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Rodimus Knight wrote:To me, the Flight stand should have already been included in the price.

It is, in the sense that you're not paying extra for it.

Ya know, so far the tiers have been pretty lackluster. The cannon should have been included, and the flight stand is OK, but it feels sort of lame since you can get the so easily nowadays. I think a core class level of budget micromaster or Jan or alternate IDW parts would still be reasonable and a little more exciting incentives

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Ya know, so far the tiers have been pretty lackluster. The cannon should have been included, and the flight stand is OK, but it feels sort of lame since you can get the so easily nowadays. I think a core class level of budget micromaster or Jan or alternate IDW parts would still be reasonable and a little more exciting incentives

But if the tiers aren't met, hey, less work down the drain.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Ya know, so far the tiers have been pretty lackluster. The cannon should have been included, and the flight stand is OK, but it feels sort of lame since you can get the so easily nowadays. I think a core class level of budget micromaster or Jan or alternate IDW parts would still be reasonable and a little more exciting incentives

But if the tiers aren't met, hey, less work down the drain.

Given how every Haslab with tiers has gone, and how this is going, I feel like that isn't exactly a worry

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Ya know, so far the tiers have been pretty lackluster. The cannon should have been included, and the flight stand is OK, but it feels sort of lame since you can get the so easily nowadays. I think a core class level of budget micromaster or Jan or alternate IDW parts would still be reasonable and a little more exciting incentives

But if the tiers aren't met, hey, less work down the drain.

Given how every Haslab with tiers has gone, and how this is going, I feel like that isn't exactly a worry

The HeroQuest campaign missed it's final stretch goal and Hasbro just announced that they decided to include it anyway. It a was for a miniature and dice. Maybe this campaign will get lucky as well.

Fid

Prediction: final tier is just the shield

My guess is Jan and Holi, plus the shield. And hopefully a second Brainmaster that's face plate is designed to look angry

Nice. Does anyone have a good flight stand for transformers? I tried the Gundam stands, but the transformers seem too heavy and the bigger one is only compatible with some transformers.

CobraKai wrote:Nice. Does anyone have a good flight stand for transformers? I tried the Gundam stands, but the transformers seem too heavy and the bigger one is only compatible with some transformers.

Personally I've not had any issue with the Gundam stands, but I do admit that only figures I really display on those stands are Cutthroat when he's not combined, Airrazor, and MP Road Rage, so not exactly heavy figures. I briefly had Super Megatron on one, but I got tired of reposing him so he wouldn't fall over every time I took him off the stand

Autobot N wrote:Prediction: final tier is just the shield

This is my bet as well

I am just curious. Does anyone know if an official method of ordering has been opened up for fans in Japan yet? I think we assumed it would be a TT mall exclusive, but with just a little less than 3 weeks left, I wonder what they are waiting for? I would think they would want to give fans in Japan especially as much opportunity to order this as possible. There was some nice growth on Thursday and Friday (about 200), but Saturday and Sunday were really slow. Just a little over 20 days to get about 2800 more backers just to fund this thing, let alone stretch goals.

o.supreme wrote:I am just curious. Does anyone know if an official method of ordering has been opened up for fans in Japan yet? I think we assumed it would be a TT mall exclusive, but with just a little less than 3 weeks left, I wonder what they are waiting for? I would think they would want to give fans in Japan especially as much opportunity to order this as possible. There was some nice growth on Thursday and Friday (about 200), but Saturday and Sunday were really slow. Just a little over 20 days to get about 2800 more backers just to fund this thing, let alone stretch goals.

Don't forget the backers that used sites other than Pulse haven't been added yet, so there's almost certainly enough for Victory Saber to be backed, then all the people who are refusing to back until it's funded should be hopping on

There was an overnight bump of about 1200, a little over a week ago, (taking it from roughly 5800 to 7K backers) we know that at least represented a portion of the backers from some of the non-pulse websites.

Victory Saber is making his rounds on a nice convention tour and stopped by the Dallas Fan Expo last week-end. There was something new to this display, the exclusive stand that will come with the set if it reaches the second tier. The stand has the Autobot logo along with the logo for the Victory show, making it a unique piece. Speaking of the second tier, we are almost halfway there with 8225 backers at the moment. The pictures come from a post on the Cybertron Cafe Facebook page. Here is a link to the campaign : https://hasbropulse.com/collections/has ... tory-saber.

Just realized that Victory Leo's face actually gets covered up in jet mode. That's a really nice feature

The complainers dont know what they're talking about. That stand is a perfect thing to be added as a tier.

great googly moogly that thing is just gorgeous. Hollow bits or not, this really imho looks to trounce the mp version. Also for people upset that the cannon doesn't plug into the middle, I see a slot on top of the cannon, and a similar sized tab on the top of Leo. I'm sure that tab is for the Victory Saber combo, but looks like it could be used to tab in the cannon as well. Speculation mind you, just going by sight alone. I can not wait to have this thing in my grubby paws.

