Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

Great idea!

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

I don't mind buying a Motormaster or BC Optimus Prime and donating it, though it seems wrong on some level to me to give something like that to a kid, when a good portion of the fandom considers those figures to be below average and not really fun to pose/play with.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

I went to the electronics department and showed him the flyer online and inquired if he could do the price match that TRU had voyager class Transformers on sale for $9.97 and he said sure! Score!

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

You coulda added, "Hey look, the mask doesn't even touch the face!"
For an extra 5$ off! :D

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

That's silly. They're fun toys. An eight year old will have a blast.

The torso mode us flawed. Not unfair. I still enjoy the combined mode. Honestly thought I think the robot mode is great.

It's a big ass transformer that is a truck and a robot. It has a giant sword or some sweet guns. Its disappointing only to the picky adult collector.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

What was the torso controversy?

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

There are three main complaints about Motormaster as a torso:

The leg proportions are out of whack. And the way that his thighs assemble and connect to the limbs means he has very limited lower body articulation.

Second the way you connect the arm limbs to his shoulders is not very solid at all and tends to come unclipped when moving Menasor's arms.

Third is that the pegs supposed to hold blackjack in place are designed poorly and do not do the job.

It all adds up to a combiner who is floppy and frustrating. I still like menasor but he's significantly less fun to play with then superior or defensor. Mm is clearly less successful and stable as a torso compared to silverbolt, hot spot or even sky lynx. Menasor does end up with the biggest combiner mode, broad shoulders and powerful looking.

YMMV. But it's still a good kids toy and maybe succeeds better as a normal transformer. I really like Motormaster.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

Well, fair enough, if we're looking at Motormaster as a standalone figure on his own merits, ignoring his combiner aspect. He's a pretty decent toy on his own, though in my opinion, Silverbolt and his retools are the best torso bots to play with as standalone figures.

Still, I wonder if it'll disappoint a kid to give him only a torso bot and no limbs, and said kid probably figuring his chances of getting the limb bots are slim.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

If a kid who normally doesn't collect one I'm sure they would enjoy it regardless if they have the set or one piece.

$10 is a great price for what you get, also considering what other toys you get for $10... not much.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

Well, if it's a kid that doesn't get much, I'm sure they'll be happy they got anything at all.

When I was a kid, I only had 2 of the Constructicons, Hook and Scavenger. I played the F out of them and enjoyed every moment. Sure it would have been nice to have them all, but it didn't prevent me from enjoying what I had.

In fact, I cherished things more. Of the Transformers I got when I was a kid, I still have everything that went along with them, the paperwork, the sticker sheets, the box, the insert etc.

I think adults, me included, sometimes forget that kids can make fun with what ever they have. IMHO a lot of times, they don't want for much until they see another kid with something more.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

I *never* had a complete combiner until I was 12-13 and was able to get all of G2 Devastator, new. I had Swindle, Blot, always seemed to have Scavenger and Mixmaster, Scattershot, Onslaught, an Aerialbot, Rippersnapper, maybe Strafe?

Never cared that I didn't have a complete combiner or even the kibble.

Anyway, I'm still hoping to get a second Sky-Lynx for ten bucks if he happens to show up but I'll probably clear out a few of the Motormasters for a toy drive. If I was a kid who didn't get much and my present was a big ass Transformer or anything that's normally way out of the price range I'd be ecstatic.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

Marshalls centre mall Hamilton had most of the optimus maximum limbs as well as trailbreaker for sky lynx,

Wasn't mirage rare?

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

I never had an incomplete combiner as a kid (always got complete sets), so I can't really say how I would have felt back then if that happened to me. Still, nonetheless, I'll get a bunch of those Voyager torso bots for the toy drive regardless, since as you say, some kid out there is likely to find enjoyment in just the one figure. Perhaps it might be better that way since they are more likely to have a better perception of the figure as a standalone rather than people like us, who seem more likely to just see it as a limb or torso or weapon for a super robot. Always seemed like a staple in Transformers fiction and the minds of the fandom where the identities of the individual robots are overlooked or subsumed in favor of the gestalt they form.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

Not possible in Canada, more popular maybe. Since a deluxe case is 4 figures, and in CW that means a set of limbs.

And as I suspected these $10 voyagers are a final clearance thing. Not every location is even going to have them. going by the complete lack of any at the local TRU.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

I suspect the sale is meant for TRU to get rid of Motormaster and Battle Core OP, but mainly Motormaster, since he has been shelfwarming for as long as I can remember since Combiner Wars started.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

Something just occurred to me that I thought I would see along with the BC Prime's and MM's. What happened to all the Scattorshots? He was shelf warming for a long time. Would Hasbro take them back and do something to them to add them in the gift sets? Is that even possible to do? Or would Hasbro just stop shipping them because he was in the gift set?

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

I think it's unlikely they'd try and put him in a giftset because the paint apps are significantly different. For instance, one has a black head and the other has a the dark read head.

Scattershot probably just got bought up before this sale. He was on sale for like $12-$13 a little while ago. That's when I bought mine, even though I was planning on buying the gift sets. Gave me something to do with the extra CW limbs that I have like Alpha Bravo and Offroad.

Re: Toys"R"Us 1/2 Off Combiner Wars Voyager Class Nov 4th-17th
 

Yeah, it seems highly impractical and unlikely for Hasbro to recall a whole bunch of figures, repaint them, and then repackage them in a giftset. Adding on to that, some parts of the individual release Scattershot were molded in differently colored plastic from the giftset version. You can't repaint that without it looking somewhat different from if the plastic were molded in that color to begin with.