ALL THINGS TRANSFORMERS!!!!

[Bonehead15]

The other problem is that Hasbro likes to release new and better versions of the characters after you've already bought them...

By the way, there are rumblings of transformers Mighty Muggs. I'm not sure how they would look, but I imagine I would really like them.

Not an offical Mugg but you get the idea.

Thnx! I'd been tempted to get a few of these for a while and the other day AFX had 4 of them on sale on the cheap. I figured I'd get a couple others that I wanted plus I'm getting a couple more that are SDCC Ex.

If you like the G1 busts then you'd better buy them now. Someone who works for Diamond has said that sales have been awful on the busts and that the line will probably be canceled, which is why you got such a good deal on them. There are still about 15 busts sculpted that haven't been released yet and a few that haven't been even announced along with 3-5 statues. Hopefully Diamond will comment on the rumors at SDCC.

 

[icruise]

Is that Mugg a custom?

 

[The Josh]

If you like the G1 busts then you'd better buy them now. Someone who works for Diamond has said that sales have been awful on the busts and that the line will probably be canceled, which is why you got such a good deal on them. There are still about 15 busts sculpted that haven't been released yet and a few that haven't been even announced along with 3-5 statues. Hopefully Diamond will comment on the rumors at SDCC.

Really? Yeah, I may have to get a few more of them then. May have to ask about the lines life line at SDCC if the end is near or possibly near.

 

[bagelsncheesey]

Killer pics Josh. Nice collection you got going so far

 

[Bonehead15]

Is that Mugg a custom?

Yes. A friend of mine at one of the TF boards made it.


He used some kind of Mugg-type figure from Japan as the base but I don't know which one.

 

[Elder_Predator2]

That looks real cool.

 

[icruise]

Tankor sucks. That is all.

 

[Ra88]

They look like the Transfomers I watched as a kid. I don't get why you can't get that.

IMO: Odd proportions that are even weirder then anything seen with Dreamwave, bad sculpting, unposeable, etc etc. And I know I'm not the only one who thinks like that...This is the first place I've seen that has some love for these things.

 

[bagelsncheesey]

IMO: Odd proportions that are even weirder then anything seen with Dreamwave, bad sculpting, unposeable, etc etc. And I know I'm not the only one who thinks like that...This is the first place I've seen that has some love for these things.

First place =

 

[The Josh]

IMO: Odd proportions that are even weirder then anything seen with Dreamwave, bad sculpting, unposeable, etc etc. And I know I'm not the only one who thinks like that...This is the first place I've seen that has some love for these things.

Proportions look fine to me as does the sculpting. As far as being poseable you do realize they're busts and you don't pose those? I'm sure there are many a Transformers Fanboy that doesn't like them.

First place =

 

[The Craw]

First place =

maybe we should start a club or a t-shirt or something.

 

[DarthNeil]

Nothing wrong with Tankor...

Not a Classic G1 is all that I meant...

I broke down and bought one of the animated Starscreams today-- of course it's the smaller $9 one but still...

 

[icruise]

No, you were right. The Tankor figure is by far the weakest of the 3 and I regret buying him.

 

[DarthNeil]

No, you were right. The Tankor figure is by far the weakest of the 3 and I regret buying him.

If I don't remember a character from A) the original comic from '84 or the B) original tv show then I won't buy him. Tankor fits into that category---- now Prowl (one of my all-time favourites... I always likened him to Spock) and Sunstreaker-- those are CORE characters and need to be acquired.

 

[bcm77]

Actually Tankor was a G1 character called Octane,Hasbro had some issue with the copyright for the name and had to change it.
The Henkei version is being listed as Octane though so maybe it was only a copyright issue for the US release.
Here's a link to the official Takara pages for the latest Henkei releases which are Skyfire and Ramjet,

https://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/products/henkei/lineup/c06.html

https://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/products/henkei/lineup/d04.html

 

[DarthNeil]

I've got that Skyfire/Jetfire.

I remember Octane... a peripheral character at best and not one that I really associate with my core G1 characters. Still a pass from me.

Ideally I'd like to recreate the Autobots ARK bridge just as they've cleared the asteroids and the Decepticons have attacked--- those are the Transformers in this Classics line that I'm truly gunning for.

 

[The Craw]

i got the henkei ramjet and jetfire on preorder. hopefully they arrive soon.

 

[icruise]

I'm talking purely about the Tankor figure -- it's just not very well made.

 

[Elder_Predator2]

What's wrong with it man, I was gonna get him. Saw him at the store today, and he looked pretty cool in the box.

 

[Ra88]

As far as being poseable you do realize they're busts and you don't pose those?

Exactly, which is why I personally don't like them. Give me regular figures any day of the week over a statue...Though I wouldn't mind a movie Prime statue done by Sideshow.