Rodimus Prime wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:No, Grimlock too. His transformation engineering was tweaked to accommodate the torso mode, but he still takes most of his design cues and sculpted details from the original toy (I'm quite familiar with the original - own it, have frequently played with it, have even customized it), and he's definitely deco'd to evoke it.
Okay I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think PoTP Grimlock was modified too much to resemble the G1 figure in construction. He kinda looks like him in robot mode, the dino mode is atrocious, and was clearly sacrificed for the torso mode, which to me is a mess. The shoulders are too weak, skinny, and wide. You like it, and that's fine, to each his own.
Well, here's what I mean:
The engineering's a bit different (most notably the leg transformation) and the dino tail is less fat on the PotP version, but it still copies the G1 toy's sculpted detailing all over the place, the metallic gray plastic is a dead match, and it does the "gold behind clear plastic" thing. Plus the dino mode is back to being designed as a tail-dragger.
Nemesis Maximo wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:As for Scramble City, the Dinobots weren't included in that concept to begin with, so they shouldn't be forced into it now.
By that logic rather a lot of PotP and CW Deluxe and Voyagers are invalid including your precious CW Sky Lynx.
OH MY GOD, Zelda, Let someone have an opinion of something other than your own! The PotP Dinobots are small, scrawny-looking losers on their own and we’re shoe-horned into being a combined so that John Warden could finally live the dream of having his Dinobots combine! The result is that they’re
so small.. This is my opinion, and it is shared by at least a few people.
The fact that you keep saying “by that logic, such and such other thing you claim to enjoy is invalid” bugs the absolute crap out of me man. Just because I like Unite Warriors Devastator doesn’t mean I have to like every damn thing to be GEEWUN. Just because dislikes the PotP Dinobots wing a combined doesn’t mean he has to dislike everyone else who wasn’t a GEEWUN combined now being a combined. Jeezopeets. Jeez-o-****-peets.
1. Learn to proofread.
2. As someone who actually owns the original Dinobots to compare with and is primarily a fan of their original designs, I don't share that opinion. And they would have been Deluxes (which is why they're not much bigger) even if it
wasn't for the combiner thing because five Voyager slots in the same line being given over to one team isn't happening. I want bigger toys of them too, but I can be happy with what we've got for now while I wait for later lines to handle that one or two at a time.
3. When I say stuff like that, I'm trying to point out that the "(X) shouldn't have this feature because they weren't that way originally/didn't have it in fiction" argument (which tends to bug the crap out of
me although I think I've been guilty of it myself *shifty eyes*) is a bit dodgy because it's so far reaching that half the line can end up collateral damage.
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