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News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:27 pm

Can't wait for Skyquake and Dreadwing. I'm a big fan of jetformers, especially larger ones. And I also liked both their characters on the show. So bring them on! As for Armada Megatron, I'm actually still very happy with my original Micron Legends figure so this will be a hard sell. But not impossible. I'm down for Armada Starscream after all, even though I love the original. Waiting for Thundercracker and Skywarp, as usual.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:47 pm

While I want to be excited for Dreadwing and Skyquake, I've already been let down 3 times. I wonder how they will approach them. I really think we are just going to end up with the leader class Classics Seeker mold this time, which I really do not want.

Anyways, have a Menasor. I really want to get the rest of the bots now.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:50 pm

Have you tried to attach the CW limbs to his legs, just for kicks? (Pun intended.) Also, he needs longer thighs, like WFC Magnus did.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:51 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:Have you tried to attach the CW limbs to his legs, just for kicks? (Pun intended.) Also, he needs longer thighs, like WFC Magnus did.

They are all still in moving totes, but I know others have and the legs sort of work.

I agree, the longer thighs are about the only thing I think he actually needs an improvement on

News Credits: 6 · by **RodimusPrimeUkraine1** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:59 am

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:Have you tried to attach the CW limbs to his legs, just for kicks? (Pun intended.) Also, he needs longer thighs, like WFC Magnus did.

They are all still in moving totes, but I know others have and the legs sort of work.

I agree, the longer thighs are about the only thing I think he actually needs an improvement on

Go watch That Toy Guys Motor master video. He shows it. I thought it looked hilarious.

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News Credits: 2 · by **Nemesis Destron** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:09 am

Oh you poor souls who have chosen torcher by having your Menasor figures on display wafting for the missing members.... #-o

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Anyway I saw a Metroplex on eBay go for $140 minus shipping and I thought if anyone got it at an even greater deal... :???:

.

And DNA Designs put out an upgrade set for Scourge that looks pretty impressive. :VEHI:

News Credits: 6 · by **RodimusPrimeUkraine1** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 1:26 pm

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh you poor souls who have chosen torcher by having your Menasor figures on display wafting for the missing members.... .

Anyway I saw a Metroplex on eBay go for $140 minus shipping and I thought if anyone got it at an even greater deal... .

And DNA Designs put out an upgrade set for Scourge that looks pretty impressive.

My $42 USD Laser Optimus Prime cannot beat that. What will you get with the leftovers?

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 1:55 pm

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:My $42 USD Laser Optimus Prime cannot beat that.

I got a second Sludge for 35.99 from a brick and mortar Target :-P

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh you poor souls who have chosen torcher by having your Menasor figures on display wafting for the missing members.... .

I know right?I refuse to even transform Menasor until I have all the limbs.

News Credits: 12 · by **Overcracker** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 1:57 pm

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh you poor souls who have chosen torcher by having your Menasor figures on display wafting for the missing members.... .

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 1:59 pm

Cyber Bishop wrote:
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:My $42 USD Laser Optimus Prime cannot beat that.

I got a second Sludge for 35.99 from a brick and mortar Target

Very, very cool.

Cyber Bishop wrote:
Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh you poor souls who have chosen torcher by having your Menasor figures on display wafting for the missing members.... .

I know right?I refuse to even transform Menasor until I have all the limbs.

My review goes up on Thursday. I'm not even doing the Menasor thing. Menasor will get his own review when you can complete Menasor.

News Credits: 4862 · by **william-james88** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:11 pm

Cyber Bishop wrote:
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:My $42 USD Laser Optimus Prime cannot beat that.

I got a second Sludge for 35.99 from a brick and mortar Target

That's pretty good, but I get my transformers for 0$

william-james88 wrote:I am the total opposite, penniless. So much so that all I could buy today was whatever cost me $0.00, luckily, there was something at that price at Walmart.

No joke, no conniving tricks, $0.00 for one step barricade. And the cashier was more than happy to charge me that with 0 problems.

Kanrabat will understand, its a Quebec thing.

william-james88 wrote:Another day, another free one step courtesy of Walmart

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:30 pm

Dat 1 step at zero...

