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Qwan wrote:I did, on the other hand, impulse-get Leader Rodimus despite all the middling reviews, and I... really really like him. No accounting for taste I suppose

That is one figure I do want to get. From what I've seen, it's been hit and miss in the reviews with him. I'm just going with the "well I don't have him for the Neo-G1 collection..."

He'll probably be the one figure that doesn't make it up this way, but we'll see a dozen Starscreams!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Emerje wrote: Now he can imbue his laser rifle with a fragment of the power of the Requiem Blaster, the weapon of Megatronus himself.

Just because it's in the write-up doesn't mean it's automatically in the toy. His accessory count is 2, the smaller gun and HFG cover that.

Not unless the small gun was dropped, but got left on the back of the box. Hardly the first time things have shown up on the box that didn't come with the figure.

It'll just be strange having him come with a Prime Master he can't interact with in any way. At least the die cast Titan Masters could be used on the figures they came with.

Emerje

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Emerje

Darn it now I gotta buy him, then I gotta buy the other Terrocons because I hate incomplete teams.

And I thought I was going to be done with collecting with Titans Return over. (Excluding the little Titanmasters because regardless if they don't turn into faces their still the same as the Titanmasters)

Looking at what we can see of Blast off's Silhouette it's clear they are using the Takara mold. I find this a pity for 2 reasons. Firstly I thought when I saw it for UW that it looked a little, naff. I don't know I just didnt like it.
Secondly Steam Shield's Bot Foundry on Shapeways produced 3 add on bits for the Hasbro one: a new head, a new nosecone and a new set of wings plus a little add on to the feet to form boosters, it would've been easy to do that instead I think.

Agent 53 wrote:Looking at what we can see of Blast off's Silhouette it's clear they are using the Takara mold. I find this a pity for 2 reasons. Firstly I thought when I saw it for UW that it looked a little, naff. I don't know I just didnt like it.
Secondly Steam Shield's Bot Foundry on Shapeways produced 3 add on bits for the Hasbro one: a new head, a new nosecone and a new set of wings plus a little add on to the feet to form boosters, it would've been easy to do that instead I think.

What seems easy to you is to them just an added expense they don't need.

Emerje

It is funny how we can all read things differently and have different hopes, but to me

Decepticon Blast Off figure. It’s built with updated Combiner Wars molds

It just has a hole in the mold for the hand/foot to plug in.

Will be interesting to see what other characters they use gimmicks for that didn't originally have them after seeing a photoshop pic of an insecticon combiner. They could even do an evolution Bumblebbee to gold bug in the crazy world of toys.

Burn wrote:You're ignorance knows no bounds it seems.

Lol... overreaction much? Chill out.

PadForce wrote:

Burn wrote:You're ignorance knows no bounds it seems.

Lol... overreaction much? Chill out.

Well without context of why he said this it could like it but Primal's been a little troublesome lately, arguing with moderators and such.

Burn's probably sick of his attitude.

Deadput wrote:

PadForce wrote:

Burn wrote:You're ignorance knows no bounds it seems.

Lol... overreaction much? Chill out.

Well without context of why he said this it could like it but Primal's been a little troublesome lately, arguing with moderators and such.

Burn's probably sick of his attitude.

Is it that obvious?

I was trying to be subtle I swear...

But back to the topic of Power of the Primes!

Besides the full on combiner teams such as the Dinobots and Terrocons anybody feel like the other combiner limbs and torsos is just a mess?

Say there's only the 4 waves we have "heard" of there's not really any teams.

For Decepticons we Got Starscream, Blackwing and Dreadwind and that's it. (I guess Blastoff too but he's probably an exclusive and he goes with Bruticus anyways)

Then for Autobots we got Elita-1, Moonracer and Novastar as the fems then we have Inferno and Jazz, even if you added Jazz to the other group it's still not a full combiner and then you leave Inferno by himself.

I really hate having spares, and what even is the point of Jazz and Inferno? Their just space fillers for other characters that could have gone in like say a new Chromia or some other fem to go with Elita's team.

Deadput wrote:Besides the full on combiner teams such as the Dinobots and Terrocons anybody feel like the other combiner limbs and torsos is just a mess?

Say there's only the 4 waves we have "heard" of there's not really any teams.

For Decepticons we Got Starscream, Blackwing and Dreadwind and that's it. (I guess Blastoff too but he's probably an exclusive and he goes with Bruticus anyways)

Then for Autobots we got Elita-1, Moonracer and Novastar as the fems then we have Inferno and Jazz, even if you added Jazz to the other group it's still not a full combiner and then you leave Inferno by himself.

I really hate having spares, and what even is the point of Jazz and Inferno? Their just space fillers for other characters that could have gone in like say a new Chromia or some other fem to go with Elita's team.

There were spare torsos in CW, too. Cyclonus, Betatron-Scattershot, one of the Optimus Primes (take your pick which). On top of that bear in mind that we (almost?) certainly have another two waves to fill after those before PotP takes its final bow - that's space for up to 8 other Deluxe figures, enough to "finish" all three groups you listed and have one slot left over... not that that's how things will probably shake out, but y'know.

Heck, I'd hesitate to say we even know the contents of Waves 3 and 4 well enough to confidently make statements about which toys we will/won't get in them either. Sure we have the leaks to go off of, but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a curveball or two by the time the finalised waves are released into the wild.

As for the "point" of Jazz and Inferno? a) they sell, with an (albeit slight) leg-up based on half-remembered nostalgia from the names alone; and b) they can fill slots for collectors who haven't got the many-year-old previous versions (which are waaay beyond making Hasbro any kind of money at this point) and/or just want something different and fun. I'm probably going to pick up Jazz sooner or later, and though Inferno isn't totally appealing to me I'm sure he's plenty of people's cup of tea.

