The lack of elbows on Rumble is a bit of a bummer, but on a tiny figure like that it's a tolerable tradeoff for not having gimpy forearms (which is the only way they could have made room for the joint, due to length limits imposed by the tape mode and his shoulders being ball sockets). Speaking of his tape mode, I get why the spool details are where they are: it's to align with the pec details like they do on the G1, and because they'd be cut off if they aligned with the 3mm ports (either by the head slot or by the ports themselves). It does mean they're wonkily placed in tape mode, admittedly, but such is the price of having to fit in WFC Soundwave's chest (which makes the pecs not be vertically centered like they are on the G1).
The piledrivers look like they
could potentially have been made molded such that the piston heads' pegs were free to slide in and out, but I don't know how satisfying that would have been. And it's not like the current 3P piledriver offerings are any better lol, from what I've seen on eBay.
Crazydevy's piledrivers for the G1 toys were another story, IIRC, but those have been out of production for a long time.
Agree about wanting both a Ravage do-over and more tapes for Blaster. Retooling the crummy SIEGE Ravage into Steeljaw might work, the hindlegs are somewhat right for it if nothing else.
Till-all-R1 wrote:keeping things in perspective the figure is $11.99 which is closer to $12 for a figure that's only 2.5", while both Halo and Fortnite figures are 4" at $13 an doffer quite a bit more for the price. So if these were still $8 then maybe I'd forgive non working piledrivers but at $12 I'd expect a little more.
Keeping things in perspective, Halo and Fortnite figures aren't transforming robots. That's always made Transformers pricier for their size and what they come with. Although I do think in hindsight, Hasbro have been trying to squeeze a bit too much growth out of the brand with the price bumps over the past couple years. Especially after seeing what's happened to their sales.
Till-all-R1 wrote:Plus it doesn't actually cost that much for it to make a sliding cylinder.
Yes and no. Given that the piston head is a separate piece from the sleeve as it is, they could indeed have molded the piledrivers such that the sleeve end had an unblocked hole that the peg for the piston head could freely slide back and forth through. But idk how
satisfying that would have been (even if they did the pegs like the posts on tab-in wheels, just longer), and much more than that
would require making the sleeves be two pieces each. I suppose you could mold the sleeve with an open notch and add a less-costly extra piece in the form of the peg itself being separate and sort of L-shaped (so that it could stick out through the notches and used to slide the head up and down), but that would likely still be pushing it. Fully-enclosed spring-powered piledrivers were never remotely in reach.
Till-all-R1 wrote:That said, it's not like we should have expected it considering Perceptor's telescope doesn't either.
The thing is I can live with that because it was never going to be a working telescope in the first place, yet for Rumble it could have very simple to offer.
...Can you please explain why it is you considered Rumble - a Core-class figure - having working piledrivers more likely than Perceptor - a Deluxe-class figure - having a working scope? Especially since Titans Return Perce had one?
Till-all-R1 wrote:So this is a bit of sad news for me and after the Cosmos debacle makes me not want to even bother getting it.
What is the "Cosmos debacle"? Only debacle I'm aware of with him is just Mall Wart grossly underestimating demand.
Till-all-R1 wrote:And if costs were an issue why not wait on Rumble and just include him with working piledrivers in a higher priced set later on.
Maybe because most people would rather have static piledrivers than have to buy a larger, higher-priced set to get him? I know that's how I feel. They'd be nice and no mistake, but not nice
enough to be worth
having to buy a larger set to get hold of him.
Also, he's clearly a pilot release for
doing cassettes at the Core price point. Relegating him to a larger set would kiiiinda undercut that.
He's not perfect, but he's better-proportioned than SIEGE Rumble, and he's got better accessory value for $ than trying to kit out the SIEGE version with 3P accessories would be.
but whyyyyy
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