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i picked him up for $56 shipped...i think $48 w/o shipping...comes with the trailer also and all the sh!t that goes in it...and a little jet pack and a stand/base and a removable matrix!...the truck mode for OP sucks a$$ though




that is pretty badass!
 

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didn't know anyone was interested or i woulda put up links last week when there was more for that price if i remember correctly...he's been out for a while right?...though i was just introduced to him mid last week...
 

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I don't recall seeing it before, but I'm not as into Transformers as you guys. I have one or two, for nostalgia and "cool" factor.
 

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you just described me too...i only have three currently...MP Prime, MP Hot Rod, and the arm of TFC Devastator...i also have a couple on the way that i think will look good displayed with Devaaaa, Hercules...that little Prime i posted, and Perfect Effect Reflector...but there is A LOT of good stuff coming out, though not from Hasbro...

i am getting sucked in though...
 

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i'm lucky most of the stuff isn't in scale to the MP line or i'd be f*@#ed...thats what holds me back on LOTS of TF stuff...

i just can't have a collection thats all out of whack...it'd be like mixing Marvel Legends and Marvel Universe...or mixing 1:18th vehicles with Hasbro vehicles :D
 

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Transformers have unfortunately been out of scale since day one, which has bugged the shit out of me, even as a child. It didn't help that they started out as mixed robot lines thrown together, but they've stuck with that ever since.

I care the most about the figures looking good together in bot mode the most, but even then they're all over the place. Other than MP-04 Prime and Megatron being too damn big, those guys are pretty good in-scale with each other for the most part in bot mode... At least the Seekers, Grimlock and Rodimus Prime. Alternators and even the smaller Alternity Autobots (Cliffjumper and Bumblebee) are decently-sized when pitted against the Seekers (and with MP-10 Prime in bot mode) but the vehicle mode of MP-04 actually works fairly well with the Alternator cars in a similar scale. The jets? No way, but then you've got Megatron who is a pistol who is about 25% bigger than the real thing, so...

Yeah, the scale drives me nuts too. Classics is just as bad, but they feel like toys to me. Alternators/Binaltech/Masterpiece and Alternity are about the extent of my collection. Well, and some of the 3rd party stuff now. ;)
 

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If I wasn't trying to get a whole bunch of other shit right now (plus saving up for a ring, most importantly), I'd get that little guy for my desk at work. For the time being though, I'll have to hold off.

So I measured Alternator Jazz (Meister) and he's almost exactly 7" tall in robot mode. Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't those Ironhide/Ratchet figures supposed to be around 7.5" tall? If so, I'm definitely getting them now.
 

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From iGear's Facebook page:





6.92". Damned close, close enough to fit in with Alternators in bot-mode. I wish he was closer to 8" tall so he was slightly bigger than Jazz and the other cars, but I can live with that. (That's him beside "Faith Leader", not MP-01/04 Prime.)

 
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Mandingo Rex

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Huh. I hadn't seen anything about this yet:



Nacho, I'm sure you're into this... What scale is this guy supposed to be?

And how have I not seen this? I've got to add these guys on Facebook.

 
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wow!...that IH looks killer!...really wish i hadn't gotten MP-01 and instead had Faith leader...IH looks perfect next to him...and i'm assuming BB will be the same scale?...

which is bigger, FL Prime or MP-10 Prime?
 

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MP-10 is almost a head taller. There's a comparison pic I included a page or 2 back. Inevitably, either iGear or Takara will redo MP Megs smaller, and I'm guessing it'll be iGear first, if at all. The pic of him smaller just looks better proportionally, especially with the sized-down cannon. Of all the complaints I had for MP-05, it was that his cannon was ridiculously too big in bot mode.

If Hasbro/Takara redo him, it'd be awesome if the scope actually collapsed into a smaller cannon. Doubt that'll happen, but who knows.

As for the Bumblebee, that 3D model looks amazing. Takara should just buy iGear and let them do business for them. Heh. I don't know his scale, but hopefully he won't be too close to scale in vehicle form to Ironhide, or the bot mode could be too small.

