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-Kanrabat- wrote:I never, ever saw Override in stores, nor Scourge. Same thing on Walmart.ca. Both were instantly sold out before I ever had the chance to preorder.

At least I got Cosmos. The pinned shoulders was a very bad design choice.

I see lots of Scourge and Override in my stores, if you want me to pick it up for you, let me know

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I never, ever saw Override in stores, nor Scourge. Same thing on Walmart.ca. Both were instantly sold out before I ever had the chance to preorder.

At least I got Cosmos. The pinned shoulders was a very bad design choice.

I see lots of Scourge and Override in my stores, if you want me to pick it up for you, let me know

Thanks!
Sending a PM.

No having to suffer through any shipping fees is a boon.

Amazing how they pretty much made all the transformers look bad in this image.

I'm actually surprised they figured out what to do with Hauler's gun hand and then somehow stuck his regular gun to the side of his arm.

Emerje

Bumblevivisector wrote:

Overcracker wrote:What did they do to Override? My god... can nobody rotate her shoulders up?

And Road rocket? Have they never seen a motorcycle before?

Talk about absurdity....

It's like he's popping a wheelie away from his wheels.

Cosmos looks like he's running off to find RTS Windcharger in that 5 below ad a decade ago.

Look at the Disc Weapon from Road Rocket, I *think* they were trying to make it look like he launched it like a catapult, whixh wouldn't make much sense for a Disc weapon except thats how the Rotor Force weapons were launched in G2. It just looks bad without and contextualizing.

Override is just melting it looks like.

Emerje wrote:I'm actually surprised they figured out what to do with Hauler's gun hand and then somehow stuck his regular gun to the side of his arm.

Emerje

I do the same. It looks nice and it's a way to have an "overkill" bot.

Wait... Now that I've properly seen the picture, WTF am I looking at?

What I do is both hands tuck away, claw on the right, nozzle on the left, and the gun use the side-peg and plug on the left forearm along the nozzle.
What the photographer did here is a mess.

Also, poor Override, not even bothering finishing transforming him.

Its like the motorcycle mode is lifting a metallic cheek to fart on the Batmobile....

Well it ain't just Canada. Cosmos isn't anywhere near my realm either.

Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.

I'll wait for those. Got Minerva, though!

sol magnus wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.

I'll wait for those. Got Minerva, though!

Congrats on that one

william-james88 wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.

I'll wait for those. Got Minerva, though!

Congrats on that one

Yeah, I didn't want to play the waiting game with Walgreens, so she was the priority. Crasher is a must-get, but can wait - still not even sure what I want to do about Shadowstrip.

Snapped up Crasher and Shadowstrip yesterday at K-Mart, hopefully can bust them out this weekend. Never got the Mirage mold so Crasher is a new mold for me.

sol magnus wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.

I'll wait for those. Got Minerva, though!

Same!

Burn wrote:Snapped up Crasher and Shadowstrip yesterday at K-Mart, hopefully can bust them out this weekend. Never got the Mirage mold so Crasher is a new mold for me.

I sold my Kingdom Mirage, so Crasher will be the only version of that particular mold I will have too. She'll go well with Road Ranger and Bug Bite I think

After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.

Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.

-Kanrabat- wrote:After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.

Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.

But Override is the same height as Siege Springer and Earthrise Grapple.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.

Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.

But Override is the same height as Siege Springer and Earthrise Grapple.

Well, maybe in height, but it just doesn't feel like a voyager at all.

After playing with my Wrecker Springer, that one feels like a voyager for it's mass and parts count. But Override barely feels like an old school deluxe.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.

Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.

But Override is the same height as Siege Springer and Earthrise Grapple.

Well, maybe in height, but it just doesn't feel like a voyager at all.

After playing with my Wrecker Springer, that one feels like a voyager for it's mass and parts count. But Override barely feels like an old school deluxe.

Ironic that you word it that way, since Deluxes were huge back in the original Cybertron line, and this new Override is also the same height as the original.

Everything has shrunk since 2005/2006, yet Override being a Voyager restores the character to its original toy's size.

Sabrblade wrote:[
Everything has shrunk since 2005/2006, yet Override being a Voyager restores the character to its original toy's size.

Well, that's exactly my point.
Back in the days when I was first collecting (12 years ago!), deluxes were 15$CAN.
Now the "same" deluxe is 45$CAN.

That's basically a price increase of over 200%.

Wait a minute, I thought size wasn't a factor in scaling but the complexity in engineering? At least that's the argument I kept hearing to explain why a smaller bot was in a higher price point.

Till-all-R1 wrote:Wait a minute, I thought size wasn't a factor in scaling but the complexity in engineering? At least that's the argument I kept hearing to explain why a smaller bot was in a higher price point.

It's a combination of those two plus parts count. Some figures have mixes of all three, some skew towards one direction specifically, which is how you have "normal sized Voyagers" in the same price point as figures like SS86 Hot Rod, Kingdom Primal, etc.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.

Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.

But Override is the same height as Siege Springer and Earthrise Grapple.

Well, maybe in height, but it just doesn't feel like a voyager at all.

After playing with my Wrecker Springer, that one feels like a voyager for it's mass and parts count. But Override barely feels like an old school deluxe.

I'm assuming some of the price is also to account for the fact that Takara pulled an entirely new mold out of their ass using the budget of a retool.

Nemesis Primal wrote: I'm assuming some of the price is also to account for the fact that Takara pulled an entirely new mold out of their ass using the budget of a retool.

That's kinda like most of these Crossover toys, but without the extra layer of another IP's licence. Not as egregious a these, but a bit infuriating nonetheless.

My local walvart had a couple Overrides the other day and I alllllmost grabbed one, just out of shear nostalgia for Cybertron/Galaxy Force, even tho I never had her myself And still no sign of Scourge damnit !

So I got Shadowstrip and Crasher in from Pulse.

Shadowstrip is real nice in terms of paint, and I like the mold a lot, so I think he will remain as an individual. I am not really inclined to get any other G2 Stunticons unless they do Breakdown. I will say his waist will not secure properly though, so his 2 halves don't like to stay together. But he's nice, but not as tight quality wise as the G1 colored one.

As for Crasher, she is a mixed bag. She is nicely painted, but her alt mode is sort of torqued so she won't set on all 4 wheels, and her feet have an issue somewhere, the front of the racecar mode will not let her feet rest flat. She isn't bad, but I am not a fan of the Kingdom Mirage mold, and she did little to change my mind.

So I want to see the Bigfoot of this line so I can say, "yeah I seen it" and I'm talking about the sought after Cosmos figure. Who said "to hell with this" and broke down buying him else where and perhaps spending extra...? Luckily for me this figure was a total pass for me but do you continue to hold out until sighted on the pegs?