Kurona wrote:What's wrong with the Tracks mold? Admittedly Road Rage is my only MP so maybe she's a massive drop in quality in comparison to the others or something; but in a vacuum I've had no problems with her. She's great.
Well if you want to know what I find wrong with her, I will not refuse to answer
This is the one toy I am probably most dissapointed with, when comparing to how much money I spent. Granted, I didnt spend too much, but I still spent enough to have hoped for more.
Simply, I dont like the sacrifices and shortcuts made for show accuracy. The legs are a good example. Sicne Takara felt the legs didnt have the right robot mode detail, they just added an extra panel to go over them. And that really feels off for me. Its just an extra panel, not linked to any car part, just laid over and not in a uniform way. I would have much preferred that detail to already be on the leg or to be the flip side of a leg panel, like they did with Ironhide. But here, its just an extra piece and it just doesnt feel like that is at all how any transformer would transform in the fiction, you know? It just doesnt mak the toy feel like that part is made up of the car or its innards and the panel ends up feeling extraneous when transforming. Its like its trying to fool us that there is more going on with the leg transformation which is actually very basic for an MP (compared to Bumblebee for instance).
So thats a good summary of how I feel the entire figure is handled.
As far as engineering, I despise the technique of having the back attach to the front through some tabs. That practically never works. It was a disaster with RID Sideswipe and it really isnt that much better here. It works super well with Hot Rodimus ecause they have the smart idea of having the back grip through the sides of the shoulders, which is a less obvious place to handle when posing. But with Tracks/roadrage, the back and front keep unclipping.
And abot the back, oh boy is that gap dreadful. I was not prepared. I was told there was a gap and i saw it in videos, but that wasnt enough to show me how much space there is between the two. The bot ends up looking like he is scatered metal just floating around. Because sadly, no matter wha the interpretation of that back is, the figure looks off. If you say its just a backpack, fine, but then the whole profile is out of wack with the torso being far more front than the legs. If its actually an extension of his torso, then fine, but that means he is mostly made up of air in between.
And I really hate how the wings dont have the proper amount of articulation for you to pose them correctly in robot mode. Their movement becomes really restricted.
And then you get the cherry on top with the Roadrage mold where the head doesnt lock (it does on Tracks).
So there you go, all the reasons I really do not like this toy.
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. Loved it so much I have both Hb and Takara versions of him.
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