Mike just pick up haslab prime just in case cuz who knows, if you end up liking it down the line and you don’t get it then you’re gonna be paying a premium on the secondary market, but if you get it now and don’t end up liking it you can always sell it to someone who missed out. At the very least you can back it for the sake of reselling it and you’ll just help fund the next tiers. Always better to be safe than sorry
I'll be honest, I always tune in for the Transformers news (hoping the xtb Ironhide will be good), but I stay and watch the whole video. Even though I don't care about Star Wars. As you are an experienced collector I appreciate the perspective you bring.
Time Index: The reason for Optimus’ head is on a stand is because, at the end of the 4-part miniseries that Marvel Comics put out in the mid 80s, the Autobots won their final battle against Megatron and the Decepticons. However, a powerful blast knocks out the Autobots and, from the smoke, emerges Shockwave, who was thought to have been lost. In the following issue, Shockwave had taken the inoperative Autobots and left them, literally, hanging. While Optimus was incapacitated, his head separated from his body, and connected to a device, from which Shockwave can access the Creation Matrix to create new Decepticons.
The XTB Ironhide is a big upgrade from the old Takara version but it still doesn't have that wow factor imho. Maybe I'm just fussy. I'd take an upscaled version of the magic square version over this one. I'm excited about the MS dinobots though. I'm happy with my DX9 set for the dino modes but I'll definitely pick up the MS ones for bot modes.
Ironhide is a yes for sure…gotta get him. Sideswipe needs a modern upgrade. Mainly the chest . I also think even the Datsun brothers need a slight chest upgrade. Oh well, I’m in on Ironhide and possibly a Ratchet
Iron hide and depth charge for the win. Transart has been almost perfect minus little hiccups on all their releases and depth charge is one of my favorite characters. This is welcome news indeed
@@tydiriumhanger1320 I'm praying for vac metal. This Cooper-kid release date on Amazon isn't until November 18th. So we wouldn't see his vac metal until 2025 at the earliest. I do like Super7 but their release windows are brutal. Love your channel.
@@tydiriumhanger1320 Amazon still showing the release date for February but BBTS is showing August for the quicksilver/steelheart vac metals. I hope this is a second wave of preorders for BBTS. If so, then we very well could see the rest of the team in vac metal.
Fantastic Copper Kid finally! You had me worried he was only going to be available with the bike thing which I have no space for. Definitely have to preorder him but no idea from where.
I don't understand how someone isn't KOing and upscaling a lot of these recent Legacy figures to MP scale. Especially the figures that are great and are still very much needed.
08:50 “They said the other two modes will be revealed in the future - meaning they’ll show the other two modes in the future.” Thanks for cleaning that up, Mike! Ha! That line cracked me up! Great video as always!!
I’m all for giving xtb a chance when they nail it but that Ironhide looks like a placeholder until fanstoys puts theirs out. Need to see alt mode, but the chest bothers me and the face looks too young.
Phantom Menace in theaters again for a short time to celebrate a quarter of a century. Those 3" MASK scaled GI Joes and Transformers are interesting, though a bit expensive, but still cheaper than 9.99 each. Nice previews, Thanks! Superbowl Sunday today too.
I have the masterpiece ratchet and Ironside but those x-transbots look so good I think I'll get them and keep my MP ones in vehicle mode. I like the orgins wheeljack but think the earthrise repaint looks horrible
The Yolopark AMK Pro Series G1 Megatron is outstanding. I’m all in on Yolopark AMK. Also getting those MS Dinos. Will get EX too. And toy style. Lol. Getting NA toy and SG variants. So many Dinobots! Swoooop!
I'm pre-ordering at the bigbadtoystore Cooper Kid Mike. Down the line I might get me the Space Racer but for now the Cooper Kid is a must to complete the main characters. 😀💡👍
There is one s1 beast wars character from 3rd party I'm aware of, Metagate did a terrorsaur. I have it and ita actually really nice, with only the robot face being a bit weird for some reason
Yes very good point. They are not actually competing with Takara with that one either though because Takara has not made one. I wonder if they have some relationship with Takara and know what will or will not get made any time soon
I like the comic Shockwave Mike... I'm getting the G1 colors from the Takara 3 pack which looks cool too... Much better that Siege and Netflix versions. 😀💡👍
Will page punchers be coming to Wal-Mart or Target or will it be online only? I honestly think I am the only person looking forward to these because I can add some "short" troopers to my 1/18 collection. 😂🤣
Though interesting, I still like my masterpiece Ironhide and ratchet. I'll see you the shadow Fisher kits, the molds improve by 10 times. They're typical of a lot of figures where I think that they're pretty good but they're 10 or 15% off what they're supposed to be. You know either parts made out of plastic that should be made out of metal, not putting in a joint that they should, basically not finishing off the design. In my opinion, my masterpiece vanettes I still better looking than the X-transbots versions. It's like I still prefer my X-transbot Kupp over and FansToys just because there's certain aesthetics that I like about it more. The first release of X-transbots Kupp was a mess, but the second release that I have is still a great figure with no issues I haven't finished it yet but if anybody is interested, I've pretty much scanned all the parts needed for the shadow Fisher Ironhide/ratchet upgrade kit if you want to reproduce it. 3D printed or whatever you want to do. If anybody's interested I can put it up someplace.
