Rtron wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Tuned Agent wrote:Better pics of the accessory-less bot modes (from TFW):
There's something about Megatron's face that looks... off.
Like, very inaccurate to either the original toy or his cartoon face.
It's the nose and teeth. Both are triangular in the new toy, while they were square in both the original toy and the show. Also, he has protruding cheeks in this new toy, while his cheeks were flat in the original toy and the show. Fortunately, it seems to be the toy's only real miss. It's a big one because it's the facesculpt, but oh well, everything else looks great.
Also the face is a brighter silver instead of metallic dark purple. And the proportions as a whole feel different, almost as if they squashed the face from the sides and expanded the helmet details over it.
Emerje wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Sculyblast wrote:Isn't that the carrobot Gigatron/ Robot in Disguise Megatron's face?
...No?
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Actually I can see it too. Look closely at the sides of his face. TM2 Megatron usually has two orange squares on each side of his face, but instead has one on each, and above and below that are those claw like shapes that RID Megatron has above and below. It's a weird thing to add that makes me wonder if they're trying to get more than one use out of that head sculpt, perhaps with a different helmet and tail going around it. The claws going over his chest is also reminiscent of how the RID figure has a claw "belt". Then you've got the big orb in the middle of the chest like both characters had. I think there's something to this.
BTW, the jagged teeth look to be painted on that way, they don't look like they're sculpted like that so it might change.
Emerje
Check the cartoon face again: he also had just the one pair of orange squares and the four claw indentations. And the chest spikes as well (though I don't think they were so pronounced).
I do hope they ditch the jagged teeth and replace with with a square grimace, though; that really doesn't fit cartoon
BW Megs.
Anyway, my opinions on the reveals. Keeping the accessories (especially Peacemaker) and the alt modes for later is a
really weird decision and I'll never understand why they did it. My old gripes still remain: removing the wing-sword on
Armada Starscream (or more precisely, removing the gimmick and then giving a redundant copy of the sword),
BW Inferno has way too many ant legs in bot mode (couldn't they hide at least one pair if they were using faux kibble?), and Skullgrin keeps to the "update" of the Pretenders I really don't like. And I have
no idea why a
BW Predacon has the
Prime Predacon insignia on his packaging (hopefully it's just a packaging error). Otherwise, though, I really like what I see here. The "A Hero Is Born" 2-pack is particularly inspired (the only way it could be better is if Vector Sigma somehow transformed too), and I hope Dragon Megatron proves Transmetals can work without chrome parts.
Still no word on those "Energon Monsters", though. Were they cancelled? Were they figures who were supposed to have a new gimmick or story role (probably the Pretenders) that was removed when the Netflix series was cancelled and they forgot to update the listings?
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