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SillySpringer wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Honestly, while Takara may do their regular awesome job, Trigger, Rod, and Twinsy are all really good to me and I consider them both looks wise to be great representations. Their Hasbro counterparts are a really good effort

Agreed. In fact that's been the case with most of the Hasbro figures in this line besides Galvatron, Megatron, and PM OP's colors.

I much preffer Galvatron's dark purple in his Hasbro release. As for megatron, we have no clue what takara's will look like or if they will even release it and Hasbro's PM OP has perfectly fine colours. The grey plastic they use is cheap looking but Takara's grey plastic looks just as cheap. The one toy which I feel has the biggest difference is Blurr. I do not find him to be decelty painted compared to Takara.

william-james88 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Honestly, while Takara may do their regular awesome job, Trigger, Rod, and Twinsy are all really good to me and I consider them both looks wise to be great representations. Their Hasbro counterparts are a really good effort

Agreed. In fact that's been the case with most of the Hasbro figures in this line besides Galvatron, Megatron, and PM OP's colors.

I much preffer Galvatron's dark purple in his Hasbro release. As for megatron, we have no clue what takara's will look like or if they will even release it and Hasbro's PM OP has perfectly fine colours. The grey plastic they use is cheap looking but Takara's grey plastic looks just as cheap. The one toy which I feel has the biggest difference is Blurr. I do not find him to be decelty painted compared to Takara.

It looks more like a "Stealth Blurr" or something, which actually doesn't sound like that much of a horrible idea now that I think about it...

caryLeRon wrote:all that bs is just for you Cobo

Spewing a lot of BS there LeRon.

I agree though. One isn't necessarily better than the other. The are both great for different reasons. I guess if you could only have one, the choice would be up to the individual.

DeathReviews wrote:I found a BR Brainstorm too - filming the reviews even now

Love and hugs, Death

great death found it before i did

SillySpringer wrote:It looks more like a "Stealth Blurr" or something, which actually doesn't sound like that much of a horrible idea now that I think about it...

Maybe you could get Takara Blurr, put him in a running pose, buy two or three Hasbro Blurrs, and put them in the same pose behind the Takara one, using Hasbro's to represent speed afterimages?

Does anyone know what the release date is for these? I'm just wondering if they will hit the shelves before or after Christmas.

Cobotron wrote:

caryLeRon wrote:all that bs is just for you Cobo

Spewing a lot of BS there LeRon.

I agree though. One isn't necessarily better than the other. The are both great for different reasons. I guess if you could only have one, the choice would be up to the individual.

TR for me because scale with the other Headmasters. I wanna whole team! Highbrow is probably the one I want most because of his personality and lofty genius of his brain module spheres.

Autobot N wrote:That's my mentality. Of course, it needs to resemble the original design (looking at you Movie Hot Rod) slightly.

Hot Rod is not supposed to be a copy and paste of the G1 design (Which lets face it would be outdated for modern standards) he is actually supposed to have a original design.

Titan Prime wrote:Does anyone know what the release date is for these? I'm just wondering if they will hit the shelves before or after Christmas.

I would say somewhere right around Christmas. This wave is supposed to be wave 1 2017, but that wave usually comes just in time for Christmas, or has the past few years

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Titan Prime wrote:Does anyone know what the release date is for these? I'm just wondering if they will hit the shelves before or after Christmas.

I would say somewhere right around Christmas. This wave is supposed to be wave 1 2017, but that wave usually comes just in time for Christmas, or has the past few years

Thanks!

Also there are different purposes for each Brainstorm.

Voyager is for a MTMTE/idw display and for a more IDW lanky look.

Deluxe is for a regular headmaster/g1 display and for a more stocky G1 look.


So William your quote about the Voyager representing him better only applies to those who care about the IDW version because there are quite a few people who like Brainstorm but not IDW.

Titan Prime wrote:Does anyone know what the release date is for these? I'm just wondering if they will hit the shelves before or after Christmas.

Those are 2 different things. The release date isnt equal to the time you will see it on shelves. For example, the release date of Wave 2 was around August 15th but they didnt appear on shelves until later. The release date for wave 3 online should be mid to late november. But that in no way predicts when they will show up on shelves.

If Wave 2 was released mid august and still hasnt hit TRU or Walmart yet (and I believe Soundwave has yet to be found at retail), then I highly doubt we will see wave 3 hit any of those stores before 2017.

DeathReviews wrote:I found a BR Brainstorm too - filming the reviews even now

Love and hugs, Death

Scouting out Pharmacies for a good reaping season again

Deadput wrote:Also there are different purposes for each Brainstorm.

Voyager is for a MTMTE/idw display and for a more IDW lanky look.

Deluxe is for a regular headmaster/g1 display and for a more stocky G1 look.


So William your quote about the Voyager representing him better only applies to those who care about the IDW version because there are quite a few people who like Brainstorm but not IDW.

...like me. I am not a MTMTE fan, and I never will be. I just don't like it. That's my opinion.

On a somewhat related note: One reason I love the Seibertron RP Game is because I can have characters, and build their personalities out myself. I can make them have my own touch. So if Hasbro comes out with a toy version of a character I own in that game (Misfire, Cliffjumper, Rosanna, and four other characters currently) I always jump for joy because I feel as if those characters have a special spot in my heard because I am making those characters come alive in a form of fiction, even if it's fan fiction.

SillySpringer wrote: Highbrow is probably the one I want most because of his personality and lofty genius of his brain module spheres.

why does everybody want highbrow

WHY DOES EVERYBODY WANT HIGHBROW!!

william-james88 wrote:Those are 2 different things. The release date isnt equal to the time you will see it on shelves. For example, the release date of Wave 2 was around August 15th but they didnt appear on shelves until later. The release date for wave 3 online should be mid to late november. But that in no way predicts when they will show up on shelves.

