New Images of Rise of the Beasts Deluxe Wheeljack show Removable Glasses
Friday, January 6th, 2023 7:28AM CST
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Posted by -Kanrabat- on January 6th, 2023 @ 8:04am CST
Posted by truegrit on January 6th, 2023 @ 8:34am CST
1) The duck mouth. He doesn't need to have the G1 grill/mask. I get it; they want to use mouths to emote. But that particular design is off-putting to me.
2) I wish they had made the highlight color green instead of tan, as a reference to the G1 Wheeljack. A vintage army-ish green would look great on a camper van.
Posted by cruizerdave on January 6th, 2023 @ 9:10am CST
Posted by First-Aid on January 6th, 2023 @ 9:28am CST
cruizerdave wrote:This is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen. Removable glasses on a robot. Gotta show people he’s the smart robot, we’ll make him a nerd, by giving him glasses. This is such 1980s frat boy thinking it’s ridiculous.
I don't see these as glasses now. The way they are designed, they are more like safety goggles and are similar to the kinds that scientists wear in the laboratory. That kind of adds to that "mad scientist" vibe. I'm curious to see the SS version compared to this one.
Posted by Sabrblade on January 6th, 2023 @ 9:35am CST
Posted by Emerje on January 6th, 2023 @ 9:55am CST
First-Aid wrote:cruizerdave wrote:This is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen. Removable glasses on a robot. Gotta show people he’s the smart robot, we’ll make him a nerd, by giving him glasses. This is such 1980s frat boy thinking it’s ridiculous.
I don't see these as glasses now. The way they are designed, they are more like safety goggles and are similar to the kinds that scientists wear in the laboratory. That kind of adds to that "mad scientist" vibe. I'm curious to see the SS version compared to this one.
We should probably wait until we see how he looks in the movie, I doubt the toy could do proper removable glasses without them being big and chunky on a non-SS figure. That's assuming they were meant to be removed in the first place.
Emerje
Posted by GrangerPerry on January 6th, 2023 @ 10:36am CST
Posted by Quantum Surge on January 6th, 2023 @ 11:15am CST
Posted by cloudballoon on January 6th, 2023 @ 1:33pm CST
GrangerPerry wrote:Hey this is a bit of false advertising, This guy has a giant square peg hole in his forehead, the photo showing him with no hole is photoshopped by half screen mirroring the image making it look like he has a full face under the glasses
I don't think it's photoshopped, more like half of the glasses/goggle got snapped off.
Posted by Ig89ninja on January 6th, 2023 @ 2:00pm CST
Quantum Surge wrote:Wheeljack the type of silly bloke to say "you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses!" to an ultra-triggered Geewunner/BB movie fanboy
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 6th, 2023 @ 4:44pm CST
cloudballoon wrote:GrangerPerry wrote:Hey this is a bit of false advertising, This guy has a giant square peg hole in his forehead, the photo showing him with no hole is photoshopped by half screen mirroring the image making it look like he has a full face under the glasses
I don't think it's photoshopped, more like half of the glasses/goggle got snapped off.
Actually they're right if you look at one of the first pictures with the glasses off you do see a square hole
Posted by Sabrblade on January 6th, 2023 @ 4:56pm CST
Yeah, the pic I quoted to make the DBZ joke is definitely photoshopped.ZeroWolf wrote:cloudballoon wrote:GrangerPerry wrote:Hey this is a bit of false advertising, This guy has a giant square peg hole in his forehead, the photo showing him with no hole is photoshopped by half screen mirroring the image making it look like he has a full face under the glasses
I don't think it's photoshopped, more like half of the glasses/goggle got snapped off.
Actually they're right if you look at one of the first pictures with the glasses off you do see a square hole
Posted by -Kanrabat- on January 6th, 2023 @ 5:05pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Yeah, the pic I quoted to make the DBZ joke is definitely photoshopped.ZeroWolf wrote:cloudballoon wrote:GrangerPerry wrote:Hey this is a bit of false advertising, This guy has a giant square peg hole in his forehead, the photo showing him with no hole is photoshopped by half screen mirroring the image making it look like he has a full face under the glasses
I don't think it's photoshopped, more like half of the glasses/goggle got snapped off.
Actually they're right if you look at one of the first pictures with the glasses off you do see a square hole
Yup.
Posted by 84everfan on January 6th, 2023 @ 5:26pm CST
Posted by Brokebot on January 6th, 2023 @ 5:27pm CST
Posted by TOO MUCH ENERGON! on January 6th, 2023 @ 8:07pm CST
Posted by Cyber Bishop on January 6th, 2023 @ 10:54pm CST
Posted by Bumblevivisector on January 7th, 2023 @ 5:17am CST
And I just finished watching the ep of 'Scooby Doo and Guess Who?' where they met Urkel-bot, so I'll never be able to dissociate him from this version of Wheeljack.Emerje wrote:Removable glasses? Great now we can recreate all our favorite scenes from the movie, like this one:First-Aid wrote:cruizerdave wrote:This is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen. Removable glasses on a robot. Gotta show people he’s the smart robot, we’ll make him a nerd, by giving him glasses. This is such 1980s frat boy thinking it’s ridiculous.
