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[Hikuro]

7 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

i don't remember deer stalker... is that the ultra magnus version of prime's roller?

 

i wonder if this is 200 dollars with tariffs 

on BBTS's site, it's 225 with a 25 deposit and that's after tariffs. Personally I won't be buying any overseas figures anytime soon because of the tariffs are changing left and right based on ol Trump's attitude. Just isn't worth it since its the consumer who gets the pinch. 

[pengbuzz]

25 minutes ago, Hikuro said:

on BBTS's site, it's 225 with a 25 deposit and that's after tariffs. Personally I won't be buying any overseas figures anytime soon because of the tariffs are changing left and right based on ol Trump's attitude. Just isn't worth it since its the consumer who gets the pinch. 

Right? I was lucky to get ML Sunstreaker through BBTS; they decided to NOT charge the tariff for those who had already ordered.

[mikeszekely]

1 hour ago, davidwhangchoi said:

i wonder if this is 200 dollars with tariffs 

BBTS is taking preorders at $225.  They say that price includes the tarrif.

EDIT: Didn't see that this discussion went to the next page and Hikuro already mentioned that.

Edited Monday at 01:06 AM by mikeszekely

[26662]

Got my ML Sunstreaker and Cordon today from ShowZ.  First impression: am I on crazy pills?  These guys are tiiiiiiiiiiiny!  For some reason, I expected them to be ~50% bigger than they are.  Time and unfamiliarity playing tricks on me.

[tekering]

24 minutes ago, 26662 said:

For some reason, I expected them to be ~50% bigger than they are.

Most of us were 50% smaller in 1984. 😉

[pengbuzz]

51 minutes ago, 26662 said:

Got my ML Sunstreaker and Cordon today from ShowZ.  First impression: am I on crazy pills?  These guys are tiiiiiiiiiiiny!  For some reason, I expected them to be ~50% bigger than they are.  Time and unfamiliarity playing tricks on me.

Mine just charged to my account; I should be getting it soon from BBTS.

 

[26662]

4 hours ago, tekering said:

Most of us were 50% smaller in 1984. 😉

😀 Phenomenological experience is my answer as well, but I think psychology outweighs stature here: in my memories, my 1980s TFs are magnified in scale simply because it reflects their relative importance to me. 

Edited yesterday at 06:17 AM by 26662

[Hikuro]

Got a few notifications recently, BBTS said Scavanger is set to arrive soon, so had to make some payment changes there to get him in my pile of loot.

Amazon is shipping out Fireflight and Skydive to complete the Aerialbots. A3 is set to ship tomorrow, I kind of wanna cancel him but at the same time, I guess he could actually TECHNICALLY sit in my season 3 display.

[mikeszekely]

I got several "your stuff is going to ship early" emails, too (weirdly for Skydive but NOT Fireflight), but until I actually get the "we shipped your stuff" email I'm taking their dates with a grain of salt. 

I'm a little cranky. People were saying online that they were finding Mixmaster at Target. I checked inventory online- none at my local Target, but in stock in the next town over. I made the half-hour drive after putting my kid on the bus only to find barren shelves. The girl working in the toy department checked her computer, they supposedly got him in yesterday, but after looking in the stockroom for awhile she couldn't find him and I went home empty-handed.

[M'Kyuun]

7 hours ago, 26662 said:

😀 Phenomenological experience is my answer as well, but I think psychology outweighs stature here: in my memories, my 1980s TFs are magnified in scale simply because it reflects their relative importance to me. 

I think a lot of us can relate to that; toys were always important to me as we were not well off so I didn't have a large or complete collection of anything, and I cherished what I did have. Transformers and building blocks were my two favorite things (not much has changed over the last 40 years except for the volume of my acquisitions. 13-year-old me would absolutely piss himself if he could see what I have now).  Oddly enough, the scale thing often hits me more when I'm out on a walk and encounter the odd LEGO piece that a kid has dropped on the sidewalk. LEGO has been an integral part of my life for most of it; I handle it or see it every day and yet when I encounter a random piece it in the wild it always seems so small, like it's smaller than it really is. It's a weird perception, but in that analogous comparison I can completely understand @26662's amazement at how small the G1 toys were compared to today's main line and SS86 figures, and all the more diminutive compared to MP.

[Hikuro]

5 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

I got several "your stuff is going to ship early" emails, too (weirdly for Skydive but NOT Fireflight), but until I actually get the "we shipped your stuff" email I'm taking their dates with a grain of salt. 

I'm a little cranky. People were saying online that they were finding Mixmaster at Target. I checked inventory online- none at my local Target, but in stock in the next town over. I made the half-hour drive after putting my kid on the bus only to find barren shelves. The girl working in the toy department checked her computer, they supposedly got him in yesterday, but after looking in the stockroom for awhile she couldn't find him and I went home empty-handed.

Interesting I can’t even find him on the website listings. Otherwise I’d be searching so I can finish two combiners in one week.

[mikeszekely]

4 minutes ago, Hikuro said:

Interesting I can’t even find him on the website listings. Otherwise I’d be searching so I can finish two combiners in one week.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.target.com/p/transformers-studio-series-voyager-class-the-transformers-the-movie-constructicon-mixmaster/-/A-94733473&ved=2ahUKEwiYg4zJo8yPAxW1ETQIHSjhASgQFnoECCEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0xgWR4JJyXa0Tnauv1QvTw

[J.T. Silversmith]

Yes, essentially Deerstalker is Ultra Magnus' version of roller.  The Diaclone version of Magnus was called "Powered Convoy" was an upgraded Convoy unit with a new trailer, weapons, and a new transforming car called "Powered Buggy". Here is a pictures of the Japanese advertisements from tfwiki.  For some unknown reason there was never an official Transformer release of powered buggy with Ultra Magnus.

I am really hoping they do a Diaclone colors (Delta Magnus) in Missing link soon.

[mikeszekely]

15 minutes ago, J.T. Silversmith said:

Yes, essentially Deerstalker is Ultra Magnus' version of roller.

I knew that Powered Convoy came with a buggy that Ultra Magnus didn't, but how did the one they're adding to Ultra Magnus get the name "Deerstalker?"

[J.T. Silversmith]

They decided that the Powered Buggy Character was a great Detective, so they named him after Sherlock Holmes hat a deerstalker.  In one of the comic pages there is a picture of him with a magnifying glass.

Found the picture from the Generations Mook info.

[J.T. Silversmith]

He is also very nervous around girls Which is why he has such a bad reaction to Arcee touching his hand in the comic page.

[Hikuro]

Yeah well that’s very Japanese lol. Not sure why the manga culture is obsessed with that troupe.

 

Amazon told me they’re pushing firefight back to end of September now, not sure why when he was listed as paid.

so guess it’s just skydive now. 
I did end up canceling A3. The only one I care about was the 2 pack variant and I missed out on that multiple times now.

[tekering]

1 hour ago, Hikuro said:

Not sure why the manga culture is obsessed with that trope.

More often than not, it reflects the experience of the author, the artist, and the reader when interacting with the opposite sex.  Each successive generation is becoming progressively more shy and self-conscious, and the population is dwindling rapidly as a result. 🙁