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JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
I did spot Sky Shadow at a Target today, looks good. I passed on him.

Heartless monster! One of the best TR figures solely due to the variety!

Terrsolpix wrote:

bodrock wrote:Nice Godmaster Engines, Overlord.

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Not to burst your bubble, but sixshot came out a wave before him..........

You're absolutely right - I picked him up as well! But 'Shadow here is such an awesome incarnation of the character....TR Sixshot is cool, but there are some aspects I prefer from his initial release. Like having a cooler creature-head, tighter joints, bigger guns.....the TR version is more poseable, no doubt, but didn't differentiate/update itself enough, imho.
Still cool, but I absolutely love the Shadow.

bodrock wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:

bodrock wrote:Nice Godmaster Engines, Overlord.

Not to burst your bubble, but sixshot came out a wave before him..........

You're absolutely right - I picked him up as well! But 'Shadow here is such an awesome incarnation of the character....TR Sixshot is cool, but there are some aspects I prefer from his initial release. Like having a cooler creature-head, tighter joints, bigger guns.....the TR version is more poseable, no doubt, but didn't differentiate/update itself enough, imho.

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Still cool, but I absolutely love the Shadow.

I did have a question about Sixshot. I saw him too, didn't get him either, but that was due to the common issue of the weak knees. Since he seems to ship with Sky Shadow now, any reports on some fixins with the later release?

Rated X wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Hopefully this is a bellwether for Eject and blue Frumble to be in a similar two pack.

In all honesty I truly believe the release of Ramhorn as a titan is a clear indication Hasbro deemed the data pads a failure and moved on. Partially because Blaster/Soundwave were the wrong scale and got a lot of hate. Partially because the laserbeak and Ravage molds really sucked. I would also like to see the repaints, but I really yearn for a voyager G1 soundwave with smaller cassettes that scale better and look good. The rumble version of the rewind mold also lacks the signature dual guns mounted on his back which for me makes the character.

Ramhorn may simply be down to them deciding to do Shuffler and Ramhorn is a suitable pre-mould for that design.

The obvious one to include in a gift set would be a Steeljaw & Eject (now Steeljaw has long gone from RID they have no excuse not too) and Frenzy. though even with existing moulds there is plenty of more potential ones to do.

I'd really like a repaint of Blaster and Soundwave and I think a Datapad of the various Dinosaurs, the combining Cassettes in Datapad form and the like of Ratbat would be great. It's a play pattern I enjoy.

I do think the distribution of TR Legends has been diabolically bad though - I've barely seen them - it was a sheer fluke that I have a Rumble/Laserbeak/Ravage at all - and if it wasn't for stumbling across them in a independent toystore I'd likely not have them at all.

Hasbro REALLY needs to address the poor quality of their stickers - they either need to use better sticker stock - or stop using them completely - you do not pay $100+ for something like Trypticon and get substandard stickers on it.

Oh and i'd still rather like a Flywheels coloured repaint of Blitzwing too.

I do understand why Hasbro may feel burned on something like the CW seekers and so don't want to make more of them - but I think the only reason they can't sell tons more of them is the over-pricing issue.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

bodrock wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:

bodrock wrote:Nice Godmaster Engines, Overlord.

Not to burst your bubble, but sixshot came out a wave before him..........

You're absolutely right - I picked him up as well! But 'Shadow here is such an awesome incarnation of the character....TR Sixshot is cool, but there are some aspects I prefer from his initial release. Like having a cooler creature-head, tighter joints, bigger guns.....the TR version is more poseable, no doubt, but didn't differentiate/update itself enough, imho.

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Still cool, but I absolutely love the Shadow.

I did have a question about Sixshot. I saw him too, didn't get him either, but that was due to the common issue of the weak knees. Since he seems to ship with Sky Shadow now, any reports on some fixins with the later release?

I'm curious about the newer batch as well, JelZe -- the first wave of Sixshot didn't give me too much weakness in the knees, but the original ratcheted and clicked into positions. Sure, the original was also a brick...but that's vintage G1 for ya!

RAR wrote:Hasbro REALLY needs to address the poor quality of their stickers - they either need to use better sticker stock - or stop using them completely - you do not pay $100+ for something like Trypticon and get substandard stickers on it.

Honestly, the user-applied stickers in this line have been pretty good so far - difficulty of actually applying them aside. My Fort Max's stickers are still basically flawless and Trypticon's were good, for the time I had him (haven't applied the stickers on my new one yet). I do totally agree that Hasbro needs to reconsider their factory-applied-stickers direction, it's just not working for them at all. I can't imagine it'd be saving them that much money over tampographs...

