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Superomegaprime

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I'm not big into 3p figures, but I still kinda want that Airachnid...

Its a heavy retool of the original TFPRID toy, I have both in my collection and the third party verison is superior, the same company produced a upscale of the TFP first Edition deluxe Megatron and its WAY better than the old Voyager class figure, the cannon is more faithful to the show, plus my copy has a lovely silver paint job, I got mine from this site:


The link takes you to the page with the group that does the third party verisons of TFP figures, I highly recomend getting Megatron in silver while you can as that is SO Megatron
 

Gizmoboy

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I'm not big into 3p figures, but I still kinda want that Airachnid...
I get it. I do have some 3P figures in my collection, but very few. This one... I'm loving her. Her proportions are much more faithful to the animation. Plus, this tracker mode is absolutely fantastic.
 

LBD "Nytetrayn"

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I was hoping that they'd have a Decepticon chicken sandwich or something but they didn't.
"One Purple Griffin fillet sandwich, please."
 

Agent X

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An early out at work Wednesday allowed me to do some 'surgery' on a few Transformers.

First, I took 2 junker Powerglides; one I had for 20 years, and another I got at a TFCon, and combine to have one good one.

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Then I installed the Nonnef upgrade for Studio Series 86 Sludge.
(Not shown, the improved knees in action)

Before:
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After:
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Finally, I swapped an arm from my original Energon Demolishor onto one a friend who has since passed gifted me, after buying a Cubic Buttload of his toys.

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LBD "Nytetrayn"

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Early holiday present!

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So yeah, this is awesome to have. I wound up with a ton of Animated toys during that show's run, and one Optimus Prime -- the Cybertronian mode, which was... alright? I guess? He didn't hold together very securely.

All the neat toys were based off his Earth form, but I never wound up with any of those. So I'm glad to finally have some better representation of him in my collection, and this one is really solid!

Almost got him transformed without instructions on my first try, too. The legs didn't unfold the way I thought they would, so I decided to check before I accidentally broke something. But I figured the rest out!
So hey, that early present of Animated Optimus Prime?

Wasn't the only thing. Got the other part of my gift on Thursday. Opened it yesterday and took pictures, and now I'm posting those today!

Coming through the portal into the multiversal melange that is Transformers Legacy is...

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G2 Universe Jazz!

I like Jazz, but didn't have the original mold this was based on. And I love orange. Along with black, it's my favorite color. (I generally like black with orange highlights, but I like the inverse or other mixes, too.) And of course, that means I love orange Transformers.

So, on the Wish List he went. And here he is now.

Here he is, in box:

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The orange with green slime also gives it a real Nickelodeon vibe, which I like, but that doesn't really carry over to the toy itself.

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I love the comic-style art on here. Ironically, I don't think Jazz ever appeared in the G2 comic book -- in these colors, or any others. At least, not for much more than a crowd-filler appearance.

Here he is, freed from his cardboard constraints, and all the heat he comes with.
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Funny thing about this, actually. For those who don't know, the old, unearthed art this was based on featured Jazz with his shoulder missile launcher, which Studio Series Jazz did not come with, because he didn't have that in the cartoon.

So what they did is include the orange gun and the missile launcher from another toy, Hound, and you're supposed to kludge them together on his back to form an over-the-shoulder missile launcher.

And I may do that someday. But for now, I like having this Special Ops agent armed to the teeth, and the missile launcher holds well enough between his windshield backpack and his torso for standing around poses.

Now, it's time to transform and roll out!

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And here's his Martini Racing Porsche 935/76 alt-mode. Just don't tell Porsche; they changed it just enough to not be exact, as far as I know.

Getting him there was a little trickier than I expected. Turns out there's an unusual step in the transformation that basically involves turning his abs -- and only his abs -- opposite the rest of his body.

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Finally, past and future collide (in more ways than one), as this week's 1992 Generation 2 throwback joins up with last week's 2007 Animated throwback!
 

lastmaximal

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Wall of text warning. I'll put it behind a spoiler...
40th Anniversary photoshoot: Cybertron

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I needed a boost of positivity after being sick and just... the enormity of this week, and I realized I'd put off writing this response for a while, so here goes.

Cybertron, man. What a time. What a toyline. What an absolute peak of this franchise's history.

