Transformers general thread - Toy Robot men based on giant robots based on previously mentioned toys about said robots

[Marissa Moira]

So the Drunken hasbro rantings all turned out to be true

Artfire has an amazon listing, shattered glass jetfire, Gold Bug, Jurassic Park Crossover, Batman Crossover, G2 Grimlock, Halloween Horrorcons for generations, Even more Sideswipe and Seeker repaints.

 

[Thundermania]

Were any of you in the Hasbro Pulse “members stream” because if so holy fuck that was a shitshow. Two words, unmoderated chat.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Were any of you in the Hasbro Pulse “members stream” because if so holy fuck that was a shitshow. Two words, unmoderated chat.

This was GOOD Comedy

 

[Thundermania]

This was GOOD Comedy

The stream was cringe but holy shit that chat was glorious, Terry copypastas, a guy threatening Willis, everyone calling Hasbro faggots for all the exclusive bullshit, meme names, people sharing the link to 4chan so non-members swarmed in and my big contribution was when they interviewed the photography guy (who the chat claimed had a murder basement) and I typed.
“Chick isn’t half bad, tear open her mouth pussy with my monkey cock.” Under the name Archer4eva of course.
Chat was pulled down after that, so you could only submit questions, that was later pulled when a question got through asking if the next two back will be Barricade kneeling on Jazz’s throat.

 

[Marissa Moira]

The stream was cringe but holy shit that chat was glorious, Terry copypastas, a guy threatening Willis, everyone calling Hasbro faggots for all the exclusive bullshit, meme names, people sharing the link to 4chan so non-members swarmed in and my big contribution was when they interviewed the photography guy (who the chat claimed had a murder basement) and I typed.
“Chick isn’t half bad, tear open her mouth pussy with my monkey cock.” Under the name Archer4eva of course.
Chat was pulled down after that, so you could only submit questions, that was later pulled when a question got through asking if the next two back will be Barricade kneeling on Jazz’s throat.

Why Jazz? It would have been more appropriate for it to be his repaint, Stepper.

 

[Thundermania]

Why Jazz? It would have been more appropriate for it to be his repaint, Stepper.

Cause Jazz was the token black and it’s a meme on the TF thread on 4chan.

 

[knobslobbin]

The new optimus prime toy actually looks pretty cool

Hasbro’s new $700 Optimus Prime toy can finally transform all on its own

The Transformers dream is now a reality

www.theverge.com

 

[Eggwhore]

It kinda sucks that it's just a headswapped paleotrex considering transmutate's kinda got a specific weird smooth bodied hunch about her and paleotrex is just all jagged skeleton dinosaur parts. The other kingdom beast wars figures have so far been more accurate to the show models than any prior figures before them so it's kinda weird they didn't just reissue the "build a figure" transmutate from like a decade back as a single release. They've been reissuing other figures from around that timeframe over the last few years and IIRC that figure was kinda small to begin with so it'd probably fit the whole "series accurate scaling" thing the WFC/studio series figures are going for.

"I. am. Hurt" -Brain damaged E. T. transformer's famous last words

EDIT: This is mildly unrelated but I Didn't want to double post hours later about something else related to Transmutate. I ended up somehow checking a wiki article I found about them when trying to see if I remembered the weird shit about 2 characters thirsting after her in the cartoon and the fucking thing was tainted by gendershit pronoun stuff despite it being made explicitly clear the reason they call her "it" in the context of the show being like she's a horrible malformed abomination of a creature and not a fucking gender neutral pronoun deal. Really the last place I thought i'd see something like that show up. Ironically the article itself points the fact transmutate is referred to as female in the script out in the "trivia" section. The original appearance where the "gender neutral pronouns" are used in this article is also weirdly the shortest part of it despite that being the only place where the character has a significant amount of screentime, and I'm not sure what to say about that. You can't make this shit up lmao.
Luckily I was able to find concrete evidence I was correct on my memory of the weird love/friend triangle thing by just looking at random out of context beast wars clips uploaded to youtube.

Wasn’t she supposed to have some sort of robot autism? Imagine being the first lolcow transformer. I thought her episode was pretty messed up and dark even for BW standards. Like literally debating euthanasia in a children’s show.

Why do all the best things in life work as the most effective women repellents?

you’d be surprised at the amount of transformer fanfiction there is on the female side of the fandom I’m sure you could get some as long as you agreed to roleplay as Starscream.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Wasn’t she supposed to have some sort of robot autism? Imagine being the first lolcow transformer. I thought her episode was pretty messed up and dark even for BW standards. Like literally debating euthanasia in a children’s show.

