megatronus wrote:Burn wrote:megatronus wrote:If you're saying all these figures have to do articulation-wise is be better than G1, than yes, you're setting the bar too low.
Not saying that at all. That's just your interpretation. Maybe I'm a simple minded individual, someone not capable of truly appreciating engineering greatness and as such appreciate simple figures like this.
Or you know, whatever.
You're free to be sarcastic and snide, or you know, whatever, but my 'interpretation' is based on:Burn wrote:People harp and moan about the "lack of articulation" on the individual Constructicons ... ummm McFly ... they have MORE articulation than their original G1 incarnations.
Besides for just having a "pffffff" response, I'd be curious to know how my 'interpretation' is wrong.
Interpret it however you want, like I said, I'm simple minded, they're a step up from their original incarnations, that's fine by me. If that's me setting the bar low, well ... like I said, whatever, that's my prerogative.
megatronus wrote:Burn wrote:megatronus wrote:I generally agree that it's too early to form cohesive opinions on the set barring in-hand evaluations. But you're taking that general sentiment to an extreme. Is it truly not valid to note the lack of arm articulation, which has been clear and apparent in all the pictures and materials distributed thus far? C'mon.
I look at the pictures and I see TWO figures with bad arm articulation.
Scrapper - To me this makes sense. His arms form the heel. They're a support beam, they need to be rigid. I firmly believe that at some stage during development they tried out elbows but found the weight of all those other bots made said elbows not strong enough to support the combined mode. Hence the rigid arms. If people are going to moan about that ... come on ... think about it.
Long Haul - I'll concede, no idea what's going on there, but I can only imagine like Scrapper, it's an intentional design purpose. You just can't really tell in combined mode.
The others look bloody well articulated TO ME. (And people can post all sorts of arguments you want but my opinion won't be shifting on that one)
To be clear, I'm not trying to change your opinions any. If they look good to you, great! I'm glad. Seriously. They look pretty awesome to me, too, and I look forward to getting them. But to me, the arm articulation for the Constructicons, who for all intents and purposes are ultra-sized, could be better.
Whether or not there's an engineering purpose will come out. But even so, that doesn't take away from the appearance of sub-par arm articulation - due to ball joints, Bonecrusher and Scavenger seem to be the only Constructicons with a wide range of arm motion.
We'll know soon enough.
I should add that there's the cost issue as well. They need to keep it at an affordable price point (though I doubt many parents will be rushing out and grabbing this set for Christmas, but hey, you never know) that also turns a profit.