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Jelze Bunnycat wrote:To bring this back to Selects... Ok, any alternate Hot House builds?

Decided to do a quick and dirty design and photo shoot, came up with two fire station and one tank design that use similar layouts, but hit the uploads per post limit, so the second fire station design will be in a second post. Wasn't until I got him back out that I realized they fixed the upside down "FIRE STATION" from the stock photos, at least on my copy, making things easier. First up is the 'snubnose' fire station, which better matches the original's boxy proportions at the cost of having a really egregious kibble layout.
The lack of parking lot doesn't look as bad when closely connected to another modulator. The tank actually came out pretty well, although it does suffer from megatron tankfeet syndrome. You need to make sure the knee pegs are tucked in at an angle for clearance, shown in the side shot. The turret is also able to rotate and elevate.

Just got an email from Pulse Super Megatron and God Neptune are in stock!. I already have GN....but I am very tempted to get Super Megatron. If I knew for sure stimulus checks were coming I'd pull the trigger, but unfortunately I have to wait and will probably miss my second chance. Oh well...

alekese wrote:

Jelze Bunnycat wrote: Ok, any alternate Hot House builds?

the second fire station design will be in a second post.

The second fire station design is essentially the same as the tank mode, but with the front arm pulled off to free up the airlock ports, and the barrel attached to it to hide the hand some.
This fixes the parking lot problem the first design had.

o.supreme wrote:Just got an email from Pulse Super Megatron and God Neptune are in stock!. I already have GN....but I am very tempted to get Super Megatron. If I knew for sure stimulus checks were coming I'd pull the trigger, but unfortunately I have to wait and will probably miss my second chance. Oh well...

At the very least 600$ checks will be coming out. Saying that, I greatly advise anyone to gets a Super Megatron, while u can. He is awesome with tight joints, great paint and just generally a great Megs. He is now my headcanon Megatron.

It's far from certain that we'll get any stimulus money any time soon, it will most likely happen after the current President leaves and the puppet-in-chief following him will rubber-stamp anything those who truly hold the power tell him to.

So if it does come, it'll probably towards the end of February. I'll probably spend mine on the Selects Seacons. I just wish Pulse would bring them all back into stock, I'd hate to pay eBay robbery prices.

Rodimus Prime wrote:It's far from certain that we'll get any stimulus money any time soon, it will most likely happen after the current President leaves and the puppet-in-chief following him will rubber-stamp anything those who truly hold the power tell him to.

So if it does come, it'll probably towards the end of February. I'll probably spend mine on the Selects Seacons. I just wish Pulse would bring them all back into stock, I'd hate to pay eBay robbery prices.

I know its not accurate, but I wish we would get the 6th seacon in God Neptune colors. I just much prefer that pearlescent scheme over the G1.

Flashwave wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:So if it does come, it'll probably towards the end of February. I'll probably spend mine on the Selects Seacons. I just wish Pulse would bring them all back into stock, I'd hate to pay eBay robbery prices.

I know its not accurate, but I wish we would get the 6th seacon in God Neptune colors. I just much prefer that pearlescent scheme over the G1.

I wondered why that didn't happen, I figured it would have been released in the Selects line on its own.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:So if it does come, it'll probably towards the end of February. I'll probably spend mine on the Selects Seacons. I just wish Pulse would bring them all back into stock, I'd hate to pay eBay robbery prices.

I know its not accurate, but I wish we would get the 6th seacon in God Neptune colors. I just much prefer that pearlescent scheme over the G1.

I wondered why that didn't happen, I figured it would have been released in the Selects line on its own.

Well, Starscream's currently holding Lawbhammer hostage in the Selects manga, so it does feel like they're saving him (Lawbhammer) for some future plans later.

Though, last time we saw him he was still in his old body, so if we ever see him get upgraded into a Selects-style body like all the other Seacons then that should hopefully be a sign of his getting a toy.

I have Sandstorm and Nemesis preordered on BBTS, Nemy is ready to be shipped but Sandy says it won't be till February (which is fine with me HaHa). Usually it doesn't take very long at all for their packages to arrive, being only a state over from their headquarters prolly helps. But the pre order fulfillment seems to be all over the place right, since there is stuff I've had pre ordered since September and still hasn't come in but Nemy only took about two weeks to be ready! Strange times indeed.

I just sold my POTP Dinobots combiner with Slash to my friend (so that he can at last embrase the BEAST bug) and I'm considering getting the Takara Select Volcanicus set with the money.

BUT NO REVIEW ANYWHERE. No video nor picture reviews. At all.
Any help?

I'm debating if I should get this 320$can set.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I just sold my POTP Dinobots combiner with Slash to my friend (so that he can at last embrase the BEAST bug) and I'm considering getting the Takara Select Volcanicus set with the money.

BUT NO REVIEW ANYWHERE. No video nor picture reviews. At all.
Any help?

I'm debating if I should get this 320$can set.

You wont find any reviews until its release in February. Unlike Hasbro, Takara Tomy knows how to keep their figures from getting leaked early.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I just sold my POTP Dinobots combiner with Slash to my friend (so that he can at last embrase the BEAST bug) and I'm considering getting the Takara Select Volcanicus set with the money.

BUT NO REVIEW ANYWHERE. No video nor picture reviews. At all.
Any help?

I'm debating if I should get this 320$can set.

You wont find any reviews until its release in February. Unlike Hasbro, Takara Tomy knows how to keep their figures from getting leaked early.

Emerje

Oh.

