Sabrblade wrote:This is Goshooter, or rather Shūta Gō:
Sabrblade... you are a TF knowledge well
Sabrblade wrote:This is Goshooter, or rather Shūta Gō:
Kurona wrote:Should also be noted that these two have new face sculpts much more accurate to The Headmasters, and I'm pretty sure to their original toys.
Fortress, you mean. He's a different guy from Cerebros in Japan.Logan. wrote:Cerebros in (my) hand
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Wolfman Jake wrote:
I think Sabr mentioned this a while back, but for the most part, the face models for the Decepticon Headmasters didn't change all that much between Sunbow's "The Rebirth" miniseries and the Japanese original production of "The Headmasters." In fact, Takara's head sculpt for Legeneds Mindwipe looks almost like a compromise between the details found on the Western character model versus the Japanese character model.
Kurona wrote:Hasbro's Chromedome becomes more and more of an utterly bizarre scenario the more I look at it. He has an IDW-styled head... yet an original toy/rebirth/headmasters-styled body. And then it doesn't end there - the colour layout on his toy/cartoon-accurate body is IDW-accurate, and the colours on his IDW-accurate head are cartoon-accurate. It's a very strange way to do a compromise
Kurona wrote:Hasbro's Chromedome becomes more and more of an utterly bizarre scenario the more I look at it. He has an IDW-styled head... yet an original toy/rebirth/headmasters-styled body. And then it doesn't end there - the colour layout on his toy/cartoon-accurate body is IDW-accurate, and the colours on his IDW-accurate head are cartoon-accurate. It's a very strange way to do a compromise
It seems to me like they simply molded the figure--head and body--to resemble Chromedome's IDW Shadowplay design (at least in robot mode), but applied to it the traditional, not-specifically-IDW-based Chromedome colors.Kurona wrote:Hasbro's Chromedome becomes more and more of an utterly bizarre scenario the more I look at it. He has an IDW-styled head... yet an original toy/rebirth/headmasters-styled body. And then it doesn't end there - the colour layout on his toy/cartoon-accurate body is IDW-accurate, and the colours on his IDW-accurate head are cartoon-accurate. It's a very strange way to do a compromise
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:It seems to me like they simply molded the figure--head and body--to resemble Chromedome's IDW Shadowplay design (at least in robot mode), but applied to it the traditional, not-specifically-IDW-based Chromedome colors.Kurona wrote:Hasbro's Chromedome becomes more and more of an utterly bizarre scenario the more I look at it. He has an IDW-styled head... yet an original toy/rebirth/headmasters-styled body. And then it doesn't end there - the colour layout on his toy/cartoon-accurate body is IDW-accurate, and the colours on his IDW-accurate head are cartoon-accurate. It's a very strange way to do a compromise
How do you know they didn't deliberately model it after the Shadowplay design because of the Shadowplay design being based on the G1 toy?Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It seems to me like they simply molded the figure--head and body--to resemble Chromedome's IDW Shadowplay design (at least in robot mode), but applied to it the traditional, not-specifically-IDW-based Chromedome colors.Kurona wrote:Hasbro's Chromedome becomes more and more of an utterly bizarre scenario the more I look at it. He has an IDW-styled head... yet an original toy/rebirth/headmasters-styled body. And then it doesn't end there - the colour layout on his toy/cartoon-accurate body is IDW-accurate, and the colours on his IDW-accurate head are cartoon-accurate. It's a very strange way to do a compromise
They modeled it after the toy with the only real differences being caused by the Dead End engineering, fixed proportions and updated articulation. It just happened to look like Shadowplay Chromedome because Shadowplay Chromedome is modeled after the toy. And even then it still has some differences that make it clear the toy is G1-based rather than any iteration of IDW Chromedome-based.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:How do you know they didn't deliberately model it after the Shadowplay design because of the Shadowplay design being based on the G1 toy?Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It seems to me like they simply molded the figure--head and body--to resemble Chromedome's IDW Shadowplay design (at least in robot mode), but applied to it the traditional, not-specifically-IDW-based Chromedome colors.Kurona wrote:Hasbro's Chromedome becomes more and more of an utterly bizarre scenario the more I look at it. He has an IDW-styled head... yet an original toy/rebirth/headmasters-styled body. And then it doesn't end there - the colour layout on his toy/cartoon-accurate body is IDW-accurate, and the colours on his IDW-accurate head are cartoon-accurate. It's a very strange way to do a compromise
They modeled it after the toy with the only real differences being caused by the Dead End engineering, fixed proportions and updated articulation. It just happened to look like Shadowplay Chromedome because Shadowplay Chromedome is modeled after the toy. And even then it still has some differences that make it clear the toy is G1-based rather than any iteration of IDW Chromedome-based.
True, but the fact that there are details on the toy that are taken specifically from the Shadowplay design (i.e. - the upper torso's overall shape and molded details, the kneecaps, the waist's overall shape and molded details, etc.) points to the Shadowplay design being more likely a deliberate source of inspiration for the toy rather than a happily coincidental resemblance.Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:How do you know they didn't deliberately model it after the Shadowplay design because of the Shadowplay design being based on the G1 toy?Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It seems to me like they simply molded the figure--head and body--to resemble Chromedome's IDW Shadowplay design (at least in robot mode), but applied to it the traditional, not-specifically-IDW-based Chromedome colors.Kurona wrote:Hasbro's Chromedome becomes more and more of an utterly bizarre scenario the more I look at it. He has an IDW-styled head... yet an original toy/rebirth/headmasters-styled body. And then it doesn't end there - the colour layout on his toy/cartoon-accurate body is IDW-accurate, and the colours on his IDW-accurate head are cartoon-accurate. It's a very strange way to do a compromise
They modeled it after the toy with the only real differences being caused by the Dead End engineering, fixed proportions and updated articulation. It just happened to look like Shadowplay Chromedome because Shadowplay Chromedome is modeled after the toy. And even then it still has some differences that make it clear the toy is G1-based rather than any iteration of IDW Chromedome-based.
Touche I suppose, but that seems a bit... roundabout and pointless compared to just modeling it on the G1 toy.
Besides there's details on the toy that aren't there on the shadowplay design so
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Cyberpath wrote:I feel like the headmaster gimmick is becoming an overkill. Everyone is a Headmaster now regardless if they were so in fiction.
Ultra Markus wrote:i get that hasbro goes with more toy accuracy and takara goes with cartoon accuracy
but with cerebros hasbro went with cartoon accuracy and takara went with toy accuracy on fortress maximus
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