Magic Square Dinobots? About damn time!! And you really threw that shot to the nuts about Hasbro's PotP Dinobots...wow. I hope that the prices are reasonable (unlike NewAge's overpriced stuff) and that they're good like Light of Victory and not garbage like Doomsday. XTB got Ironhide and Ratchet in the works? I dunno. Their engineering is insane nowadays and rather Unfeazant - I mean unpleasant. Only things that catch my interest are from their A side: Keith's Fantasy Club Blaster, Victory Leo, Starsaber upgrade kit, and some means of gettin' Rosanna that don't involve gettin' Twincast. HasLab Omega Prime...it is lookin' like I am not gonna be able to get in on it. Budget beat me down in February and denied me my shot at NewAge Soundwave, and it ain't lookin' any better for March. 😞 A bro-ham needs a miracle or three here!! That Copper Kid looks pretty flat, so idk about Super7 having the vac-metal aka the chrome. Now the original one? THAT was chromed the hell out (I used to have the original as a kid, along with the disturbingly flat red Mon-Starr). If anyone can make some kickass Silverhawks that are a bit more reasonably priced...I think it's NECA...
Star Wars is such a damaged brand. Black Series resells for half or less if its cost where just two years ago it held its value like Legends do. There's such low interest in the brand now.
Good time to pick up while stuff is cheap, I think eventually a good star wars movie will bring back interest and a bunch of new collectors that will be out on the hunt
It amazes me how stupid and entitled toy collectors have become, especially when it comes to actual premium items. Comparing King Grayskull to MM Cobra Commander is absurd. There were over 25k CCs made in the Hiss Tank Haslab, King Grayskull is limited to roughly 5k pieces for the Early Bird backers. It's very limited in number produced. Do you expect people to give it away for $100? Toy collectors have become bottom feeding scavengers who expect Ollie's prices all the time. It doesn't work that way nor should it.
I'm looking forward to 'Furiosa'.
It should explain how her eyes navigated across her face to a normal position.
Mike just pick up haslab prime just in case cuz who knows, if you end up liking it down the line and you don’t get it then you’re gonna be paying a premium on the secondary market, but if you get it now and don’t end up liking it you can always sell it to someone who missed out. At the very least you can back it for the sake of reselling it and you’ll just help fund the next tiers. Always better to be safe than sorry
I'll be honest, I always tune in for the Transformers news (hoping the xtb Ironhide will be good), but I stay and watch the whole video. Even though I don't care about Star Wars. As you are an experienced collector I appreciate the perspective you bring.
I appreciate it and try to talk about a bit of everything these days
Even though I don’t collect the other lines (I collect TFers), I also enjoy watching the whole video. It’s nice to see what else is going on.
Time Index: The reason for Optimus’ head is on a stand is because, at the end of the 4-part miniseries that Marvel Comics put out in the mid 80s, the Autobots won their final battle against Megatron and the Decepticons. However, a powerful blast knocks out the Autobots and, from the smoke, emerges Shockwave, who was thought to have been lost.
In the following issue, Shockwave had taken the inoperative Autobots and left them, literally, hanging. While Optimus was incapacitated, his head separated from his body, and connected to a device, from which Shockwave can access the Creation Matrix to create new Decepticons.
@2:49 My suppliers have said the Takara "Missing Link" is shipping Feb 17th, I got my final invoice today.
Cool and Takara usually hits their release date. Good info to know
Glad you put Star Wars at the end of your videos, the way I know when to skip to another video. Here only for transformers
The XTB Ironhide is a big upgrade from the old Takara version but it still doesn't have that wow factor imho. Maybe I'm just fussy. I'd take an upscaled version of the magic square version over this one. I'm excited about the MS dinobots though. I'm happy with my DX9 set for the dino modes but I'll definitely pick up the MS ones for bot modes.
Ironhide is just a hard one to get accurate in both modes
Ironhide is a yes for sure…gotta get him. Sideswipe needs a modern upgrade. Mainly the chest . I also think even the Datsun brothers need a slight chest upgrade. Oh well, I’m in on Ironhide and possibly a Ratchet
Yep Takara has had a few misses in their day and Ironhide is on that list. XTB looks great
Iron hide and depth charge for the win. Transart has been almost perfect minus little hiccups on all their releases and depth charge is one of my favorite characters. This is welcome news indeed
I don’t like the way the chest looks on XTB Ironhide. I want to see alt mode.
