The Energon Pub

Big Grim wrote:Megatron is superb. Engineering genius. Turret is a bit crap in tank mode and I ain't sold on the fusion cannon but neither detracts from that glorious robot mode at all.

I agree that the robot mode is very well done. However, the cannon does detract from it, the front half is too short and the back half shouldn't look like a cylinder but more like a funnel. The tank mode is also acceptable, if far from perfect.

Rodimus Prime wrote:I agree that the robot mode is very well done. However, the cannon does detract from it, the front half is too short and the back half shouldn't look like a cylinder but more like a funnel. The tank mode is also acceptable, if far from perfect.

I am amused that for the Skybound Optimus, they got the Fusion Cannon perfect. But not for Megatron.

Yeah, the tank is fine. Main hull is very good. Turret, not so much.

~ Grim

Big Grim wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I agree that the robot mode is very well done. However, the cannon does detract from it, the front half is too short and the back half shouldn't look like a cylinder but more like a funnel. The tank mode is also acceptable, if far from perfect.

I am amused that for the Skybound Optimus, they got the Fusion Cannon perfect. But not for Megatron.

Yeah, the tank is fine. Main hull is very good. Turret, not so much.

~ Grim

Hate to break it to ya, but Megatron isn't an Age of the Primes toy.

Sabrblade wrote:

Big Grim wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I agree that the robot mode is very well done. However, the cannon does detract from it, the front half is too short and the back half shouldn't look like a cylinder but more like a funnel. The tank mode is also acceptable, if far from perfect.

I am amused that for the Skybound Optimus, they got the Fusion Cannon perfect. But not for Megatron.

Yeah, the tank is fine. Main hull is very good. Turret, not so much.

~ Grim

Hate to break it to ya, but Megatron isn't an Age of the Primes toy.

I'm aware, but, until this recent change of removing the greebling, that was largely semantics.

Flatline, however, is. As are the four Aerialbots. All mentioned in my post that started this particular conversation.

~ Grim

I'm too lazy to dig up the PotP thread.
So, regarding the PotP Titan Predaking reissue, is it worth getting, or it will be pointless because new molds à la SS86 Devastator will come out soon?

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm too lazy to dig up the PotP thread.
So, regarding the PotP Titan Predaking reissue, is it worth getting, or it will be pointless because new molds à la SS86 Devastator will come out soon?

Could have posted in the news topic.

Personally, I think it was a poor choice to reissue. We know they'll be remaking him in the future plus there's the Adamas Machina version which is basically a Generation figure (large team leader and smaller limb bots) at a Masterpiece price point so there's other options. I think with Predaking and Nemesis a pencil pusher was looking at the current eBay prices rather than thinking ahead. And then to set both to release in the same time frame was really strange.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm too lazy to dig up the PotP thread.
So, regarding the PotP Titan Predaking reissue, is it worth getting, or it will be pointless because new molds à la SS86 Devastator will come out soon?

Could have posted in the news topic.

Personally, I think it was a poor choice to reissue. We know they'll be remaking him in the future plus there's the Adamas Machina version which is basically a Generation figure (large team leader and smaller limb bots) at a Masterpiece price point so there's other options. I think with Predaking and Nemesis a pencil pusher was looking at the current eBay prices rather than thinking ahead. And then to set both to release in the same time frame was really strange.

Emerje

Looks like it was a fairly good decision on the pencil pusher, both Predaking and Nemesis are currently sold out on Pulse. I got my Predacons back when it first released and it is a great combiner, when combined. The individual figures are hit and miss, but overall awesome to me. I never have to buy the Predacons again.