At this point Armada and especially Energon had kind of disconnected me from the fiction and had me living 95% in the toys. Then, Cybertron was first felt in reveals of something called "Galaxy Force". Designs, show models, then toys, and the buzz was about. I wasn't really invested in whether or not it continued on from Energon -- I don't think I knew or cared at the time how the Energon series had even ENDED, despite riding very high on the toys. But the initial reveals of Convoy, Megatron, Dreadrock, Exillion, Vector Prime, Guardshell... these designs looked amazing, especially as a further design evolution from the Armada and Energon lines. Nicely-proportioned, neat design elements, all looking fresh and interesting while still feeling very Transformers-y, NONE hampered by a top-down powerlinking gimmick -- all making for an exciting time. Starscream was the closest we'd gotten to a version of the old tetrajet, Dreadrock seemed like a simple transformation that turned out to be a nice and hefty-looking robot, and Vector Prime was a gorgeous, ancient, ornate design (if one with a weird altmode). And, of course, Convoy/Optimus Prime was a sheer triumph, going from a very substantial altmode to an incredible stylized bruiser of a robot that had "this is THE leader" radiating from its every surface.

This was a great few years in general, coinciding with a part of my life I still look back on fondly (in that it was complicated enough by grownup obligations to be interesting and not TOO rose-tinted, but still far away enough from the complexity and occasional despair of now to fittingly be called Simpler Times). And Cybertron was the crest of it, leading into another renaissance in the Movie era (that was accompanied early on by continuing uses of Cybertron molds).

To this day I'm not too familiar with how the show went and ran, but I gather it was much better received than the previous ones, and did a good, fun job with its dub and the new characters/concepts it introduced and played with. Maybe one day I'll rediscover the show, but I'm more than sold on the strength of this diverse toyline alone.

The simple brilliance of a narrative excuse to throw in a bit of everything (itself a great way to open the franchise lore at the time WAY up) resulted in a line that had, well, a bit of everything. And in an intentional way that all hung together cohesively, unlike how homage lines like Legacy are also "a little of everything" in the way that a supermarket is also "a little of everything". Beasts, Earth style vehicles including a Dauphin rescue copter, a muscle car, and basically a Bugatti, greebly futuristic Cybertronian vehicles, Mini-Cons, gigantic vehicles, weird angular otherworldly spacecraft, new decos and looks, a robust amount of homage-themed ones, and even a line-wide gimmick that managed to not compromise the toys too much (and other gimmicks like being Prime's armor bits that also still kept the main toys good-to-great).

AND Takara was cooking up some additional fun too, with Armada mold retools into Longrack, Blurr, Runabout (Cyb Runamuck), and Buzz Saw. AND they'd get their Mini-Cons in a Micron Booster set, AND some neat exclusives. AND Hasbro kept it going with the Primus Unleashed subline imprint, which added the first ever mainline Primus (and capped off the trilogy with another planetformer), Mini-Con versus packs that had some neat lore of their own, and homages like Excellion (which, man, I don't think I've anticipated a toy of that sort more -- even Studio Series 86 Hot Rod himself didn't hit like this did for me).

The toyline had undeniable misses. Some otherwise-nice toys were still designed in a way that resulted in them lacking basic joints (Scattorshot, Scourge), and some others had different flaws -- Override's transformation gimmick, Thundercracker's floppy too-long arm, and the fiddliness of getting Soundwave into his altmode are strikes against still-fun toys. But these were blips in a tide of great stuff, with some new designs being among the best achievements of their era. Even the PACKAGING I would put up against anything from any TF series (there was a run there in the 2000s when Hasbro's packaging game for most of their lines was on a hell of a roll). This was a line with so much... texture? and I never wanted it to end.

This I think was the most fun a kid-oriented main line has ever been, and the most attached I've been to one. The only other time I've had as much affection for a line is with Botbots, and that's not the same kind of line at all. I'd contend that none of the also-quite-good kid/main lines since have really matched it (despite some having such potential to), mainly because the role that such lines play for the brand has changed so much. They all do their thing well, but it's not the sort of thing a line needed to do during the UT (before the Movies changed the brand's scope going forward). Not any Movie line, not Animated, not Prime, not RID2015, not Cyberverse, not EarthSpark. None of them is as everything as Cybertron, and it's a good thing none of them need to be.
 
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tec

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I got this big guy and restored the periscope function by measuring and cutting up a toy mirror
Works like a champ
Also he has a new name

Shades Shadow

Black as night with a spark that's just as dark
This night assassin will stab you in the back from the air!
and has the tech to do so with enhanced stealth and sensor capabilities
Speed 7
Strength 6
Intelligence 8
Firepower 7
Courage 4
Rank 5

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Next week something as dark as night
 


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