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[davidwhangchoi]

6 hours ago, Black Valkyrie said:

 

 

why does he look so cheap? no clear parts to see the insides

[mikeszekely]

11 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

why does he look so cheap? no clear parts to see the insides

Animation version.

[davidwhangchoi]

Just now, mikeszekely said:

Animation version.

thanks for the clarification. i guess i'll need missing link wheelie to piggy back.

[sh9000]

[mikeszekely]

Well, @sh9000 just beat me to it.  Dang dance class.

Kranix is fine, if you really want those minor characters.  I had to compare side-by-side with Siege, Shockwave is retooled by barely.  I'm not happy, he really needs to be bigger to scale with the new Megatron.  No surprises with Skywarp, and I guess I already own Wheeljack and Sunstreaker because they're the same as the ones in the Target five-pack.

I don't know how I feel about Astrotrain, to be honest.  Train mode is a huge improvement, shuttle mode seems a little worse at the front, better at the back, still not great.  The robot mode looks noticeably worse, but I'm thinking that the chest is mistransformed and those purple panels need to be folded down.

Oh, and here's the Matrix I mentioned.  No SS86 Unicron.

 

[M'Kyuun]

Oh my, poor Astrotrain. he's only slightly better than the previous version. at least the locomotive looks much improved, but what's with all the nasty kibble along his flanks and the weird cowcatcher-ish extension under the nose in shuttle mode? When the G1 toy did it better, there's something fundamentally wrong. His bot mode, too, which looked great inn the previous release, looks like ass this time around, and still would look a kibbly mess with the chest panels folded down. 

C'mon Takara and Hasbro, Mech Fans Toys, a legends scale toy maker made this: 

Why can't you guys manage at least this at a leader scale budget?

I don't think DNA can clean that mess up, either, at least not without some serious part replacements. I so do wish some of these third parties would start making CHUG/SS86 scaled stuff when the official toys are this bad. Disappointing, to say the least.

Shockwave is a bit disappointing, too. FFS, why can't they just do a space ray gun?!- pretty sure nobody's gonna think that's a real gun being pointed at them. And if someone's dumb enough to point it at a cop or a gun-happy redneck in the dark, they kinda deserve to get plinked. Megatron's Walther is understandable, but Shockwave's groovy purple space gun should get an easy pass.

If Hasbro's wondering why TF sales are declining, perhaps they should re-evaluate some of these things before deciding to release them. Out of all these, Skywarp will likely be my only purchase. 

Edited 10 hours ago by M'Kyuun

[JB0]

2 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

Shockwave is a bit disappointing, too. FFS, why can't they just do a space ray gun?!- pretty sure nobody's gonna think that's a real gun being pointed at them.

But it still isn't NY- or CA-compliant. Actually, without a bright orange muzzle, it is not compliant at the federal level, and I personally don't want a Shockwave with a bright orange muzzle.

 

CA law specifically requires a toy gun to be "the entire exterior surface of the device is white, bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, bright blue, bright pink, or bright purple, either singly or as the predominant color in combination with other colors in any pattern, or where the entire device is constructed of transparent or translucent materials which permits unmistakable observation of the device’s complete contents".

Sure, Shockwave is purple, but is he BRIGHT purple? Do they even want to have to check that definition? And this version has a gray barrel. (Which isn't even right! Give me a proper SILVER!)

 

I am reasonably sure they don't want to have to even LOOK at toy gun laws outside Nerf and Super Soaker.

Edited 7 hours ago by JB0

[tekering]

2 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

Skywarp will likely be my only purchase. 

I think Kranix looks great... but his dialogue no longer makes any sense. 🤨

[mikeszekely]

7 minutes ago, tekering said:

I think Kranix looks great... but his dialogue no longer makes any sense. 🤨

Maybe they're not ships, but airplanes.🤔

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Yeesh, some of these new alt modes are just bad.

[Scyla]

I am very disappointed that Shockwave is just a smoothed out version of the Siege toy. And why didn’t Hasbro smooth out/retool the front of the spaceship/muzzle to look in line with the rest of the toy/more accurate to the source material?

Also is the color on Shockwave wrong? Shouldn’t he be more lilac than purple?

I wonder why my favorite Transformers always have to suffer? Especially Shockwave/Galvatron/Star Saber.

On the other hand I am glad that I didn’t buy the dramatic capture multipack.

Skywarp looks good but I am not sure the Studio Series did away with all the disappointing aspects of the Earthrise mold. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Scyla

[lechuck]

Anybody know what the size/scale of Overdrive is – Masterpiece compatible?

On the otherhand it might of been an opportunity for Takara to finally scale the vehicles to each other.

Edited 1 hour ago by lechuck