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

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nexus is such a clusterfuck, there is no way the frame will be its own thing, it will either be a retool of superion's or just a straight repaint and just be a slab of nothing.
you'll also be forced to buy him again with it unless they do it with the remaining frame bots, and be because it's superion's they also will be all jets.
 
A ton of my shit got moved around to put up a shelf I didn't want and it led to conflict but it's fine. I'm just going to have to sort through stuff soon. Thankfully before anything went super wrong I managed to point out the more fragile figures so they didn't get wrecked. I still don't like my stuff being in the spot it got moved to, due to it being an area I wanted to clean before moving anything into that area. Bringing it up in this thread because basically all the figures I've posted my own photos of in here save for the earliest ones got shoveled onto the thing. I appreciate the sentiment but I got a very specific way I want to clean shit and it's now gonna be a hassle.

EDIT: Actually a few aren't. Overlord is not on the sudden addition shelf currently though I moved the figure the night before out of concerns due to the hard thin plastic antennae on his helmet. Already was burned last time shit got moved around without me fully knowing what was gonna get moved beforehand when legacy scourge's smokestack got snapped off. Also the used CW devastator's not on the shelf for obvious size reasons. I'm gonna need to dust him off again. he's been laying down in the opened shipping box he came in since I got him for some time now. Maybe I'll split him up into his individual voyager figure parts again whenever I do put him on a shelf because I don't got a large enough area outside maybe some tables I can fit him on in full combined mode.

EDITX2: Felt like taking a photo of the shelves to showcase what I meant.
I don't like displays being cramped together like this outside of like hobby shops that got this kinda setup with tags on em, but the depth of this thing is vast enough I think i could comfortably make a small diorama scene to swap out figures in from time to time if I manage to do what I actually have been aiming to the last fucking decade or so lmao. There's another two shelves but those have identifiable custom figures I got from people in the mix.
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Some of the poses were the result of them just kinda being put on without much care and me not being in the mood to fix them yet, and some (like the blokees megatron carrying a non-transformers figure in the same size scale) are what they were on top of the makeshift shelf I had going on using a storage box I had been trying to move/sort through for a while.

both the incomplete legacy armada optimus and the new nemesis I did a pay in 4 on a while back from a non-hasbro seller that had it for MSRP (still too damn high but at least it's going to a guy) before stock blinked out seem to have the stress mark issue where the legs just start destroying themselves. You can apparently stop this from getting too severe tot he point of breakage by taking the figure apart and sanding down the hinge but I'd need a dedicated day to do that. Figured I'd update on that since they're both in this image. There's no mention of how to stop the buttflap stress marks that are very much an issue on them though. They're not even showign up in a spot that makes contact with anything turning them at the hinge intexplicably causes white hot stress marks across one of the panel lines in the flap that's not connected or even close to the area. I think I ranted about this issue before already but it's still bugging me.

By the way the energon optimus is literally just my old one. I can't remember exactly why I pulled him down and dusted him off initially,likely for a comparison with the legacy prime I never got around to doing. Still he got mingled with the figures thrown onto the new shelf due to this.

Also I noticed when I went to leave the old room this shelf setup got jammed in once the arguments about the shelf had settled the door had been ripped off it's hinges, likely to more easily put the shelf in but fuck man

Raiken said:
nexus is such a clusterfuck, there is no way the frame will be its own thing, it will either be a retool of superion's or just a straight repaint and just be a slab of nothing.
you'll also be forced to buy him again with it unless they do it with the remaining frame bots, and be because it's superion's they also will be all jets.
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Nexus and everything surrounding him proved that the frame system shit being applied to every combiner is a cost cutting/make you buy more measure because it's all specialized parts that have to go on specialized limbs as opposed to being able to just swap limbs between different combiners . The "official combo" for nexus before they decided to make limb characters was basically parasitizing over 300+ dollars worth of figures with the end result being a fucked up mess of a superion with bruticus ports swapped in and a pile of parts and figures that then serve no purpose.

Like you're legit better off modding some used combiner wars (or earlier if you're crazy like that) figures into nexus. Actually saw a few nice looking customs people made listed on ebay a few times while looking up other stuff months back.
 
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Bum Farto said:
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I'm taking it with a grain of salt but at the same time it's like being the first helicopters to leave before Saigon fell if I'm not buying figures in regular retail.
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So deluxes are now voyager price and voyagers are deluxes at leader price and leaders are voyagers at commander price. Cool! And by cool I mean FUCK YOU

I'm still kicking myself for not getting the target ss86 starscream when it was available for basically MSRP from random canadian ebay sellers a few months ago. Remembered finding that weird and almost got one but then post-US stock being all just insta-scalper networked those listings also all vanished at once so it's now just scalpers all the way down. Hoping the KO has the same weird stolen tooling of the yolopark head down tot he face pegs so that kit some chinaman hobby guy that distributes stuff via online ebay/aliexpress sellers that's just got a whole set of alt faces and hands works with it.
I mean either that or I find thundercracker/skywarp on discount and manually repaint them into starscream with actual proper colors.

