JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:UltraPrimal wrote:Wow! You can really tell FunPub isn't even trying anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if they lifted that entire bio from some Marvel wiki entry or toy card back bio or something and just went Ctrl+F and replaced "Deadpool" with "Drift".
How about actually
looking into it?
Nah. Looked around for 10 minutes, couldn't find anything. Honestly, Marvel is such a juggernaut spanning so many medias, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a Deadpool bio similar to this out there somewhere linked some obscure piece of merchandise. Like on the back a trading card or in a video game or something.
But my point is the SG universe is just so lazy as it is. The basic formula for making a SG character basically boils down to this:
1: Select a character from G1
2: Personality = A. Take that character's personality and flip it; cowardly is courageous, strong is weak, dumb is intellegent. OR B. If that character has a rival, swap that characters personality with their rivals and vica versa.
3: Color scheme = A. Review all the previous toys of that character and repurpose one of it's repaints as said new SG character. OR B. If that character has a rival, swap the rivals color scheme onto the originals body, and vica versa.
Done.
I know some people may like SG, and I'm not gonna fault them for that, but I jut find it boring and predictable. And it's little annoying how we keep getting more SG toys that we don't really need when we could be getting more "Classics" style figures. I mean they could have still done a SG Drift if they wanted, but they could have also made him Deadlock. That way both side would be happy. Which maybe was their original intention, but then ones they got to "white and red car is now red and white car" and they realized "'Deadlock' is close to 'Deadpool'", seems like they kind of "Drifted" away from that original intent.
Rated X wrote:UltraPrimal wrote:The whole Shattered Glass universe idea just seems lazy to begin with. But even that idea could have been interesting if executed properly.
I couldnt agree with you more my friend. Ever get the feeling "Shattered Glass" is nothing but a contingency plan for when Funpub cant get permission to use certian molds ? Or for when they are stumped on who the molds they have available could be used for ?
Im not going to get into my opinion on the "alternate universe" concept here, but repainted figures with no re-tool or intention of being a new character seem pretty convenient for Funpub.
But I must admit the colors do look nice. I might buy him, slap on some Decepticon reprolabels and make him a generic Cybertronian for Shockwave's army.
Thanks.
I'll probably still buy him. I do like Drift and I like Deadpool. I don't necessarily think they should go together. Unless it's actually a comic with Drift and Deadpool in it. Kind of like the Cable/Deadpool comics. That would be pretty fun.
If FunPub ever does a Shattered Glass Beast Wars...I shutter to think of the horror. Primal...in purple and green...saying "No" constantly.