Oh yeah, I use this Right a lot. And it's for EVERYTHING.

:DANCE:

News Credits: 6 · by **RodimusPrimeUkraine1** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 3:58 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:Dat 1 step at zero...

Oh yeah, I use this Right a lot. And it's for EVERYTHING.

*confused* :KREMZEEK:

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:30 pm

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:*confused*

You should be.

Since over 10 years, there's a law in Quebec (Canada) that state that if the scanned price is higher than the matching label that was displayed on the shelf (with matching barcodes, of course) you get the lowest price minus 5$CAN in "punitive damage". If the total price gets in the negative, the item is free. In case you buy multiple, ONE item gets the punitive 5$ off extra while the rest is sold at the lowest price.

Since years this allowed me to get "free" stuff or heavily discounted things like 10$CAN voyagers or huge slabs of pork meat at 2$CAN a KILO.
:ic$:

News Credits: 6 · by **RodimusPrimeUkraine1** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:58 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:*confused*

You should be.

Since over 10 years, there's a law in Quebec (Canada) that state that if the scanned price is higher than the matching label that was displayed on the shelf (with matching barcodes, of course) you get the lowest price minus 5$CAN in "punitive damage". If the total price gets in the negative, the item is free. In case you buy multiple, ONE item gets the punitive 5$ off extra while the rest is sold at the lowest price.

Since years this allowed me to get "free" stuff or heavily discounted things like 10$CAN voyagers or huge slabs of pork meat at 2$CAN a KILO.

Cool!

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:38 pm

Legendary

He's definitely part of my group of highlights for the year so far. It's been a great year

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:15 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:My $42 USD Laser Optimus Prime cannot beat that.

I got a second Sludge for 35.99 from a brick and mortar Target

That's pretty good, but I get my transformers for 0$

william-james88 wrote:I am the total opposite, penniless. So much so that all I could buy today was whatever cost me $0.00, luckily, there was something at that price at Walmart.

No joke, no conniving tricks, $0.00 for one step barricade. And the cashier was more than happy to charge me that with 0 problems.

Kanrabat will understand, its a Quebec thing.

william-james88 wrote:Another day, another free one step courtesy of Walmart

I'm stuck on the fact that you guys are paying almost 15% sales tax! What the heck? I moved to Wisconsin the sales tax in Illinois on food went from 0% to 5.5% and they increased alcohol tax to 11%! And you guys aren't flinching at 15%?

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:35 pm

First-Aid wrote:I'm stuck on the fact that you guys are paying almost 15% sales tax! What the heck? I moved to Wisconsin the sales tax in Illinois on food went from 0% to 5.5% and they increased alcohol tax to 11%! And you guys aren't flinching at 15%?

Well, vive le Québec!

And you know the best part?
The way the taxes are calculated is they calculate the federal tax first, add the total, then the Quebec tax is calculated.

TlDr; we tax the tax! Only in Quebec! :HEADHURTS:

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 10:38 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
First-Aid wrote:I'm stuck on the fact that you guys are paying almost 15% sales tax! What the heck? I moved to Wisconsin the sales tax in Illinois on food went from 0% to 5.5% and they increased alcohol tax to 11%! And you guys aren't flinching at 15%?

Well, vive le Québec!

And you know the best part?
The way the taxes are calculated is they calculate the federal tax first, add the total, then the Quebec tax is calculated.

TlDr; we tax the tax! Only in Quebec!

Ahhh government efficiency. The only thing the government is efficient at is taking your money away.

News Credits: 459 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 10:41 pm

First-Aid wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
First-Aid wrote:I'm stuck on the fact that you guys are paying almost 15% sales tax! What the heck? I moved to Wisconsin the sales tax in Illinois on food went from 0% to 5.5% and they increased alcohol tax to 11%! And you guys aren't flinching at 15%?

Well, vive le Québec!

And you know the best part?
The way the taxes are calculated is they calculate the federal tax first, add the total, then the Quebec tax is calculated.

TlDr; we tax the tax! Only in Quebec!

