Transformers general thread - Toy Robot men based on giant robots based on previously mentioned toys about said robots

Wow, a Plastic Crap thread. cool!

I never collected anything until I retired early, back in 2020. Since I've had absolutely tons of free time and money, I got into decorating my place and displaying stuff since I was literally working 7 days on/1 day off for years and my house was totally barren. It started with me buying a copy of my fav G1 transformer, Hot Rod and eventually my collection piled up. I had doubles of just about every release of Hot Rod/Rodimus, official or otherwise, but I am getting rid of a lot of that stuff now. I still have a ton of it for sale, actually.

Thats kind of how I do things. like with 40k, I painted a bunch and got decent at it and then just lost total interest and gave away all my paints and models. I am currently getting into GaoGaiGar heavily now since I have always been into vintage chogokin stuff, and I got my first Soul of Chogokin release in the form of their GGG and was blown away. I loved his design and that is why I picked him, but then I began watching the actual animoo, which I never got to see as a kid, and it is rad as hell. The Soul of Chogokin Gaogaigar is probably one of my favorite things ever, and is the best super robot toy ever made. If I'd had one as a kid, I would have peed from happiness. I highly recommend the Soul of Chogokin line.

Speaking of Gaogaigar I actually just finished painting the head of a 1997 DX Galeon that I bought in horrific shape from ebay: 20211109_102442.jpg It looks better in person, for some reason my phone camera makes shit look a little"fuzzy".

When I got this guy, the gold chrome on the head was 100% nasty and the head was almost completely black with tarnish, so this was a complete repaint. I had to do a deep cleaning on the body and restore it completely. I used a flat gold base with bright gold paint markers alongside citadel paints and finished it with clear spray semigloss so it is nice and smooth (and permanent). The body is next to be painted and will be panel lined and done just like the head in that same sort of oil painting lookin way. I could have made it look more cel-shaded and anime accurate, but this is just my style.

I also saved my (USA) Gridman stuff and my dino Megazord from when I was a kid and had forgotten all about them until last year. They were at my mom's house in the attic, so when I got into collecting in 2020 I asked her to pull it all down so I could grab it. I have those in my office on the shelf now too, and from what I understand they aren't cheap or easy to find these days. The Gridman Dyna Dragon (US ver was called Drago) is around $200-400 bucks for the US release and $1500~ for a decent boxed Jap copy. I have two copies of the DX US versions and two copies of the DX Zenon guy and they are all in great condition since I took good care of my shit when I was a kid. That TV show was godawful, but the toyline was rad as fuck!
 
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Wow, a Plastic Crap thread. cool!

I never collected anything until I retired early, back in 2020. Since I've had absolutely tons of free time and money, I got into decorating my place and displaying stuff since I was literally working 7 days on/1 day off for years and my house was totally barren. It started with me buying a copy of my fav G1 transformer, Hot Rod and eventually my collection piled up. I had doubles of just about every release of Hot Rod/Rodimus, official or otherwise, but I am getting rid of a lot of that stuff now. I still have a ton of it for sale, actually.

Thats kind of how I do things. like with 40k, I painted a bunch and got decent at it and then just lost total interest and gave away all my paints and models. I am currently getting into GaoGaiGar heavily now since I have always been into vintage chogokin stuff, and I got my first Soul of Chogokin release in the form of their GGG and was blown away. I loved his design and that is why I picked him, but then I began watching the actual animoo, which I never got to see as a kid, and it is rad as hell. The Soul of Chogokin Gaogaigar is probably one of my favorite things ever, and is the best super robot toy ever made. If I'd had one as a kid, I would have peed from happiness. I highly recommend the Soul of Chogokin line.

Speaking of Gaogaigar I actually just finished painting the head of a 1997 DX Galeon that I bought in horrific shape from ebay: View attachment 2702379 It looks better in person, for some reason my phone camera makes shit look a little"fuzzy".

When I got this guy, the gold chrome on the head was 100% nasty and the head was almost completely black with tarnish, so this was a complete repaint. I had to do a deep cleaning on the body and restore it completely. I used a flat gold base with bright gold paint markers alongside citadel paints and finished it with clear spray semigloss so it is nice and smooth (and permanent). The body is next to be painted and will be panel lined and done just like the head in that same sort of oil painting lookin way. I could have made it look more cel-shaded and anime accurate, but this is just my style.

