Wow, a lot can happen when the timezone shifts...
Sabrblade wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:AllNews argument is that there would be panel folding shenanigans ala beast meg's backpack.
The difference is that Megatron at least had a backpack of beast mode kibble in the show. Blackarachnia did not.
As You pointed out though, The toys does.
Immortal Starscream wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:william-james88 wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote: If they could achieve that way back in 1996/7/8, it is unacceptable to leave most of her gold legs visible on what should be a solid black abdomen.
I am with you on the dissapointment and I know where you are coming from but I do take issue with the text I bolded. It's apple and oranges because the toys came first back then. So of course it was fine. But then the character designer based her model on a stripper and made the character look nothing like the toy.
Now, we are basing the toy on the show model, which we can all agree is a rather peculiar one.
The better comparison, if you want to make one would be hod different the toy looks to the show model between then and now. This toy is inifitely better in that respect.
I was generalising the difference in aesthetic in Beast Modes, back then. Less so for individual characters. There was always some "cheetor" visible in his Beast Mode, as with the rest of the Maximals. Waspinator, Scorponok, Tarantulas etc Typically their bot legs were only visible
if you turned the toy upside down.
hate to point this out, but blackarachnia did have bot parts showing, part of her calves, and all of her huge purple feel were showing, as well as her "anchor" which stuck out of her butt. the calves are much more noticeable on her 10th anniversary show colored version, being bright gold and all
Transformers Beast Wars Blackarachnia (Black Widow) Gallery while I do agree that some kind of covering panel would have been preferable, given her size (she should be shorter then cheetor based off the show models) said panels would tiny be fragile as all hell. unless they just detached and became something.
From above and from the front, as I said, there is no bot showing. Unlike the MP.
william-james88 wrote:All zoological tidbits aside, AllNewSuperRobot, I agree with you. Blackarachnia's alt mode looks bad (I dont think anyone disagrees strongly with that) and I would have loved some extra panels to make it look better, especially the gap between the two segments. And MP Shadow panther doesn't look like our collective image of a black panther (which would look like Bagheera from the Jungle Book).
I just found the arguments a bit odd. Like comparing to an old toy that doesnt look like the show model, or comparing to a real animal when the original toy wasn't any more zooligically accurate.
In the end, we get a Blackarachnia which is closer to the show model than anything we ever got and we have another deco for cheetor referencing a deco we got for the original cheetor mold.
Personally, I dont know if I will get this blackarachnia. I like the character and the bot mode, but not a fan of the price or alt mode. Will you be getting it?
Basically, MP Cheetor has a section of his shins that revolves around from Beast to Bot mode. They could have done the same with Blackarachnia. They didn't. There were plenty of small fixes they could have used. As I said, I had better expectations for the MP Bug Bots than what has been shown in Blackarachnia.
I don't like Blackarachnia and that ugly stand will never see the outside of the box, but I will be getting it. Because I am supporting the full line, as I intended with MP Primal.
Let me see if I can modify it...
