Mixmaster is based on a real truck

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  1. BBJazz

    BBJazz Well-Endowed Member

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    There's a construction site near my neighborhood and I see these all the time. They're real.
     
  2. MnemonicSyntax

    MnemonicSyntax Macrodata Refinement - SVR'D Access

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    Yes, been discussed many times with actual photos shown in the multiple Devastator threads.

    People don't care, and want G1 accuracy.
     
  3. Motor_Master

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    Pretty much this. Front Discharge mixers have been used for at least two decades in the US (I first started seeing them show up on job sites in the mid 90's, and I grew up in a pretty rural area of VT). But none of that matters when it comes to Devastator. It's a rear discharge mixer and that's it.
     
  4. PlanckEpoch

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    Well...yeah. Front discharge trucks are real vehicles. Front discharge vehicles are designed for one man operation while rear discharge vehicles require two to operate.
     
  5. FanimusMaximus

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    Pics of real Green and Purple Truck or GTFO.
     
  6. motorthing

    motorthing Too old for this $hit

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    That's great.
     
  7. flik68

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    ^ this

    we all know they are real. that's why Hasbro went with that design.



    :lolol 
     
  8. Constructor

    Constructor Behold my true form!

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    Pictures would be helpful
     
  9. Darkshift

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    [​IMG]
    It exists, we know.
     
  10. omegafix

    omegafix Mechanically Insane

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    are people seriously questioning the existence of the actual vehicle model? I see these Mixers all the time, for years now
     
  11. jestermon

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    So what is the back part for on these?

    A lot of people have no clue what kind of machinery exists I only know about some of those funkier things because my dad was a brick mason and we had seen all types of things on different job sites.

    There are so many specialized pieces of equipment and most people have only seen the large rear discharge ones in real life and on shows/movies.

    I remember when ROTF came out and people were complaining about how big Long Haul was but they had just never seen one of those huge quarry trucks.

    Or that crazy thing Cybertron Metroplex was based on.
     
  12. Wheeljack_Prime

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    I know front enders exist, but I have yet to see that that particular cab design exists.
     
  13. Autovolt 127

    Autovolt 127 Get In The Titan, Prime!

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    For some reason it doesn't look practical....then again called me an old fashioned twenty something.
     
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    Remember when Generations was about updating characters, not just articulating and upscaling the G1 figures? I mean, Classics Optimus isn't the same kind of truck as G1.

    To you, maybe.

    Luckily not everyone is so inflexible. I think it's cool, specifically because it is different but the same. He's still a mixer, still looks like Mixmaster in robot mode, still has the same look in leg mode, too.

    Twenty years old isn't "twenty something." :lol 

    And it's actually quite practical, hence it's existence.
     
  15. omegafix

    omegafix Mechanically Insane

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    I don't really mind it, but why use a updated modern design for Mixmaster and not the rest?? Cranes have come a long way since 1985
     
  16. ParaChomp

    ParaChomp I am what I am

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    It's green but sadly there's no purple, for shame. I wonder what a coned mixed offers as opposed to a more cylinder one.
     
  17. videriant

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    I've seen green, but not lime green or purple. Forgot to take a picture though.
     
  18. Motor_Master

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    I don't mind the update in the least. It was a poor attempt to rephrase the second part of the post I was quoting.


    Typically its greater carrying capacity. The typical rear discharge trucks we used would carry 8-9 yards of concrete. The rear discharge could carry up to 14 (if memory serves).

    The other main advantage is the operator doesn't have to leave the cab (Other than clean up at the end and possibly to put on chutes at the beginning). They can stay in the cab, move the vehicle, operate the shoot and pour simultaneously.
     
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    The motor that turns the drum
     
  20. Bass X0

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    Takara will probably make their own G1 accurate toy sometime.