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bodrock wrote:
I hear that! I'm gonna at least try to buy Chaos on Velocitron for MSRP first.

I think once they start showing up in more places it will be easier to find at retail. Plus supply = demand so therefore the price on ebay should go down.

Though if you have to have this set sites like BBTS may have preorders.

So I picked up tr sounbdwave last week, and the gold paint on his chest is already rubbing off, think this qualifies as a new low for quality, alongside those atrocious stickers

Try no to eat take out food while playing with your toys then.

RAR wrote:Try no to eat take out food while playing with your toys then.

I haven't - I don't eat out, simple friction is enough to strip the paint

Hellscream9999 wrote:So I picked up tr sounbdwave last week, and the gold paint on his chest is already rubbing off, think this qualifies as a new low for quality, alongside those atrocious stickers

Oh dear. That's...abysmal.

Black Hat wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:So I picked up tr sounbdwave last week, and the gold paint on his chest is already rubbing off, think this qualifies as a new low for quality, alongside those atrocious stickers

Oh dear. That's...abysmal.

I think it just didn't bond to the paint that it was painted onto, as the part is molded out of clear plastic, just sucks

Yeah, the paint rubs off on that part, its too bad. I only noticed later Still a nice toy though.

Oh and look at what I found at walmart today



I got Kup, quake and Krok. While I dont like the deco on kup and dont feel it looks like how I imagine Kup to be, as a TF toy it is amazing! Just not for the character I am thinking of. But damn, that is an amazing mold. Limited hollowness, nice and chunky and probably the best transformation so far in the line. I really love how the wheels transform into the feet, it is MP-esque. Might have to revise a top 5 list of mine. And while I dont like the deco, I must admit that they gave us a good amount of paint this time. The fully painted rims was a very nice touch.

william-james88 wrote:I got Kup, quake and Krok. While I dont like the deco on kup and dont feel it looks like how I imagine Kup to be, as a TF toy it is amazing! Just not for the character I am thinking of. But damn, that is an amazing mold. Limited hollowness, nice and chunky and probably the best transformation so far in the line. I really love how the wheels transform into the feet, it is MP-esque. Might have to revise a top 5 list of mine. And while I dont like the deco, I must admit that they gave us a good amount of paint this time. The fully painted rims was a very nice touch.

I love Kup as well. The way the legs are basically all panels folded together is really awesome. Hell, everything except the head and arms are basically folded panels, yet feel really solid when playing and posing in both modes. This is a really well designed TF.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I got Kup, quake and Krok. While I dont like the deco on kup and dont feel it looks like how I imagine Kup to be, as a TF toy it is amazing! Just not for the character I am thinking of. But damn, that is an amazing mold. Limited hollowness, nice and chunky and probably the best transformation so far in the line. I really love how the wheels transform into the feet, it is MP-esque. Might have to revise a top 5 list of mine. And while I dont like the deco, I must admit that they gave us a good amount of paint this time. The fully painted rims was a very nice touch.

I love Kup as well. The way the legs are basically all panels folded together is really awesome. Hell, everything except the head and arms are basically folded panels, yet feel really solid when playing and posing in both modes. This is a really well designed TF.

yeah super well designed. Kudos to them.

Got a question for you, do you have trouble pegging in the titan mater in the cockpit? It seems that hole they give you is too small, he always pops out.

william-james88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I got Kup, quake and Krok. While I dont like the deco on kup and dont feel it looks like how I imagine Kup to be, as a TF toy it is amazing! Just not for the character I am thinking of. But damn, that is an amazing mold. Limited hollowness, nice and chunky and probably the best transformation so far in the line. I really love how the wheels transform into the feet, it is MP-esque. Might have to revise a top 5 list of mine. And while I dont like the deco, I must admit that they gave us a good amount of paint this time. The fully painted rims was a very nice touch.

I love Kup as well. The way the legs are basically all panels folded together is really awesome. Hell, everything except the head and arms are basically folded panels, yet feel really solid when playing and posing in both modes. This is a really well designed TF.

yeah super well designed. Kudos to them.

Got a question for you, do you have trouble pegging in the titan mater in the cockpit? It seems that hole they give you is too small, he always pops out.

Yeah, I think it may be a little too small. My fat fingers can never seem to get in there enough to get it to peg in the first place, so he just kind of flops around in the cab.

william-james88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I got Kup, quake and Krok. While I dont like the deco on kup and dont feel it looks like how I imagine Kup to be, as a TF toy it is amazing! Just not for the character I am thinking of. But damn, that is an amazing mold. Limited hollowness, nice and chunky and probably the best transformation so far in the line. I really love how the wheels transform into the feet, it is MP-esque. Might have to revise a top 5 list of mine. And while I dont like the deco, I must admit that they gave us a good amount of paint this time. The fully painted rims was a very nice touch.

