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News Credits: 41 · Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:12 pm

Scattershot is a great little toy. Worth having a clean version.
Is that a Separatist Hover Tank Transformer?

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:57 pm

Cobotron wrote:Scattershot is a great little toy. Worth having a clean version.
Is that a Separatist Hover Tank Transformer?

Yup, redeco of this

Star Wars Transformers Battle Droid Commader (Armored Assault Tank) (Battle Droid Commader) Gallery

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:05 pm

Just wanted to see things for myself, if Hot Rodimus really is a good example of mass shifting:

Well I guess he is

Also, there is a story behind this haul:

I dont know power rangers from voltron so I thought the store had 2 components of the original Megazord: triceratops and sabretooth tiger. So I searched throughout the thrist store for the 3 missing animal components, I spent a long time there looking everywhere to no avail. I still buy these two. I then realize that this is not a sabretooth tiger but the yellow lion from one of the multitude of Voltron series. So there wasnt a full Megazord at the thrift store, just random limbs of different combiner toys of old.

News Credits: 15 · Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:40 pm

That is some serious mass shifting! I honestly didn't even realize that.

Also, sucks about your non-Megazord find :-/

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:57 pm

itscramtastic wrote:That is some serious mass shifting! I honestly didn't even realize that.

Also, sucks about your non-Megazord find :-/

Yeah, I will just bring those 2 back to the thrift store for other kids to be dissapointed.

And hell yeah, that mass shifting is awesome!

News Credits: 293 · Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:17 pm

itscramtastic wrote:That is some serious mass shifting! I honestly didn't even realize that.

News Credits: 131 · Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:53 am

Hahaha, I'm loving Ratchet's beer gut :lol:

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:41 pm

So I posted this in the haul thread

But what I wanted to talk about was how the toy I am most fond of in this haul is Beast Hunters Megatron. I always kinds wanted him but I just didnt want to spend much. And 2 years later I have him for the price I wanted and I am super happy. The mold and design for Prime Megatron was never good, but this is by far the best version. Its the only version that actually has personality in the alt mode. It still looks like a mess but at least it looks like something and not just a flightmode. What really sells this to me is the fact that the arms have fins making them look really part of the alt mode in the back. It completes the alt mode. Plus we no longer see his head which brings more identity to the alt mode itself. I really like this toy ;)^

News Credits: 41 · Thu Jun 16, 2016 5:05 pm

Trnasformers that transform into a pile-of-what? are never cool, but that bot mode is soooo evil and cool in either version.

News Credits: 131 · Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:04 am

MEGASHARKTITRON!

He's a cool oddball figure. I like that one a good bit and was fiddling with mine the other day. I have a growing collection of beast hunter and other odd ball figures he commands.

So how is that Arcee treating ya?

News Credits: 15 · Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:19 am

If you found all of those at a Thrift Shop, I'm moving to Canada. :lol:

Also, excellent haul sir ;)^

My haul this morning is a scrapple/egg/cheese sandwich on a croissant.

News Credits: 4877 · Fri Jun 17, 2016 9:20 am

itscramtastic wrote:If you found all of those at a Thrift Shop, I'm moving to Canada.

Also, excellent haul sir

My haul this morning is a scrapple/egg/cheese sandwich on a croissant.

Ouuu a croissant, thats pretty french, you might fit in afterall. You guys have to try the poutine though, I will be getting some for lunch

Thanks Itscram, I am very proud of this haul. Its got a bunch of good stuff I would recomend everyone to try out and from different years, lines and even brands.

But no, it wasnt found in a thrift shop. While those are fun, they are never complete. A thrift shop helps me know if I like a mold eough to get a complete one. Its also a fun way to build a cheap gobot collection and get some g1 toys that were never reissued for cheap. But the stuff is never complete.

This lot was local. I had to walk to the middle of nowhere (which was still in the area of my usual tru/Walmart/thrift shop hang out, but thats a coincidence). It was a 20 min walk from there, and I ended up in a women's clothes warehouse. The guy selling was a warehouse manager and he was in his warehouse with his bis full of toys, getting them sorted to sell online. He had G1, MP and Prime toys but his collection ended at year 2012 it seems. I had most of what he had already.

carytheone wrote:MEGASHARKTITRON!

