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Lore Keeper wrote:Have you ever felt insulted by a toy reveal? I didn't think it was possible, but that's how Smokescreen and Megatron are making me feel right now. The other reveals are, of course, awesome.
Sabrblade wrote:
I don't find them insulting, Hasbro wants to make money and they'll sell plenty of these.Lore Keeper wrote:Have you ever felt insulted by a toy reveal? I didn't think it was possible, but that's how Smokescreen and Megatron are making me feel right now. The other reveals are, of course, awesome.
ScottyP wrote:[ One day my prince will come and not be a legion class toy.
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.
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: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.
I think it will either fold over the rest of the backpack, or between the backpack and her back.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.
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.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.
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.
I think Overlord would be better as a Commander class.-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.
william-james88 wrote:Lore Keeper wrote:Have you ever felt insulted by a toy reveal? I didn't think it was possible, but that's how Smokescreen and Megatron are making me feel right now. The other reveals are, of course, awesome.
I will be honest, that megs feels a bit like a slap in the face. He was the least interesting design from the voyagers in Earthrise (but still a solid figure) so seeing that they used that same design for an "earth mode" feels lame. All to say... easy pass.
Smokescreen does give fans an earth alt mode and finally proves that what came out the previous year is in no way a factor into what can come out the year after. I had predicted that this was exactly what we would get with smokescreen. Wait till next year where we get another datsun mold and Bluestreak is the one available at retail.
You know, a few years ago I'd said there'd be a snowball's chance in hell of that happening, but they are starting to scrap the bottom of that G1 barrel. A safer bet would be a Soundwave redeco, considering they are re-releasing the rest of the Siege cast.Burn wrote:Come on Doubledealer - Stalker repaint ...
(Though original mold is preference)
carytheone wrote:You know, a few years ago I'd said there'd be a snowball's chance in hell of that happening, but they are starting to scrap the bottom of that G1 barrel. A safer bet would be a Soundwave redeco, considering they are re-releasing the rest of the Siege cast.Burn wrote:Come on Doubledealer - Stalker repaint ...
(Though original mold is preference)
Rtron wrote:I think the problem with Megatron and the Datsuns is not that they're getting released with g1-ish earthmodes in Earthrise, but rather, that their altmodes in Siege were too earh-like. They should have had more creative, less man-made looking altmodes in Siege.
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.
I think he was saying that Stalker (a European Late G1 character) was bottom of the barrel.Burn wrote:carytheone wrote:You know, a few years ago I'd said there'd be a snowball's chance in hell of that happening, but they are starting to scrap the bottom of that G1 barrel. A safer bet would be a Soundwave redeco, considering they are re-releasing the rest of the Siege cast.Burn wrote:Come on Doubledealer - Stalker repaint ...
(Though original mold is preference)
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL? SOUNDWAVE?
You sir, are not very nice.
Well that goes without saying, but I did say there is a chance and that's better than no chance at all. Gotta think positiveBurn wrote:BOTTOM OF THE BARREL? SOUNDWAVE?carytheone wrote:You know, a few years ago I'd said there'd be a snowball's chance in hell of that happening, but they are starting to scrap the bottom of that G1 barrel. A safer bet would be a Soundwave redeco, considering they are re-releasing the rest of the Siege cast.Burn wrote:Come on Doubledealer - Stalker repaint ...
(Though original mold is preference)
You sir, are not very nice.
Cobotron wrote:Rtron wrote:I think the problem with Megatron and the Datsuns is not that they're getting released with g1-ish earthmodes in Earthrise, but rather, that their altmodes in Siege were too earh-like. They should have had more creative, less man-made looking altmodes in Siege.
This is pretty much how I'm feeling about it at the moment.
Rtron wrote:I think the problem with Megatron and the Datsuns is not that they're getting released with g1-ish earthmodes in Earthrise, but rather, that their altmodes in Siege were too earh-like. They should have had more creative, less man-made looking altmodes in Siege. Baut they didn't, so now these new figures feel boring, when they're actually pretty cool looking and in line with the whole budget-masterpiece thing Earthrise seems to be shooting for. Rather, it was actually the Siege figures that were boring, taking into account the whole "cybertronian altmodes" concept it was supposed to represent.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I think he was saying that Stalker (a European Late G1 character) was bottom of the barrel.
carytheone wrote:Well that goes without saying, but I did say there is a chance and that's better than no chance at all. Gotta think positive, besides I don't need anymore obscure Soundwaves. that's a lie, I need them all
Then why did you act like he was applying the "Bottom of the barrel" part to Soundwave? Just being facetious?Burn wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I think he was saying that Stalker (a European Late G1 character) was bottom of the barrel.
I know what he was saying, and I definitely don't need a history lesson on G1.5 figures.
I'm pretty sure he will instead share a mold with Wheeljack (assuming it's not an academic distinction).Tuned Agent wrote:Cobotron wrote:Rtron wrote:I think the problem with Megatron and the Datsuns is not that they're getting released with g1-ish earthmodes in Earthrise, but rather, that their altmodes in Siege were too earh-like. They should have had more creative, less man-made looking altmodes in Siege.
This is pretty much how I'm feeling about it at the moment.
All of this, 100%.
Calling it right now: Sunstreaker will share a mold with the battlechargers.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote: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.![]()
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