william-james88 wrote:Kurona wrote:Also, better Afterburner
Scattershot ruins it tbh
Well I was going with non subjective things that the takara set didnt give you. I wasnt going with better or worse since those are always subjective. For example, Afterburner. I fail to see how Habsro's is better since it isnt accurate to anything. That green comes out of nowhere and is really odd. At least Takara's is faithful to one source and its cool how the shade of red on the motorbike is different from the rest of the red on Computron, giving it both uniformity and still a sense of something different and seperate. Plus it has 2 awesome new guns that are perfect for him.
Accuracy doesn't always mean better - just compare CW Drag Strip to UW Drag Strip. Drag Strip strives for a more cartoon-accurate colour scheme; and if that's your thing, cool. For the rest of us, it's extremely bland and boring in every mode.
For Afterburner's case, I find Takara's a little boring as well - just stark white and red. Hasbro's is much warmer and just nicer to look at. The green windshield I feel works very well in a strange thematic sense; Computron was originally devised as 'futuristic' in the 80s - and if you look at what the 80s thought was futuristic, it's pretty hilarious. It tends to be an exaggerated and ridiculous blend of what no-one would ever make due to it's enormous impracticality, and being derived from what primitive technology was around at the time.
Which, for instance... included green LCD screens. That's why I love Afterburner's green hoodshield; it reminds me of old green LCD screens which is the sort of weird technological era the Technobots come from and are all about.
I probably could have saved you a lot of time if I just said 'green lcd screen'.