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

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Foolish Samurai Warrior said:
He's so stout!
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G1 scorponok is kinda interesting because he's big but not BIG big because they wanted his head to work with the other headmasters so he's just really REALLY thick.
I'd be tempted to get these high quality scorponok KOs a lot more if they weren't over 100 dollars from the few sellers shipping to the US. I mean then again I just got the pay in 4 for an over 100 official remake of the second form of scorponok but eeeeh you get me.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
G1 scorponok is kinda interesting because he's big but not BIG big because they wanted his head to work with the other headmasters so he's just really REALLY thick.
I'd be tempted to get these high quality scorponok KOs a lot more if they weren't over 100 dollars from the few sellers shipping to the US. I mean then again I just got the pay in for for an over 100 official remake of the second form of scorponok but eeeeh you get me.
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Heh, most of the Transformers toys I got as a kid came from my dad's work trips to Hong Kong. I learned the hard way about the expense of toys when I started collecting myself. Local stuff is always way more expensive.
 
Foolish Samurai Warrior said:
Heh, most of the Transformers toys I got as a kid came from my dad's work trips to Hong Kong. I learned the hard way about the expense of toys when I started collecting myself. Local stuff is always way more expensive.
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It genuinely used to be much cheaper though. Like not even factoring "inflation" bullshit here because even with that added the prices are so fucking higher. only places I see figures for "cheap" these days is if they've been customized in a way that doesn't add to the "value" or are busted in some manner. and that "cheap" is like 15 dollars plus shipping. Nothing close to being able to find the smaller ones used for 3 dollars.

Most I got as a kid were from hobby shops or flea markets but there were a number I got from stores themselves. Granted this was all like beast wars/UT/early bayformers era so before everything was catered to resellers who want shit for the "value" rather than just having a cool figure. There were still scalpers you had to deal with for some shit but you'd eventually see a restock in like weeks rather than years. the import versions of figures were readily available in my area back then and for decently the same price as the normal ones it's never gonna stop bugging me how much pricier everything's gotten. The normal transformers are now clearly intended for teens-adults with no real action features and are all redoes of pre-existing character designs while the ones focused at actual kids have become below dollar store quality hollow messes at the same prices as the normal ones. This shit's been an issue for over a decade now and there's people that likely just don't know what shit was like before this. I miss shit like alternators, human alliance, and early masterpiece before prices were in the several hundreds because those were premium level shit with features kids would still enjoy despite the figures being made specifically for the collector market.

I need to find wherever the other box of old transformers is because I've got a hunch/memory of having specific figures that aren't in the old box I recently opened.
 
Forgot to bring this up, but I was at a target about two to three days back and they actually had some stuff stocked. ONE of the exclusives but it was the most expensive one of the insecticon 3 pack that's got less detail than the insecticon and skywarp 4 pack due to them deciding they all need opaque chests and mismatched arms for one of them again after the last release got it right. Naturally 80 dollars is too fucking high a price even then but they do look nicer in person than in the stock photos. I feel like the Dramatic capture four pack version still looks better even if I can't afford that either. Still no hot rod or starscream or anything e-actually they finally put the battle damaged megatrons on the shelfs so the shelves weren't SOLELY occupied by complete garbage mixed with the battle damaged prime. Almost caved and got the battle beast

Anyways I feel the need to update on my current transformers situation. Blackzarak for some weird reason has two shipping labels now that are identical numbers. I think it might be some kinda system error but it hasn't moved yet. The slightly busted figures that are slightly customized however are like right by me in terms of shipping distance even if I can't go and pick them up. No clue if I'll take a pic of those or not given opseccy potential there but unrelated I DO need to take a side by side pic with the reformatting megatron and galvatron which ISN'T a custom. Just gotta find a good spot for them for said photo.
 
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Edit: New rodimus is on the way

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Bum Farto said:
Edit: New rodimus is on the way
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I have no idea how you'd improve from kingdom rodimus which was clearly already meant to be ss86 outside removing greebles and changing colors/headsculpt to match the new target hot rod.

