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by **sentinelprime1234** » Tue May 17, 2011 1:37 pm

there not THAT much smaller, Roadbuster aint too small, I like the Mech Tech, voyagers looks awesome with deluxe weapons on them, plus Leader Class Starscream can hold Mech Tech weapons and he looks kickass with them

by **alternator77** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:55 pm

Autobot032 wrote:It depends on the figure. Some work well with Mechtech, others not so much.

Sentinel Prime, Voyager Optimus, Voyager Megatron, the Wreckers, all work well with their Mechtech.

The rest of the Deluxes, Barricade specifically, do not.

It's a mixed bag.

agreed

News Credits: 9 · by **robofreak** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:59 pm

Barricade definitely has the weakest mechtech weapon as well as having a lot of difficulty holding it.

I do like the claw thing itself, but it doesn't fit with the figure.

News Credits: 35 · by **Razorclaw0000** » Tue May 17, 2011 3:03 pm

EXPERT OPINION: MechTech isn't that bad.

Some of them are pretty fun. The smoothness with which Bumblebee's gun unfurls is mesmerizing. I wish it stayed open, but c'est la vie.

The deluxes are negligibly smaller, but they're also $2 cheaper than ROTF deluxes, and we're in a period of re-god-damn-diculous inflation. If we were still getting ROTF-sized deluxes, they'd be $15-$16.

Also, parents complained to Hasbro that ROTF was too complicated and un-playable. So the line got tweaked/simplified to make it easier to transform. As great as ROTF Prime is, it's a 30-45 minute process that requires a horizontal surface.

News Credits: 9 · by **robofreak** » Tue May 17, 2011 3:11 pm

Razorclaw0000 wrote:EXPERT OPINION: MechTech isn't that bad.

Some of them are pretty fun. The smoothness with which Bumblebee's gun unfurls is mesmerizing. I wish it stayed open, but c'est la vie.

The deluxes are negligibly smaller, but they're also $2 cheaper than ROTF deluxes, and we're in a period of re-god-damn-diculous inflation. If we were still getting ROTF-sized deluxes, they'd be $15-$16.

Also, parents complained to Hasbro that ROTF was too complicated and un-playable. So the line got tweaked/simplified to make it easier to transform. As great as ROTF Prime is, it's a 30-45 minute process that requires a horizontal surface.

Valid points.

ROTF stuff was amazing, but 90% of it is not kid friendly and the one that was was way out of most kids price range. (Devastator)

Economics state has definitely affected the size of the new TFs.

Yes, there are some great mech tech weapons and I do enjoy a few of them, but I would have rather has them sold separately like Minicon boosters.

Bumblebee, Crankcase, Roadbuster, and Skyhammer have some of the better mechtech weapons if you ask me.

News Credits: 35 · by **Razorclaw0000** » Tue May 17, 2011 3:13 pm

Jolt's is fun too. High caliber...

News Credits: 9 · by **robofreak** » Tue May 17, 2011 3:14 pm

Razorclaw0000 wrote:Jolt's is fun too. High caliber...

Still don't have him. Almost bought him, but I didn't want to break the bank on launch day. (Cam really close though.)

News Credits: 10 · by **PrymeStriker** » Tue May 17, 2011 3:46 pm

As far as the technology is concerned, I really like how you can switch the guns amoung the figures, and the multiple ports make it so that you COULD have thousands of weapons like in movies and games. There IS however a scale fail. Still love all the figures.

News Credits: 1 · by **Optimus1138** » Tue May 17, 2011 4:03 pm

I don't have any MechTech figures, but since it's making the figures so much smaller, I do hate it. It's especially bad with Voyager figures, which I've heard aren't much bigger than normal Deluxes. Voyager is often used for figures with larger alt. modes which Hasbro doesn't see fit for larger toys, so it's especially bad when a Voyager is downsized, since in many cases, they are already smaller than they should be.

by **SKYWARPED_128** » Tue May 17, 2011 4:41 pm

Yeah, mechtech is a waste of plastic, if you ask me. But then they had to include the gimmick in the toys, since it was featured in the movie and video game. I just wish they didn't take the plastic allocation from the main figure to make the BFG's.

I'd rather take a couple dollars' increase in price than to have a dwarf figure.

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