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.'
Nemesis Primal wrote:It was already shown both in the reveal stream and in the behind-the-scenes social media post for Inferno that he has all 4 of them.Bumblevivisector wrote:Except if they cross the line into outright deception. Is Inferno actually going to have 4 butt-flaps instead of 3? This bot mode pic sure makes it look that way.SpaceEagle wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:It's still crazy how some good stock images can help a figure look better, in this case Crankcase looks really sharp here
Yeah, these stock photos really help out!
Regardless, way better than leaked photos with unintentional mistransformations.
SGMLordMirage wrote:After seeing what @TF-fan kev777 did with his Mertoplex, I had to try something different with mine.
*snip*
Again thanks to @TF-fan kev777 for this idea for a new base mode.
SGM
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:My Walmart has basically the opposite distribution. They have all wave 2 except Elita and tarantulas.
-Kanrabat- wrote:As for Twintwist, it's my first time with the mold. He's easy to figure out, the colors are magnificent, and he's a lot of fun! Let's hope his partner Topspin will be done in "diaclone" colors relatively soon.
-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Also, I found another weird and mostly useless feature. Metroplex has an adjustable cod piece that appears to have no real function.
Well, it is still cheaper for the designers than traditional production is - by an immense margin. So immense that evidently the shareholders feel they have wiggle room to bump up the cut they take (which of course makes the designers have to charge more for use of their design to actually get any money).Emerje wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:While I do suspect there's a bit too much shareholder overhead in Shapeways' case... You're forgetting that the items aren't being bought in bulk, especially not stuff like Transformers add-ons.
They're mostly being bought in singles or as small lots, by individual consumers. Which means that Shapeways has to either A. use those big commercial printers inefficiently for single-item or small-lot runs, or B. Group different people's purchases together to make more efficient use of the printers... adding the complexity of having to keep track of which items in a given production batch belong to which buyer. Not sure which way works out cheaper for them, but either way does mean extra operating costs.
The ultimate point is, you're not dealing with mass production prices here. So even with the annoying factory middleman pricing from Shapeways, it is still cheaper than injection molding would be for the same purpose.
I'm not forgetting, that's just it. A mass produced part would require $100K steel molds and bulk ordering to bring the price to, let's say, $5 per part (which may or may not also require somebody to remove the part from a sprue, clean the burs and possibly even assemble and sonic weld the part). Shapeways is supposed to be the cheap alternative to that process for the designers so they can get their things out without having to pay the molding costs at a similar price, and that's how it was in the beginning. Instead Shapeways is pushing an inflated price on customers.
The thing is, I think that even with as fast as those industrial printers are... the piecework nature of the average person's Shapeways order means that they either lose out on efficiency-of-use by only printing one thing to a small handful of things per cycle, or consolidate multiple people's orders into one cycle to use the printers more efficiently and then have to pay somebody to not only remove and pack them, but also keep track of which pieces belong to which order.Emerje wrote:Those Menasor parts are relatively small and irregular so they don't use a lot of material and have a low z-axis profile so the print time shouldn't be very long, I just can't understand how that would translate to such high prices. I could print that part in 4 hours, they're printers should be able to do it faster and I'm sure they have many of these printers running at the same time and can scale appropriately. I'd love to see them breakdown exactly where these expenses are coming from.
Emerje
Rodimus Prime wrote:I'm getting quite annoyed/obsessed with acquiring Tarantulas. I have him preordered on Amazon, at $27 with a delivery date of December 5th. I just checked Pulse, he's available to preorder, with shipping date of September 15th, for $32 after shipping (and before possible taxes) and I've been checking both Wal-Mart and Target, with no results.
So what do I do? Do I wait on Amazon for possibly another 2 and a half months to save $10? They might move the release up. Or do I pay voyager price for a deluxe figure if it means MAYBE having it 2 months earlier?
Rodimus Prime wrote:I'm getting quite annoyed/obsessed with acquiring Tarantulas. I have him preordered on Amazon, at $27 with a delivery date of December 5th. I just checked Pulse, he's available to preorder, with shipping date of September 15th, for $32 after shipping (and before possible taxes) and I've been checking both Wal-Mart and Target, with no results.
So what do I do? Do I wait on Amazon for possibly another 2 and a half months to save $10? They might move the release up. Or do I pay voyager price for a deluxe figure if it means MAYBE having it 2 months earlier?
Rodimus Prime wrote:It just feels weird being like this about getting a figure. It's rarely happened. I did see Elita at Target last night, but she was with Prime Arcee and Red Cog. So I wasn't sure who her wavemates were.
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