#MayTheFourth has gotten so commercialized. These days it’s just chasing new figure drops before they sell out and reposting Yoda memes. When I was a kid, we celebrated by pulling out our old VHS tape of the Star Wars “Muppet Show” episode and hitting each other with cardboard-tube lightsabers until our parents made us go outside.
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I feel like Hasbro needs to acknowledge that most of the people who grew up with #Transformers and TF:TM in the 1980s are closer to identifying with Kup now than with Hot Rod.
Just got home after a couple of days away. New toys arrived ready to unbox, but tomorrow.
#Transformers #HotWheels #TransformersTimelines
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@cstross@wandering.shop LLMs always remind me of the protagonists of “Accelerando” finally making contact with a whole system of alien AIs, only to learn that they’re all just jumped-up versions of the Nigerian prince scam.
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@Irisfreundin@troet.cafe Oh ffs, he just got here. Maybe you could wait until you exchange some friendly banter before badgering him with accessibility concerns?
And now, a few combined photos of the big guy.
Not THAT cobra commander.
Transformers Haslab Legacy Deathcobra (2026)
#Transformers #ToyPhotography #Haslab #Liokaiser
Deathcobra has a great anime-accurate robot mode, and he makes a good arm for Liokaiser, but his helicopter mode is not only inaccurate, it can't even sit flat on a table.
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@Rainmaker1973 Nitpick: That animation is from 1991, not 1951. https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Daisy_Hill_Puppy_Farm
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@quixoticgeek@social.v.st “2,000 permanent jobs in the county following construction”? Doing what, sweeping the halls?
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@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza We will now embark on a campaign of deforestation in order to maintain scarcity among early investors.
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@brunomiguel “hidden code searches their computer for installed software" — this is a gross exaggeration; it’s searching the browser for installed plugins and browser-accessible hardware. Still bad, but not nearly as all-encompassing as the quote implies.
https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/
The Wreckers' number-one fan.
Transformers Age of the Primes Ironfist
(Carnivac vs. Fisitron Multi-pack, 2025)
The Carnivac toy wasn't much like his G1 or IDW design, but Ironfist/Fisitron makes for an inspired retool from the recent Hound mold.
Still the fastest thing on wheels.
Transformers Legacy Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection Blurr (2022)
#Transformers #ToyPhotography #IDWTransformers
An excellent retool to make Kingdom Blurr resemble, if imperfectly, his IDW 2005 design by Casey Coller. (The large engines behind his shoulders are missing, although third-party upgrade kits exist.)
It's a bird! It's a plane!
Transformers Haslab Legacy Gaihawk (a.k.a. Guyhawk) (2026)
#Transformers #ToyPhotography #Haslab #Liokaiser
Same transformation as Hellbat, now in stunning pink! The bright color is anime-accurate but makes him look like a Chinese knock-off of himself.
What IS it with Takara and sci-fi drill tanks, anyway?
Transformers Haslab Legacy Drillhorn (2026)
#Transformers #ToyPhotography #Haslab #Liokaiser
Drillhorn wears his alt mode a bit better than Killbison, and the tank treads hide a bit better in robot mode, too.
Would that face lie to you?
Transformers Legacy Senator Ratbat (Rise of Tyranny 2-Pack, 2023)
#Transformers #ToyPhotography #IDWTransformers
Reusing the Studio Series Scourge mold for its bat-wing robot kibble was a logical choice, but the retooled chest and small crest on the vehicle "cockpit" are what really make this figure work.
He didn't realize Leozack had already taken the "cat" theme.
Transformers Haslab Legacy Jaruga, a.k.a. Jallguar (2026)
#Transformers #ToyPhotography #Haslab #Liokaiser
Jaruga probably has the simplest transformation of the entire Breastforce, and that gaping hole in his chest when the breastplate is removed is a weird look.
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@ZachWeinersmith Interesting — speaking as someone who has little familiarity with those other fields, can I ask what kind of “gatekeeping” you’re seeing in them? Is it a corporate profit thing?
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@Urluck_UR@retro.pizza I was perfectly happy with Combiner Wars Bruticus, but I am looking forward to completing the Age of the Primes version.
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@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza Something in the chicken salad needs to crunch. The specifics are up to you. (I prefer celery, myself.)
