New Gallery: SDCC 2015 Combiner Wars Devastator

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:If Devastator's chest piece and some of the other Constructicon parts are a different hue of purple, why not replace the rest of the old purple to the attention drawing purple? It would make more sense.

Gearslide wrote:

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:If Devastator's chest piece and some of the other Constructicon parts are a different hue of purple, why not replace the rest of the old purple to the attention drawing purple? It would make more sense.

Chrome paint is expensive yo. Maybe they blew most of the budget on giving Devs stereoscopic vision. Maybe they got halfway through chroming up the purple bits and ran out of budget.

In all honesty I don't understand the Chrome paint on this. If all the Purple was chrome, it might look great. But the mixed types of paint is kind of distracting.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Gearslide wrote:

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:If Devastator's chest piece and some of the other Constructicon parts are a different hue of purple, why not replace the rest of the old purple to the attention drawing purple? It would make more sense.

Chrome paint is expensive yo. Maybe they blew most of the budget on giving Devs stereoscopic vision. Maybe they got halfway through chroming up the purple bits and ran out of budget.

In all honesty I don't understand the Chrome paint on this. If all the Purple was chrome, it might look great. But the mixed types of paint is kind of distracting.

Purple is a really hard color to get right, especially in photography. A single shift to either red or blue can change the appearance on the image dramatically, while in person it looks totally different.

El Duque wrote:This has probably already been discussed (I'm too lazy to read the previous 14 pages of comments). So this set was designed by Shogo, who's been hitting home runs in the MP line. Seems to me the Takara version is how this set was originally designed, with the elbows and whatnot, and the Hasbro version is the remold. I can't imagine Shogo not have individual bot modes with no elbows in his original design. I assume Hasbro cut them as a cost saving measure?

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:This has probably already been discussed (I'm too lazy to read the previous 14 pages of comments). So this set was designed by Shogo, who's been hitting home runs in the MP line. Seems to me the Takara version is how this set was originally designed, with the elbows and whatnot, and the Hasbro version is the remold. I can't imagine Shogo not have individual bot modes with no elbows in his original design. I assume Hasbro cut them as a cost saving measure?

The extra engineering on the Takara version was done afterward by Takara. Hasbro's was engineered first.

It Is Him wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:This has probably already been discussed (I'm too lazy to read the previous 14 pages of comments). So this set was designed by Shogo, who's been hitting home runs in the MP line. Seems to me the Takara version is how this set was originally designed, with the elbows and whatnot, and the Hasbro version is the remold. I can't imagine Shogo not have individual bot modes with no elbows in his original design. I assume Hasbro cut them as a cost saving measure?

The extra engineering on the Takara version was done afterward by Takara. Hasbro's was engineered first.

Source?

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm curious if anyone really likes the metallic purple on this figure. It seems out of place and I find it distracting... and kind of ugly.