[CUSTOM] not-Hasbro
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Sanjeev (Admin)
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January 11, 2012 09:41AM |
| January 11, 2012 02:31PM |
| January 12, 2012 02:28PM |
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Hmm...diecast parts and SPRING-LOADED pile drivers. Along with the doofy sculpt and lack of guns. Well, at least it isn't a complete crapfest.
Hmm...diecast parts and SPRING-LOADED pile drivers. Along with the doofy sculpt and lack of guns. Well, at least it isn't a complete crapfest.
| January 12, 2012 03:41PM |
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Sanjeev (Admin)
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January 12, 2012 05:00PM |
| January 13, 2012 10:09AM |
"Die-Klon" made me chuckle. If only they were made by Mah-key Toys.
Honestly, those seem semi-fun, but they just really look bad. The birthin' hips really kill the robot mode look for me. Still, I have to give 'em credit for putting them out at a reasonable price.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/2012 10:23AM by Heli88.
Honestly, those seem semi-fun, but they just really look bad. The birthin' hips really kill the robot mode look for me. Still, I have to give 'em credit for putting them out at a reasonable price.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/2012 10:23AM by Heli88.
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Sanjeev (Admin)
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January 13, 2012 02:34PM |
| January 14, 2012 07:28PM |
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Sanjeev (Admin)
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January 15, 2012 11:13AM |
| January 16, 2012 03:11PM |
To pracice what I preach, I'll be selling my official Music Label Soundwave in favor of this:
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/2012 03:13PM by gingaio.
[www.tfw2005.com]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/2012 03:13PM by gingaio.
| January 16, 2012 04:02PM |
| January 16, 2012 04:07PM |
I'll have to see this thing in color, but right now it just looks like a big engraved brick.
Music Label Soundwave wasn't that exciting, either - it was a neat concept, but it just doesn't LOOK like a modern mp3 player. It was sort of a weird inversion of the concept, instead of giving him a genuinely modern altmode, they gave him working modern functionality with a retro look. (The Ravage USB drive was an instant classic in my eyes, though, and I definitely need to pick one up.)
Honestly, I don't see either this or the Music Label as an across-the-board improvement on the G1 / Microchange toy. The posability is better, sure, but I think the original is unparalleled in pure elegant style.
-Paul Segal
"Oh, the anger is never far, never far." -SteveH
Music Label Soundwave wasn't that exciting, either - it was a neat concept, but it just doesn't LOOK like a modern mp3 player. It was sort of a weird inversion of the concept, instead of giving him a genuinely modern altmode, they gave him working modern functionality with a retro look. (The Ravage USB drive was an instant classic in my eyes, though, and I definitely need to pick one up.)
Honestly, I don't see either this or the Music Label as an across-the-board improvement on the G1 / Microchange toy. The posability is better, sure, but I think the original is unparalleled in pure elegant style.
-Paul Segal
"Oh, the anger is never far, never far." -SteveH
| January 16, 2012 10:05PM |
The surface detail is way overdone on this guy.
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| January 17, 2012 11:06AM |
Is this the first straight-up "we're making our own Masterpiece guy from scratch" third party thing? Because that's kind of impressive on its own.
I like that they're planning the cassettes, too.
Sadly, I gave up on MP a while back, so unless it's Classics-scale, I don't have much use for it.
I like that they're planning the cassettes, too.
Sadly, I gave up on MP a while back, so unless it's Classics-scale, I don't have much use for it.
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Sanjeev (Admin)
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January 17, 2012 11:36AM |
I don't mind it thus far...I mean, keep in mind how pronounced surface detail looks on matte grey prototypes. Until we see final production photographs of the full color product, we're not going to know exactly how this thing looks in-hand. The original G1 Soundwave has a ton of surface detail too...
| January 17, 2012 12:18PM |
Heli88 Wrote:
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> Is this the first straight-up "we're making our
> own Masterpiece guy from scratch" third party
> thing? Because that's kind of impressive on its
> own.
Eh that's kind of subjective since this doesn't have any engineering that surpasses any previous unlicensed toy. It's just the G1 toy with more human proportions and better articulation. And due to its simplicity and transformation, the G1 toy was pretty good in those regards anyway :3
The question I have is this scaled to micro-cassettes or proper 'Murkan cassettes.
I borrowed my friend's Ravage one time and thought it was so cool that I could stick it in the old answering machine.
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> Is this the first straight-up "we're making our
> own Masterpiece guy from scratch" third party
> thing? Because that's kind of impressive on its
> own.