I also saved my (USA) Gridman stuff and my dino Megazord from when I was a kid and had forgotten all about them until last year. They were at my mom's house in the attic, so when I got into collecting in 2020 I asked her to pull it all down so I could grab it. I have those in my office on the shelf now too, and from what I understand they aren't cheap or easy to find these days. The Gridman Dyna Dragon (US ver was called Drago) is around $200-400 bucks for the US release and $1500~ for a decent boxed Jap copy. I have two copies of the DX US versions and two copies of the DX Zenon guy and they are all in great condition since I took good care of my shit when I was a kid. That TV show was godawful, but the toyline was rad as fuck!
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I used to do the “phases” thing too, but I’ve settled on Transformers as my dumb indulgence. I too dabbled in 40k, the skill I got from that has benefited my TF hobby greatly. It’s amazing how well a skilled paint app or wash can improve a figure.

That’s some crisp painting by the way.
 
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I used to do the “phases” thing too, but I’ve settled on Transformers as my dumb indulgence. I too dabbled in 40k, the skill I got from that has benefited my TF hobby greatly. It’s amazing how well a skilled paint app or wash can improve a figure.

That’s some crisp painting by the way.
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Aww, thank you! My style may be a little messy for anime robots and look a little too much like an oil-painting (I do use techniques from when I canvas painted rather than the typical miniature painting steps) but I like it. If I had an airbrush and gundam markers or some of tamiya's panel lining products I could much more easily do flat cel-shaded style but I prefer mine. I think it has more character. I just wish my camera didn't make it look all fuzzy and dull, it really pops IRL.

Have you ever collected chogokin pieces? I wanted to get into the vintage stuff but a lot of it is just unreasonably expensive, especially if you want it in good condition w/ box. Gaiking is my second favorite Super Robot, and the 1978 Gaiking DX releases are like $500 bucks each in-box. The Daiku Maryu+Gaiking two pack is ultra rare, too...there is one going for 6,000$ on ebay right now. I refuse to pay anywhere near that for some silly shelf deco. Soul of Chogokin is bringing out a really expensive and large Gaiking two pack with an extra large Daiku Maryu toward the end of this year. Pre-orders are sold out all over, which probably means that when stock comes in it will be ridiculously scalped and much harder to get. I want that one pretty bad.
 
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SS BB figs officially revealed. They look RIDICULOUSLY good, especially Soundwave.

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New Studio Series Bumblebee Reveals - Soundwave, Ratchet, Brawn, Wheeljack, Ravage, & Shockwave! - Transformers News - TFW2005

Surprise! The Transformers Instagram page has just revealed a whole host of new Studio Series Bumblebee figures! Included here are... • Voyager Soundwave
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Really hoping they come out with a voyager shockwave because making him core class kinda breaks the whole "scale accuracy" thing studio series has been trying to go for.
 
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Aww, thank you! My style may be a little messy for anime robots and look a little too much like an oil-painting (I do use techniques from when I canvas painted rather than the typical miniature painting steps) but I like it. If I had an airbrush and gundam markers or some of tamiya's panel lining products I could much more easily do flat cel-shaded style but I prefer mine. I think it has more character. I just wish my camera didn't make it look all fuzzy and dull, it really pops IRL.

Have you ever collected chogokin pieces? I wanted to get into the vintage stuff but a lot of it is just unreasonably expensive, especially if you want it in good condition w/ box. Gaiking is my second favorite Super Robot, and the 1978 Gaiking DX releases are like $500 bucks each in-box. The Daiku Maryu+Gaiking two pack is ultra rare, too...there is one going for 6,000$ on ebay right now. I refuse to pay anywhere near that for some silly shelf deco. Soul of Chogokin is bringing out a really expensive and large Gaiking two pack with an extra large Daiku Maryu toward the end of this year. Pre-orders are sold out all over, which probably means that when stock comes in it will be ridiculously scalped and much harder to get. I want that one pretty bad.
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No, when I started collecting I got into CHUG-scale (Classics, Henkei, Universe, Generations) and because there is so much available in that scale I never drifted too much into other brands. Takara’s Big Powered and the upcoming Star Saber are my first forays into “super robots.”
 
