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KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Genocide G2.0 » Tue Oct 14, 2014 3:34 am

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Looks like KFC are actually doing Elect and Rewind , Guess this is the reason KFC said they were not planning on doing them ;)

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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby mooncake623 » Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:08 am

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Features include:
HiFi cassette
Cartoon Head
Toy Head
Buster Guns x 2
Early Adopter Gift part 1: Trumpets x 2
Early Adopter Gift part 2: KP-07 MP13 poseable hands with 30 articulated joints x2
Comic Book & Manual
PVC Bio Card
Small Guns for HiFi x2
Clear Cassette Box
Please Note: Fader Cassette is not included, only HiFi is included.

Looks like Blaster comes with rewind. for 140 it's not that bad... Too bad KFC is making this.. I could use new rewind and ejects, just brought some G1 versions as stand ins cause I don't feel like paying 65 each for the TFCC versions and don't really like the old perfect effect versions.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Genocide G2.0 » Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:32 pm

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KFC.

Metalic red will be applied to Transistor and we are in TFcon Chicago ! you can see Transistor with metalic finish! in the teaser crotch won't be the proper , more details will be in the KFC Transistoy!!


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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby necr0blivion » Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:41 pm

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Ah yes, "the teaser crotch". :KREMZEEK:

Liking the metallic red, and looking forward to better photos next week.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Tsutsukakushi » Fri Oct 17, 2014 9:11 pm

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KFC.

Metalic red will be applied to Transistor and we are in TFcon Chicago ! you can see Transistor with metalic finish! in the teaser crotch won't be the proper , more details will be in the KFC Transistoy!!


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Thanks for the package pics.

The box art and box style look top notch breath taking.

Think this is a excellent toy and i'll be buying it. not right away but after others have test tried it and gave reviews on it. Hoping their is no flaws on it so I can buy it within a month after it's been released.

My MP soundwave needs his sparing partner and this KFC Blaster is his height and mass.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

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Very nice, great show accuracy, I dont collect Masterpiece myself but if I did I would be all over this, I might however buy his tapes to display with UT Soundmixer.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

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Think it was a good decision to go for the shiny metalic paint scheme.

Looks like this thing is almost ready to get released.

Looking forward to the inevitable video review before it gets released. Need to see a few comparisons shots of KFC Blaster next to HasTak MP Soundwave.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

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Looks really good. But I'm happy with UT Soundmixer. I don't have any interest in MP scale. I would like to get those Eject/Rewind cassettes though. I truly believe an official MP Blaster with all 4 cassettes is inevitable. That's why I would caution those thinking about going with KFC to just wait for the superior Takara version. (Hint: Ultra Magnus) If Takara's version of Blaster comes with cassettes, Ill buy it just to put the cassettes on my classics shelf. Then Blaster can join Soundwave and SoundBlaster in my "Don't know where to put them" shelf. ;)
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby megatronus » Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:38 pm

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Rated X wrote:Then Blaster can join Soundwave and SoundBlaster in my "Don't know where to put them" shelf. ;)

That's a real funny name for your MP display. :P
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Rated X » Sun Oct 19, 2014 2:27 pm

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Rated X wrote:Then Blaster can join Soundwave and SoundBlaster in my "Don't know where to put them" shelf. ;)

That's a real funny name for your MP display. :P



What's funny is I actually own 7 MP figures :lol:

Hasbro seeker trio displayed in formation

Ghost Starscream (That's my boy!)

Soundwave and SoundBlaster for the cassettes

Grimlock (because he is big, dumb and drags his tail - gotta love him!) :grin:
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

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The funy thing is that the MP seekers are actually to more-or-less perfect vehicle mode scale with deluxe cars (and are also nigh-perfect 1/60 scale F-15s), so if you're a vehicle scale buff then they are technically "classics scale".

Of course, "Classics Scale" is something of a misnomer anyway considering the discrepancies in size between the various Classics figures- compare Generations "Laser" Optimus to the old Voyager Classics Prime for example. And it gets even more of a headache if you use vehicle scale, in which case Stealth Bomber Megatron should dwarf Orion Pax, Classics Astrotrains and Octane/Tankor should drastically change size when they transform, etc. The Seekers aren't much better, going from normal sized F-15s (except when the animators got lazy) to car-sized robots- and even that was inconsistent. And then you have the combiner teams, who go from 5 or 6 normal sized guys to 1 absolutely gargantuan robot that's like 20 times the size of Megatron, thus making any attempt to make a version correctly scaled to the cartoon utterly pointless- using Devastator as an example, Hercules is correct combiner scale but slightly off robot scale, as the individual Hercules bots are pretty large.