Eh that's kind of subjective since this doesn't have any engineering that surpasses any previous unlicensed toy. It's just the G1 toy with more human proportions and better articulation. And due to its simplicity and transformation, the G1 toy was pretty good in those regards anyway :3
The question I have is this scaled to micro-cassettes or proper 'Murkan cassettes.
I borrowed my friend's Ravage one time and thought it was so cool that I could stick it in the old answering machine.
| January 17, 2012 06:43PM |
| January 17, 2012 07:52PM |
| January 17, 2012 08:48PM |
| January 17, 2012 10:06PM |
Thats some sexy awnsering machine porn right there.
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| January 18, 2012 02:25PM |
| January 18, 2012 08:48PM |
| January 19, 2012 06:11PM |
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> you tell me, old man
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> my lord Leibowitz don't play that game
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> you tell me, old man
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> my lord Leibowitz don't play that game
Jonathan Stewart Leibowitz?
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I want YOU for Moé Sucks Army
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| January 19, 2012 06:34PM |
| January 20, 2012 03:09PM |
Finally had a chance to mess with the Quintessons and they're really nice toys, even if the only articulation to speak of is on the Prosecutor (neck and rotating arms), which is probably my favorite of the three and which reminds me of some of those vegetable bad guys from Wheeled Warriors.
Really well sculpted and produced. It's strange how crappy some of IT's other stuff looks.
Oh, and as Fujikuro mentioned, Huffer does rock. Between the two of them, iGear and Maketoys have managed in the past couple of months to churn out some of the best minibots we've ever seen. I love the fact that iGear is giving its minibots handheld weapons.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2012 03:16PM by gingaio.
Really well sculpted and produced. It's strange how crappy some of IT's other stuff looks.
Oh, and as Fujikuro mentioned, Huffer does rock. Between the two of them, iGear and Maketoys have managed in the past couple of months to churn out some of the best minibots we've ever seen. I love the fact that iGear is giving its minibots handheld weapons.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2012 03:16PM by gingaio.
| January 20, 2012 04:02PM |
can they steal this design and make it cuz it's really handsome
also make a Pipes based on that
| January 20, 2012 07:32PM |
| January 21, 2012 10:43AM |
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> well it's done
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> now what
Next: Maketoys.
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> [www.tfw2005.com]
> -unlicensed-41/pictorial-review-of-tfc-toys-madble
> nder-and-hercules-174172/
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> well it's done
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> now what
Next: Maketoys.
Introducing Prometheus Rising Studio.
[prometheusrising.net]
I make 3D printed mecha action figures.
| January 23, 2012 07:34AM |
| January 23, 2012 04:54PM |
| January 23, 2012 05:29PM |
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Sanjeev (Admin)
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January 23, 2012 06:53PM |
That was a curiously short review from peaugh...did he do another featuring the combined mode's articulation, stability, durability, etc.?? I kinda want to see how the thing holds up all stacked together.
Then again, it'd probably be best to wait for a side-by-side review of this guy versus the MT version...
Then again, it'd probably be best to wait for a side-by-side review of this guy versus the MT version...
| January 24, 2012 06:12PM |
Mad Blender now in stock at BBTS. All TFC not construticons have now been released!!
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| January 24, 2012 06:46PM |
| January 27, 2012 09:01AM |
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Sanjeev (Admin)
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January 27, 2012 10:15AM |
The concept of a toy being optimized for certain poses is kind of an interesting one to me. Like, in the designer vinyl thread, we talked about "fight figures" (think original He-Man or TMNT toys), where the toy is pretty much locked in a "battle ready" pose. For classical robot toys, the pose was always the rigid, stand-at-attention pose. But for a lot of modern toys that are almost geared more for adults, we get a lot of crotch thrust or wide "A" stances.
That's one of my only criticisms of the Unicron toy: either he has a crazy-awkward-looking "attention" stance, where is ankles look bolted together, or he has a really wide A stance. Neither looks right to me: the ankles-together pose doesn't work on him like it does on a Jumbo Machinder, and the wide stance makes him look like he's about to do some chop-socky on your ass. Why would a planet-sized robot need to roundhouse kick me??? But like a lot of modern toys, he's just not designed to have a more natural standing pose. :/
That's one of my only criticisms of the Unicron toy: either he has a crazy-awkward-looking "attention" stance, where is ankles look bolted together, or he has a really wide A stance. Neither looks right to me: the ankles-together pose doesn't work on him like it does on a Jumbo Machinder, and the wide stance makes him look like he's about to do some chop-socky on your ass. Why would a planet-sized robot need to roundhouse kick me??? But like a lot of modern toys, he's just not designed to have a more natural standing pose. :/
| January 27, 2012 11:42AM |
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