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Ebay auction with Transformers Animated Prime and Bumble Bee pictures Not my cup of tea, but I imagine the kids are going to really like them.

Guess what came in the mail today......no, not my HD DVDs from the August promotion that at this point is over 10 weeks old. No, what are you on crack or something? No, what I got in the mail is far better. I got a notice that my HD DVDs from the August promotion are delayed! Really? Why, I had no idea! But wait, it gets better! If I'm lucky, they'll have the additional stock in and be able to ship by 11/25/07. Great! I have a shipping date, and the post card makes it clear that it's NOT a firm ship date too! But wait, it gets better! I have the option to cancel the *FREE* HD DVDs. All the titles I selected have a possible ship date of 11/25, but if only one of them was that, I could cancel it and get the other four earlier! I know we all expected a long ship time, but imo this is a bait and switch and contrary to the spirit of the promotion. If the promotion had said "Buy an HD drive in August, get 5 free movies in December!", maybe I wouldn't be so surly about it. I think while I'm irritated about htis I'm going to page through this thread and find that phone number to call and complain. It's pretty funny that this post card has NO contact information whatsoever on it: no phone number and no company name.

I noticed most of the sightings for it on the allspark were reported from Texas. Hopefully it's on it's way northward, because I checked a few Walmarts in eastern PA and was skunked.

*cough* *cough* On another note, I tried that xbox live Galactica game and it's terrible.

Most of the WST in that picture aren't official, and the quality varies as a result. Except for the WST Dinobots which are very high quality and even have diecast. I'm really impressed with the dinobots and eagerly await the upcoming Swoop and Sludge. The Fortress Maximus and the gestalts you can find pretty easily on ebay. They all came on similar card backed packaging. They're knockoffs, which is especially obvious if you see the horrible stickers and lopsided sticker placement on them in package, but the quality for the most part is pretty decent for a KO. Maximus was the best of the bunch so far. He's missing all the numerous little accessories that the normal giant sized one has obviously, and unfortunately the head doesn't transform. He looks really good though and the plastic quality and joint strength was good enough that I opted to try the gestalts. The gestalts are a mixed bag, although mostly positive considering the size and that they're a KO. I picked up Devastator(not pictured), Defensor, Bruticus and Superion. I have a Mensor on the way although oddly two of the limbs are technobots. First problem with all of them is that the default stickers are either very gaudy, totally misaligned, or, most often the case, both. I removed almost all of them, especially from the torso bots. Devastator was the best of the bunch as I had no qc issues and the figures are pretty much identical to their normal scale brethren, accessories and all. Defensor, Bruticus and Superion all have some mold changes to accomodate the scale. The limb aerialbots's arms only extend out to the sides. The top and bottom parts of the jets which become the backpacks don't peg together either, so they're easy to knock out of place. Fireflight in particular was kind of gimped. One arm ended up being assembled wrong and snapped off when I tried to re-insert it(I'm intending to fix it proper with some glue), and his front landing gear won't stay pegged in place. It's the type of thing you'd expect from a KO set, and fortunately for me, that was the only figure I had real qc issues with. Despite all that, Superion's one of my favorites. His proportions don't look so off at this scale as they do in his normal scale. I thought they were all worth the price I paid. If you're going to try them, definitely try to find and buy Fortress Maximus first. Spencer at Agesthreeandup.com must agree because he keeps him in stock here. Better pictures of him there too. Agesthreeandup also has two of the dinobots with Snarl being the cheapest price you'll find online($9). The gestalts you'll have to search for on ebay. Here's a Chimungmung auction who regularly sells these things. Although he's since upped his shipping charges. Ramjet is a custom I bought off ebay, and the one I bought came with a custom made G1 box. I assume it's all custom made parts using WST Starscream as the base mold. It's not painted, it's molded in that color. Here's a link to a WST Dirge he sells too here. He doesn't have any up for sale at the moment, but I think he rotates them in as he sells his goods. It's worth emailing him if you're really interested. Quality is very good, and well above KO quality.

