chuckdawg1999 wrote:I really, really hope it's a slight remold to remove the forearm bits leftover from the Siege version.
I'd argue that the back is a worse offense than the leftovers.
My thoughts are: "Mkay that's nice and all, but how about giving us Sound
blaster with that mold to go with Legacy Twincast?" Heck, even a clean refresh of SIEGE Soundblaster would excite me more.
Sabrblade wrote:(and, bafflingly, Cyberverse Shadow Striker) that they really G1-ified
It's not so baffling if you look at her as a twofer homage... and as an obvious pretool of Side Burn.
Sabrblade wrote:The Unicron Trilogy designs were always much closer to the blocky G1 aesthetic, so they never needed to be redesigned to the same extent as the Prime/Animated designs.
Bingo. G1, RiD 2001, and the Unicron Trilogy are all extremely close aesthetically, and thus blend perfectly as-is.
First-Aid wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm going by what KaPow explicitly said: Black Zarak was the main offender.
This honestly would not surprise me as BZ is very much a niche character. CYB Metroplex at least was featured in what is a relatively widely distributed cartoon series and likely has a much bigger following.
Mmm... I wouldn't say Black Zarak is niche. At least not to adult collectors. Masterforce is relatively popular, and his original figure has been a widely-talked-about holy grail to collectors in the fandom for decades. And he's a grail tainted by Gold Plastic Syndrome, making a more robust alternative that much more attractive - especially with a size upgrade into the bargain that would make him on par with Grand Maximus (and there so happened to be recent Overlord, God Ginrai, and Grand Max toys to go with; hell, LGEX Grand Max went from "trophy collectors bought then got bored with" to "in demand" because of Black Zarak). I think Kapow may have simply drawn the short straw in BZ's case.
o.supreme wrote:Cybertron Metroplex was a general retail release, so naturally more units were made than for a selects release. That said... Either Cyberton Metroplex is not as popular as some may claim (considering he is still clearance at 50% off nearly 2 years after his release, no other Titan has done that, aside from Trypticon, which was more of a distribution issue than anything else), or there just aren't as many TF Cybertron fans voting with their wallets, or in general.
Part of it is that
Legacy Cybertron Metroplex is something of a mixed bag for
Cybertron fans. The main appeal to him for us is that he's as close to show scale relative to full-size figures as possible for a retail toy, which is pretty cool, but he's also got some disappointments. The biggest one in my book is that Sparkdrinker's head doesn't split like in the show, and while DNA have (surprisingly) given us Drill Bit... they haven't seen fit to fix
that issue yet, nor has anyone else. Another thing is that not everybody has the budget for two Titans in a year (or doesn't want to sacrifice other collecting to get two Titans) and he's had some notable competition: Black Zarak in 2022, and Nemesis in 2023.
#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:Man, Legacy Armada Megatron looks great. The original Armada Megatron was my first Transformer and I remember it very fondly, but this one seems to blow it out of the water in terms of movement. I haven't bought a Transformers figure in many years, but this Megatron and the titan Tidal Wave really have me considering it.
As Sabrblade has pointed out, he's only
actually better movement-wise with an upgrade kit. Out of the box? His front treads don't rotate like on the original. The inner arms have shoulder rotation, but only 90 degrees because of course the treads and the panels get in the way. So with that lack of shoulder rotation, his movement I'd argue is WORSE overall.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:That Armada Megatron brings me nothing but disappointment. I need that upgrade kit though. They really did neuter him bad
They really freaking did.
The lack of full shoulder rotation is completely and totally inexcusable. With the fundamental tradeoff of the figure being giving up gimmicks for articulation... there is absolutely no excuse for frakking up a fundamental basic area of articulation like that - especially when it's one the original version
did have. If not for there being inexpensive fix kits, he'd have gone right the hell back to Target the same day I got him and been my pick worst overall figure of 2023. The kits and the ease of freeing the turret salvage him enough that the shelf-clogging Putzwing restock nobody asked for gets the spot instead.
Which brings me to: then there's the idiotic blocking of the turret from being able to rotate 360 degrees (luckily, it's not
too hard to open up the turret and cut off the offending tumor of plastic), the double launcher not being able to angle forward because the designer was only thinking of Full Blast Mode... And of course, losing those gimmicks is a definite bummer (and even if you wanted to mod them back in... with how they did the pwecious ankwe tiwts, a couple would be rather annoying).
It's a general problem with doing Unicron Trilogy updates - so many of them have more to lose and less to gain.
Sabrblade wrote:Luckily, the kit is a measly 10 bucks.
But if you live in the US you better find some place other than eBay to order it from. I wound up getting a Chinese-made alternative (which I'm still working on getting tightened) because for the past 2? 3? years eBay has for some reason been setting completely unreasonable international shipping charges for US purchases from UK merchant accounts. Where'd you get your SamMakesToys kit from?
Btw, expect a long rambly post from me about Legacy and my collecting it at some point over the weekend. I'll be trying to focus mainly on what I've enjoyed.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:36 pm
