Zombie Starscream wrote: Thats what I've been trying to say for a long time! Just because its G1 (or any other Tf toon) doesn't mean it has to be all blocky. It can be a hybrid of sorts where it can look alien roboty but not look like a bunch of blocks stacked onto each other. I doubt if we ever met the Tfs in real life, that they would be as blocky as they are in the cartoon.
THANK YOU. You know how hard it's been getting anyone to understand what we're saying?
I'm sick of movie apologists going, "WOULDN'T WORK! WOULDN'T WORK!"
Of course it wouldn't! The transformations of the toys are primarily preposterous!
And what Bay's done, both for the movie AND the movie toys is also not the answer.
PERFECT EXAMPLE:
Because these guys are made of "shards" in the movie, "shards" have to be crapped onto the toys, either in sculpt or like here... extra pieces screwed/glued on.
Just look at his chest... how silly is that ****?
Honestly, do they NOT look like spare parts from out of an "Operation" game?
Movie Megatron: a bunch of forks magnetized together.
Toy Megatron: Operation pieces screwed/glued together.
While real-life G1 Transformers are preposterous in real life, the CGI shard-bots are preposterous as toys, and no doubt raises the cost. (And if you think about it, these movie toys ARE having some problems in the quality department, are they not? Cost-cutting of some sort?)
Ok, now let's look at the topic at hand... Devastator.
Could the G1 version work in real life?
HELL-freakin'-no!
Would a CGI shard bot work here?
HELL-freakin'-no!
The constructicons, more than other vehicles, are constructed of heavy-ass beams for a reason.
So then... what?
Constructions that are jointed similar to the innovatively ball-jointed Beast Wars figures. BUT... there also has to be unchangeable "hard points" on some of their individual structures, even more so because they make up limbs to a heavier robot.
If Bay's designs were at work here, the bucket to the earth mover would split into many individual rods.
Devastator himself, because the smaller units would be comprised of freaking CGI shards would have to twist all the hell together in order to maintain stability at that weight and mass.
So... Devastator... if going by these "new" and "realistic" Bay way of doing things...
...would look like a giant Botanica from Beast Machines.
But a hybrid of G1, blockiness but with the emulation of muscley-ness at the joints?
Yes. Yes, THEN you can have Devastator, be it real life with inorganic alien mech-muscles or as a toy, where you'd merely need to somehow sheath things to look like the live action depiction.
...and you wouldn't even have to do THAT, for toys really only can be so close to a source material where jointage is concerned.
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