Bw Neo Toys!!!
RattrapX
I've got a pic of the all new BW Neo toys up on my page!!!
Please visit it at:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4040
Thanks!!
David Lau
Frankie G.
*beautiful*. The penguin ain't bad either, though the beast mode is
kibble-icious! Thanks David!
-Frank
(Heck, even the cobra looks good!)
Why don't you stop by Yakko's Beast Wars 2 Page!
http://members.aol.com/yakko2564/bw.html
ZacWilliam
RattrapX wrote in message <01be4d28$06d05620>I've got a pic of the all new
ARRGGGHHH!!!!
How come Japan gets these awsome looking actual
animal toys and dinosaurs while we get stuck with
Frankenstein's TMII's!!??!!
It's a pointless and retorical question, I know... BUT,
GOSH DARN IT, IT'S NOT FAIR!
Ok. I'm done.
-ZacWilliam, who thinks someone at the Botcon should
slap Hasbro around to till they come to their senses and
release these as our next shipments. ; )
What do you think? the rabit as BW Blurr or BW Springer?
GoEagles02
BETOMORPHS
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>I've got a pic of the all new BW Neo toys up on my page!!!
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>Please visit it at:
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>http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4040
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>David Lau
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BEUTIFUL!!!
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right of all sentient beings<BR>Daniel: Silly Robot, Prime Herbal Shampoo is
only for kids....<BR>Prime: DOH!!!!
Dan Perlberger
*never* been able to view any geocities web sites. It just won't let me...
They never connect.
Dan
Dalmatian
> http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4040
It's a safe bet that Hasbrocollectors.com will probably have these figs
for sale, but I'm so tempted to import them when they're released. :)
Does any body have an estimate or educated guess as to when these might
be available from Hasbro?
Doesn't hurt to ask before getting too hasty.
Remembe, everytime you say Dalmatian,
the kibble will only add even more character to the toys. :)
Douglas W. Dlin
> RattrapX wrote in message
> <01be4d28$06d05620> > I've got a
> pic of the all new BW Neo toys up on my page!!!
> >
> > Please visit it at:
> >
> >http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4040
>
> ARRGGGHHH!!!!
> How come Japan gets these awsome looking actual animal toys and
> dinosaurs while we get stuck with Frankenstein's TMII's!!??!!
>
> It's a pointless and retorical question, I know... BUT, GOSH DARN IT,
> IT'S NOT FAIR!
>
> Ok. I'm done.
>
> -ZacWilliam, who thinks someone at the Botcon should slap Hasbro
> around to till they come to their senses and release these as our next
> shipments. ; )
> What do you think? the rabit as BW Blurr or BW Springer?
Pardon me and no offense meant to you in particular, Zac, but I find your
post highly ironic. Over the first year or so of BW, and to some extent even
now, fans of the preceding TFs couldn't say enough bad about the idea of
"organic" transformations for Transformers, how they wanted them to be
MECHANICAL, darn it! Cheers went up among some of these people at the advent
of the TMets. With their more fully mechanical feel and semi-vehicular
modes, it seemed Hasbro was headed in the direction they wanted most. Now,
with the admittedly dubious-looking TMet2's out here, we get a bunch of those
TFs with fully organic transformations coming out in Japan, and sure enough,
we hear complaints in the OTHER direction! :-)
Now, I realize that this isn't a matter of fans simply turning 180 degrees or
anything. While some have enjoyed the BW figures from the start and honestly
just want the early "'normal' beast to robot" motif to return in strength, I
suspect others are fiercely upset over these toys simply because the toys are
in Japan and not here.
I'll admit I like some of the figures' looks quite a bit. Corahda looks much
better than I thought, as does Stampy, despite the big rabbit ears on his
hands. Dead End's a bit kibbly, Saberback and Guiledart rather more so, but
none worse than, say BW Ironhide. OTOH, Break and Longrack easily beat out
Ironhide in the Obtrusive Beast Bits department. Am I interested in them?
Sure! Do I think they're the be-all and end-all of BW to date? Not quite.
