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News Credits: 1 · by **softimus_prime** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:55 pm

Bonecrusher27 wrote:Everyone knows the deal. New batches of toys come in, hot ones can bought, cold ones get left. Where I am there are huge batches of Bonecrusher and Wreckage and Swindle left.

Wreckage is a really cool bot in my opinion, looks equally good in both modes, and is one articulated mother. As far as I know, he's also the only bot besides Arcee not in the movie to have an automorph. I can understand people not warming up to him because he wasn't in the movie.

Swindle looks pretty dorky to me, and I can understand why no one would want to pay the same price as the rest for a robot that doesn't have automorph features and wasn't in the movie.

But I'm pretty amazed at BC though. Why is he warming the shelves? A few people suggest it's because he was in the movie for only a short time. Is that a fair dinkum reason why people aren't buying him up? Short time or not, he's one cool robot, looks like a mean sumbitch, steady to pose, well articulated. That short sequence with Prime was short, but I love it because it was dirty, brutal, and visceral, just like real fights I've seen or been in.

Any thoughts?

good question primarily just because of the scale he is one of the figures that has the most articulated limbs and he would definitely look nice if he's atleast a voyager or leader at the first release...

by **Ninjatron** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:06 pm

So many people have problems with the decepticon scale. I found lots of the decepticons are in scale to each other at least.

I say this with full understanding that there is no realistic representation of scale in any TF media.

But brawl, wreckage, bonecrusher and blackout seem relatively in scale to each other. Screamer and Barricade are a little big to match the rest though.

by **Rushie** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:07 pm

Bonecrushers are shelfwarming? Over here in the Netherlands I've never come across a single friggin Bonecrusher. He's the only movie TF I'm missing and I SO want one. :-(

by **neocrasher** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:07 pm

Optimus_Bubutron wrote:
Bonecrusher27 wrote:Everyone knows the deal. New batches of toys come in, hot ones can bought, cold ones get left. Where I am there are huge batches of Bonecrusher and Wreckage and Swindle left.

Wreckage is a really cool bot in my opinion, looks equally good in both modes, and is one articulated mother. As far as I know, he's also the only bot besides Arcee not in the movie to have an automorph. I can understand people not warming up to him because he wasn't in the movie.

Swindle looks pretty dorky to me, and I can understand why no one would want to pay the same price as the rest for a robot that doesn't have automorph features and wasn't in the movie.

But I'm pretty amazed at BC though. Why is he warming the shelves? A few people suggest it's because he was in the movie for only a short time. Is that a fair dinkum reason why people aren't buying him up? Short time or not, he's one cool robot, looks like a mean sumbitch, steady to pose, well articulated. That short sequence with Prime was short, but I love it because it was dirty, brutal, and visceral, just like real fights I've seen or been in.

Any thoughts?

good question primarily just because of the scale he is one of the figures that has the most articulated limbs and he would definitely look nice if he's atleast a voyager or leader at the first release...

hmmm if he came out as a voyager only, i would have swooped him up already since i realized the 4 voyagers released in my area i've bought them all

News Credits: 1 · by **softimus_prime** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:19 pm

Auto Bot wrote:Shelf-warmers, practically non-moving stocks:
Protoform Prime
Protoform Starscream

Slow-moving items: (starting from slowest)
Wreckage
Swindle
Scorponok
(Tiny) Brawl
(Tiny) Bonecrusher

Average Joe: (balanced supply and demand)
Ironhide
Starscream

Hotcakes, they disappear the moment they set foot on the shelves: (equal footing)
Bumblebee 08
Arcee
Barricade

Hard-to-find:
Jazz
Blackout
Prime
Megatron
Bumblebee 74

Impossible to find:
Ratchet

Everybody's waiting for:
Leader Brawl
Voyager (or Leader?) Bonecrusher

somehow i can find stores that got some jazzes and and some stores that i know are even flooded with megs! i keep seeing blackout and ratchet on greenhills but japanes versions... 74 bb is being out somehow with ridiculous prices i even saw one being sold for 1,499 and barricade for 1,999

News Credits: 1 · by **softimus_prime** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:23 pm

XeroSyphon wrote:My local Zellers has plenty of 08 Bumblebee. They have more 08's then 74's at the moment.

i hope that happens to my area without those freaking scalpers... :-x

by **Sonic Wing** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:26 pm

b cuz hes bad lookin and has a huge almost stinging claw what else would u want from him??? hes perfect!

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:59 pm

Well Wreckage and Swindle are non movie bots, thus are automatically less wanted, as they have not been glorified by the movie.

Here in Australia, Bonecrusher is cluttering the shelves because he has been released in 2 different waves of figures, thus meaning there is double the amount of his figures than any other so released thus far.

The fact we see him for all of 2 minutes before he gets done in probably does not help him either. Nor would his looks. While I personally like the fact he is not a strict bipedal humanoid transformer, I'm sure his odd looks and proportions are more than enough to make many parents go "Oooo why dont you get this (other) one? It's much nicer looking".

News Credits: 1 · by **softimus_prime** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:08 pm

i personally like wreckage he looks like g1 megatron just dont have time to get one... :grin:

by **Auto Bot** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:39 am

Yup, I'm seeing a lot of Megs coming out now. But Jazz is still rare.

by **wing0hero** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:46 am

Lapse Of Reason wrote:He is too small. I'm holding out for a bigger one.

Exactly.

by **Auto Bot** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:02 am

I wonder which size will fit Bonecrusher perfectly? Voyager or Leader?

by **Night~GONE** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:23 am

Here is what i think. Bonecrusher is a great figure so im guessing every one got him first and he is not needed anymore. Wreakage im not geting him becuase he isnt in the movie. Swindle i dont think so i wold get one onn clearance becuase he is a drone. Then the only drone i would buy would be shockwave if the ever made one.