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@dom@bildung.social That’s easy: a human enthusiastic fanboy never has perfect spelling and grammar. Especially punctuation.
RE: @catsalad@infosec.exchange
The longer you look at this, the funnier it gets.
To the batplane, Robin!
Transformers Haslab Legacy Hellbat (a.k.a. Ellbat) (2026)
#Transformers #ToyPhotography #Haslab #Liokaiser
Hellbat probably changed the most between his toy and anime robot modes, so I'm glad Haslab went with the anime look. Something is really wrong with his animal partner's head, though.
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@RamenJunkie@retro.pizza I’ve had a couple of games like that. Once it’s mostly grind instead of fun, or it becomes apparent that they’re all but forcing me to pay to speed things up, then I have to reluctantly drop the game.
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@ZachWeinersmith Maybe you can just make juice? The stovetop steam juicer we got recently is pretty convenient, and we jar up anything it makes the same way we do fruit or sauce. The pulp goes into the compost afterward, of course.
There’s definitely an art to getting the strength and sweetness right, plus you can mix in whatever other fruit you want, so there’s still some creativity and science involved.
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@ZachWeinersmith It’s either a tragic irony, or an underhanded dig at modern media culture, that the kind of exercise that makes you physically better at sex rarely makes you sexy.
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@sol_fury I never noticed before how much Nucleous resembles IDW Zeta Prime, right down to the gold bars on his chest and shins.
#transformers
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@ZachWeinersmith (I tried googling for that comic without including the term “comic” and got briefly horrified: https://www.fintechobserver.com/smbc-completes-proof-of-concept-experiment-using-quantum-computing/ )
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@ZachWeinersmith Well, unlike medicine and law, nobody ever got into studying mathematics to get rich. :-)
Sadly, the same cannot be said about computer science anymore. The latest tools and hardware are all rather expensive to run, and the free ones are…more labor-intensive.
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@pseudonym@mastodon.online I’m pretty sure the original speaker was Victor Frankenstein.
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@mitten@social.lol It’s like those whispering galleries at the science museum. You have to use an elliptical projection to see it, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollweide_projection
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@ComicContext@mstdn.social The speaker is a relatively new mutant X-character named Shela Sexton. https://www.cbr.com/marvel-introduces-trans-mutant-hero-escapade/
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@Popehat Fortunately, the First Amendment also gives everyone else the right to point out when someone’s being a hypocritical twit by doing so.
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@histoftech Jeez, the “Hoppers” movie didn’t even exaggerate—they really do look just like stuffed toys.
(For my non-baseball followers: This burst of enthusiasm was brought to you by the fact that the Cubs just had their third CONSECUTIVE walk-off win and 14th consecutive home win. https://www.mlb.com/news/cubs-third-straight-walk-off-extends-home-winning-streak-to-14-games )
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@Irisfreundin@troet.cafe No worries, his profile clearly says “Microblog profile for IRL friends and family”. He wasn’t asking for followers, just boosts. You’re off the hook.
I’m not personally into #Transformers:Animated, but how can you not be excited about Lugnut getting a new figure?
Also: Voyager Animated Slipstream and Voyager Slash! Don’t know if I need another Nightbird, though.
I wonder who Collapse is. Sounds like another Junkion.
RE: https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/2052228716218966522
Just look how fast PCA got out there to congratulate Busch after the win. He’s the #Cubs team’s biggest cheerleader, hands down.
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@ojala The issue isn’t whether one disagrees with the spiritual head of one’s religion. The issue is whether or not one goes in front of the national press to assert that one is morally superior to them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/vance-pope-trump-georgia.html
RE: https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/2052211236272558391
Nobody, but nobody, gets juiced up about #Cubs scoring runs as much as Pete Crow-Armstrong. Seriously, they don’t even have to be his runs. When they are, though…
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@GeriAQuin@mstdn.social #altText: social media post from user hazelhearthbear on Threads: “I'm so tired of being warned that if the full Epstein files get released there will be repercussions. As a genx mom who watched the Berlin Wall fall, watched a shuttle explode, survived economic crashes, the beta vhs wars, the CD and Blue Ray empire collapse to streaming, I will eat geopolitical shockwaves with my frosted mini wheats and watch it all burn down. We need a good torches and pitchforks reckoning.”