that's samurai skeleton guy, right? I saw that in the thread a post or few back
Armada was the cool noble anime warrior Starscream, right?
Samurai skeleton is Bludgeon, Jhiaxus is a character that was originally only in the Marvel G2 comics, which were a continuation of the marvel G1 comics. If you look up "jhiaxus G2" pics will probably come up. He's a large silver guy with a red head and an alt mode similar to Scourge, despite his robot mode being a lot more bulky than scourge's. Please note by scourge I mean g1 scourge and not RiD or cybertron scourge, as for some crazy ass reason there are 3 completely different characters in transformers with the same exact fucking name.
I’m annoyed that they followed up a fantastic toyline like Titans Return with Power of the Primes, and dragged by boys Darkwing and Dreadwind into it.
The best TF comic in years is the Transformers: 84 one shot and it’s tie-in miniseries, Secrets and Lies. It’s a prequel to Marvel G1 with Punch/Counterpunch as the protagonist and it really sheds some background on key characters, Straxus, Magnus, Wreckers and it introduces characters who were missed during the Marvel run.
G2 has aged very well, many of it’s ideas became mainstays and it “unofficially” influenced the plot of the Beast Wars cartoon. One of the show runners envisioned the Vok as the evolved Swarm and that their experiments were an attempt to correct their mistakes, he also envisioned Jhiaxus not just blowing up San Francisco but causing an extinction event that ended the human race.
Jhiaxus should have the “bully” proportions, standing almost to Grimlock height but standing taller than Optimus and Megatron.
I still need to get into the UK shits so I can learn the true early days of everybody's favorite Freelance Peacekeeping Agent, yes?
Yeah, that height seems pretty right. With his similarities to scourge if a new figure is made like that It'd also work out for a "matrixbearer scourge" generations selects figure. There's a single episode in g1 where scourge uses the matrix to try and usurp galvatron, but it clearly causes him physical pain to do so and it's visibly slowly killing him. He's all weird, welt covered, and melting which is something not really replicable in the format of a transformable figure. The size and warped head are though.
I got some of the nice Titan Books trade paperbacks of the UK stuff really cheap about 12 years ago. The IDW UK Transformers Classics trades are also nice, but the format is smaller. The UK Titan stuff was reprinted as big as the original comic magazine was (think Life magazine size) They cover earlier stuff than the UK ever reprinted, but they were cancelled before they finished.
I downloaded it around the same time and am just too lazy to follow up
Power of the Primes really pissed me off because the toyline, while I guess okay enough, was just Hasbro trying to combine Combiner Wars with Titans Return, but the worst was the fact it took the utterly uninspired crap from the Covenant of Primus and made it the de-facto roster of the Thirteen.
I like that we finally have a dedicated pantheon for the TF mythos, I just really hate the execution. The romance ark is gay and neutered Megatronus from a Horus Lupercal-like figure to prequel-era Darth Vader.
Yeah, like I said, aside from the reverse-name thing going on so Megatron names himself after The Fallen (which allows the lore bit about him first simply being 'Miner D-16' to also remain true as part of his Fallen Spartacus like origin), everything about Megatronus is dumb. Even his design from the Covenant is uninspired - ironic given how his original War Within incarnation was itself a rejected Megatron design but at least there he looked like a giant sentient furnace constantly on fire which fits the character. Aligned Megatronus looks like a more cobalt painted Aligned Megatron wholesale.
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I have the third party shattered glass Optimus prime Train that was a limited run of like 300 ccording to the box but weirdly it didn't sell for years till it eventually got marked down to 30 dollars a few years ago, which is when I ended up getting one. Was gonna get a second one due to the car linking gimmick, but it sold out by that time. Some things say there were 500 and if I emember this right the first 300 had some extra accessory the others didn't, or was it the ones after the first 300? I can't remember. All I know is I got a really cool figure for a decent price. Shit was originally $200 or something batshit insane like that as per the standard.
I've got quite a few 3rd Party figures. I have a Mech Ideas Fisitron (Ironfist) that I bought secondhand a few years ago that happened to have some reprolabels applied (both the full set intended for reprolabels as well as a Wreckers autobot logo on his shoulder which I thought was a nice touch) and a non-Hasbro 'My First Blaster' which I forgot the company that made it (it was designed for a 3rd Party Swerve, which I only figured out after I realized the handle was too small to fit into the 5mm hand on the Generations Legends figure, so it sits at that figure's feet because damnit I love how stupid that gun is).
I actually prefer The Fallen’s movie design,Yeah, like I said, aside from the reverse-name thing going on so Megatron names himself after The Fallen (which allows the lore bit about him first simply being 'Miner D-16' to also remain true as part of his Fallen Spartacus like origin), everything about Megatronus is dumb. Even his design from the Covenant is uninspired - ironic given how his original War Within incarnation was itself a rejected Megatron design but at least there he looked like a giant sentient furnace constantly on fire which fits the character. Aligned Megatronus looks like a more cobalt painted Aligned Megatron wholesale.
And Liege is there in name only, honestly, since he was at the end of the G2 comics. They clearly didn't know what to do with him.
Good point about The Last Autobot, I forgot all about him but he absolutely should be the Thirteenth.
I VEHIMENTLY disagree that Quintessa ever needs to be made a bigger part of the franchise, though, I absolutely despise that character and she would ruin everything because according to Lorenzo di Bonaventura, she actually was human to begin with.
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I’m primarily a Hasbro collector because most 3Ps do Masterpiece scale stuff and I prefer Hasbro’s CHUG scale. That being said sometimes 3P puts out a figure that the cucks at Hasbro refuse to do.
Is it a Fathom thing? Their Gundam releases have looked like some 540p dogshit.
Originally Kingdom was supposed to be a pure 86 movie line, then the new Brand Manager forced in Beast Wars. Causing the 86 cast to be split across toylines.