Ahhh government efficiency. The only thing the government is efficient at is taking your money away.

U.S.-motif aside, this is applicable for pretty much any country with a lousy government.

News Credits: 149 · by **Big Grim** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 5:29 am

Nemesis Destron wrote:And DNA Designs put out an upgrade set for Scourge that looks pretty impressive.

I admit, that is sorely tempting. Scourge is awesome but could use a better blaster.

~ Grim

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:27 am

For those of you wondering how you can integrate the gun tower with Legacy Menasor....I give you....

Jet Mode ! don't judge me

Honestly from the front however, it dosen't look that bad, although it does limit the arm articulation a bit.

News Credits: 4862 · by **william-james88** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:50 am

First-Aid wrote:I'm stuck on the fact that you guys are paying almost 15% sales tax! What the heck? I moved to Wisconsin the sales tax in Illinois on food went from 0% to 5.5% and they increased alcohol tax to 11%! And you guys aren't flinching at 15%?

You wouldn't flinch either if you could see those tax dollars at work as easily as I do. I've got 2 kids with another on the way and my wife currently has gestational diabetes so she needs weekly follow ups, insulin and the appropriate equipment. We won't be billed for the delivery, or the follow ups before then. We were only billed 40$ for all the insulin she needs for the next 4 months. Plus then she gets 1 year paid maternity leave, I get 5 weeks paid leave, and then we put our then 1 year old in daycare that only costs $7 a day due to subsidies while my wife goes back to work as a pharmaceutical tech which cost $0 to get a degree/certification in.
Basically you just have to pick your poison, I picked mine and am comfortable with it.

And back to the toys, if they cost me 0$ then the 15% tax on that is also 0, so it doesn't matter :DANCE:

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:57 am

william-james88 wrote:
First-Aid wrote:I'm stuck on the fact that you guys are paying almost 15% sales tax! What the heck? I moved to Wisconsin the sales tax in Illinois on food went from 0% to 5.5% and they increased alcohol tax to 11%! And you guys aren't flinching at 15%?

You wouldn't flinch either if you could see those tax dollars at work as easily as I do. I've got 2 kids with another on the way and my wife currently has gestational diabetes so she needs weekly follow ups, insulin and the appropriate equipment. We won't be billed for the delivery, or the follow ups before then. We were only billed 40$ for all the insulin she needs for the next 4 months. Plus then she gets 1 year paid maternity leave, I get 5 weeks paid leave, and then we put our then 1 year old in daycare that only costs $7 a day due to subsidies while my wife goes back to work as a pharmaceutical tech which cost $0 to get a degree/certification in.
Basically you just have to pick your poison, I picked mine and am comfortable with it.

And back to the toys, if they cost me 0$ then the 15% tax on that is also 0, so it doesn't matter

That is a powerful argument for the good that tax can do.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:07 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
First-Aid wrote:I'm stuck on the fact that you guys are paying almost 15% sales tax! What the heck? I moved to Wisconsin the sales tax in Illinois on food went from 0% to 5.5% and they increased alcohol tax to 11%! And you guys aren't flinching at 15%?

You wouldn't flinch either if you could see those tax dollars at work as easily as I do. I've got 2 kids with another on the way and my wife currently has gestational diabetes so she needs weekly follow ups, insulin and the appropriate equipment. We won't be billed for the delivery, or the follow ups before then. We were only billed 40$ for all the insulin she needs for the next 4 months. Plus then she gets 1 year paid maternity leave, I get 5 weeks paid leave, and then we put our then 1 year old in daycare that only costs $7 a day due to subsidies while my wife goes back to work as a pharmaceutical tech which cost $0 to get a degree/certification in.
Basically you just have to pick your poison, I picked mine and am comfortable with it.

And back to the toys, if they cost me 0$ then the 15% tax on that is also 0, so it doesn't matter

That is a powerful argument for the good that tax can do.

Between 15% on everything you buy (not to mention the VATs) and income tax sucking up literally half your income, there BETTER be subsidies because you can't afford it otherwise...eep...

tradingeconomics.com is a great resource to see just how much we aren't getting....