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News Credits: 1 · Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:39 pm

What I absolutely hate about the mechtech gimmick is that it puts huge ugly holes on the top of the alt modes for the stupid guns/claws/what-have-you's to peg into, ruining an otherwise good looking bot.

I guess these were designed for their target audience, though. Kids might not be so bothered by the peg holes, and would probably enjoy the BFG's mounted on the bots.

Personally, I'd take Automorph and Mechalive any day. As underwhelming as they were, at least they didn't put pockmarks on the roofs of the alt modes.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:06 pm

Yeah, the first two posters over there said it best:

Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:56 pm

WTF is with the f*ing severed limb on his roof?!?! :evil:

If these crappy little (sorry, not little, more like f*ing GIGANTIC!) "weapons" don't combine somehow, Has bro has officially lost its business with me. :BOOM:

News Credits: 33 · Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:02 pm

I like that bit of detail on the hood but those giant guns and claws on the roof of these new moviverse has saved me a lot of cash so far .

News Credits: 7 · Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:11 pm

Burn wrote:No seriously, that HAS to be an arm. These ugly lumps of plastic have to combine somehow and not just be ugly lumps of plastic that sit on top of an alt mode and transform into even uglier lumps of plastic.

Perhaps something like this? (scale is a complete guess, and he may be backwards):

I'm sure they CAN combine into something. Trick is whether or not that something even remotely resembles a robot, haha.
If not... at least they can be taken OFF the figure anyway.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:25 pm

This Tech-Mech stuff is giving me heartburn...

Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:45 pm

By the looks of the car, at least the torso will be remolded, which is good when you consider what the original deluxe looks like compared to the CGI model and the HA figure.

Now this MechTech piece is making me even more sure these weapons combine into something. This definitely appears to be an arm of some sort. Could they combine into the alleged giant robot that attacks Sam in the large building?