SpaceEagle wrote:That's a lot more kibble on Wild Rider than I expected, but he does look veeeeerrrrey damn good otherwise. Probably kibble that you can fiddle with to look nicer. Still definitely getting both of these figures.
william-james88 wrote:Having looked at Wild Rider some more, I am not as enthusiastic as before. While what they are doing with Blitzwing goes with their Mini MP mentality they've been touting, they do some really odd choices with the stunticons. Dragstrip had those odd shoulder pylons and now Wild Rider loses the shoulder wheels which are present on the G1 toy and animation model. Since there is very little compromising this figure in theory for him to combine, I have no clue why Hasbro didn't just do a transformation that would have the wheels end up in the proper position. Plus, it would help lessen the back kibble (which aside from the wheels, is accurate to either the toy or the cartoon).
Plus, I hate clear plastic hinges, and that's what Wild Rider has for the car front connecting to the robot.
Yeah, like, I was pretty hyped - Drag Strip was pretty damn clean all things considered, the shoulder pylons didn't bug me in pics and I'm def forgetting they even exist on the figure in-hand. Honestly it even reminds me of Quick Man from the Mega Man series a bit which I find rather fitting.
But...if the 'bots aren't gonna be that integrated into Menasor, I expected a REALLY clean Wild Rider, so this genuinely perplexed me a little. I still think it looks GOOD and the sculpt overall is nicer than the CW version imo, but I'm still hoping that kibble can be fiddled with better. Although....maybe this also sorta maybe not really means that Menasor will have options to make the bots more properly integrated or slapped on to please both sides? Does make me even more curious to see Menasor now...and Motormaster's bot mode too...