No, I did not watch the recording of the stream, because I find stuff like that a slog to sit through. So I was relying on the news article.Sabrblade wrote:Sounds like you didn't pay attention to this morning's livestream.ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, I personally find it a very fun feature. Both as a battle sled and as a medical slab/workstation for Ratchet. In modern toy context, it would go great with Titan Masters and Prime Masters.Rodimus Prime wrote:Why? I always hated that about the G1 toy. It was useless.ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:It's because he's a re-shell of SIEGE Ironhide. Given that mold's core transformation scheme, a roof shield was the easiest way to give it a Onebox roof.DMSL wrote:Lazy Ironhide transformation the roof becomes a shield, hope it is not like Cliffjumper.
But I wish they'd given us an Ironhide with the proper battle platform..![]()
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And Ratchet and Ironhide are inaccurate without it. Their robot mode character models are based directly on the robot separated from the platform that forms most of the van volume.
In Ironhide's case, an Earth mode by itself is not enough to get me to bite. I needed that extra play value and bit of design accuracy... Combine that with Prowl not having a different chest from Smokescreen (as far as I could tell) and that pack is a hard pass.
*Checks the new news article with (out-of-order) official images*
Okay, so Prowl does have different chest (but it still has "modern car" lights, bleh. Wonder if those can be popped out to convert things...). That was hard to tell from the low-res leak photo, and the original news article for the reveals just linked to the leak about the two-packs instead of bothering to have screencaps of Ramjet, Dirge, Prowl, and Ironhide.