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News Credits: 7 · Sun Feb 05, 2017 8:57 am

Yeah I figured you'd all know this xD but to me this was an unexpected little happy surprise! :lol:

News Credits: 12 · Sun Feb 05, 2017 9:12 am

Sjeng wrote:Yeah I figured you'd all know this xD but to me this was an unexpected little happy surprise!

It was really expectingl when I first found out about it too!

Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:38 pm

Madeus Prime wrote:Also, even though most reviewers point it out, you can plug a set of headphones into TR Rewind

Same with Rumble (duh, remold) and I assume the other guys that have similar alt modes (former tapes). Then Blaster (and probably Soundwave) have that, plus also you can plug USB cords in. Also a molded power port, but smaller than the cords of that type actually are (at least any I've seen.)

News Credits: 3 · Thu Feb 09, 2017 4:00 pm

Optimum Supreme wrote:
Madeus Prime wrote:Also, even though most reviewers point it out, you can plug a set of headphones into TR Rewind

Same with Rumble (duh, remold) and I assume the other guys that have similar alt modes (former tapes). Then Blaster (and probably Soundwave) have that, plus also you can plug USB cords in. Also a molded power port, but smaller than the cords of that type actually are (at least any I've seen.)

Laserbeak/Buzzsaw have it too.
Edit: I just checked, so does Ravage.

News Credits: 241 · Thu Feb 09, 2017 6:10 pm

Decepticon Stryker wrote:
Optimum Supreme wrote:
Madeus Prime wrote:Also, even though most reviewers point it out, you can plug a set of headphones into TR Rewind

Same with Rumble (duh, remold) and I assume the other guys that have similar alt modes (former tapes). Then Blaster (and probably Soundwave) have that, plus also you can plug USB cords in. Also a molded power port, but smaller than the cords of that type actually are (at least any I've seen.)

Laserbeak/Buzzsaw have it too.
Edit: I just checked, so does Ravage.

All TR tablet-formers do, actually. It's a nice callback to G1 Soundwave and Blaster, which had the same thing. In fact, the Microman version of Blaster was a working speaker for a micro-cassette sized radio (hence "Radi-Casse" from "Radio Cassette)!

News Credits: 42 · Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:59 pm

Man, I feel dumb for this one. I've had Thrilling 30 Doubledealer for a couple of years now and usually keep him in jet mode. I know the backstory on the character and the orignal toy, but I didn't notice the Autobot symbol for the tank mode until just last week. Since I usually have him in robot or Jet mode, I never noticed it before since its on the robots butt. I always just assumed Hasbro only made him a Decepticon.

News Credits: 241 · Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:17 pm

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Man, I feel dumb for this one. I've had Thrilling 30 Doubledealer for a couple of years now and usually keep him in jet mode. I know the backstory on the character and the orignal toy, but I didn't notice the Autobot symbol for the tank mode until just last week. Since I usually have him in robot or Jet mode, I never noticed it before since its on the robots butt. I always just assumed Hasbro only made him a Decepticon.

Because of the "Decepticon" prefix he has now? He's no Autobot, and never was: his G1 toy has his tech spec in Decepticon purple, probably to keep the two Powermaster sides even.

News Credits: 101 · Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:21 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Man, I feel dumb for this one. I've had Thrilling 30 Doubledealer for a couple of years now and usually keep him in jet mode. I know the backstory on the character and the orignal toy, but I didn't notice the Autobot symbol for the tank mode until just last week. Since I usually have him in robot or Jet mode, I never noticed it before since its on the robots butt. I always just assumed Hasbro only made him a Decepticon.

Because of the "Decepticon" prefix he has now? He's no Autobot, and never was: his G1 toy has his tech spec in Decepticon purple, probably to keep the two Powermaster sides even.

Doubledealer is a much a

as Lockdown. Meaning that he work only for himself and don't really care about... Identity Politics! :lol:

News Credits: 241 · Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:24 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Man, I feel dumb for this one. I've had Thrilling 30 Doubledealer for a couple of years now and usually keep him in jet mode. I know the backstory on the character and the orignal toy, but I didn't notice the Autobot symbol for the tank mode until just last week. Since I usually have him in robot or Jet mode, I never noticed it before since its on the robots butt. I always just assumed Hasbro only made him a Decepticon.

Because of the "Decepticon" prefix he has now? He's no Autobot, and never was: his G1 toy has his tech spec in Decepticon purple, probably to keep the two Powermaster sides even.

Doubledealer is a much a as Lockdown. Meaning that he work only for himself and don't really care about... Identity Politics!

True, but Hasbro has to market them as something, right?

News Credits: 101 · Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:01 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:True, but Hasbro has to market them as something, right?

Maybe it's a corpyright thing like so many

have

in their name.

Also, Amazon Unicron was labelled a

on the box for reasons. :roll:

News Credits: 12 · Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:53 am

So I only just noticed Skytread's cockpit section has a nozzle on it, so his tenuous weapon mode actually has FIVE barrels. It still sucks as a weapon, or indeed as anything other than a teeny tiny artillery tractor, but still. Nice attention to detail.

