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[mikeszekely]

2 hours ago, Black Valkyrie said:

 

Kinda expensive ; 

 

 

 

 

I mean, kinda sums up the entire Missing Link line. But I'm pretty sure that's the same price as Sunstreaker and Cordon.

[obakesan]

3 hours ago, Black Valkyrie said:

 

Kinda expensive ; 

 

 

 

 

they are up for PO - AE has them at pay now price of 9,600 yen or pay later for 10,800 - slightly cheaper RRP. 

[mikeszekely]

Walmart exclusives.  Preorders should open at 10:00am ET/7:00am PT on Thursday, March 13th.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

12 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

Walmart exclusives.  Preorders should open at 10:00am ET/7:00am PT on Thursday, March 13th.

I really want that Sideways.  I always find it funny that the Hot Shot repaint basically uses his Galaxy Force name.

[M'Kyuun]

I'm a little tempted by Sideways. I have the Cybertron toy which I thought was one of the better figs of that line, not to mention one of Takara's better aircraft designs. IMHO, it was done so well, it really didn't require much of an update; in the case of the Legacy AotP fig, potential waist swivel and ankle tilts are about the only improvements over the OG toy, and perhaps better hip joints (the OG had ball joints IIRC). If I end up passing on this fig, I'll still be content with my OG toy which has been in storage for many years. FWIW, however, I think HasTak did a pretty good job on this new fig. I dig the look of it in both modes.

[mikeszekely]

I've never bothered to finish Cybertron, and didn't collect the original toyline, so I shouldn't be interested in him.  But I'll probably get him anyway.

...assuming Walmart actually honors their preorders.  I have preorders for the "toy" versions of Gears of Bumblebee.  They haven't filled those; my preorders just say "by March 31st."  But apparently Gears is showing as in-stock and if you place a new order you'll have him in like two days.🤨

While I didn't have the original Cybertron Sideways, I did have the Ratbat repaint that came with the Springer repaint of Evac.  I'd say based on that my wishlist will be replacing the ball joints with hinges and swivels, giving him ankle articulation, and that the weapon-thing with the pop-out blades be removable.\

I'll probably get Excellion, too.  I thought the mold was pretty good in Hot Shot colors, might as well get it in Hot Rod colors.

10 hours ago, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

I really want that Sideways.  I always find it funny that the Hot Shot repaint basically uses his Galaxy Force name.

I think a lot of Western naming for Unicron Trilogy characters was kind of weird.  Rampage gets changed to Wheeljack (despite looking way more like Sideswipe), so then later the guy who's definitely supposed to be Wheeljack winds up getting called Downshift.  Roadbuster is renamed Ironhide, despite have almost nothing in common with previous Ironhides.  As for Excellion, I think that's just Hasbro trying to make one of the main characters Hot Shot to reinforce the idea of a trilogy, despite the fact that Galaxy Force wasn't supposed to be a sequel to Micron Densetsu or Super Link.