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JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:It's all about using one's imagination with these toys (sorry if that's a sore point for you) and for some that's all they need. They have no need for fancy gimmicks, as a child's imagination can be limitless and you can do anything you want in your mind.

I will say that certain gimmicks can help start it up and/or add to it, especially if it has fiction backing up, as long as that gimmick does not override the child's mind.

Well said. I've never had much of an imagination. I've never been creative or had any ideas. I've always had be told what to do and how to do it. Without instructions or directions I'm completely lost, always have been. I need those electronics, mechanics/robotics, gimmicks to do the imagining and creating for me. I need those cartoons, comics, movies and other media to feed me the ideas because I can't come up with any on my own. I don't have a creative bone in a body, or an original thought in my head.

duragrip wrote:Barbie and Hot Wheels don't even have the benefit of a cartoon or comic book, let alone a movie, yet they still sell.

Can someone please explain to me their appeal, over G1 Omega Supreme who has batteries, electronics, a motor, cartoon, comic book, video games, and hopefully a movie?

I just don't get it. I guess you can say, as the sexy Marky Mark Wahlberg said to Edward Norton in "The Italian Job", "You got no imagination."

This is about G1 OS and not Mattel but if you insist about dragging Mattel here which, aside from Sho-Gun Warriors and Captain Lazer were half @ssed efforts into the 'bots craze. The former had a Marvel comic support while the latter nada.

Btw, Hotwheels had a cartoon too (back in the late 70s). As for your lack of imagination, you seem not to be lacking any nasty ones in the general topic thread that got locked.

Again, you are really pushing it with Mattel which isn't even anywhere related to OS. I wonder what Burn the bearbarian would say about this?

fenrir72 wrote:

duragrip wrote:Y
This is about G1 OS and not Mattel but if you insist about dragging Mattel here... As for your lack of imagination, you seem not to be lacking any nasty ones in the general topic thread that got locked.

Again, you are really pushing it with Mattel which isn't even anywhere related to OS. I wonder6 what Burn the bearbarian would say about this?

I meant no offense. I'm sorry.

duragrip wrote:Barbie and Hot Wheels don't even have the benefit of a cartoon or comic book, let alone a movie, yet they still sell.

Barbie has a **** tonne of direct-to-dvd movies and Hot Wheels has cartoons.

Try again.

It seems like Transformers are tailor-made to be converted into Wi-FI operated and controlled vehicles. Wouldn't you love to tranform, articulate, move and make them talk using a phone app? We could have Combiner Wars. I want to be able to say "Rocket mode Omega Supreme!" by turning on voice-control on my app. Switching to fight mode would display a keypad allowing you to throw punches and kicks, shoot projectiles, jump, etc. Arduino technology makes this possible. Can someone teach me Arduino?

Have you tried Google?

Is G1 Omega Supreme "The Special"?

duragrip wrote:Is G1 Omega Supreme "The Special"?

I don't know, there's something magical, or special if you will, about G1 omega supreme. Imagine walking late at night on the the starlight beach with your noisy, clunky G1 omega supreme toy following behind provided he hasn't tipped over, blown out his motor, or fallen apart. G1 Omega supreme is truly differently-abled special.
(i've only barely managed to keep a straight face)

I got my G1 Omega Supreme for $40 at a comicbook shop because his electronics didn't work. I took him home, cleaned the contacts and forced them down to ensure a connection, and VOILA, the electronics worked! I laughed like a maniac watching the tank roll around the track.

I sold him off a couple years later for $100 as my collecting tastes evolved.

Mkall wrote:I got my G1 Omega Supreme for $40 at a comicbook shop because his electronics didn't work. I took him home, cleaned the contacts and forced them down to ensure a connection, and VOILA, the electronics worked! I laughed like a maniac watching the tank roll around the track.

I sold him off a couple years later for $100 as my collecting tastes evolved.

