Rodimus Prime wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Well, I guess I'll be the turd in the punch bowl and say that I don't like Sentinel. That character deserves a leader class figure. This voyager seems too small and simple. The only things I like are the sharp red and that he has a movie-accurate chest. That's the only thing missing on the DoTM leader figure.
It doesn't look as small and simple as the 2011 Voyager. The problem with making Sentinel a Leader-class in this line is that Optimus is a Voyager in this line, so Sentinel would end up dwarfing him. Sentinel
is taller than Optimus in the film, but not to Grindor levels. Mind you, that does still make him a pass for me, because the ROTF Leader Optimus is still my primary movieverse Optimus... The scale shift has made a lot of Studio Series a pass for me.
If DoTM Megatron was made leader, why couldn't Sentinel? They were both larger than Prime, both height and mass wise.
They were both larger, true, but not to the same level that, say, Grindor from ROTF was. And there are some key differences in design between Megatron and Sentinel. Megatron has a broad, bulky torso and thick legs to spread the mass across (and IMO, I think he still ends up
too much bigger than Studio Series Optimus), while Sentinel Prime does not. Trying to make Sentinel a Leader (esp. at Studio Series' average engineering level) would have resulted in his being not only taller than Optimus but Megatron as well.
Rodimus Prime wrote:And that Rosenbaum Panther is a massive firetruck, bigger than a Peterbilt.
Leaving aside SS being more concerned with robot mode scale... The Rosenbauer Panther 6x6 is 40' long, so it's only 8' longer than the extended-cab Peterbilt 379. And a good chunk of the volume would be hollow because of the water tank. In light of that, the DOTM Leader Sentinel Prime figure actually isn't
too off from the ROTF Leader Optimus acale-wise.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Sentinel should have been equal to Megatron.
Equal, but not bigger than him, which I think would be the result of making him a Leader-class figure in this line.
Rodimus Prime wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:I never started collecting the Constructicons either, because I think that Devastator is a hideous mess.
In fairness, ROTF Devastator is
supposed to be hideous. Paramounts demands for some level of physics realism ruled out a humanoid design, so the designers purposely went for a horrifically ugly animalistic nightmare mashup monstrosity.
I'm not saying he's not accurate. He is for the most part. But why couldn't he be a bipedal? Just because some movie executive said?
Yes, basically. Well, a studio exec and the studio's in-house "experts" (these are the same people who Hasbro practically had to force at gunpoint to accept the alien robots talking in human speech).
Annoying, but such are the perils of showbiz sometimes. Basically, the sticking point is that something as Godzilla-massive as Devastator would collapse under its own weight in a human upright stature (So we're talking the kind of science whiners who would write off Pacific Rim because of how big the Jaegers are). It could have been argued "They're made of alien material durable enough to not collapse" but I'm not sure if that would have flown with those people.
Rodimus Prime wrote:And if that person needed an explanation, I have a simple one: make the 2 biggest members the legs for support and combine the others for the rest of the body.
I don't think that would have satisfied them re: the issue about the effects of the combined mass, sadly. Because it would still have been an enormous concentration of robot mass.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Honestly, for all of RoTF's faults, Devy was my biggest gripe. And it just translated to the toy.
I'm fine with how they did him. It emphasizes the "Oh god, run away!" aspect of Devastator a fair bit.
Rodimus Prime wrote:It would've been funny to see Hasbro put a set of wrecking ballz on him to make him as accurate as possible.
Now that's the Transformer they're
really never gonna make.