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  1. lastmaximal

    Your Top 10 of 2024

    I'll always wish for another cassette box set until it happens somehow. This is probably quite unlikely at this point, lol. Or hey, maybe have them pull a Legacy United Soundwave and release a Twincast with Rosanna, Rewind, and Nightstalker. I already have Twincast/Rewind, but I may talk myself...
  2. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    The box art for this line was all tweaked versions of earlier box art anwyay, but I'd rather the toys match the toys. Even going with Mirage/Hoist or Scraphook for the other Autobots doesn't preclude using a Motormaster for Prime in this scenario. Of course the next question is the feasibility...
  3. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    Yeah, I can see Shadewing's objection to this. The Autobots in particular sacrifice better likenesses for the inexplicable benefit of being a combiner, and I for one would much rather have the former. Combiner Wars and POTP tired me out on the "so you look very little like you're supposed to...
  4. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    Wasn't the first use of that Legacy mold AS Skyquake? Albeit with a lackluster headsculpt.
  5. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    And I am eternally grateful that they did. Of ideas that have been on the table but not seen fruition, I guess. There's still a bunch of stuff out there. And this is the team that dipped into Halloween Horrorcons (to make, well, one of them) for a Cheetor redeco. (I do appreciate that batch...
  6. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    Well, that's a shame. But then, maybe it's a matter of being outvoted for what seemed like better capsules. There have been a few less-than-stellar items but generally the capsules have been pretty good. Maybe someday after they make a Thunderclash!
  7. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    Ah, so my Skyquake in storage gets to be yet another Schrodinger's pile of bits. Hoo-freakin-ray.
  8. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    That's interesting background, but not really the point I was making. I think what hurt them more was the availability of molds they could use as marketable characters/designs, and the ease or lack thereof of working with the factories to get colors and sculpt ideas across and executed as...
  9. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    That was one of the rougher Botcons. Some of the souvenirs were better than the stuff from the box set, which was half not Machine Wars (but which was two very good figures nonetheless) anyway. Just a tough time between available molds and markerable concepts, especially for the numbers Botcon...
  10. lastmaximal

    Your Top 10 of 2024

    Iirc people also wanted more blast effects (although I myself am not super into having them in only those two colors). And Tricranius himself was pretty neat! I do wish we'd gotten more in the style of the Centurion Drone. That one quickly climbed out of my price range on the secondary market...
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    Toys New pictures of AOTP Leader class G2 Grimlock and Wheelie

    Autobase Aichi brings our attention to an eBay auction that seems to showcase the upcoming G2-themed redeco of Studio Series 86 Grimlock and Wheelie. The big bozo King of the Dinobots is in his blue G2 variant colors (with the G2 faction sigil/name label), while Wheelie is in his two-tone...
  12. lastmaximal

    Your Top 10 of 2024

    Likewise no real order, just notable from the year: Legacy United Silverbolt Legacy United G1 Optimus Prime Legacy United Magmatron SS86 Optimus Prime Star Raider Filch Star Raider Ferak Gobots 3-pack Studio Series Mohawk Earthspark DX Terran Hashtag Notable but don't have them yet: Fractured...
  13. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    I think that's what they went for. I had the original toy briefly (gave it up in a batch of stuff because of financial reasons) and am very fond of its colors, so I was hoping to see it again. But the focus is different here, alas.
  14. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!

    I so wish this had more of the original toy's pink rather than lavender. Maybe it'll get the same 14 redecos its G1 namesake did.
  15. lastmaximal

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: 2026 Computer Listings - Big Convoy, Quickstrike, Armada Sideways, and more.

    This does say "multipack", distinct from "two pack" as previously specified for the G2 dinos. And "presumably for Target" suggests it might be in line with what recent Target exclusive multipacks have tended to be (outside, sure, the early-Buzzworthy 2-packs and the We Dead SS86 2-packs that...
  16. lastmaximal

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: 2026 Computer Listings - Big Convoy, Quickstrike, Armada Sideways, and more.

    I thought it was another 4-pack, like the former Buzzworthy ones. If it is, these 2 out of 4 are already selling me on it. And there's no shortage of fun Deluxes they could do to round it out. Like maybe Riggorus, Roulette, Nightra, Double Punch, another of the Corvicons... And if it is just a...
  17. lastmaximal

    Masterpiece Theater: the MP thread

    ...yes, that's what I was saying. Some people didn't care enough about it. Or some people didn't care enough about that specific flaw. Or some people cared about that flaw, but weren't bothered enough by it to discuss it. Or some people cared about that flaw, but didn't see the point of...
  18. lastmaximal

    Toys In-hand pics of Studio Series 116 VW Bumblebee 2.0

    Weibo user @NOTRAB offers a look at another upcoming figure in the Studio Series redo of VW Beetle mode Bumblebee from the 2018 Bumblebee solo movie. Studio Series figure 116 features some notable differences, chief among them new ways to arrange the car kibble on the back of the robot mode to...
  19. lastmaximal

    Masterpiece Theater: the MP thread

    Part of me does wish he'd gotten more extensive redecoing like most of the BM-era Dinobots did. But it was also a cool move to release him mostly as is.


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