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fenrir72 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:What wj88 said. Most if not all Platinums were G1 figs. Trypticon, Seekers, 3xchangers, Insecticons and Blaster/Perceptor. With the exception of the YotH Laser Convoy mold.

So it does feel like a downer when they didn't put up the original guys.

Btw, as I too am a "bit averse" to the Movie aesthetic, were the bas molds of the AOE dinobots any good?

With the expeption of one or two, most AOE Dino molds got great reviews.

I have all of them and appart the blue dino, I love them all.

Should have been "base molds" So their good huh? Again, seriously contemplating them.

Oh man you are in luck then. Because these are legitimately good molds and you wont be repeating any of them unlike the majority of us here. Plus you will get them in great premium deco with some exclusive heads.

In short, they are ok but most have a problem with their forearm articulation. Slug doesnt though, hence why I like him best. Snarl's Transformation is a lovely homage to his G1 self and I find that Grimlock to actually get that tail into leg transforation right. And Slag has an amazing beast mode.

fenrir72 wrote:What wj88 said. Most if not all Platinums were G1 figs. Trypticon, Seekers, 3xchangers, Insecticons and Blaster/Perceptor. With the exception of the YotH Laser Convoy mold.

So it does feel like a downer when they didn't put up the original guys.

Btw, as I too am a "bit averse" to the Movie aesthetic, were the bas molds of the AOE dinobots any good?

I found a used AOE Slug at at my local used record store today. I held it, transformed it. I wasn't impressed. If you're averse to the movie look then I guess you know your answer.

Full disclosure. I'm not a fan of the movie toys in the strongest sense of the term.

BTW. The store was asking $8 us if your also thinking collector value.

Your call.

misfire19d wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:What wj88 said. Most if not all Platinums were G1 figs. Trypticon, Seekers, 3xchangers, Insecticons and Blaster/Perceptor. With the exception of the YotH Laser Convoy mold.

So it does feel like a downer when they didn't put up the original guys.

Btw, as I too am a "bit averse" to the Movie aesthetic, were the bas molds of the AOE dinobots any good?

I found a used AOE Slug at at my local used record store today. I held it, transformed it. I wasn't impressed. If you're averse to the movie look then I guess you know your answer.

Full disclosure. I'm not a fan of the movie toys in the strongest sense of the term.

BTW. The store was asking $8 us if your also thinking collector value.

Your call.

I wouldnt recomend anyone to get movie toys for collector value. The only ones that will be worth something in the future are the ones worth something now, like ROTF Leader Megatron. Even Junkheap has gone way down in value from when he was first discovered.

misfire19d wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:What wj88 said. Most if not all Platinums were G1 figs. Trypticon, Seekers, 3xchangers, Insecticons and Blaster/Perceptor. With the exception of the YotH Laser Convoy mold.

So it does feel like a downer when they didn't put up the original guys.

Btw, as I too am a "bit averse" to the Movie aesthetic, were the bas molds of the AOE dinobots any good?

I found a used AOE Slug at at my local used record store today. I held it, transformed it. I wasn't impressed. If you're averse to the movie look then I guess you know your answer.

Full disclosure. I'm not a fan of the movie toys in the strongest sense of the term.

BTW. The store was asking $8 us if your also thinking collector value.

Your call.

Right, because an out of the box figure, just over a year old, still on the shelves at some places - possibly - has collectors value

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Right, because an out of the box figure, just over a year old, still on the shelves at some places - possibly - has collectors value

True! And man, what does that mean for Scorn?!

Hellscream9999 wrote:

misfire19d wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:What wj88 said. Most if not all Platinums were G1 figs. Trypticon, Seekers, 3xchangers, Insecticons and Blaster/Perceptor. With the exception of the YotH Laser Convoy mold.

So it does feel like a downer when they didn't put up the original guys.

Btw, as I too am a "bit averse" to the Movie aesthetic, were the bas molds of the AOE dinobots any good?

I found a used AOE Slug at at my local used record store today. I held it, transformed it. I wasn't impressed. If you're averse to the movie look then I guess you know your answer.

Full disclosure. I'm not a fan of the movie toys in the strongest sense of the term.

BTW. The store was asking $8 us if your also thinking collector value.

Your call.

Right, because an out of the box figure, just over a year old, still on the shelves at some places - possibly - has collectors value

Whatever

The way the Platinum series and other boxed sets uses Movie moulds lately got me wondering.

Rather than releasing the same thing over and over (Like Dinobots) or focusing on G1 a lot.

What potential is there for curious reuse of existing Movie moulds - if they are sold as collectable grade can they use more complex moulds without some Parent's heads exploding in rage ?

I was glancing at what I had sitting about and a few obvious repaint (or reissues with a new head) sprang to mind.

G2 Colour Mixmaster
Longhaul as Landfill or in G2 Colours as Longhaul again
Mindwipe in G1 colours (with the fan bat mode added to the instructions)
Even Blackout as Spinister in Voyager scale might work OK.

It crossed my mind that would work perhaps like the set they did before with 1 Voyager and One deluxe in gift set.

It might be worth considering in the build up to the next movie or as a way to stretch the next toyline out a bit.

