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by **necr0blivion** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:50 am

My bank account senses a great disturbance in the force with that picture. MakeToys' catalog had them as August, BBTS and others have the release date as September. I was kinda hoping it would be here in October because it's a better month to deal with a $400 bomb (and all these other August preorders getting pushed into Sept now).

But they look totally cool! Is this really that close to shipping out?

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:12 am

Autobot Genocide wrote:

TF Upgrader.

Thanks for the pics.

It's great to see all of the toys in the clear plastic tray side by side each other. It really gives buyers a perspective how small the limbs bots are in relation to the core team leader bot. Scattershot looks like a Eight inch Ultra toy. While the Technobots limbs bots look like their all commander-small deluxe scaled toys.

Think the similar toy design style and scale has me more convinced that FP and MT are brother-sister companies. or the same freelance designers are creating toys for both FP and FT.

Won't be buying this because the plastic looks too thin and low quality on the MT limbs-bots Technobots. Also the limbs bots are too small and have that radical non-g-1 updates sculpts. I could easily get all of these negatives from hasbro in 2015-2016 from their Technobots Combiners wars toy for a fraction of the price.

Never cared much for the 1987 Technobots. They got awful generic, booring, barely 1-d personas. With very little speaking dialogue in the G-1 Cartoons. Only have enough love for these Technobots characters to spend Hasbro toy prices on them. Don't love the characters enough to warrant spending those exspensive 3rd party toy prices on them.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:28 am

necr0blivion wrote:My bank account senses a great disturbance in the force with that picture. MakeToys' catalog had them as August, BBTS and others have the release date as September. I was kinda hoping it would be here in October because it's a better month to deal with a $400 bomb (and all these other August preorders getting pushed into Sept now).

But they look totally cool! Is this really that close to shipping out?

'Fraid so. In a way, I'm almost hoping for a repeat of Chaos/Paladine and Mobine, where it took so long to receive the product. My wallet, and my new eBay selling hobby could use a little more time...

On the other hand, Mobine and Chaos/Paladin were delayed almost a year (or was it more than a year) for me. I don't know that I want to go that long.

Maybe I can count on the shipping strikes to help with my need for delay? Oh, wait. I shouldn't open that can of worms again!! 8-}

by **necr0blivion** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 4:29 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
necr0blivion wrote:On the other hand, Mobine and Chaos/Paladin were delayed almost a year (or was it more than a year) for me. I don't know that I want to go that long.

Because of the delays on Mobine and Chaos/Paladin, I actually cancelled all my preorders for those figures and only about a week ago picked up Chaos/Paladin. I'm still in it for Quantron since I've got the EBP "discount", but now I've just gotta play my cards right and not try to pick up any other items I may have missed previously.

On the bright side of things, one more full combiner set for my collection/display.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 5:02 pm

This thing definitely looks ready to ship. I'm glad I saved up my money for it. This would mark my seventh G1 combiner in some stage of completion, leaving just three left.

News Credits: 33 · by **Genocide G2.0** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 5:05 pm

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:This thing definitely looks ready to ship. I'm glad I saved up my money for it. This would mark my seventh G1 combiner in some stage of completion, leaving just three left.

Still no official date but i keep reading it's very soon .

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 5:57 pm

Autobot Genocide wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:This thing definitely looks ready to ship. I'm glad I saved up my money for it. This would mark my seventh G1 combiner in some stage of completion, leaving just three left.

Still no official date but i keep reading it's very soon .

Yeah. It's listed as 'September' at BBTS, but as we've seen with MMC, that's an estimate at best.

News Credits: 33 · by **Genocide G2.0** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:52 am

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:37 am

Autobot Genocide wrote:

Think Scattershot in this newest pic looks Eight inch Ultra scale.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:17 pm

he is a big bot!

News Credits: 33 · by **Genocide G2.0** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 5:21 pm

by **NOS** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 5:33 pm

Every time I see those Citybots I wonder if I made the right decision to pass on them... they really do look awesome!

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 5:49 pm

NOS wrote:Every time I see those Citybots I wonder if I made the right decision to pass on them... they really do look awesome!

They do look nice, but the price? Metroplex is a quarter of the price, twice the height and an insanely awesome toy in his own right.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:17 pm

damn quantrons small!

compared to those behemoths i mean...

by **wilcosu35** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:52 pm

any info on a release date?

by **necr0blivion** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 1:02 am

wilcosu35 wrote:any info on a release date?

You mean "September", which most sites are promoting?

by **wilcosu35** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 1:58 am

necr0blivion wrote:
wilcosu35 wrote:any info on a release date?

You mean "September", which most sites are promoting?

yes, but that kind of stuff seems very flexible lately

i was just wondering if there had been any updates on that/more specific release dates.

by **NOS** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 2:36 am

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:
NOS wrote:Every time I see those Citybots I wonder if I made the right decision to pass on them... they really do look awesome!

They do look nice, but the price? Metroplex is a quarter of the price, twice the height and an insanely awesome toy in his own right.

Yeah, you've pretty much explained my reasoning in a nutshell. Still find myself conflicted though. Who can say now how long it'll be before Has/Tak gives us a Trypticon. Be willing to wager Maketoys pushes out Scorpinok, Fortress Max, and Trypticon before Has/Tak.

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:49 am

In hand images courtesy of Weibo user OscarFung0912!

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:55 am

More in hand images courtesy of Weibo user OscarFung0912!

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:59 am

More in hand images courtesy of Weibo user OscarFung0912!

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 6:05 am

More in hand images courtesy of Weibo user OscarFung0912!

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:06 pm

Well... Quantron is processing.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:11 pm

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Well... Quantron is processing.

Awwww....crap! *gets ready to sell half his collection on Ebay*

But I am looking forward to this guy!

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:13 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Well... Quantron is processing.

Awwww....crap! *gets ready to sell half his collection on Ebay*

But I am looking forward to this guy!

Have you sold any of your collection on eBay yet?

I feel like this has been a long time coming, Aggie. The accountant should be pleased!