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

So with the WFC trilogy all said and done, which was your favourite entry? I’m talking about toyline-wise BTW, Siege, Earthrise and Kingdom.
 
Judging from the purchases I made, Earthrise:

War For Cybertron Siege - Six Gun, Springer
War For Cybertron Earthrise - Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Hoist, Cliffjumper, Thrust, Runabout, Runamuck, Barricade, Punch/Counterpunch, Grapple, Trailbreaker, Generation 2 Ramjet
War For Cybertron Kingdom - Cyclonus, Inferno, Warpath, Huffer, Galvatron
 
Siege, since ultimately I only bought from that line. Cog, Brunt, and Pulse exclusive Exhaust.
 
Earthrise was the one I sunk the most capital into, I consoomed pretty hard and I’m not ashamed, it was a damn good toyline. Mercenaries, Scorponok, baseformers, Sky-Lynx, a G2 Megatron, the final Horrorcon, Diaclone, the best Micromasters, a proper Earth mode Ironhide/Ratchet, Quintessons and a dedicated Leader-Class Doubledealer with his old gimmick intact.
 
Thundermania said:
Earthrise was the one I sunk the most capital into, I consoomed pretty hard and I’m not ashamed, it was a damn good toyline. Mercenaries, Scorponok, baseformers, Sky-Lynx, a G2 Megatron, the final Horrorcon, Diaclone, the best Micromasters, a proper Earth mode Ironhide/Ratchet, Quintessons and a dedicated Leader-Class Doubledealer with his old gimmick intact.
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Oh, right, I keep forgetting that Apeface was Siege and Snapdragon was Earthrise, I have both of them, too. At this point it's all blending together in terms of which lines there are, I just collectively call it 'Classics' or 'Generations' at this point.
 
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Here’s something new, Threezero is doing (roughly Generations scale) figures with all the typical gimmicks die-cast, alternate parts and lots of joints. First one shown is Bumblebee, sporting an admittedly badass redesign. Actually curious to see the rest of the cast, especially Megatron who always benefits the most from redesigns.
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Bumblebee here reminds me of Centurion from the IDW1 comics
 
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Thundermania said:
So with the WFC trilogy all said and done, which was your favourite entry? I’m talking about toyline-wise BTW, Siege, Earthrise and Kingdom.
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I don't really have a specific go to favorite but siege really fucking hit it out nice and solid. Earthrise onward was plagued by exclusives and dogshit distribution to anyone other than scalpers on amazon and ebay. There also were a whole lot of weird QC issues with the pins and brittle ass plastic cracking, so by that standard, Siege is the best. There were still weird occasional defects with seige. That'd cause starscreams wings or prime's legs to explode. Thankfully I don't think my figures have that issue, but only time will tell. I don't have starscream, though. I've just got skywarp, who became the first of the "scalper exclusives" when they didn't restock him after the preorder like they did the prior exclusives. Well, him and the seeker 3 pack to be more exact on the ones I own.

Siege megatron is weirdly one of my favorite figures in this whole trilogy, even with the weird loose ankles. it's kinda funny because they keep coming out with variants of him. One of the best figures I have is a custom painted siege megatron I bought for $50 off a guy on ebay with a really cool realistic battered metal look about him. I've occasionally thought about adding paint details to it myself but I don't want to risk ruining it and making it look shit. Same guy had a unicron he apperently heavily customized over the span of a decade to be accurate to the g1 animation model and sold off for 300 when the new unicron was coming out and I was gonna save up for it but someone bought it before me. Dude replaced the chest missile with a tiny custom sculpted deployable revenge ship it was so much fucking cooler than the 500 dollar unicron. I almost went and tried doing something similar with used parts lots but armada unicron's now spiked in price to the same price as the re-releases since corona lockdown scalper hell times.

Kingdom/studio series 86 have been really cool so far (the few I've been able to find in stock at least.) Overall, these last few lines really have been the best transformers in a while. Looking forward to getting Galvatron eventually, weird minor color inaccuracies and all. Speaking of which, has anyone seen those factory leak pics of the "reformatting scene" style Galvatron?

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Shit looks great. makes me kind of want to try and find that Walmart exclusive "reformatting" RED megatron to go with him in the case he ends up being an actually obtainable exclusive.
 
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I don't like how haslab has quickly gone from "expensive shit we'd normally not produce" to "PREORDER THIS NOW ONE TIME ONLY EXCLUSIVE OF A CHARACTER PEOPLE WANT GET IT BEFORE THE DEADLINE CAUSE IT'LL BE A SCALPER EXCLUSIVE AFTER THAT LMAO" These figures normally would be like maybe voyagers or leaders if they came out a few years ago.

EDIT TO AVOID DOUBLE POST: of which galvatron sold out the one place that had him in stock as I was finally going to check out and he's back up to scalper price of 90 dollars everywhere again. I fucking hate this shit and I guess I'll have to wait till either next year or never into eternity to have a fucking normal ass galvatron.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
EDIT TO AVOID DOUBLE POST: of which galvatron sold out the one place that had him in stock as I was finally going to check out and he's back up to scalper price of 90 dollars everywhere again. I fucking hate this shit and I guess I'll have to wait till either next year or never into eternity to have a fucking normal ass galvatron.
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Pulse has been restocking galvatron weekly.

But none of these sites have implemented bot protection, ensuring that most people will have to rely on scalpers.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Pulse has been restocking galvatron weekly.

But none of these sites have implemented bot protection, ensuring that most people will have to rely on scalpers.
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I have not seen Galvatron go back in stock ONCE on pulse. Guess I'm just unlucky. I saw the thing go "in stock soon" on amazon weeks ago and the one I noticed this time was a much more fair price of 39.99 on gamestop's site. Eery online retailer is charging 55 dollars plus 5 to 10 dollar shipping for a 50 dollar figure bringing the price way out of my normal price-range for shit like this which makes this experience all the more shit.
 
I caved and backed Star Saber, also SG Blurr arrived today. I’ll upload some pics when I’m done work.
 
I backed Star Saber myself. For that price, what they're offering is a good deal and I'm not as bothered by the 'inaccuracy' some people are talking about regarding the figure. He looks full on 80s super robot and I am so into that aesthetic with him. I probably will not display him as Victory Saber just so Victory Leo gets some spotlight time on the shelf.
 
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Optimus Prime said:
I backed Star Saber myself. For that price, what they're offering is a good deal and I'm not as bothered by the 'inaccuracy' some people are talking about regarding the figure. He looks full on 80s super robot and I am so into that aesthetic with him. I probably will not display him as Victory Saber just so Victory Leo gets some spotlight time on the shelf.
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Same, I prefer Star Saber without his fur suit personally. It clashes with his “noble knight” aesthetic.

I’m curious what the later two stretch goals are, we know the first is a dedicated effects pack plus Leo’s big-ass cannon for his “tank” mode.
 
Thundermania said:
Same, I prefer Star Saber without his fur suit personally. It clashes with his “noble knight” aesthetic.

I’m curious what the later two stretch goals are, we know the first is a dedicated effects pack plus Leo’s big-ass cannon for his “tank” mode.
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I think one of them is going to be a flight stand.
 
Just noticed this on the Haslab page.
>This HasLab project marks many firsts for Transformers. In addition to being Hasbro’s first Japanese canon Transformers figure,
Sooo… are they just IRL retconning this thing out of existence then? Not that I'd complain, it was shit.

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