Pirate vs Knight
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Pirate vs Knight
Thundertron: "Good God they’re makin’ ‘em big nowadays. Don’t they know there’s a gas crunch on?"
Man. Finding spots for Guardian symbols on these guys was tough. The triangles can't cover an Autobot or Decepticon symbol unless there's a huge size difference, and they don't have much front-facing flat real estate besides that. (You can see On Smallfoot I just gave up.)
I really wish this could have happened with the T30-era molds. I don't like any of these as much as those, with Gears/Smallfoot unfortunately being a negative standout.
So I dig G1 Skids. His obscurity relative to most of the rest of the '84 cast gives him hipster cred, his G1 toy was just imbued with a lot of Diaclone energy, and I just dig the Honda City as a car. Legacy Skids did a very good job capturing the feel of him, even if they had to go with a legally distinct version of the alt mode.
Thankfully the deco is very toy accurate over cartoon accurate so some reprolabels spruced him right up. Except...he has black hands. And Skids' G1 toy had red hands.
Well I went through the process of applying the stickers so I wouldn't stop there. One junker Crosscut fist swap later and...
...there's my boy.
Thankfully the deco is very toy accurate over cartoon accurate so some reprolabels spruced him right up. Except...he has black hands. And Skids' G1 toy had red hands.
Well I went through the process of applying the stickers so I wouldn't stop there. One junker Crosscut fist swap later and...
...there's my boy.
Toy deco wins again.
I see you too are a man of culture.
I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see that expression not be about porn.
See I always encountered it in a non-porn context. Mostly in sports talk. I only recently found out it was co-opted by pervs.
Bloody pervs.
Sadly, I can't. Crosscut himself had red hands, so my actual Crosscut in my collection kept his. I only swapped fists out for Skids when I found a junker Crosscut (missing his head and scuffed to heck) for cheap. So both of Skids and Crosscut proper have red hands in my collection.
This leaves Burnout as the odd one out but I'm ok with her keeping black hands. Her Diaclone toy had red hands but her original Botcon toy had black hands, so I'm ok with things as is unless I stumble on another junker Crosscut.
Well, now I feel like a perv for bringing it up, lol
Edit: for context, I've always understood this as a shared "I understood that reference". The perv/porn thing usually pops up without regard for the actual subject matter being discussed -- someone will make a comparison or namedrop a performer or character, and someone else will jump in with the expression. I'm not judging anyone's kinks or interests, just tired of how reductive it's gotten since 90% of the time "the punchline is porn" (which is also something that's come to infect meme culture).
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Meh, to folks outside of nerd culture, we're all pervs in some way, apparently.
I... don't think I want to validate that. Like, I get feeling resigned to it, but "it's the stereotype, what ya gonna do" doesn't sit well.
Getting ahead of that Zoids/Transformers/Diaclone crossover...
I wonder when Hasbro & Takara are going to release Thundertron repaint into Lio Convoy?
Probably never, since they have a dedicated Lio Convoy/Leo Prime mould in Generations now.
Takara could, as they have the Legends redeco as precedent. That looked really nice.
If I had to guess, I say the reason Takara released the Thundertron mold in the Japanese Prime line as Leo Prime in the first place was because they didn't want to release the Thundertron character in the line since he was part of a third faction that, by that point, was clearly not going to be in the cartoon (and was a character who only featured in American novels that weren't being released in Japan either), but still wanted to use the mold itself in some capacity.
Since TF One has everyone in a pre-war mood....
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So would Megatron be Newman?