Is that 360 Galactica downloadable game any good?

I would have preferred the MP Screamer proto before Kawamori got invoved too. May as well show off some of my latest WST acquisitions.

Fixed.

Still not a fan of the designs. They look far too human and barely robotic. But, I get a good feeling from that 1 minute clip that the stories won't be as nauseatingly dull, stupid and difficult to watch as the last three animated series were.

The trade-off is that he's perfectly spherical when you do finally get him there, which I thought was pretty cool. The electronics are also very well implimented. The only thing I don't like is the little Tie Fighters. The wings are misaligned, and the "minicon" mode looks pretty awful.

I know Joel needs to markup things like this in order to make it worth his while, but $94? That's taking it quite a bit too far, imo.

That's.......pretty damn ugly.

I downloaded the demo for this and thought it was just ok. Hearing you guys talk about it, you definitely don't make it sound like it's what you expected. In fact, I'm reading more negatives than positive. I take it this is a discount bin title for an Air Combat novice like me then?

I can't find the source now, but I remember hearing that Paxton ad-libbed that famous line. All this Aliens talk has me jonesing to rewatch the movie. I might just do that now.

I wanted the toy in realistic colors but with those colors as close to homage as possible. It could have been done, there's jet colors out there that they could have chosen as the base color that aren't that far off from Screamer's base. Unfortunately MP Screamer was waaaaaaaay off the mark with the seaweed, and was imo, ugly to boot. As has been noted Wally Screamer isn't perfect either, but it's far closer to what I wanted than MP was. MP Skywarp achieved that happy medium and is dead sexy to boot.

Just got your friend request. Keep me in mind when you play Marvel. The only other game I play regularly at the moment is Gears.

1 day left, many more pictures at auction links. 5 Energon Aerialbots form Superion Maximus 100% 5 Energon Combaticons form Bruticus Maximus 100% 2 TF Combiners: Armada & Energon Perceptor - 9 minicons

I'm really hoping they offer this online through Walmart's store. They have for every exclusive I had wanted before. My Walmart hunts are always a bust.

Are they showing any pics of any plain Aliens or is the Pred-Alien the only one we're getting?

I'd much rather be able to pick 3 from anything *from the store* right when I purchased the player. I'm *still* waiting for my free 5 HDs from the August promotion.

For some reason, I'm getting a Gobot Puzzler vibe from that custom Menasor. That's not a bad thing.

I've been collecting some of the Forces of Valor 1:72 scale tanks pretty much to intersperse inbetween my giant robots. They're really pretty nicely detailed for the scale. Even the 1:72 soldier packs are pretty nice. I knew that this line did planes, but all the ones I had ever seen on the shelf were of the propeller engine type, so I never bothered. Today I went through the product catalog that came with the Abrams I picked up and found out that they did do a few jets. Forces of Valor Plane Listings Two Tomcats(one with a deco from the Black Knights) and a U.K. Panavia Tornado GR.1 all 1:72 scale, and they look pretty nice. Just passing along the info as this was completely new to me.

Megatron's been conscious despite being frozen. There's been humans teeming over him long enough for him to learn our language, which has been 70+ years. The reason he spoke our language when he awoke was to openly refute with disdain the "He's not Megatron, he's N.B.1" line. Weaving's inflection was way off here, and the line didn't come across as it was supposed to. Definitle agree about the S1 G1 intro trilogy. It's held up pretty well, especially for its age and it being a kid's cartoon. Without it, we wouldn't have all the Transformers mythos/product we have today, imo.

You know, as much as I want to hate Michael Bay, he's made quite a bit of sense when it comes to how to tackle a Transformers movie. I agreed with him and his cohorts more often than not while going through the extras DVD, and I wasn't expecting that. This bodes well, imo. Then again, Bay already knows he's getting huge explosions regardless(and as if it wasn't already blatantly obvious, the extras dvd really drives this home). Although that "heart and magic" better be in far larger transformer proportion than human this time.