Agamemnon wrote:xyl360 wrote:RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I'd like an original Pathfinder. Not anything using a Cosmos recolor, either.
Yeah, I have the original Pathfinder. He's still one of my favorite Gobots.
I had to look him up... Ah, yes, Cylon Raider...er, I mean Pathfinder was pretty cool. I never had him. I was mostly stuck with the lil guys, even if a bigger mold was available, like Spay-C. I think that was even one of those snap together model kits. Ah, the good 'ol days...
Yep, Pathfinder was a tiny fellow. I had both him and Cosmos as a kid. I always found Pathfinder's sleeker design and darker, more metallic tones to be much cooler than Cosmos. His bot mode was way better too. Go figure, at least one case where the Gobots actually outdid TFs. If I'm honest there were many such cases though. I mean compare the Super Gobots Cy-Kill to G1 Megatron. Megs looks odd and lanky while Cy-Kill pulls off both his bot and alt modes quite successfully, even with that massive 2-wheel backpack of his (which made for a very nifty transformation for its time, too).
I really do miss the Gobots and I hope that they start bringing them back in Classics style. I'll definitely buy this, I just hope it's not a one-off kinda deal and that this is just a taste of things to come, including new molds made just for the Gobots. It's just as I said about Planet X: everyone is doing Classics/Generations TFs based on G1 characters these days. The market is getting too saturated. So the smaller companies that want to survive need to find their own niche. For Planet X it's WfC/FoC. Who knows, maybe for X-Transbots it can be the Gobots. They did already do the Bad Boy repaint of their not-Powerglide (though an all new mold would have been better of course). The extensive retooling of Wheelie into Turbo here really works and I like where they're going with it.