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If you're gonna pay more than voyager price (plus maybe cheap shipping), then he's not worth it. He's a pretty good voyager figure, but his alt mode is hot garbage and definitely not worth $50.Mkdlmr wrote:I'm tempted to pick up Siege Shockwave and maybe Jetfire... I'm unsure... both are overpriced at this point IMHO. I'm not in love with Shockwave's alt mode, and I never really cared that most for Jetfire as a character... thoughts?
Rodimus Prime wrote:If you're gonna pay more than voyager price (plus maybe cheap shipping), then he's not worth it. He's a pretty good voyager figure, but his alt mode is hot garbage and definitely not worth $50.Mkdlmr wrote:I'm tempted to pick up Siege Shockwave and maybe Jetfire... I'm unsure... both are overpriced at this point IMHO. I'm not in love with Shockwave's alt mode, and I never really cared that most for Jetfire as a character... thoughts?
-Kanrabat- wrote:The thing was like roaches in stores for a long time and sold at heavy discount for so long! Just look up a bit more and you can find one for cheap if you just search for a bit longer. .
Mkdlmr wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:The thing was like roaches in stores for a long time and sold at heavy discount for so long! Just look up a bit more and you can find one for cheap if you just search for a bit longer. .
I haven't found him in any of the usual stores and he's going for over $60 on eBay...
I just think it's something that was an afterthought for the designers. They couldn't make his alt mode out of him in voyager size, so they upped him to leader to give him the extra stuff, and he still turned out bad. I understand that he can't have a straight up space cannon mode, because it resembles too much like a gun even if it's purple. But they could have done better than what we got. The whole upside down or submarine thing is just a bandaid on a gunshot wound. I do think the parts make a good platform for him in robot mode, it reasons that Shockwave would use something like that. But to me that figure will always stay in robot mode and I'll just pretend he is a space cannon.-Kanrabat- wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:If you're gonna pay more than voyager price (plus maybe cheap shipping), then he's not worth it. He's a pretty good voyager figure, but his alt mode is hot garbage and definitely not worth $50.Mkdlmr wrote:I'm tempted to pick up Siege Shockwave and maybe Jetfire... I'm unsure... both are overpriced at this point IMHO. I'm not in love with Shockwave's alt mode, and I never really cared that most for Jetfire as a character... thoughts?
How come his altmode is bad? You do have the option to make the traditional gun, I mean, "submarine", and the ship mode looks like one of those classic anime epic battleship. Plus the fact that you can make many configurations and the accessories can be a surfboard make it more worth it than Ultra Magnus IMO.
Yeah I'm still holding faint hope that we get a new voyager or even leader Shockwave in the last part of the new trilogy.Mkdlmr wrote:I guess... they could have easily done some sort of laser canon/artillery ala Galvatron... Hell, the Legacy version's transformation and alt mode looks better... if only he were voyager scale.... dunno what's with the core size of Shockwave lately [Bumblebee SS and Legacy]...
Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah I'm still holding faint hope that we get a new voyager or even leader Shockwave in the last part of the new trilogy.
I like the WFC Shockwave's robot mode, even if I wish he was just a bit taller and bulkier. I always thought Shockwave should be equal to or a bit larger than Megatron in upper body at least.
Well the WFC trilogy was very underwhelming, so I can't blame them. The story, directing and voice performances were all subpar. We just got some good toys out of it.Mkdlmr wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah I'm still holding faint hope that we get a new voyager or even leader Shockwave in the last part of the new trilogy.
I like the WFC Shockwave's robot mode, even if I wish he was just a bit taller and bulkier. I always thought Shockwave should be equal to or a bit larger than Megatron in upper body at least.
Yeah... It would be nice to hear some 2023 news... Shame Netflix passed up on a new Transformers series too. :-(
Rodimus Prime wrote:Well the WFC trilogy was very underwhelming, so I can't blame them. The story, directing and voice performances were all subpar. We just got some good toys out of it.
Yeah and better performances. But to stay on topic, it was obvious with the Scorponok character that he was just there to sell the Titan figure. I get why he was part of the story, but making him a nobody who turns into an almost mindless beast in scorpion mode was a waste of a potentially great character. The Titan figure was pretty good, with 1 flaw. His face should have been the same color as the headmaster's body, instead of the silver we got.Mkdlmr wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Well the WFC trilogy was very underwhelming, so I can't blame them. The story, directing and voice performances were all subpar. We just got some good toys out of it.
You're not wrong... It was pretty underwhelming... Feels like the last good series was Prime? I'm not hopeful for Earthspark. I did like the WFC's portrayal of Megatron as somewhat introspective [spoilers] where he talked to his dead foe's head and had a PTSD-like flashback at one point.
It felt like it could have been sooo much better with a bigger budget
I am. For one thing, it's actually allowing Optimus Prime to frigging sass again. It promises to be a punchier show that doesn't take itself too seriously, which I think is something badly needed in stuff aimed at older fans.Mkdlmr wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Well the WFC trilogy was very underwhelming, so I can't blame them. The story, directing and voice performances were all subpar. We just got some good toys out of it.
You're not wrong... It was pretty underwhelming... Feels like the last good series was Prime? I'm not hopeful for Earthspark.
I think they could have done better with the budget they had, they just needed to use it better. Granted, I've only seen SIEGE. But based on that...Mkdlmr wrote:I did like the WFC's portrayal of Megatron as somewhat introspective [spoilers] where he talked to his dead foe's head and had a PTSD-like flashback at one point.
It felt like it could have been sooo much better with a bigger budget.
Those are largely just action sequences with a small modicum of narration, aren't they? I don't think that would actually make a good full series or film.Mkdlmr wrote:I mean, I consider the intro cinematics for the War and Fall of Cybertron games and intro the Bumblebee movie to be the best Transformers "movies". I'd love to see more of that. :-\
Mkdlmr wrote:Back to general questions: Any thoughts on Jetfire, Sky Lynx and Rodimus?
I see I can pre-order the former two as reissues... I actually picked up Rodimus pretty cheap recently, but I'm not sure if I want to keep him considering I already have Hot Rod and that's a pretty solid figure...
-Kanrabat- wrote:That's a pretty clean display................ for now...
Things will get crowded pretty quickly lemme tell you!
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