Not all the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
Doug Dlin
ap...@hotmail.com
Thylacine 2000
Mister Snuffle-OP-agus.
You're welcome.
Douglas W. Dlin wrote:
> > It's a pointless and retorical question, I know... BUT, GOSH DARN IT,
> > IT'S NOT FAIR!
> >
> > Ok. I'm done.
> >
> > -ZacWilliam, who thinks someone at the Botcon should slap Hasbro
> > around to till they come to their senses and release these as our next
> > shipments. ; )
> > What do you think? the rabit as BW Blurr or BW Springer?
>
> Pardon me and no offense meant to you in particular, Zac, but I find your
> post highly ironic. Over the first year or so of BW, and to some extent even
> now, fans of the preceding TFs couldn't say enough bad about the idea of
> "organic" transformations for Transformers, how they wanted them to be
> MECHANICAL, darn it! Cheers went up among some of these people at the advent
> of the TMets. With their more fully mechanical feel and semi-vehicular
> modes, it seemed Hasbro was headed in the direction they wanted most. Now,
> with the admittedly dubious-looking TMet2's out here, we get a bunch of those
> TFs with fully organic transformations coming out in Japan, and sure enough,
> we hear complaints in the OTHER direction! :-)
This *also* reminds me of what happened just barely over one year ago, after the
first pictures of the BW2 Lioconvoy, Galvatron, and Starscream/BB had hit the net
but quite some time *before* the news about Mega, Ultra, and Optimal Transmetals
had become anything more than vague and taunting rumor. We (well, some of us)
were pretty darned bitter that only overseas fans would get a huge
triple-changing baddie leader, or a nifty white lion with a gen-you-wine Matrix
of leadership. Then came the day when the first pictures of Rampage and
Scavenger hit the 'net, and most people, including myself, changed their tunes.
Wait and see, friends. There are still about 16 figures to be released on this
side of the ocean which we haven't even seen pictures of. I don't know about the
rest of you, but I only found out about the return of vehicle modes to TM2's
yesterday--and I'm still happy. Just wait and see. Contrary to popular rumor,
Hasbro isn't *completely* brain-dead. They like to make money. The Transmetals
made them a lot of money. Extrapolate.
--
T T T
"BETTER LIVING THROUGH ZOOLOGY!"
Doug Kern
> Now, I realize that this isn't a matter of fans simply turning 180 degrees or
> anything. While some have enjoyed the BW figures from the start and honestly
> just want the early "'normal' beast to robot" motif to return in strength, I
> suspect others are fiercely upset over these toys simply because the toys are
> in Japan and not here.
Oh I definetly agree with this statement. I remember when the reviews
for BB/Staracream, Dirge and Thrust first came out. People who hated
these toys in the original incarnations flat out said they loved them and
that they were better then anything Hasbro currently had out. Gave me a
bit of a chuckle about how people went ga ga over this stuff just cause it
was Japanese. And then God Neptune was released during the summer, to
which a similar responce was echoed. Had to have been one of the
strangest things I ever saw on this newsgroup.
> I'll admit I like some of the figures' looks quite a bit. Corahda looks much
> better than I thought, as does Stampy, despite the big rabbit ears on his
> hands. Dead End's a bit kibbly, Saberback and Guiledart rather more so, but
> none worse than, say BW Ironhide. OTOH, Break and Longrack easily beat out
> Ironhide in the Obtrusive Beast Bits department. Am I interested in them?
> Sure! Do I think they're the be-all and end-all of BW to date? Not quite.
> Not all the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
Dead End is just great for the fact that he is an Ammonite
Transformer. SInce he is likely the only one of those we will ever get, I
want him for my interest in these animals. Saberback looks nifty cause
hsi design parameters look retro-ish in an almost Shogun Wariorish kinda
way, and I love the look of his helmet. Coradla, that name keeps on
reminding me of Corona Beer for some reason, looks interetsing at least.
As for the others, none really seem that special. Break looks like a
disapointment. Who ever that poster was who was complaining about how BW
used egg shell technology would love this guy, since it seems you actually
crack him open like an egg. And the Triceratops just looks wrong in that
yellow color. On the brightside most of the dinos are not too shaby
looking, which was one of the things I was worried about considering how
poor Magnatron's componets looked.
