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Va'al wrote:

carytheone wrote:
Drift
Fixit (yeah, you forgot about this lil awesome guy )
Jazz
Bee
Grimlock (only because I want him to be bigger, I added him for others)
Sideswipe (the arms are more annoying than a problem)
Steeljaw
Strongarm

I din't listen.

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Hahaha, looks like you're pretty happy with SS. I think I spoke fondly of him and I've enjoyed the cocky lil red guy.

Congrats.

So, do you have the RID bug yet?

carytheone wrote: I think I spoke fondly of him and I've enjoyed the cocky lil red guy.

Yeah, I think the smirk was what sold it eventually. I added more photos here!

So, do you have the RID bug yet?

Nope. I said one, I got one.

Va'al wrote:Nope. I said one, I got one.

That's probably a good thing. My RID bug has not progressed to the Optimus Prime stage yet. But the "clash of" version almost got me yesterday.

I was somehow able to resist, even though I had some TRU reward $ in my pocket. I think I keep hearing Will's voice in the back of my head.

Edit: awesome pics BTW.

I just got RID-15 Sideswipe in a sale.

I will admit I am a little puzzled why his head is so small though as a broader head would not block his Transformation in anyway - it's like they accidentally made it 15 or 20% to small.

Like everyone says yeah the shoulder do indeed really suck, you know what really especially sucks that they repainted him and they didn't fix the issue with the shoulders on the repaint. even just some tightening of the hinges would have helped as well as making the pegs inside his chest a better fit.

Though if you really wanted to rag on that toy you could criticise that it has no underneath storage of the sword and the chest plate drags on the ground in vehicle mode - yet if they chest plate didn't move it wouldn't drag (though it pushes the wheels out of whack) so simply not having the chest plate move would have been a better design plan.

If you forget to fold it down it barely effects the toy aside from pushing the front wheels out of track a little so there is no reason for that part to move as all it's going to do is get unclipped and lost when it comes to many kids owning it.

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I also got Jazz he suffers from the usual hideous amount of missing paint - but he's more or less colourful enough in robot mode I guess.
He's weapon is a bit 'Nothing special' and again there is no reason it couldn't store underneath if they'd designed him properly.

They also got lazy with the implementation of the chest Transformation leaving to him looking a bit wide - and the design of the outer lower legs is a mess too.

So as he was cheap he gets a pass If he'd been full price I'd have been lamenting the rubbish design detail implementation in the legs and the horrific lack of paint a lot more.

He reminds me a bit of Prime Knockout who I like, but who also suffered from a horrible lack of paint but looks terrific once tarted up with a bit more paint.

I can't say I like the really obvious gaps in the legs, The head is a bit smaller than I would have liked too I also do not like that he has hinged wrists (instead of ball joints) much either.

So it was always my intention to ignore RID-15 toys until they were on clearance and I KNOW now I made the right choice - I would have been a pretty unhappy consumer to have paid full price for these and that is even more depressing knowing Jazz is one of the best figures in the line too.

To be honest I think Hasbro need to fire some people over this disastrous miss-step of a toyline (and that is probably Managers not designers). It's never a good idea for people to be able to say in complete seriousness that the better version of a toy is sometimes the Legion, the 3 step changer or the 1 Step changer - that just shouldn't happen but it does in RID-15. No wonder it looks like there won't be very much of an RID-16.

To not be a total debbie downer though I suppose the articulation is functional and adequate on the toys I've gotten so far. and they are reasonable quick to Transform - and even the clip on wheels spin OK and don't fall off (unlike knockout).

I'll try to get Optimus and Drift next I suppose.

So In conclusion they get a pass for being cheap and on sale they get a birch branch to the backside for what they are for the price they were supposed to be originally though... They definitely need to do better next time (in what ever follow up kids lines they make) I'd say.

RAR wrote:I just got RID-15 Sideswipe in a sale.

Though if you really wanted to rag on that toy you could criticise that it has no underneath storage of the sword

Stores fine here!

OK I'll try that.

Oh and one other positive - I do actually appreciate toys that don't take 10 Minutes to Transform that is a bonus and as I said the Articulation level is acceptable.

I'm just fussy I also want them to think the details through a bit more before making the things and paint them a bit more.

A good example of not thinking a detail through properly is how Bumblebee's kibble should have been acting as ankles for him and instead he's left with a design subjected to falling over backwards due to his ankle support not being able to touch the ground. that should have been a simple design fix that should never have survived to the shelves.

Also the instructions are horrible they often miss out steps and they fail to mention the weapon storage too.

Va'al wrote:
Stores fine here!

Holy bejezes. That is a cool pose

For all the hate he gets, I do still love Sideswipe. If the shoulder issue wasn't there, I might like him more than Drift.

