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Rodimus Prime wrote:So far we have Yeah of the Dragon, Year of the Snake, and Year of the Goat, right?

Metro Prime wrote:How can it be that, out of the 4 different uses of the Laser Prime mold, we STILL don't have one in Prime's normal colors? The closest Hasbro (or Takara) has ever come to making one was a teeny-tiny Spy Changer:

Metro Prime wrote:How can it be that, out of the 4 different uses of the Laser Prime mold, we STILL don't have one in Prime's normal colors? The closest Hasbro (or Takara) has ever come to making one was a teeny-tiny Spy Changer:

leokearon wrote:

Metro Prime wrote:How can it be that, out of the 4 different uses of the Laser Prime mold, we STILL don't have one in Prime's normal colors? The closest Hasbro (or Takara) has ever come to making one was a teeny-tiny Spy Changer:

That looks awesome when was that released?

Sabrblade wrote:Gold plastic, clear plastic, and chrome... What a lasting combination.

Bumblevivisector wrote:

Siger wrote:Can someone tell me the appeal of translucent figures? You can't even see the details clearly...

...until you shine light through them!

Though that hardly outweighs the fragility (the animal cassettes are gonna' look and crumble like rock candy) and the missed opportunity to paint all 5 cassettes into MP versions of different characters.

And yet...clear "stealth mode" Ravage actually makes perfect sense.

Sure you could pretend they all just used Decepticon invisibility spray...if you can stand thinking about Attack of the Autobots, which I can't, seeing as it's David Wise's first and worst episode, making it hurt so much worse than a lousy throw-away episode by a writer whose later work didn't define the G1 cartoon's mythology.

I have never been more thoroughly on the fence about any TFs than I am right now. It gives so many fans what they asked for: more MP Soundwave and friends! And yet, while it doesn't miss the mark, it just sort of grazes it. My buying it may hinge on whether it actually shows up in TRU, and how long it hangs around.

Siger wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Gold plastic, clear plastic, and chrome... What a lasting combination.

They want to make sure it falls apart by the next year of the Goat, so you'll have to buy a new masterpiece?

Autobot tap out wrote:

Siger wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Gold plastic, clear plastic, and chrome... What a lasting combination.

They want to make sure it falls apart by the next year of the Goat, so you'll have to buy a new masterpiece?

If that happened I'd possibly find a way to repair the figure most likely find a method of curing gold plastic syndrome which could be gorilla glue /crazy glue but that could be debatable....

Metro Prime wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:

Siger wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Gold plastic, clear plastic, and chrome... What a lasting combination.

They want to make sure it falls apart by the next year of the Goat, so you'll have to buy a new masterpiece?

If that happened I'd possibly find a way to repair the figure most likely find a method of curing gold plastic syndrome which could be gorilla glue /crazy glue but that could be debatable....

Gold Plastic Syndrome is when the plastic doesn't mix properly, resulting in a brittle and extremely fragile toy. Just gluing the piece back won't help, and may just make it worse. Even if you do, the plastic is still brittle and extremely fragile. Besides, I highly doubt you can glue together tiny, sharp fragments of plastic, assuming it doesn't just crumble to dust first.
Also, toys with GPS typically have noticable swirls in the plastic where the dyes and stuff didn't form correctly. These guys don't have that.

Burn wrote:The brown clashes with the translucent plastic ... yet I'm still likely to get Prime.

But again, another Chinese year ... another missed opportunity ... this time Ramulus.

Cobotron wrote:

Burn wrote:The brown clashes with the translucent plastic ... yet I'm still likely to get Prime.

But again, another Chinese year ... another missed opportunity ... this time Ramulus.

My first thought was, awe, maybe one of those cassettes turns into a goat!
Agreed, Ramulus was the obvious choice. Bet we wont see any Optimus primals for Y.O.Monkey.
I'd chop off a finger for a translucent Voyager Op Primal.

These are another case of, so stupid they work for me. I'm a sucker for translucent stuff.

Wolfman Jake wrote:I really don't see the appeal of "clear" figures. It makes a modicum of sense if the character has the ability to become invisible or cloaked or whatever...but that's not something Optimus or Soundwave are known for.

Sabrblade wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I really don't see the appeal of "clear" figures. It makes a modicum of sense if the character has the ability to become invisible or cloaked or whatever...but that's not something Optimus or Soundwave are known for.

There's a first time for everything.

After all, Soundwave's a spy, so invisibility/cloaking could be of great use to him.

For Optimus, he could represent the other popular function of clear figures: A ghost.

megatronus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I really don't see the appeal of "clear" figures. It makes a modicum of sense if the character has the ability to become invisible or cloaked or whatever...but that's not something Optimus or Soundwave are known for.

There's a first time for everything.

After all, Soundwave's a spy, so invisibility/cloaking could be of great use to him.

For Optimus, he could represent the other popular function of clear figures: A ghost.

Unless the Year of the Dragon, Year of the Snake, or Year of the Horse figures had some sort of fiction explaining the color choices, I think we can safely assume that the color choices here were for the heck of it.

I'm cool with that, but just sayin'.

Sabrblade wrote:

megatronus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I really don't see the appeal of "clear" figures. It makes a modicum of sense if the character has the ability to become invisible or cloaked or whatever...but that's not something Optimus or Soundwave are known for.

There's a first time for everything.

After all, Soundwave's a spy, so invisibility/cloaking could be of great use to him.

For Optimus, he could represent the other popular function of clear figures: A ghost.

Unless the Year of the Dragon, Year of the Snake, or Year of the Horse figures had some sort of fiction explaining the color choices, I think we can safely assume that the color choices here were for the heck of it.

I'm cool with that, but just sayin'.

I was mainly referring to how one could play with these in whatever scenarios one could imagine.

megatronus wrote:Not so much love for these from the fandom, I guess.

I think they will grow on you. People thought YotH MP Prime was garish, ugly, and unnecessary at first... that is, until they got him in hand.

Hey, if you guys don't want that MP Soundwave, more for me!