Nemesis Maximo wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Amelie. the cab mode for this Optimus is neither realistic nor cartoon accurate. It's a hideous trainwreck with laughable nigh-2D details pretending to be fuel tanks and a bunch of exposed robot kibble on the bed. Those don't align with the real Freightliner FLT (which, by the way, NO version of MP Optimus has a license for! The only licensed depiction of Optimus' Freightliner mode is the Jada model) nor do they align with the cartoon model!
I’m calling bologna on that trainwreck comment. If it doesn’t resemble the Classics Deluxe Class O.P. Vehicle Mode, than you can’t call it a trainwreck.
I can and I did. This one is marginally better because the front of the cab at least meshes, but it's still second-worst.
Nemesis Maximo wrote:And realistic does not have to mean fully licensed; wouldn’t you say that RTS Lugnut has a more realistic plane mode than Animated Lugnut? Or how about the fact that Brawl from the 2007 film transforms into a vehicle an actual physically altered real life tank that was also used in one of the Triple X films that even in real life isn’t a fully licensed anything?
Realistic doesn't have to mean licensed, but I was just pointing the lack of license out as an additional detail. My main point was that the truck mode
IS. NOT. REALISTIC. Here is an actual Freightliner FLT cabover. Note how, being a real truck, the fuel tanks are three-dimensional objects. Nice big cylinders in fact.
It is also not cartoon accurate insofar as that's achievable (as can be seen, the proportions are so inconsistently drawn that aiming too hard for the cartoon is foolish):
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Masquerade_prime_vs_mmaster.jpghttps://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:PrimeProblem_Twin_primes_rev_up.jpghttps://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Optimus_ram.jpgWhenever seen from the side, Optimus' tuck mode was always drawn with proper, three-dimensional fuel tanks that were cylindrical or at least trying to be.
As I have said umpteen times by now, this overengineered waste of plastic's truck-mode fuel tanks are laughable. They're almost 2D! A couple of flat barely-protruding oblongs with a couple or flat barely-protruding straps overlayed on them.
Nemesis Maximo wrote:And the robot kibble’s gotta go somewhere, so it may as well be the LEAST CONSPICUOUS SPOT on the toy which will (a) be facing a wall at least at a 45-degree angle if you display it in vehicle mode, (b) hardly ever seen because it will be in robot mode 90% of the time, and (c) probably covered up by the trailer in vehicle mode anyway.
It is NOT the least conspicuous spot, you can see it whenever you look at him from even slightly above him, even with the trailer on.
As can be seen from the pics in this very thread. And even if you can't see the mess of robot kibble, the laughable fuel tanks are still visible from the side. And as for "the robot kibble's gotta go somewhere", there wouldn't BE any conflict between the truck mode and the robot leg kibble if the overthinking designer hadn't added needless complexity and instead just had the bed of the truck made from the legs directly.