sol magnus wrote:According to the Trailbreaker I saw, we're definitely getting solid plastic Cartoon-esque models this time, so there's the value in that pack for me - but the set is gonna be 110 bucks.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:The pack should be cheaper IMO, especially if they're going to inflict the smegging Happy Meal toy windows on the figures.
Ugh, I guess the only good thing about this pack is that the people who for some reason like their Transformers to look like cheap Happy Meal toys might unload their good Trailbreakers and Sunstreakers.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Ugh, I guess the only good thing about this pack is that the people who for some reason like their Transformers to look like cheap Happy Meal toys might unload their good Trailbreakers and Sunstreakers.
Ah yes, we should totally buy Reprolabels sets for the Sunstreakers and Trailbreakers we don't have because we weren't able to buy them during Earthrise and now don't want to have to pay $60+ per figure for Deluxes on eBay. If anyone should be told "just buy Reprolabels uwu" it's the people with the preference for the Happy Meal toy windows. You can't magically render an opaque window transparent with stickers...-Kanrabat- wrote:The Windows Purists should just buy their respective Reprolabels sets.
Ah yes, the exaggerated (as far as I can tell) fragility and the color mismatches that tbh really only stand out on Sunstreaker (and even then, worse in photos than in person).-Kanrabat- wrote:For everyone else, they will be glad to get rid of the fragility and colors mismatches that the clear plastics bring.
1a. The original versions were already hard plastic. Inflicting them with Happy Meal toy windows won't magically make it be any harder. 1b. Softer plastic is often actually more durable, because it's less brittle.sol magnus wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:The pack should be cheaper IMO, especially if they're going to inflict the smegging Happy Meal toy windows on the figures.
Ugh, I guess the only good thing about this pack is that the people who for some reason like their Transformers to look like cheap Happy Meal toys might unload their good Trailbreakers and Sunstreakers.
No. It's not about the windows, although I dom't mind that. The good thing about this set is the durability of the toys being increased over the original versions due to the hard plastic.
1. Hound has exactly ONE window, his windshield. 2. Your proof of this is...? Especially considering Detritus has a clear windshield? 3. Even if Hound was stuck with that, why should the rest of the pack be rendered inferior on his account?sol magnus wrote:And because Hound was always going to have the 'happy meal toy' windows, if you were going to get him you were going to get that.
Because they were both killed in the same scene in the movie.Till-all-R1 wrote:Oh and as a side tangent why are those two packed together again?
Thing is, unlike with how they made the guy who turns into an ambulance be a medic, or with how they paired the two fire department vehicles up... the original G1 cartoon and comics never really made much of Prowl's altmode being a police car, and prior to Takara creating Cordon the only other police car Autobot was Streetwise. And Prowl and Ironhide are at least both soldier-y enough to work together as a set.Till-all-R1 wrote:They did the same duo for the ER 2pk, almost as if they're some kind of "pair". I mean you'd think Prowl would be paired with another emergency vehicle and not random van. lol
TF-fan kev777 wrote:With all this talk on the windows, am I the first/only one to dislike the shade of grey they went with? Animation accurate or not, it just looks bad to me at least. I understand he wasn't shown as dark as the black parts on other bots on the show, but he needed to be darker than this.
Yeah, that's just goofy. Just like a certain dumb redeco of Masterpiece Grimlock. That's like doing a Superman action figure with blue hair, or a blue action figure of Venom.TF-fan kev777 wrote:With all this talk on the windows, am I the first/only one to dislike the shade of grey they went with? Animation accurate or not, it just looks bad to me at least. I understand he wasn't shown as dark as the black parts on other bots on the show, but he needed to be darker than this.
I've never been particularly bothered by seeing bits of bot through them, and most figures do use a darker clear anyway so...-Kanrabat- wrote:Also, the flaw in having clear windows that are too clear is you see ugly bits of bots inside. Dark clear works best.
Well, obviously the reprolabels are still available.-Kanrabat- wrote:As for the repros, they are still available.
I do, in fact, have the original ER Sunstreaker in hand. Did you skim past the part where I mentioned having to buy him with ONLY ONE FOOT to get him at a kinda-sorta-not-godawful price? Or are you just refusing to believe that I own him because I said that the yellow paint on his roof looks less-mismatched in person than it does in photos?-Kanrabat- wrote:Finally, the color mismatch can be annoying, especially with white, yellow, and red.
If you had the original ER Sunstreaker on hand, it's pretty obvious.
Didn't look that noticeable to me when I saw them on the pegs in stores. *shrug*-Kanrabat- wrote:It's also quite noticeable on SS86 Ratchet and Ironhide.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Didn't look that noticeable to me when I saw them on the pegs in stores. *shrug*-Kanrabat- wrote:It's also quite noticeable on SS86 Ratchet and Ironhide.
Nothing's broken per se, the missing foot was popped off cleanly. And I was planning on scratchbuilding a replacement left foot using the right foot as a guide.-Kanrabat- wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Didn't look that noticeable to me when I saw them on the pegs in stores. *shrug*-Kanrabat- wrote:It's also quite noticeable on SS86 Ratchet and Ironhide.
Forgive me to skim over your posts because they are quite long and TlDr and such.
But man, that Sunny-T of yours will be impossible to fix, unless by some miracle you land on a scrap ER Sunstreaker, or the Selects repaints that happen to have the part you need unbroken.
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