Posted by: @trunks3540

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I'm not sure if this is where it needs to go, but the Knight Rider TF looks cool. Not sure it's worth $50, but I preordered it anyway. It's up on BBTS. 

There’s a thread for TF Crossovers. The OP called them Mash Ups for some reason.

Ahh ok. I didn't notice but I'll check it out. Thanks.

Target has a 15% off sale on Transformers right now, and my wife picked up Vector Prime for me. He’s really cool! Love the crimson, metallic gold, and metallic teal colors on him. And great articulation from the Jihaxius mold. He can do a two-handed sword  pose. 

I wish I could've found Thundertron while this sale is available. But for some reason he's just hard to get. He's sold out all over Targets here, and on the site.

I received the SDCC Optimus Megatron Friends set yesterday. 

Can’t believe how much mileage they’ve gotten from the Siege mold for Megatron. He just comes with a few more weapons, a miner’s axe and hammer, a drill bit cannon, and a sword. In tank mode, there’s no way to attach the hammer or sword and that bugs me so much.

Optimus is an improvement over the Gamerverse version it’s based on. The lower legs are lengthened and in truck mode, his fists can be hidden. That’s worth it to me.

Fun Transformers Target weekend with that 15% off sale and all. 

My daughters wanted the Target truck Optimus, and I am happy they did because Optimus looks great in these colors. He looks intimidating with the red, black, silver, and white colors. The Target Bullseye version of Ravage and the trailer are both amusing, too. 

The Target exclusive 4-pack is fun.

Cliffjumper from Prime is a nice figure, very streamlined robot mode.

Squeezeplay has a fun stubby monster mode.

Tarantulas in the original toy packaging colors is the one I wanted the most. But perhaps translucent orange would have looked better. And maybe a smaller head? Proportions seem a bit off to me. 

Tarn is just a repaint, but Tarn’s mold is one of my favorite in the line, so this is a great figure. I’m very tempted to buy the new Amazon 2-pack with the new Bludgeon because it reuses this Tarn mold again, but it has a new head and new torso. 

Received Cannonball & Lockdown.

Kinda disappointed in Lockdown. Kinda regret wasting the money.

Cannonball is AMAZING, despite being a mold reuse & having that dumb panel on the back of his head. He's also TIGHT. Not as tight as my Skids (who is scary tight), but the perfect amount of tightness. I was worried since my Crankcase is a little loosey, and Norm (I think) said the last mold reuse before CB was floppy.

Guy on TFW2005 I traded for his Cliffjumper should be on its way to me soon!

So I heard some stories about it, but I didn't think it would happen to mine just yet. But Tigatron is indeed already yellowing. His hands and his gun barrel more specifically. That is extremely annoying. Especially since the rest of him still looks fine for now. Guess it's something I'll have to live with. Cause even if I do one of the many fixes for it, it'll probably just yellow up again quickly considering how fast it did already.

Lots of fun Transformers lately. My daughters wanted Chromia and Strongarm, and they are fun figures. It’s really cool that there are so many female Transformers characters these days. 

I also got Road Pig delivered from Walmart. He was packed in an envelope, so his package was crushed and ripped, and his left heel spur was broken off. But I managed to fix him with superglue. I loved the original Road Pig—my memory is that he was one of the first nicely articulated Transformers back in the day with ball joints. This Road Pig came out nice with some red translucent plastic. 

Posted by: @akatsuki

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Lots of fun Transformers lately. My daughters wanted Chromia and Strongarm, and they are fun figures. It’s really cool that there are so many female Transformers characters these days. 

I also got Road Pig delivered from Walmart. He was packed in an envelope, so his package was crushed and ripped, and his left heel spur was broken off. But I managed to fix him with superglue. I loved the original Road Pig—my memory is that he was one of the first nicely articulated Transformers back in the day with ball joints. This Road Pig came out nice with some red translucent plastic. 

I’d get him replaced if he arrived damaged because of their bad packaging. 

@nilocomic Yeah, good point of course. But it was an easy fix with superglue to glue the heel spur back on, and Road Pig is otherwise very cool and nostalgic for me. 

So I also saw Antagony (black ant repaint of Beast Wars Inferno) in person for the first time at Universal Studios. Antagony looked very cool in person, so I finally ordered her from Pulse. I love that she comes with Transmetal Scavenger’s head as an alternate head. That was a big draw for me. I liked the updated Beast Wars Inferno, so I really like this repaint. The eye piping looks very nice on both head sculpts, and the metallic purples and magentas pop against the black armor. Happy that I finally got this one. 

I was debating on getting her but I honestly didn't like the new Inferno as much. It looks a little better, but the scraggly ant legs being so thick and everywhere, and the lack of flamethrower really hurt it. I ordered a 3rd party flamethrower to fix the latter, but the first issue is a design problem, nothing that can be changed. But Antagony looks really cool with those colors. 

With all the hoopla on Pulse during checkout with Marvel Legends and Joes, I almost missed out on the reissue of Cosmos. Finally got him on preorder. 

Posted by: @leor

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With all the hoopla on Pulse during checkout with Marvel Legends and Joes, I almost missed out on the reissue of Cosmos. Finally got him on preorder. 

This was my concern too. Dealing with the exclusives, it was tough to remember what new product preorders were also going up. I had 18 things in my cart adding up to nearly $600 before I realized splitting everything would help the transaction go through. I made sure one of those orders was for the Legacy Deluxe figures. Definitely wanted a second Cosmos and Cybertronian Bumblebee, but got Breakdown and Wheeljack as well. 

Hope I will finally be able to get my 1st ever Ramjet--possibly the most elusive figure of my entire life that I deeply wanted.