TL;DR: Scale is screwed regardless of sub-line, and quite frankly there is less than no point trying to faithfully represent the cartoon's ludicrous scale in toy form- mainly because the toys would have to be in a constant state of size flux depending on the angle they were viewed from. It's a similar story with the Evangelion units- but at least Gainax freely admitted they have no set size other than "what looks coolest in the shot" and they were usually well drawn, if not well scaled.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Rated X » Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:17 pm

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Delta Magnus wrote:The funy thing is that the MP seekers are actually to more-or-less perfect vehicle mode scale with deluxe cars (and are also nigh-perfect 1/60 scale F-15s), so if you're a vehicle scale buff then they are technically "classics scale".

Of course, "Classics Scale" is something of a misnomer anyway considering the discrepancies in size between the various Classics figures- compare Generations "Laser" Optimus to the old Voyager Classics Prime for example. And it gets even more of a headache if you use vehicle scale, in which case Stealth Bomber Megatron should dwarf Orion Pax, Classics Astrotrains and Octane/Tankor should drastically change size when they transform, etc. The Seekers aren't much better, going from normal sized F-15s (except when the animators got lazy) to car-sized robots- and even that was inconsistent. And then you have the combiner teams, who go from 5 or 6 normal sized guys to 1 absolutely gargantuan robot that's like 20 times the size of Megatron, thus making any attempt to make a version correctly scaled to the cartoon utterly pointless- using Devastator as an example, Hercules is correct combiner scale but slightly off robot scale, as the individual Hercules bots are pretty large.

TL;DR: Scale is screwed regardless of sub-line, and quite frankly there is less than no point trying to faithfully represent the cartoon's ludicrous scale in toy form- mainly because the toys would have to be in a constant state of size flux depending on the angle they were viewed from. It's a similar story with the Evangelion units- but at least Gainax freely admitted they have no set size other than "what looks coolest in the shot" and they were usually well drawn, if not well scaled.



I totally agree with you that "true" cartoon scale could never be perfect. But I care more about the robot mode scale than the vehicle scale being realistic. As long as the robots are close to the cartoon, I'm happy. I just bought the MP retail seekers because I love seekers. But I stopped when Acid Storm got a ugly paintjob. And Sunstorm (TRU) is even worse.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby leakin' lubricant » Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:38 pm

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Delta Magnus wrote:The funy thing is that the MP seekers are actually to more-or-less perfect vehicle mode scale with deluxe cars (and are also nigh-perfect 1/60 scale F-15s), so if you're a vehicle scale buff then they are technically "classics scale".

Of course, "Classics Scale" is something of a misnomer anyway considering the discrepancies in size between the various Classics figures- compare Generations "Laser" Optimus to the old Voyager Classics Prime for example. And it gets even more of a headache if you use vehicle scale, in which case Stealth Bomber Megatron should dwarf Orion Pax, Classics Astrotrains and Octane/Tankor should drastically change size when they transform, etc. The Seekers aren't much better, going from normal sized F-15s (except when the animators got lazy) to car-sized robots- and even that was inconsistent. And then you have the combiner teams, who go from 5 or 6 normal sized guys to 1 absolutely gargantuan robot that's like 20 times the size of Megatron, thus making any attempt to make a version correctly scaled to the cartoon utterly pointless- using Devastator as an example, Hercules is correct combiner scale but slightly off robot scale, as the individual Hercules bots are pretty large.

TL;DR: Scale is screwed regardless of sub-line, and quite frankly there is less than no point trying to faithfully represent the cartoon's ludicrous scale in toy form- mainly because the toys would have to be in a constant state of size flux depending on the angle they were viewed from. It's a similar story with the Evangelion units- but at least Gainax freely admitted they have no set size other than "what looks coolest in the shot" and they were usually well drawn, if not well scaled.


