Gauntlet101010 wrote:I don't think the "using treads" logic really applies to cars. There's no treads to use. Plus construction vehicles are bulkier and make for more convincing arms than cars to as well.
Maybe another 3rd party company will see reason and give us skeleton arms the two cars can attack to, like the legs do. But, seeing as nobody has given us replacements for the Energon Bruticus limbs, I am not holding my breath.
True, but perhaps it would have looked better if the cars just extended in half, with some sort of custom hinge in the middle on a rotator so that the backs of the cars connected to the fists (coming out of the tailpipes/trunks basically
) with the bit in the middle forming the 'elbow' being one solid piece with some extraneous mechanical detailing on it as to say 'robotic muscular/skeletal mechanism here', though accommodating such a mechanism would require more space and might not be feasible.
It's just that they way they did it, with the backs of the cars/legs folding in on themselves the way that they do to connect to the fists combined with the fact that the elbows/forearms are basically just the robot thighs/hips/knees, it looks kinda cheapy to me. I realize it's the simplest and most intuitive solution to the problem/requirement of an articulated combiner; it's just that I was hoping for more I guess. I mean even TFC's Uranos uses the same method basically as FP used here, yet its arms do not look like a pair of robot legs attached to a fist. Not to me at least. But perhaps that's simply because TFC didn't mutilate the rear ends of the jets to get their fists connected and the legs on their bots are much thicker due to the different style and larger size, but it does show what can be done with such a goal in mind.
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