TF figs that were either made or ruined by bad head sculpt

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  1. ultramagnus1

    ultramagnus1 Well-Known Member

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    Its amazing how important a good head sculpt is to how much I can like a figure. Take the recent G1 Leader Megatron figure. I love the head sculpt on him and think it really makes him great. But some head sculpts can ruin a figure. Which figure or figures did you guys find was made by a great head sculpt or ruined by a poor one?
     
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    The head is hardly the only problem I have with the CW leader Megatron, but it's up there with some of the ugliest.
    It didn't stop me from getting Animated Leader Megatron, but I really hate how his face is all broken up for the stupid talking gimmick. Same with Animated Leader Magnus.
    Generations Sergeant Kup would probably never have come out of his box without the iGear heads to replace that soul sucked face.
    And there is no way I'm touching CW Blast Off without a proper faceplated noggin.
     
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    G1 Ironhide / Ratchet :lol 
     
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    Don't forget the navel-gazing of the CHUG Ironhide and Ratchet toys too!
     
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    At least the heads themselves look decent.
     
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    Pretty much any figure of Megatron from the RotF line. Literally none of his figures match his face's on-screen appearance.

    The same could be said of The Fallen and Jetfire.
     
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    Yeah, but his Voyager toy had that terrifying face....which kind of worked for me. Just didn't like the rest of the toy. What the heck were those red baubles on his shoulders?? I'm guessing some sort of cancelled electronic function.
     
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    Generations/LG Windblade. If they had even ATTEMPTED to follow Sarah Stone's art instead of Ramondelli's I would have given it a chance.

    Slipstream, however, has a very promising head.
     
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    Generations Chromia: I hate her lil pin head
    GDO Voyager Megatron: that ugly grin
    KFC Citizen Stack: There's a reason the head upgrade is so popular...
     
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    I love Generations Arcee, but man, her face has zero emotion. I love the fierce look of the IDW character.

    Well, let's be honest here, it's pretty hard to make a decent sculpt when your face and body essentially look like this...

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    never seen a figure i would call ruined by its head sculpt. some have no been great or entirely accurate never so badly it ruined a figure for me.
     
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    I will say that I had no interest in the DOTM Bludgeon toy until I saw it with a 3rd Party add-on head to make it look like... well... Bludgeon. Then I had to have it.
     
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    TFCC Punch Counterpunch would have been great if it weren't for that cruddy midget head.
     
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    Combiner Wars Ravage.

    I'm all for a car-mode Ravage. Seriously. And I get the idea of making it all sleek and curved to match the Beast Wars CGI.

    Except it really, really, really, really doesn't work with the body. At all. The car is a very angular Lambo. And the Combiner Wars figures, ESPECIALLY the Stunticons, are incredibly blocky. So Ravage's oddly smooth head on that body looks awful.
     
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    FOC Swindle. I had to Dremel the sides of mine down so that his head could fold down. FOC Roadbuster and TCC Ironfist's heads fit way better.
     
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    I have a special case in mind, in which the figure was ruined by a good head sculpt.

    The new Titan Masters figures, they are ruined because they resemble the classic characters oh so much but don't have bodies.
     
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    ROTF Skids and Mudflap (both deluxe and Human Alliance). Four awesome and complex toys practically ruined by Bay's goblin heads. It is almost criminal they didn't remold more traditional heads and create new characters for the deluxe repaints.
     
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    MP Bumblebee.
    Great figure with a shit head.
     
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    I can't stand the head on henkei: classics megatron. People complain about the wings. I don't mind them. The head sculpt looks something more from an anime then a transformerers character.

    Cw leader fixes all of my issues with the henkei's robot mode.
     
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