Nemesis Primal wrote:Do you guys like the Springer mold enough that you would like to see it reused? I'd still like to see a Guidi-inspired Deadlock repaint/retool like the Barricade we're getting, but I've heard mutterings on other sites that the transformation is annoying/overly-involved.
I font have the toy, but a thousand times yes. Full disclosure, I probably would probably play him seperate from Drift, but if I can make the headcanpn fit I am all for more "Different/New" Decepticons, especially Triple Changers.
Counterpunch wrote:SkyFire Prime wrote:I'm going to be honest, I really like the Battle Damage, I think it looks especially good on Prime and Springer and I'll give you that on some figures, see Starscream it looks overdone.
Either way, your characterization of it is offensive and snobbish.
Also, how ludicrous to go through all the trouble to remove the Battle Damage on Prime when the 35th Anniversary version was leaked and is obviously going to be Battle Damage free.
Further, why the hell not have scrapes and scratches on undying robot warriors that war for thousands of years.
- a critic
Snobbish? Really?
Why isn't it on every exposed edge of the alt mode?
Are we actually assuming that these beings, who are made of metal...paint themselves? That the colors of their body are only a thin layer deep? Maybe. I'm not saying that's entirely absurd. Like, the coloration could be their clothing for example.
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I think this type of play pattern would have been better served with translucent sticker sheets allowing you to choose the why in which the damage was applied.
I actually think we have pretty well established your first point. On Prime Smokescreen "scanned some new War Paint". In IDW I remember some bots getting new paint jobs, heck we even saw Ratchet painting Pharma's hands. So at a minimum there is the option that if a Cybertronian doeant like their own colors they can scan it or paint it, and on a larger basis the argument that replacemebt parts and prosthetics are "Dead Metal" that have to be painted.
I have to laugh at your second point, Hasbro gives us Stickers and we revolt. They give us Battle Damage and we want them as Stickers. They cannot win for Losing.
Ironhidensh wrote:Good cast, as always! Thanks for tackling my question. I guess I'm feeling the splitting of the fandom in a different way.
See, most people love the current siege line, but I have a very hard time seeing it as anything more than kids toys, and as such, feel a bit out of place these days. Now, granted, that is totally my own fault.
The "battle damage" of
See, I have to disagree with you there. I dobt know many collectors in person, but they said it on the Podcast themselves that the Collector's line is finally the "main line" after years of Classics/Generations plYing second fiddle to the cartoons and Movies, and I dont kbow of anyone who disagrees with that. Yes, Siege IS selling to kids, and in its ways has to play by those kinds of rules, but the designs, the gimmicks, all that is being chosen to play to both sides of the fence. And I would argue that its been that way for a while, because we got the Combiners in Combiner Wars, because those are G1 characters and a relevant gimmick kids would play with, and in Titans Return we got Triggerhappy instead of anothwr random Starscream. All the "Kids" see there is a kick-ass futuristic jet, but the Collectors see a character that they have not gottwn since 1986.