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

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Something that warms my heart is how the Japanese fanbase is reacting. Try searching られたピーター・カレン online, and you'll see lots of lamenting of his loss as well. They're really thankful for how he's helped the franchise. The Japanese Transformers account even made a tweet for it.
 
Thanks Japan and browser translator, I needed a good laugh this week.
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Two new figures, ER doubledealer with nothing accessory wise, and a much, much harder to come by for a sane price one that was just missing alternate hands and has a broken smokestack. I'm keeping it vague for when it shows up and I take pics of it eventually but like genuinely fuck the people who have been hoarding these things the last 8 fucking years with the intent of trying to sell them for 200-300 dollars. Those missing elements should make it clear what the figure is if you know about this kind of spergery lmao.

Been having fun with the doubledealer. even without the extra rocket platform or all the little guns and shit they added to bump him to leader price he's still cool. Other one is still in postage hell god help him.

Also all the targets by me clearly are part of some shady ass employee ebay scalper network beause they haven't restock their transformers shelves in over three months or so now. They've started doing the thing where they throw unrelated items into the spots where the figures are supposed to go. Yes, of course the marvel blindbox display meant for the back of the electronics section SURELY belongs int he two slots of shelf for the fucking voyager starscream figure! Not even the product itself, a fucking promotional display for shit that's not even in that aisle.

The only figure the target by me has had for the last month or two that's not overpriced dollar tree knockoff tier is the optimus prime final battle damaged variant. You know the scene where he gets fatally wounded as a 60 dollar figure. Surprised they didn't mysteriously all vanish when the cullen death news happened honestly.
 
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If we are having someone using this wanking of Peter Cullen's demise, Dr. Lockdown (officially, as he'd been basically locked in for a while) trooned out as "Estelle Rose Vella" and has an hour long mental breakdown/review of a bootleg Prime. Evidently, the irony of him becoming a bootleg woman is lost off of this retard. https://youtu.be/ISevNpsgygk?is=xd-bXRXqbienlY6i
He also looks like shit (sorry for phone shot)

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From what I've seen of the guy they stretched out every review intentionally for maximum watch time and kept randomly inserting politisperg stuff about the orange man despite the cartoonishly "not american english speaker" accent. I think that this is like just par for the course in terms of predictable patterns.
EDIT: Wait is the fucker skinwalking that bunlith fucker? Style of outfit is near identical even if the clothes are different.

Unrelated/mildly related but what's weird to me is the entire span of 48-ish hours after cullens passing broke news wise every other transformers related "influencer" semingly had a scripted feeling vid about it ready to go and seemed to immediately milk it for views. Some didn't though and clearly had a kinda natural unscripted and unedited reaction, sometimes a small rip post and not even a vid which I think makes a bit more sense than doing an entire video dedicated to it.

...And then you got this one youtube post that showed up on the front page for me that made me laugh
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I forgot to send this when I took the screengrab because I was dead fucking tired then and I'm still dead fucking tired now but that's how life go sometimes. The funny posts like this are oddly more genuine feeling than some of the reactions I've seen to cullens death that were a lengthy scripted screed instead of just "rip man" or some other variant of "fuck".

EDIT: Also weird how you didn't embed the video. I checked it and it's over an hour long. Once again as I said earlier par for the course.
 
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Sad how many trannies and mentally ill people are infesting the hobby now. At least hobby trains only has that one guy who wants to fuck trains and got banned from being near them.
 
Sad how many trannies and mentally ill people are infesting the hobby now
That's been every hobby the last 6 or 7 years . Still I've noticed lately more and more "trivia about characters/tv shows " type of channels that weren't like that before have begun shifting towards constant lip service towards these types. I do not need to sit through a video going over every iteration of a minor trio of characters showcasing each appearance and how in some iterations they're female to then have a sudden OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE speech about the orange man and how the characters are "all confirmed lgbtq+ rep!!!" and how "cool and wholesome" it is that they are!. These type of channels have also started getting basic facts wrong more and more as they do this and it's like watching someone's should and mind decay in real time when that kinda shit happens. it's like the Internet is being completely lobotomized to cater exclusively to larper "superfans" who's only merit is how much BRAND shit they buy and how many connections they have.

Yes please let me see ANOTHER FUCKING VIDEO THAT ACTS LIKE THE RAINMAKERS AND WELCOMING COMITEE SHARE MEMBERS SOLELY TO TRY AND CLAIM SUNSTORM AS NOVA STORM THANK YOUW AITER YES OF COURSE BECAUSE IN THE ONE NEW SHOW NOVA STORM WAS WHOLESOME LGBTQ FEMALE REP OR WHATEVER BLUH
 
From what I've seen of the guy they stretched out every review intentionally for maximum watch time and kept randomly inserting politisperg stuff about the orange man despite the cartoonishly "not american english speaker" accent. I think that this is like just par for the course in terms of predictable patterns.
I think they're an upsidedown brit from what I recount. Or im thinking a different transformers youtuber.