Totally agree with the Copper Kid. No way it's that shiny. I'm personally holding off until the vac metal ones come out 🤞
Necessary to complete the team but I wonder if they will do all in Vac metal. I hope we get them all in Vac metal
@@tydiriumhanger1320 I'm praying for vac metal. This Cooper-kid release date on Amazon isn't until November 18th. So we wouldn't see his vac metal until 2025 at the earliest. I do like Super7 but their release windows are brutal. Love your channel.
@@tydiriumhanger1320 Amazon still showing the release date for February but BBTS is showing August for the quicksilver/steelheart vac metals. I hope this is a second wave of preorders for BBTS. If so, then we very well could see the rest of the team in vac metal.
Fantastic Copper Kid finally! You had me worried he was only going to be available with the bike thing which I have no space for. Definitely have to preorder him but no idea from where.
Those fraggel rock figures look cool in boxes Mike. Really like the packaging. 😀💡👍
The do look good and very tempting
I don't understand how someone isn't KOing and upscaling a lot of these recent Legacy figures to MP scale. Especially the figures that are great and are still very much needed.
Thanks so much again for the great content.
Oh man Transart Depthcharge! I need it
The R2 unit on this E-Wing is an homage to the original Kenner (Kea-na -> Keana -> Kenner) R2-D2.
08:50 “They said the other two modes will be revealed in the future - meaning they’ll show the other two modes in the future.”
Thanks for cleaning that up, Mike!
Ha! That line cracked me up! Great video as always!!
The translations come through sounding a bit odd
Like #177 Thank you for the news! I received my Eternia play set this past Saturday...it's huge and heavy...sadly I missed out on the King Gray Skull
Good news about the gears and sandstorm, not leaving us g1 guys with nothing to be excited about.
The studio series shockwave is going for crazy $$$. Where's this at!!!😂❤
It says these are exclusives but no ordering info yet
I’m all for giving xtb a chance when they nail it but that Ironhide looks like a placeholder until fanstoys puts theirs out. Need to see alt mode, but the chest bothers me and the face looks too young.
Phantom Menace in theaters again for a short time to celebrate a quarter of a century. Those 3" MASK scaled GI Joes and Transformers are interesting, though a bit expensive, but still cheaper than 9.99 each. Nice previews, Thanks! Superbowl Sunday today too.
If they do Mask figures one day I hope they give them at least knee articulation
@@tydiriumhanger1320 Yes, bending of the knees to match the original line, good point.
I was hoping for some info about more missing link 🔗 projects from Takara.
Should be shipping by the end of this month but CNY will slow that down
I have the masterpiece ratchet and Ironside but those x-transbots look so good I think I'll get them and keep my MP ones in vehicle mode. I like the orgins wheeljack but think the earthrise repaint looks horrible
Come for the Transformers news, but stay for the 80s stuff.
It is a great time to collect 80s
You just have to go to the PvP department store to find it on the shelves early 😂.
Oh they do not have those over here sadly LOL
I’m so damn excited for the Copper Kidd. Easily my favorite silverhawk. Defintley pre ordering him to get the extra head and gun.
The Yolopark AMK Pro Series G1 Megatron is outstanding. I’m all in on Yolopark AMK. Also getting those MS Dinos. Will get EX too. And toy style. Lol. Getting NA toy and SG variants. So many Dinobots! Swoooop!
Yep too many Dinos but that is a good thing
@@tydiriumhanger1320 agree!
That's not King Grayskull. That's Miles Morales as King Grayskull.
I'm pre-ordering at the bigbadtoystore Cooper Kid Mike. Down the line I might get me the Space Racer but for now the Cooper Kid is a must to complete the main characters. 😀💡👍
Glad to see them do the KID to finish the team and the space racer is cool but that price
Yeah but will eventually get the Space Racer... I'm very glad that Super 7 is making the effort to produce this line.😀💡👍
There is one s1 beast wars character from 3rd party I'm aware of, Metagate did a terrorsaur.
I have it and ita actually really nice, with only the robot face being a bit weird for some reason
Yes very good point. They are not actually competing with Takara with that one either though because Takara has not made one. I wonder if they have some relationship with Takara and know what will or will not get made any time soon
Good that Jackie has a gun... Not the correct looking gun though LOL. Still needs upgrade parts then and a lot of them.
I like the comic Shockwave Mike... I'm getting the G1 colors from the Takara 3 pack which looks cool too... Much better that Siege and Netflix versions. 😀💡👍
I held off on most Siege releases because I figured they would tweak them to be more G1 down the road and they sure did
Very smart move Mike... 😀💡
We need an XTB or FT sharkticon.
