>>8145149Imagine not collecting cool toys because they are cool toys. You may as well just buy non transforming statues or POPS with your attitude since all you want is representation of a character in some comic you read/cartoon you watched. Why even post on /toy/ is what I wonder...what do you even want to discuss here?
I won't deny favorite characters are a big part of Transformers lasting popularity, but it is far from the only thing, especially not for people who actually grew up actually playing with the toys. Most of my favorite toys as a kid were non show toys anyway because you could make up your own shit.
>>8145141>Okay be honest and tell me that half the chrome on your TMs isn't scratched to shit.Just grabbing a handful of ones I currently have laying around, they're in fine condition, and yes these are all ones I've had since childhood when they were released. What scratches there are aren't noticeable in any major way and the little bits of totally missing paint there is like on Iguanus is due to heavy play and getting scraped against a wall or something, I really don't get the stories of people who have transmetals just flaking and disintegrating into thin air, cause it has not happened to a single toy I own. Maybe I'm just lucky, I don't know.
>>8145203Nobody takes Beast Wars more "seriously" than anything else you dimwit, it's generally seen by anyone other than people who only like BW as one of the sillier parts of the franchise because it's talking fucking anthropomorphic animals like the god damned Lion King or Ferngully, and the fact that most can't into mid 90's CGI doesn't help, neither does the fact that without context of the contrivances of the cartoon's storyline, organic beast modes make absolutely zero fucking sense and serve no benefit whatsoever in an average TF setting.