Overlord looks great, but...I dunno. I haven't read IDW or watched Masterforce, so I have very little attachment to the character, and the Black Shadow version of the mold looks better. Eh. If I feel a strong desire for an Overlord I think I'll save my money for a Carnifex.

Good to see the clones getting finished, though I wish the other two weren't confined to a pair of expensive boxsets filled with figures I don't want. I'm not sure I care enough about the clones to want to get them either.

Black Hat wrote:Overlord looks great, but...I dunno. I haven't read IDW or watched Masterforce, so I have very little attachment to the character, and the Black Shadow version of the mold looks better..

On my side I'm completely torn.
I prefer overlord's plane mode over Blackshadow
But I prefer Blackshadow Robot mode over overlord.

I'm lost. At this point I hope for another repaint..

ExciKaiser wrote:

Black Hat wrote:Overlord looks great, but...I dunno. I haven't read IDW or watched Masterforce, so I have very little attachment to the character, and the Black Shadow version of the mold looks better..

On my side I'm completely torn.
I prefer overlord's plane mode over Blackshadow
But I prefer Blackshadow Robot mode over overlord.

I'm lost. At this point I hope for another repaint..

I wish we'd get a Thunderwing retool, given that A: Gen Thunderwing is tiny and B: Black Shadow was a redeco/slight retool of Thunderwing anyway.

I'm glad that Weirdwolf/Wolfwire is getting a reissue, he's annoyingly uncommon and pricy on evilBay compared to other Titans Return deluxes and despite the cockpit issue I really want him because wolves are cool (on a related note, I love that TR Sixshot has a better-sculpted wolf head).

bodrock, A. it's a good thing that TR Sixshot isn't differentiated much and B. Most first-release samples of him may have kinda loose joints, but it's not enough to make him unstable and his knees are a lot less likely to break on you than the knee springs in the vintage figure (speaking from experience). Also, you like the original Sixshot toy's guns better? Then you should be able to lend them to the Titans Return figure.

Overlord is looking good, it's just a pity his rifle isn't a missile-launching one like the original toy's. Well, that and that he's just a Leader and not a Supreme (which I think would reflect his Masterforce size better) but oh well.

So, you know how I asked a few days ago if TR Wheelie could wield the Generations Deluxe Wheelie's slingshot? Funnily enough, looking at his card art... His slingshot as drawn there looks somewhat similar to the version that came with the Deluxe.

Regarding people saying the datapad TFs are failures.. While they're probably wrong about Ramhorn being a Titan Master because of that (obvious Shuffler pretool is obvious), they may still have a point. Lasrbeak and Rewind certainly seem to be shelfwarmers at the Targets I've been to (and at Toys R Us too), and Blaster (one of the toys they're meant to go with) also seems to be a shelfwarmer.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I'm glad that Weirdwolf/Wolfwire is getting a reissue, he's annoyingly uncommon and pricy on evilBay compared to other Titans Return deluxes and despite the cockpit issue I really want him because wolves are cool.

The Ebay prices are not that dramatic. But eh, shipping always make it a raw deal.
Wolfwire did wow me. So much that I bought a Reprolabel set for him and with that, he's even more amazing.

also, the ones who break the cockpit door must have done it on purpose by forcing it the wrong way or something. I transformed mine several times and I never felt the thing was fragile at all.

-Kanrabat- wrote:also, the ones who break the cockpit door must have done it on purpose by forcing it the wrong way or something. I transformed mine several times and I never felt the thing was fragile at all.

Mine broke, so I can say from experience...sure, it doesn't feel fragile, and to be honest, I feel like it doesn't break...I think it just falls apart or something like that. When it broke, I didn't feel it. I couldn't even tell, I just happened to look at the hinges and 'oh scrap, they broke, when did that happen'.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:also, the ones who break the cockpit door must have done it on purpose by forcing it the wrong way or something. I transformed mine several times and I never felt the thing was fragile at all.

Mine broke, so I can say from experience...sure, it doesn't feel fragile, and to be honest, I feel like it doesn't break...I think it just falls apart or something like that. When it broke, I didn't feel it. I couldn't even tell, I just happened to look at the hinges and 'oh scrap, they broke, when did that happen'.