So these transformer themed needohs were revealed via hot topic's website for 8.90 https://news.tfw2005.com/2026/08/31/transformers-energon-cube-squishy-toy-stock-images-572969
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https://x.com/TF_Moments/status/2094472621861818796?s=20
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:really: At least Harry Potter and Star wars fans weren't this cringe to join a private funeral when their favorite actors died and did a vigil at their respective theme parks. Surprised I didn't see any where a group of people make the transformation sound at Universal Studios where the transformer ride is at.
 
I think they're an upsidedown brit from what I recount. Or im thinking a different transformers youtuber.
i dunno all I know is I got a youtube post by em on the front page yesterday for some reason and it was framign their previous intentionally goofy ass pfp as if it were some kinda ugly mistake and the new pfp is just generic attractive human cartoon female person with vague colors of the transformers character.
Something that's like a "they may be doing this for some form of social clout" kinda flag is when that shit happens. Not the only person that's happened with, par for the fucking course again espesially for youtube channels, though it's usually more often some kind of irl face pic replacing it usually. It's weird and not in like a "oh that's weird" kinda way but in a "why is this so boring and predictable" way.

Like I've noticed the rare times you se people troon out and still have the funny joke pfps or fucked up funny little creature ones they did before it they also tend to barely ever bring up the trans thing. Still the call of reddit/twitter clout is strong for these types and you sometimes end up with shit like gooseworx trooning jax and making em a cuckold to both clown and frog gf for twitter clout last minute lmao.

So these transformer themed needohs were revealed via hot topic's website for 8.90
saddest looking autobot logo on an icecube.

Also my package is still trapped in transit. packageS technically but "headswapped secondhand figure I liked" isn't the same level of importance as "official figure and smaller 3rd party figure and even SMALLER third party figure that all go together"

also jesus fuck the figures are already almost a decade old what the FUCK
 
Random question for collectors here. Are these figures rare of worth anything? I stopped collecting the Netflix figures cause distribution was shit and I wasn't impressed with them enough to bother scavenging them all. I want to give them to my nephew who is currently on a Transformers kick (and curremt playline Transformers distribution is somehow still dogshit):


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Random question for collectors here. Are these figures rare of worth anything? I stopped collecting the Netflix figures cause distribution was shit and I wasn't impressed with them enough to bother scavenging them all. I want to give them to my nephew who is currently on a Transformers kick (and curremt playline Transformers distribution is somehow still dogshit):


All three of these figures are great. Earthrise seekers are a bit shittier than the shockwave qc wise but that two pack was a target exclusive that was a nightmare to find for a bit when it came out a few years ago. I DID get it though and they still work and scale well despite the gimped articulation and weirdly brittle feeling plastic/easily chippable paint. Also some batches of that 2 pack have the weird sudden rapid discoloration issue figures started getting the last few years. If your nephew isn't a "smash things together" kind of kid they'll probably survive given my thundercacker has fallen off a shelf once or twice and not broke yet.

With transformers lately it's so full of people that solely are trying to use it as an "investment" that any used figure including the common ones like siege shockwave are being charged for retarded prices online. There's a "fixed" version of siege shockwave currently available as a studio series figure that makes him lighter purple and removes his overly intense cool mechanical panel line greebling stuff. Issue is he's still the same price the siege one was due tot hem increasing voyager price to what leader price was a few years ago so he's just the same but without the extra armor.

I think the armor being able to turn into a little hover drone he can ride is a really cool thing that if modern transformers were still priced and made with kids in mind and didn't cut corners constantly would be really enjoyed by em.
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like those cyberworld toys they've been making for kids are pretty much the same gimmick as this but with even further cut corners.

EDIT: I just double checked something to make sure what I remembered was right and it was. If you're feeling crazy you could get him a used beast wars megatron. Like the original one from 3 fucking decades ago now. It's still 20-30 ish used for a lot of listings and not too many of them seem that fucked up.
 
Also some batches of that 2 pack have the weird sudden rapid discoloration issue figures started getting the last few years. If your nephew isn't a "smash things together" kind of kid they'll probably survive given my thundercacker has fallen off a shelf once or twice and not broke yet.
Well that explains the weird greying/brownish/green tinge they seem to have (it's sorta visible in Skywarp's wings). Hasbro QC sure was dogshit around that time; my Shattered Glass Starscream somehow turned orange in its box. Maybe I'll give that to him too - he loves the seekers.
When I emailed Hasbro about the Starscream figure they just offered me a coupon 🙃

like those cyberworld toys they've been making for kids are pretty much the same gimmick as this but with even further cut corners
I literally cannot find them! Target/Walmart's shelves seem perpetually wiped of Transformers figures. I'm sure there's scalpers, but I suspect the failure of that Paramount+ show, plus the recent movie, has resulted in stores lowering their stock. My sister found a few Autobot Cyberverse in Ross' dress for less, but my nephew is a Deception fan so I don't mind giving him my figures.

