Kurona wrote: I don't think we've had anything like Scourge/Highbrow/Windblade or Alpha Trion/Broadside before, at least not on this scale.
william-james88 wrote:Kurona wrote: I don't think we've had anything like Scourge/Highbrow/Windblade or Alpha Trion/Broadside before, at least not on this scale.
Wouldn't the G1 jumpstarters be similar to Scourge/Highbrow/Windblade? The same engineering but almost totally different molds?
As for Alpha Trion and Braodside, they remind me of all those Movie Bee iterations which shared parts and engineering but had different upper bodies and the like.
What I mean to say is the mindset of reusing engineering yet preserving uniqueness what was found in G1 is being reborn here in a new era of toy design.
Kurona wrote:william-james88 wrote:Kurona wrote: I don't think we've had anything like Scourge/Highbrow/Windblade or Alpha Trion/Broadside before, at least not on this scale.
Wouldn't the G1 jumpstarters be similar to Scourge/Highbrow/Windblade? The same engineering but almost totally different molds?
As for Alpha Trion and Braodside, they remind me of all those Movie Bee iterations which shared parts and engineering but had different upper bodies and the like.
What I mean to say is the mindset of reusing engineering yet preserving uniqueness what was found in G1 is being reborn here in a new era of toy design.
That's true, but I think a much cleaner way of saying what I was trying to say is that the former examples were exceptions -- whereas in TR, it's practically become a rule. Before this we could simply brush off these as incidental weird occurrences; strange retools, but retools nonetheless. But now that it's happening so much it's forcing us to rethink how we define mold re-usage and parts sharing on principle.
They existed before, but not anywhere near to this extent.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I saw 3 Chaos on Velocitron sets at TRU in Ann Arbor, MI. Have heard of a few more Michigan TRUs getting then too. Sounds like they are back.
Kurona wrote:They existed before, but not anywhere near to this extent.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Speaking of G1, I got G1 Doublecross today and contrary to Chromedome and Crosshair, the G1 original not only hold up tday, but is WAY superior to TR Twinferno. Hands down.
Flashwave wrote:I don't get what makes this set so hot? Nautica? Fastlane? Are there that many people in love with Quickswitch?
-Kanrabat- wrote:Odd to see so much people exited over a thing I don't care about.
Pete Sinclair has adamantly objected to the notion of comparing the two TR Collection Packs to the BotCon boxed sets, on account of the BotCon sets at least adhering to a set theme, whereas the two TR sets just seem to lack any real theme.william-james88 wrote:Now you get waht is basically a botcon set for $100.
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.'
Sabrblade wrote:Pete Sinclair has adamantly objected to the notion of comparing the two TR Collection Packs to the BotCon boxed sets, on account of the BotCon sets at least adhering to a set theme, whereas the two TR sets just seem to lack any real theme.william-james88 wrote:Now you get waht is basically a botcon set for $100.
Albatross250 wrote:
Laser Prime's Jet mode is Ok (At least he got a neat base mode from Black Convoy thanks to )
(Image of TFW2005)
Quickswitch is..... urgh.. i can't say it, it's too awful.
Well, he was one of the guys who helped put together every Fun Pub BotCon boxed set. He more than kinda knows things like that pretty well.Va'al wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Pete Sinclair has adamantly objected to the notion of comparing the two TR Collection Packs to the BotCon boxed sets, on account of the BotCon sets at least adhering to a set theme, whereas the two TR sets just seem to lack any real theme.william-james88 wrote:Now you get waht is basically a botcon set for $100.
Sucks that it's not up to him, then.
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.'
Sabrblade wrote:Well, he was one of the guys who helped put together every Fun Pub BotCon boxed set. He more than kinda knows things like that pretty well.Va'al wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Pete Sinclair has adamantly objected to the notion of comparing the two TR Collection Packs to the BotCon boxed sets, on account of the BotCon sets at least adhering to a set theme, whereas the two TR sets just seem to lack any real theme.william-james88 wrote:Now you get waht is basically a botcon set for $100.
Sucks that it's not up to him, then.
I think you misunderstand: if someone finds the TR sets to be similar to Botcon sets, they have no reason to care what Pete thinks of it.Sabrblade wrote:Well, he was one of the guys who helped put together every Fun Pub BotCon boxed set. He more than kinda knows things like that pretty well.Va'al wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Pete Sinclair has adamantly objected to the notion of comparing the two TR Collection Packs to the BotCon boxed sets, on account of the BotCon sets at least adhering to a set theme, whereas the two TR sets just seem to lack any real theme.william-james88 wrote:Now you get waht is basically a botcon set for $100.
Sucks that it's not up to him, then.
Sabrblade wrote:Pete Sinclair has adamantly objected to the notion of comparing the two TR Collection Packs to the BotCon boxed sets, on account of the BotCon sets at least adhering to a set theme, whereas the two TR sets just seem to lack any real theme.william-james88 wrote:Now you get waht is basically a botcon set for $100.
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