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News Credits: 7 · by **shortround** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:06 am

I can't beleave how sometimes hasbro can do such a crappy job of painting a figure then with another figure do something really cool. An example of what I'm talking about is both leader class megatron on voyager class megatron who have one of the worst paint jobs in the history of transformers franshise and then you have blackout I'm not talking about the whole figure although his paint job is not bad all things consider I'm talking about the way they painted his head. I mean granted not all transformers would look good that way but I think that some of the movie figures could benfit from that paint style. I would love to know what figures you guys would think could benfit from that kind of paint style since I don't know what technical term for it is. Although I can't image it would be that much harder to do.

News Credits: 2 · by **Magnimus** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:13 am

What's wrong with your leader Prime? Mine looks fine.

Edit: Nevermind, I misread due to a screwup on the forum due to the new frames

by **featofstrength** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:38 am

Complaining about paint jobs on Transformers? Understandable, but be thankful that Hasbro doesnt take away one of your favorite toylines and kill it...RIP Marvel Legends

by **qwailo** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:43 am

shortround wrote:I can't beleave how sometimes hasbro can do such a crappy job of painting a figure then with another figure do something really cool. An example of what I'm talking about is both leader class megatron on voyager class megatron who have one of the worst paint jobs in the history of transformers franshise and then you have blackout I'm not talking about the whole figure although his paint job is not bad all things consider I'm talking about the way they painted his head. I mean granted not all transformers would look good that way but I think that some of the movie figures could benfit from that pain style. I would love to know what figures you guys would think could benfit from that kind of paint style since I don't know what technical term for it is. Although I can't image it would be that much harder to do.

Well i half agree with you on this. I haven't seen the Megs figures so i can't comment on that. But I think the Prime figures could benefit from a better paint job, and the weathering/dirt detail on the Blackout figure around the tail area is really bad. However i've got to say the paint jobs on Ironhide & Ratchet are superb, I can't stop looking at my Ironhide.

However slightly off-topic but still bitching about Hasbro, my main problem with the movie figures is the scale between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Blackout and Bonecrusher being the prime examples of this compared to someone like Barricade or Ratchet. I really hope they release other classes for some figures like they have done with Prime and Megs.

This is how i think the figures should have been.

Deluxe - Bumblebee, Barricade, Jazz, Scorponok
Voyager - Ironhide, Ratchet, Bonecrusher, Brawl.
Leader - Optimus Prime, Megatron, Blackout, Starscream

It just makes more sense. Also (im being a bit fussy here) but i would have liked to see each figure come with a little human character, like the SWTF do. I want a mini-John Voight.