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MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:12 pm

I'm just calling it a t-rex for lack of anything better to call it, that's what it looks the most like. I mean, I often see fans refer to Trypticon as a t-rex even though he has never been officially referred to as one, just to as a dinosaur.

Hasbro and Takara Tomy just don't like to commit to their giant robot-reptile-based alt modes. Except for Overkill, his toy bio refers to him as a t-rex even though he closer resembles a Ceratosaurus with the horn.

You know what? The '80s were a terrible time for dino anatomy, let's just call these guys Theropods and move on.

Emerje

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:28 pm

Emerje wrote:You know what? The '80s were a terrible time for dino anatomy, let's just call these guys Theropods and move on.

Emerje

can we call them Kaijus?

You asked before about mythical animals that look like 80s t-rexes, he certainly does:

But he isnt a T-rex

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:37 pm

Yeah, I never really trusted the G1 box art that much.

william-james88 wrote:can we call them Kaijus?

Not when the plural of "Kaiju" is just "Kaiju".

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:39 pm

By the way, if anyone is wondering why you haven't seen Clobber or Skythread but saw others from that wave, its not because those 2 keep selling out, its because the current titans return wave being stocked by stores is a revision wave that doesnt include them : http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... L973_nyu00

I was wondering if that was the case since my store was packed to the brim with titan masters from wave 1 and 2 but no clobber and now i know why.

Oh and if anyone is stil looking for al the wave 3 titanmasters, they are available online as a set at standard retail price: http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... L97xfkrK00

Wave 4 as well: http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... L97ufkrK00

News Credits: 3 · by **bodrock** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:43 pm

Still no signs of Kup, Topspin or Perceptor yet....I found three different Chromedomes tho! But all had the MTMTE TM. Oh well....

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:44 pm

I consider Godzilla more of a sci-fi monster than a mythical beast. Certainly isn't a dragon.

Emerje

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:51 pm

Emerje wrote:I consider Godzilla more of a sci-fi monster than a mythical beast. Certainly isn't a dragon.

Emerje

Haha, all a matter of perspective. Still a giant fire breathing lizard.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:04 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:I consider Godzilla more of a sci-fi monster than a mythical beast. Certainly isn't a dragon.

Emerje

Haha, all a matter of perspective. Still a giant fire breathing lizard.

So theropods it is.

Emerje

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:26 pm

Emerje wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:I consider Godzilla more of a sci-fi monster than a mythical beast. Certainly isn't a dragon.

Emerje

Haha, all a matter of perspective. Still a giant fire breathing lizard.

So theropods it is.

Emerje

More like "generopod", amirite?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:49 pm

*hears crickets*

And now for something completely different. I just noticed this:

Those are box set Titan Masters Rodimus and Thunderwing, retools of Ptero and Fangry respectively. One can tell by the heads, arms and legs... but the chest is a newly tooled piece, shared between them. That's a first.

News Credits: 102 · by **Qwan** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 12:39 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:*hears crickets*

And now for something completely different. I just noticed this:

Those are box set Titan Masters Rodimus and Thunderwing, retools of Ptero and Fangry respectively. One can tell by the heads, arms and legs... but the chest is a newly tooled piece, shared between them. That's a first.

at this point i don't even know what's real any more

But really, that's interesting - and actually, on further thought, it makes a bit of sense with the facts we already know! We can tell by this point that at the very least a Titan Master's torso seems to be on a parts tree with a few other things (like Chromedome/Blurr's thighs and gun), but that the limbs are perhaps on their own tree (or with minimal other items). Since these Titan Masters are (presumably) being molded without any other pieces or vehicles, then it actually makes sense for Hasbro to create a new parts tree that contains just that one new torso piece - that way there's minimal waste from having to discard any other pieces that would have had to be molded alongside. And since the TM limbs and head seem not to be tied to the torsos or any other parts, and probably function as their own tree already, Hasbro could just pick whichever "set" of extremities they wanted to attach to the new "single-Titan-Master" torso for each one!

Is that making sense to anyone else, or just me? I can't always tell if I'm explaining stuff well :HEADHURTS:

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:04 am

william-james88 wrote:By the way, if anyone is wondering why you haven't seen Clobber or Skythread but saw others from that wave, its not because those 2 keep selling out, its because the current titans return wave being stocked by stores is a revision wave that doesnt include them : http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... L973_nyu00

I was wondering if that was the case since my store was packed to the brim with titan masters from wave 1 and 2 but no clobber and now i know why.

Oh and if anyone is stil looking for al the wave 3 titanmasters, they are available online as a set at standard retail price: http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... L97xfkrK00

Wave 4 as well: http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... L97ufkrK00

Yeah, that's the same situation that we had here in Minnesota many months ago. The proper Wave 2 Titan Master assortment NEVER hit retail here. All we got was the revision case. WTF? Why did we need MORE Nighbeats and Loudmouths after the bounty of Wave 1 figures? Those characters weren't hard to find at all! And now Hasbro is reissuing Nightbeat AGAIN in wave 4!? Where is this perceived demand for Nighbeat's head coming from? Damn it, Hasbro! Reissue Clobber instead! You were on the right track giving Skytread another go in Wave 4, but then you just couldn't stand leaving out Nightbeat for more than 1 wave. Wow.

