AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Emerje wrote:Not sure how you can justify this when an old steam engine is considerably smaller than a space shuttle and Octane turns into a tanker truck. And not even a big tanker truck for cross country transport, but the smaller type with the tank attached that might be used delivery.
I don't know how this concept still loses people? Astrotrain is not "an old steam engine". He is an alien shape-shifting robot that
looks like an old steam engine. Only on a superficial, visual level. Hence how the entire Decepticon army is able to board him in both altmodes as transport.
I get that, but he doesn't turn into a giant train. You can't use poor animation and plot devices as evidence.
I mean, these aren't giant space trains and he doesn't role around on giant Earth train tracks.
By your logic of large alt modes = large robots plus what we saw in the cartoon...
...Huffer is bigger than Optimus! Or maybe Hoist is smaller than Huffer? It doesn't matter what shenanigans they pulled in the cartoon, the alt modes are still Earth sized.
ZeroWolf wrote:blackeyedprime wrote:Might hold off on crosshairs until the other autobot target masters are confirmed/photos with their absence in wave 1 of Earthrise
Though theoretically if selects is continuing to use siege molds with the TCG mercs being possible figures I'm not sure what would fit pointblank and it might be a bad fit like jetdasher/cromar alt but for pointblanks robot mode. Seems weird that he's retail and not selects too but no complaints on that.
Just conjecture on my part but it's possible that Crosshairs was supposed to be a selects release but when Siege was extended for a wave, he got upgraded to main line release, the same way that Astrotrain was taken from Earthrise (which I'm thinking by them offering him again in wave 1)
I agree with this. As JelZe pointed out Astrotrain's lot number is also in line with Earthrise, not Siege. Not sure how the rest fall into that, though, since they're all new molds, but not very fitting for Earthrise.
Emerje