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Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby DedicatedGhostArt » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:35 am

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From gorilla arm syndrome, to huge backpacks, let's talk Transformers pet peeves!
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby Seibertron » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:46 am

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First thing that came to my mind are fake chest cockpits on Generations Jetfire and Combiner Wars Starscream and Thundercracker, and also the upcoming Legends Slipstream. Either make it work, or don't do the fake cockpit on the chest. For some reason this bothers me even more than fake car front pieces on the chest.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby Seibertron » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:48 am

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Unnecessary pins that are impossible to remove (such as the pins on Combiner Wars Motormaster's shoulders that attach his arms to his chest). This makes repairing or customizing impossible or extremely difficult at best.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby Seibertron » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:49 am

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(Moved to the Toy Discussion forum ...)
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby RhA » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:57 am

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Thin plastics and hollow parts. Look at the tab where CW Dead End's head rests on. It's paper-thin.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby DedicatedGhostArt » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:58 am

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Lol I think gorilla arm syndrome is my biggest pet peeve, like Gen Skybyte's right arm.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby RhA » Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:02 am

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I kinda like those huge arms. They're punch-a-riffic.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby DedicatedGhostArt » Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:16 am

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RhA wrote:I kinda like those huge arms. They're punch-a-riffic.


I'm talking about how the elbow doesn't bend properly, not how big they are.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby galvatron00 » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:20 am

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Panels that fit properly when you first got the Transformer but don't after transforming. Why?!
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby DedicatedGhostArt » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:28 am

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Yeah, also ones that don't fit together no matter what. Take my Gen Springer figure for example, which I have had for months, after all this time of playing with it and modifying it, in car mode, the window panels on the arms STILL won't tab into the helicopter cockpit. -_-
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby galvatron00 » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:32 am

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Did anyone else not really notice this stuff when you were a kid? I'm sure my G1 figures are gappy as all get out.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby DedicatedGhostArt » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:36 am

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itscramtastic wrote:Did anyone else not really notice this stuff when you were a kid? I'm sure my G1 figures are gappy as all get out.


Well, when I was 5, and I had Armada Prime, his arms were very floppy, and it annoyed me, even as a little booger.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby galvatron00 » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:38 am

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SillySpringer wrote:
itscramtastic wrote:Did anyone else not really notice this stuff when you were a kid? I'm sure my G1 figures are gappy as all get out.
Well, when I was 5, and I had Armada Prime, his arms were very floppy, and it annoyed me, even as a little booger.
I think my biggest issue was scaling when I was a kid. Galvatron and Ultra Magnus towered over everyone. It's only now that I realize scale is the worst thing ever :lol:
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby DedicatedGhostArt » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:42 am

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itscramtastic wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
itscramtastic wrote:Did anyone else not really notice this stuff when you were a kid? I'm sure my G1 figures are gappy as all get out.
Well, when I was 5, and I had Armada Prime, his arms were very floppy, and it annoyed me, even as a little booger.
I think my biggest issue was scaling when I was a kid. Galvatron and Ultra Magnus towered over everyone. It's only now that I realize scale is the worst thing ever :lol:


Yeah...

Scale is not logical in transformers.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby King Kuuga » Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:07 pm

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Overly intrusive gimmicks.
*Glares at Armada Prime's trailer*
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby RK_Striker_JK_5 » Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:36 pm

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Gorilla arms. Either mold the arms so they can do a proper arm curl or include a damned bicep swivel. They look ridiculous at best and limit posing.
Not caring about scale since 1984. Just like Hasbro.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby DedicatedGhostArt » Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:36 pm

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That Bot wrote:Overly intrusive gimmicks.
*Glares at Armada Prime's trailer*


Yeah, gimmicky is okay, but OVERLY GIMMICKY, that is a different story.

Take armada Thrust for example...
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby Thadicon » Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:01 pm

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Weapons that suck. e.g CW Deadend and Brakeneck's exhaust pipe. I get its like the whole gang thing but they just aren't cool.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby TK415 » Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:37 pm

Seibertron wrote:First thing that came to my mind are fake chest cockpits on Generations Jetfire and Combiner Wars Starscream and Thundercracker, and also the upcoming Legends Slipstream. Either make it work, or don't do the fake cockpit on the chest. For some reason this bothers me even more than fake car front pieces on the chest.

Ryan, excellent point, I strongly agree with you about this point for many figures. However it is not a problem for me on Jetfire. If I wanted him to be 100% Earth mode then yeah it is a problem. But if Jetfire took an earth form and then slightly modified it, especially if he left earth, then it is fine with me. Or if he is on earth then he can slide a panel over the bottom viewport when needed to hide it. If you are a scientist then it would make sense to have an extra viewport/sensor on the bottom of the plane taking in information. In real life recon and spy planes have camera's mounted on the bottom of the planes to take pictures. Also it doesn't look exactly like a jet cockpit, ones like Slipstream's can definitely be annoying and distracting. Jetfire's does look like a viewport/sensor.

I know that people may say I don't like fiction to explain design elements but I am just explaining why it works for me.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby LegendaryAntiHero » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:06 pm

I like Transformers with great looking robot modes
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby fenrir72 » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:43 pm

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SillySpringer wrote:Lol I think gorilla arm syndrome is my biggest pet peeve, like Gen Skybyte's right arm.


Gorilla arms in MP-10 also bothered me but technically, it's more of an optical illusion in his case.

Jetfire's hollow arms (Legends /Hasbro version)

Changing the screws in Ginrai's/PM OP into rivets. The ones in the wheel axel.

TFA noseless and chintastic designs

Bayformers insectoid designs

Battery gimmicks

Non ratchetted joints (Straxus' thigh joints)

TFGo! Samurai team's combiner hand/fist(Kenzan's as the main torso) not locking into place.what happened to the alignment

Misassemble figures (TF Prime FE head)
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby VioMeTriX » Wed Jun 17, 2015 6:14 am

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transformers that cost a lot and pose like ****.....mp-09 arms anyone?
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby Valandar » Wed Jun 17, 2015 6:21 am

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Animal alt-mode "transformers" where the "transformation" is just standing the critter on its hind legs, folding the head back or forward, and sticking the tail in its hand. That's not a transform, that's a robot on its hands and knees wearing a halloween mask.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby SKYWARPED_128 » Wed Jun 17, 2015 6:39 am

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Number One on my list of peeves has to be the "molded in" fists on many recent TF figures. The worst ones are even partly covered by car doors or other vehicle parts. Seriously makes the deluxe figs look like scout class ones.

Second, is fake alt mode parts. I understand that designers have a tough time trying to make toys from designs that use a lot of "smoke and mirrors" (to quote an ILM designer), especially with Hasbro and their "simple is better" policy. Still, a peeve's a peeve.
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Re: Your Biggest Transformers Figure Pet Peeves!

Postby VioMeTriX » Wed Jun 17, 2015 7:39 am

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1 - 5 step transformers.... they are not transformers plain and simple
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