While we've had some mention of these being found already in our ongoing discussion thread, Seibertron Twincast Podcast host Counterpunch has sent our news staff full details and confirmation that the second wave of Robots in Disguise Mini-cons have hit US retail shelves.



Counterpunch found these at a Walmart in Luling, LA. Chances are they may already be, or have been, in your local stores now as well!

If you see new toys at retail in your country that you don't think our news crew has front-paged a sighting of yet, be sure to let us know here. If you see these toys locally be sure to let your fellow collectors know in your local Sightings Thread, or utilize our Sightings Resource page.

Well dang. These are the ones I saw at my store. I just thought they were the same wave. I wasn't really interested in these guys now I want to see what wave one had.

Optimizzy wrote:Well dang. These are the ones I saw at my store. I just thought they were the same wave. I wasn't really interested in these guys now I want to see what wave one had.

It'd be back a few pages, but there was a dog and stuff

I posted under the Texas sighting thread, I saw all four in a Walmart off of 375 south, which is south of Ft. Bliss, TX.

ScottyP wrote:Counterpunch found these at a Walmart in Luling, LA. Chances are they may already be, or have been, in your local stores now as well

Cool, cool. Maybe they've made to my neck of the swamp. Guess it's time for a hunt to see if I can find me some Beastbox.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Optimizzy wrote:Well dang. These are the ones I saw at my store. I just thought they were the same wave. I wasn't really interested in these guys now I want to see what wave one had.

It'd be back a few pages, but there was a dog and stuff

Yeah. I liked the dog. Ok. Yeah...still not as interested

carytheone wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Counterpunch found these at a Walmart in Luling, LA. Chances are they may already be, or have been, in your local stores now as well

Cool, cool. Maybe they've made to my neck of the swamp. Guess it's time for a hunt to see if I can find me some Beastbox.

Beastbox is the one I want most of all as well. I love little gorrila formers. Do you know of Gora? He's fun too.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gora

william-james88 wrote:

carytheone wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Counterpunch found these at a Walmart in Luling, LA. Chances are they may already be, or have been, in your local stores now as well

Cool, cool. Maybe they've made to my neck of the swamp. Guess it's time for a hunt to see if I can find me some Beastbox.

Beastbox is the one I want most of all as well. I love little gorrila formers. Do you know of Gora? He's fun too.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gora

I've heard of him and seen him in pictures, but I've haven't delved into the arms micron bots yet.

The only "gorilla bot" I own is High Score 100.



Magnus has recently developed a bit of a game addiction with him.

I saw the Drift/Jetstorm deployer set at a local Target store. Happy hunting!

I will not get the deployers, but I do want to get one of these little guys. they're pretty cool

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I will not get the deployers, but I do want to get one of these little guys. they're pretty cool

I am so thankful to Hasbro to have made it that we do not need the little guys which come with the deployers to build those extra energon figures. Like that we can get everything we want without needing to get the deployers

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I will not get the deployers, but I do want to get one of these little guys. they're pretty cool

Yeah, I'm pretty much in the same camp. I want to buy one just to check out the line. I'm normally a sucker for minicons, but these are sorely lacking in the 5mm department, which is a bummer, if you ask me.

RAcast wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I will not get the deployers, but I do want to get one of these little guys. they're pretty cool

Yeah, I'm pretty much in the same camp. I want to buy one just to check out the line. I'm normally a sucker for minicons, but these are sorely lacking in the 5mm department, which is a bummer, if you ask me.

Agreed, but one can never hurt...

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

RAcast wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I will not get the deployers, but I do want to get one of these little guys. they're pretty cool

Yeah, I'm pretty much in the same camp. I want to buy one just to check out the line. I'm normally a sucker for minicons, but these are sorely lacking in the 5mm department, which is a bummer, if you ask me.

Agreed, but one can never hurt...

If you're into the line you should check out at least one. They're pretty neat and have some great molded details.

carytheone wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

RAcast wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I will not get the deployers, but I do want to get one of these little guys. they're pretty cool

Yeah, I'm pretty much in the same camp. I want to buy one just to check out the line. I'm normally a sucker for minicons, but these are sorely lacking in the 5mm department, which is a bummer, if you ask me.

Agreed, but one can never hurt...

If you're into the line you should check out at least one. They're pretty neat and have some great molded details.

I bet. having watched reviews, I do want to get at least one, maybe 2 just cause theyre cheap. But they do look really nifty

Ya, I wish there were 5mm p&p on these guys too, but they're really fun little characters.
They would have at least made cool little shields for all the melee weapon wielding Warriors.

Cobotron wrote:Ya, I wish there were 5mm p$p on these guys too, but they're really fun little characters.
They would have at least made cool little shields for all the melee weapon wielding Warriors.

Very true. While it would have been cool, I see what they were going for. not fully executed well but still a neat gimmick nonetheless