I don't see these as glasses now. The way they are designed, they are more like safety goggles and are similar to the kinds that scientists wear in the laboratory. That kind of adds to that "mad scientist" vibe. I'm curious to see the SS version compared to this one.
We should probably wait until we see how he looks in the movie, I doubt the toy could do proper removable glasses without them being big and chunky on a non-SS figure. That's assuming they were meant to be removed in the first place.
Emerje
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2023 @ 11:51pm CST
Look! I did a thing!
It’s a loose fit, so you’ll want to cram something else in there to get BBM Wheeljack’s head to stay on RotB Wheeljack’s body. You’ll also need to turn the head sideways to transform him.
Posted by First-Aid on January 9th, 2023 @ 12:05am CST
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on January 9th, 2023 @ 12:29am CST
First-Aid wrote:OK, the more I see Battletrap the more I feel like something is just slightly off on him. I can't put a finger on it though....
It's not two vehicles in one?
Posted by cloudballoon on January 9th, 2023 @ 2:05am CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:First-Aid wrote:OK, the more I see Battletrap the more I feel like something is just slightly off on him. I can't put a finger on it though....
It's not two vehicles in one?
Or, with no expectation that a live-action TF movie ever respect a G1 gimmick, that this figure's arms-to-legs body proportion's all worng? Arms too short, legs too long?
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 9th, 2023 @ 2:53am CST
Also, I've spotted a smilely face in battletrap's chest and now I can't unsee it
Posted by First-Aid on January 9th, 2023 @ 2:18pm CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:First-Aid wrote:OK, the more I see Battletrap the more I feel like something is just slightly off on him. I can't put a finger on it though....
It's not two vehicles in one?
No...there's something about the length of the torso in relation to the legs and the legs themselves.
Posted by william-james88 on January 9th, 2023 @ 2:40pm CST
First-Aid wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:First-Aid wrote:OK, the more I see Battletrap the more I feel like something is just slightly off on him. I can't put a finger on it though....
It's not two vehicles in one?
No...there's something about the length of the torso in relation to the legs and the legs themselves.
Is it transformed the same way as in the stock renders shown by Hasbro?
Posted by First-Aid on January 9th, 2023 @ 3:28pm CST
william-james88 wrote:First-Aid wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:First-Aid wrote:OK, the more I see Battletrap the more I feel like something is just slightly off on him. I can't put a finger on it though....
It's not two vehicles in one?
No...there's something about the length of the torso in relation to the legs and the legs themselves.
Is it transformed the same way as in the stock renders shown by Hasbro?
It's his arms! He can't even scratch his own codpiece because his arms are too short. On the average person, the arms come down to about mid thigh. His are at his enemy scrotum. Next to figures with normal length arms like Cheetor, it looks goofy and odd.
Posted by Nemesis Reformatted on January 9th, 2023 @ 5:42pm CST
They completely ruined my favorite combiner team. (Terrorcons)
And they ruined my favorite Insecticon team, the 4 deluxe Insecticons. I gave up on ever getting the full team/set unless I go back & buy the crappy G1 toys.
There is really no need for me to continue collecting this franchise. I will pick up BB movie Skywarp & titan Nemesis and finish up my leader Dinobots but that's about it. I might also try to get the full set of BB movie Autobots but I'm really not motivated anymore. I lost interest with Kingdom & they're not doing a damned thing to get me interested again. Everything just keeps getting worse & worse. Maybe that new video game will be good?
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on January 9th, 2023 @ 6:42pm CST
ZeroWolf wrote:The proportions are a bit wonky, though it may be completely accurate to the cgi model, but we'll have to wait and see on that one (or the original design was like that and the character could have been altered slightly in the one year delay)
Also, I've spotted a smilely face in battletrap's chest and now I can't unsee it
I hate when that happens to me, it really screws up my vision and focus on a toy.
First-Aid wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:First-Aid wrote:OK, the more I see Battletrap the more I feel like something is just slightly off on him. I can't put a finger on it though....
It's not two vehicles in one?
No...there's something about the length of the torso in relation to the legs and the legs themselves.
That'll do it. It's just off enough that you can't NOT see it.
Posted by Brokebot on January 9th, 2023 @ 6:57pm CST
Nemesis Reformatted wrote:They completely ruined my favorite Autobot.
They completely ruined my favorite combiner team. (Terrorcons)
And they ruined my favorite Insecticon team, the 4 deluxe Insecticons. I gave up on ever getting the full team/set unless I go back & buy the crappy G1 toys.
