First Look at Transformers Legacy Minerva

The robot mode looks okay. the alt mode still looks kinda dinky.

RiddlerJ wrote:The robot mode looks okay. the alt mode still looks kinda dinky.

yeah, it aint great. Turns out this looks like it was meant more for Elita 1 afterall.

I actually like her more than elita. Shame about the lack of a headmaster but did anyone actually expect one? It would have also ment a retool of her alt mode to accommodate a rider. Not the worst redeco/retool out there.

william-james88 wrote:

SpaceEagle wrote:That headsculpt looks really good! Honestly I am not surprised they couldn't retool the car mode to look more like a 959 without getting very angry side-eyes from Porsche, but the lightbar seems less goofy than Elita-1's getup. Definitely picking this up, and hopefully the final product will have more paint. (I did wish the gun wasn't clear plastic but hopefully that'll be changed too? Probably not, it isn't a deal breaker for me anyway.)

What you see in those pics is what you'll get.

Fair nuff!

Not that any of this matters.
Walgreens? Yeah, I'll never see it.

RiddlerJ wrote:
The robot mode looks okay. the alt mode still looks kinda dinky.


yeah, it aint great. Turns out this looks like it was meant more for Elita 1 afterall.

At this point, any new Minerva that transforms into something resembling an ambulance is great. Remember the Thunder blast Minerva? THAT was awful.

These Energon weapons don't bother me any. I can't wait to get Blitzwing for the gauntlets. They remind me of the Bulkhead Knuckle Arms Micron. Which is pretty much a giant "Hulk hand". Shame there's no no way to make a fist with the gauntlets but it's alright. They just look like fun. I'd like them to have looked a little more like the concept design though and a little less like the cumbersome weapon modes of CW Devastator's arms.

Minerva looks good. She's definitely going to be getting a few upgrades to turn her into a Headmaster. Her head looks about the size of a Titanmaster already so the proportions wouldn't be too off. Her head is currently on a Reprolabeled TR Getaway right now and the colors don't match so I'll be looking forward to one of those kits. I have the kit for Nightbeat anyway so why not one for her too. Never found anything to do with Cab's head though. I seen one from Universe Inferno but he's too big and one for CW Inferno but he's too big too. Then I seen a custom of Titanium RID Optimus and that looked good until I realized there's no piece to buy to do that unlike the other two. Oh well. Cab stays in Godbomber's chest for now.

And I really like Chromia Medic Type. The colors really pop on it. I have her, Elita and of course, Thunderblast. Which is why I wouldn't mind seeing this new Minerva/Elita in Thunderblast colors at some point. At least just to get an update of her out there at the very least if not retool her someway to make her a boat of some sort. Just seen some fan art of Thunderblast using the RID Side Burn design. So some people are already on board with a car version of her.

Seeing Side Burn in Thunderblast's colors looks as though she could be the unseen sister of Roulette and Shadow Striker.

o.supreme wrote:So I guess we'll call this Minerva from Victory as opposed Masterforce . Anyway, looks cool.

Heh, I'm glad someone remembers when the transtectors became fully-fledged Transformers! Really helps retconning non-Headmaster compatible toys of 'em.

The Energon weapon thing may have been a neat concept, but it just doesn't work out that well in real life. There's the fact that they have to force some figures to take weapons which don't make any sense (like Blitzwing), just to carry on the gimmick.

And there's the fact that these weapons just don't 'combine' well. You can jam them all together sure, but they don't look good. And any combo weapon you make out of them would be unwieldy, and ineffective to the point of mockery if you tried to actually use it. Yes, they're toy weapons, so real life doesn't matter. But they're at least meant to allow SOME suspension of disbelief. I don't look at any of the combos in that diagram, and say to myself, "Yeah, that could work".

And in some measure, it makes me resentful that they forced price point hikes on some figures to dump in these weapons, which many of us didn't even really want, and perhaps diminish the engineering on those figures because they thought the weapons made them 'good enough'.

DeathReviews wrote:And in some measure, it makes me resentful that they forced price point hikes on some figures to dump in these weapons, which many of us didn't even really want, and perhaps diminish the engineering on those figures because they thought the weapons made them 'good enough'.

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works