ZeroWolf wrote:He was brilliant, and it will be interesting to see what they do with him other than quality of life improvements like ankle tilts etc
I'll be more interested to see what they do with Mr All-White Tigerhawk.
ZeroWolf wrote:He was brilliant, and it will be interesting to see what they do with him other than quality of life improvements like ankle tilts etc
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I do remember hearing that the plume/wolf back of the Beast Mode didn't fold down in Bot Mode. Most people puzzled why there wasn't a simple extra hinge?
I loathed the character in the show. But if these two are testing the waters for the Fuzor line to get an update in Legacy. I'm all for that!
Dr. Caelus wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I do remember hearing that the plume/wolf back of the Beast Mode didn't fold down in Bot Mode. Most people puzzled why there wasn't a simple extra hinge?
To be fair, the backpack is pretty chonky, so it would probably require one of those folding double hinges, which would have add to the price and fragility. If they'd scaled him up to mega class it would have worked, but they were only doing transmetals for mega class at the times (same as the basic class was exclusively fuzors).I loathed the character in the show. But if these two are testing the waters for the Fuzor line to get an update in Legacy. I'm all for that!
Silverbolt was one of my favorites as a kid because I empathized with him. Everyone treated him as kind of dumb because of his lawful good bent, but there were a lot of moments showing he wasn't ignorant or naive, but willfully optimistic(?), and that keeping that up was actually a fair bit of work on his part. That continued to evolve when he got to Beast Machines.
I wouldn't bet on any fuzors beyond Quickstrike though. The modern Beast Wars offerings have stuck close to the original show's cast. Might get Universe Silverbolt or that white repaint (Windrazor?) under Selects, or if Walmart follows the Velocitron line with a Beast-Planet line.
(I just realized that the Velocitron line would have been a great place to drop a Transmetal I or II Cheetor.)
Dr. Caelus wrote:I loathed the character in the show. But if these two are testing the waters for the Fuzor line to get an update in Legacy. I'm all for that!
Silverbolt was one of my favorites as a kid because I empathized with him. Everyone treated him as kind of dumb because of his lawful good bent, but there were a lot of moments showing he wasn't ignorant or naive, but willfully optimistic(?), and that keeping that up was actually a fair bit of work on his part. That continued to evolve when he got to Beast Machines.
I wouldn't bet on any fuzors beyond Quickstrike though. The modern Beast Wars offerings have stuck close to the original show's cast. Might get Universe Silverbolt or that white repaint (Windrazor?) under Selects
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:But why a Turkey?
Ask Hasbro. They made the designs. Mainframe just had to adapt them for the screen.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:But why a Turkey?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Ask Hasbro. They made the designs. Mainframe just had to adapt them for the screen.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:But why a Turkey?
Luckily, outside of the penultimate episode's Spark power-up, the on-screen designs had very little about them that was translucent, so any new toys of them ought to be accurately opaque.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Ask Hasbro. They made the designs. Mainframe just had to adapt them for the screen.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:But why a Turkey?
The Samurai motif to the Bot Mode looks fine. But.. easily the worst altmode of the Beast Era shows.
If these modern Beast figures are successful enough. I wonder if BM would make it into Legacy? Clear plastic warnings aside, it might be the redemption the Maximal designs need.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Luckily, outside of the penultimate episode's Spark power-up, the on-screen designs had very little about them that was translucent, so any new toys of them ought to be accurately opaque.
Nemesis Primal wrote:Oh hey that individual with the early copies of the RotB Airazors and Battletrap posted pics of Legacy Medix-wait, Legacy Medix?
...when they said that anything was on the table for Legacy I guess they weren't kidding. It's not quite the Crankcase retool I was hoping for (that would be Ironfist), but it looks good to me. Maybe Heatwave from Bulkhead next somehow please?
Source (w/ more pics): https://www.facebook.com/SonicBomberCore
ZeroWolf wrote:Interesting, a possible exclusive for the likes of Velocitron?
DeathReviews wrote:Yeesh, why did the UK get so dang MANY Cosmos figures, and the US got next to none? And why doesn't Hasbro just own up to their mistake, make MORE Cosmos figures, and give them to the areas that got stiffed?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:These pictures made me realize that the new Leo Prime toy may be missing a piece of detail found only on the original toy mold and on the MP, but on no other preexisting Lio Convoy toy mold: His backside rocket boosters.
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