Me I'm waiting for the reviews of the repaints of Razorclaw, Lazorbeak,
Iguanus and Razorback to appear. I just know there will be some of that
great "these things are the best tf toys ever" stuff in the reviews :D
--
Doug Kern
AKA Monocle
ICQ Page #:8793444
dke...@idt.net
Homepage: http://idt.net/~dkern2
Come visit the Shrine to Blackarachnia!:http://idt.net/~dkern2/Blackarachnia
Douglas W. Dlin
> Before anything else, I hereby nominate as the official nickname for Big Convoy:
>
> Mister Snuffle-OP-agus.
>
> You're welcome.
>
AAAUUUGGHHH! Okay, two points and a trip to Callahan's for rendering the best/worst
TF pun this year--so far. :-)
[re: The TFs are always spiffier on the other side of the ocean...or are they?]
>
> Wait and see, friends. There are still about 16 figures to be released on this
> side of the ocean which we haven't even seen pictures of. I don't know about the
> rest of you, but I only found out about the return of vehicle modes to TM2's
> yesterday--and I'm still happy. Just wait and see. Contrary to popular rumor,
> Hasbro isn't *completely* brain-dead. They like to make money. The Transmetals
> made them a lot of money. Extrapolate.
>
Thank you, sir. Couldn't have said it better.
I'd forgotten about all the attitude shift from the time of early BW2 news to the
time when the Mega TMets came out, BTW...talk about history repeating itself...
Doug Dlin
ap...@hotmail.com
ZacWilliam
Douglas W. Dlin wrote in message <36B511E3...@texas.net>...
>On Jan. 31, 1999, ZacWilliam wrote:
>> ARRGGGHHH!!!!
>> How come Japan gets these awsome looking actual animal toys and
>> dinosaurs while we get stuck with Frankenstein's TMII's!!??!!
>
>Pardon me and no offense meant to you in particular, Zac,
None taken. : )
but I find your
>post highly ironic. Over the first year or so of BW, and to some extent
even
>now, fans of the preceding TFs couldn't say enough bad about the idea of
>"organic" transformations for Transformers, how they wanted them to be
>MECHANICAL, darn it! Cheers went up among some of these people at the
advent
>of the TMets. With their more fully mechanical feel and semi-vehicular
>modes, it seemed Hasbro was headed in the direction they wanted most. Now,
>with the admittedly dubious-looking TMet2's out here, we get a bunch of
those
>TFs with fully organic transformations coming out in Japan, and sure
enough,
>we hear complaints in the OTHER direction! :-)
I know exactly what you mean. On a personal note the
organic BW's never bothered me at all. Mainly, I think, because
they were good toys.
What has struck me since their demise at the hands
of the Fuzors and TM's is something I know other people have
mentioned,. Namely, all the missed oportunities. There was SO
MANY cool animals that Hasbro just ignored to do more
robotic versions and fuzions of things we already had.
This is the main reason I said "WOW!" an the BWNeo
guys. They have a variety of animals ( and especially
dinosaurs ;) that has been sorely laking here. Same reason I'm
very interested in the coming TMII skunk, and Owl.
>Now, I realize that this isn't a matter of fans simply turning 180 degrees
or
>anything. While some have enjoyed the BW figures from the start and
honestly
>just want the early "'normal' beast to robot" motif to return in strength,
I
>suspect others are fiercely upset over these toys simply because the toys
are
>in Japan and not here.
Well, the grass is always greener... ; )
I do think the people who got all excited about things like the
Autorollers and the repainted seacons may have lost a little
perspective. ; )
>
>I'll admit I like some of the figures' looks quite a bit. Corahda looks
much
>better than I thought, as does Stampy, despite the big rabbit ears on his
>hands. Dead End's a bit kibbly, Saberback and Guiledart rather more so,
but
>none worse than, say BW Ironhide. OTOH, Break and Longrack easily beat out
>Ironhide in the Obtrusive Beast Bits department. Am I interested in them?
