Inthebagi wrote:Enabler-tron wrote:Get 'im. Just Get 'im. Get 'im!
Oh I'm gettin him. Paid for him last week. And you know me, if an official one comes out I certainly won't be singin the blues. I'll be dancin
You boys and your toys...
youhadtoaski wrote:I getcha. Every single MP has a flaw, no matter how great they are overall. And it actually kind of infuriates me that be is being totally written off because of two friggin panels. Seriously folks, those two panels account for maybe 6% of the figure.
But wait... hold up. He shouldn't be cartoon accurate? Whyzat?
HIP PANELS on a Transformer are as old as the Cybertronian day cycle is long! In this order! Silver face, face plate, head crest , hip panels, tires, windows, and on and on. Blow it out your BOT HOLE!
Why not toy accurate? Nobody want's a redo of that silly toy. Not even me. That toy is fun for weird reasons. That form had it's time and place and it only really works in the Diaclone sense. But you bet your buckskins I'm gonna put that old man in that goofy fan mode!
Why no toon? Because he can't. That crummy drawing was an extrapolation of a thing that wasn't a thing. He was so simplified, and striped of kibble he just looked like a man with a microwave shirt and a cardboard Spartan helmet.
He deserved better than that, and he got it. A sweet Scooby Doo van that turns into a huminoid robot that incorporates his car bits in a classical TF way, and ends up big and tuff! And like all MP figures, he does it in an artistic style based on the G1 toy design aesthetic.
Sassjaki wrote:GET OVER IT AND PLAY WITH COOL TOYS MKAY?
MKAY!
So, too sum up! This looks like a good Ironhide. Fits all my cryteria.
Wait til y'all see the gif I make of him shakin' his rubbery robo-buns.