Age of Primes

Yeah, I can remember Drag Strip as the lone formula car. The rest? Might as well be Decepticon drones. That's a good tip on Fireflight though. I don't even know what a Harrier is.
 
It's the smaller one. Slingshot also had more play in the cartoon which helped. I think that's part of the problem. Early stories both comic and cartoon didn't do much to differentiate them.
 
NORM said:
When it comes to combiners, I rarely take them apart. When I first completed Devastator, I left them as individuals for a while. I wanted to make sure I learned their names, their faces, their modes. I didn't really do that with Menasor. Once I had them all, that was it, he was Menasor. I still have a hard time remembering the names of the individual 'Cons besides Motor Master. And I did the same with Superion. To me, the Aerialbots are the most indistinguishable, because they're ALL JETS with similar color schemes.
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The Constructicons and Devastator have always held a special place in the lore, and not just because they were the first combiner. The Constructicons all have fairly unique designs, and more importantly, their individual bots got more screen time and development than most other combiner bots because they helped fill out the limited Decepticon ranks in the early seasons (much like the mini-vehicles on the Autobot side). And of course, Devastator's big scene in the '86 movie helped cement his place in Transformers history.
 
I think someone may have bought Liege Maximo from my Walmart because there was a Big Convoy yesterday morning. I'm not sure I would've bought him, but it's nice having another local store carrying Leader Class. My Walmart bounces back and forth between carrying and not carrying Leaders after their aisle resets. We're back to a Leader Class store with SS and AoP shelf tags.
 
Swerve and Powerglide arrived today.

Swerve is pretty straight forward. Just like Gears, he comes with his chest plate separated so it needs to be attached. Unlike Gears, he has false tires at his shoulders that get folded away. Also unlike Gears, he no longer has ports on the side of the legs to plug his rifle into. Gotta plug into the roof in truck mode. He has some minor differences in sculpts but the conversion is pretty much identical.

Powerglide is one of my most anticipated TFs of the year, and he’s so disappointing. I don’t love him for similar reasons to Seaspray. Some of the tolerances of the hinge joints just aren’t strong. Like those rib panels on Seaspray’s torso, Powerglide’s engines should hinge and swing up from robot to plane mode, but they pop off too easily. His arms also pop off at the biceps easily, making the conversion into pontoons(? they don’t look like pontoons anymore) annoying. His wings don’t plug into the body very well in plane mode either. There’s one clever bit where his face can be hidden in plane mode, and he seems to come off short, but his lower legs can extend his feet down about a quarter inch. Not sure what the intended transformation is there. But overall, he’s just annoying to convert. Robot mode is fine, but plane mode is unstable because the wings don’t have a secure way to stay in place. Couple all of that with his thighs and fists being exposed in plane mode.. I haven’t been this disappointed in a TF in a while.
 
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Chooch555 said:
Next up the Age of Evolution:

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2027 AOTP Replacement Line Found – Enter AGE OF EVOLUTION With Animated Lugnut, Energon Scorponok, G2 Megatron & More!

As the finale to our new 2027 info (in addition to the Studio Series lineup) we now have our first listings for what everyone has been waiting for: The Age Of The Primes replacement line - revealed to be named AGE OF EVOLUTION - thanks once more to TFW's Jtprime17... and they are glorious! Age...
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Wow, Leader Lugnut? And G2 Megatron? Those both could be amazing.


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NORM said:
Swerve and Powerglide arrived today.

Swerve is pretty straight forward. Just like Gears, he comes with his chest plate separated so it needs to be attached. Unlike Gears, he has false tires at his shoulders that get folded away. Also unlike Gears, he no longer has ports on the side of the legs to plug his rifle into. Gotta plug into the roof in truck mode. He has some minor differences in sculpts but the conversion is pretty much identical.

Powerglide is one of my most anticipated TFs of the year, and he’s so disappointing. I don’t love him for similar reasons to Seaspray. Some of the tolerances of the hinge joints just aren’t strong. Like those rib panels on Seaspray’s torso, Powerglide’s engines should hinge and swing up from robot to plane mode, but they pop off too easily. His arms also pop off at the biceps easily, making the conversion into pontoons(? they don’t look like pontoons anymore) annoying. His wings don’t plug into the body very well in plane mode either. There’s one clever bit where his face can be hidden in plane mode, and he seems to come off short, but his lower legs can extend his feet down about a quarter inch. Not sure what the intended transformation is there. But overall, he’s just annoying to convert. Robot mode is fine, but plane mode is unstable because the wings don’t have a secure way to stay in place. Couple all of that with his thighs and fists being exposed in plane mode.. I haven’t been this disappointed in a TF in a while.
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I don't know what it is with Transformers, but a disappointing Transformer annoys me more than a similarly disappointing action figure. It's a big part of the reason why I had to get out for a little while.

I was on the fence with Powerglide. Will definitely not by due to Norm.
 
mrboshek said:
I don't know what it is with Transformers, but a disappointing Transformer annoys me more than a similarly disappointing action figure. It's a big part of the reason why I had to get out for a little while.
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My guess is that Transformers have to function as well. Their function is to be a puzzle, and if all parts don't fit together correctly, the puzzle becomes dysfunctional. Action figures don't have that same function in most cases, but can be just as frustrating when parts don't fit together properly. Sometimes I need to step back and appreciate these things for the sheer number of literal moving parts involved, and how that can be a challenge to produce in the tens to hundreds of thousands. It's part of why I don't always mind paying as much for the endless supply of action figures that enter my collection. I respect the craft and engineering. But with Transformers, there's craft and engineering I can't even begin to wrap my head around. They're little modern marvels when they work they way they're supposed to. But when they don't, it takes the wind out of the proverbial sails.
 
I've got Powerglide on the way. I've read mixed reviews so I'm very curious to see how I feel about him.

I will say, one of the charmingly annoying aspects of the vintage toy was the fact that the wing/arms didn't stay flush to the sides of the figure in robot mode. So maybe I'm already accustomed to finding Powerglide mildly compromised. We'll see.
 
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