All those peg/screw holes at the top of the plane modes... are those really all necessary? They're unsightly. I don't think Victory Saber needs that weaponizer play pattern added to it.

I find it puzzling that why can't Hasbro design TF figures better by making some screw holes into 5mm peg holes if possible. It costs nothing extra to produce, and it sometime make the sculpt cleaner.

Hasbro can also standardize the screw hole sizes so sites like Toyhak & 3d printers can sell mass produced covers to customizers to make figures better.

cloudballoon wrote:All those peg/screw holes at the top of the plane modes... are those really all necessary? They're unsightly. I don't think Victory Saber needs that weaponizer play pattern added to it.

I find it puzzling that why can't Hasbro design TF figures better by making some screw holes into 5mm peg holes if possible. It costs nothing extra to produce, and it sometime make the sculpt cleaner.

The alternative is the screw holes on the front of the robot mode. And I believe that all the screw holes are 5mm

Sentinel_Primal wrote:The alternative is the screw holes on the front of the robot mode. And I believe that all the screw holes are 5mm

Of course I know some are the standard 5mm peg holes (especialy the Hex-shape ones). I think that unless they're necessary for combining with Victory Leo, they shouldn't be there UNLESS they must serve as screw holes (smart dual-purpose).

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

cloudballoon wrote:All those peg/screw holes at the top of the plane modes... are those really all necessary? They're unsightly. I don't think Victory Saber needs that weaponizer play pattern added to it.

I find it puzzling that why can't Hasbro design TF figures better by making some screw holes into 5mm peg holes if possible. It costs nothing extra to produce, and it sometime make the sculpt cleaner.

The alternative is the screw holes on the front of the robot mode. And I believe that all the screw holes are 5mm

Screw holes are indeed 5mm. That's actually where the idea of the 5mm standard for weapons and such originates from.

I'm on pins and needles for this one. I so can't wait for him and hope he gets funded.

As for screw holes... they've never bothered me. Ever.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I'm on pins and needles for this one. I so can't wait for him and hope he gets funded.

As for screw holes... they've never bothered me. Ever.

I would bet money at this point that it probably already is funded. the number you see doesn't include foreign market pre-orders, like Robotkingom, etc. At this point the real question is, will we make the stretch goals, and was is that third one. Seriously, gimme Jan (broken record I know I know) and an alternate bigger Saber head for when he would go un-masked

screw holes are kind of an inevitability. given that things have to be built. Usually their placement is about structural stability and not what looks best. Having an expensive item be pretty is good, but if said expensive item crumbles if you breath on it is enraging. screw hole covers would be nice though. maybe that could be another stretch goal?

Immortal Starscream wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I'm on pins and needles for this one. I so can't wait for him and hope he gets funded.

As for screw holes... they've never bothered me. Ever.

I would bet money at this point that it probably already is funded. the number you see doesn't include foreign market pre-orders, like Robotkingom, etc. At this point the real question is, will we make the stretch goals, and was is that third one. Seriously, gimme Jan (broken record I know I know) and an alternate bigger Saber head for when he would go un-masked

screw holes are kind of an inevitability. given that things have to be built. Usually their placement is about structural stability and not what looks best. Having an expensive item be pretty is good, but if said expensive item crumbles if you breath on it is enraging. screw hole covers would be nice though. maybe that could be another stretch goal?

Personally, as long as the screw hole covers weren't the only part od it, I'd be fine with it. Maybe have them as the fourth tier with Jan and a Holi repaint, or have them in the third tier with Jan and the shield. Ideally, they would have included that in tier 2 with the stand just so that tier 2 felt more complete, but so far I'm fine with what we're getting.

As a side note, am I the only one who's really come around on the shield and is now really hoping we hit that stretch goal, all because of the base section?

Immortal Starscream wrote:I would bet money at this point that it probably already is funded. the number you see doesn't include foreign market pre-orders, like Robotkingom, etc. At this point the real question is, will we make the stretch goals, and was is that third one. Seriously, gimme Jan (broken record I know I know) and an alternate bigger Saber head for when he would go un-masked

Some of the 3p sales were counted, as there was a 1200 overnight jump about 10 days ago, we just don't know from what source. Also I am puzzled as with 20 days left why orders haven't opened up in Japan yet?

We are now officially at 75%, as of about midnight EDT. Some other places were celebrating this about 12 hours premature. Never count your chickens before they hatch, unless you WANT to Dare to be stupid