El Duque wrote:Delicon wrote:Am I the only one who is less than impressed with all this 3rd party Devastator stuff? Even if it was regular retail, not sure I'd be rushing out the door to grab it.
Considering this is the alternative, yes.
What I don't get is that people actual;ly bought this, and I know everyone is entitled to there own opinion, but seriously this is where I throw that notion out the window, I don't respect anyone who defends designs like this, it's patronising, and there's not even the G2 aspect of it's so hideous it's kool, i used to collect thos eporrly designed hooker cards in phone box's, I'm a graphic designer and the way they were designed brakes all the rules, and the fcat that the girl in the pic was probaly not the girl who's being advertised was one of those unbeleivable things of it shouldn't work but it does. G2 is patronising becuase of the way they thought bright colours and graphics plastered all over over advertising the toy would fool kids into buying an old toy repoackaged.
It took me a while to appreciate why people liked G2 but understanding that it wa sfo rthe reasons I hate them makes me understand the fondness people have for them. To me shattered glass is todays G2, it's a dumb idea and a forced story to recolour toys, and an over complicate dway of doing it, all it is making the goodies the baddies, but what made me hat eit was one little thing, why does shattered glass optimus prime have physical shattered glass. As I'm a designer and am trained to think conceptualy and sometimes what seems a good idea at the time actually isn't. When I see soemthing like that it makes me doubt the credibility of there designers they have and the whole thought process behind it. Fansproject on the other hand have a really good team, the way they put there own spin on things is really of a high standard, there city commander head sculpt is amazing, it's not G1 accurate but that would of been easy, they have modernised it in there own style, the G1 head sculpt wouldn't of suited the overall design aswell as the one they did, you have to give them props. This is what make sme hate Hasbro so much, that combiner is a true monster and it's up to Fansproject to make ther esuperion and bruticus worth buying.
I'm not against Transformers with designs that break the norm, look at early G1, shockwave with 1 eye and a gun for a hand, but it was done on a mature way and not for a crazy funky effect, look at todays minicons with one eyes, they almost look like pirates or cyborgs from B movies.
Back on topic these 2 yellow devastator figures look really good, and I like the whole figure combined especially the outline, he looks more beefy than the other 3rd part offering, but the green one has some great features, I like the way the forearms are made from the actual figure rather than add ons, and the design is different enough to make both worth having. Why do hasbro think that something like this would be less appealing than what they have given us, and why do they take amazing designs like Unicron and give him see through parts like a flashing gay hand. Alternators prove they can produce complicated figures that hold up well, so larger figures will hold up eve beter, they sell big figures all the time so this would sell. MO prime sold well, so much so they reissued him, so G1 style can make money, and there offkey interpretations are just good for warming shelves.
What makes the situation worse is that a this sort of figure is a no brainer, hasbro should of done this ages ago, in fact a new g1 shockwave and Galvatron are going to make big moiney for who ever gets there first, the same goes with a dinobot range, it's so obvious it can make anyone with any sense go mad. And those people who bought hasbros devastator you are the people that fuekl hasbro's silly way of thinking, and the more you buy these stupid designs the more they will make.
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