MR Optimus Prime wrote:Why would I have to SHOW you that when we are posting our opinions that are much more fitting than the mold they choose? There is no physical law in the universe stopping them from using a dump truck, they choose not to.
Ya already showed one option (an unusable one, though), so there's the precedent for my asking to show another.
If you don't want to SHOW one (not that posting a pic is even that difficult), then just TELL of one in text form. What dump truck mold could they have used that came out in previous years, after G2, is a Deluxe or bigger, is not a Paramount-owned movie mold, isn't green, and has a headsculpt that could pass for G2 Dirtbag's head?
Dagon wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Redecoing a primarily green dump truck into a primarily green dump truck is not a very inspiring selling point.
Neither is repainting a weak figure into a character who bears no resemblance to the toy being repainted that's supposed to reference a toy that never was. Oilmaster is a fairly inventive figure, and a much better use of the long-lost concept figure idea than this weak repaint. TFCC has gotten real lame with some of these exclusives in recent years, but this Roadbuster repaint is all kinds of lame.
Just my opinion, as this seems like it's one of those threads where disagreement earns you a bevy of TFwiki info that's somehow supposed to change your opinion. I'm not a hater of the TFCC, but I also don't feel the need to vehemently defend everything they do as being great when something like this figure is a clear sign of reaching for a reference that doesn't really work. Energon Demolisher would have been a much better choice if this was what they were going for.
Please look back at all my posts on this matter and tell me if I ever said that this was a good mold choice for this figure? Because I don't recall having done so, instead having only explained why they didn't go with other options suggested on here.
While Energon Demolishor possibly could have worked better, is there really an incentive appeal in owning a premium version of that figure in colors that are more or less within the same spectrum as the original toy's deco? With Energon Demolishor already being predominately green as he is, what's to stop someone from ignoring an official General Optimus Prime toy from that mold and instead just taking and repurposing the original toy as a permanent stand-in? Though not army camo, its colors are "close enough" that it could serve as a General Optimus Prime repurpose as it is. The deco seen on this Roadbuster mold, however, is dramatically different from the original mold's "primarily orange and brown with some green" deco, enough that it's more likely to appeal to those who wouldn't mind owning a version of the Roadbuster mold in a deco so different from the original.
There's also the matter of mold availability to consider. Aside from Scorponok last year, the Club hasn't used any Unicron Trilogy molds since 2011 (SG Galvatron from Cybertron Evac), so it's very possible that they no longer have easy access to those molds, demoting them to now being very special cases like last year's Scorponok. But since Scorponok proved to be well worth the effort they likely went to to get that mold last year, I frankly just can't see General Optimus Prime from Demolishor (or from any mold, really) having the same kind of universal fan appeal as to warrant the Club pursuing the Energon Demolishor mold. So instead of spending more money than they'd likely make, they seem to have gone with what was readily available for them to use and chose from that selection, as it's most likely that the majority of their budget for this year went into making Oilmaster's shell.
But as far as MY own personal views on whether or not the Energon Demolishor would have been a better choice, all I'll say is that, while I can sympathize with preferring a dump truck mold, I do think that the Roadbuster mold's headsculpt bears a bit of a closer resemblance to Dirtbag's head than Demolishor's head does. And that's all I'll say on that matter since I in all honesty don't care that much about General Optimus Prime to be bothered that much by his being a dump truck or an armored off road vehicle or anything that isn't too outlandish or too far from the source material. It isn't that I favor this mold over Demolishor, I just don't care enough about the original unreleased figure to get that upset about this updated version.
MR Optimus Prime wrote:True, I only picked the movie Long Haul because of the arm rockets like the original Dirt Bag and wheel placement in robot mode.
That's understandable. But it's simply just not a mold that the Club is permitted to use.