News Credits: 241 · Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:41 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:True, but Hasbro has to market them as something, right?

Maybe it's a corpyright thing like so many have in their name.

Also, Amazon Unicron was labelled a on the box for reasons.

Trademarks have nothing to do with it, it's simply to keep the number of main factions limited to two: a good one and an evil (i.e. not "good") one. Don't want to confuse anyone with "grey areas". :roll:

News Credits: 295 · Fri Feb 17, 2017 12:44 am

I think it is for trademarks when it comes to generic names. Ratchet is a tool and is either copyrighted by a tooling company or is a generic word and cannot be subject to copyright.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Feb 17, 2017 5:47 pm

This is very embarrassing and I'm really angry at myself for it, but Armada Cyclonus, one of my two first Transformers, can detach his rotor blade for a melee weapon. I never realized this. I had assumed that it was meant to stay there and would break if it was removed. I still cannot believe this. :oops:

News Credits: 101 · Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:18 pm

Decepticon Stryker wrote:This is very embarrassing and I'm really angry at myself for it, but Armada Cyclonus, one of my two first Transformers, can detach his rotor blade for a melee weapon. I never realized this. I had assumed that it was meant to stay there and would break if it was removed. I still cannot believe this.

Well, i just learned this it seem. :shock:

News Credits: 3 · Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:00 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Decepticon Stryker wrote:This is very embarrassing and I'm really angry at myself for it, but Armada Cyclonus, one of my two first Transformers, can detach his rotor blade for a melee weapon. I never realized this. I had assumed that it was meant to stay there and would break if it was removed. I still cannot believe this.

Well, i just learned this it seem.

Yeah, on the inside is a 5mm hole you can use to attach to his Powerlinx ports.

News Credits: 6 · Sat Feb 18, 2017 2:49 am

RID Warrior Prime's axe looks great with WFC Optimus', to replicate the ingame melee weapon with something, i dunno i found the axe in the parking lot when i was a cartpusher a couple years ago

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News Credits: 56 · Wed Feb 22, 2017 10:31 am

ok, so I am at work and don't have any pics, but my son (11) was messing around yesterday and actually did something I find to be pretty creative and cool. He took TR Legends Lazerbeak stood him upright in bird mode and in the two areas near the bottom he inserted Titan Masters Crashbash and Overboard (inverted so the Dinoheads become feet) and made his own little combiner, I lol'd, but it was pretty cool he thought of it.

News Credits: 6 · Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:51 pm

Titan returns Megatron has details under his stickers

News Credits: 79 · Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:36 pm

Technically I figured this out awhile ago, but still. On CW leader Ultra Magnus, Minimus Ambus has these three tabs on the underside of his car mode to make it look like he's floating. However, they can also be used to tab him into Magnus' trailer on the lower deck via these three slits.

Fri Mar 03, 2017 6:12 pm

o.supreme wrote:ok, so I am at work and don't have any pics, but my son (11) was messing around yesterday and actually did something I find to be pretty creative and cool. He took TR Legends Lazerbeak stood him upright in bird mode and in the two areas near the bottom he inserted Titan Masters Crashbash and Overboard (inverted so the Dinoheads become feet) and made his own little combiner, I lol'd, but it was pretty cool he thought of it.

It's great that you're encouraging his imagination.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Mar 03, 2017 6:35 pm

Optimum Supreme wrote:
o.supreme wrote:ok, so I am at work and don't have any pics, but my son (11) was messing around yesterday and actually did something I find to be pretty creative and cool. He took TR Legends Lazerbeak stood him upright in bird mode and in the two areas near the bottom he inserted Titan Masters Crashbash and Overboard (inverted so the Dinoheads become feet) and made his own little combiner, I lol'd, but it was pretty cool he thought of it.

It's great that you're encouraging his imagination.

If you're able to at some point, could you please post pictures? I'm trying to find a way to do it, but it looks rather weird to me.

News Credits: 101 · Fri Mar 03, 2017 6:38 pm

As a child, I was so piss poor that I had almost no toys. So I used matchbox cars as makeshift Gobots. I drew a robot on the bottom of the car, stood it up, and openned the doors to make arms.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Mar 03, 2017 6:39 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:As a child, I was so piss poor that I had almost no toys. So I used matchbox cars as makeshift Gobots. I drew a robot on the bottom of the car, stood it up, and openned the doors to make arms.

I did something similar with Micro Machines. I stood up a green tank, rotated the turret to the side, and pretended it was Armada Megatron.

News Credits: 295 · Fri Mar 03, 2017 6:41 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:As a child, I was so piss poor that I had almost no toys. So I used matchbox cars as makeshift Gobots. I drew a robot on the bottom of the car, stood it up, and openned the doors to make arms.

You invented this:

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robot_Powered_Machines