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Swindle, Dreadwing, etc etc... all these toys are being designed as some kind of cyclops. Why is this? Why cant the just make regular transformers faces? I know the original Swindle did not have just one-eye.

Homage to characters like Shockwave maybe?

DvDqNoC wrote:Swindle, Dreadwing, etc etc... all these toys are being designed as some kind of cyclops. Why is this? Why cant the just make regular transformers faces? I know the original Swindle did not have just one-eye.

i guess theyre supposed to be "drones".... giving them faces would mean they that they are actually somebody and not just a dispensable foot soldier for the decepticons.

Those mono-eyed toys from the movie line are drones in the video game, your basic cannon-fodder. Unlike the other characters, these don't have personalities and minds of their own so there are lots and lots of them.

Nujevad wrote:Those mono-eyed toys from the movie line are drones in the video game, your basic cannon-fodder. Unlike the other characters, these don't have personalities and minds of their own so there are lots and lots of them.

exactly, i guess the best way to put is that these are like the storm troopers of the decpticons. but i do agree that the one eyed design is kinda wack and that hasbro couldve done a better job in portraying a "drone"

I like the Reflector look-a-like drones from G1. Folded up into cubes for transport. Now if they made those, I'd have to buy a whole bunch.

Ok, Hasbro, I changed my mind. Please don't make these. Having to hunt down a couple of dozen sharkticons was hard enough.

if you build drones, why give them faces?

Why not? They look more like the other 'cons that way and wopuld be more pleasing to the TF's sense of aethetics. Similar to how we stick human mugs on robots we build....aka Transformers.

Here's how I deal with them:

I make wreckage the decepticon leader because he looks mean and a bit megatronish. Flank him with swindle and payload (when he gets released around here) because he trusts his drones a lot more than scheming underlings like starscream.

Forget dreadwing completely. He's crap.

Bonger wrote:Why not? They look more like the other 'cons that way and wopuld be more pleasing to the TF's sense of aethetics. Similar to how we stick human mugs on robots we build....aka Transformers.

Maybe the reason the Tfs would not give them faces is because it a lot easier to distance yourself mentally from something that looks really alien then if it looks a lot like you. Especially if you are only going to use it as cannon fodder.

They are mechs.

They are from the game, and the movie prequel comic, they are near brainless drones, much like all the drones in the Armada game.

They dont need to emote, their purpose is to fight and die. Thus 1 vision optic is more than enough to help them complete their purpose.

Also makes designing the toys easier, as all they have to do is find a place for a short, thin cylinder, instead of an odd shaped spheroid/cube.

Yeah, Shockwave's started a trend of one-eyed monsters.

Damolisher wrote:Yeah, Shockwave's started a trend of one-eyed monsters.

Why can I not stop snickering?

EDIT: That said, is it just the fact that there's more of them than usual that prompted this? Transformers with one eye aren;t exactly new. Think the number of Shockwave homages, or helll, Transmetal 2 Iguanus. And even setting those aside, Transformers don't always have two eyes... Some have a visor, the Mini-Con Astroscope has three eyes, and movie Frenzy has four, just to name a few.

The designers have an infatuation with the penis.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Damolisher wrote:Yeah, Shockwave's started a trend of one-eyed monsters.

Why can I not stop snickering?

Coulda been worse. I coulda said that Shockwave, along with Shockblast, were the biggest pair of purple one-eyed monsters I've ever seen.

i_amtrunks wrote:They are from the game, and the movie prequel comic, they are near brainless drones, much like all the drones in the Armada game.

That being said, the drones did show feelings in the prequel comic. They were afraid of Megatron and relieved when it seemed like Megatron wasn't going to kill them.

Simply hate Movie Dreadwing's bot mode. No reason for him not to have a face in my mind.

Lapse Of Reason wrote:

i_amtrunks wrote:They are from the game, and the movie prequel comic, they are near brainless drones, much like all the drones in the Armada game.

That being said, the drones did show feelings in the prequel comic. They were afraid of Megatron and relieved when it seemed like Megatron wasn't going to kill them.

This is very true.
Still, they didnt "emote" their fear, only voiced it!