frogbat wrote:still waiting on star scream to come my way.
These select figures are the same price as the standard voyagers right (besides those packaged with extras)? Just exclusive to some retailers?
Alas I'm penny pinching with this line even though I'm loving it, the repaints will be minimal in my collection. If these were deluxe...
william-james88 wrote:Yup, same price just exclusive to some retailers. And none of the selects come packaged with extras.
MeGrimlock78 wrote:Are we sure this IS Redwing? Everest also has Selects Megatron and Ricochet listed, but no Swoop. Red Swoop isn't far off from Red Wing, and the listing desciptions are close:
Transformers - Generations Selects Ricochet (24) *New/F19*
Transformers - Generations Selects Redwing (24) *New/F19*
True, the Megatron listing is also the same format...just find it really odd Swoop isn't listed...
frogbat wrote:william-james88 wrote:Yup, same price just exclusive to some retailers. And none of the selects come packaged with extras.
Cheers was thinking of the new Skywarp battle pack set - for some reason thought it fell in with the select imprint.
Black Hat wrote:I might actually buy this. I want my "important" Seekers to be Earth jets but I do want a version of this mold- an expendable "literally who?" generic seems the perfect candidate. Plus those colours are tasty.
Wolfman Jake wrote:Black Hat wrote:I might actually buy this. I want my "important" Seekers to be Earth jets but I do want a version of this mold- an expendable "literally who?" generic seems the perfect candidate. Plus those colours are tasty.
The great thing about using the Siege Seeker mold for the likes of Sunstorm, Bitstream, Hotlink, Nacelle, Acid Storm, Nova Storm, or Ion Storm, is that they have only been seen in the original cartoon on Cybertron, so it makes perfect sense for them to have their tetra jet alt modes. Somewhere down the line, we may get another redo of the Starscream, Thundercarcker, and Skywarp trio as Earth-based jets again, but we won't have to have those molds repainted a dozen times over if they stick with the Siege tetra jets for those "Cybertron only" characters instead.
SGMLordMirage wrote:In regards to Transformers Generation Select Ricohet (Stepper), mine will arrive next Tuesday. Just curious to see by any chance has anyone received theirs?
SGM
carytheone wrote:Because BBTS had bad gotta ship it now and your **** is in stock timing, I don't have Ricochet yet.Wolfman Jake wrote:Do you have access to a sensitive enough scale to see if this is actually the case? Some pictures of the figures on a scale with the readout visible would help. I'm curious if these were actually made with lighter/less dense plastics. Going by "hand feel" to estimate and compare weight is notoriously difficult, and your perception may very well be influenced by disappointment.o.supreme wrote:However When holding both Ricochet & Jazz in hand, there is a noticeable weight difference.
PotP Jazz nekked is 84g or exactly 3oz
With the combiner hand and pistol - 97g / 3.4oz
food scale if you're curious
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
Agamemnon wrote:carytheone wrote:Because BBTS had bad gotta ship it now and your **** is in stock timing, I don't have Ricochet yet.Wolfman Jake wrote:Do you have access to a sensitive enough scale to see if this is actually the case? Some pictures of the figures on a scale with the readout visible would help. I'm curious if these were actually made with lighter/less dense plastics. Going by "hand feel" to estimate and compare weight is notoriously difficult, and your perception may very well be influenced by disappointment.o.supreme wrote:However When holding both Ricochet & Jazz in hand, there is a noticeable weight difference.
PotP Jazz nekked is 84g or exactly 3oz
With the combiner hand and pistol - 97g / 3.4oz
food scale if you're curious
This is what I got with my scale. (I used this scale to help my son prep for the Pinewood Derby, so it should be fairly calibrated.) PotP Optimal Optimus is overseeing my accuracy, so you can trust it!
If too small to read, this is 97g with combiner hand and pistol (good to see this agrees with cary)
99g with combiner hand and pistol
Sentinel_Primal wrote:I find it odd that Ricochet weighs more than Jazz Could it be something to do with plastic colors?
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
SGMLordMirage wrote:@kev777, what is your thoughts on it?
o.supreme wrote:Agamemnon - Thanks for the pics. This does have me bewildered, but I appreciate the effort. Could you by chance weigh them both again (PotP Jazz & Ricochet) without their Prime Armor & weapon? No pics necessary, I trust you... . Perhaps it just seems they are made of flimsier plastic, which is giving me the illusion of being lighter?
At any rate, this is not my first experience with this. I was also really into Transformers Kreon minifigs, I pretty much got them all (except for Warriors series 3 and a few exclusives only released in Asian markets). But I did notice some of the late-run figs that didn't get released in the U.S. (or at the very least showed up at Places like Marshalls & TJ Maxx), were made of flimsier plastic.
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
Agamemnon wrote:o.supreme wrote:Agamemnon - Thanks for the pics. This does have me bewildered, but I appreciate the effort. Could you by chance weigh them both again (PotP Jazz & Ricochet) without their Prime Armor & weapon? No pics necessary, I trust you... . Perhaps it just seems they are made of flimsier plastic, which is giving me the illusion of being lighter?
At any rate, this is not my first experience with this. I was also really into Transformers Kreon minifigs, I pretty much got them all (except for Warriors series 3 and a few exclusives only released in Asian markets). But I did notice some of the late-run figs that didn't get released in the U.S. (or at the very least showed up at Places like Marshalls & TJ Maxx), were made of flimsier plastic.
Sure!
Jazz 83g
Ricochet 84g
(And I did confirm that the HFGs are 1 gram apart, accounting for the other gram of difference.)
Wolfman Jake wrote:Agamemnon wrote:o.supreme wrote:Agamemnon - Thanks for the pics. This does have me bewildered, but I appreciate the effort. Could you by chance weigh them both again (PotP Jazz & Ricochet) without their Prime Armor & weapon? No pics necessary, I trust you... . Perhaps it just seems they are made of flimsier plastic, which is giving me the illusion of being lighter?
At any rate, this is not my first experience with this. I was also really into Transformers Kreon minifigs, I pretty much got them all (except for Warriors series 3 and a few exclusives only released in Asian markets). But I did notice some of the late-run figs that didn't get released in the U.S. (or at the very least showed up at Places like Marshalls & TJ Maxx), were made of flimsier plastic.
Sure!
Jazz 83g
Ricochet 84g
(And I did confirm that the HFGs are 1 gram apart, accounting for the other gram of difference.)
So, the Prime Armors are actually sturdier/more massive plastic pieces now? That's unexpected, lol!
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
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