If he's 1:32 though, he'll be roughly the size of Alternity BB, which means he'll be at a decent scale to those guys. There's also a Cliffjumper they teased, but only a leg shot. Looks like he'll be more than a red repaint with a new head. Looks to be an entire Porsche re-shell! :D
 

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i just wish a alt mode scale for TFs would be chosen and everyone would stick by it...so irritating...




something i found that has me wondering...

is this TFC DSLR gonna have a light up feature or is that just the monitor light shining thru?

 
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i think its the feet....they seem kinda Bumblebee'ish to me...and maybe the case behind him that kinda looks wing'ish
 

nacho

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Huh. I hadn't seen anything about this yet:



Nacho, I'm sure you're into this... What scale is this guy supposed to be?

That was posted over a month ago, but nothing new has come out. I can only assume they are scaled to go with Ironhide and Ratchet, i.e. a bit smaller than those two. We really need a detailed G1 inspired set of scouts. A toon accurate Windcharger too.
 

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Eddie, this is a gallery of most of the Alternators I sexted you about:

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/series/alternators/29/

Highlights include Jazz (Meister), Hound, Mirage, Streak, Wheeljack, Smokescreen, Prowl, Sunstreaker, Tracks, Sideswipe, and even Skids. (I know that's about half of them, but they're really impressive).

The Decepticons are a bit weak, but you can get Stunticons out of Dead End, and Decepticharge (Dragstrip? He's yellow. Sigh) and Swindle and Shockwave (Shockblast, grrr) are pretty awesome. I turned the humanoid Ravage into Wildrider and Camshaft into Breakdown, and Nemesis Prime into Motormaster, but they all required new heads (from a customizer I met at Tformers).

I'll see if I can find that Menasor custom that someone made years ago. It's badass.
 

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These were sculpted and cast by Valkfan, and they're totally badass. I have all 4. He also sculpted the Ratchet and Ironhide heads that I used for my Alternator versions of IH and Ratchet. Which reminds me, he still needs to get me the Ironhide sculpt...

Stunticon heads:
 

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i kinda like it better when the vehicle of a combiner actually BECOMES the limb...the arms just look like tacked on cars with arm kibble stuck to their a$$ end
 

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I get where he's coming from and agree with eddie. It looks odd when a gestalt limb looks as though the arm vehicle could fall off and there would still be a bare arm left behind. You look at it and wonder where all the arm hardware came from if the arm isn't actually made from the car.

In the picture above, it would be cooler if dragstrip actually had a joint in the middle and the car actually formed the upper arm and forearm, not just glommed onto the outside of the bicep as if held on with magnets.
 

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exactly ^....Drag Strip and Dead End look like Menasor would be just fine w/o them...Breakdown and Wildrider look to actually function as the limb though, as does Motormaster
 

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The Voltron thing... How Voltron's entire body, including lower arms, were made from the individual bots. Not like the G1 Devastator, whose lower arms were forearms that pegged on at the elbow. I feel like the later combiners had less parts that just snapped on randomly.

To that guy's credit though, he completely reshelled all of those guys, so if that's the worst he did, he's still doing pretty damn great even with the cars just tacked on to the upper arms like that.
 

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i've been waiting on Backfiery to ship my loot...so glad he finally came in...Now Heavy Labor is all thats in my POL, so i can safely turn it off so that he'll be on my doorstep (hopefully) when i get back from vaca...YAY!...

now the problem is, what if the Structor pre-order happens while i'm gone and i miss the boat?...
with that new Giant info out, many more people may jump on the Hercules bandwagon...

speaking of Giant, he looks good, but in Devy mode, i prefer Hercules since IMO, he looks less cluttered...plus Giants forearms/hands look kinda tiny...and his head gets way lost in his shoulders...though i do prefer Giants vehicle modes more than Hercules...they look more scaled to each other...also, if Giants Scavenger bot mode is any indication of the other five, they seem more G1ie compared to Hercs bot modes...
 

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got my baby Masterpiece Prime the other day...IMO he looks perfect with the Exgraver piece scale wise...the cabs are very similar and acle great with a HO scale train set figure
 

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thats me in Primes hand :D
 

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G.I.*EDDIE

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got my Insecticons today...SOOOOOOO cool!...also picked up some light up energon cubes for fun...







 

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Can't wait to get mine in. I'm going to put Decepticon symbols on them to cover up those silly icons on their chests, but I may get the Reprolabels sets when they make all 3.