(Besides, if you wanna get technical, Chromia has had a much more recent Generations toy than either Jazz or Inferno. So, yeah )

It looks okay, the dragon necks would look better if they weren't so thick but that isn't the big problem here. Why is Hasbro still using stickers. If only Takara could give us a better version...

So, every time I go hunting there is a Jazz, a Starscream, and a Slash and/or Seaspray pegged up. So, I...I...bought Starscream. Admittance is the first step. Jokes aside, not my favorite Transformer in my collection, but not as bad as it could of been. I'm getting all giddy with every new in-hand of the terrorcons. Burn, I've heard, via podcasts and posts, and just over the years, of the difficulty that plagues some places, like Australia, on getting toys in. Overall, I don't see what you said as bad, it's a valid complaint for someone who loves this brand, and is holding out for the reasons you are. I hope your wait pays off soon. Primalxconvoy, if what you were doing was meant to be funny and helpful, when the inappropriate nature of the joke was pointed out, instead of jumping on defense, best response would of been an apology, something like: Sorry, didn't mean to offend you, I was trying to be silly and wasn't sure if you had checked those places I listed yet. Besides which, as an American, I'm here to defend my right to the term "colonial", we stole this country fair and square. (If you can't tell that is in-bad-taste humor) ok, back to PotP again for me after my treatise. I woke my daughter up to show her Hun-grrr, and now she is playing with the small RID TFs I got her when that show first came out. Because she hasn't watched to much of that as compared to G1 I hear, "Me Grimlock no get why dragon so cool. Me Grimlock have one head, one head all you need." I am dying with laughter inside.

Looking forward to wave 2. And I happen to like Starscream. He's fun to fiddle with, and has a certain stylishness to him... He's no where near perfect, but I do look forward to a Thundercracker (and Skywarp) repaint. Mostly Thundercracker.

I mean, I already kind of figured that the Megatronus was an exclusive deco based on the photos before hand.

Deadput wrote:(I guess Blastoff too but he's probably an exclusive and he goes with Bruticus anyways)

Technically he's not an exclusive. He's part of Hasbro's semi-annual "May Mayhem" promotion that gave us Brake-Neck, Quickslinger, and Deluxe Groove for Combiner Wars. He won't be sold at mass retail, but he'll be available at most of the important online retailers (BBTS, TFS, HTS, and Amazon among others).

Emerje

Acesmcgee wrote: Primalxconvoy, if what you were doing was meant to be funny and helpful, when the inappropriate nature of the joke was pointed out, instead of jumping on defense, best response would of been an apology, something like "Sorry, didn't mean to offend you, I was trying to be silly and wasn't sure if you had checked those places I listed yet".


Besides which, as an American, I'm here to defend my right to the term "colonial", we stole this country fair and square. (If you can't tell that is in-bad-taste humor).

I'm not offended by your well-placed humour and I did offer an apology. No worries! Besides, your theft of my country's God-given land rights has enabled me to reap the benefits of Transformers. Without the USA, we'd have a franchise where all the TFs spoke like Perceptor, Shockwave and Skylynx and would cost too much money and there would be no guns (only truncheons and cutting wit).

Qwan wrote:

Deadput wrote:I really hate having spares, and what even is the point of Jazz and Inferno?

As for the "point" of Jazz and Inferno? a) they sell, with an (albeit slight) leg-up based on half-remembered nostalgia from the names alone; and b) they can fill slots for collectors who haven't got the many-year-old previous versions (which are waaay beyond making Hasbro any kind of money at this point) and/or just want something different and fun. I'm probably going to pick up Jazz sooner or later, and though Inferno isn't totally appealing to me I'm sure he's plenty of people's cup of tea.

PotP Jazz is a great figure. I will vouch for that! If you don't have RtS/United Jazz in your collection, PotP Jazz is the next best thing. Red Hotspot with Inferno's head isn't really doing it for me, though.

F***k I hate the stupid toy accuracy. Why cant we get a purple head with slanted antenna and a white face? The biggest fail of Hasbro chug decos is their assumption that a mold based to resemble the cartoon should be painted like the damn toy to include homage to gang-molded coloring and silly tech decals that look like polka dots. Perfect Effect please fix this guy.

Is it still "mansplaining" when a Brit does it to an Australian?

Rated X wrote:F***k I hate the stupid toy accuracy. Why cant we get a purple head with slanted antenna and a white face? The biggest fail of Hasbro chug decos is their assumption that a mold based to resemble the cartoon should be painted like the damn toy to include homage to gang-molded coloring and silly tech decals that look like polka dots. Perfect Effect please fix this guy.

You mad, bro?

Caelus wrote:Is it still "mansplaining" when a Brit does it to an Australian?

Are you manquestioning mansplaining? That's it! I'm triggered!

Caelus wrote:Is it still "mansplaining" when a Brit does it to an Australian?

I think it's just called "ethnocentricity"?

Loving the look of hun grr, especially with the kamina glasses (now he needs a drill with which to pierce the heavens). I have a feeling though that I won't see him thanks to local distribution might be a good thing as my wife may kill me as I would track down all terrorcons

I'm getting Abominus just because I had the G1 version, and the Deluxes look good so far. It really does look like Hun-Grrr is a heavily retooled Silverbolt though. That's a letdown. I was hoping for some more organic flow to the dragon necks instead of just the old one-hinge wonder. And the beast mode legs have a kind of 'Voyager Grimlock' vibe to them....