Cobotron wrote:Hey Seibertron! When does your flight leave? I'm getting Antsy!
Same over here on the west side of the middle. Nebraska is a waste land. And so are the retailers.Tyrannacon wrote:Made a run to Toys R Us and Target today to mostly see what they had and there were no Combiner Wars here in my part of Ohio. Target had room for 'em, but it was an empty shelf. Slow going here in north east Ohio where I'm at. They did have RiD toys at TRU though. Something tells me it might be a while before they reach saturation here. I saw they had a lot of AoE stuff left over.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Cobotron wrote:Hey Seibertron! When does your flight leave? I'm getting Antsy!
Toy fair starts this Saturday, it goes on until the following Tuesday.
Cobotron wrote:Same over here on the west side of the middle. Nebraska is a waste land. And so are the retailers.Tyrannacon wrote:Made a run to Toys R Us and Target today to mostly see what they had and there were no Combiner Wars here in my part of Ohio. Target had room for 'em, but it was an empty shelf. Slow going here in north east Ohio where I'm at. They did have RiD toys at TRU though. Something tells me it might be a while before they reach saturation here. I saw they had a lot of AoE stuff left over.
Did you notice the prices for voyagers at TRU? $29.99! I saw this, came home and ordered both first wave CW voyagers form BBTS for $49.99. Who does TRU think theys is?
I CAN'T WAIT! I'M SO EXCITED!Va'al wrote:SW's SilverHammer wrote:Cobotron wrote:Hey Seibertron! When does your flight leave? I'm getting Antsy!
Toy fair starts this Saturday, it goes on until the following Tuesday.
Though Saturday/Sunday are the biggest moments for news.
Just stay tuned.
(As I get little to no sleep, scream at my modem, boss staff around and fall asleep Monday morning during my lecture.)
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
shockblast2 wrote:Rated X wrote:So what exactly is "G3" anyways ?
Inquiring minds want to know ?
Every current offering from the Generations line starting with the IDW release wave containing Pax, Bumblebee, Trailcutter, and Megatron almost two years back. Its is the current incarnation of the transformers in the toyline. Just like G2 before it.
Drat! I was afraid Hasbro was gonna do that.SW's SilverHammer wrote:Yo, the Club Magazine's arriving with a preview of warpath. A friend told me about him. Warpath appears to a a slight redeco and retool of the Generations Legends Megatron toy. The colors and head are G1 Warpath, but he lacks the classic barrel chest due to the mold choice.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
megatronus wrote:shockblast2 wrote:william-james88 wrote:shockblast2 wrote:True on G2. I guess we have to go with it though because it was officially branded as such.
I don't think you can classify Classics, RTS, and Universe with Generations. The former was straight up recreations of G1 characters and was advertised as such, whereas Generations has become its own entity with the comics driving the fiction, which is entirely separate from G1. The first year of Geneerations was like Classics, but after FOC took over it changed.
So the recent Generations Leaders Jetfire and Megatron are not reinterpretations of the G1 characters as were the initial universe/classic releases of Jetfire and Megatron? Or are they testament that the generations line has rebooted what the classics line began? What about Arcee and Chromia? I do see how the line changed with FOC. But releases like Nightbeat and Roadbuster and the others mentioned above really feel like a continuation of the notion that the initial classics line had. Would you agree?
I can see why one would think that for some of the figures, like Roadbuster, Whirl, and Arcee. But ultimately I view them as a stand alone. The fact that Jhaxis, Waspinator, and Rhinox, among others, didn't even exist in G1 solidifies this for me. Which is great, because you can have new additions, like Alpha and Offroad, and totally disregard prior fiction that would have made his inclusion illogical.
I have been on both sides in my time with transformers. And I find the Classics style collecting very constraining. You have a set of rules and ideologies you have to conform to. With the new line, its all open. Anyone can exist in this continuity, or not, like in the case of Wildrider.
I don't quite get your argument. You say the difference between Classics and Generations is that Classics is reimagined G1 while Generations is fiction driven. Except:
-The IDW fiction is a reimagining of the G1 Universe, so you can say the corresponding Generations figures (particularly the IDW-styled ones) are similarly G1 updates
-The standalones you mention are all G1 in one form or another; Jhiaxus is in the original Marvel comics, while Whirl and Roadbuster were G1 toys
-As WJ mentioned, Beast Wars is technically within the G1 timeline, so once again, figures like Rhinox, Rattrap, and Waspinator can be viewed as updates to that timeline
All of these characters are being reintegrated into a new storyline/continuity, but they're mostly G1 homages, with the nice addition of some new characters to cut our teeth on. This obsession you have with framing the argument as your openness to new-ness vs. others' hard and set ideology (seriously - you think we have an ideology???) does a real disservice to the complexities of what the Generations line can be to different people, and how the IDW comics have managed to breathe new life into this old brand.
shockblast2 wrote:Mr O wrote:shockblast2 wrote:BTW, I didn't know G2 had a cartoon? If the user meant because of the Japanese cartoons that came after G1, that is irrelevant to us living in the 90's in the US. Because they never aired here. So technically G2 had no cartoon driving it.
It was the original cartoon with crappy CGI bookends. It still counts.
LOL...I guess. The point is I don't recall it being aired in the US, and I was 12 or so at the time. If it did I don't remember it.
Here's a list of all the broadcast networks that aired Transformers cartoons in the U.S. G2's cartoon included.Optimum Supreme wrote:shockblast2 wrote:Mr O wrote:shockblast2 wrote:BTW, I didn't know G2 had a cartoon? If the user meant because of the Japanese cartoons that came after G1, that is irrelevant to us living in the 90's in the US. Because they never aired here. So technically G2 had no cartoon driving it.
It was the original cartoon with crappy CGI bookends. It still counts.
LOL...I guess. The point is I don't recall it being aired in the US, and I was 12 or so at the time. If it did I don't remember it.
It definitely aired in the US. Maybe your area didn't have a station that carried it.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
It can't.Railbomb wrote:Is there any word on if Blackjack's ax thing can form Menasor's sword hilt yet? Sorry if this has already been answered, just a little bit curious and didn't feel like going through over 100 pages of this to find out.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
SkyWarpt wrote:Must be a different part of TX, all my stores have peg warmed Tankor, the rodent, and TF4 one step changers
Sabrblade wrote:It can't.Railbomb wrote:Is there any word on if Blackjack's ax thing can form Menasor's sword hilt yet? Sorry if this has already been answered, just a little bit curious and didn't feel like going through over 100 pages of this to find out.
Cobotron wrote:Same over here on the west side of the middle. Nebraska is a waste land. And so are the retailers.Tyrannacon wrote:Made a run to Toys R Us and Target today to mostly see what they had and there were no Combiner Wars here in my part of Ohio. Target had room for 'em, but it was an empty shelf. Slow going here in north east Ohio where I'm at. They did have RiD toys at TRU though. Something tells me it might be a while before they reach saturation here. I saw they had a lot of AoE stuff left over.
Did you notice the prices for voyagers at TRU? $29.99! I saw this, came home and ordered both first wave CW voyagers form BBTS for $49.99. Who does TRU think theys is?
Wait, why is this in the Combiner Wars thread instead of the Unite Warriors thread?Autobot032 wrote:Courtesy of fellow Seibertronian, fenrir72, we were directed to the link of Amiami's higher resolution and non-watermarked copies of the previously seen promotional photos for the upcoming TakaraTomy Unite Warriors Aerialbots set. The updated images feature Slingshot in better detail as well, and as expected, all of the figures feature different decos from their Hasbro counterparts including their weapons and combiner weapons/appendages.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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