monstergrotusque wrote:Rated X wrote:This is what happens when fans over hype a product based on the companies track record alone. I do like it but Im not seeing absolute greatness here. Clip on shin cars is lazy. And his head is too small just like Bruticus. And they cant blame the existing Hasbro components this time. It's all on FP to justify any part of the design they did or didnt do. Im still buying him, but Im far more excited about MMC Predaking.
Don't be too bummed. He's a solid combiner from the looks of it. You can nit pick all ya like but that Motormaster and the way he makes the whole combination work is a stroke of genius if you ask me. The design brings the kibble ratio down to zero and it's an "outside of the box" approach on how to incorporate the trailer into the combiner gimmick. I think he looks tough as nails.
And as for the clip on shin design.....why not? They'd look that way anyhow. Otherwise It would be just the car with a combiner port in the tail pipe and a peg in the front end for the foot and have the swivel gimmick in the foot itself.
This way you loose the instability of a possible weak port connection at the knee and gain a a solid substructure for the bots to combine with. It's a win in my opinion.Just different.
This is all conjecture at this point but i think it's sound.
QFT.
Edit: With all that being said, however, I think I might have preferred if the arms clipped on as well and we had a little trailer-kibble for the forearms like in the comic concept art.
Such as shown here:
Also, I just want to take a moment to remind all you / us G1 enthusiasts out there who may or may not have a problem with what we're seeing....
This is what we had before FP Neo'd the Stunticons:
I think we're coming out far far ahead on this one...
And you expect these new/prototype cars to be easily seen on the streets? Do you know of an experimental/prototype Truck with a trailer?
