Gauntlet101010 wrote:Sometimes it seems like a time waster, but if we were strict about this then Herc and Giant wouldn't exist since we already have Classics Devesator. Hasbro and Takara may do a character, but a 3rd party take often offers something different.
Devastator is a rare exception... I'd argue that Has/Tak never really did a Classics Devastator. They took a non G1 Devastator and repainted it in colours that didn't even really look like G1 Devastator, and tried to call that Classics Devastator!
Which I suppose is more a matter of the individual figures, which is where this "Classics Devastator" really falls apart. To me, for any gestalt figure the individual components are just as important as the gestalt mode. Let's look at this "alleged" Classics Devastator. Three of the members are green. That's fine. Two of them are dark grey or black... How is that Constructicon colors? And the sixth one... Wait, there is no sixth one! That may work for an Energon gestalt that homages the G1 gestalt... But don't then go turn around, give that Energon set a crappy repaint, and call it the G1 characters. Because all six of the individual characters aren't there.
Of course, my arguments above do have the disadvantage of making it all a somewhat subjective thing. I can argue against the need for upcoming third party Perceptor or Blurr figures by saying Hasbro already did them, and if the alt modes weren't exactly G1, then oh well, that's why these are Classics updates. People can say that invalidates my above argument against the official Devastator, because, "Of course it isn't exactly G1. It's Classics!" And on the other hand, people could look at my arguments above and say, "Well, I
need my Perceptor to be a microscope! And the official figure doesn't cut it!" Really is a no win situation.
But, of course, this is supposed to be a "Masterpiece" figure, which is quite a different animal to Classis. Masterpiece figures are supposed to have an extreme fidelity to G1, but in larger scale and modern toy design. Unless Takara
really screws this up, there's absoloutely no need for KFC to be covering the same ground here. Only way KFC to salvage this is to shrink it down and try to market it as Classics... but then we return to my circular argument about it already having been done.
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