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News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:15 pm

MaximalNui wrote:Anyway, anyone else would like to see more canon dimension-hoppers in the multiverse-focused series? From the top of my head, I would like to see Vector Prime, Sideways (Armada and/or Cybertron), IDW Nova Prime/Nemesis Prime and at least one Omnibot. Pretty sure I'm missing a lot more, though.

Hate to break it to ya (and, well, to everyone here), but everything we know about Sideways being a dimension-hopper is based on a complete and total LIE!

by **MaximalNui** » Sat Oct 29, 2022 4:15 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
MaximalNui wrote:Anyway, anyone else would like to see more canon dimension-hoppers in the multiverse-focused series? From the top of my head, I would like to see Vector Prime, Sideways (Armada and/or Cybertron), IDW Nova Prime/Nemesis Prime and at least one Omnibot. Pretty sure I'm missing a lot more, though.
Hate to break it to ya (and, well, to everyone here), but everything we know about Sideways being a dimension-hopper is based on a complete and total LIE!

Oh, I'm aware of that. But that doesn't invalidate all the other, canon dimension-hopping by the character written since that initial misunderstanding (or before, if one remembers one of the many contradictory origins for Planet X). Otherwise, one could say Donna Troy doesn't really exist and the first Wonder Girl is still a time-travelling kid Diana.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Oct 29, 2022 5:09 pm

MaximalNui wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
MaximalNui wrote:Anyway, anyone else would like to see more canon dimension-hoppers in the multiverse-focused series? From the top of my head, I would like to see Vector Prime, Sideways (Armada and/or Cybertron), IDW Nova Prime/Nemesis Prime and at least one Omnibot. Pretty sure I'm missing a lot more, though.
Hate to break it to ya (and, well, to everyone here), but everything we know about Sideways being a dimension-hopper is based on a complete and total LIE!

Oh, I'm aware of that. But that doesn't invalidate all the other, canon dimension-hopping by the character written since that initial misunderstanding (or before, if one remembers one of the many contradictory origins for Planet X). Otherwise, one could say Donna Troy doesn't really exist and the first Wonder Girl is still a time-travelling kid Diana.

Well, in that case, you could just use the Studio Series Sideways figure, since it was his appearance that was used for the most notable dimension-hopping Sideways.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Sat Oct 29, 2022 5:49 pm

I wonder if Twincast will have to give up coming with a tape buddy to have the fatter door. Kinda hoping the answer is no; even if the Eject part of this tooling is shorter in robot mode than I'd like, I think it looks a lot better than SIEGE Fremble, so probably-Rosanna from this mold would be nice.

News Credits: 48 · by **Nemesis Primal** » Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:33 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I wonder if Twincast will have to give up coming with a tape buddy to have the fatter door. Kinda hoping the answer is no; even if the Eject part of this tooling is shorter in robot mode than I'd like, I think it looks a lot better than SIEGE Fremble, so probably-Rosanna from this mold would be nice.

Last time leaks gave anything on Twincast they said he comes with Rewind, but that was also before he got pushed back a wave, so who knows if that's still accurate.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:44 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I wonder if Twincast will have to give up coming with a tape buddy to have the fatter door. Kinda hoping the answer is no; even if the Eject part of this tooling is shorter in robot mode than I'd like, I think it looks a lot better than SIEGE Fremble, so probably-Rosanna from this mold would be nice.
Last time leaks gave anything on Twincast they said he comes with Rewind, but that was also before he got pushed back a wave, so who knows if that's still accurate.

I suspect that it being Rewind was a presumption on their parts, since Rewind doesn't match with the color of Twincast's tape window. For that reason, I certainly hope it's not Rewind.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:28 pm

Razorbeast88 wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Ok I nabbed a skullgrin from the same Target I got Pointblank and Dead End from.
I pulled up a video from chefatron to watch the transformation of him.

Now he mentions the plastic feels cheap and soft plastic is really pliable especially the "swords", Fooling with this one I don't get the feel of cheap plastic and the blades are made of softer plastic but are not as pliable as they appear in the video. I wonder if the early copies the reviewers get could be a production test or something but so far he has had issues with "cheap" plastic on both pointblank and Skullgrin and the figures I have purchased are no where near as cheap feeling.

Does anyone else have any issues with their skullgrin figs and the softer plastic?

Awesome! I'm planning on picking up skullgrin. Good to know he's better than some of the reviews make him out to be

I concur, someone I trust a good bit on TF toy opinions said he wasn't that good, so it's good to hear some positivity and help re-instate some of my hopes for the toy

News Credits: 2 · by **Nemesis Destron** » Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:54 am

Mister PrimevPrime just posted the review for complete Stunticons Menasore!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd6d1S3qVWI&t=354 :VEHI:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 11:08 am

Mark Maher Instagram post about Minerva:

Its Friday!! Time to play with some toys!! Legacy Deluxe Minerva just jumped through a portal from the Super God Masterforce universe! She’s here to help the Wreckers in there conquest to stop an evil foe! She unfortunately lost her headmaster abilities as she came through the portal, but she does come fully equipped with 2 energon infused rifles and a sweet lightbar for her alt ambulance turbo mode!

