And there was your mistake.El Duque wrote:So I've had the SDCC Bruticus for about a week now. As soon as he arrived I immediately opened him up and disassembled him into the individual bots, and I have to admit they're really nice. Today I finally recombined them into Bruticus, making sure all were transformed correctly. I just can't display them this way. Bruticus looks brutal and not in a good way. Way too spindly and Blastoff's arm mode is terrible. It's too long and has terrible elbow articulation. You can improve it by transforming him a little differently, but overall it still looks bad. The game model makes Bruticus look great, like a real brawler. The toy looks like a basketball player with a jacked up arm. These guys are going back into individual mode.
orangeitis wrote:And there was your mistake.El Duque wrote:So I've had the SDCC Bruticus for about a week now. As soon as he arrived I immediately opened him up and disassembled him into the individual bots, and I have to admit they're really nice. Today I finally recombined them into Bruticus, making sure all were transformed correctly. I just can't display them this way. Bruticus looks brutal and not in a good way. Way too spindly and Blastoff's arm mode is terrible. It's too long and has terrible elbow articulation. You can improve it by transforming him a little differently, but overall it still looks bad. The game model makes Bruticus look great, like a real brawler. The toy looks like a basketball player with a jacked up arm. These guys are going back into individual mode.
*shrug* Okay then. Whatever sinks your submarine. =DEl Duque wrote:My post also says I transformed him differently, in fact every way possible. My main issue here is I shouldn't have to. It's going to come down to personal preference for each person of course, and I know from reading many of your previous posts that you really like this set, and that great! I'm glad you like them and I hope you enjoy them. For me personally I don't like the combined mode, and I just don't see how anyone could like Blastoff's arm mode.
I hope we get more than one add-on kit, tbh. I'd like every version I get of this guy to look different.headsortails wrote:I agree about 85% of what El Duque is saying. I had a friend bring the SDCC version over yesterday. While I did have a better feeling of the set in person versus the pictures, but geez, gotta mistransform him to make Brutics look better! While most of them look better in individual bot modes, Vortex is too spindly and Onslaught should have been bigger. The main reason for me getting the G2 set is I think "those names in which we don't speak of" will be doing an add on kit........plus I do like the G2 color scheme a lot. Brawl looks awesome......
Cyberseven wrote:I have mine set up like this. I like it, and maybe it will give you some ideas to enjoy them combined as Bruticus.
El Duque wrote:Cyberseven wrote:I have mine set up like this. I like it, and maybe it will give you some ideas to enjoy them combined as Bruticus.
Yeah, I tried that one too. I think I just prefer individually, which is cool I get to enjoy five figures rather than one
The set would have really benefited from Onslaught being a Voyager and some more advanced engineering in the arms.
Sledge wrote:Finally! Wheelie will get the credit he's due with a set of five Wheelies.
ScottyP wrote:Kid 1 "What did you get for Christmas?"
Kid 2 "Steve.........What did you get?"
Kid 1 "John Cena!"
STngAR wrote:Damn, your making really second guess my BBTS G2 preorder.
I noticed it right away, actually.BeastProwl wrote:One thing I just cant get over is the fact that Swindle is upside-down. Anyone else notice that?
I'm pretty sure it's included in the relatively common "it looks nothing like the game model" criticism.BeastProwl wrote:Yeah, me too. I just find it odd that no one has even mentioned it.
Counterpunch wrote:Combaticons!
Combine and merge for disappointment!
Get your **** together Hasbro. This is some Grapefruit League effort here.
We put up with bad combiners in Energon because...we understood. Now we've seen what else is possible and we know better...
So should you.
njb902 wrote:I just changed my bots positions, I like blast off as a foot much better with brawl being an arm.
as for the grapefruit comment.....this combiner cost $60 not $600 what more do you want. is it perfect, no. but good (deity here) lose the sense of entitlement, if ya don't like the figure then vote with your bloody wallet and don't buy it.
El Duque wrote:njb902 wrote:I just changed my bots positions, I like blast off as a foot much better with brawl being an arm.
as for the grapefruit comment.....this combiner cost $60 not $600 what more do you want. is it perfect, no. but good (deity here) lose the sense of entitlement, if ya don't like the figure then vote with your bloody wallet and don't buy it.
How exactly does our desire for Hasbro to compete on a design level with their competitors lead to an "sense of entitlement" argument.
There is nothing special about the third-party combiners. The only reason they cost what they do is because of their limited production runs and retailers jacking up the prices because they know how bad we want these. The TFC Hercules figures are approximately Voyager sized, so if Hasbro was producing them they would run you about $22.00 a pop. In the case of MakeToys Giant those figures are roughly Deluxe sized, so they would cost about $12.00 if produced by Hasbro.
Are we will to concede that Hasbro/Takara's design staff just aren't as talented their competitors?
El Duque wrote:njb902 wrote:I just changed my bots positions, I like blast off as a foot much better with brawl being an arm.
as for the grapefruit comment.....this combiner cost $60 not $600 what more do you want. is it perfect, no. but good (deity here) lose the sense of entitlement, if ya don't like the figure then vote with your bloody wallet and don't buy it.
How exactly does our desire for Hasbro to compete on a design level with their competitors lead to an "sense of entitlement" argument.
There is nothing special about the third-party combiners. The only reason they cost what they do is because of their limited production runs and retailers jacking up the prices because they know how bad we want these. The TFC Hercules figures are approximately Voyager sized, so if Hasbro was producing them they would run you about $22.00 a pop. In the case of MakeToys Giant those figures are roughly Deluxe sized, so they would cost about $12.00 if produced by Hasbro.
Are we willing to concede that the Hasbro/Takara's design staff just aren't as talented their competitors?
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