>Sure! Do I think they're the be-all and end-all of BW to date? Not quite.
Honestly, I know they have some slight problems, but
with the exception of Break's shoulder mounted pretender
shell transformation and one of longracks arms I think they're
at least as good and in some cases ( cough... TM2's... cough )
beter than what weve been geting here. : )
-ZacWilliam, who just found out that you can snap lioconvoys chest
in so it doesn't flop around at all and thinks it makes him a MUCH better
toy. : )
Now seriously, Stampy as BW Springer or Blurr? I'm really torn...
Prime Saber
That is rather odd. Maybe it is because Geocities try to insert
its own floating watermark and pop-up ads whenever you visit one
of its sites (unless you can disable them). -_- However, I would
think your web browser should still be able to visit those sites.
Tony Li, the Prime Saber
Index page to the Japanese and Beast Wars Transformers, including
pictures, videos, and my own models of Galvatron and God Ginrai --
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/manwood/484/TF/TF.html
M Sipher
>
> Before anything else, I hereby nominate as the official nickname for Big Convoy:
>
> Mister Snuffle-OP-agus.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH...
> You're welcome.
You're dead.
(Pardon me while I wipe up this laugh-drool...)
> Wait and see, friends. There are still about 16 figures to be released on this
> side of the ocean which we haven't even seen pictures of. I don't know about the
> rest of you, but I only found out about the return of vehicle modes to TM2's
> yesterday--and I'm still happy.
I'm anxiously awaiting Cybershark... among other things, I simply love
the fact that non-show characters are getting new bodies. The fact that
Cyber seems to have gimmicks out the wazoo also helps.
M "And Spittor! Whee!" Sipher
Robert Powers
> Oh I definetly agree with this statement. I remember when the reviews
>for BB/Staracream, Dirge and Thrust first came out. People who hated
>these toys in the original incarnations flat out said they loved them and
>that they were better then anything Hasbro currently had out. Gave me a
>bit of a chuckle about how people went ga ga over this stuff just cause it
>was Japanese. And then God Neptune was released during the summer, to
>which a similar responce was echoed.
I have to wonder *why*. The Seacons are among the worst of all the
G1 gestalts. And a yellow Megaplex is still just a Megaplex -- with
uglier colors. It's not a terrific mold to begin with, certainly not
compared to the Cyberjets that preceded it.
> Me I'm waiting for the reviews of the repaints of Razorclaw, Lazorbeak,
>Iguanus and Razorback to appear. I just know there will be some of that
>great "these things are the best tf toys ever" stuff in the reviews :D
There's a contingent of Transfans that react this way to everything
that comes out. Transmetal Rattrap and Terrorsaur and Waspinator were all
hailed as "completely awesome" when they first hit the shelves. Plenty of
people are proclaiming "Feral Scream" part 1 as the greatest episode in
the series, or at least saying it "totally rules". Me, I try not to buy
into any hype about new stuff till there's been some time for the "wow"
factor to wear off.
--
Robert Powers of the Change-Through-DEATH .sig
repo...@shell.faradic.net
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Jordan S Derber
>RattrapX wrote:
>
>> http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4040
>
>
>It's a safe bet that Hasbrocollectors.com will probably have these figs
>for sale, but I'm so tempted to import them when they're released. :)
>
>Does any body have an estimate or educated guess as to when these might
>be available from Hasbro?
>Doesn't hurt to ask before getting too hasty.
>
>
8-10 months. Of course, they probably won't take that long now that
they've gotten some steam with the imports, but OTOH, I doubt if they'll
get all or even most of the figs, certainly not the VS sets, so I'm not
waiting. But I've got a friend in Japan who's willing to trade US BWs for
Japanese ones, so I'm a little biased.
Jordan Derber (H-K)
jsd...@pitt.edu
Kid Wicket
Considering that Springer got his name from his jumping ability, I'd recolor a
Spittor for him. Make the bunny Blurr!
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Michael Yong
exclusively going with the transmetals, and have abandoned the realistic
looking beast modes?
Kid Wicket <kidw...@aol.com> wrote in article
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