Another character that was definitely on my to-do list for a while now, I’m pretty hyped how she turned out. It was a design challenge to make an Elita One that would eventually be redeco’d as a Minerva. But, if that was the only way I was getting this figure, welp, challenge accepted! She was a perfect fit for a exclusive (I think Walgreens but gotta talk to @bmacatron84 , we’ve tried to keep the theming to medics(scientists) started with Titans Return Brainstorm I believe)

This has been the first time I purposely left a blaster in clear with no tint color. Since the ambulance needed the blue windshield and the lightbar needed the red tint, I thought, , why can’t energon be translucent clear, perhaps an energon we’ve never encountered before. I made sure her other rifle blaster resembled its original look and was painted a nice glossy black.

Make sure you get your hands on the medic repair welder that was released with our Target exclusive Red Cog. It will really do wonders for playing out battlescenes where Minerva and Ratchet can help some autobots repair some damaged transistors on the battlefield.

Who will the crazy inter dimensional spacebridge portal spit out next!?!? Isnt this fun!!! What sort of Evolution will happen to our heroes next! Will the energon infused weapons be combined and utilized to vaporize cybertron? Will an evil mastermind use a mega energon infused device to mind control an army to reign supreme!?!?

Stay tuned in…same bot time…same bot channel

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 7:37 pm

Given that info, it seems unlikely that nightbeat is in the immediate future

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 7:52 pm

So does that mean there's a blond girl trapped in her head for eternity? :-?

I liked the idea of it being the post-Masterforce Transtector better.

Emerje

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:29 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Mark Maher Instagram post about Minerva:

Its Friday!! Time to play with some toys!! Legacy Deluxe Minerva just jumped through a portal from the Super God Masterforce universe! She’s here to help the Wreckers in there conquest to stop an evil foe! She unfortunately lost her headmaster abilities as she came through the portal, but she does come fully equipped with 2 energon infused rifles and a sweet lightbar for her alt ambulance turbo mode!

Another character that was definitely on my to-do list for a while now, I’m pretty hyped how she turned out. It was a design challenge to make an Elita One that would eventually be redeco’d as a Minerva. But, if that was the only way I was getting this figure, welp, challenge accepted!

I am extremely angry and frustrated with Mark after seeing this. Did it at any point whatsoever cross his mind that he could maybe have pushed for a NIGHTBEAT to be redecoed into Minerva? Instead of screwing up both Elita and Minerva because you were that impatient to get a CHUG Minerva toy of some sort? :evil:

May the molds and the shipments meet with forklift accidents so that HasTak are more likely to try again sooner.

I would like to encourage everyone here to refrain from buying either of these wastes of plastic. Let them rot on the shelves til they get kicked to consignment stores.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Given that info, it seems unlikely that nightbeat is in the immediate future

Yep...

No Nightbeat, just an Elita who's wrong because the mold doubling as Minerva means she (AGAIN) can't have her actual altmode, and a Minerva who transforms wrong and isn't a Headmaster because the mold being Elita. Both of them messed up, all because Mark Maher was soooo impatient to have some kind of Minerva toy that he didn't care what he broke to get it.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:57 pm

Emerje wrote:So does that mean there's a blond girl trapped in her head for eternity? I liked the idea of it being the post-Masterforce Transtector better.

Emerje

This.
Much more logical.

Still, there's room in that car's habitacle for a headmaster. I'll wait for the inevitable upgrade kit.

News Credits: 17 · by **AcademyofDrX** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 9:01 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I would like to encourage everyone here to refrain from buying either of these wastes of plastic. Let them rot on the shelves til they get kicked to consignment stores.

Sorry, I already bought Elita-1 and I'm ordering Minerva too. Don't take it personally, I wish you luck on your plan.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 9:10 pm

AcademyofDrX wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I would like to encourage everyone here to refrain from buying either of these wastes of plastic. Let them rot on the shelves til they get kicked to consignment stores.

Sorry, I already bought Elita-1 and I'm ordering Minerva too. Don't take it personally, I wish you luck on your plan.

Same on the Minerva front (I am good with PotP Elita). I am glad we are getting her

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Tue Nov 01, 2022 6:42 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
AcademyofDrX wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I would like to encourage everyone here to refrain from buying either of these wastes of plastic. Let them rot on the shelves til they get kicked to consignment stores.

