fenrir72 wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:fenrir72 wrote:william-james88 wrote:Remember this thread last year? I strongly defended Jetfire and I still do. That toy looks beautiful!
But the Starscream retool really makes me see what some of you saw all along. Transforming it back and forth reminds me of some KOs with that really hollow plastic. This doesnt feel like a leader class transformer toy but rather an imitation of one that has been gutted. I think the reason why I feel this is because many kos are molds repurposed for whatever the ko company wants and this is not far from that. I also dont like the grey (but that is personal preference) and the null rays feel and look super cheap. I still think Jetfire looks awesome and feels awesome. He had that big battle backpack, paint on the underside of his wings for robot mode and more translucent plastic plus a really cool colour contrast. None of that is in this Starscream though.
In other words........that mold should have been left good enough alone.
Seekers are not meant to tower at the same scale as Jetfire.
Seriously, the colors do look more KOish.
Exactly, not only the colors of plastic, but the
near complete lack of paint apps, along with the obvious wing gaps, and the extremely hollow legs, make the figures look so gross and lacking of any investment/effort; between cw leader scream and hftd leader scream, I know which one I'd go with every time.
Hasbro's just trying to cheap out too much on the leader figures, and it yields disgusting, semi-k.o.-looking figures, magnus felt and looked the same way - he even broke like a ko
HB must have wanted to squeeze every iota of of their investment from the mold. Typical. It is here where TT excels (in the squeezing and presentation part)
Exactly, they look gross and cheap, and it honestly offends me. The weapons look like a tacked-on after-thought, and the lack of the booster pack is a poor choice, as it would have really added to the dynamic nature of the figure - plus they didn't eve bother changing the mold to remove the clips
But, really, a sprinkling of silver paint on the weapons, would have made them look amazing, oh well, that's hasbro for you now:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but starscream has ~5 paint apps: chest detail, torso detail, lower legs, face, faux cockpit
Skywarp has ~3: cockpit, face, lower legs
And thundercracker has the same as starscream but he also has pelvic paint apps