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News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:57 am

This is so F'ing stupid.

"Have you ever wanted your Classics Prime to be covered in Lego styled armor?"

Just give us $80 and we can crap up a perfectly good Optimus for you!

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 12:51 pm

Seems to be the fun thing to crap on this but I guess I'm the odd man out. I'm cool with it & the idea behind it. Could it have looked better, sure. Could it have looked better & still transformed without removing the armor? I'm not so sure. I'm interested in the engineering & I have an extra classics Magnus that will look good in the blue set of armor. I'm still in.

by **Glarryg** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:55 pm

Yeah, it's not bad. It's probably not something I'll get unless it's on sale or something, but I don't think it ruins the figure. Personally, I would have liked it to be a trailer like the original Powermaster concept, and I would have liked it to be for Animated OP, like that concept drawing from the Allspark Almanac, but I don't think this is quite as horrible as others think.

Glarryg

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:20 pm

I still *kinda* want this to be in orange for my Botcon Ginrai, but even then I'm not sure I'd pull the trigger

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:36 pm

I love the new headsculpt. The mini gattling guns are really cool. I am a little surprised they didn't make this comparable with the previous parallax armors for classics Prime & Magnus. This won't be a Prime or Ginrai in my collection but a cool super robot of some sort.

News Credits: 3 · by **bvzxa** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:26 pm

"This looks bad, Jim"

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:03 am

Look OK to me.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:05 am

Well, I'm glad some of you are intending to buy it so that it doesn't meet with abject failure and hurt FP's other decent products.

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:23 am

Lol. "They see me trollin', they hatin'..."

Just playing with you. I get it, though. I had the same feelings when TFC released Ares & now they are releasing a kick ass Liokaiser. It will all work out.

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 5:05 pm

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 7:48 pm

I wasn't expecting a review on this thing quite so soon. That's probably the best thing about FansProject these days; the goods just appear from nowhere.

I like to think FP can do no wrong, but I'm increasingly starting to think they can't do much right lately.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:13 pm

Ha! It's great that this is appearing under the Parallax line.

But that's the only thing great about it.

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:28 pm

megatronus wrote:Ha! It's great that this is appearing under the Parallax line.

Seems like a natural progression to that line. I know most people now don't need that line anymore but it is what it is. I enjoyed the old Parallax kits so I have no reason to believe I won't like this. I do love the new head but I wish FP would have done something to bulk up the thighs a little. Would have been cool to see the top parts of the cab do that instead of make so so weapons.

by **guarayakha** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 9:32 am

It isn't too bad, but I would like it more if they had made it so the windshield sits flush with the grill. At the moment it being sunken in gave it the cartoony-look IMO.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:34 am

Yeah, I've been trying to find some pics of existing trucks that have a similar configuration. I have not found many, and what I have found is pretty ugly, in my opinion. I think this was supposed to be a more modern look, but I cannot find any good examples. Here is what I did find:

Old and ugly?

Custom job?

I love trucks (and jets and ships and spacecraft...) and used to drive them. But I don't recall seeing anything quite like this FP add-on...

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 6:13 pm

Gotta say, this set confuses be. Trailerforce pretty much wrote the book on Powermaster'ing Classics Prime. gotta wonder, why now and why this?

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 6:54 pm

I think this might be the start of something. I wouldn't be surprised to see a God Bomber type trailer to go with this set. Much like the original Parallax armor connected to the G3 trailer.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 8:39 pm

If it's the start of something, it's nothing good. Seems like a waste of time and resources.

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 8:52 pm

megatronus wrote:If it's the start of something, it's nothing good. Seems like a waste of time and resources.

I completely disagree. FP uses multiple factories & is big enough that multiple lines can run simultaneously without hindering one another. I get that you don't like it, many don't, but this isn't taking the place of anything else.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 8:58 pm

Doctor McGrath wrote:
megatronus wrote:If it's the start of something, it's nothing good. Seems like a waste of time and resources.

I completely disagree. FP uses multiple factories & is big enough that multiple lines can run simultaneously without hindering one another. I get that you don't like it, many don't, but this isn't taking the place of anything else.

If it bombs, clearances out, and is a net loss, I would say that yes, this might take away from other things.

Not that I care all that much. My 3rd Party spend has been dramatically shrinking over the last 18 months.

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:02 pm

megatronus wrote:
Doctor McGrath wrote:
megatronus wrote:If it's the start of something, it's nothing good. Seems like a waste of time and resources.

I completely disagree. FP uses multiple factories & is big enough that multiple lines can run simultaneously without hindering one another. I get that you don't like it, many don't, but this isn't taking the place of anything else.

If it bombs, clearances out, and is a net loss, I would say that yes, this might take away from other things.

Not that I care all that much. My 3rd Party spend has been dramatically shrinking over the last 18 months.

Considering it isn't out yet I'm sure they are monitoring demand to make the run not a significant risk.

I just hope the blue release isn't too far behind this one