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Mindwipe reminds me of Galaxyforce Soundblaster, awesome.

As for that Prime, I'm disappointed it even got the green light for production - all that bland and ugly grey plastic... Heck, a White Magnus repaint would have been more welcome.

Mindwipe looks like a terrific toy with a great design! I'm still in awe at Hasblow's ability to try and pawn off yet another POS repaint of this Optimus Prime and act like it's ok! I bought it once when it came out as First Strike Optimus with the homage G1 paintjob and the silver stripe. And it's a crappy toy!! Ugh.

Flux Convoy wrote:

Samsonator wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:I enjoyed the twins in the movie

Quoted because seriously... how often do you hear that?
- Sam

I honestly don't know why I enjoyed them either. I despised Jazz in the first movie because to me, he was an absolute stereotype of an ignorant urban youth.
There's a fine line between having personality and blatant ebonic slang to simulate personality. Especially considering he had an adult voice. He grated on me so much. These guys? I guess maybe it's because they're meant to be ridiculous and not really to be taken seriously. That's the best reasoning I've got. Of course it's all just meant to be fun. So, I dunno why Jazz got me so bent.

I think it's a lot of this is why I love them, too. Also, considering how many white high school kids act exactly like the twins, I can't really find them racist.

Besides, look at how un-PC G1 is and how many ridiculous things it had, and I thing RotF is fairly faithful to the spirit.

Grrr...can not find Mindwipe anywhere! I've looked @ Walmarts, Targets and TRUs in 2 different states. So frustrating!

mechabooks wrote:Grrr...can not find Mindwipe anywhere! I've looked @ Walmarts, Targets and TRUs in 2 different states. So frustrating!

Make sure you keep checking the sightings forum and share your sightings as well ... there's got to be more Seibertronians from Massachusetts out there:

massachusetts-transformers-sightings-t11769.html
http://www.seibertron.com/sightings/loc ... S&state=MA

And here's the actual Sightings page for Mindwipe:

http://www.seibertron.com/sightings/item/mindwipe/1057

Please let us know if you have any luck finding him. Thanks mechabooks!

Blurrz wrote:

feeiq90 wrote:i don,t know bout u guys,but mindwipe's mold
reminds me a lot of cybertron sideway,dont't u agree???

It's close... but not that close. Mindwipe is an actual military vehicle... Sideways is just some random fighter plane.

I thought Sideways/Noisemaze's alt mode was loosely based on a NASA concept model or something.

But I think there's a reasonable amount of similarity in robot mode anyway. That's why I'm buying him!

kirbenvost wrote:

Blurrz wrote:

feeiq90 wrote:i don,t know bout u guys,but mindwipe's mold
reminds me a lot of cybertron sideway,dont't u agree???

It's close... but not that close. Mindwipe is an actual military vehicle... Sideways is just some random fighter plane.

I thought Sideways/Noisemaze's alt mode was loosely based on a NASA concept model or something.

But I think there's a reasonable amount of similarity in robot mode anyway. That's why I'm buying him!

Too much thought behind your purchasing logic! I'm buying him cuz he looks like a damn cool robot!

KingCyclonus wrote:I'm still in awe at Hasblow's ability to try and pawn off yet another POS repaint of this Optimus Prime and act like it's ok! I bought it once when it came out as First Strike Optimus with the homage G1 paintjob and the silver stripe. And it's a crappy toy!! Ugh.

I actually don't mind this mold so much; while it doesn't perfectly capture Prime's movie appearance (i.e. the back kibble), it looks great in alt-mode and is very sturdy in robot mode. Plus he's the perfect height to stand up to my RID Scourge.

I do agree that the Defender repaint is pretty lame though. If they were going to make his colours that different, they should have made it Magnus to throw a bone to Magnus fans. Otherwise, an actual remold in regular movie Prime colours/re-release of the First Strike Prime would have been better than what we got.

Flux Convoy wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:I thought Sideways/Noisemaze's alt mode was loosely based on a NASA concept model or something.

But I think there's a reasonable amount of similarity in robot mode anyway. That's why I'm buying him!

Too much thought behind your purchasing logic! I'm buying him cuz he looks like a damn cool robot!

Well, there's also that. But I have to tell myself something to justify spending another $30 on a figure I don't really need.