Sentinel_Primal wrote:I sincerely hope that the nosecone can fold away MUCH better than that and this is just PVP's lack of instructions
Agreed.RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I'm actually glad they didn't include the face-changing gimmick this time. It wasn't implemented well the previous time.
o.supreme wrote:Looks pretty good for the most part. Not sure why some people expected the TFA gimmick? It's not based on that rendition of the character. This is supposed to be more faithful to the original whereas T30 was a mash up.
I could be completely wrong... But I don't think those "Hulk Hands" go with Blitzwing. I think he got something meant for another item
I think o.supreme is meaning to say those hands are case of an accessory that's really meant for another character... being packaged with a different one, because that one has the budget or just provides the opportunity. It's happened before.Sentinel_Primal wrote:o.supreme wrote:Looks pretty good for the most part. Not sure why some people expected the TFA gimmick? It's not based on that rendition of the character. This is supposed to be more faithful to the original whereas T30 was a mash up.
I could be completely wrong... But I don't think those "Hulk Hands" go with Blitzwing. I think he got something meant for another item
Nope, leakers confirmed before PVP got his hands on Blitzwing that he was coming with those hands
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Another character we should have got, either in lieu of the energon monster rando or perhaps in lieu of Crankcase: Needlenose.I think they have done in the past, tbh. I would count CW/PotP as an example.Scottywan82 wrote:Why can't Hasbro actually sit down and design a proper combiner?
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Scottywan82 wrote:CW had flaws, but it was primarily with joint tolerances and general bad designs. CW Menasor's shoulders not pegging in tightly, the weak hips on Motormaster, and the the limb hips used as combiner elbows. The connection ports and real transformation of limbs was not the issue that needed solving.
Indeed. And honestly, I don't think the limb hips used as combiner elbows was all that bad. Would have worked better if the hips were ratcheted, yes, but I personally haven't found it to be bad. I also felt plenty of the limb designs worked (although the Hasbro Technobots save Afterburner are bleh). Of the ones I've experienced, the Drag Strip mold is the only one I've been irked by. It's why I was initially excited when we first saw Legacy Drag Strip - being more geewun would have eliminated a fair bit of CW DS's awkwardness since the arms could have tucked in in altmode.
william-james88 wrote:This toy suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks as a transformers toy. It does all the kind of crap I hate where it goes out of its way to be toon accurate by giving us a ton of faux parts. That's not the point of these toys I love, the genius is in having a bot go from one mode to the next and the parts being reassembled to give something new. But instead here we have:
Fake wings in robot mode (the jet wings are in the legs)
Fake jet cockpit kibble in tank mode to resemble the G1 model (the actual plane cockpit does not have the same details)
Fake robot chest kibble in airplane mode.
Fake parts in every mode. To give you a G1 toon look which was inspired by lack of complexity in the original G1 toys.
Gonna stick with TR blitzwing even though I don't like his arms.
Munkky wrote:Blitzwing looks nice enough, I probably will get him. The cockpit sticking out of the tank's front probably is a mis-transformation, I'll be surprised if it is actually intended to look like that.
Autobot N wrote:Looks fine but I'm satisfied with TR Blitzwing
Scottywan82 wrote:Autobot N wrote:Looks fine but I'm satisfied with TR Blitzwing
For real. Also, how is this new one a Leader class? By what metric does this rate $50?
william-james88 wrote:Sentinel_Primal wrote:I sincerely hope that the nosecone can fold away MUCH better than that and this is just PVP's lack of instructions
In this case, hope truly is just undiscovered disappointment.
Seriously? Geez... What an idiotic waste of plastic that fake canopy is. It could be worse, it could have been a fake nosecone instead of a fake canopy.william-james88 wrote:This toy suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks as a transformers toy. It does all the kind of crap I hate where it goes out of its way to be toon accurate by giving us a ton of faux parts. That's not the point of these toys I love, the genius is in having a bot go from one mode to the next and the parts being reassembled to give something new. But instead here we have:
Fake wings in robot mode (the jet wings are in the legs)
Fake jet cockpit kibble in tank mode to resemble the G1 model (the actual plane cockpit does not have the same details)
Fake robot chest kibble in airplane mode.
Fake parts in every mode. To give you a G1 toon look which was inspired by lack of complexity in the original G1 toys.
Gonna stick with TR blitzwing even though I don't like his arms.
Meant to be visible there, yes. But not necessarily to stick out that far - while the G1 cartoon certainly had the cockpit visible there (as per the toy)...ZeroWolf wrote:Considering it's faux parts as Will pointed out, yes it really is meant to look like that, double check the g1 cartoon to see yourself.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Assuming Menasor is worth completing.
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