AcademyofDrX wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:Also, the TR Soundwave minions are way too big to be in scale with Siege and Earthrise figures. Micromasters are the right scale for them. They're the smallest of all the bots in the show.
Not my picture, but this looks right to me. My recollection of the cartoon is that Rumble seemed to get bigger when ejecting. He's slightly shorter than Hound when they fight in MTMTE, but Siege Frenzy is significantly shorter than Siege Hound.
Of course, when the minions attack Preceptor in the movie, they're tiny. It's all relative, they're as big or as small as they need to be. If nothing else, I like the TR designs for R&F better, so I'll keep them. I'm going to unload the other TR minions as fast as possible, though.
Well, they're using the Micromaster Laserbeak and Ravage at least, and they do look about the right size in that picture. Rumble and Frenzy are still too big to me. I can understand preferring these TR figures regardless of scale, though. They do look better proportioned, but oversized. The tape humanoids are usually shorter than the Minibots or the Insecticons, even if sometimes they're not because "LOL AKOM!" (I know it's not AKOM's fault for ALL of the G1 animation errors, but it's fun to pin it all of them.
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As you can see, Rumble here (calm down, RIRFIBers, this is the cartoon) is about the size of a full grown adult fleshling, slightly taller than these adolescents flailing around to flashing lights and cacophonous sounds.
Cyberpath wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Pretty certain at NYCC Hasbro said Cliffjumper was designed as his own unique mold that has no intention of being tooled into Bumblebee.
If anything, I would more believe another Throttlebot will come from him, or Runamuck
Those tube upper arms that they gave Cliffjumper are a Bumblebee feature not CJ's. So I expect to see a similar Bee figure.
Yeah, as I remember, Cliffjumper is actually one of the smaller Minibots. Dang. Let's hope that as a Deluxe, he just compacts nice and small in robot mode. It looks like he might have a sizeable backpack too, so that's where some of the mass can hide, just like in his massive feet. I'm hoping that modular rocket launcher of his is bigger than it seems, or that there is another accessory or two coming with him that Hasbro hasn't revealed quite yet.
As for the Bumblebee biceps on Earthrise Cliffjumper, they might just be incidentally similar to Bumblebee. The designers probably wanted to put in some more "greeble" and vary the geometry a bit, so they stuck it there on the arms. It's not too dissimilar to the patterns on his thighs from the original toy (which are left out in the cartoon model, of course). Or, maybe there were plans for a Bumblebee re/co-tool at some stage of development, but that was nixed and the biceps are a vestige of those canceled plans.
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