They could but why would they?

Could be cool to see a different transformers video game.

Thanks to Shout Factory I picked up Transformers East ( Headmasters - Victory) and the Unicron Trilogy both on DVD.

I thought Victory was good but the Dino faction in it was just downright dumb.

As for Headmasters I spent a lot of time grumping "Shut up Mind Wipe" Stupid bat Decepticon.

I'm surprised DC & IDW have no team up with a Transformers crossover with DC. Transformers would be the first cartoon franchise to cover over with both Marvel and DC.

Fun fact: they were going to do a crossover but then the DC New 52 imprint happened and that stopped it. Optimus was gonna wield a Green Lantern Power Ring

DC's New 52 was a major misfire. Explains why everyone's doomsaying what will happen if 5G fails

If this is real, than I think DC missed out on the BIGGEST toy sale they ever could've gotten! :O

You can see some of Phil Jimenez's pitch artwork here. Aquaman punching out Seacons! Flash racing Insecticons! It would've been pretty goddamn great.

You know what would make a great collabo? Beast Wars and Zyuohger. Just imagine Yamato as Zyuoh Gorilla fighting alongside with Optimus Primal.

Oh it was definitely real there are still these 2 images as proof:
https://static3.cbrimages.com/wordpr...s-featured.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/C4DRN.jpg

As well as these articles:
https://www.cbr.com/justice-league-t...ted-story/amp/
https://geeksofdoom.com/2012/09/11/p...-crossover/amp

Hey anyone here playing the Transformers TCG? I have some spare rares and thought I might offer em up here first, but I want to see if anyone here has interests.

Why the trainbots wasn't released in US ?

Probably because it was in a series that didn't air in the US.

As everyone knows, Blaster has just gotten a Vintage Reissue.

So it's kinda curious as to why Walmart tags the figure with the name of Soundwave's Japanese-Exclusive upgrade from Headmasters!

Amazed it's $30, I figured they would try to sale it for at least $40 since it's bigger than G1 Astrotrain which was $40.

I did rewatch the 80s Transformers movie and it's still a fun movie. Not a perfect movie, but the animation is still amazing. The remaster from Shout Factory is wonderful and the movie looks great on my 4K TV. I still always like that they cast Judd Nelson and Leonard Nimoy to draw in people who are not familiar with the source material. They were the top billing actors after all.

That 80s movie Hot Rod figure looks good. GOAT material for sure. :rock:

Man, I didn't have any interest whatsoever in those non-transforming R.E.D. figures (Transformers Legends, basically), but GODDAMN do they have my number with a Prime Arcee figure. Instant purchase.

Hasbro? Just... take this hundred dollars, please.

I hesitated to ask this question, but a thought about the original movie popped in.

The tagline for the classic animated film is "Beyond Good. Beyond Evil. Beyond Your Wildest Imagination"!

This is remarkably similar to Friedrich Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil".

I looked up and down the TFWIKI page for the film, but they didn't bring up the tagline's origins.

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers:_The_Movie

Has anyone seen anything regarding who dreamed that tagline up and if they were specifically thinking about Nietzsche or not or if this is just a cosmic coincidence?

Hey so I was talking about my trouble with runamuck in the How is Everyone thread. Figured I'd post the pics and elaborate here.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...325&height=433
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...325&height=433

So when I try to transform runamuck to alt mode his hips end up in one of these two positions causing the hood to be out of alignment with the tabs on the windows/canopy.


https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...577&height=433

What I think the problem is, is that the little black piece, on the bottom leg in this pic, that his knee hinges/collapses on won't go down all the way but I can't seem to figure out why.

Edit: Immediately after posting this got the black piece to tap into the shin/carhood, but it won't stay in when I move the leg at all or try to tab the legs together

Like does the black piece resist being collapsed? Or is it just problematic and gets loose when you successfully collapse it? If it resists to being collapsed, theres probably excess plastic somewhere that's making it hard to collapse completely or theres some misassembly somewhere. I actually got a lemon with ER doubledealer where one of the shoulders was misassembled. Can you post more pics of the black piece and the area around it? Like collapsed and uncollapsed?

The black piece resits being collapsed and also I've noticed that when I put the black piece into the position for leg mode it doesn't give the same range of motion to the right knee that the left knee has. The left knee can tilt forward a little bit, while the right knee lacks that motion.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...325&height=433

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...325&height=433

Im guessing the joints thats responsible for the tilting mltion on the right knee is around the same point thats giving issue during collapsing right?