Yeah people really get bent out of shape about scale, such a waste of energy, as long a the bot modes are there or there abouts then I'm happy.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Evil Eye » Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:51 pm

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Delta Magnus wrote:The funy thing is that the MP seekers are actually to more-or-less perfect vehicle mode scale with deluxe cars (and are also nigh-perfect 1/60 scale F-15s), so if you're a vehicle scale buff then they are technically "classics scale".

Of course, "Classics Scale" is something of a misnomer anyway considering the discrepancies in size between the various Classics figures- compare Generations "Laser" Optimus to the old Voyager Classics Prime for example. And it gets even more of a headache if you use vehicle scale, in which case Stealth Bomber Megatron should dwarf Orion Pax, Classics Astrotrains and Octane/Tankor should drastically change size when they transform, etc. The Seekers aren't much better, going from normal sized F-15s (except when the animators got lazy) to car-sized robots- and even that was inconsistent. And then you have the combiner teams, who go from 5 or 6 normal sized guys to 1 absolutely gargantuan robot that's like 20 times the size of Megatron, thus making any attempt to make a version correctly scaled to the cartoon utterly pointless- using Devastator as an example, Hercules is correct combiner scale but slightly off robot scale, as the individual Hercules bots are pretty large.

TL;DR: Scale is screwed regardless of sub-line, and quite frankly there is less than no point trying to faithfully represent the cartoon's ludicrous scale in toy form- mainly because the toys would have to be in a constant state of size flux depending on the angle they were viewed from. It's a similar story with the Evangelion units- but at least Gainax freely admitted they have no set size other than "what looks coolest in the shot" and they were usually well drawn, if not well scaled.


Yeah people really get bent out of shape about scale, such a waste of energy, as long a the bot modes are there or there abouts then I'm happy.


Honestly, I'm actually more bothered about vehicle scale. The whole point of the Transformers is that they disguise as vehicles- a Transformer with an unconvincing vehicle mode is no Transformer at all. A huge alien robot can be any size it wants, but an F-15 can only ever be 1 size.

As for only ever displaying them in robot mode...why? Why would you do that? Leaving them frozen in 1 pose on a shelf forever, never transforming them!? At that point you might as well buy non-transformable figures of them! Would you rather have this...

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In the name of the toys, I will punish you!


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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Tsutsukakushi » Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:44 pm

;) While some are waiting for a Takara MP Blaster for 2+ years from now. I'll be playing with my KFC Blaster for 2+ years. :lol:

plan to see a few video reviews from regular fans buyers before I decide buy.

Their is no MP TF blaster toy planned by Takara for at least until 2016-2017. The Takara MP TF toys calendar for 2014-2015 will be full of Bumblebee, Wheeljack, Ultra Magnus, Star Sabre and all their repaints-retools.

After MP Starsabre, Think the next new sculpt will be MP Victoryleo. As both toys combine to form Victoryleo.

With MP Ultra Magnus and MP Rodimus, Think the chances of Takara releasing a MP Galvatron increase.

My favorite TF toy line is the Masterpieces, Because these are the high end toys. All other HasTak TF toy lines are riddled with budgets short cuts toys.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Tsutsukakushi » Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:56 pm

:HEADHURTS: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: That 1984-1987 TF cartoon was rated by most as one of the worst art cartoons of the 1980's decade. :lol: :lol: :lol: Each scene and season featured newer size scales for the TF cartoon characters. So basing your newer update TF toy collection off that cartoon series scale is just :HEADHURTS: :HEADHURTS: :HEADHURTS: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The main reason why the Marvel TF comics made the headmasters city bots so tiny. Was due to marvel being cheap and wanting to save money in the drawing and coloring art department budget on the comic.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Rated X » Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:57 pm

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Tsutsukakushi wrote:;) While some are waiting for a Takara MP Blaster for 2+ years from now. I'll be playing with my KFC Blaster for 2+ years. :lol:



If it hold up for 2 years without falling apart. You've been warned about the quality of KFC in general. >:oP



Tsutsukakushi wrote:;)Their is no MP TF blaster toy planned by Takara for at least until 2016-2017


Do you have an uncle that works for Takara ?
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Rated X » Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:17 pm

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Tsutsukakushi wrote::HEADHURTS: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: That 1984-1987 TF cartoon was rated by most as one of the worst art cartoons of the 1980's decade. :lol: :lol: :lol: Each scene and season featured newer size scales for the TF cartoon characters. So basing your newer update TF toy collection off that cartoon series scale is just :HEADHURTS: :HEADHURTS: :HEADHURTS: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The main reason why the Marvel TF comics made the headmasters city bots so tiny. Was due to marvel being cheap and wanting to save money in the drawing and coloring art department budget on the comic.



