JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Rated X wrote:fenrir72 wrote:Makes you wonder the relevance of having to mention owning quite a number of "unofficial figures" in an official figure thread.
Actually its a fembot thread and nightbird is one third of the topic...get it right.
It's still posted in a encompassing thread for Transformers Legends. Any official figure is fair game
Then shame on everyone who brought up 3rd party forearms for Blackarachnia as well!
Let's not kid ourselves: unofficial Nightbirds are, in fact, relevant to this particular thread because pretending this first official Nightie wasn't influenced by that TRNS retool is kind of like pretending BW Dinobot's design wasn't influenced by Jurassic Park. While it works, it's not a super obvious redeco like the Paradron Medic. For that matter, no fair pretending we didn't
finally get that Arcee mold in part because of the steady parade of not-Arcees that started long before "3rd Party" was even a term. Our favorite toy franchise doesn't exist in a vacuum, no matter what any lawyers say.
In fact, part of the reason this is shaping up to be such an awesome year for TF is that HasTak seem to be achieving the sort of symbiotic relationship with 3rd party products that they should've had all along. First, they finally take the hint about unrequited demand for gestalt teams and give us Combiner Wars at a reasonable price. Now, they take a remold idea from Impossible Toys, and do it better! (I've handled both molds; this WILL be better, of course) Monitoring 3rd Party stuff for research into fan spending habits which convey things where our words fail to is how they should improve certain corners of the brand.
Occasionally pointing out the unofficial influences isn't a dig at Hasbro or Takara (regardless of X always phrasing it that way), it's just part of the fun. Like how the most enjoyable part of Prometheus was playing along by spotting the Easter-Eggs from all the
Alien rip-offs they reclaimed.
That said, I'll buy all 3 of these toys even if Hasbro never brings 'em over.
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Now as for Blackarachnia's upgrades...I know they may be filled in somehow on the final product, but all I can think of when I see that proto/test-shot is the part of
Split Infinity where Sheen detatches her breasts and carries them like bedpans so she and Stile can sneak out of the hospital.
HELLOOOOOOO, NURSE! -ry Web Spider.
Which would imply she carries eggs in the pedipalps.
Which could be a viable way to fill in the hollowness.
Yep, good year all around, good year.
