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craggy wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:TFC sucks a bit when it comes to faces.

I'm disappointd there isn't a company doing something about that, actually. Herc and the Insecticons all could use new heads.

every time I look at the TFC Insecticons I can barely make out their heads.



(from the rest of the invisible imaginary products, yes?)

Of course I was talking about the FP Insecticons Thought that was implied since there isn't any TFC Insecticons.

It might have been implied, but it wasn't inferred. Not when you were talking about TFC being bad at faces it wasn't, at any rate.

craggy wrote:It might have been implied, but it wasn't inferred. Not when you were talking about TFC being bad at faces it wasn't, at any rate.

Meh, it was obvious.

Its not that I think TFC has bad faces, I think they purposely alter things up a bit.

And that's what makes it bad. At least when you're paying about $100 a pop for something. Maybe "undesirable" is a better word if you wanna get picky (eyes craggy) but if you're paying that much for something you really want it to be the best representation it can be. And a big part of that look is the head. TFC tends to stray too far. FP walks a fine line (and stepped over it int he case of the Insecticons).

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I think their faces are fine as-is.

Even Swoop?

Gauntlet101010 wrote:
And that's what makes it bad. At least when you're paying about $100 a pop for something. Maybe "undesirable" is a better word if you wanna get picky (eyes craggy) but if you're paying that much for something you really want it to be the best representation it can be. And a big part of that look is the head. TFC tends to stray too far. FP walks a fine line (and stepped over it int he case of the Insecticons).

I definitely agree that the faces are important. The FP Insecticons are definitely off, but didn't mind too much in their case because I never had much attachment to the originals and the designs of the bodies themselves (and the weapons) are quite different. Kickback has his antenna and Bombshell, who was the only one of the three I ever seen any kind of character from in the comics, looked close enough.

Dinobots are a little more important to me, at least Grim and Swoop. So long as the other 3 are all just normal sort of faces, I'm not sure I'd notice too much difference. They were all quite generic weren't they? Well, one of them sometimes had a red face...also sometimes one of them was invisible, and not always the same one.

Most of the faces on these are merely okay. The Dinos did have generic faces, but that doesn't mean a total departure is warrented. The only face on these guys that REALLY gets me is Swoop. It's just ... really, really not Swoop at all. I can't even say it's more toyetic. It's probably one of their worst faces because Swoop's pretty high profile.

Still, to be more positive, the colors on them help a great deal to make these worth buying. I don't know what they were thinking when they came up with their old color schemes. A bit too much "NOT" in their not Dinobot set if you ask me. So the change in colors is very welcome.

It's a bit off topic, but, while I can like the Insecticons for what they are, I'd snap up a G1 accessories add on kit in a heartbeat. IMHO, FP went a bit too far with these guys.