automorph question

i dunno if this has been discussed before sorry if it has.I was wondering if the new universe classics and animated figures would feature automorph like the movie figs or if it's a soley movie fig affair.

As far as we know, the Animated figures have an automorph like feature, but apparently done better than with the movie line. As for the new Universe line, we don't know yet. We barely know half of the figures we'll be getting in the first run of that series, let alone what features each figure will contain.

Originally Posted by optimus major this man is a genius

I think the automorph is pretty much a TFTM figure gimmick. The original Classics line didn't have a gimmick so I would assume that 2.0 would be the same...

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Personaly I hope there is not Gimmick like that in Classics because they are CLASSICS. If the G1s didnt have it then the new Classics shouldnt either. They are great the way they are now.

Going by that logic, then the majority of the new UNIVERSE figures should be bricks!
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Automorph as a gimmick, from my understanding, has always existed, just now it has a name. I can think as far back as TF Armada where you had toys like Smokescreen whose head would flip round when you positioned the robot mode crane, or Energon Megatron who had the spring loaded feet that popped out when you pushed his knees into place. Heck, Cybertron Primus and his Omega Lock is only slightly different in that it uses a key instead of just moving the panels.

TFTM as a line just makes more extensive use of the gimmick across more toys and gives it a name. I seriously doubt it will ever go away, because as far as TF gimmicks go, it's one of the most impressive ones visually (I said "whoa" out loud first time I TF'ed my Movie Bumblebee, and watched the panels move on their own into the right spots). I'd have no problem if it stuck about.

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Originally Posted by Lance Halberd Sol Fury can be likened to a German clock. A very exact, complex, and tightly-wound precision instrument that occasionally goes cuckoo.

yeah i was hoping the classics line would do without doesn't seem fitting

Armada? Pfft, Top Spin and Twin Twist were the original auto-morphing TF's.

True. But I think the auro-morph shouldn't be a line-wide gimmick again. Maybe popping up once or twice is ok but not for every TF.

It wasn't really line wide in the Movie line, either. Some like Ratchet didn't really make much use of it (sure, leg panels, but it wasn't really all that big a deal), others like Swindle and Longarm didn't have any real Automorph gimmicks to speak of. I'll admit though it was a lot more widespread than before, though, and with it being flagged up on the packaging you probably made the connection more than you might have done if it wasn't mentioned.

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Originally Posted by Lance Halberd Sol Fury can be likened to a German clock. A very exact, complex, and tightly-wound precision instrument that occasionally goes cuckoo.