Either way despite scraping mine up by it falling and hitting a plastic container's edge at just the right angle to leave a thin gash in the paint on the chest I'm glad I got kingdom rodimus at a sane price
 
Bum Farto said:
Target is doing a 20% off on all transformers next week until saturday. I dont think theres anyone I do want at like pre-tariff prices.
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hopefully they actually stock them. I'd want the battle damaged megatron and prime that went from scalped exclusives to actually showing up everywhere for optimus and just now for megatron. However as I'm already doing the juggling of pay in 4 for zarak, overlord, and that used figure lot while trying to get some kinda money and failing miserably I'll probably miss the sale. Also starscream obviously want that fucker. Wasn't super about the figure given the price of voyagers now but now I want either it or the KO out of sheer spite for scalpers.

It's a sick joke that the ones they advertise are just bumblebee and tfone pax that have been the ONLY figures they've actually been putting on shelves by me to the point nothing's moving and just getting dust in the deluxe section. Other slots are eaten up by battle damaged optimus figures and random bullshit not meant for the voyager slots starscream and the others should go in.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
In years past these "mattel creations limited exclusive" hotwheels transformers would just be normal fucking releases for like 5-10 dollars. I don't see the premium price reflected in any of these things and it never ceases to piss me off. Like this is shit that'd sell like hotcakes if you put it out for general release and it's not even complex engineering. Fuck hotwheels USED TO LITERALLY HAVE THEIR OWN TRANSFORMERS AIMED AT KIDS. I HAD SOME OF THOSE AS A KID.

SEO now only brings up the transformers branded ones and not the guys that went from cars to guys on a skateboard and shit I can't remember the name of. I know the ones prior to those that turned into monsters were "attack pack" though.

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Also there was this little fucker who's just a robot laying down he's got a generally strong presence.


I'm currently wrapped up in some shit I gotta be present for but at one point during the journey I stopped at a walmart due to some things being forgot in the packing process. Lo and behold it's the one walmart that actually has transformers stocked. They had the 100 dollar onslaught and every 40th energon repaint exclusive save for the purple weaponizer. Naturally I do not have the kind of money for onslaught and all the other shit available so I bought the Megatron. Even with it's weird issue from using the miner shoulders/torso and cheaping out on the sword blades on the cannon barrel it's clearly the figure the wave was an excuse to release given it's the same colors as the pulse exclusive galvatron from a few years back I also managed to get. All the figures had odd QC on the panel line paint but I think I got the best one. Will send side by side pics when available to do so in a few days.
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"Collectors" markets need to die.
 
Bum Farto said:
30 USD on pulse, Imma assume he's the same in the other sites n stuff

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Makes sense given they've upped the price for deluxes to 30 a while back starting witht hose fuckign walmart exclusive retro repaint ones I didn't buy any of due to that raised price the one or two times I actually saw them in stock (even if I wanted some of them). and that 3 pack of deluxes at target being 80 dollars. Like I genuinely don't think I'd have gotten cybertronic if he was the 29.99 price and not the previous price hike price of 27. Both are horrible but yeah.

I don't like it but it makes sense they'd pull this shit.
 
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going trough the collection to put a lot in storage, i'm not going to keep displaying everything as i hit the point of absurd amount of clutter.

it will take days to transform everything to minimize the space they will take up, bit i already passed some i wonder why i even had them.(a lot of gimmick figures)

having a basement room for it is fun but at dome point one has to draw the line. i will only display my beast wars/animated/generations now. may even cycle trough them not to keep them in storage.
 
Forgot to post this update earlier but uhhh
I HAVE GREATLY UNDERESTIMATED
THE SHEER SIZE OF BLACK ZARAK

Like I knew he was taller than my old unicron but fuck man
EDIT: Seriously if I knew how big he'd be I'd probably have tried finding one of the high quality g1 knockoff reissues for cheaper than what most want it for. I'm not gonna get rid of him though this is my scorponok now. I mean aside from the energon one and maybe the movie one that are both in the basement somewhere from when I was much younger. Apparently the energon one's shoulders explode due to gold brittle plastic combined with pressure so that's cool and horrid.
 
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