Cobotron wrote:'07 Leader is totally a design conundrum that results in what I see as a win. Imagine you are a TF designer and you have been plugging away at hitting home run after home run with Cybertron, and all the sudden, down from upstairs comes these hideously nightmarish McFarlaned designs that don't even really transform. What do you do?
'07 is this weird hard gear shift in design philosophy frozen in it's midpoint, forever, in this toy. It maintains the quality in construction, joints, and plastic that made Cybertron great, and it also simplifies the freakish design so that it can actually function in toy form. He feels so solid in hand you could smash a car windshield with him, and not scratch the bot. He has a really middle/easy transformation that doesn't take all day and is fun to do. Plus his automorph TFing bits are entertaining.
Damn Cobs.... I've never heard it put like that... but that's brilliant! The first movie figures were really a learning curve for the designers, and a harsh one at that I bet. And they were before the cost cutting hollow days, so yeah they were all quite solid.
I loved '07 Leader Prime so much, I bought him 3 times! I bought the first standard release (gun), the Hasbro Premium release (added apps, silver paint, blade thingy), and
THEN the Takara Premium Release (added apps,
chrome, blade thingy). I still have the first release and the Takara Premium, and gave the Hasbro Premium to my bro. And whatevers thrown at us for movie Primes in the future won't change my love for the '07 mold. Which is why I find the MPM Prime complaints so odd.... just because ROTF Prime is awesome it shouldn't negate the awesomeness of this new MPM.
Cobotron wrote:TLK Barricade and Voyager Prime have caught my eye, and Leader Megatron is a very strong possibility. I'm only buying Baricade if I can find him Walmart cheap or better, and Prime, like shajaki said maybe at Densh's house, I will wait to see if a better repaint comes along.
Understandable, and I only bought Barry because he was on sale. But dude... I don't know if I've ever been so excited for a Movie toy than TLK Leader Megs. It's not often that I'm 100& convinced of greatness
JUST from pics
Cobotron wrote:Oh, also, I may or may not have just dipped my finger in the KO frosting.
mmmmmmmmm sweet sugary no-no's.
I've been dipping into KO's quite a bit too lately. What are your guilty pleasures?
plus even with evasionmus gone it was still a ridiculously good deal - £20 for the classics op mold!
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