New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale

Sowndwave76 wrote:I’ve been meaning to post this sooner, but as we’ve talked about characters that could be included in SS86, I went back to the battle scene where you see Perceptor in the mid-ground and Grapple towards the background…
And strangely enough, it’s a Dinobot that runs past in the foreground,
Although overly stout and distorted-looking…

Swoop, specifically.

Well Ultra Magnus is just as bad as I feared he would be. So much for scale. No regrets not ordering him.

Sabrblade wrote:

I DEMAND a movie accurate bipedal Slug figure now. You really made my day with these screen shots, I somehow never noticed this after all these years. It's just hilarious that the animators somehow had never seen a triceratops before and decided Slag walked around on two legs now. And then when they're all escaping even Sludge gets up and runs off on his back legs.

Emerje

Sowndwave76 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Sowndwave76 wrote:I’ve been meaning to post this sooner, but as we’ve talked about characters that could be included in SS86, I went back to the battle scene where you see Perceptor in the mid-ground and Grapple towards the background…
And strangely enough, it’s a Dinobot that runs past in the foreground,
Although overly stout and distorted-looking…

Swoop, specifically.

You’re killin’ me…
Or maybe you haven’t quite figured out I’m moderately observant…
Yes.
Yes, that’s Swoop.

Which is also weird considering this scene happens the night before he and the other Dinobots even arrive at Autobot City.

Till-all-R1 wrote:Interesting, a Commander Class that only takes 6 steps to fully transform!
I know that it's just me, but UM does look a bit hokey in bot mode. Also after my recent debacle with a Kup repaint of Dion and how it falls apart so easily I'm not exactly thrilled about a $90 Commander Class having the same pull apart features.

Same feature, different execution. Kup just used pegs while Magnus uses Combiner Wars style locking pegs like we've also seen on Legacy Menasor and Legends God Bomber.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:Interesting, a Commander Class that only takes 6 steps to fully transform!
I know that it's just me, but UM does look a bit hokey in bot mode. Also after my recent debacle with a Kup repaint of Dion and how it falls apart so easily I'm not exactly thrilled about a $90 Commander Class having the same pull apart features.

Same feature, different execution. Kup just used pegs while Magnus uses Combiner Wars style locking pegs like we've also seen on Legacy Menasor and Legends God Bomber.

Emerje

At least the limbs will not pop off on their own, and we will be able to do some CW shenanigans.

After seeing Evan’s post about SS86 Magnus I feel I speak for many of us when I say I can, in fact, deal with that right now.

The transformation comparison between Magnus and the storyboard sequence is actually really impressive. I didn't think they'd even try to replicate that. But they did. I admit, I find that charming.

Scale. I mean. Combiner Wars Magnus still exists and is likely to go down in price, right? And Kingdom Magnus looks okay in Robot Mode and is probably bang on in terms of height.



It's about a head off. Which is still off, sure. But so is Galvatron. Scale problems are better than they used to be.

Took a trip to Toys R Us today and actually found dead Ironhide and Prowl! I took them off my preorder at Hasbro Pulse because the preorders just stacked badly and, TBH, it wasn't worth the price after shipping and conversion (I live in Canada). I figured that if I missed it, I missed it and that's that. I've been taking trips all the time hoping to nab them to no avail, so I'm pretty happy to have them on my desk right now.

Once I have the space maybe I'll make a small corpse display with Sparkless Bot, Ghost Starscream, and Dead Prime facing Ectotron. Or maybe not, I dunno .

Two more for the shuttle scene. I guess. I'm over any residual childhood trauma that scene caused me.

Last TF I'm actively looking for in stores is Toxitron, I guess. Not even sure he's been out in Canada.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Death of '84

Do your effects parts plug into Ironhide securely? Mine do not, though I can pull off some poses using gravity and a little friction.

I wish they'd used the Earthrise mold since that had 3mm posts, but I get why they did what they did.

I know this phrase gets thrown around all the time but this really looks like a mini masterpiece with all the articulation and everything. The back has a similar mold same ankle rockers same matrix chamber, the rear skirt actually looks much better and I don’t think I could get my masterpiece to take a knee like that photo very impressive!