We have our First Look at how the TF Animated Style will Translate to the Generations Legacy Line

That Junkion bike is awesome. I love these new characters and how much personality is put into them

Here comes all the whining and pitching about Prowl. tHatS nOt hoW hE loOkeD. They're not gonna make the seem string bean mf as in the show, all the characters in the show had those weird spindly proportions. And it looked awesome. But this isn't that. This is meant to have all the characters blend in, and he looks awesome! Bike mode looks cool, robot mode looks cool. Not even super clunky looking. And the headsculpt is cool, they blended the styles nicely. Definitely picking this guy up. All the whiners can stick to the original figures. I'm loving that I can have my favorite characters with a more cohesive look. And this is wayyyy better than knockout and Prime arcee. Knock outs robot mode looks like crap. Prime arcee just doesn't have good engineering. I love my wreckers Bulkhead. Armada starscream looks good but toy itself seems underwhelming. And hot shot almost seems too faithful, the blocky arms and flat head/face look straight out of Armada instead of being stylized. Can't please everyone I guess, but I'm excited for more TF:A figures based on this prowl. Shockwave and blitzwing please. Grimlock. Lockdown. Ratchet. Everyone

I looooove me some 'bike 'bots, and these two look fantastic. The Junkion looks hardcore and a great pair with the others.

Now, for Animated Prowl....
This,

This looks so much better than what I expected. Granted I do agree it's probably the "safest" way to do it, but I appreciate it actually looking like the "G1 aesthetic" while not betraying the Wyatt style. Gives me good hopes for more Legacy Animated figures, and another good motorbike for the collection.

Loving Prowl! I think people were setting their expectations way too high for a line that's all about G1-ifying other universes. Even though he isn't all spindly he's still instantly recognizable as Animated Prowl and in a body that doesn't really suit anyone else since they sculpted in all of the stripes on his arms rather than taking the easy way out and using tampos. I could maybe see this retooled into Armada Sideways, but that's about it. He even has the right weapons (where are people seeing guns?), I think the overall figure is perfect.

Rtron wrote:Arcee was just a premold for Road Rocket, of all things.

Not true, we've seen the design sketches, the RR head was very much an afterthought. If it were the other way around the figure would have started male.




Emerje

Emerje wrote:I could maybe see this retooled into Armada Sideways, but that's about it.

Which head?

Emerje wrote:He even has the right weapons (where are people seeing guns?), I think the overall figure is perfect.

Probably the rods the handlebars are on, behind the head. Prowl only has those wheel-shuriken, but Armada Sideways has those tailpipe missiles. He was still originally intended as a Ninja-like character, but more as comedy relief with the "little angel vs. little devil" schtick.

The Junkion figure looks really good. Animated Prowl also looks surprisingly spectacular.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

Emerje wrote:I could maybe see this retooled into Armada Sideways, but that's about it.

Which head?

Emerje wrote:He even has the right weapons (where are people seeing guns?), I think the overall figure is perfect.

Probably the rods the handlebars are on, behind the head. Prowl only has those wheel-shuriken, but Armada Sideways has those tailpipe missiles. He was still originally intended as a Ninja-like character, but more as comedy relief with the "little angel vs. little devil" schtick.

You know, that would have been neat. And made more use of Crosswise and Rook. The ninja motif also explains why both of his Mini-Con heads ended up looking shady.

Razorbeast88 wrote:That Junkion bike is awesome. I love these new characters and how much personality is put into them

Here comes all the whining and pitching about Prowl. tHatS nOt hoW hE loOkeD. They're not gonna make the seem string bean mf as in the show, all the characters in the show had those weird spindly proportions. And it looked awesome. But this isn't that. This is meant to have all the characters blend in, and he looks awesome!

Here's the thing, though: Forcing characters from substantially different aesthetics to conform to the G1 look instead of being faithful kinda undercuts the homage; "Okay we'll acknowledge this... but we refuse to really honor its signature look". I'll agree that Animated Prowl is waaay better than what we saw with the Prime cast in 2022, but it's still kind of iffy.

So. Legacy Soundwave is my first time having the SIEGE Soundwave mold. It's a neat design, but I'm definitely noting some issues. One is that they didn't properly check clearance between the + end of Soundwave's shoulder cannon, and the engines. It's not as bad as Kingdom Rodimus' trailer rifle storage (where, in my experience, you have to leave the rifle partly unfolded to close the trailer without the tip snagging) but it's definitely noticeable.
More annoying is the leg panels used for the altmode. Their clearance and/or alignment is also off. They refuse to actually fold down and tab in for robot mode, they spring back out just shy of the slots and don't sit flat against the legs. They also force a bit of a droop in altmode.
Is this an issue on anyone else's copy, and was it present on the SIEGE release?

I actually gasped (in a good way) when I saw Prowl - he looks great! Now I'm excited to see which other characters end up in the line. Longarm Prime would be loads of fun...

I'm long overdue for a rewatch of the show.

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:These are gonna look so awesome rotting on the pegs at Walmart & Target with all the other garbage. Month after month seeing the same crap hanging on the pegs never selling. Patiently waiting for the inevitable clearance sales.

My Walmarts keep selling and restocking wave 1, over and over, same with the exclusive Beast line. All this overstock on the top shelf (including stuff further to the left you can't see) from November is gone now.



It's not that these aren't selling and are lingering on the shelves, it's that it's the only wave Walmart ordered (same story with Core class and SS Deluxe class).

Emerje

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:These are gonna look so awesome rotting on the pegs at Walmart & Target with all the other garbage. Month after month seeing the same crap hanging on the pegs never selling. Patiently waiting for the inevitable clearance sales.

As Emeje said, it not that they shelfwam. It's because they keep ordering wave 1 over and over for some reason. So I bet for the toys you hate, they will order that wave only ONE time, get instantly sold out, then never to be seen again.

I'm practically done bothering shopping anything in brick and mortar stores. I now preorder everything that I truly want and pay full price. For the less important stuff, those can wait an online sale.
Despite the fact that so many of the things I paid full price for end up being overstocked and on clearance even online, DOTM Guzzle traumatised me with an incurable case of FOMO.