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  1. CrockAlley

    Blasted Effing Blast Effects are Eating My Transformers!

    If I'm recalling correctly, one set is removable by screws (the shoulders, I think), but the other set is riveted (hips), so I had to rip them out.
  2. CrockAlley

    Blasted Effing Blast Effects are Eating My Transformers!

    Years back when we learned about the Bludgeon soft tread problem, I looked at mine and it was being damaged. I removed the soft treads from my Bludgeon, Banzaitron, GDO Megatron, "Gigatron", and Cloud Megatron. Ever since then, I've been wary of the soft plastics. I've always stored my blast...
  3. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    So, Maccadam is Alchemist Prime. The Last Autobot can be Vector Prime. Logos Prime = ???
  4. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    Yes! Primus is the Optimus Prime archetype. He has the Matrix. From the beginning, when Furman introduced the concept of Matrix bearers, Prima was at one end of the list, and OP was at the other. His Aligned incarnation even has chest windows. With OP as the Thirteenth, then Prima's legacy is...
  5. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    I have no specific qualms with the design, but… it’s okay to redesign things. Classics revamped lots of character visuals, while still being reconcilable as those characters. I love the G1 Star Convoy aesthetic, but I would hope for at least a slight stylistic update for a Generations version.
  6. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    Looks like Star Convoy comes with a Thirteenth Prime bauble. You can see it tucked away in his chest compartment. (Titan Master for comparison.)
  7. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    I've always been a bit sad that Generations Metroplex and the Combiner Wars torsos were not made to connect is any way. (Also, no CW limbs/Metroplex attachment, like the original.) I get that Metroplex was designed way before the CW stuff, but still, I'm sad.
  8. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    I'm interested in the FFOD bots, but I never liked the idea of Prima being retconned as this guy (and the way that it happened). Maybe I'll get used to it.
  9. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    I wouldn’t say any integral part of the brand was “ignored.” It was still transforming robots. Still Cybertron, Optimus and Megatron and so much more. Beast Wars “ignored” more than anything Aaron Archer did. I just don’t see any problem with any of that. Regarding suffixes and organizational...
  10. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    I guess I just don't see a problem there. I don't want to be chained in by "tradition," especially when it comes to very inconsequential aspects like a silly little suffix. I want experimentation and crazy new ideas. That's how we even got the concept of Mini-Cons in the first place, and I think...
  11. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    Why is that bad? Don't we constantly complain that there's too much G1 worship? I believe creating a good product does not require a reverence of the source material.
  12. CrockAlley

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

    40th Anniversary photoshoot: Classics, United, Universe, Generations, Legends, etc. Part 1 A selection of '84-'86 Autobot characters (and also Classics Mini-Cons and also Primus). More photos behind the spoiler:
  13. CrockAlley

    Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Wave 1 Box Art

    I was always annoyed that The Thirteenth Prime was really Optimus, because Prima is already an Optimus archetype. The whole idea seems redundant. I’m also sad that this new toy doesn’t have any abstract chest windows.
  14. CrockAlley

    The 2024 Us Presidential Election Thread

    Democratic politicians aren't making any serious shift to the left anytime soon. Politicians' policy follows the voters, and "the left" is a fickle group. I mean, any serious leftists would have voted for Kamala, because what the absolute hug, you're just gonna let Trump win again? He just held...
  15. CrockAlley

    The 2024 Us Presidential Election Thread

    I have no hope that he'll be gone. He's going to grasp onto power and attention until he's expired from natural causes. If he's still alive in four years, he'll try to run again. Separately, I'm pissed at myself for falling into the 2016 trap again. So many internet talking heads are saying...
  16. CrockAlley

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

    I just checked and it was on Primus' page, but has since been edited out. (Looks like Saix removed it from the wiki this past September with the note: "Enough", whatever that means.) Have there been any reports of this besides that one person on Twitter? Edit: Okay, so I just checked my...
  17. CrockAlley

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

    How widespread is this? I bought one way back when it first came out. I transformed many times, as recently as a couple months ago, and haven't had a problem. Also, I'm not seeing this addressed on the wiki: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Primus#Transformers_.282010.29 (I'm photographing all of my...
  18. CrockAlley

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

    I've been waiting for another Decepticharge for years. I can't believe they haven't revisited him even once.
  19. CrockAlley

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

    Exactly. I'm being a bit of a continuity nerd with his inclusion here. I only bought King Atlas because of that story.


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