@Gauntlet101010 Astrotrain's issues are nothing on this tho, and I don't think the locomotive mode suffers that much more than it did on the original. We've seen they can do better with Blitzwing, the idiotic TR Mindwipe-style handling of the jet wings was completely unnecessary to make him GEEWUN-but-with-full-length-feet. All they had to do was copy the TR transformation engineering and throw in ankle rockers. Boom. Done.
Instead we get this mess. In light of this, I think Blitzy should have gotten the Voyager slot and just been a TR reissue, while Armada Starscream got the leader slot (which would work better for size anyway).
Seibertron wrote:Yah I feel like they just don't know what "we" want for some reason, which is a bit frustrating. Amalgamations of things like mixing Transformers Prime style and G1 style is not something I think any of us wanted. Want to do multiverse? Great. There's no reason why you need to change Prime Arcee's face so she all of a sudden has a G1 nose that she's never had before.
Agreed. It's unneeded, as is converting characters to G1 style in general. Especially if they're UT characters who were thus already stylistically close to late-G1 stuff anyway, although at the same time that's less damaging than doing it to a Prime or Animated character.
I would suggest writing in to Hasbro via their website to express that sentiment to them. I know I'll be doing that.
Seibertron wrote:At this point, I'm basically against anything G1 trying to be too slavish to the cartoon models because they're over engineered to the point where it's just a puzzle toy going from one animated robot mode to another animated alternate mode model that may or may not have the parts going in the right places and instead achieve the "look" by having faux pieces and instead having car parts where they should go in robot mode.
Agreed... SS86 Hot Rod looks really nice in both modes, but the transformation witchcraft needed because of the faux-parts chest makes him less fun to transform than the Titans Return version - and makes certain parts have durability problems. I like neo-G1 toys to still
feel like you're transforming the G1 character as best they can.
Seibertron wrote:Masterpiece Sunstreaker might be the only one in recent years that I'm willing to give a pass to, but even then, I really like how Classics Universe Sunstreaker achieved it properly and G1 Sunstreaker is still a pretty solid figure after all of these years even if it's not 100% cartoon accurate. I think I'd rather have the actual windshield and roof of the car become his chest and lower abdomen instead of "faking" it.
I disagree about Classics Sunstreaker achieving it "properly" since while he's got a real windshield chest instead of semi-real like the MP, the rest of him is backwards Sideswipe
I have to say that at least MP Sunstreaker was restrained from getting nearly as stupid as MP Hound by the need to keep Lamborghini happy.
TBH the only thing making the G1 toy cartoon inaccurate is that like every season 1 design his stretches and squashes the proportions into "Human in a robot costume" versions of themselves, and the kibble deletion to simplify drawing.
Regarding the Titan-class price hike being as big as it is... I'm not remotely surprised. There's so much more mass to Titans, and when making a new one more/bigger molds need to be cut to accommodate all the parts - especially with as big as some of said parts are on non-combiner Titans.
Out of the entire line, I'm looking forward to: Skids, Pointblank, Twincast, and Crankcase. That's it. More money for SS86, catch-up, Armada, and Cybertron I guess.