Is it pinned? If it is, is it viewable from both sides? Can you check if theres any excess plastic around the stuck joint, on the white part or the black knee joint? Compare both knees and the black joints, are they the same shape, are the both installed the same way.

Is it the black part that connected to the right thigh that resists or the part thats connected to the lower leg that resists on the right leg?

Judging from your pictures, theres either excess plastic sprue on either the area where the black piece connects to the thigh or on the part where it connects to the lower leg. It could be on the black piece or the white piece it connects to, depends on what part of the knee the resistance is. And i dont see anything off with the pins, but more pics would help. Specifically, where the pins are on either sides of the black joint and on the upper and lower legs that connects to the black joint.

Im 50/50 on pins or excess plastic.

Like Waspinator and wish there were a G. I. Joe style "army-builder" by way of Botcon? You're about to get your chance!

Introducing: Botcon 2021 Action Force Wasp Raider!

https://toy-wizards.com/2020/12/01/b...der-pre-order/

They got the posing wrong. He should be at a corner in the fetal position and just spout hate towards Bumblebee like Gollum. :lolol

It is baffling to me that a Waspinator-inspired figure with that many accessories doesn't come with plansssss.

Wait, i though Botcon and everything related to it were closed down and would be replaced by HasCon? Is it coming back, or is this a joke? I love that action force is making a transformers referenced figure, seems like old times when hasbro still did crossovers with joe.

It says 2021 so I guess they are just planning way ahead perhaps?

It's an unofficial convention now (so don't expect any Hasbro repaints or retools), similar to TFCon. A bunch of people who did the old BotCons are back organizing this one, for better or worse.

Yay? Great that it's back but wasn't the corporate backing what helped make it so great? Even with the same ppl, it may feel like a husk of its formers self compared to it's glory days. It feels like its lost its place and this comeback feels pointless. If its just another unofficial con, there are already like 6 established unofficial cons that are great. What made botcon speicial was the official merch only at the cons and their tie-ins.

You are not wrong! Most people put up with BotCon and its organizers because it was the only place to get official merch. (All of that official merch is what's now Generations Selects, available for about a third of what you'd pay at Botcon and way less limited.) Without that, BotCon is basically TFCon, but run by people who squandered the community's goodwill. Not saying the new BotCon will be bad, or won't have some cool exclusives, but it's working with a lot less advantages than it used to have.

Exactly, i remember hitting up botcon in '09. The movies were in full swing, the stuff there was great, but the lines were fucking terrible and the management was haphazard at best. The venue, guests and exclusives were cool, but that was it. It was a whole ordeal to go from nyc to the venue to put up with all that just for sweet, sweet merch.

Generation selects is great, i can't wait till my cordon and spinout get here, and that hotshot was a great use of the Hound mold.

I'm by no means a Transformers guy, but I just saw a review of MMC's' Vexo Prominon and ooo man is that a tempting buy. I feel like he'd go great with Leopardon.

That said, if Hasbro or any other notable 3rd party company ever remembers that Armada Hot Shot exists, someone notify me immediately.

I mean considering, i believe two 3p companies are making their takes on armada prime w/ super mode trailer, i think you could possibly see a hotshot some time soon if those do well.

One super mode prime was called navy commander, idk about the other one. i believe the other one was legends scale.

HoT ShOt LIks JaAm

I was too late to grab that Vexo, and it's a bummer. (I haven't checked to see if anyone's reoffered him, so maybe I'll do that next.) I picked up their Aero Alpha Asterisk a few years back at a TFCon, and it's a great figure. It's the same mold as Vexo, I believe, so you won't be disappointed if you can track one down. That deco is sweet!

Considering Cybertron Hot Shot got a new figure (Retool of Hound, but still), it's entirely possible at this point.
3P wise, uhh, yeah. I mean, maybe. Some companies are finally dipping their toes into a pool besides G1, so we might actually see one.

Remember when Walmart had that big grey "War For Cybertron" Spoilers Box?

You can find it at Ollie's for $24.99! A bunch of them if you're lucky.

https://www.seibertron.com/transform...-ollies/45473/

SPOILERS: Magnus got some gray on him

Thats the magnus one right? Did they have any other transformers stuff? Or just that? Is ollies specific to the midwest?