If Wave 2 was released mid august and still hasnt hit TRU or Walmart yet (and I believe Soundwave has yet to be found at retail), then I highly doubt we will see wave 3 hit any of those stores before 2017.

I saw a Soundwave and several wave two figures at my local walmart here in Lethbridge.


That was about a week or so ago and I'm sure all of them are gone now since I did not bother to pick any of them up.

Bumblebee21 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote: Highbrow is probably the one I want most because of his personality and lofty genius of his brain module spheres.

why does everybody want highbrow

WHY DOES EVERYBODY WANT HIGHBROW!!

Probably because he looks damn cool as heck.

Bumblebee21 wrote:WHY DOES EVERYBODY WANT HIGHBROW!!

I'm not collecting any TR deluxes (will probably spend the next year back collecting CW), but oddly enough Highbrow was the one standard Autobot Headmaster I had as a kid back in 1987. Thought it was cool in The Rebirth he turned out to be the "high class" one

Titan Prime wrote:Does anyone know what the release date is for these? I'm just wondering if they will hit the shelves before or after Christmas.

There is no hard and fast date. It depends on how well the stores stock what they have and how fast that stock moves. We know they still have a lot of Wave 1 deluxes in storage, but wave 2 is sold out from Hasbro. Some stores have indicated that they have no wave 2 in storage, so it's probably all at the distribution centers right now. Wave 2 may make its way to shelves for the Christmas rush, and depending on how well that clears out, we will probably see wave 3 around the new year. But there's a lot of unpredictable factors. Just keep your ear to the ground, maybe subscribe to your local sightings thread.

Deadput wrote:So William your quote about the Voyager representing him better only applies to those who care about the IDW version because there are quite a few people who like Brainstorm but not IDW.

Hold on there tiger. All my arguments applied to both the IDW look, the cartoon look and the g1 toy. The cartoon has the cockpit at the back of the ship and 2 tail fins, while the g1 toy had the nosecone folded in the back (so not parts forming), a tech reader that appeared when you plugged in the head and removeable guns from the alt mode for the robot to hold. The thrilling 30 Brainstorm has all of this while the new TR Brainstorm has none of this. The fact that it instead homages G1 Blurr's transformation (with the removeable shield) and not G1 Brainstorm's makes it very easy to see which toy this mold was concieved for initially.

I totally get that people like scale and the blocky nature of the TR toy which reminds them of the G1 toy.
But looking at the facts, the Gen 30 toy homages far more of every single statestide depiction of Brainstorm (g1 toy, IDW comic, G1 cartoon) than the TR one. And thats because unlike this new one, the Thrilling 30 toy was just used for Brainstorm with no other mold use in mind. Hence why any fan of Brainstorm in any of his depictions should also seek out the thrilling 30 toy. Especially in a world
where unique molds are a dieing breed.

Bumblebee21 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote: Highbrow is probably the one I want most because of his personality and lofty genius of his brain module spheres.

why does everybody want highbrow

WHY DOES EVERYBODY WANT HIGHBROW!!

Because his character. If it looked exactly the same but it was in Tomohawk colors or something, I couldn't care less. The toy isn't amazingly complicated, and some may say it's very bland and uninteresting for a TR figure. But as someone who loves Highbrow as a character, and someone who is applying for Highbrow currently in the Seibertron RPG, it's a must have for me! Even with all the other flashy figures, Highbrow is one of my favorite-looking ones because it's Highbrow.

Also, THAT GLORIOUS HEAD-SCULPT! THAT GLORIOUS TITAN MASTER!

Deadput wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote: Highbrow is probably the one I want most because of his personality and lofty genius of his brain module spheres.

why does everybody want highbrow

WHY DOES EVERYBODY WANT HIGHBROW!!

Probably because he looks damn cool as heck.

You're damn right. I only hope someone at Shapeways or somewhere will come out with a pair of 3-bladed propellers to replace the ones on the toy.

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Bumblebee21 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote: Highbrow is probably the one I want most because of his personality and lofty genius of his brain module spheres.

why does everybody want highbrow

WHY DOES EVERYBODY WANT HIGHBROW!!

because he's really fun. I like the bot a lot even if his head is loose. Its a cool alt mode and a cool bot mode, I dont know what is not to love.

Deadput wrote:I saw a Soundwave and several wave two figures at my local walmart here in Lethbridge.
That was about a week or so ago and I'm sure all of them are gone now since I did not bother to pick any of them up.

Thanks man, thats good, I guess he was reported then and it means all of wave 2 has been found in the US.

Deadput wrote:

Autobot N wrote:That's my mentality. Of course, it needs to resemble the original design (looking at you Movie Hot Rod) slightly.

Hot Rod is not supposed to be a copy and paste of the G1 design (Which lets face it would be outdated for modern standards) he is actually supposed to have a original design.

Don't care. It looks nothing like Hot Rod, so I wouldn't use it to represent Hot Rod in my collection.

I actually agree with Will on this one.

Thrilling 30 may look very IDW, but he does so much more that references other versions of the character, like the tech specs, the actual look of the alt mode, and the uniqueness of it. It is only Brainstorm and can only ever be Brainstorm.

To me, Thrilling 30 Brainstorm is the better one. That's not to say the Titans Return one is bad, it is a great looking figure. I feel though that Thrilling 30 nailed it a bit more on the head mold wise and homage wise