and recognizable details. Maybe there is a real Indy car with that number?

Sup Cramberries? I like your photo. Shockwave has another thing coming.
Those little Star Wars mini sets are cool.

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:27 pm

Cobotron wrote:
carytheone wrote:Hey Cobs, you asked if anyone knew why CW Mirage's numbers are reversed in another thread and I think you got lost in a flame war.
Do you know why or were you just asking? I've been wondering that myself.
I don't know. I figured Sabrblade or someone else who has all the answers might know a thing or two. Seems strange though. Does anybody or, can anybody own the copy rights to a number? It's one of Mirage's most constant and recognizable details. Maybe there is a real Indy car with that number?

Sup Cramberries? I like your photo. Shockwave has another thing coming.
Those little Star Wars mini sets are cool.

It IS weird they flipped the numbers. Weird. Also, yes, the minisets are baller :-D

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:21 pm

I would think it's some kind of copyright thing. I would think probably can't trademark numbers but maybe the look of the numbers as a logo? Like the old 76 gas station logo.

by **donny1975** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 5:33 am

I think you are correct Cary but I think it's the other war around on the trademark and copyright...copyright is for IP. Trademark is for logos/branding. So it is probably switched around because some racer is probably got that number trademarked as their logo currently.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:03 pm

You might remember me mentioning a while back that one of my oldest buddies was sent to Tokyo by the law firm he works for. He asked for a list and I gave him one. This is what he found.
Upon his return, I asked what I owed him, and he replied "Nothin'". :shock:

It took him a good two months to ship them out, but I didn't sweat it.
Never look a gift lawyer in the mouth, I always say. :lol:

I've only opened Smookscreen so far, but these lil Qs are really fun and neat.

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:43 pm

Cool haul, congrats. That Q Wheeljack just got dropped in my soon be force shipped PoL. Glad I held out on shipping.

Glad to hear those are fun.

by **joeprime276** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 6:07 pm

Awesome stuff Cobs! Which Dinobots are those? I need to complete my dinobot collection. I only have FOC Grimlock which I think actually fits pretty well in my G1 inspired collection. What would you recommend for Slag, Sludge, Snarl, and Swoop?

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:40 pm

Hola Jose!

Those two dinobots are from a 3rd party company called Toyworld. They are really great and IMO are the best fit with the Classics aesthetic.
Here is a link to their very own thread,
http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/toyworld-dinobot-combiner-t101187.php-
If you dig a bit you will eventually see the entire team, but wait, there's MORE! These guys are a combiner team as well. Autobot Genocide was nice enough to post a brand new pic of their combined form just today.
http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/toyworld-dinobot-combiner-t101187s275.php#p1720841

But over all the "Dinobot" question is a hard, and long debated one. So far Has/Tak has not given us updates on all the Dinobots. The FOC Grimlock is the closest we have come to a Updated G1 Classics/Gen style dino. And I agree he fits in great. I was kind of out of the loop for a while when that stuff was out, so I picked up the nice G1 deco that came in the Target exclusive AOE 2-pack. Great figure.
The Animated line put out some good Dinobots in really faithful G1 decos, but their aesthetic is very Animated. I just got the Takara repaint of Ani Slag (called Slug) and he is a neat toy but he well go on my Ani shelf. The Swoop from Animated is really cool (I don't actually have him) and I think he could fill in for a Clas/Gen Swoop really well.

There are a slew of 3rd party dinos out there. For me the Toyworld ones really struck a chord and are my first foray into the 3rd party world. FansProject makes some really nice looking ones too. Of course the down side is the 3rd party price. If you were willing to shell out the cash, I would recommend going after MP Prime first. A great toy that is not too difficult and pretty solid in construction. ( I saw your question over at Cary's

)

There is also that Platinum set coming soon of the AOE Dinobots done up in pretty nice looking G1 decos with really cool brand new G1 head sculpts.
Of course there is the wonderful MP Grimlock who is amazingly faithful to the G1 toy, but improved upon 10 fold. But, I know that's not a road you necessarily want to go down right now.

But if you really want my advice, patience. Hasbro will one day make them. So far I have stayed away from 3Ps, waited, and Hasbro came around. Examples - all the Legends class minis like Bumble Bee, Power Glide, Huffer etc. Also Combiner Wars.
When it comes to toys, dinosaurs equal flooded rivers of liquid gold! I truly believe that Hasbro is saving the Dinobot updates for a rainy day when they have run out of ideas. (and Bay is done making ugly roided out versions of them. :lol:

)

Oh! And hey, did your G2 MP Bee show up yet?!?!

by **joeprime276** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:59 pm

Great, thanks for the info! I'll look into the 3rd party stuff just for kicks but I'm not sure yet. Bumblebee did actually arrive about a week ago. I've been renovating my collection over the past few days so I'll try to post some pictures soon of Bumblebee in action. My Transformers collection is still really small but my Star Wars collection is pretty big (I've only recently branched out from SW over the past several months). I'll take some nice pictures and make a collection thread of my own tomorrow that way I'm not crowding out your collection thread too much.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:19 pm

joeprime276 wrote:Great, thanks for the info! I'll look into the 3rd party stuff just for kicks but I'm not sure yet. Bumblebee did actually arrive about a week ago. I've been renovating my collection over the past few days so I'll try to post some pictures soon of Bumblebee in action. My Transformers collection is still really small but my Star Wars collection is pretty big (I've only recently branched out from SW over the past several months). I'll take some nice pictures and make a collection thread of my own tomorrow that way I'm not crowding out your collection thread too much.

Yer not crowdin' up a thing over here.

:lol:

I too had been collecting Star Wars over the last 20 years, not including my childhood. They are safely stowed away for the day the basement gets finished into the ULTIMATE COLLECT-O-TRON! :PRAY:

I am nervously shying away from the new stuff coming though. I just don't think I can handle it. :lol:

Are you gonna chase that dragon Joe?

How do you like Bee? You think he fits well with what you've got?

Can't wait to see all yer robits. Drop an invite over here when it's up, pretty please.