megatronus wrote:Autobot tap out wrote:This may be my opinion, but the only two that look fantastic in my eyes are Vortex and Blast off.
Brawl, Swindle and Onslaught are an eyesore that needs gotten rid of
The molds generally, or the decos?
For me its both. It is probably mold fatigue but for some reason I dont feel anticipation for either Bruticus and I have yet to get any. When it was hinted that Takara would have a shuttle Blastoff I just ignored whatever Hasbro did and waited for Takara and I cant say I am really impressed. I am definitely dissapointed that it doesnt match the artwork teased to us and that Takara opted not to have the arms be the front of the shuttle. I mean its a new mold, they can do whatever they want. Instead the arms are just on the side all visible. Plus I dont think the colour is right at all, it looks weird and I dislike how the front is so extended. I much preffer how this mold looks like as Strafe, especially due to the chest area. So yeah, not a big fan of that Blast Off mold and deco for Blastoff.
As for the others, I am not really excited for the Brawl mold and both Hasbro and Takara's decos look as good/bland. So thats another mold and deco I dont care for.
A third would be Onslought, he just looks so different from what I want in an onslaught figure. I know he didnt look super G1 but taht Universe Onslaught is the bomb. He looks imposing and meaty. Not this one. The Hot Spot torso is my least favourite of the torsos due to how short and stocky it is and how it blocks arm articulation. Thats aside from having Hotspot's inverted feet with ratchets that are too far apart from oneanother to be useful (dont know if he will feel as cheap as the Hasbro hotspot, I didnt handle Hasbro's CW Onslsught either). And I find it really too bad how Takara didnt remove the emergency lightbars from his knees. Now as for the deco, I totally get where its coming from but I am not a fan of it. I actually like the Hasbro colours better.
Love that Votex and Swindle though, Takara knocked those out of the park. Oh and one other thing, though I did and will always ague that Takara is in their right mind for having the feet colour coded... I dont really care for it. Is it wrong? No. But it doesnt feel right either in the grand scheme of this line's theme as toys.
Its just personal preference and I dont feel like this is the best onslaught we could get (unlike, say what I felt about Superion or what I feel about Computron)
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