blackeyedprime wrote:As for the prowl list, alternators prowl kind of reminds me of the siege notlambos proportions and I always imagine prowl having to be black and white as much as I like animated prowls figure other than maybe his head. Kind of weird i'm more accepting of the owl and magnaboss prowl over a black and gold motorbike, even a damn cool samurai one.
Siege Prowl doesnt really have a car mode for me so the classics wins in that department and over the cw figures fake chest/cheaper looking car mode but wouldnt make it to my list or even be in a top 10. G1 would replace siege/cw to me and Mp no.1
This is a lovely analysis on the Prowls out there, thanks for sharing! And I can understand where you are coming from with the acceptance of different interpretations. In beast wars, they are all beasts anyways and it's mainly a name reuse (even though there is fiction backing that some of these characters were reformatted G1 characters). Whereas in Animated you basically have a totally new character called Prowl that only shares the police theme with his namesake and is totally different compared to Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet who are simply reinterpretations of their established characters in a new show. He feels like a name reuse while the others do not.
carytheone wrote:I saw you mention that list and I looked up Silver/Bluestreak molds and you really don't have much to choose from (well I only looked at G1-ish toys). I am curious to what you guys come up with and hopefully expand my horizons a bit.
I have the classics mold of Silverstreak (don't actually have Prowl) and it's a pretty poop mold. I should see if Cobo wants it?
While these lists are just my opinion, they are always of toys I would recomend to people. While they are a look back on the history of the character, I still feel they should all be part of one's collection. They all offer something different about the character. That's why the Classics mold is so amiss now, not only is it not that great a mold but it doesn't give you anything the others don't give you. I am writing this for both Bluestreak (where the classics mold will not appear) and for Prowl. For Prowl, you have him as a beast, a combiner and even a beast combiner. Plus if you want MP scale, you have the MP and if you want CHUG scale, you have the Siege toy. And the G1 toy is ever present since all g1 toys have their charm and unique origins and build. Amongst all that, there isn't much of a place for Classics. And looking at that line as a whole, it is becoming less and less relevant in a collection as the Hasbro designers keep giving us the same characters. The classics line was a line just made to plug a hole on some store pegs and in restrospect it was a line simply meant to fill a hole in our collection, as more accurate toys came out. When all is said and done, I think the only one that I will keep amongst all my classics toys would be Megatron simply because of the innovative transformation and design.
With the classics/universe line being a step toward the best representations of g1 characters at a smaller scale than MP, that makes me think of what will come up next in the generations line. The only one still on my shelf now would be Sunstreaker. He's missing a good update, specifically meant for him.
so G1 toy out won the MP for me on that one. I got the diaclone MP Magnus and Stack so it's great to have both versions.
I feel its a real step backwards from where the "Datsun bros" molds have come. Honestly, I feel that way about all of siege. This line (with only 3 exceptions) has felt like a giant step backward. Totally just my opinion, and I'm actually quite happy siege has brought so much happiness to the majority of the fandom.