Also obviously another reason why I didn't get it when it was like that was due to financial shit and me being hyper-selective with what I get on top of not usually paying full current year price for the things.

EDIT: also speaking of china stuff the sharks still have not shipped as far as I am aware. Was hoping they'd fucking come during summer so I could do a funny image but uhhh fucking hell
 
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The Lawgiver said:
So deluxes are now voyager price and voyagers are deluxes at leader price and leaders are voyagers at commander price. Cool! And by cool I mean FUCK YOU

I'm still kicking myself for not getting the target ss86 starscream when it was available for basically MSRP from random canadian ebay sellers a few months ago. Remembered finding that weird and almost got one but then post-US stock being all just insta-scalper networked those listings also all vanished at once so it's now just scalpers all the way down. Hoping the KO has the same weird stolen tooling of the yolopark head down tot he face pegs so that kit some chinaman hobby guy that distributes stuff via online ebay/aliexpress sellers that's just got a whole set of alt faces and hands works with it.
I mean either that or I find thundercracker/skywarp on discount and manually repaint them into starscream with actual proper colors.

Also obviously another reason why I didn't get it when it was like that was due to financial shit and me being hyper-selective with what I get on top of not usually paying full current year price for the things.

EDIT: also speaking of china stuff the sharks still have not shipped as far as I am aware. Was hoping they'd fucking come during summer so I could do a funny image but uhhh fucking hell
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Dude,i suggest selling those and getting a job you fat NEET nigger retard.
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I liked that soundwave ages ago that was the G1 fig but it had an sd card slot in the chest and really plays mp3s
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That one wasn't the g1 figure but it's own smaller deluxe scaled one that was modernized stylistically. For years that was THE best g1 soundwave you could get. Also one of the most expensive ones so I never got it back when it was new despite seeing it carried in some hobby and comic shops back then lmao

It's interesting how on top of the normal color schemes they also had one blatantly meant to ape off the look of apple products from the time.
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EDIT: I forgot they also had rumble and frenzy as those ear clip style headphones.
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The comic con transformers are up on pulse for us Goys without their gay prime membership.
The truly outrageous Jem and the lolicon "cassettes" and the part of a complete breakfast Optimus with trailer and midget jazz are still up for now.
 
Cat tit bingo said:
The comic con transformers are up on pulse for us Goys without their gay prime membership.
The truly outrageous Jem and the lolicon "cassettes" and the part of a complete breakfast Optimus with trailer and midget jazz are still up for now.
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Unexpected twist, they apparently found a warehouse of the old Throne of The Primes Primals as well.
 
King Of Braves said:
Unexpected twist, they apparently found a warehouse of the old Throne of The Primes Primals as well.
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If I had money I'd get both the schizophrenia eyebleed blaster and the primal but yeah no money as far as I know aside from what I'm already counting to later use to pay off the overlord

I also just realized I missed a chance to make a joke about how I didn't have to suck a guy's dick for the lg overlord to follow up on @Kup's comment from years back when I was first talking about overlord.
 
King Of Braves said:
Unexpected twist, they apparently found a warehouse of the old Throne of The Primes Primals as well.
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NOOO MY RESALE VALUE ON MY TOY I OPENED AND NEVER PLAN TO SELL!!!
Kinda tempted for an extra just cause the foil stickers on primal surfboard suck and immediately get fucked up from combing them.
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I liked that soundwave ages ago that was the G1 fig but it had an sd card slot in the chest and really plays mp3s
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The Lawgiver said:
That one wasn't the g1 figure but it's own smaller deluxe scaled one that was modernized stylistically. For years that was THE best g1 soundwave you could get. Also one of the most expensive ones so I never got it back when it was new despite seeing it carried in some hobby and comic shops back then lmao
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I have Soundblaster and he's neat, was always shocked by the fact it comes with 2 pairs of replaceable hands. The big issue though is it doesn't use standard sd or micro it uses minisd which has been obsolete for 2 decades.
 
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So primal reissue is 100 dollars meaning I'm not gonna be able to get that fucker, and I can't get the sentinel cause he's out of stock, leaving only schizophrenic jemerald blaster but even then I don't got MONEY so I can't get that one either.

Truly, society has failed.
 
The Lawgiver said:
So primal reissue is 100 dollars meaning I'm not gonna be able to get that fucker, and I can't get the sentinel cause he's out of stock, leaving only schizophrenic jemerald blaster but even then I don't got MONEY so I can't get that one either.

Truly, society has failed.
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I dont wanna know how much to find all of those Prime Masters compared to finding the regular primes in retail.
 
Bum Farto said:
I dont wanna know how much to find all of those Prime Masters compared to finding the regular primes in retail.
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Most of them are cheap because they're tied to gimmick tiny pretender remakes that figures can use as guns, it's the ones that are exclusive to shit like this box set and predaking that are ridiculously priced right now. There used to be people that made 3d printable replicas you could get and paint yourself off shapeways but yeah that's not a thing anymore.