Star Saber rules hard. I loove his aesthetics and design, it reminds me a lot of early Brave series before Gaogaigar...kind of like Fighbird, which was the second season. I know they used some Brave molds for a couple transformers in the early 1990s too. Deathsaurus was a Brave mold, and I think Fort Max was too. Star Saber even kinda has a touch of Gridman, as Dyna Dragon's jet mode has the same helmet part peeking up on the top. I wonder if all those helmet jets were designed by the same little japanese man.

Not gonna lie I wouldn't mind having a MP Star Saber and the new Haslabs one looks really interesting, but I'm not rabid about it. I can see him being someone's fav tho.
 
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Really hoping they come out with a voyager shockwave because making him core class kinda breaks the whole "scale accuracy" thing studio series has been trying to go for.
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They'll do a Voyager of him eventually, they'd be crazy not to cuz people went apeshit over these designs and it's basically guaranteed money.
 
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Star Saber rules hard. I loove his aesthetics and design, it reminds me a lot of early Brave series before Gaogaigar...kind of like Fighbird, which was the second season. I know they used some Brave molds for a couple transformers in the early 1990s too. Deathsaurus was a Brave mold, and I think Fort Max was too. Star Saber even kinda has a touch of Gridman, as Dyna Dragon's jet mode has the same helmet part peeking up on the top. I wonder if all those helmet jets were designed by the same little japanese man.

Not gonna lie I wouldn't mind having a MP Star Saber and the new Haslabs one looks really interesting, but I'm not rabid about it. I can see him being someone's fav tho.
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I know a lot of the Zone-era stuff was reused for Brave, Takara really went ham with the Micromaster play-pattern.
 
Yeah, that's right, I forgot about that! The mold for Dagbase from Dagwon was taken and used in that set that had Star Convoy and they all linked together with the motorized gimmick. Hah. Cute stuff. I actually bought a Star Convoy just to get the Hot Rod micromaster for my collection lol bc its the only place you can get it. I was pretty determined to get all of them...But I gave up when I realized I would never be able to find the statues, SHBM Rodimus (an unreleased and stupidly rare item) or the Metalverse release. Plus I'm sure the next MP Rodimus update will be along the lines of MP44 and cost 500 bucks and that is dumb.
 
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If you look carefully, Brawn has a “yelling face.”
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I might just make this my CHUG Brawn, love how his weird “bullet head” is now a helmet.
 
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Oof, development hell is never a good sign.

What does this mean for the fucking toyline? That shit has gotta be in production at this point.
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I mean I assume that'll probably get delayed too. Releasing the toyline a year ahead of the movie would be lunacy .
 
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If you look carefully, Brawn has a “yelling face.”
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Every single one of these is going to be probably repainted as a Literal Who for transformers generations.

Those cybertronian alt modes are perfect for 1 panel characters from the Marvel Comics.
 
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Every single one of these is going to be probably repainted as a Literal Who for transformers generations.

Those cybertronian alt modes are perfect for 1 panel characters from the Marvel Comics.
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Ok so out of the original 18 autobots we're missing more modern deluxe sized renditions of Windcharger, Gears, and Brawn.

Yeah if you go back into Prime Wars Trilogy these guys were covered, sometimes more than once. But Gears remains to be the only figure who had a release in Thrilling 30 and then nothing.

We actually have all the original decepticons a few times over at this point. Every one of those guys have both Cybertronian and Earth versions of themselves.
 
I tend to stick to building models but I'm a Masterpiece TF guy myself. Usually when something new comes out I buy it, unless it's a repaint (seekers being the only exception, my spouse loves Skywarp)
 
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I tend to stick to building models but I'm a Masterpiece TF guy myself. Usually when something new comes out I buy it, unless it's a repaint (seekers being the only exception, my spouse loves Skywarp)
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How do you feel about the Masterpiece line? The turns it’s taken and the……. interesting choices they’ve taken within the last three years?

Like the weird engineering, autistic animation accuracy, breakages and bulking up prices with nonsense accessories. I know a lot of guys who jumped ship after the recent Bumblebee, saggy tits Arcee and chrome feet Optimus.

I’m always curious to see how collectors of the line feel about these things.
 
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