I know not everyone like Movie Moulds - but they are undeniably better value toys that some of the toys Hasbro has released in the last 2 years.

I won;t make any other suggestion here as I'm mainly mentioning it as an example of a format to sell things other than big gift sets like the Dinobots - or speculating on how the idea they used with Perceptor & Blaster might work with other themes ?

I have yet to see the seekers anywhere. I wish I could find them

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I have yet to see the seekers anywhere. I wish I could find them

Are you in the States? Target online or Amazon might be your best bet, or maybe one of the online retailers. I think the sightings at Target have been very, very sparse...

Nice post RAR. But rest assured, Hasbro (Asia, at least) is still milking the movie molds that work with two other premium sets that came earlier this year:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK12084&mode=retail

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK12000&mode=retail

And they did take the movie mold turned G1 route for the RTS line. I dont know what the feedback on that was, can you spot the intruders passing as G1 characters here:


Transformers Reveal The Shield Mindset Gallery


And here are two others, Deep Dive and Strafe both using "movie" molds.

With the 2015 Platinum edition sets all revealed, it only makes sense that this line gets less news these days. However, fellow Seibertronian Bill_Stickers has dug up some excellent shots of the new Hasbro Transformers Generations Platinum Dinobots set featuring the Age of Extinction Dinobot molds in G1 deco. There has been a debate whether these were the G1 Dinos themselves (in a Generations update) or rather the AOE Dinos in a G1 deco with G1 heads. Well, this new review from MACULA brings even more mystery with the reveal that the names are the same as the AOE names. Hence, this set includes SLOG, SLUG and STRAFE. So is this AOE Strafe in G1 deco, gen G1 Swoop or gen G1 Strafe? Afterall, there is no other Generations Strafe so far. Instead of being anymore facetious, how about we just get to the meat. Below is a quick video review of this set still in it's packaging, as well as stills of the heads and some other angles to the previously seen shots, courtesy of Bladestorm of Ozformers.

They look pretty nice, shame about the horrid monkey arms (I'm lookin' at you stego-head)

I am sad they didnt do any dinobots movie verse legion class for AoE

BERSEKAEL wrote:I am sad they didnt do any dinobots movie verse legion class for AoE

Especially considering how simple they would have been to approximate; Did they even do a legion class for that line?

*edit, if I remember correctly they were too busy (not) selling the fast-action bullsh!t to put effort into actual transformers.

The headsculpts look fantastic. Particularly enjoying the ones on Grimlock and Slag. Dunno what it is about them, they just work for me.

Samsonator wrote:The headsculpts look fantastic. Particularly enjoying the ones on Grimlock and Slag. Dunno what it is about them, they just work for me.

Slog looks pretty great, like an edgy megazord

Hellscream9999 wrote:

BERSEKAEL wrote:I am sad they didnt do any dinobots movie verse legion class for AoE

Especially considering how simple they would have been to approximate; Did they even do a legion class for that line?

*edit, if I remember correctly they were too busy (not) selling the fast-action bullsh!t to put effort into actual transformers.

They did make Legion Class figures but they were all repaints:

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

BERSEKAEL wrote:I am sad they didnt do any dinobots movie verse legion class for AoE

Especially considering how simple they would have been to approximate; Did they even do a legion class for that line?

*edit, if I remember correctly they were too busy (not) selling the fast-action bullsh!t to put effort into actual transformers.

They did make Legion Class figures but they were all repaints:

Doesn't count then

I was looking forward to this set but Snarl being all silver where he should be gold kinda kills my enthusiasm as he was the first Dinobot I ever owned

I still kinda want these just to rip off the heads and put them on my SDCC set.

Where exactly are you going to be able to buy these? Doesn't look like the kind of thing my local Toys R Us would get in.

Are they much different to the SDCC set, colour wise etc?

DeadCaL wrote:Where exactly are you going to be able to buy these? Doesn't look like the kind of thing my local Toys R Us would get in.

Are they much different to the SDCC set, colour wise etc?

It should be available at TRU, I dont see why it wouldnt. Afterall, TRU did have this set:



http://www.toysrus.com.hk/www.toysrus.com.hk/transformers-age-of-extinction-dinobots-unleashed-figure-5-pack/

Were the Platinums all going to be Target exclusives? Wait, the Insecticons were Kmart exclusives, weren't they. Hrm...

Well, in the states, anyway. Maybe it was just the Coneheads and Trypticon that were Target exclusives. Sorry, this travel weary dude needs more sleep... Or coffee...

Agamemnon wrote:Were the Platinums all going to be Target exclusives? Wait, the Insecticons were Kmart exclusives, weren't they. Hrm...

Well, in the states, anyway. Maybe it was just the Coneheads and Trypticon that were Target exclusives. Sorry, this travel weary dude needs more sleep... Or coffee...

Here is the quote:

Exclusives

Platinum Blaster and Perceptor set - Exclusive to Target
Platinum Trypticon - Exclusive to Target

Masterpiece Bluestreak - Exclusive to TRU
Masterpiece Starscream - Exclusive to TRU, available 10/1

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/sdcc-2015-hasbro-transformers-panel-summary/33448/

The heads look great. Definitely getting an IDW vibe... if only Strafe had molded goggles, the illusion would be (mostly) complete.