Bumblevivisector wrote:Since the early days of Animated, it's been suggested that Lockdown was supposed to be a latter-day Death's Head, what with his general appearance, spikes, and being a bounty hunter. While the new head is a good Bayniverse adaptation of the actual Decepticon bounty hunter Axer, and the Action Master did indeed have those blue protrusions on the side of his head...what about those little red ones on top? I'm not sure just what they're supposed to be except Death's Head's little devil-horns. DH was mostly green with a silver head when he was TF sized in the UK comic, but after The Doctor shrunk him down to human scale and he got messed up by Dragon's Claws, he was rebuilt in more metallic silver/blue armor, so having HFTD Lockdown's mold go from green to blue with a more angular head seems like a very direct homage.
In other words, definitely getting Axor, though I stopped bothering with the actual movie characters long ago. If only the 6-inch scale Marvel Legends line wasn't all but dead, we could still hold out hope for an official Death's Head figure the right size to interact with all these new Generations TFs. *sigh* Although I do have a ML Doctor Doom and Baron Karza I could slap together...
I feel like they reinvisioned his head incorrectly. It's always been my impression that the G1 Axer's head was more like a "helmet", which made sense since he rode a motorcycle. The sculptor of the new head integrated the helmet look as his actual head which gives it kind of an odd appearance. The new head definitely homages the original but I feel like the sculptor missed the point.
The G1 Axer photos are completed. I just have to finish cropping them, watermarking them, adusting the colors and uploading them to the site. Probably in the next few weeks.
