Balvintron video review.

I've seen shampoo-bottle quality knockoffs that look better than that overpriced turd.

primalxconvoy wrote:I've seen shampoo-bottle quality knockoffs that look better than that overpriced turd.

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I had no idea who J. Balvin was until about 2 months ago when I heard him featured on a track by m-flo called Human Lost. FYI, m-flo is the group that sang the opening song Transformerz for the Transformers Adventure series in Japan.

As for Balvintron, it's a pass for me.

I like him. Odd colors with zany stickers? It's so 90s it has to be my G2 Soundwave.

primalxconvoy wrote:I've seen shampoo-bottle quality knockoffs that look better than that overpriced turd.

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Picked up Balvintron just now. He is truly garish. TBH, I got him more for Lazerbeak than either the main figure or Stripes.

I actually think this will age well. It's an iconic G1 character and mold painted in garish colors. If it was a KO nobody would care, but it's official and that makes all the difference. Someone mentioned this as a G2 Soundwave. Yep. I see it. Stand him beside Action Master Thundercracker.

In hand Stripes is the worst. I forgot exactly how he looked like - one side is totally blank except for googly eyes, a random stripe design, and a tape sticker. Did they waste all their effort on Lazerbeak and forget about him? Because he feels like an afterthought.

I also think they missed a trick in inventing new characters for these guys. They'd mean more if they were their own obscure characters. Now they're just versions of other characters.

The decos for the casettes are based off of the cover art for 2 of Balvin's albums, so you could headcanon them as new characters with the names of those respective albums, Vibrancia and Energia IIRC.

alekese wrote:The decos for the casettes are based off of the cover art for 2 of Balvin's albums, so you could headcanon them as new characters with the names of those respective albums, Vibrancia and Energia IIRC.

Those names are used on the box alongside their normal names. Soundwave is technically J. Balvintron so they really have renamed all of them.



Emerje

Black Bumblebee wrote: It's so 90s it has to be my G2 Soundwave.

Somehow, this is turning this horrible thing into something AWESOME.

Emerje wrote:

alekese wrote:The decos for the casettes are based off of the cover art for 2 of Balvin's albums, so you could headcanon them as new characters with the names of those respective albums, Vibrancia and Energia IIRC.

Those names are used on the box alongside their normal names. Soundwave is technically J. Balvintron so they really have renamed all of them.



Emerje

I mean ... Balvintron is right at the top so he's renamed. But I'm not sure the other two are properly new characters. Sure, Buzzsaw will be a new character in my headcanon, but I just think they'd be more desirable if they were canonically new characters.



Looking up the Vibras art, wow. What a terrible cover to make into a TF. There's nothing to work with. Shoulda chosen Rumble, though, since we've never had an orange Rumble.