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prjkt wrote:william-james88 wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Well, so far all of them seem to be based on animals, though made humanoid. Yes, that would technically made them robotic furries... The Japanese releases of Knock Out and Dreadwing would fit kinda too, with their animal armor from the predicted Beast Hunters molds.
Excellent point, Jelze, I had not thought of that. That makes the current decepticons a certain evolved form of where the Prime toys were going
Don't you mean devolved?
Autobot032 wrote:I caved. I bought Grimlock, Steeljaw and Strongarm. Grimlock is A+, Steeljaw is actually quite nice and deserves a B+, while Strongarm is a mild C+ at best.
She's ridiculously hollow and looks awful in vehicle mode on the underside. (I realize no one looks at their figures in vehicle mode from the bottom, but you do need to retrieve her weapon from it for transformation purposes, so...) Just this giant gaping hollowness that uses plastic thin enough to allow light to shine through to some extent. Fortunately, aside from the ridiculous backpack, her robot mode is quite nice, which is why she received the + instead of -...
I normally don't have a problem with shellformers, especially when they're designed like she is (and her shell isn't really that terrible, neither is her kibble) but the hollowness and how much wasted space is left behind, egads.
Steeljaw is ridiculously light, but when you transform him just right, he's quite a nice looking fella, especially when sporting that Wolverine claw (which I would love TWO of).
Grimlock, though, wow. Dinobots are not my favorite, honestly. Never really have been, but he's a ROCK SOLID figure. Transformation is complex enough to keep you happy, easy enough to master and everything pegs in nice and solid in beast mode. (Robot mode is a different story. That leg design is just...no. No.) I'm only saddened by the fact he has no weapon to use, but the articulated mouth is AWESOME.
I have no desire to buy Douchy McDoucherson. Er, I mean Bumblebee. That smirking face of his just makes me want to slap it so hard. Repeatedly. Until he cries.
And now that I've seen the comparison photos a few posts above, I see why the toys work for me. The show models aren't anything to write home about, at least not in my book, but in plastic form, they seem to fit quite well with the FE/PRID/BH figures and it's nice to see a universal theme to them to make them cohesive. It has enough elements of Animated to keep those fans happy, and enough Prime elements to keep those fans happy.
In vehicle mode, I don't see how Steeljaw is anymore out of place than Breakdown or the Vehicons. Even Bumblebee looks like he stole a Vehicon's body as a costume, so these work for me quite a bit. I wasn't expecting to get into this line, but when I opened Steeljaw and he impressed me, I was all like "Dang it."
Autobot032 wrote:I caved. I bought Grimlock, Steeljaw and Strongarm. Grimlock is A+, Steeljaw is actually quite nice and deserves a B+, while Strongarm is a mild C+ at best.
She's ridiculously hollow and looks awful in vehicle mode on the underside. (I realize no one looks at their figures in vehicle mode from the bottom, but you do need to retrieve her weapon from it for transformation purposes, so...) Just this giant gaping hollowness that uses plastic thin enough to allow light to shine through to some extent. Fortunately, aside from the ridiculous backpack, her robot mode is quite nice, which is why she received the + instead of -...
I normally don't have a problem with shellformers, especially when they're designed like she is (and her shell isn't really that terrible, neither is her kibble) but the hollowness and how much wasted space is left behind, egads.
Steeljaw is ridiculously light, but when you transform him just right, he's quite a nice looking fella, especially when sporting that Wolverine claw (which I would love TWO of).
Grimlock, though, wow. Dinobots are not my favorite, honestly. Never really have been, but he's a ROCK SOLID figure. Transformation is complex enough to keep you happy, easy enough to master and everything pegs in nice and solid in beast mode. (Robot mode is a different story. That leg design is just...no. No.) I'm only saddened by the fact he has no weapon to use, but the articulated mouth is AWESOME.
I have no desire to buy Douchy McDoucherson. Er, I mean Bumblebee. That smirking face of his just makes me want to slap it so hard. Repeatedly. Until he cries.
And now that I've seen the comparison photos a few posts above, I see why the toys work for me. The show models aren't anything to write home about, at least not in my book, but in plastic form, they seem to fit quite well with the FE/PRID/BH figures and it's nice to see a universal theme to them to make them cohesive. It has enough elements of Animated to keep those fans happy, and enough Prime elements to keep those fans happy.
In vehicle mode, I don't see how Steeljaw is anymore out of place than Breakdown or the Vehicons. Even Bumblebee looks like he stole a Vehicon's body as a costume, so these work for me quite a bit. I wasn't expecting to get into this line, but when I opened Steeljaw and he impressed me, I was all like "Dang it."
Autobot032 wrote:I caved. I bought Grimlock, Steeljaw and Strongarm. Grimlock is A+, Steeljaw is actually quite nice and deserves a B+, while Strongarm is a mild C+ at best.
