by MemphisR56 » Sat Feb 13, 2016 8:26 pm
- Motto: "An inconvenience is just an adventure wrongly viewed!"
- Weapon: Crossbow
The only figures I can honestly see myself passing on here are soundwave and blaster. Maybe sentinel, he doesn't really fit into any of the categories for my shelves, I can't really justify picking him up.
- Chromedome: looks great, altmode is perfect
- Hardhead: Best looking deluxe I've seen in a while
- Skullcrucher: Brilliant, in my opinion, better lookimg than any of the 3P options
- Mindwipe: Pretty much perfect, the ankles maybe would need some work, but figuring out how he transforms, it's so fresh and brilliant that I can forgive the gappy-hollowness.
- Blurr: Perfect altmode, much more G1 looking bot mode than the generations one, I'll definitely grab it as I don't yet own a blurr.
- Scourge: Solid rendering of the G1 altmode, feels like he could do with more paint to break up that sea of blue, but thats generally accurate to the character. I can also get him because he's visually distinctive enough from my 2 sweeps to stand out
- Galvatron: a little janky in places, but he's the right scale and looks way more on model than the previous figure.
- Everything legends looks great, with the exception of Stripes, who looks god awful in any mode that isn't a perfect cuboid, nor was he really G1.
- FORT MAX: What can I say? I feel bad for my wife because she's had to listen to me gushing about it all night. A solid improvement over metro. There's just so much more content bolted onto the mold. So much more paint. He really fills out the shoes much better than metro did. He looks seriously majestic. Such a handsome head sculpt too. If I had any criticisms, it'd be that they re-used those same hands that don't really fold away anywhere, and that cerebros looks a tad compromised in terms of posability and proportion to accomodate the electronics. I can imagine him being more expensive than metro; but I feel that's justified for all the extras here.
I just hope that they don't neuter the voicebox for the european release like metroplex.
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