There is really no need for me to continue collecting this franchise. I will pick up BB movie Skywarp & titan Nemesis and finish up my leader Dinobots but that's about it. I might also try to get the full set of BB movie Autobots but I'm really not motivated anymore. I lost interest with Kingdom & they're not doing a damned thing to get me interested again. Everything just keeps getting worse & worse. Maybe that new video game will be good?
I can sympathize. They haven't put out anything in a LONG time that I felt I just HAD to have. I collected all the combiners from Combiner Wars, but after that it's been barely a handful of figures from the lines that followed. The fact the store shelves around here have been practically empty since POTP hasn't helped either. None of the kiddie lines or Baybot mess interest me at all, so I'm having a REALLY hard time staying interested.
Posted by william-james88 on January 9th, 2023 @ 7:34pm CST
Nemesis Reformatted wrote:They completely ruined my favorite Autobot.
They completely ruined my favorite combiner team. (Terrorcons)
And they ruined my favorite Insecticon team, the 4 deluxe Insecticons. I gave up on ever getting the full team/set unless I go back & buy the crappy G1 toys.
There is really no need for me to continue collecting this franchise. I will pick up BB movie Skywarp & titan Nemesis and finish up my leader Dinobots but that's about it. I might also try to get the full set of BB movie Autobots but I'm really not motivated anymore. I lost interest with Kingdom & they're not doing a damned thing to get me interested again. Everything just keeps getting worse & worse. Maybe that new video game will be good?
I wouldn't put much hope in the game.
Posted by william-james88 on January 9th, 2023 @ 7:44pm CST
Posted by Stormshot_Prime on January 9th, 2023 @ 8:12pm CST
Also I think NightBEAT my be a typo haha
Posted by LordBludgeon on January 9th, 2023 @ 8:13pm CST
Posted by Ig89ninja on January 9th, 2023 @ 8:41pm CST
Posted by -Kanrabat- on January 9th, 2023 @ 8:50pm CST
Posted by DeathReviews on January 9th, 2023 @ 9:34pm CST
Posted by Till-all-R1 on January 9th, 2023 @ 11:56pm CST
Posted by Quantum Surge on January 10th, 2023 @ 8:25am CST
Posted by william-james88 on January 10th, 2023 @ 9:18am CST
Quantum Surge wrote:So if it's possible to give the Beewun Wheeljack head to the ROTB body, does this mean it's possible to give the ROTB head to the Beewun body? Hmmmmmm
It's not since the peg hole in the ROTB head is too small
Posted by Cyber Bishop on January 10th, 2023 @ 9:41am CST
Posted by Solrac333 on January 10th, 2023 @ 10:05am CST
Posted by Quantum Surge on January 10th, 2023 @ 10:49am CST
william-james88 wrote:Quantum Surge wrote:So if it's possible to give the Beewun Wheeljack head to the ROTB body, does this mean it's possible to give the ROTB head to the Beewun body? Hmmmmmm
It's not since the peg hole in the ROTB head is too small
Some modifications might help. The end result will be a sight to behold.
Posted by angtre on January 10th, 2023 @ 2:01pm CST
Posted by cloudballoon on January 10th, 2023 @ 4:31pm CST
Wheeljack, I kind of like the toy design, especially the alt mode. But this has Michael Bay's signature stereotype written all over it ("Oh we're doing Wheeljack? Bring in all the clichés to humiliate all nerds!"). I'm afraid I'll HATE the toy after seeing the movie.
Battletrap's alt mode is great. Bot came out oddly blocky looking though, and has the same top-heavy proportion problem as Nightbird in bot mode, but that's a minor complaint. Should be a get.
The Beasts are all pretty good and are the most exciting part of ROTB for me, in the movie OR the figures.
Posted by Sowndwave76 on January 10th, 2023 @ 4:31pm CST
The only one of these that is remotely tempting for me is Airazor.
Even though the bot face is a bit cartoonish imo, the molded detail, colors, overall form, and alt mode are all really solid.
One thing I’ll give this line is the variety.
Not just because some have beast alt modes.
But even between Arcee, Wheeljack, Nightbird, Freezer, & Battletrap; they each look unique.
Imo that’s a really good thing.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on January 11th, 2023 @ 9:47am CST
Posted by Sowndwave76 on January 12th, 2023 @ 8:00pm CST
Posted by Nemesis Reformatted on January 13th, 2023 @ 9:55pm CST
What the hell happened??? I don't even recognize it anymore.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on January 13th, 2023 @ 11:52pm CST
Nemesis Reformatted wrote:I used to LOVE this franchise (excluding Beast Machines & Animated).
What the hell happened??? I don't even recognize it anymore.
All you post recently is sadness and negativity.
You all right, bro?
Posted by Sowndwave76 on January 14th, 2023 @ 2:22pm CST
He has a Lockdown meets TLotR Nazgûl appearance, and I really dig the smaller, asymmetric details, and the dark color scheme.
This definitely has my attention, which is surprising considering the vast majority of times movie figures usually don’t get a second glance.