Given OS' origins, he does reminds me of a grandpa Zoids or something.

duragrip wrote:It seems like Transformers are tailor-made to be converted into Wi-FI operated and controlled vehicles. Wouldn't you love to tranform, articulate, move and make them talk using a phone app? We could have Combiner Wars. I want to be able to say "Rocket mode Omega Supreme!" by turning on voice-control on my app. Switching to fight mode would display a keypad allowing you to throw punches and kicks, shoot projectiles, jump, etc. Arduino technology makes this possible. Can someone teach me Arduino?

You gonna add a hydraulic endo skeleton on it right? You know, for the punch and kicks you mentioned.

Omega Supreme is so badass, he's outdone by a Garfield phone

That's hilarious DM!

ahahahaha I don't wanna know where you found that ****.

And is it just me, or did a lot of American Ninja's wear track suits back in the 80's?

Some wore white would you believe?

Burn wrote:ahahahaha I don't wanna know where you found that ****.

And is it just me, or did a lot of American Ninja's wear track suits back in the 80's?

Not just track suites, Ninja track suites!

I saw it in one of the Cinema Snob reviews from ages ago and just recently remembered it, so seeing how this thread is all about how fantastic Omega Supreme is, I thought it would be perfect!

fenrir72 wrote:

duragrip wrote:It seems like Transformers are tailor-made to be converted into Wi-FI operated and controlled vehicles. Wouldn't you love to tranform, articulate, move and make them talk using a phone app? We could have Combiner Wars. I want to be able to say "Rocket mode Omega Supreme!" by turning on voice-control on my app. Switching to fight mode would display a keypad allowing you to throw punches and kicks, shoot projectiles, jump, etc. Arduino technology makes this possible. Can someone teach me Arduino?

You gonna add a hydraulic endo skeleton on it right? You know, for the punch and kicks you mentioned.

I would love to do this! That's a great idea!

It's just hydraulics requires a mechanical engineering background. I dabble in electronics and computers, but I've never been mechanically-inclined. Are hydraulics and motors difficult subjects to learn?

Also, designing the endo-skeleton will requires knowledge of mechanics and stress. Do you think a software guy like me can pick up these things?

Dead Metal wrote:

Burn wrote:ahahahaha I don't wanna know where you found that ****.

And is it just me, or did a lot of American Ninja's wear track suits back in the 80's?

Not just track suites, Ninja track suites!

I saw it in one of the Cinema Snob reviews from ages ago and just recently remembered it, so seeing how this thread is all about how fantastic Omega Supreme is, I thought it would be perfect!

I feel better knowing i'm not the only person here who's seen Ninja Terminator

G1 Omega Supreme is quite possibly the worst G1 toy ever made. Trypticon comes close, but at least he can walk.

Rodimus Prime wrote:G1 Omega Supreme is quite possibly the worst G1 toy ever made. Trypticon comes close, but at least he can walk.

I'd argue and point out something worse, but in this particular instance I'm going to agree and help piss duragrip off.

Careful he doesn't PM you though.

Burn wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:G1 Omega Supreme is quite possibly the worst G1 toy ever made. Trypticon comes close, but at least he can walk.

I'd argue and point out something worse, but in this particular instance I'm going to agree and help piss duragrip off.

Careful he doesn't PM you though.

"Mr. Burns, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

duragrip wrote:

Burn wrote:Careful he doesn't PM you though.

"Mr. Burns, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

SHlT JUST GOT REAL.

And I didn't say it just to piss off duragrip. I honestly think that G1 OS is the biggest POS of the line.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

duragrip wrote:

Burn wrote:Careful he doesn't PM you though.

"Mr. Burns, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

SHlT JUST GOT REAL.

I honestly think that G1 OS is the biggest POS of the line.

duragrip wrote:

Burn wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:G1 Omega Supreme is quite possibly the worst G1 toy ever made. Trypticon comes close, but at least he can walk.

I'd argue and point out something worse, but in this particular instance I'm going to agree and help piss duragrip off.

Careful he doesn't PM you though.

"Mr. Burns, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

whoops ... looks like ANOTHER off-topic post from you!