Transformers

[Rollo Tomassi]

Double Post! Suck it, Masterpiece Grimmy.

Speaking of the five TFs I wanted, I walked into TRU yesterday and they had the new Generations waves I was looking at at ComicCon. I picked up Drift, and damn he's a sweet figure. I love his hidden swords shoved up his "sleeves" with the unfolding handles. How fuckin' cool is that?

[vynsane]

this guy? pretty cool looking! if LEGO wasn't my main focus at this point, i'd probably get him. maybe i still will... i like the swords and stuff. i just think it's funny that in a world of laser guns a dude shows up with some swords to fight with. at least lightsabers are LASER swords...

[anarky]

Funny how the most despised new TF character is also the coolest new TF figure, eh?

[anarky]

Rollo, check this out.

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... zz-170308/

You may be getting some Transformers next year, after all.

THUNDERWING!!!!!

[vynsane]

WTF??? gestalt dinobots????

[Rollo Tomassi]

Funny how the most despised new TF character is also the coolest new TF figure, eh?

Eh. While I hated that upstart Riccochet (where the fuck did HE come from, retconned G1 character?) I liked the Drift Spotlight issue and now he's in the regular book, I'm a fan. I like the ex-Decepticon angle.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Rollo, check this out.

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... zz-170308/

You may be getting some Transformers next year, after all.

THUNDERWING!!!!!

Jazz and Tracks are definites for me. Grapple and Thunderwing perhaps, depending on how nice they look in person.

[anarky]

But, dude, it's fucking Thunderwing! The only Decepticon to ever use the Matrix.

[anarky]

Rollo, did you "get" the joke in Straxus' deco? ("M17"?)

[Rollo Tomassi]

No! I missed that. Or didn't make the connection. (But I immediately went and looked at him after I read the post).
That's a nice touch. Well played, Hasbro. Well played.

[Ran]

I keep seeing a Transformer named "Mudflap". Did he get that name because he shits his pants a lot?

[anarky]

Grapple and Windcharger are supposedly showing up at Ross. Hasbro really screwed the pooch here. The last few waves are impossible to get; I dig Skullgrin and Thunderwing and Straxxus, but I'm smart enough to know I'm not the majority. Good luck finding Wheeljack, Thundercracker, or Warpath, y'all.

Anyway, the reason I dredged this thread up was to link to this: http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopCul ... 194308.jsp.

Don't you think it would've been cooler if the cassette images were all of the cassettes, or at least all of the Decepticon cassettes? Or, hell, at least all five of the originals. (What's with screwing Buzzsaw out of the image? If you had Soundwave, you had Buzzsaw, though you probably pretended he was Laserbeak.)

Just seeing if I can name all the cassettes who got American release without looking. Anyone want to check? (And fuck the dozen or so Japanese repaint cassettes. If I wanted a girl Ravage, I'd shoot myself in the head.)

Wave 1 Decepticons:
Buzzsaw (packed with Soundwave)

Frenzy and Laserbeak

Rumble and Ravage

Wave 2 Decepticons:
Ratbat (packed with a Frenzy re-release... sorry, Laserbeak)

Wave 3 Decepticons:
Overkill
Slugfest

Wave 4 Decepticons:
Squawktalk and Beastbox (combine to form Squawkbox)

Wave 1 Autobots:
Rewind and Steeljaw
Eject and Ramhorn
(I might be mixing up the packaging here. Since they never played a role in anything and were identical except for the color, Rewind and Steeljaw are about twice as boring as the average fuck.)

Wave 2 Autobots:
Grand Slam and Raindance (combine to form Slamdance)

Of all these, I'm going to say the coolest 2-pack was, easily, Rumble and Ravage. Both were really nice toys, and both were highly prominent characters in all media. Plus the characters were fucking awesome. Ravage might've been able to carry the set all by himself, but Rumble was icing on the cake.

The lamest was Grand Slam and Raindance (though I never had the Decepticon combiner cassettes). Theoretically, they're fucking awesome: two cassettes transform into a tank and a plane, both bristling with weapons, that combine to form a robot who has more guns per square centimeter than probably any other Transformer. But then you read the bios, and they're both pacifist reporters who record the horrors of war in an effort to end it, and all their "weapons" are either harmless defensive smoke cannons or recording devices. Sure, there's irony that the tank and plane are pacifists, but kids don't get or want irony. Plus, neither cassette has a robot mode (kinda goofy, since they have distinct personalities), and the tank (Grand Slam) was a fucking cheap piece of shit.

Look me in the eye and tell me there were any kids who, if they read the bios, didn't discount them entirely and have those two components be the baddest-assed mofos in Blaster's tummy.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Yes, once again I am pissed at Hasbro and all retailers. I was looking forward to Tracks, Jazz, Perceptor, Wheeljack, Thundercracker, and Warpath.
And now thanks to the dipshit film there are movie Transformers as far as the eye can see, which will pegwarm until Christmas.

[anarky]

Distribution is another issue. Tracks and Jazz were around here--not in huge numbers, but around. Perceptor practically pegwarmed for a few weeks. I wish I'd known you couldn't find him. No joke, he actually went on clearance at Target.

[Rollo Tomassi]

TRU, Target, WM haven't got any new waves since Chistmas. The Cliffjumper/Thunderwing waves was the last new one. Then, back in March, WM got these huge endcap shippers...and they were filled with Soundwaves, RedAlerts, Skullgrins etc. I mean like literally 100 useless fucking pegwarmers. And also the shitty little 'sneak preview' Optimus. And once the endcap things went away, they all went to the shelves. So my hopes of seeing anything new went out the window. And aside from the Rodimus/Cyclonus 2pack never saw ANY RevealTheShield waves. Ever. Like they didn't even bother ordering that subset.