william-james88 wrote:It does come with an extra legends figure and its targetmaster. And it has updated feet and hands.
And if you dont get it, you miss out on a totally new take on a modernized Strafe which has a Hasbro exclusive Headsculpt and new tooling.
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Thats all I got.
Not arguing, and your points are completely objective.
But I don't give a shite about Scrounge or the embryo-shuttle when it comes to Computron. I just don't. Some may call those "extras" or "bonuses", but I call them unnecessary and almost gimmicky. They don't do much of anything for the set or the combined figure.
The new hands and feet are better than the others, but that doesn't make up for the other issues.
Even with a new headsculpt, Strafe's bot mode is very wrong to me, mainly because of how the face has been colored, along with the lack of red and addition of orange. I'm somewhat surprised there aren't more people complaining that there's too much white.
In terms of some things that have been mentioned that are subjective:
I don't buy Hasbro's statement in context to Computron. Seems like "looking into the future yada yada" was a bit of a stretch in terms of this set.
I've said this multiple times now; when these are the first real updated versions of these characters from G1 --no matter how much you like or dislike G1 stuff-- how would you not want the opportunity to have 1 updated figure of each character that looks true to the original?
And if you don't like the look of the original characters, how do you not understand that it's very justified to release at least 1 updated version of a character that IS accurate to the original look??
I understand the opinion that UW paint apps are too plain...
But what do you expect?? This isn't the 4th, 3rd, or even 2nd round of G1 updating for these characters (I personally don't count most of the previous non-combining releases as true updates).
I've also mentioned before that these current figures aren't 100% true to G1 characters as is because there have been plenty of changes with the molds in and of themselves.
Not complaining about the molds, but with those changes, I do expect colors to be relatively accurate to the original characters if it's the first real updated version.
It's why I didn't care either way about the CW Autobots. At this point, fine, good, change them some. Previous lines have already released really decent versions of these characters.
This is where Hasbro's Tehcnobots & Computron are lacking... Too many liberties with colors, and overall the molds being used aren't great. And that's a lose-lose combo imo.
Lastly, I don't understand people's need of so much/many colors... Outside of cartoon accuracy, figures like UW Strafe, Vortex (and the list goes on and on and on), look so clean and awesome with simple color schemes...
More colors just for sake of more colors may cost a bit more, but a lot of times looks cheaper imo. Random placement of extra color doesn't say good design to me.
And in some cases like Hasbro Strafe and Afterburner, you end up with colors like an orange face and chest, and a green windshield... ??? How that's better just because it's more color is beyond me. Another case of this is the fushia/dark pink of Hasbro's Computron chest and face.
Yeah, another color, but I'm sorry that doesn't look good. I'll even say it just doesn't look as good as it probably could. Extra colors like those don't enhance or improve the mold designs one bit.
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which gets you only 50,000 + sales over the near millions back in the 80s and 90s) that it affected many a reader since (and thats just for a comic designed to sell toys.those were the great marvel years indeed).