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:09 am

Wolfman Jake wrote:Yeah, that's the same situation that we had here in Minnesota many months ago. The proper Wave 2 Titan Master assortment NEVER hit retail here. All we got was the revision case. WTF? Why did we need MORE Nighbeats and Loudmouths after the bounty of Wave 1 figures? Those characters weren't hard to find at all. And now Hasbro is reissuing Nightbeat AGAIN in wave 5!? Where is this perceived demand for Nighbeat's head coming from?

Because Nightbeat is really popular thanks to the comics I mean what other reason would there actually be?

Could always be a new Nightbeat head that's a repaint of the Siren head to be comic accurate but doubtful.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:14 am

Emerje wrote:You know what? The '80s were a terrible time for dino anatomy, let's just call these guys Theropods and move on.

Emerje

I'm really, really hoping that when they get around to the Dinobots Grimlock has a slightly more modernised t-rex mode where his tail isn't dragging on the ground, like his FOC counterpart.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:44 am

Haven't all of the modern Grimlock figures that aren't the MP made realistic?

Personally I'd prefer a Grimlock figure that can do both poses. Even Grotusque back in the day could be worked into a semi-official (it was in the catalog) and convincing enough saber-toothed tiger mode.

Emerje

News Credits: 1 · by **Dr Lockdown** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:47 am

Emerje wrote:Haven't all of the modern Grimlock figures that aren't the MP made realistic?

Personally I'd prefer a Grimlock figure that can do both poses. Even Grotusque back in the day could be worked into a semi-official (it was in the catalog) and convincing enough saber-toothed tiger mode.

Emerje

Everything except the Energon one. That thing barely counts as a T-Rex.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:48 am

Emerje wrote:Haven't all of the modern Grimlock figures that aren't the MP made realistic?

Personally I'd prefer a Grimlock figure that can do both poses. Even Grotusque back in the day could be worked into a semi-official (it was in the catalog) and convincing enough saber-toothed tiger mode.

Emerje

They have; but they didn't have the current design team whose ethos is basically "G1 but also they can move their limbs now"

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:54 am

I suppose that is true. I wonder how well balanced Titan Trypticon is when posed that way?

Emerje

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:56 am

There's pica of him from a toy fair posed like that so pretty good I'd say.

News Credits: 11 · by **RAR** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:39 am

Hopefully the Entertainer or TRU-UK will restock Nightbeat as aside from some lucky ASDA's that wave sold out really fast and wasn't restocked over much of the UK. I'm just unlucky enough to live in a dead-zone with few independent toyshops of any quality and I pretty much rely on on-line purchases.

If I can wander off topic for a mo- of a great concern than Titanmaster Nightbeat around here would be the stupid amount of 3-step RID Bumblebees and yet there is another one Hasbro wants to add.

The bizarre thing is that non of the Black Bumblebees are easy to get at all so if they re-issued any of them they'd likely sell - I never even saw a Black Legion Bee in the wild - I had to buy him online and I only saw the Black Warrior and Black 3-step once and twice respectively & The Clash one didn't hang around long.

I was just in a Sainsbury's that is usually pretty good for Transformers and they had had problems with some Combiner Wars Combaticons "Getting in the way" for some time now. They have finally gone - but they didn't do what I anticipated and replace them with Titans Returns Deluxes their product offering is getting to be like one big advert for RID - they don't even sell Rescue Bots anymore - in fact ever store I've checked has sold out completely of Rescue Bots (and at full price too).

Hopefully the likes of Wave 4 Titans Returns will show up online eventually - but preferably not at bonkers insane prices.

News Credits: 27 · by **Albatross250** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:57 am

william-james88 wrote:I think its just a cartoon thing, which is unexpected for hasbro

Man, he was the sh*t :lol:

I just watched Headmasters last month and i remember the voice...... kinda sounds like from N-Gin in the Japanese Crash Bandicoot :APPLAUSE:

Yeaah the Headmaster face suits me :lol:

by **Geminii** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:16 am

Emerje wrote:I mean, I often see fans refer to Trypticon as a t-rex

A T-Rex in bovver boots. Seriously, those are some enormous clompers.

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:31 am

I always thought Trypticon was meant to be inspired by Mechagojira?

As for Snapdragon.... He's not a T-rex. His neck is too long and slim. And his arms are all wrong. And his face. He's not a real animal, he's just some non descript made up reptile beast thing.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:35 am

william-james88 wrote:Just noticed something on fort max. Is there supposed to be a weapon that connects here?

I apologize if this was brought up, as it was just a couple of days ago, but like 30 pages in the forum thread (#hyperbole) and I haven't yet caught up, but I think the calf gun is partially made up of Plex's shoulder gun, hence the connection point not being used.

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Off to catch up on what I hope are more Breakaway puns. Loving this place! ;)^

News Credits: 27 · by **Albatross250** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:49 am

While others talk Snapdragon...
Maybe i'll just wait for Apeface then (Voyager... in case :twisted:

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