Nemesis Primal wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:As an aside, how does Sky Reign look with Dinobot limbs?
I only have half of the Dinobot limbs and don't intend on purchasing the other two, so this probably isn't exactly what you want, but this is my current Sky Reign configuration:

I'm actually intending to replace Snarl with Wreck-Gar and Swoop with Trailbreaker when I acquire them, but I don't know what I'll do about the foot situation when I do. Snarl is currently borrowing Groove's HFG, and Groove's going to need that back when I eventually get the other Protectobots I want...
Unpopular opinion: I like the HFGs better than these Prime Armors. I find they work better for action poses, the built-in weapon aspect appeals to me, some characters can actually use them for stuff in non-combined modes, and they actually work as hands AND feet, as opposed to the Prime Armors which are useless half the time because they can only be hands, have weird extra thumbs, and don't convincingly work as anything other than hands. Plus, the quality control on the Prime Armors I've gotten are way worse than the HFGs. Snarl's is super loose, while Swoop's is super tight, and the armor-gun bit on the back of Rippersnapper's keeps trying to fall off.
My Sky Reign has Snarl and Slag as arms and Nosecone and Strafe as legs (I bought Nosecone, Strafe, Afterbreaker, Scrounge and Cybaxx with Computron's feet on eBay). I think Computron's and the PotP combiner feet are great (as long as they are tight). The 5 mm pegs on my Elita-1's feet are super loose and the ratchets are not that tight, too. But
!I! do have more trouble with the HFGs as feet to get the combiners into good poses. But as hands I think both, the HFGs and the Prime armors, are great as hands.
And I don't mind the two thumbs.
Transformers don't need to have human anatomy. Why should they at all? And especially as combiners are such huge robots an extra thumb to grab heavy objects/weapons and a double elbow for more range of articulation might come in handy.
AND I put the PotP feet reversed onto the legs with the Prime armors being the front of the feet and their toes. Looks great especially on Abominus.

*And I use Swoop as a stand-alone figure. He looks too cool in robot mode to be a limb (to me at least).
*And I might give Sky Reign Moonracer and Novastar as legs with Elita-1's feet as soon as I got Novastar and tightned the feets 5 mm pegs. And think the Technobots suit Elita-1 better as I imagine her being the badass character she's in the IDW comics.
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