She was literally brain damaged and deformed to the point of being incapable of transforming into anything, the episode was pretty much an analogy for euthanasia debates. Hence why the characters refer to her as an "it". Shit's fucking dark as hell and generally depressing.

 

[Florence]

Walked into my local comic shop today and they had some Transformers stuff, so I picked up the new Voyager Cyclonus. It looks really good, but the QC at the factory must have been on a break cause I had to force a couple of parts when I was changing him to jet mode and he’s got some pretty obvious nub marks.

 

[TheRatcatcher]

Thinking about reading the new 2019 IDW continuity, but I haven't really heard much about it. What should I expect?

 

[Marissa Moira]

Hasbro is really going full on into Shattered Glass and we're getting more former japanese only guys to boot.

It's sounding like we're going to be getting the Botcon exclusive decos out of BW Scorpinok and eventually Grizzly-1/Barbearian whenever Polar Claw is revealed. They've done a few dozen of the botcon guys already so getting some of the earlier ones like those two and Onyx Primal would be really nice.

Rhinox is probably going to get a retool into Stranglehold, I forsee a ton of beast guys getting their kibble reworked to look more like G1 pretenders. The new guy running the franchise used to work on GI Joe and was known for pulling the weirdest takes for new waves.

 

[Thundermania]

Hasbro is really going full on into Shattered Glass and we're getting more former japanese only guys to boot.

It's sounding like we're going to be getting the Botcon exclusive decos out of BW Scorpinok and eventually Grizzly-1/Barbearian whenever Polar Claw is revealed. They've done a few dozen of the botcon guys already so getting some of the earlier ones like those two and Onyx Primal would be really nice.

Rhinox is probably going to get a retool into Stranglehold, I forsee a ton of beast guys getting their kibble reworked to look more like G1 pretenders. The new guy running the franchise used to work on GI Joe and was known for pulling the weirdest takes for new waves.

I tell you, that SG Blurr is proof that headsculpts make or break a figure. Plus that packaging is crisp.

Retail Blurr looks like the fucking Moonman and the SG repaint is a badass one-eyed mercenary.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I think Rhinox is going to wind up being retooled into McDonalds Rhino just to screw with people for a selects release and Tigertron could be McDonalds Panther. Cheetor is already getting two repaints, one of Battle Ravage and one of the canceled Halloween Horrorcon.

There's a G2 Starscream release happening somewhere and probably a G2 Jazz as well since we have G2 Sideswipe, and Inferno(G2 inferno only came with a water cannon and is otherwise indistinguishable from the G1 original).

All the Dinobots are leader sized, and G2 Grimlock was listed so i figure we'll be getting G2 versions of the rest and probably the canceled ones too.

 

[Thundermania]

I think Rhinox is going to wind up being retooled into McDonalds Rhino just to screw with people for a selects release and Tigertron could be McDonalds Panther. Cheetor is already getting two repaints, one of Battle Ravage and one of the canceled Halloween Horrorcon.

There's a G2 Starscream release happening somewhere and probably a G2 Jazz as well since we have G2 Sideswipe, and Inferno(G2 inferno only came with a water cannon and is otherwise indistinguishable from the G1 original).

All the Dinobots are leader sized, and G2 Grimlock was listed so i figure we'll be getting G2 versions of the rest and probably the canceled ones too.

We still need a Marvel Soundwave, hopefully distributed through Selects. Pack in Buzzsaw and Glit, Marvel has been getting some shoutouts with The Last Autobot, upcoming Marvel/toy Galvatron, Siege’s G2 Sideswipe (which used Marvel colouring eschewing the green) and the original ER Optimus had the classic yellow eyes.

Plus, Marvel Soundwave is the one repaint that has never been done not by Hasbro, not by the Club and not by Takara.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Is there any place that has a comprehensive library of g1 transformers parts you can 3d print? I've been trying to find some stuff from the g1 headmasters and pretenders and I basically just need to have stuff in black plastic so it's nothing too advanced. All I'm mostly seeing is stuff from Titans Returns and not too many replica G1 parts.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Is there any place that has a comprehensive library of g1 transformers parts you can 3d print? I've been trying to find some stuff from the g1 headmasters and pretenders and I basically just need to have stuff in black plastic so it's nothing too advanced. All I'm mostly seeing is stuff from Titans Returns and not too many replica G1 parts.

