ZeroWolf wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:
Was this supposed to be a joke or something? It's bad comedy!
Seriously, I don't understand why Ton Ton is so mad about this figure. He liked the mold as Ironhide just fine. I'm beginning to think this guy doesn't really care for G1. Watch the Warpath review again. He doesn't seem to get the "dumb design choices" made in that figure either, despite the fact that it's supposed to be a G1 throwback, like most other toys in the War for Cybertron Trilogy.
If you want Ironhide and Rathchet to be different molds, there are PLENTY of other Transformers lines that have done just that. G1 is really about the only time that Ironhide and Ratchet were mold-mates. It's NO surprise whatsoever that in a G1-inspired line, that is striving to give us the most faithful modern updates of these characters as seen in the original cartoon, that they stuck with making Ratchet a white recolor of Ironhide with a new head and an added light bar on top. Also, of course the figure is mostly white. That's how G1 Ratchet looks. Of course he doesn't have the Red Cross symbols on his shoulders. He can't anymore. They're a protected trademark that the Red Cross actively defends. They could have spared some red paint for the pelvis and hands, but that's all I would change, along with maybe Autobot logos on the shoulders to replace the Red Cross symbols. Is he really that upset that the gun barrels hidden in the shield are white with gray muzzles instead of all gray? Is he for real!?
To be fair, they also shared a mold in Animated (their Cybertronian mode) and obviously classics. Now that I think about it, was there ever an ironhide released in Prime/Robots in Disguise? I don't even think there's an ironhide in Cyberverse (at least not in toy form)
You really want different molds look at how the live action movies handled the pair.
Disclaimer: I've never been bothered that they shared molds. I always took it that they had both started the same way but choose different career paths. I also still want to see the universe where Ratchets gender was kept female like his name sake
There was in Commander Class if I recall... with... Kup (?) I don't recall if they upsized it to Deluxe