Rated X wrote:Delta Magnus wrote:Rated X wrote:Im ok with partsforming. Younger collectors have this idea that parts integration was born to satisfy complex minds. The truth is that it was designed to accomodate dumb kids who kept loosing small parts.
Nah. It was meant to satiate lazy engineers who couldn't be bothered engineering things properly, and lazy fans who couldn't be bothered to transform figures with more than 5 moving parts.
Perhaps you'd be better off collecting Kre-O, X. Plenty of lovely partsforming for you there.
It may be laziness to you, but to others its called "fun".
No, it's laziness. Having to yank off a lump of the toy and stick it back on in no way increases the fun factor.
The best figures are the ones that you don't need instructions or a review to enjoy. I also like my combiner parts separate.
This is because you are a hamhanded idiot.
I don't like sacrificing aesthetic and increasing engineering and production costs just to hide a big fist or turn it into something just for the sake of it having a use in all modes.
And I don't like sacrificing competent engineering and functionality for the sake of visual adherence to an ancient moichandise-driven cartoon with Hanna-Barbera level animation. Function before form, my friend.
Just imagine how great stock CW hands could have looked if they didnnt have to become feet or vice verca.
As feet I'll agree, they look undersized, but they look fine as hands. The solution would be to make the hands and feet come with the combiner torso figure, so you'd have dedicated hands and dedicated feet that transform into weapons but don't have to become 2 different things- like the Perfect Effect hands and feet.
None of the vintage 80's combiners had midget feet or kangaroo boxing gloves.
No, and they didn't have elbows or knees either. And because they didn't do anything outside of combined mode, countless G1 combiners are now missing their combiner kibble.
Sure the parts didn't have a place, but they looked cool for the modes they were intended for. No sacrificing needed and its cheaper to make the parts as one piece molds.
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That's like saying "Sure, the boat may sink the moment you put it in water, but the holes make it look cool and they make it cheaper too!"
Now if the G1 combiners had awesome, detailed anime-style combination stock-footage where the combiner kibble materialized and attached (like God Neptune and Ruination/Baldigus) I'd have some more sympathy, because then at least it would have some basis in decent source material. As it happens though, the combination sequences in G1 were basically "robots float up and morph together into a really badly drawn approximation of the toy". Heck, if you want full G1 accuracy, you NEED fully integrated, non-removable combiner kibble (which as it happens even I don't think works very well, with some exceptions like TFC's Liokaiser) as the hands and feet just sort of morphed out of the ends of the combiner limbs in the cartoon.
But seeing as you prefer aesthetics to functionality, I've got a good idea for you: collect non-transforming figures of the robots and models of their vehicle modes. That way they can be perfectly G1 accurate without being hindered by the need to transform! Or better yet, collect cardboard cutouts of the characters so you can have PERFECT representations of the G1 characters without being hindered by the need to exist in three dimensions!
The irony is quite clear.
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though now that people have pointed out about how similar blast off legs are to rooks and their arms. I wonder if rook was used as a base before all the changes were then added on to him.
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