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Everyone at my office got a nice crisp $100 bill in their holiday card today. I've decided to use mine to buy myself a product that I normally couldn't justify buying. So, which of these would YOU buy if you had $100?

Make Toys Battle Tanker for Classics G2 OP: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... cture=aux2

KM-02 Knight Morpher Annihilator: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail

PE-11 SFX Scouting Force X Camera Set: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail

G1 Masterpiece Skywarp: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail

How about you give it to me and I will decide it for you?

From your list, I will pick PE-11 SFX Scouting Force.

If I get that money, I will put them into my fund for MakeToys Giant.

My vote goes to Battle Tanker.

PE Scouting Force would be my first choice, followed by Battle Tanker.

Skywarp.

I'd go for Knight Annihilator or the PE Scouting Force. Probably the latter since I'm a bit of a camera nut.

Okay, for the things your suggesting

Do you have G2 Prime and do you not care for the way he looks?
Do you really need a SG HOS Prime?
Do you want a set of tiny super accurete figures that turn into an out of scale camera for your other toys?
Do you have the other seekers? I have only Screamer and it irks me to no end that I don't have his team mates

Scouting Force X, easily. Followed by Battle Tanker. Those little guys are one of my most satisfying buys ever. Bear in mind, I have upwards of a thousand figures, TFs and otherwise.

godzillabot wrote:Okay, for the things your suggesting

Do you have G2 Prime and do you not care for the way he looks?

Yes, I do, with the Reprolabels applied. I didn't like him at first but he grew on me. He looks cooler with the Reprolabels, and he's got some of the best articulation ever. He's gonna look pretty badass with those giant cannon arms.

So far, it looks like Scouting Force is winning the race, with Battle Tanker right behind. I think I've eliminated Skywarp from the list.

No one likes the Knight Morpher? It looks like a really cool mold, and I love the all-black paint job. Is it not a good figure?

GuyIncognito wrote:No one likes the Knight Morpher? It looks like a really cool mold, and I love the all-black paint job. Is it not a good figure?

The problem is that there is not a bad item on your list. Knight Morpher is a great figure, you would not be disapointed with him.

GuyIncognito wrote:

godzillabot wrote:Okay, for the things your suggesting

Do you have G2 Prime and do you not care for the way he looks?

Yes, I do, with the Reprolabels applied. I didn't like him at first but he grew on me. He looks cooler with the Reprolabels, and he's got some of the best articulation ever. He's gonna look pretty badass with those giant cannon arms.

No one likes the Knight Morpher? It looks like a really cool mold, and I love the all-black paint job. Is it not a good figure?

I am thinking of getting him myself, if possible, if you perchase it, could you send me PM discribing him?

As for Knighty Knight...It just is there are no other characters that have been released in the same style

I'd go for Tanker. Thing looks pretty bad ass.

HOS in general didn't blow anyone away I think and its upcoming tie in with Infestation 2 is putting a bad taste in my mouth.

I just ordered 2 KO Reflector sets twice the size for half that price including shipping so that price doesn't work at all anymore in my opinion.

Skywarp is Skywarp. If you wanted him, you'd have gotten him.

My order of preference:

1 - Knight Morpher Annihilator
2 - Scouting Force
3 - Battle Tanker
4 - MP Skywarp

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:No one likes the Knight Morpher? It looks like a really cool mold, and I love the all-black paint job. Is it not a good figure?

The problem is that there is not a bad item on your list. Knight Morpher is a great figure, you would not be disapointed with him.

I'd be hard pressed to justify the price of Knight Morpher to anyone unless you're a big Prime or HOS fan. For a first attempt at a full figure, sure it's good. The flaws it has would keep me from giving it both thumbs up though. I was disappointed with him. If the second run fixes the problems in the arms, I'd be more willing to back this one more.

I think KM is a great figure, but I probably wouldn't buy the Annihilator deco, myself. And the leader size of the upcoming Shockwave figure has kinda turned me off the HOS line. But what I really appreciated about KM is how much it pays tribute to G1 Prime. It just feels so much like an updated version of the G1 figure, but in train form. I dunno, I just thought that was really cool.

Skywarp might actually be the best figure on your list to be honest, but with the announcement of the new MP seeker mold, I'd probably hold off and wait for that version if I didn't already have him.

I haven't opened my Tanker set yet as it's supposed to be a Christmas gift so I can't comment much on that yet.

And finally PE-11 is fantastic. If you're a Classics nut, this set is a must. If you're not obsessed with Classics, it's still an impressive set, but it might have the potential to disappoint as the figures are somewhat simplistic, though it does come together quite brilliantly and there are a lot of accessories. Guess it would depend on what does it for you in a figure.

So those are my thoughts. Personally, if I didn't have any of them, I'd probably get PE-11...but I'm a Classics slut. I think MP Skywarp is actually the best of the bunch, but there's likely an even better version of him on its way. KM is great, but I'd get the original deco if I was gonna get him, but he doesn't really go with anything else other than an oversized Shockwave that's bound to be outrageously expensive. And Tanker looks really cool, but it's an upgrade for an awful figure...but that the upgrade might actually make really cool.

Skywarp was in shops on massive discount so I wouldn't bother with that. Other than that, I couldn't say, although maybe I'd lean towards the camera to boost the neo-G1 collection Decepticons.

Thanks, everyone! I think I'm leaning toward Scouting Force after watching a video review. I can see having a lot of fun messing around with those three little dudes and their accessories.

For what it's worth, though, I watched a video review of Annihilator and they said that they fixed most of the problems that the Commander had. They replaced some parts with ABS plastic and improved some joints that were a problem. They also added two sets of train tracks to set the train on, and a large sword that stows inside.