Is there a good comparison pic of Kingdom and G1 Eject? I had heard he's better-sized than the SIEGE Frenzy and Rumble jokes but I'm not so sure of that after seeing a pic of him next to one of them. The WFC tapedeck bots are... frustrating. I had had some hope for Blaster after what I heard about Eject, but now I don't know.
Autobot_Benz wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:Autobot N wrote:
Edit: That being said, he's still pushing floppy-assed T30 Rhinox to the ebay pile.
I agree it felt good putting that floppy piece of crap in the closet and replacing him with a toy with actual heft and stiff leg joints
*shrug* Heft is only worth so much IMO, and loose joints can always be tightened. But I suppose people dumping theirs will lower the price on the T30 for me when I go hunting for it, so I can't complain too loudly.
I can however complain that Kingdom Mirage was stupid as hell and should have only changed the outer calf pieces. Or even just been the SIEGE mold but with the clear plastic opaqued. But no, Hasbro dropped way more new parts money than they needed to to make the altmode more earthly... with the result being an overall worse-designed figure with a worse deco. I pity everyone who just wanted the BW Grimlock update.
I'll agree that SIEGE Mirage's use of transparent plastic for the outer calves is something of a problem, since I've had to make a few repairs... but hooooo boy are the design tradeoffs on the Kingdom version not worth replacing him with that one.