The vintage toy scale for G1 is horrible. Especially the season 1 molds which were a mash up of different Japanese lines that Hasbro bought the licenses. They scale like toys for little kids to play with should. All different random sizes for different parents with different budgets. But as a continuity that captivates adult collectors, the vintage G1 toy scale just sucks. :roll:

While the cartoon scale was far from perfect, it attempted to correct everything that was wrong with the vintage toy scale. Who really wants a Brawn/Huffer that barely reaches Prime's knees ? Who really wants Megatron/Galvatron that's 3 times the size of other characters just because he leads the faction ? Who really want's a Menasor that's only like 1 inch taller than Megatron ? These are all reasons why the G1 vintage toy scale sucks. The cartoon scale turned a bunch of poorly scaled kids toys into something more visually harmonic. The increases and decreases in size the animators chose to deviate from the toys just looks better. The cartoon scale characters look good together as a cohesive unit. They don't look like a bunch of random toys like in Toy Story. :DANCE:
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Tsutsukakushi » Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:50 pm

Rated X wrote: If it hold up for 2 years without falling apart.


Unlike yourself who rushes to the per-orders, needs to be the first kid on your block to own the toys and ignores video reviews. Then cries and moans online that his new toy is broke.

I plan to wait a month or Two, Wait for all the factory errors,If their are any, to get fixed. Watch a whole bunch of video reviews from regular joe fans,who aren't video review sponsors, before deciding to buy or not.

Rated X wrote: You've been warned about the quality of KFC in general. >:oP


Warned by who? :???: Your one of KFC's most biggest and active high volume ordering buyers here on this forum. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Every time a newer KFC cassete-TF toy gets released your the first knocking and begging at KFC's door step pleading to buy it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Tsutsukakushi » Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:32 pm

Rated X wrote: While the cartoon scale was far from perfect, it attempted to correct everything that was wrong with the vintage toy scale.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

1980's TF Cartoon Gestalt's that were Ten to Twenty times bigger than the average cartoon Transformer despite their being only Five regular cartoon team members that formed a gestalt.

Season one seekers being double to triple the scale of the bigger autobots cars. then in seasons 2 and 3 being the same scale or smaller than the season 2 and 3 bigger autobots cars.

Soundwave getting a scale smaller in each newer cartoon season.

The seasons 1 and 2 Insecticons cartoon scale changing from smaller, to average, to bigger than the bigger autobots cars in seasons 1 and 2. depending on the animator, episode, scene or season. A few scenes episodes even showed the Insecticons as Dinobots, Optimus and Megatron cartoon scale.

Minibots in the cartoon that had real life sized earth vehicle modes that transformed into robots that were barely a bit taller than earth humans.

Zarak a human sized Headmaster forming the head of a Metroplex scale Scorponok city bot.

Cerebros a robot slighly smaller than optimus forming the head of a metroplex city bot fortress maximus in season 4.

Season 3 Grimlock being the same robot scale of Rodimus Prime and other season 3 TF characters.

Season 3 and 4 ultra magnus being shorter than optimus. Despite ultra magnus transforming into a full car carrier trailer.

Season 3 Predaking shown in early season 3 as being almost double the scale of other gestalts. Then in season 3.5 and 4 Predaking gets downsized to regular gestalt scale.

Season 3 and 4 newer characters,almost being Rodimus prime and Galvatron scale and being drawn as twice the scale of the seasons 1 & 2 bigger autobots-cars despite them all transforming into similar scaled at modes.
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby Rated X » Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:40 am

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Tsutsukakushi wrote:
Rated X wrote: While the cartoon scale was far from perfect, it attempted to correct everything that was wrong with the vintage toy scale.



1980's TF Cartoon Gestalt's that were Ten to Twenty times bigger than the average cartoon Transformer despite their being only Five regular cartoon team members that formed a gestalt.