She's ridiculously hollow and looks awful in vehicle mode on the underside. (I realize no one looks at their figures in vehicle mode from the bottom, but you do need to retrieve her weapon from it for transformation purposes, so...) Just this giant gaping hollowness that uses plastic thin enough to allow light to shine through to some extent. Fortunately, aside from the ridiculous backpack, her robot mode is quite nice, which is why she received the + instead of -...
Shuttershock wrote:Here's a thought for your weapons dilemma:
1. Get Bee
2. Give his Sword to Grimlock before he hurts himself
3. Slay Bee and crown Grimlock Once and Future King
Shuttershock wrote:I agree, Grimlock is rock solid in both modes (the legs must peg better on mine). His Dino kibble is there, but doesn't feel as vestigial as other entries, and he feels chunky for his size.
Also, you can flip out his stumpy dino arms in robot mode to look like IDW Monstructor:
william-james88 wrote:You're referring to this right?
I don't find it that bad. It's not worse than other transformers when we look below, like this guy for instance:
Autobot032 wrote:Shuttershock wrote:Here's a thought for your weapons dilemma:
1. Get Bee
2. Give his Sword to Grimlock before he hurts himself
3. Slay Bee and crown Grimlock Once and Future King
That sounds great in theory, but I just cannot stomach the thought of giving Hasbro $16.00 for that figure. If he was someone else, I could probably do it, but it's just not Bumblebee to me. He looks so douchey.Shuttershock wrote:I agree, Grimlock is rock solid in both modes (the legs must peg better on mine). His Dino kibble is there, but doesn't feel as vestigial as other entries, and he feels chunky for his size.
Also, you can flip out his stumpy dino arms in robot mode to look like IDW Monstructor:
Mine has loosey goosey beast parts when forming the legs, which I've seen in video reviews, but the tabs don't secure themselves into the slots well enough to make it a really solid connection. I've seen video reviews where they shook the figure a bit and it showed that all the parts held fine, while mine will actually come apart in robot mode with a good shake.
The kibble size is nice, I must admit. He uses it very well to his advantage, and it impressed me that it steals most of the G1 transformation, but freshens it up enough to make it likeable.
The dino arms work for Monstructor, but Grimlock looks like that horrible Kayak commercial where the two guys are sharing a sweater to use the computer. I know, what's seen cannot be unseen. Trust me, I tried. lolwilliam-james88 wrote:You're referring to this right?
I don't find it that bad. It's not worse than other transformers when we look below, like this guy for instance:
Her? Yes. That's exactly it.
Him? I love Sentinel Prime. You no can pick on him.
He might be a shellformer, but his engineering is some of the best on a figure that I've seen in quite some time. He goes from boxy vehicle with a curved windshield to a pointy, hard edged humanoid form in robot mode. Pretty impressive how they incorporated the shell into the robot mode and hid everything from sight in vehicle mode. Ugly underneath, sure, but all of the parts go somewhere or do something. Strongarm literally has the windows and roof of her vehicle mode hanging off of her back like a basket full of sadness and fail.
Shuttershock wrote:All great thoughts. I agree that shellforming in and of itself isn't the worst, so long as it's not a hinderance/balance issue in robot mode. AoE Hound seems like the evolution of the Sentinel idea and is very satisfyingly kibble free.
That said, no one in the world can make me NOT love Thunderblast, backpack and all.
What's funny about Grimlock is that he's had so many molds through the years, all trying to get a good blend of robot to t-rex, and all with different results. Some have tiny tails with fat bodies (G1, Animated), some have fat tails with good legs (FOC) and some have head halves for feet (classics).
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Who does?Lockdownhunter wrote:He looks better than his warrior class version
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:Who does?Lockdownhunter wrote:He looks better than his warrior class version
Beast Wars and Beast Machines both had Deluxes with transformation instructions on their packaging.Optimum Supreme wrote:Really don't like the instructions being on the box, way to cheap out dudes (and I realize some older lines had some figs like this as well, but not on this size class).
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.'
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.'
-Kanrabat- wrote:YEah, too many Transformers are in a serious need of a good rim job.
Blast Cannon wrote:This thread is brilliant. Duragrip you are a gloriously weird sexual deviant and I love it.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Japanese retailer Red Mercury has updated with new images of Transformers Robots In Disguise wave 2 of 1-step figures including Grimlock, Steeljaw and Fixit.
1-Step
And a really good looking One Step toy, at that.william-james88 wrote:That was a one step afterall.
Yeah, looks like a cross between a dogsled and a lawnmower. With drills.william-james88 wrote:I am still as clueless as to what that alt mode is
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:Unfortunately, that site doesn't permit hotlinking.
You're image that you took from TFormers doesn't work. TFormers doesn't allow hotlinking, which is taking an image from one site and embedding it onto another.william-james88 wrote:But what does hotlinking mean, what were you trying to do?
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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