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Scaleface
No! Get sicker and do your work faster! (just kidding!)
fa11enwing
please, take your time! and get well soon!
Wingnut
Take your time. We're not going anywhere.
excelhedge
Sorry to hear about that, Continue to take your time dude.
GogDog
229 is almost done. Sorry for the delay, a combination of me being very sick for a week, plus 229's audio having some technical issues.
Scaleface
Cars are a box with wheels. Cassettes plays are boxes with buttons.
Worse comes to worse make it a triple changer with a lightpost mode.
Remember when Sonicron was released? Some video reviewers though it was a video camera!
MrByatis
Cars and planes, regardless of the era, are infinitely more attention grabbing, and marketable, than a box.
Scaleface
I simply do not understand the concept of "they don't make cassettes any more, so we can't release a robot tape player" logic.
1. They don't make biplanes either. We got movie Ransack. Heck, they don't make any 1970s cars either, but that doesn't stop G1 from getting reissued.
2. They DO MAKE CASSETTE PLAYERS and you can buy them in any department or electronics store.
Wingnut
That'll teach me to send a box before listening to the latest podcast… Oh well…
guard convoy
Prime Breakdown is a different beast, this is soundwave, one of the most iconic transformers of all time, there's no way hasbro won't bring it over, everyone remembers soundtape!
If prime's trailer can get released at retail, I have no doubt we will see soundwave
Paxtin
Yeah, but that was more or less a bonus item that came with a Starscream upgrade kit.
I'm taking like full on new figures.
Scaleface
There was that Leader-1 replacement head for Classic Starscream.
Paxtin
That's actually exactly why. The Germans are really sensitive about the whole Nazi thing. So anything that has to do with war they really try and shy away from.
I remember reading somewhere that a German man actually attacked a scupter of Hitler in the history exhibit at Madame Tussauds wax museum.
Lumpy
I need to go look those up, cuz that sword has potential, but the gimmick ruins it. I wonder if test markets are showing kids really enjoy Mech-Tech still. hopefully it dies off soon and we get integrated weapons, or solid weapons that resemble the show models.
really? I never had a problem back when I did it, but i also don't have sleeves. I know they won't let you do it if you've had a tattoo in the last 6 months though. bad thing about selling plasma if you do it enough, it'll start leaving a track mark, cuz those needles are huge. I've thought about doing it occasionally for more toys, but I don't think i'd want to deal with the hassle (and sketchyness of everyone else who's there)
private companies buy plasma so they can do research with it, i think.
The autoroller toys are fun, i've got all 4 Korean Beast releases, but they're probably going into my sell pile soon because they've been in a plastic storage container for the better part of their time in my collection.
and all of this talk about MP Sideswipe is making me want to just order him immediately, instead of the hope that we might get a US release. I think i'm getting Masterpiece Prime for Christmas, so i'll wait until afterwards to see, then maybe order him.
there was something else i wanted to comment on as well, and now i can't remember… blast. oh well.
LordGigaIce
I know it's been said before, but I think it's funny enough to warrant it being said again…
Volkswagen is worried about their products being associated with war-themed franchises? The company was founded by the Nazi Party. The damage is done
Paxtin
The Gobots talk got me thinking, I wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing Gobots become a thing in 3rd party toys? Like full on recreations of Gobot characters with modern egineering.
I know the first thought is there isn't a market for it like with Transformers, but at the same time I can't help but think that something like a Cykill with modern 3rd party design and engineering wouldn't be kind of interesting.
Noizemaze
Fair point
Computron34
Yes there is. No matter what it is, someone, somewhere, will find something on it to bitch about.
Noizemaze
Nothing is a sure bet on domestic toy releases.