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THATS the word, lenticular.
I couldn't remember what they were called when I was telling my bro in law about them. I kept saying "lithograph or whatever it was where you looked at it from different angles."
Anyone here collect toys/Action Figures?
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I couldn't remember what they were called when I was telling my bro in law about them. I kept saying "lithograph or whatever it was where you looked at it from different angles."
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Did your generation also have access to the previous Mego "World's Greatest Superheroes" line, with its versions of Cap, Falcon, Invisible Girl, Ben Grimm, Thor, et al. or is my guess off by a decade?
Anyhow, these impending 40th anniversary figures look very accurate to the source material crossover miniseries:
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That's my generation. They were just phasing those out when I was maybe 6 or 7. So I had a few. What's weird is that licensed toys were such a small thing at the time that Mego combined both Marvel and DC characters in the same toy line. I had Batman (and Batmobile, which was big enough for Mego figures to ride in) but no Robin, I had Captain America, Hulk, Green Arrow, and Aquaman. Fucking random.
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Back when Cap's shield breaking actually meant something.
Yeah, I had the Mego figures. Cap, Spidey (who didn't have a Mego Spidey back then), Batman, Superman, Captain Marvel and the Thing, with his cloth rock skin.
I also had a bunch of the Star Trek line, including the Enterprise with its cardboard screen tiles and it's crazy spinny transporter.
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I didn't.
One of my friends did, and my parents were very careful (for some reason) not to buy me a toy a friend already had. But that's okay. I don't know why, but Spidey's sleeves bothered me as a kid.
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They all kind of did. The characters with gloves, like Aquaman, looked like they were wearing oven mitts to bring a hot casserole to the dinner table.
Even at 5 years old, kids were like, ehhhh.
Even at 5 years old, kids were like, ehhhh.
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That is very sad, considering it seems like we obtained these toys by osmosis or accident. I don't recall ever asking for a single one of the super hero figures but somehow I ended up with them.I didn't.
I wanted the Star Trek stuff because I thought the Enterprise playset was cool when I was 6 years old. And honestly, for a toy manufactured in those days and based on a licensed property that would have sold just on the name alone, it was pretty ambitious. Even had a handle on it so you could carry it around like a miniature suitcase.
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Didn't they have to rename it at some point?
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Finally got a Sunstreaker. Never had him as a kid. Have a few different releases from throughout the years, but not a G1, so this'll make up for it. It's a knockoff, but for $30, I'm not complaining. My MP BumbleBee and Ironhide are as well, so wat.
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Yeah it was Toy Fare
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OK so I got out of work and was finally able to put a few minutes into checking out the KO Sunstreaker.
First impressions, hes def a KO as I mentioned. There are bits of him like the shoulders and elbows and a few other bits internally that are not the same color yellow. They aren't orange or anything, but they are noticeably darker (see pic).
You can also see the paint job near the windows isn't really MP grade quality.
The other thing, his left shoulder joint is quite loose. It can't hold his arm up. I know there's stuff I can do with superglue and whatnot, but I need to watch a video so I dont royally screw him up.
Some stuff like internal tabs that turn just a tiny bit to tab into something else are SOOOOPER tight and I had to use a parts separator. That said, there are some places like his hips and thighs that are tight enough, but not tight enough to really get him into some crazy poses. His "backpack" involves twisting it around 180 degrees for the bot transformation and I seriously thought I was doing something wrong and stressing a plastic piece that wasn't supposed to bend, but it was supposed to.
Honestly, Im still ok with it as is. Hes just gonna go in a case with the rest of the bots and I might take him down to transform him here and there, but all said and done - unless you're an absolute purist that HAS to be made from Hasbro or Takara, this guy's a worthy buy for a KO.
First impressions, hes def a KO as I mentioned. There are bits of him like the shoulders and elbows and a few other bits internally that are not the same color yellow. They aren't orange or anything, but they are noticeably darker (see pic).
You can also see the paint job near the windows isn't really MP grade quality.
The other thing, his left shoulder joint is quite loose. It can't hold his arm up. I know there's stuff I can do with superglue and whatnot, but I need to watch a video so I dont royally screw him up.
Some stuff like internal tabs that turn just a tiny bit to tab into something else are SOOOOPER tight and I had to use a parts separator. That said, there are some places like his hips and thighs that are tight enough, but not tight enough to really get him into some crazy poses. His "backpack" involves twisting it around 180 degrees for the bot transformation and I seriously thought I was doing something wrong and stressing a plastic piece that wasn't supposed to bend, but it was supposed to.
Honestly, Im still ok with it as is. Hes just gonna go in a case with the rest of the bots and I might take him down to transform him here and there, but all said and done - unless you're an absolute purist that HAS to be made from Hasbro or Takara, this guy's a worthy buy for a KO.
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I bought a sideswipe recently as my original crumbled in the UV, and had to let him know it was fake as he flat out refused. Refunded and now it's just in the box in the cupboard
Surprised how high the quality is, better than the original in some ways. Be careful with the doors on sunstreaker as I broke one. Great figure though
Surprised how high the quality is, better than the original in some ways. Be careful with the doors on sunstreaker as I broke one. Great figure though
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So like.... its just sitting there.... not being used?
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Yeah, I have an original also. I thought it was original. There's lots of o.g stuff in the cupboard
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The Dinobots are still my favorite Transformers of any faction. I kind of want to get these even though I have no practical reason to.
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Dude, nothing else - get them because of their size. And Swoop isn't even the biggest one. He's the smallest one. Grimlock is the tallest, but actual sizewise, Sludge is probably the "biggest." But yeah, these are no joke. They might as well be Commander size. check it - this is the War For Cybertron trilogy (Netflix show) Jetfire standing next to Studio 86 Grimlock.
To be fair, Jetfire dwarfs Grimlock, but if you haven't seen how big Jetfire is - he is fucking HUGE. Hes nearly a foot tall. That, compared to Grimlock should show you how big he is. He's not as big as the Masterpiece Grimlock, but he's about 4/5 the size.
Seriously - if you can find them, grab em. You wont be disappointed. I never had all the Dinobots as a kid. I had Slag that I found at a garage sale, but that was it. For now - these bots are THE definitive Dinobots not counting MP, at least to me.
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That.... is terrifying.
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Yeah I thought it was pretty cool to.
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I still have all 5 of the original releases but they aren't in the best of condition and TBH they aren't really great. One of the things I always hated about the original toys was that they only looked cool in their disguise. These look a lot better.