I love Kup as well. The way the legs are basically all panels folded together is really awesome. Hell, everything except the head and arms are basically folded panels, yet feel really solid when playing and posing in both modes. This is a really well designed TF.

yeah super well designed. Kudos to them.

Got a question for you, do you have trouble pegging in the titan mater in the cockpit? It seems that hole they give you is too small, he always pops out.

I have trouble with all of my tm's fitting onto the pegs given to you on various figures, they just aren't measured to fit, it's not in any way standard, as it was supposed to be, hasbro qc strikes once again

Hellscream9999 wrote:So I picked up tr sounbdwave last week, and the gold paint on his chest is already rubbing off, think this qualifies as a new low for quality, alongside those atrocious stickers

It happened to mine also. I was pretty bummed. I had already committed to getting the Repros set, and it comes with new metallic pin striping, so that fixes it.
But we shouldn't have to fix anything!

Nice score Will!

Hellscream9999 wrote:hasbro qc strikes once again

Like TakaraTomy is without problems

And I really need the designers to write down their inspirations for the Titan Masters. I don't know who Sawback/Lione is based, but his fellow Japanese Headmaster Shuffler is based on a Battle Beast like Twinferno's Daburu! In his case, he's based on Sledgehammer Elephant aka Elephan.

And why haven't I found him yet? Is he only at Target?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:hasbro qc strikes once again

Like TakaraTomy is without problems

And I really need the designers to write down their inspirations for the Titan Masters. I don't know who Sawback/Lione is based, but his fellow Japanese Headmaster Shuffler is based on a Battle Beast like Twinferno's Daburu! In his case, he's based on Sledgehammer Elephant aka Elephan.

And why haven't I found him yet? Is he only at Target?

I haven't seen a single guy from Wave 4 yet so maybe you are in my boat

william-james88 wrote:Yeah, the paint rubs off on that part, its too bad. I only noticed later Still a nice toy though.

Oh and look at what I found at walmart today

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I got Kup, quake and Krok. While I dont like the deco on kup and dont feel it looks like how I imagine Kup to be, as a TF toy it is amazing! Just not for the character I am thinking of. But damn, that is an amazing mold. Limited hollowness, nice and chunky and probably the best transformation so far in the line. I really love how the wheels transform into the feet, it is MP-esque. Might have to revise a top 5 list of mine. And while I dont like the deco, I must admit that they gave us a good amount of paint this time. The fully painted rims was a very nice touch.

While I know Hasbro was going for toy accuracy with their Kup deco, it actually ends up looking a lot like Kup's Marvel Comics deco.

That's good enough for me.

Sigma Magnus wrote:Soon...

... Brainstorm will arrive?

Cobotron wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Soon...

... Brainstorm will arrive?

Sigma Magnus wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Soon...

... Brainstorm will arrive?

A...are you planning to murder Brainstorm?

Diem wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Soon...

... Brainstorm will arrive?

A...are you planning to murder Brainstorm?

No, no! I was gonna do that to the Voyager I did have the Voyager, but I traded him with a friend for a BH Shockwave. Wanted to get rid of him anyway for the Walgreens Deluxe, so...

So this seems pretty awesome. Anyone able to test this out?

Oh man, I am loving the transformation for KUP. I am looking forward to a redeco because I dont think it makes for a great kup to be honest and needs a better deco to become truly stellar.
Just curious, is it better than Gen Kup for a Season 3 display?








Love the weapon storage in bot mode



And the vehicle mode can acomodate many tian masters. I am also glad I got it figured out for the titan master to stay attached in the driver's seat









Really glad with my haul of today

Black Shadow is such a Beast!







And I saw that some people didnt know how the weapons could combine. The gun attaches to the very tip of the drone unit. So you can do some cool poses where his hands are still free like this:





Also, it was not necesasry, but its cool that Hasbro applied some extra paint in places, like this dash of extreamly dark green on the tank (its very dark, you might not be able to see it)




The only thing that blows is he has no wrist swivel, which is odd since even deluxe Quake, released int he same wave, has some.



Thats all I have of wave 4 at the moment. Wont pick up Brodside.

I'm torn on how the new Kup looks compared to the older Generations one.

On the one hand, the other Generations mold has the classic G1 robot mode, but with an updated altmode (and the kibble of said updated altmode is also incorporated into the robot mode, slightly reducing the accuracy of the robot mode).

On the other hand, the new mold has the classic G1 altmode, but with an updated robot mode (though, said updated robot mode isn't a purely new design, but is sculpted in reference to Kup's IDW robot mode that he first got in the era of All Hail Megatron and which he has kept in the comics ever since).

william-james88 wrote:Black Shadow is such a Beast!



Thats all I have of wave 4 at the moment. Wont pick up Brodside.

I'm so obscenely jealous of you right now, I cannot wait to get Quake and Sky Shadow