It's probably out there somewhere, butThere's not been much I've seen. People sell parts individually and sometimes cast repros but even that seems to be getting rare during this eterna-lockdown era. Scalpers seem to be flourishing though, 30-40 fucking dollars or more for a single fucking accessory seems more the rule right now rather than the exception.
Speaking of scalpers, I still haven't seen any of the fucking Kingdom or Studio series figures fucking anywhere aside from scalped online for upwards of 60 dollars with brief windows of them being actually available for sane prices when i don't have money to spend on them. I managed to find a rattrap recently, as well an empty optimus primal box, meaning someone somehow managed to steal a large monkey robot figure without anybody noticing or caring. That's about it in terms of figures. It's even worse than Earthrise in terms of availability. Been looking for some of the specific G1 characters, but so far all I got are the 3 beast wars ones that intrigued me the most. I saw 2 grimlocks once but as stated earlier the whole " Not having the spare money at the time" thing kinda threw a wrench into grabbing him lmao.

But hey, at least I've seen SOME transformers in stores! The fucking Gi joe collector line is still comprised almost entirely of 200 dollar scalper exclusives for the most part, even the gimped version of the cobra trooper they released that's supposed to be "easier to find" because it's not a store exclusive like the first release of it was is fucking in the same boat. I literally only have 3 versions of cobra commander and 2 destros, 2 were online exclusive preorders. That's all I'm probably gonna be having of those, unfortunately.

 

[Marissa Moira]

It's probably out there somewhere, butThere's not been much I've seen. People sell parts individually and sometimes cast repros but even that seems to be getting rare during this eterna-lockdown era. Scalpers seem to be flourishing though, 30-40 fucking dollars or more for a single fucking accessory seems more the rule right now rather than the exception.
Speaking of scalpers, I still haven't seen any of the fucking Kingdom or Studio series figures fucking anywhere aside from scalped online for upwards of 60 dollars with brief windows of them being actually available for sane prices when i don't have money to spend on them. I managed to find a rattrap recently, as well an empty optimus primal box, meaning someone somehow managed to steal a large monkey robot figure without anybody noticing or caring. That's about it in terms of figures. It's even worse than Earthrise in terms of availability. Been looking for some of the specific G1 characters, but so far all I got are the 3 beast wars ones that intrigued me the most. I saw 2 grimlocks once but as stated earlier the whole " Not having the spare money at the time" thing kinda threw a wrench into grabbing him lmao.

But hey, at least I've seen SOME transformers in stores! The fucking Gi joe collector line is still comprised almost entirely of 200 dollar scalper exclusives for the most part, even the gimped version of the cobra trooper they released that's supposed to be "easier to find" because it's not a store exclusive like the first release of it was is fucking in the same boat. I lieterally only have 3 versions of cobra commander and 2 destros, 2 were online exclusive preorders. That's all I'm probably gonna be having of those, unfortunately.

Yeah kingdom is getting scalped to hell, I kinda want the BW re-issues of the leaders even though I have both of the Originals (and their repaints like T-Wrecks and Universe 1.0 Optimus primal)

But I think the netflix deluxes and Walmart Retro headmasters are going to be the harder things to get. Store exclusives were somehow much easier to get when they were at Toys R Us. Walmart isn't primarily a toy store so they could give less of a shit, but I want that Blue Deepcover to go with the rest of the Sideswipe repaints and that Quintesson drone to go with the rest of the ironhide and ratchet repaints.

 

[Kitten Kalamity]

Is there any place that has a comprehensive library of g1 transformers parts you can 3d print? I've been trying to find some stuff from the g1 headmasters and pretenders and I basically just need to have stuff in black plastic so it's nothing too advanced. All I'm mostly seeing is stuff from Titans Returns and not too many replica G1 parts.

I don't know if you'll find what you're looking for but there's a decent resource for 3d print transformers at tfw at this thread.

I did a quick search on yeggi.com since that's usually a good place to start but its mostly Titans Return stuff like you said. I did find the headmasters and a weapon for Weirdwolf, Skullcruncher, and Mindwipe here also some Hardhead parts here.

That's as much as I could find with a surface level dive. You'll probably have better luck than me.

 

[Thundermania]

Yeah kingdom is getting scalped to hell, I kinda want the BW re-issues of the leaders even though I have both of the Originals (and their repaints like T-Wrecks and Universe 1.0 Optimus primal)

But I think the netflix deluxes and Walmart Retro headmasters are going to be the harder things to get. Store exclusives were somehow much easier to get when they were at Toys R Us. Walmart isn't primarily a toy store so they could give less of a shit, but I want that Blue Deepcover to go with the rest of the Sideswipe repaints and that Quintesson drone to go with the rest of the ironhide and ratchet repaints.

Bad time to mention that I bought two Quintesson Drones? They look better in person, and the Ironhide mold lends itself well to army-building. Put the two on my Mercenary Shelf behind Bugbite, one with the rifleman pose and the other with his gun held up in an action hero pose.

I sort of envision them as Doubledealer’s equivalent of Lockdown’s generic crewmen.