Ugh...
Either a production run fault, or if one mistransform him at a precise step, it's pretty unforgiving.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As someone else whose cockpit hinge broke, I can safely say from experience that it doesn't really hurt the enjoyment of the toy for me at all. Oh sure, it sucks, and Hasbro really need to get their QC in order; but it's something I can easily ignore funnily enough and it's not like it explodes out every two seconds. Wolf mode still works fantastically, Robot mode is still surprisingly awesome, transformation... it's a little disheartening with the broken hinge, but it's no big deal.

Here's something I think would be cool, though we probably won't see it. A small Titan Master with a body tooling-cloned from the Diac/Murk mold, ideally sold in random colors in blind-bags but as a regular Titan Master with a vehicle would work too. I think that would be perfect for buying as crew-filler

Man Overlord looks boring and makes me mad. Carnifex all the way. Misfire is looking pink again but hopefully it'll be fine in hand. I'm glad Wolfwire is getting a rerelease, never got around to getting him and people say he's great, he's the only top-tier deluxe I don't have that's already been released. And if he has a fixed cockpit that's a nice bonus.

I usually wait for the versions of figures, but this offering doesn't look half bad. I may consider picking up both. This collecting hobby sure is making me broke!

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:bodrock, A. it's a good thing that TR Sixshot isn't differentiated much and B. Most first-release samples of him may have kinda loose joints, but it's not enough to make him unstable and his knees are a lot less likely to break on you than the knee springs in the vintage figure (speaking from experience). Also, you like the original Sixshot toy's guns better? Then you should be able to lend them to the Titans Return figure.

I hear ya, Zelda -- I totally gave TR 6S his G1 original's guns. And I do like the figure -- I just can't put my finger on why I didn't dig him more.

heh, The original was super-tight, and I'm lucky he hasn't snapped in half yet due to that fact. I'm sure it's pure nostalgia to blame for my preference.

SureShot18 wrote:Man Overlord looks boring and makes me mad. Carnifex all the way.

Are you kidding? Carnifex is ugly. If you're going to insist on third party, wait until one of the outfits with an actual grasp on aesthetics makes a Fauxverlord.

What exactly makes Overlord look "boring" to you anyway?

Fore some reason Overlord's Feet look weird to me compared to the original overlord and the previous use of the mould.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:Man Overlord looks boring and makes me mad. Carnifex all the way.

Are you kidding? Carnifex is ugly.

This is a joke, right? Carnifex is gorgeous. Granted he's based on the IDW design rather than the Masterforce anime design, but he captures the design absolutely perfectly, so if you find him ugly the fault lies at IDW, not MMC. Plus, from everything I've seen he's an absolutely stellar figure- super poseable, nicely painted and wonderfully built.

He looks better with the upgrade kit - I don't much like the use of the same part upside down when they have not bothered to make a left & right part on such an expensive toy that is a bit lame.
He is better with the upgrade though adding the Powermasters helps I feel.

Speaking of which I would like it if something in the 2018 line was a retrospective use for the Hasbro Overlord's chest if any of the replacements for Titanmasters are suitable to do that.

I don't think anyone thought to include a suitable mini-vehicle though like the one G1 had one.

I doubt very much Overlord will be easy to get in the UK though but the Hasbro one is of reasonable interest to me - I'm glad that they remoulded it as much as they did.

One thing is sure, I'll get that Overlord when he'll come out. As for the "head-tits", just turn the head around and there you go, suitable engine blocks!

So guys, what Titan Masters would be the most suitable to play the roles of the two "engine guys"?







Ideally, the faces could resemble the humans, one that would look female.

Unless I say "screw it" and go full custom.

-Kanrabat- wrote:One thing is sure, I'll get that Overlord when he'll come out. As for the "head-tits", just turn the head around and there you go, suitable engine blocks!

So guys, what Titan Masters would be the most suitable to play the roles of the two "engine guys"?

Dreadnaught and Ominus are already sculpted to resemble Giga and Mega.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:One thing is sure, I'll get that Overlord when he'll come out. As for the "head-tits", just turn the head around and there you go, suitable engine blocks!

So guys, what Titan Masters would be the most suitable to play the roles of the two "engine guys"?

Dreadnaught and Ominus are already sculpted to resemble Giga and Mega.

So Overlord come with these two then?

So, how about Overlord's head? Is it still Titan Master compatible but the "helmet" come with a full face so that both TM can plug into the chest while overlord can still have a full head and a face without a TM?