D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Why did your Powerglide keep falling? Mine has stayed solid and I haven't had a problem with it?
First of all... I have a TERRIBLE time keeping his legs pegged together. The 'knees' are weak so he's a bit flopsy in gun mode.
Secondly, He just seems too heavy for Superion's arms to hold up in any kind of a cool pose. The arms keep dropping down. Closest I've gotten was attaching him to the Superion Gun, and using both hands... but it's not a very dynamic pose.
Sooo yeah, I think Powerglide was a pretty cool remake of the G1 figure and I like both his standard forms (when he keeps his legs together in jet mode) but as a gun I don't use him.
william-james88 wrote:To those asking about Shockwave's size, his size is made to represent how big Bruticus (and the other combiners) get when they combine. He represents the scale you get with mass shifting, as we saw in the G1 show. Tecnically, the combiners are not in scale with their individual toys but you obviously cant make mass shifting in toys form (unless they are non transforming sponge robots you add water to). So instead they have some figures meant to represent scale accurate interpretations of those characters. It's far from a perfect science but it explains Shockwave's size, as well as bringing the rest of the seekers out. It also work with Rodimus, although you get a double explanation with the fact that his toy is also an homage to his micromaster toy from G1 which interacted with Star Convoy, and the latter is homaged through the headsculpt of that white Prime.
I understand the concept of why they did... I just wish they hadn't. Personally, the size difference between these combiners and the individual deluxes is good enough for me to say they are in scale with each other as is without trying to simulate mass shifting by buying each character a dozen times. Same with Metroplex. He'll ALWAYS be out of scale... I just can't try too hard to 'make him work' when the cartoon had everyone living inside him and what not...
If they wanted Shockwave held as a gun... (I actually missed those episodes so it isn't as important to me,) I think MP Soundwave would have been the way to go. Just include a mini Shockwave gun with one of the bots. Or give us a leader/Voyager class Shockwave and include a smaller gun with him... They jumped through a lot of hoops just to give us a tiny shockwave. After all, it always seems likes the gun changed size... not the robots.
Sometimes I don't care too much, but I was weaned on the Marvel comics where he was just a BEAST who kicked all the autobots butts and then curbstomped Megatron and took over... Seeing mini-version just doesn't work for me.
Transformers has had so many lines and divisions that scale is always out... but when they are all packaged under 'Combiner Wars' line... to me that indicates that they SHOULD be intended to 'go together'... Same reason that I couldn't get that legends Thundercracker, especially now that there is a leader Thundercracker in the same line...
Awe shucks.
was really hoping someone with an extensive on-hand collection would save my bacon.