Well, better sit on the money for now.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I just sold my POTP Dinobots combiner with Slash to my friend (so that he can at last embrase the BEAST bug) and I'm considering getting the Takara Select Volcanicus set with the money.

BUT NO REVIEW ANYWHERE. No video nor picture reviews. At all.
Any help?

I'm debating if I should get this 320$can set.

You wont find any reviews until its release in February. Unlike Hasbro, Takara Tomy knows how to keep their figures from getting leaked early.

Emerje

Oh.

Well, better sit on the money for now.

Besides, weren't there shots of it when the announcement was made? Or was that just fanwank?

Rodimus Prime wrote:Besides, weren't there shots of it when the announcement was made? Or was that just fanwank?

There was comparison pictures. But the reviews will show the accessories in greater details and most importantly, if that version is more solid and stable in combined form compared to the original. Still, I wouldn't count on that last one.

M. Spector wrote:I have Sandstorm and Nemesis preordered on BBTS, Nemy is ready to be shipped but Sandy says it won't be till February (which is fine with me HaHa). Usually it doesn't take very long at all for their packages to arrive, being only a state over from their headquarters prolly helps. But the pre order fulfillment seems to be all over the place right, since there is stuff I've had pre ordered since September and still hasn't come in but Nemy only took about two weeks to be ready! Strange times indeed.

Not really, Sandstorm is on his normal schedule that was orignally planned, and as of this morning came in a bit early to BBTS. Nemesis Prime was a change in plans and was supposed to originally be a Walmart exclusive. But Walmart is incompetent and cannot figure out how to put large transformers (Netflix leaders, commander class) into their toy section and decided to make the Netflix leaders online only. When that happened Hasbro opened things up to other online retailers like BBTS.

Nemy was always due to arrive before Sandstorm, he just went up for pre-order at BBTS later than Sandstorm making it seem like he was quicker to produce.

But the real news here is we should both have our Sandstorms pretty soon as I just got my notice from BBTS that they are in.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:But the real news here is we should both have our Sandstorms pretty soon as I just got my notice from BBTS that they are in.

In and charged, shipping soon. The site still says coming in February, though, but this is quickly turning into the new normal for Transformers pre-orders. We'll either be thankful or disappointed when this doesn't happen next year. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the Amazon WFC GO stuff due for next year started shipping soon.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:But the real news here is we should both have our Sandstorms pretty soon as I just got my notice from BBTS that they are in.

In and charged, shipping soon. The site still says coming in February, though, but this is quickly turning into the new normal for Transformers pre-orders. We'll either be thankful or disappointed when this doesn't happen next year. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the Amazon WFC GO stuff due for next year started shipping soon.

Emerje

Funny yall mention this because i just got that same surprise shipping notification! No big deal, little bummed I couldnt lump him in with some other stuff in the loot pile, but a new Voyager will be a fun way to start the year and check out the Seeker mold before I try to hunt down Thrust

Since they were taking too long to get it in stock, I canceled my God Neptune preorder with TFSource and went with Hasbro Pulse, who already had it in stock and for a better price. I just now got an email saying that my order has shipped.

Nice Sabr, I wonder if yours will also come in the ridiculously oversized box and 30 feet of airpacks. Definitely keep us posted, lol.

Sabrblade wrote:Since they were taking too long to get it in stock, I canceled my God Neptune preorder with TFSource and went with Hasbro Pulse, who already had it in stock and for a better price. I just now got an email saying that my order has shipped.

If I hadn't already paid for my Super Megatron and am in the process of waiting for a double/triple source points event to ship, I would have done the same with Super Megs.

I hope these early preorders are the only of their kind that happen, I was really annoyed with a lot of stuff shipping a month or 2 early, really threw the budget off.

A lot of these were scheduled late it seems anyway, like we would have seen them earlier and this would have been normal or slightly late for the selects releases, but the pandemic pushed them back a couple months.

God Neptune is now out of stock at Age 3 and Up. Look like I bought mine just in time.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Since they were taking too long to get it in stock, I canceled my God Neptune preorder with TFSource and went with Hasbro Pulse, who already had it in stock and for a better price. I just now got an email saying that my order has shipped.

If I hadn't already paid for my Super Megatron and am in the process of waiting for a double/triple source points event to ship, I would have done the same with Super Megs.

With Super Megs, TFSource got him in first, so I kept that one.

Still haven't shipped my Stack, though.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Since they were taking too long to get it in stock, I canceled my God Neptune preorder with TFSource and went with Hasbro Pulse, who already had it in stock and for a better price. I just now got an email saying that my order has shipped.

If I hadn't already paid for my Super Megatron and am in the process of waiting for a double/triple source points event to ship, I would have done the same with Super Megs.

With Super Megs, TFSource got him in first, so I kept that one.

Still haven't shipped my Stack, though.

Still annoyed that there hasn't been a source points multiplier event for the holidays. I want to ship so I can get Super Megs and more already but get the multiplier!

Just have to say again that Super Megatron is an awesome figure, so good. But what Im posting for is Galvatron. Am I remembering correctly that someone somewhere said or leaked that a Selects toy/comic colour type Galvatron 2 figure is going to be released? So many posts to look thru.

Moonshot wrote:Just have to say again that Super Megatron is an awesome figure, so good. But what Im posting for is Galvatron. Am I remembering correctly that someone somewhere said or leaked that a Selects toy/comic colour type Galvatron 2 figure is going to be released? So many posts to look thru.

We do get a rumor for that, along with selects deep cover, but how much truth is in that, we cannot be certain yet.