I hope that ER Starscream DOES get Skywarp and Thundercracker redecoes as well as the coneheads. With as many SIEGE Starscreams as are clogging shelves and with how hard it is to find SIEGE Skywarp, frankly they should have
led with Skywarp instead of Screamer. It would have been fitting too, since Skywarp was the first get an Earth mode and awaken.
MKyuun wrote:Respectfully, the argument that Earthrise Arcee's shell/parts-formation was necessary to enable waist swivel doesn't convince me, as MMC's Azalea has perfect transformation coalescing her car fenders into her shoulder pods, while maintaining the waist swivel. It's certainly doable.
Azalea doesn't count, because Azalea doesn't retain a G1-accurate car mode. Azalea is also bigger, so delicacy is less of an issue (or is it? Does Azalea have breakage problems?) and there's more room to work with.
MKyuun wrote:I don't share the optimism that her 'hoverboard', as it were, integrates into the transformation. It'd be a slight improvement, but it's certainly going to add considerable bulk to her backpack if it does, or if it at least snaps onto the backpack, given that it doesn't appear to collapse into a smaller form.
I think it will either fold over the rest of the backpack, or between the backpack and her back.
MKyuun wrote:I think Takara just gave up on this design, and went the simplest route by making her a nice looking action figure with basically a hinged hoodie and 2/3 snap-on alt mode. To my eye, little to nothing of that robot mode becomes a car, and you could easily remove the top of her backpack, join it to the lower half, and have a complete stand alone car and robot, as neither mode requires anything of the other.
Oh, I'm not saying she's not a shellformer - she's right up there with Break and Big Convoy. But I can at least see
why they did it that way. Perhaps they did take the easy way out by doing that to gain the pelvis swivel, but it's not an incomprehensible thing. And I think she has enough fun factor and good looks to make up for her shortcomings. I'm not as disappointed in her as I am in the waste that is ER Megatron; the only thing he looks to have over the SIEGE version is
MAYBEbarrel elevation, and he's still just as bland-looking. HasTak should either change him to G2 colors before release or just scrap him altogether.
Gauntlet101010 wrote:A very nice, feminine figured Arcee. No partsforming needed here.
3rd party figures have a few non-partsforming deluxe Arcees. I know we're talking about official figures here, but it CAN be done.
I wouldn't have minded the parts forming if it wasn't so egregious. Or if the hoverboard looked like a hoverboard. There's a 3rd party Arcee called Motobot who's all about partsforming. But her parts assemble into sick guns! She remains one of my favourite figures.
Why do so many people seemingly not know about
this Arcee? No partsforming here either. Well, except for her smaller gun. No prayer of a waist swivel on this Arcee, though.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Microbot wrote:o.supreme wrote:Sentinel_Primal wrote: Making TR Overlord the leader by default I guess....
I hope they remake another new Overlord into this WFC series
I'd be down for a Titan Class Overlord.
I think Overlord would be better as a Commander class.
My thoughts on the newer reveals:
Airwave is cool and looks like a lot of fun.
Smokescreen isn't the most exciting, but it does mean he'll be easier to find.
Megatron needs to take either a bath in green plastic dye, or a flying leap.
I'm going to send a complaint letter before he has a chance to pollute store shelves.
Snapdragon, Runamuck, the Allicon, the Quintesson, and Doubledealer are quite good looking. I'm especially excited for Snapdragon and Doubledealer.