Season one seekers being double to triple the scale of the bigger autobots cars. then in seasons 2 and 3 being the same scale or smaller than the season 2 and 3 bigger autobots cars.

Soundwave getting a scale smaller in each newer cartoon season.

The seasons 1 and 2 Insecticons cartoon scale changing from smaller, to average, to bigger than the bigger autobots cars in seasons 1 and 2. depending on the animator, episode, scene or season. A few scenes episodes even showed the Insecticons as Dinobots, Optimus and Megatron cartoon scale.

Minibots in the cartoon that had real life sized earth vehicle modes that transformed into robots that were barely a bit taller than earth humans.

Zarak a human sized Headmaster forming the head of a Metroplex scale Scorponok city bot.

Cerebros a robot slighly smaller than optimus forming the head of a metroplex city bot fortress maximus in season 4.

Season 3 Grimlock being the same robot scale of Rodimus Prime and other season 3 TF characters.

Season 3 and 4 ultra magnus being shorter than optimus. Despite ultra magnus transforming into a full car carrier trailer.

Season 3 Predaking shown in early season 3 as being almost double the scale of other gestalts. Then in season 3.5 and 4 Predaking gets downsized to regular gestalt scale.

Season 3 and 4 newer characters,almost being Rodimus prime and Galvatron scale and being drawn as twice the scale of the seasons 1 & 2 bigger autobots-cars despite them all transforming into similar scaled at modes.



Like I said in my post cartoon scale was far from perfect. So you wasted an hour of time you'll never get back compiling that list of anomalies.

But at least it doesn't suck like the vintage toy scale does. They look like a bunch of mismatched kiddie toys (which they are) Every time I look at the mess known as "toy scale" I think of the movie Toy Story. If you like that sort of thing, play on buddy. :DANCE:
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Re: KFC - Transistor (MP Blaster)

Postby leakin' lubricant » Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:49 am

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Delta Magnus wrote:The funy thing is that the MP seekers are actually to more-or-less perfect vehicle mode scale with deluxe cars (and are also nigh-perfect 1/60 scale F-15s), so if you're a vehicle scale buff then they are technically "classics scale".

Of course, "Classics Scale" is something of a misnomer anyway considering the discrepancies in size between the various Classics figures- compare Generations "Laser" Optimus to the old Voyager Classics Prime for example. And it gets even more of a headache if you use vehicle scale, in which case Stealth Bomber Megatron should dwarf Orion Pax, Classics Astrotrains and Octane/Tankor should drastically change size when they transform, etc. The Seekers aren't much better, going from normal sized F-15s (except when the animators got lazy) to car-sized robots- and even that was inconsistent. And then you have the combiner teams, who go from 5 or 6 normal sized guys to 1 absolutely gargantuan robot that's like 20 times the size of Megatron, thus making any attempt to make a version correctly scaled to the cartoon utterly pointless- using Devastator as an example, Hercules is correct combiner scale but slightly off robot scale, as the individual Hercules bots are pretty large.

TL;DR: Scale is screwed regardless of sub-line, and quite frankly there is less than no point trying to faithfully represent the cartoon's ludicrous scale in toy form- mainly because the toys would have to be in a constant state of size flux depending on the angle they were viewed from. It's a similar story with the Evangelion units- but at least Gainax freely admitted they have no set size other than "what looks coolest in the shot" and they were usually well drawn, if not well scaled.


Yeah people really get bent out of shape about scale, such a waste of energy, as long a the bot modes are there or there abouts then I'm happy.


Honestly, I'm actually more bothered about vehicle scale. The whole point of the Transformers is that they disguise as vehicles- a Transformer with an unconvincing vehicle mode is no Transformer at all. A huge alien robot can be any size it wants, but an F-15 can only ever be 1 size.

As for only ever displaying them in robot mode...why? Why would you do that? Leaving them frozen in 1 pose on a shelf forever, never transforming them!? At that point you might as well buy non-transformable figures of them! Would you rather have this...

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...Than this?

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In the name of the toys, I will punish you!


...Excuse me. I've been watching too much Sailor Moon.


It's not that I don't display my figures in alt mode, I transform them regularly, it's just that I prefer to scale my figures based on robot mode, otherwise I would have a Target Master Megatron displayed with a Voyager class Starscream, which is quite frankly ridiculous.
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