Robogeek1973 wrote:Optimum Supreme wrote:People actually like that thing? It looks like garbage to me. In fairness it may just be a mockup, and the final product might be a lot better, but it looks like bad articulation and an incredibly low level of detail. I wouldn't pay deluxe prices for that thing, let alone masterpiece prices.
To be fair it's probably just a mock up to give folks an idea of what's coming.
That's what I thought immediately. It looks like just a print out of the show model that they were going to use for design reference and/or to simply make sure they got the shape correct.
As for how it looks, I have never owned the Optimus Primal figure (a regret, I know) but they never totally appealed to me, because no matter how much the robot mode head was altered, the beast mode never looked like the design in the show, and it had become fairly iconic. The toy was "realistic" and the shows was... not, for lack of a better word. Therefore this design is absolutely perfect.
As for how it will transform, probably the same way the toy and show model transformed. I always figured, since they were the most accurate and well implemented of the show cast (at the time) that o/p and megatron would get some slight retooling (give megatron a hand, dammit) and then produced, there wouldn't be a need for a whole new mold necessarily.
As for not being amazing to others, well... it's cool, you don't have to like, I won't force you; but non-G1'ers have had precious few figures released for all the non-G1 shows, so keep that in mind the next time something non-G1 is being celebrated.
