Rodimus Knight wrote:I feel like at the current price point, I'm not really impressed.
It would have been nice if they could have moved Sludge's Back Dino legs somewhere else instead of giving him those thick meaty thighs.
I am curious on how the core Dinos combined look will well, look. So far I have not been impressed by the Dinobots combiner modes they've tried. I think they need to go more for a Prediking look with the wings at the back.
I'm not sure how I feel about Lio Convoy. Someone mentioned the beats eyes earlier and I agree, they don't look right. At least give him some pupils.
We're getting pretty good Updates to G1 and Armada. Mediocre updates to Transformers Prime. I'm terrified to see what they might do with animated.
I feel like I'm really starting to loose interest in TF collecting.
The Core Dinobot reveals are not good.
To put it very gentley. I had already said I knew there would be compromises at this scale, but wow.
I was hoping only one mode would suffer, but these are bad all-around.
Sludge’s legs don’t even attach are the bottom of the torso; they only appear to connect; the huge chunks off the sides of the pelvis are what connect the legs. So any bottom half bot poses for him are going to be “interesting” for sure.
Neither of these dino modes really have tails either, which is also a relatively big “miss”.
The gaps around Slag’s front legs also look really bad for that mode.
Obvsly these aren’t easy designs. I still expected more.
Minus the head sculpts, these look like crazy old attempts at TF toys.
I don’t know if even a good combined mode can make up for these sad figures.
Breakdown is a bit of a letdown, although the bot mode may be the best of the limb figures.
Put 2 on preorder through Amazon.
Everything else that was revealed is a pass for me, except maybe Tarn.
Figures like him and Jhiaxus are pretty appealing to me.
They’re different enough, but aren’t tied to some extra play gimmick.
Needlenose caught my eye, but he’s a maybe at best.
I didn’t think we’d see it before the end of 2023, but deluxe figure prices hitting $25 before tax (or shipping, depending on tbe retailer) is a real turn-off.
This is the main reason I’m happily anticipating the end of my collecting days.
It’s not so much that my interest has been lost, but is the juice worth the squeeze?
Nope.
I’ll keep saying it— once I have Snarl, Shrapnel, Bombshell, & Swoop, I’ll be checking out.
Sure there will be some “extras” before I cross the finish line, and those will all be nice to have.
But once I have those last 4 off of my “Most Wanted List”, I’ll be ready to dip.
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