AutobotAlvaron wrote:I like him, but I wish I could love him. Something is OFF about this Sunstreaker. He's not as G1 as I'd hope, he's not as G1 as Siege Sideswipe was, & that was not strictly G1 either.
Well of course not. Auto makers more strictly enforce licensing the likeness of their cars these days. Or are you talking about the cartoon-based arms? Other than that Sideswipe's G1 to the point of having molded detail based on the original toy's stickers.
Sunstreaker's shoulder transformation is a tad less G1, but on the other hand it lends itself better to having shoulder rotation.
As far as vehicle modes go they're equally G1, just trading off which Countach bits they alter and how.
AutobotAlvaron wrote:There aren't enough call-backs to the G1 toy in bot-mode detail & color-wise,
Oh yeah? He's got leg detail based on both the G1 toy's actual leg detail and the undercarriage piece, he's got lights and hood lines on top of his feet, he's got ribbed oblongs for forearms (only missing the dome details) he's got the squarish boosters on the shoulders. he's got the black detail on the chest from the Lamborghini roof... Oh, and of course, let's not forget that he has feet made from the nose of the car and arms made from the aft as per the G1 design. Which is more than the Universe toy can say.
And he's not Breakdown's body doing Sunstreaker cosplay.
AutobotAlvaron wrote:there's no red shoulders,
That's true, but 1. the red shoulders only existed in the first place because of Hasbro being too cheap and lazy to change the stickers when they changed the toy from red to yellow and 2.
The red shoulders would look even worse in car mode on this guy than they do on the original. Seriously, think about it.
They're bad enough on the original toy. On the Earthrise toy they'd be bigger and also more visible, because they'd be on the top of the car.
AutobotAlvaron wrote:his weaponry is inadequate,
As is that of most Deluxe-class characters, because of plastic austerity. That SIEGE Mirage came with his complete weapon set is something of a miracle, and a show of plastic savings elsewhere in the design.
AutobotAlvaron wrote:and...oh there it is! His car-mode has NO CHROME SPOILER, THAT'S IT!!
1. You were delusional if you expected chrome; at most it would have been silver-painted. Chrome is a luxury we haven't gotten on regular releases in a long time, especially in the US. And honestly, the stuff HasTak use to metallize toy parts is highly vulnerable to human skin oil anyway and they've
never sprung for protective finish...
2. Plastic austerity again. There's also the issue of where to put it in robot mode, but I'm certain that plastic austerity played a greater role (After all, if nothing else they could have made the supercharger piece bigger and made the spoiler part of it)
I agree that he'd look better with a spoiler, but I understand why it wasn't in the cards. Especially not a chrome one.