by Wolfman Jake » Fri Jun 27, 2014 12:03 am
- Motto: ""A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller."
-Edward Hoagland"
- Weapon: Retractable Mecha-Fangs
Perceptor looks great. United colors and actual Autobot Tampograph (not a rub sign), RtS chrome accents, clear colorless plastic (and blue eyes?). Best version, IMO.
Kup looks more screen accurate with the grey legs and such, at least depending on which animation model you're talking about (movie versus most of Season 3).
Ratchet is better than the Hasbro Universe release, but not as good as the Henkei release. I was hoping this one wouldn't have chrome, but shiny silver paint instead. It's basically the Henkei version with added red paint, which detracts from both alt mode and robot mode accuracy of the original toy and the original animation model.
If I get this set, Perceptor and Kup are keepers, Ratchet may get sold off. I already have Henkei Ratchet. Kup may need a head swap too. I'm not too sure about this light blue face that Sabreblade is reporting. Like with Hound with yellow eyes, Hasbro Asia almost hits it out of the park except for one weird design decision.
By the way, wouldn't it have made a world more sense to have swapped Kup with Mirage or Hound from the Autobot Specialists set? Perceptor, Ratchet, and either Mirage or Hound make a much more coherent team of "Specialists", and Ironhide, Kup, and Hound (or arguably Mirage) make a much more believable team of "Warriors." Weird, Hasbro. Weird.
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Wolfman Jake on Fri Jun 27, 2014 12:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
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