Overcracker wrote:Siege and by extension Kingdom already does all that for Magnus. There is really no expectation of having the entire armored robot mode not parts form. Its armor, it supposed to go over a smaller robot, so it needs to parts form. Only MP chose to have the entire thing be self contained, and people complained about the lack of albino Prime underneath.
Siege and Kingdom get all the basics of Magnus down pat. Not sure what more you want out of an Ultra Magnus.
The trailer mode is a bit off, but just a bit. More so with Kingdom and the changes made to it.
Kingdom Magnus is essentially SS Magnus only in the kingdom line. Much like Galvatron and Cyclonus are SS in Kingdom.
Magnus is nowhere near janky. And is pretty close to definitive in robot mode.
My point was that I'm going to be okay with an UM figure who has both "armor" parts, as well as a full trailer. The problem imo is that when parts of the armor are supposed to end up being parts of the trailer, either or both suffer. So the trailer should just be separate (for the most part), and the armor can fit under, inside, etc., the trailer. Or not... At this point I don't care if the only uses for those parts are for the bot mode.
What I want is a bot mode that has better proportions; these current versions have legs that are too short, the overall bot is a bit too bulky (especially the lower legs; man, those are clunky blocks), as it's been stated, there are issues with the hips. Imo the head is too big.
For me, there is too much Siege greebling.
I'd say the trailer is way-off, especially the Kingdom version. That's the most janky part of this figure imo.
I don't need it to look exactly like it did in the cartoon. But the current one is a mess.
This doesn't qualify as a definitive version. To me.
It's all opinion and preference, but saying UM (either version) is comparable to Cyclonus or Galvatron is a huge stretch.
I wouldn't place these figures in the same category.