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Vote for Jazz. Sure, Soundwave will win, but I'd love to stick it to those idiot Beast wars fans by having a G1 autobot win the first fan poll. All of those entries are almost guaranteed to make it in anyways, except maybe Jazz. So seriously. Vote Jazz.

Sure I will vote jazz :D

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When did R/C become such a popular character? I'm not a huge fan of any of the post-85 characters. Except Kup, of course. And it is hard to hate Ultra Magnus too much, because he's such a total loser. Yet I still hate him.

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Anybody else somewhat excited for this announcement?

I'm sure after the whole Soundwave incident Bay and the others will end up ruining him just as well, but I'll remain hopeful.

Oh yeah, and the new War For Cybertron Soundwave figure looks goddamn amazing.

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My wife rented Transformers 2, and I watched about 20 minutes of it. Couldn't really take any more. Same experience with GI Joe.

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GI Joe, for me, was tolerable. I enjoyed 'going with it' a LOT more than TFs. I believe that had to do with a ascertainable plot. Cobra is trying to terrorize the world into giving them money in a very Jame Bond-ish way. GI Joe is trying to stop them. The individual parts like revealing Cobra Commander and stuff just made me cringe with their badness. Very very badness.

Still miles above and beyond RotF. Was there even a plot? A bad plot? No. GI Joe wins.

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RotF pretty much came down to: Do you like Optimus Prime? Do you hate key plot information?

If so, it was the movie for you. I gotta admit the one good thing about it was Optimus beating the shit out of the Decepticons in the forest, and then again in the desert. "Give me your face!" That line is an instant classic.

There was also that scene at the end when Optimus puts Megatron through the wall, and when Megs calls out for Starscream it comes out "THARSCWEAMGHUR". It was like listening to Helen Keller greet the President.

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Still miles above and beyond RotF. Was there even a plot? A bad plot? No. GI Joe wins.

To be fair, RotF was simply too full of uncomfortable scenes with weirdly racist robots and way-over-the-top sex/toilet/stoner "humor" to fit a plot in there too. I actually found the first Transformers a lot of fun, but the second was kind of unbelievable in its level of awfulness. Hard to understand how it could be written by the same guys as Star Trek.

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Okay, you see this KO Perceptor and Soundwave? http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/new-t...420.php#p563420 I need them so bad. Always have ever since that thread came out 4 years ago at the TF Master boards. If any of yall see them any where, LMK.

EDIT: Actually I can find a KO Perceptor fairly easy (he's yellow). It's finding a non-oversized Soundwave/Soundblaster that's driving me nuts.

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I don't collect a ton of transformers but I love Soundwave so I buy whatever I can of him. I also love the Seekers and have Masterpiece Starscream and Skywarp and the classics versions of Starscream and Ramjet and my friend just showed me that they are releasing a classics version of Thrust who is my favorite seeker. I can't wait for this one!

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Gosh all I had to do was post this and then I went to TRU this morning and found Thrust! And my friend tells me they are going to do a Dirge too! Awesome!

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Nice dude!

A quick c/p from Botcon

SUMMARY

Legends Size Class

- G1 Optimus Prime

- G1 Starscream

- G1 Megatron

(a variation of the original gun, can be held by Masterpiece Starscream)

- G1 Prowl

- All will have rub symbols

Scout Size Class

- G1 Windcharger

(will have flip-out magnet weapons, can hold Generations Darkmount and Movie Recon Ironhide weapons)

Deluxe Class

- Skullgrin (Darkmount redeco, has a new ram-style head)

- Scourge (G1, stealth jet, white in color, head elevates in vehicle mode, gun is a mixture of his G1 head-gun and his Targetmaster gun, NOT A TARGETMASTER TOY!

- WFC Cliffjumper (repaint of WFC Bumblebee, Cliffjumper will have "devil horns")

- Thunderwing (G1, has detachable drone which does not transform)

- Tracks (has a car and flying-car mode)

- Jazz (has car speakers that pop out of his vehicle mode)

- Perceptor (slightly based on Animated design, will be redeco'd in to REFLECTOR, chest opens to 'scan things')

Other size toys

- Grapple (Universe 2.0 Inferno redeco/remold, will come with crane)

- Lugnut (new mold, WWII style bomber, looks amazing, very bulky)

- The Fallen repaint (shown in previous pictures, blue in color)

Powercore Combiners

- Heavytread with Groundspike

- Skyhammer with Airlift (Skyhammer resembles Misfire/Triggerhappy)

- Five pack of Constructicons (Steamhammer is main 'bot)

- Dinobot set (Grimstone, transforms in to "THE BEAST", lolz)

Original 13 Transformers

- Alpha Trion (can see past, present, and future, has pen and a book)

- Liege Maximo (ram-styled horns)

- Vector Prime (gold armor, has swords and an hourglass, overseer of time and space)

- Prima (first prime, all white, "Warrior of Light", sword has the Matrix as the hilt)

- Megatronus (black and red, "Warrior of Darkness", fusion cannon, Megatron-esq ... duh)

- "The Fallen" (figure out which one of the previous listings lights themselves on fire and changes their name)

Other Things

- Upcoming "Kup" toy, no details

- Open to third party properties becoming toys, ie: War For Cybertron, IDW Drift, etc., but cannot disclose any information

- Designers have a desire to do more humans and cassettes in toylines

- Aaron Archer wants to revisit Beast Wars again, especially after Dinobot's induction in to the Hall of Fame

- Hasbro won't reveal identity of Movie Ferarri car

- No plans for larger Powercore Combiners yet, offhand remark about WST combiners

- Stay tuned for details on more "female Transformers toys"

- Takara-Tomy most likely not making new toys for Animated

- "Blue Classics Bumblebee" is not a Hasbro product

- No Transformers: Prime toys as of yet, only a television show

- Desire to do a Wheeljack toy

- "Airachnid" ... stay tuned

- "If War For Cybertron toys sell well, we'll do more of them, Starscream on the short list of desired WFC toys to release"

- No plans for "Last Stand of the Wreckers" toys

- "Brave" toys from Japan ... Hasbro would have to acquire a license, so very unlikely, plus toys are very dated

- Haven't forgotten Trailbreaker

- Fosterlager has an unhealthy obsession with female cosplayers

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I got a whole bunch of new stuff a couple days ago. I grabbed a Sea Spray, some Power Core Combiners and the WFC Prime and Bumblebee. Seems that all The TRUs in my area are getting Generations cases with just Prime and Bee in them. Slightly disappointing.

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