Sorry, I already bought Elita-1 and I'm ordering Minerva too. Don't take it personally, I wish you luck on your plan.

Same on the Minerva front (I am good with PotP Elita). I am glad we are getting her

I like the idea of us getting Minerva in principle, but I would be much more glad if we were getting a proper her (and a corresponding Nightbeat) instead of getting an impatience-fueled substantially-compromised her that transforms wrong. I'm sure glad I started that custom Minerva a while back, even if I still haven't finished it...

I, too, will continue to content myself with PotP on the Elita front. Thanks to Maher's impatience, this Elita is as much of a writeoff for me as the Netflix joke was.

AcademyofDrX, it's less a plan and more a frustration-fueled appeal to my fellow fans. And with my head having cooled a bit, I suppose an argument could be made for buying to show Minerva sells, but still... Blargh.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Nov 01, 2022 6:57 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman ... it's OK to be frustrated by a toy's release and I agree that this is not the Minerva I would've wanted (especially sans the Headmaster feature). However, there's no need to attack a Hasbro employee over it nor is there any reason to make lewd comments. Mark, nor any other person, does not deserve to be treated that way or verbally assaulted in that manner. Please update your posts above to remove the "randy" and "horny" comments as well as any phrases that are inappropriate above.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 12:08 am

Seibertron wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman ... it's OK to be frustrated by a toy's release and I agree that this is not the Minerva I would've wanted (especially sans the Headmaster feature). However, there's no need to attack a Hasbro employee over it nor is there any reason to make lewd comments. Mark, nor any other person, does not deserve to be treated that way or verbally assaulted in that manner. Please update your posts above to remove the "randy" and "horny" comments as well as any phrases that are inappropriate above.

As well as his signature since, according to you, it violates policy. Or does that apply to only certain points of view?

On topic, I have no attachment to Minerva so I could not care any less about a minor character. However, it would be great to get a proper Nightbeat.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 12:35 am

I had the luxury of seeing Minerva in a store, and going "Nope" and walking away. Decent figure, but I don't have the money or space to just buy a placeholder.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 4:21 am

william-james88 wrote:I had the luxury of seeing Minerva in a store, and going "Nope" and walking away. Decent figure, but I don't have the money or space to just buy a placeholder.

Question is, how long will we be waiting for a better one?

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 4:39 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:On topic, I have no attachment to Minerva so I could not care any less about a minor character. However, it would be great to get a proper Nightbeat.

As a Masterforce fan, I'm a disappointed by that Legacy Minerva. Not just because she's no headmaster, but because the toy itself is bad. The car mode keeps having it's panels split and that's annoying. Still, I commend it for having such a small backpack.

I'd want her to be properly redone. But a proper Nightbeat needs to be his own mold because having an old man head on a little girl body would be... hilarious!

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 8:54 am

ZeroWolf wrote:
william-james88 wrote:I had the luxury of seeing Minerva in a store, and going "Nope" and walking away. Decent figure, but I don't have the money or space to just buy a placeholder.

Question is, how long will we be waiting for a better one?

I've lived all of my life without a Minerva, so if I never get one, it will be same old same old (I only know the character through the rarity of a non yellowed G1 toy). But I do think we'll get another shot at her one day regardless since she is a natural redeco to a more popular character that was never done properly either.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 10:54 am

william-james88 wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:
william-james88 wrote:I had the luxury of seeing Minerva in a store, and going "Nope" and walking away. Decent figure, but I don't have the money or space to just buy a placeholder.

Question is, how long will we be waiting for a better one?

I've lived all of my life without a Minerva, so if I never get one, it will be same old same old (I only know the character through the rarity of a non yellowed G1 toy). But I do think we'll get another shot at her one day regardless since she is a natural redeco to a more popular character that was never done properly either.

It would be interesting to see how they could get an animation accurate Minerva from Night Beat since the Masterforce cartoon did a little alteration to make her more feminine then the toy.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 11:23 am

william-james88 wrote:I had the luxury of seeing Minerva in a store, and going "Nope" and walking away. Decent figure, but I don't have the money or space to just buy a placeholder.

I commend you on your restraint.

I did pick her up. I don't think we'll be seeing anything close to a better Minerva representation and I cannot for the life of me imagine how they'd make a masculine-style Nightbeat and a Feminine-style Minerva out of the same mold.

I have fond memories of the Masterforce series, as it was my first introduction to subbed TF content, and I was at an age to empathise with the kids. Also I'm just a sucker for non-mainline figures, always have been.

She's also a better representation than her most recent homage:

News Credits: 12 · by **Sentinel_Primal** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 11:34 am

I picked up the new Minerva, but I'm also thinking of trying my hand at making an upgrade for her to give her a more accurate torso and the headmaster feature to work with LG-EX Minerva's head mode