He's a cool oddball figure. I like that one a good bit and was fiddling with mine the other day. I have a growing collection of beast hunter and other odd ball figures he commands.

So how is that Arcee treating ya?

I really like how that Megasharkticon actually has an alt mode that is coherent and seems to be its own. Like someone (channeling HR Geiger) put thought into its look independently instead of just looking at a robot mode and thinking how it could rearange the limbs.

As for Arcee, the guy I boughtit from had not transformed her in a while, probably from when he first got her because her feet were so tight to move that I created stress marks on both of them.
I am also really puzzled as to how its possible to plug her arms i vehicle mode. I can see the pegs and slots but the big shoulder armour makes i hard to plug things in correctly, it looks misaligned. And while I like the way her breasts are formed, they dont lock in (right?) and the one on her left perks outward instead of remaining flush against the chest.

Maybe I am not transforming this toy correctly.

News Credits: 131 · Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:41 am

There's a trick to the arms. You have to move the elbows a little farther than you think. The wing pegs into one side and the arm pegs into the body. Once you get it, it'll make sense. But it should fold up nice and tight and slim.

News Credits: 4877 · Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:49 am

carytheone wrote:There's a trick to the arms. You have to move the elbows a little farther than you think. The wing pegs into one side and the arm pegs into the body. Once you get it, it'll make sense. But it should fold up nice and tight and slim.

Thanks, I will try that when I get home

News Credits: 4877 · Sat Jun 18, 2016 8:24 pm

So Cary, I got those arms to work with firs Edition Arcee. The thing is I have to transform them before I do the legs, which I intuitively would transform before. But its all good now and that motorcycle mode is gorgeous.

Hey guys, I thought this could be a good spot to brainstorm with likeminded friends about lists I am thinking of doing.

These are really fun and interesting, but exhausting:

Top 5 Retools

Top 5 Exclusive Hasbro redecos (retail toys)

Top 5 Exclusive Hasbro molding

For the retools, I am thinking:

TAV Voyager Grimlock
Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus (both classes)
The Classic Conehead seekers
BW Killer Punch
Generations Sandstorm

For Exclusive redecos, I really dont know aside from:

G2 Combiner Wars
Thunderton
Universe Nemesis Prime

For Exclusive Hasbro molding (either new mold or extensive retool) I was thinking maybe

Titanium Fallen
Voyager Predaking V2
Megasharkticon
BM Night Viper
BM Tankor

But I dont know, I am looking forward to your thoughts on this!

News Credits: 4877 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 9:26 am

While i was really put off by a few of the insane tampographs found on Hasbro MP Thudnercrackers alt mode (like the cameras on the side, why?!), his robot mode is magnificent. All the unecesary tampographs get hidden and instead you get this gorgeous dark blue deco that I somehow associate more with thundercracker since all my other thundercracker toys are this colour.

Glad to have him and I know its just a metter of time before Hasbro releases skywarp too ;)^

News Credits: 41 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:50 am

Happy Father's Day Papa!

See, there is just something cool about that blue on that Thundercracker. I said it before, but I prefer that version over the Takara. Wish I hadn't let him slip through my fingers. I stood in TRU holding him many times.

About your lists from the post above...
What about some of the exclusive repaints of Cybertron toys? Evac - Springer, Seeker as Dirge, Noise Maze (can't think of his Cyb name ATM) as Ratbat. Evac as Springer was a great one.

News Credits: 293 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 12:53 pm

Cobotron wrote:See, there is just something cool about that blue on that Thundercracker. I said it before, but I prefer that version over the Takara.

I just see him as the OG toy accurate version. Pretty much the only thing I don't like is the flat grey whereas Skywarp had silver paint. Everything else is delicious on him though 8-}

Cobotron wrote:What about some of the exclusive repaints of Cybertron toys? Evac - Springer, Seeker as Dirge, Noise Maze (can't think of his Cyb name ATM) as Ratbat. Evac as Springer was a great one.

