by Evil Eye » Fri Apr 25, 2014 11:04 am
- Motto: "Don't be a goddamn coward."
- Weapon: Acid Spray Gun
I find partsforming quite annoying myself. I like the idea of a Transformer toy being able to "believably" transform in one piece without swapping bits and pieces. It just bugs me.
That said, I don't mind partsforming so much when the bits actually have somewhere to go. RID prime, for example, has his base mode, which is pretty cool and a good way of keeping everything together.
I'd say one example of partsforming done sort of right but wrong in other ways is the Fansproject Bruticus. Combined, he's awesome. However, the individual robot modes are somewhat terrible with all those bits of combiner stuck onto them. The fact that you have to swap weapons between the individual bots when transforming them from robot to vehicle mode (so essentially you can't transform one without transforming them all) is really annoying, and I can't help but feel the robots were sort of used as dumping grounds for the parts.
Swindle and Blast Off aren't so bad, as they just need to have their own weapon and one extra weapon (I give Swindle a bazooka and Blast Off one of the hand things, which I like to think are multi-barreled flamethrowers) but Vortex has his massive shoulder rocket pods which, whilst cool on paper, are a pain in the arse- especially in copter mode, Brawl just looks kinda goofy duel wielding enormous guns (although the tank mode looks a lot better with the bazookas instead of the recommended rifles) and Onslaught comes out by far the worst, with a great big double-barreled cannon that strains even his might arm ratchets and also has that irritating crotch-plate (which loves to fall off), a gun whose stock stops him from holding it forward, and those Unicron-spawned rocket pods/feet, which NEVER STAY ON HIS SHOULDERS and also severely restrict arm articulation. To his credit, the vehicle mode is brilliant and manages to be totally different from his (already cool) missile truck mode.
It's a shame, because the parts are really good quality, the 2 robots are really good (with the exception of Blast off's loose waist...) and aside from the habit of falling apart, the combined mode is great. But the fact that the individual Combaticons end up being hindered so much is a let down, as is the massive amount of parts leprosy required when transforming any of the Combaticons into any other mode. Now I know most people will just display him in combined mode, but for me as someone who cherishes and plays with his toys, that's not good enough. If I just wanted a really big robot I'd get a single big robot. The whole point of a combiner is that it's multiple toys that turn into one bigger toy.
It's still a good set, and I commend it for what it did right, but the partsforming majorly detracted from it in my book.
Ha ha Transformers go brrrrr
