Intro and welcome thread

[onslaught86]

RID's quite the interesting era, a real transition from the feel of the Beasts to the drastic change of ArmEnerTron. Essentially, 'nothing' in the line is new. No new moulds whatsoever. Some previously unreleased ones, like the second wave of G2 GoBots, AAOP, Megabolt, and the Spychanger Fire Convoy/God Magnus/Wildride/Black Convoy moulds, but nothing 100% new. In fact, Titanium Fire Convoy is the only new-mould Robots In Disguise toy, heh.

It evokes the current trends in design and the like much more than ArmEnerTron in the middle. I'm not so fond of Fire Convoy or the Carios, but Gigs and JRX are fantastic entries.

I somehow prefer Ruination's grey to Valdigus's gold.

The knockoff's flat gold is bad, Actual Valdigus has lovely metallic flake. Mmm, metallic flake.

[Dominic]

In some ways, RiD Prime is my favorite Prime. Think about it, a fire engine works well for a noble Autobot leader. Granted, alt. modes do not always have to match the character's personality. And, the irony value when it does not (Blades or Sludge come to mind) has some appeal.

But, a fire-truck as Optimus Prime? C'mon now folks....

I like the Prowl mold for the Carrios. And, Sideburn has some appeal. X-Brawn is kind of flat. The Japanese paint work is a bit better, but it the mold is kind of....blah. The Build Team is indeed fun.

I cannot think of any RiD toys I disliked. I actually liked the US colors on Ruination better than the Japanese ones, but it was a meaningless repaint.

Dom
-also likes the Predacon 3 pack.

[Onslaught Six]

I cannot think of any RiD toys I disliked. I actually liked the US colors on Ruination better than the Japanese ones, but it was a meaningless repaint.

86 and I were just discussing this--I don't actually think that the repaint was meaningless. Remember that when RID came out, those various combiner knockoffs started popping up everywhere--including paintjob-accurate Valdigus knockoffs. I personally think Hasbro changed the colours to distinguish it from these knockoffs.

-also likes the Predacon 3 pack.

I passed on it repeatedly for other stuff and I still regret it. Sigh.

[onslaught86]

The Preds pack is neat, but not as great or thorough a batch of repaints as Sky-Byte is. I wish they'd gone ahead and released another pack - Scarem, Sonar, and Minor. The Transmetal 2 sculpts are absolutely amazing, detailed out the wazoo, yet the paint jobs are horrible.

Megabolt (Not Megatron Megabolt, the green one) is surprisingly nice too, as is Storm Jet. The quality of repaints in that line was a cut above the norm, always appreciated. Of course, it was the gateway to the Repaint Everything mentality, so there's some blame to be shared.

[138 Scourge]

I only have a handful of RiD toys, but all of them are pretty nifty. So, I'd tend to agree with the "RiD was rad" sentiment.

[Onslaught Six]

The Preds pack is neat, but not as great or thorough a batch of repaints as Sky-Byte is.

This is true, I mentioned as such earlier--but I don't actually 'own' any of those three moulds, so yeah.

I wish they'd gone ahead and released another pack - Scarem, Sonar, and Minor. The Transmetal 2 sculpts are absolutely amazing, detailed out the wazoo, yet the paint jobs are horrible.

Definitely. Although, technically speaking, they 'did' release another pack--but it was BM Basic repaints and they were Autobots.

Megabolt (Not Megatron Megabolt, the green one) is surprisingly nice too, as is Storm Jet. The quality of repaints in that line was a cut above the norm, always appreciated. Of course, it was the gateway to the Repaint Everything mentality, so there's some blame to be shared.

I forgot about Storm Jet entirely, I need him still, despite him basically being a Jetfire stand-in and me owning ClaFire. And the Flipchangers, sigh. And the trains.

[Misanthrope Prime]

RID is VERY Japanese. ArmEnerTron was split mostly between Hasbro and Takara (With Cybertron being more Takara), but RID was made by the same team that did the quirky BWII and BWN, and the original molds from those lines are top notch.

[Decepticon Spike]

I agree that the RID toys were kick ass, especially the Autobot Brothers.

We call them the Cario Bros. or the Carios around these here parts. It's a parody of the Mario Bros., obviously. Yes it makes no sense since there's two Mario Bros. and three Carios. Nobody cares.

IMO. The only RID Predacon I got was Megatron, as a birthday gift. The others I never got around to.

Gigatron's a great mould, probably the best in the line. Fire Convoy and God Magnus are also awesome. The rest of the Predacons are all repaints, and the only one that's truly a 'worthwhile' good new one is Sky-Byte. Not to say the others aren't worth owning or anything, but they're not as drastically altered as Sky-Byte is. The Decepticons consist of, well, Ruination and Scourge. Ruination's a great way to get a minty-feeling Combaticon set, even if the colours are different. I somehow prefer Ruination's grey to Valdigus's gold. Scourge is awesome and I don't have him.

Aside from that, there's the Build Team which are generally worthwhile if you can get them as a set and cheap, and the Trains which are reportedly awesome but I don't have them so I can't say. Everything else is repaints--but 'good' repaints. It's also a relatively small line in comparison to, say, Armada or Cybertron, so collecting the entire thing is pretty easy.

Oh! And there's some unreleased BM toys that filtered into the line, too, like Bruticus (who would've been Cerberus in BM), Megabolt Megatron and Air Attack Optimus Primal. RID was the start of Hasbro doing random side repaints--there was a few tail-end ones done in Armada packaging but with the RID logo, like Dreadwing/Smokejumper, Urban Ruination and the Combat Heroes repaints. This kind of role is, eventually, what the first Universe would be. Also sometimes people don't count these repaints as "real" RID toys due to the fact that they came out after Armada came out, but it's all up to preference I guess.

I passed on the Ruination since i already have the G1 Combaticon set. Nevre really saw the Trains or the Build Team in stores around here, though.
At least I don't remember them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the sky Bite mold reissues for TFU? If he was, I have him MISB. He came with someone else, but I can't remember who.

[Onslaught Six]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the sky Bite mold reissues for TFU? If he was, I have him MISB. He came with someone else, but I can't remember who.

You are wrong. What you may be thinking of is a retool of the 'original' Cybershark that was released in Japan as Hellscream, an upgrade of BWII Starscream (who is an entirely different character than G1 Starscream, mind). He came with someone else as a Target exclusive. And I really wanted him.

http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Hellscream
Go suck on yo' mama's tits!

[onslaught86]

I passed on the Ruination since i already have the G1 Combaticon set.

It's worth picking up one of the more recent sets as well. They retooled the weapons to combine, among other improvements.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the sky Bite mold reissues for TFU? If he was, I have him MISB. He came with someone else, but I can't remember who.

Yeah, that'd be the Overbite/Repugnus set. Overbite is a very minor redeco of Hellscream, who was an extensive retool of the original Deluxe hammerhead Cybershark. Came out before Transmetal 2 Cybershark, completely different mould. I'd say TM2 Cybershark's the better figure.