Randomhero wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:Black Hat, I'm more than willing to call out Hasbro when they legitimately screw up. Poorly designing Trypticon's hip joints such that they self destruct after being used is a screw up. Missing out on doing Apeface and Snapdragon in Titans Return was a screw up. Wave 2 of Power of the Primes drying up within weeks at retail is a screw up. Predaking is not a screw up. That's not shilling or fanboyism. That's being fair, objective, and logical. I don't think you're at all being fair if you're resorting to jokes about platinum plated prostate massagers and calling these designers "incompetent." Get off your high horse.
Missing out doing apeface and snapdragon... it took 6 years after classics to get a retail thundercracker. 12 years to get all the Dinobots. Just because you don’t get it in one line doesn’t mean it will never happen.
william-james88 wrote:From day one I formed an opinion and it hasnt changed so far, no matter the amount of pics.
And that is that I love that combined mode. It looks dynamic and easily the most competent at doing fun poses out of all the options out there
However, as I thought from day 1, I do not like those individual animal modes (aside from Rampage). Though Divebomb and Razorclaw look good in robot mode and I would like rampage if he had a face. Still feeling underwhelmed overall due to the individual alt modes.
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Ironhidensh wrote:william-james88 wrote:From day one I formed an opinion and it hasnt changed so far, no matter the amount of pics.
And that is that I love that combined mode. It looks dynamic and easily the most competent at doing fun poses out of all the options out there
However, as I thought from day 1, I do not like those individual animal modes (aside from Rampage). Though Divebomb and Razorclaw look good in robot mode and I would like rampage if he had a face. Still feeling underwhelmed overall due to the individual alt modes.
Then there is me, and I don't like any of these options. so just like Devastator, I will continue to do without.
Also just like Devastator, if the individual figures had been deluxe sized, this would have been much, much better. I don't understand the need for a Titan Class outside of city bots.
ZeroWolf wrote:I think the issue is though that the hips could have been integrated better if razorclaw was a bigger size. I actually agree though that razorclaw should have been bigger, not just because combiners generally now have a bigger leader but because his alt is fantastic, thus needs to be more of a centre piece.
Now as for them being more deluxe sized well, that would have been fun for scramble city combinations (and with some creativity on my part, I could have recreated gaogaigar with transformers *
*-it would have been a stretch but a bit of imagination and anything is possible
william-james88 wrote:I am 100% certain that if they made Razorclaw bigger than the rest, we would simply hear how much of a failure that is on their part.
gothsaurus wrote:Agreed. Dinobots at this size to match would have been amazing.
Looking at these six in combined mode, Hasbro does seem to have a winner. Not quite perfect... seems like his waist is a little plain and wings a little small, but all in all the best out the batch. The others seem to have proportion issues and the G1 just looks sad in hindsight. Poor chunky little guy.
I'll be hoping for an add on kit with larger wings and a big ole sword. Then this guy will be dolled up to put on the shelf with Devastator.
gothsaurus wrote:O.Supreme, I very much agree with you! I'd have loved a Scramble City style set of deluxe constructicons. (In fact, I hope Hasbro STILL does this later with another line.) If they can find a good way to allow Long Haul and Hook to ALSO attach, I'd love it if every one of them could be an arm or leg. That would be amazing.
But back on Predaking, like it or not Hasbro is having to find ways to save money on big ventures like this. That's why we are getting hollow parts (Jetfire, for instance) and less accessories (like no sword, etc. for Predaking). I'm glad they are still working hard to put these out, knowing small issues like accessories WILL be remedied by 3P.
And for the general public (ie. kids) they won't really know or care that something is missing. Just people who had the original toys 25 years ago will remember that sword.
New fans will just be happy with a giant robot.
gothsaurus wrote:Wow. I think you just hit the nail on the head LoreKeeper. I'd put money on the SDCC version coming with a sword... and probably having chrome on the wings.
Looking at all of these together, I finally realize what it is that's been bothering me about the look of Titan class Predaking: His top and bottom halves are sized disproportionately to one another. If you look at just the bottom half from the waist down, everything looks fine. Likewise, the top half from the waist up looks fine too. But when you look at the whole package from top to bottom, it looks like he's wearing a pair of pants that are two sizes too large for his body, or that somebody shrunk his torso in the wash.
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.'
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