Ron looks like it improves on the Takara Ironhide but I'll wait for Fanstoys to tackle him
It will be interesting to see what FT does but Ron does look way better than Takara. Watch FT put out a render the week this releases
Will page punchers be coming to Wal-Mart or Target or will it be online only? I honestly think I am the only person looking forward to these because I can add some "short" troopers to my 1/18 collection. 😂🤣
They have not really said yet but I believe they will come to retail just online retailers have preorders up so far
Time Index: 11:10 OOOOOOOH!
That ironhide doesn’t look right to me, hopefully fanstoys will announce one now 🤣
Forgot about the Grey model of dx9 mini ginrai
That really is a release and looks promising thanks
Though interesting, I still like my masterpiece Ironhide and ratchet. I'll see you the shadow Fisher kits, the molds improve by 10 times. They're typical of a lot of figures where I think that they're pretty good but they're 10 or 15% off what they're supposed to be. You know either parts made out of plastic that should be made out of metal, not putting in a joint that they should, basically not finishing off the design. In my opinion, my masterpiece vanettes I still better looking than the X-transbots versions.
It's like I still prefer my X-transbot Kupp over and
FansToys just because there's certain aesthetics that I like about it more. The first release of X-transbots Kupp was a mess, but the second release that I have is still a great figure with no issues
I haven't finished it yet but if anybody is interested, I've pretty much scanned all the parts needed for the shadow Fisher Ironhide/ratchet upgrade kit if you want to reproduce it. 3D printed or whatever you want to do.
If anybody's interested I can put it up someplace.
Can we please get a G1 masterpiece scale Megatron from MagicSquare! 😢
6:20 I think your pics accidentally got mixed up a lil, Go Chiefs!!
I was thinking the same thing. The photo you have is Fireflight and not Air Raid. Fireflight is the last one of the Airialbots.
Thank you
Appreciate it!
Magic Square Dinobots? About damn time!! And you really threw that shot to the nuts about Hasbro's PotP Dinobots...wow. I hope that the prices are reasonable (unlike NewAge's overpriced stuff) and that they're good like Light of Victory and not garbage like Doomsday.
XTB got Ironhide and Ratchet in the works? I dunno. Their engineering is insane nowadays and rather Unfeazant - I mean unpleasant. Only things that catch my interest are from their A side: Keith's Fantasy Club Blaster, Victory Leo, Starsaber upgrade kit, and some means of gettin' Rosanna that don't involve gettin' Twincast.
HasLab Omega Prime...it is lookin' like I am not gonna be able to get in on it. Budget beat me down in February and denied me my shot at NewAge Soundwave, and it ain't lookin' any better for March. 😞 A bro-ham needs a miracle or three here!!
That Copper Kid looks pretty flat, so idk about Super7 having the vac-metal aka the chrome. Now the original one? THAT was chromed the hell out (I used to have the original as a kid, along with the disturbingly flat red Mon-Starr). If anyone can make some kickass Silverhawks that are a bit more reasonably priced...I think it's NECA...
Hell yes !!!!
Great week
Check your editing. Your talking about Nemesis Prime while displaying a Dreamstar Toys Aerialbot
Thanks for the heads up got it fixed
Pangu toys should over size the ms dinobots
Or ms themselves for that matter
That would be good and if MS does not want to then let Pangu do them
What's with all the mic fumbling noises at the end of your recent videos lately 🙉🤔
It is an issue I have to work out
@@tydiriumhanger1320 cool, always love your vids though good job every week
When does Chinese new year end? 🤔
Star Wars is such a damaged brand. Black Series resells for half or less if its cost where just two years ago it held its value like Legends do. There's such low interest in the brand now.
Star Wars is dead, and Mickey Rat killed it.
Yep the interests for Star Wars collectors seems to have shifted back to Vintage Kenner
Good time to pick up while stuff is cheap, I think eventually a good star wars movie will bring back interest and a bunch of new collectors that will be out on the hunt
Blame Darth Vermin (Mickey Mouse) for that.
Be fair though, the success of action figures alone doesn't represent the health of an entire franchise.
Non-Transformers McFarlane facepunchers remains the dumbest joke ever.
nobody is going to the unwatchable Gungan Menace
How about calling it action figure and not a transformer.
It amazes me how stupid and entitled toy collectors have become, especially when it comes to actual premium items. Comparing King Grayskull to MM Cobra Commander is absurd. There were over 25k CCs made in the Hiss Tank Haslab, King Grayskull is limited to roughly 5k pieces for the Early Bird backers. It's very limited in number produced. Do you expect people to give it away for $100? Toy collectors have become bottom feeding scavengers who expect Ollie's prices all the time. It doesn't work that way nor should it.
Yes these are in low supply and happy Mattel got all 3 of mine delivered safely.
Super 7 is garbage...I'll never buy any of there product .
Too much transformers on this vid.
You can never have to many Transformers brother.
There is always more going on in Transformers than any other franchise every week for better or worse