People are charging out the ass for the three clear variants that were packed in with amazon exclusive deluxe scale figures as well as said exclusive figures and have been doing that for a while now. The choice of pairing is nonsensical as well.
 
I transformed my dramatic capture soundwave back into robot mode after it'd been in the tapedeck mode on a shelf for a bit (like a few months) and the fucking pinned hip joints are freakishly loose now what the fuck

he still stands thankfully but this shit never happened with the other versions of the figure I got. Like this shit is hellishly floppy you pick him up and his legs will fucking flap around like nothing's connecting to them. Only other time I saw shit like this happen was on my arctic hero megatron and that was after bending one arm out of the box.
 
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Threads been deader than usual so this is an unintended triple post, I'm getting tired of how predictably everything I aim to get ends up being obtuse to get and/or completely drained by scalpers the moment I manage to scrounge shit together for. No I'm not going to pay 200+ dollars for a "pre-order" on a 60 dollar 4 pack that was literally just in stock the day before I already couldn't afford. genuinely pissed off at life in general this shit ain't helping.

EDIT: I looked it up and people that did manage to get the figure ended up getting copies intentionally packed with no cushioning basically destroying the package. Of course the scalper listings are pristine looking. Something smells rotten here.
This one I found on another forum's post is a REALLY gnarly example lmao

Also the face is weirdly fucked up and flattened compared to the already weird look about it and it seems to be bugging peopel that spent the 60 on it lmao. I mainly just wanted the thing for the cassetes and the schizo blaster would have been a bonus. This exclusive continues the BS trend of including characters they haven't done figures of in a good while as extremely limited exclusives as a pack-in for no reason. Like you KNOW the main draw of this thing is the fact three cassettes associated with blaster are included in their normal colors, completely untied to the jem crossover. It's the same shit as the star saber with nemesis prime last year but they actually kept it at the 60 dollar msrp instead of upping it to 90 last second.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I just got reminded how I got the third party MP twincast like 8 or 9 years ago for 40 dollars whenever BBTS did that discount thing. That shit was and still is worth more than this shit lmao.

EDITX2: Avoiding a quad post, anyone have the third party powermaster prime/ginrai by dx9? Asking because I have no clue the fucking actual size of the thing. It's "legends scale" apparently but I've seen shit saying it's either voyager or leader sized.

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Like I don't got the money for this fucking thing but shit if it's voyager sized in the combined robot mode that means it's actually kinda scaled right for the normal non legends and non mp line figures, at least for robot mode. The titans return/lg one is notoriously oversized in comparison tot he guy he's supposed to pair up against (overlord) when you add on the other figure and scalpers want 200+ dollars for the tiny third party inner robot upgrade kit that'd make it a full figure package deal.

We're in a weird fucked up world where both the leader class from 9 years ago (HOW) and the unnoficial third party one are being charged for the same around 100 dollar pricetag. If I do end up getting one of these guys it's gonna be a pay in 4 and after I've finished overlord's/secured a bit more money.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
EDITX2: Avoiding a quad post, anyone have the third party powermaster prime/ginrai by dx9? Asking because I have no clue the fucking actual size of the thing. It's "legends scale" apparently but I've seen shit saying it's either voyager or leader sized.
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I have it, it is 7.5 inches to the top of its head, the plastic quality is meh and the joint tolerances suck. The transformation is overcomplicated relative to what it achieves and other legends scale figures. The articulation is decent and it looks good.

EDIT: The core robots hip skirt isn't pinned in and falls off very easily.

 
Hope Eradicated said:
I have it, it is 7.5 inches to the top of its head, the plastic quality is meh and the joint tolerances suck. The transformation is overcomplicated relative to what it achieves and other legends scale figures. The articulation is decent and it looks good.

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Been looking at videos of it and the tolerances seem fine in a lot of reviews but I've also seen complaints. Not a top priority but I'm guessing it's some loose joints. Seems like a straightforward albeit panel heavy process that kind of reminds me of the discounted third party MP figure I brought up I got in a box on a shelf that isn't the new shelf. I kept the box it came in because it was high effort and it was in great condition for years till my dog decided to make a bed out of it two eyars ago or so. Sucks but I'm not paying over current year full price dollars for one. I could be guessing wrong here but since they seem to hold in these videos the joint tolerances are likely universe galvatron type of shit where he's blatantly something meant to be larger scale shrunk down slightly for budget. Or in this things case just to make it MP complexity at a small scale to begin with. But more like earlier MP stuff where everything clearly had a place to go instead of "yeah just give bumblebee a nightmare backpack" kind of thing.

EDIT: I thought I added a bit tot his post about the height specifically but I guess either the edit got eaten or some random post of mine has that in it because I made the edit while I was dead tired. SO anyways slightly taller than Siege/ER prime then for the full combined mode then which I think works. Scale's a bit fucky no matter what with these but for robot mode I think that works.
 
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