AcademyofDrX wrote:Sabrblade wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:As an aside, It's also one of the reasons why upscaling Beast Era characters for IDW, Kingdom, ROTB etc falls flat. They were animals, (loosely) scaled to each other. Waspinator's altmode doesn't work if he is the same size as BB.
It's doesn't work in Beast Wars neither since he's still a giant wasp larger than the size of a human adult in that series too.
Yeah, Beast Wars alt-modes were not "loosely" scaled to each other, they were not scaled to each other.
Which ironically doesn't make them being big ass versions of animals in Kingdom or RotB in any way 'inappropriate' any more than it makes them appropriate.
Anyway, I've been following the discussion as I'm still just not feeling Ultra Magnus' size in robot mode. He's even bigger proportionately than MP-22 to that figure's corresponding figure line and it just doesn't look right. It's painfully obvious they scaled him based on the vehicle mode, which is just bass ackwards. But I'm giving up the scale argument as an every day thing. It is what it is at this point. I totally get that to make him be a working car carrier so we can carry on that fantasy that he ever carried a single car in fiction other than on the commercial bumper and the commercial itself, he had to be bigger. I get it. I just don't like it.
The figure, on it's own, in a vacuum devoid of other figures in the line it goes to is an excellent figure. I'll..ahem...deal with that now because it's my favorite character, but it's not right.Unless it's in vehicle mode.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Apart from the bizarre fact that the intrinsic canonical ability of these shape-shifting alien robots IE Mass displacement, continues to lose people nearly 40 years on. It's actually very simple to explain.
That isn't a tape player at all. Soundwave is an advanced, alien robot in 'tape player' cosplay. It's a costume. A disguise. Fake. The real life dimensions of the altmode bare no resemblance whatsoever to alien robot within.
One of the best ways to explain the 'science' I've heard in a long time.