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The designer input is a nice touch, it's too bad more snippets of such trivia can't be included with all their releases. On a related note, I was able to pick up a Big Daddy-pretty cool fig. It's actually made me look back at all the other Cybertron molds I missed out on.

So are those Target exclusive figures different than the Premium figs? IIRC, the Premium figs don't have the baby blue highlights.

Yeah, the plain blue WRX is underwhelming. At one point I was really hoping Supras, NSXs, and Skylines would somehow make their way in the Binaltech line. I had the same trouble. Do the fenders seem off kilter? I had to push down hard on the shoulders when they had to be folded inwards until they were fully flat.

I'm wondering if the weathering is the same type used on the 1st edition of the Low-vis. That stuff didn't feel very pleasant and came off way too easy.

I think if I ran into a 1/24 scale Ingram toy without hearing of its news, I would've crapped my pants. Damn, that's a big Ingram.

Then again, Hasbro might have nothing to do with these new repaints. They are are part of the Binaltech line, and I'm willing to think that Alternators are pretty much dead in th U.S. Isn't TakaTomy releasing G1 Ironhide in Movie colors? This silver Meister just seems to be part of that trend over in Japan.

Revoltech does Street Fighter...damn, that's a lot of kickass figures on the way!

Kawajiri-style Batman-hawt!

Meh, he's nuthin but a nuke junkie!

Damn, now that I've seen pics of black Incinerator, I dunno if I should still hunt down the domestic version. The head sculpt looks a whole better painted black, and even with the blue highlights, it still looks badass. I can't really say the same about the domestic version.

Excellent dry brushing up there! So it looks like most of All Spark Power figs are coming en masse. I've ran into a whole slew of Landmines, Evacs, and Voyager class repaints at two stores already. I was even able to pickup Cliffjumper, but still no Incinerator or Stockade.

It's too bad they couldn't just forego the red and white scheme and paint Powerglide in military green or give him some dark camo.

Stop animation in toy commercials; totally retro, totally sweet!

Wow, Octane looks awful in plane mode. I was stoked looking through Sunstreaker and Prowl's pics, but when I saw that craptacular looking plane, it almost put me off TFs for good. It's cool how Prowl's sculpt pays much homage to the the Datsun lineage-nice. As for Powerglide, he still looks stumpy in bot mode-I dig it. And his alt mode's proportions seem close to the old Cobra Rattler. Overall, I'm all in for Classics 2.0.

You got some boules d'acier to customize such an expensive toy, Ghostkiller. Good luck!

I think I'm gonna have to wait until Beagle puts out their bike before I commit to buy anything Mospeada related. Right now those CAD drawings are looking real sexy.

Downhill after Smokescreen? No way. The Subaru mold is the one I liked the least since the legs had to be folded correctly for everything else to click in place, and it always took me so long to find the right angle. Hound is nice; great to play with in both modes. I didn't think I'd like Skids, but I ended tinkering around with him more than the Viper brothers. IMHO, the Ford GT mold was the best designed one; very snazzy looking alt mode with a bot mode that's solid and articulate. And I'm not just saying that because Mirage is one of my fave TFs.

I would love to get my mitts on that Bonaparte tank model.

Nothing confirmed, just speculation, but it sounds like you gotta take that kid to an airshow stat!

Bukake Bank is fearing that the sudden surge of early withdrawals is going to leave everyone with egg on their faces. (Sorry, had to do it)

Damn, no Warpath. Oh well, a huge, bright red transforming A-10 would be just as good.

The figure looks cool, it'd look great with a TF Animated Bulklhead making some blocks for it. Cyberball anyone?

Yup, definitely looking forward to this.

Yeah, it was good to see Ratchet finally throwin down. I'm definitely liking his attitude compared to his G1 counterpart.

Anyone else catch the latest 2 Ep.s? Ep. 5 didn't have too much going on, but Ep.7 was a whole lot better. And for now, Lockdown (aka Mecha-Lobo) is turning out to be my fave villain.