If you're feeling crazy you could get him a used beast wars megatron. Like the original one from 3 fucking decades ago now. It's still 20-30 ish used for a lot of listings and not too many of them seem that fucked up.
On the topic of crazy, my mom let him get into my older brother's Armada/Cybertron figures he left in my folk's attic (he kept poor care of them so they're not worth much). I fear that may have spoiled my nephew, though - modern lines will never be as nice as those.
 
Are there any good 3P KO’s of the new Starscream mold? It’s about as perfect as a mainline figure can be but I’m sure some Chinese company has remade it with some minor improvements and gap fillers for half the cost that will somehow get to my door faster than Hasbro can fix their fucked up distribution.
 
On the topic of crazy, my mom let him get into my older brother's Armada/Cybertron figures he left in my folk's attic (he kept poor care of them so they're not worth much). I fear that may have spoiled my nephew, though - modern lines will never be as nice as those.
I didn't really take care of my old beast wars-cybertron era figures from back in the day and they're all generally still in just as good condition as they were when I first got them over 2 or 3 decades ago depending on the line which is kinda crazy honestly. I still need to find the other box my other figures are in but I also need to sort through the one that I managed to find a while back. By "not take care of" I mean just not cleaning them or dusting them off or whatever rather than like brutalizing them if it makes any sense so that might be a factor in why they still look fine. That used sideways I got a months back that's the later, more show accurate purple chest version released mainly in japan has some scuffs on it but is also pretty much as good as it was 20+ years ago as well. Still glad to have gotten that for a decent cheap price given what most people are trying to sell it for.

but my nephew is a Deception fan
Was tidal wave amongst the ones he got? Asking because that's another one that did basically what the cyberworld figures tried doing on their cut budget and the collector oriented remake of tidal wave didn't even try to do for whatever reason despite having the size for it to work better.

I literally cannot find them! Target/Walmart's shelves seem perpetually wiped of Transformers figures. I'm sure there's scalpers, but I suspect the failure of that Paramount+ show, plus the recent movie, has resulted in stores lowering their stock. My sister found a few Autobot Cyberverse in Ross' dress for less, but my nephew is a Deception fan so I don't mind giving him my figures.
Only ones I've seen are from the first wave, I was at a walmart recently and the shelves were full of scorponoks they still can't sell marked down to 18 dollars. He'd probably sell better if they actually gave him articulating legs I think because from what I've seen of it even with all the cut corners the people that designed it clearly put thought into it with the wacked out stuff it can do like turning his arms into a bike.
 
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Was tidal wave amongst the ones he got?
The lame purple boat guy? Yeah. He also got the horny boat girl who kept trying to jump Megatron's bones 😆.

My brother hated the seekers & scratched up all his figures (he even sharpied his name on them!) so I never glanced at his collection. His Vector Prime is fire, though. Most of his figures are autobots/trucks.

Only onees I've seen are fromt he first wave,
Yeah I've never seen anything on the shelves beyond the first waves. Perhaps the other waves got canceled? 🤔
 
The lame purple boat guy? Yeah. He also got the horny boat girl who kept trying to jump Megatron's bones
He's not really lame but his upgraded form in energon kinda is if only because he's smaller and him being smaller is supposedly a "more powerful form" that then has like no cool scenes.

version I had/have was the rusty green looking one rather than the purple one because that's the one that was sold in the US even though the purple one WAS stocked in some hobby stores when I was a kid.
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The neon green and white energon version was cool too

Also good that he's got the boat girl because for whatever reason they haven't done a new one of her in some time and scalpers have started honing in because of that. I forgot about her existence somehow despite her being a prominent comic relief in cybertron. I think I do got her around somewhere though since a lot of the transformers I had back int he day were mostly the smaller and cheaper price point ones which that was one of.

None of these are my photos obviously but I really do need to see if I got these fuckers around (other than tidal wave I know I have him still)
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It's really funny how a bunch of older transformers did this thing of basically having the robot folded up inside the vehicle mode. They still do it on occasion these days but not quite as often.

Yeah I've never seen anything on the shelves beyond the first waves. Perhaps the other waves got canceled? 🤔
Nah, it's just horrid distribution. I saw some later wave figures show up in a target that's otherwise barren recently. Like a single pirate scourge and some other ones tossed haphazardly.

Are there any good 3P KO’s of the new Starscream mold? It’s about as perfect as a mainline figure can be but I’m sure some Chinese company has remade it with some minor improvements and gap fillers for half the cost that will somehow get to my door faster than Hasbro can fix their fucked up distribution.
IIRC the ones that did the thundercracker with new stuff like the retractable null rays and a gap filler for jet mode are going to be making skywarp and starscream as well. As for when those are going to come out I got no clue. Another KO company seems to be doing them as well but I can't remember if they came out with those yet or not.
 
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