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  1. JB0
    I find it incredibly ironic that Grassor came with the toy's missile launcher but has no shoulder holes to peg it into, while Studio Slag has the shoulder holes but no missile launcher to peg into them. Studio Slag looks like a pretty solid take on the character, though the transparent plastic of the Primes version is sorely missed(almost as much as the wings were missed on the Primes version).
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    That is a darn shame. If you could, that would make that pretty clean by the standards of aerial transformers.
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    Cybertron 'Bee is, in fact, a darned sight more impressive than I was expecting. Can his head be rotated around so you're seeing the back of it on his underside instead of the face? My local Target had some pegs that weren't empty. They were packed with this guy, and pretty much only this guy. But it scratches an itch I wasn't feeling, so... on the peg it stays. They did, however, have ONE of the four-pack with Fangry and three other losers. I was shocked. The box was a bit crushed, but... I don't buy this crap for the boxes. I gotta admit, the price tag was pretty steep, but... FANGRY! And Bumblebee Hubcap Bumper isn't actually that bad of an option. Nemesis Primal isn't a mold I was interested in, but in-hand he's actually quite pleasing. Fangry's not actually very good, really. He's a reworking of Titans Grotusque(a reworking of Titans Doublecross/Twinferno). His transformation mostly consists of "fold the legs back onto each other and claim they're a tail, then flip the wolf head down over the neck hole". Seriously, the werewolf arms are literally just the robot arms with the fists folded in and wolf fists folded up over the emtpy wrists. Barely even worth mentioning, and I'm surprised they bothered. But to be perfectly fair, the original Fangry wasn't very good either, with a transformation consisting mostly of "flip the robot upside down, then fold the arms over the neck hole and claim they're a tail". My biggest gripe is that reusing the original Twinferno wings means he has a much smaller wingspan than I associated with the character. Though he's also the only one in the box that doesn't come with a weapon. My biggest praise is that IT'S A FANGRY! the wolf jaw feels like it is on a soft ratchet instead of a friction joint. Which means it pivots open when you lift it off his back and flip it down over the neck hole. My biggest point of confusion is that the headmaster was molded ENTIRELY out of black plastic, despite being mostly not black. The green face, purple arms, and purple legs are ALL painted. Rather heavily in the legs' case, giving them a rounded-off melty look. (For those keeping score on accuracy, the original Fangry headmaster had a purple torso and arms with black legs. The Titans Return Fangry head with no robot to attach it to had a purple torso and legs with black arms, and this one has purple arms and legs with a black torso. We've got every possible color combination covered at this point. The Masterforce cartoon was VERY loyal to the toy designs of the era, so black legs with purple torso and arms would be anime-accurate.)
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    True. But they're still based on the illustrations instead of vice-versa. Often the complaints about the first toys not being cartoon-accurate are presented as though those toys were an ineptly-bungled attempt to bring the illustrations to life, which (regardless of preference) isn't fair to the designers. Anyways! The "then and now" display is really friggin' cool.
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    It is even fair to complain about toon accuracy in the season 3 toys, since they were designed to be animated from the start!
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    Hooray! I saw the damage and figured you'd never get all the little bits back in one place. Good luck reassembling them.
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    The lion stand is fantastic. Easily the best part.
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    I just wanna watch the strong guy throw the laughing skullface guy into a lake...
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    That "hi-spec" tachikoma is a lot closer to the fuchikomas I wanted to see in the first place. I actually like it.
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    Neither was the original toyline or the Dolph Lundgren movie. Hell, it wasn't the full title of the original cartoon either. That doesn't change what everyone called all three of them. If you use the name "Masters of the Universe", then everyone will call the show He-Man and expect it to be ABOUT He-Man. And if you use He-Man as your primary marketing angle, then people are going to be even more justified in believing that a show named after the original He-Man toyline and cartoon, featuring a swath of original He-Man toyline and cartoon characters, is going to be about He-Man punching Skeletor and throwing his lackies off bridges repeatedly. If they had called it Teela and the Masters of the Universe, you'd have a fair argument. But no, they actively worked for a bait&switch. They wanted everyone to think it is He-Man, believe it was He-Man, get hyped for He-Man, and then make a show that is NOT He-Man.
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    I can believe it. Car companies are a lot more watchful about their trademarks(or anything remotely related). It sucks, though.
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    The only of the original carbots I ever had was Tracks. And his legs snapped off at the hip during transformation. RIP.
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    Liberated from his cardboard prison, he now breathes the air of a free 'bot. Or something.
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    Oh yeah, the Lancer would've been a great choice at the time. It might've been TOO new for the designers, though? The Diaclone Scramble City toys had been intended to be hitting shelves IN 1985, before Hasbro's success with Transformers completely sidelined Takara's original plans and they moved to reissuing the previous year's toys as Transformers. Not that that "the plane isn't out yet" ever stopped people from making toys and models based on it, but... By contrast, at the time the B-70 had already been cancelled for being technologically obsolete, the prototypes relegated to experimental status, and the plane seemingly destined to obscurity. I will admit that In the mid-80s, the Valkyrie would've been a poor choice. (But making a war machine out of the Concorde wasn't?) Pushing for a Valkyrie now is partially a compromise, to keep a similar(but by no means identical) profile to the Concorde. ... And partially just a shameless attempt to badger someone into making a transforming Valkyrie(no, not THAT one!), because I want to see one. Not that anyone's listening, but if they are... I'd also like an X-29 robot please?
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    Playmates: Because our quality control is more consistent than Eaglemoss.
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    I still don't understand why they don't just make Silverbolt an XB-70 Valkyrie. It is a long narrow plane that is SUPPOSED to have a big box on the underside. But yeah,. they could do a LOT better with the Concorde than they are.
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    Action Masters is the term. 😛 Yeah, the lack of actual transformation is a huge downer. I'm getting Action Master Windblade because it ticks a specific aesthetic I like.
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    I'm really surprised to see Flame Toys is doing Arcee. After the Windblade drama bomb, I expected them to just go "nope, no more girlformers" rather than risk another landmine.
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    Tequila Gundam's a gunslinger too!
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    No G or Wing, no sale!
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    That depends entirely on whether he gives his monkey face to Crazimus after he takes it off.
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    Optimus Primal makes no sense because he transfoms from one primate form to another. Humanoid to gorilla isn't a transformation, it's just standing up straight.
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    I think there's actually a small chance for an andorian.
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    Yeah... I'm not really convinced StrikerS was a show that needed to be made. A's was always going to be a tough act to follow, and they shouldn't have tried if they weren't going to bring their A game(no pun intended). While it has its moments, and there's some interesting stuff in it, ultimately the show they made wasn't really the show anybody wanted.
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    For that price it should be the dual-screen version. I say this as someone who can't see the price because "see price in cart" and "presold out", but has seen enough of the Arcade 1-Up product line to venture a guess.
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