Noisemaze, Sideways, Ratbat ;)^

News Credits: 4877 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 3:03 pm

shajaki wrote:
Cobotron wrote:What about some of the exclusive repaints of Cybertron toys? Evac - Springer, Seeker as Dirge, Noise Maze (can't think of his Cyb name ATM) as Ratbat. Evac as Springer was a great one.
Noisemaze, Sideways, Ratbat

Oh yeah, those universe redecos, smart thinking! If I am not wrong, Blades was also Hasbro exclusive, using that Evac mold. Thats the version I have of that awesome mold.

News Credits: 41 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 3:13 pm

william-james88 wrote:
shajaki wrote:
Cobotron wrote:What about some of the exclusive repaints of Cybertron toys? Evac - Springer, Seeker as Dirge, Noise Maze (can't think of his Cyb name ATM) as Ratbat. Evac as Springer was a great one.
Noisemaze, Sideways, Ratbat

Oh yeah, those universe redecos, smart thinking! If I am not wrong, Blades was also Hasbro exclusive, using that Evac mold. Thats the version I have of that awesome mold.

A few more...
CD Hot Shot as Roadbuster
Galaxy Force Leader OP
The 2 repaints of Vector Prime

This one just came to me. Wasn't there a repaint of Animated Leader Magnus as Roadbuster?
did Japan get any Animated? Wait, oh ya, you ahve a Takara animated Ratchet, don't you?

News Credits: 4877 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 3:35 pm

Cobotron wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
shajaki wrote:
Cobotron wrote:What about some of the exclusive repaints of Cybertron toys? Evac - Springer, Seeker as Dirge, Noise Maze (can't think of his Cyb name ATM) as Ratbat. Evac as Springer was a great one.
Noisemaze, Sideways, Ratbat

Oh yeah, those universe redecos, smart thinking! If I am not wrong, Blades was also Hasbro exclusive, using that Evac mold. Thats the version I have of that awesome mold.

A few more...
CD Hot Shot as Roadbuster
Galaxy Force Leader OP
The 2 repaints of Vector Prime

This one just came to me. Wasn't there a repaint of Animated Leader Magnus as Roadbuster?
did Japan get any Animated? Wait, oh ya, you ahve a Takara animated Ratchet, don't you?

One of the hottest commodites when it comes to TFs for collectors is Takara Animated Blackout. That is an awesome looking mold and maybe the best voyager class toy and Hasbro didnt get it. Same with jetpack voyager prime which looks like Batman. Trust me, the animated line would be more on a top 5 best exclusive takara toys than Hasbro toys. And their rodimus minor deco ooooooooo baby:

Transformers Animated Rodimus Minor (Rodimus) Gallery

And dat Ironhide

Transformers Animated Ironhide (Armorhide) Gallery

I know its subtle, but the two tone red looks gorgeous and imitates the animated lighting.

News Credits: 293 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 3:47 pm

Cobotron wrote:Hot Shot as Roadbuster

Yes! One of the best repaints evar! 8-)

Cobotron wrote:Galaxy Force Leader OP

Which one are we talking about? Black'n Red? Barely different, but all kinds of awesome. I remember buying him and really wondering why I was doing so, but after I opened him up I just melted

News Credits: 41 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 4:24 pm

shajaki wrote:
Cobotron wrote:Hot Shot as Roadbuster
Yes! One of the best repaints evar!

Cobotron wrote:Galaxy Force Leader OP
Which one are we talking about? Black'n Red? Barely different, but all kinds of awesome. I remember buying him and really wondering why I was doing so, but after I opened him up I just melted

That's the one! that's the only version I have and me makes me happy because he's different than every other blue and red Prime I own. Also because he is one of the best Primes ever made!

News Credits: 131 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 4:47 pm

shajaki wrote:
Cobotron wrote:Hot Shot as Roadbuster
Yes! One of the best repaints evar!

Who dis is? I'm having a hard time pin pointing the toy.

News Credits: 4877 · Sun Jun 19, 2016 4:49 pm

carytheone wrote:
shajaki wrote:
Cobotron wrote:Hot Shot as Roadbuster
Yes! One of the best repaints evar!
Who dis is? I'm having a hard time pin pointing the toy.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=universe ... 66&bih=599