If Victorion was male would you like it more

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  1. marvel b

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    no, i'm not dating dudebots...........
     
  2. Honesty

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    If colors were better.

    If their size were bigger.

    If they weren't all re-tools.

    Here's hoping for a reimagined 3P version (that aren't all re-tools) that scales with bigger stuff.
     
  3. Beastwarsfan95

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    Its not the gender that turned me away from Victorion, it was the headsculpts and the gaudy color scheme.
     
  4. RKillian

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    Honestly, I could even live with the colors if they had better head sculpts. I don't like NinjaFace, FootballHead, or Victorion at all. The helicopters, I would've liked for them to have identical color layouts or really reversed ones instead of weird random splotches. Actually, I'm probably in the minority who would've preferred them to be completely the same (use the goggles and lipstick head).
     
  5. Onslaught24

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    This. Also agreed on the new molds thing. Remolded chests and new heads and weapons are nice, but some new molds and muted colors are what she needs IMO.

    Hoping PE comes out with new hands and feet for her. Yeah it's good of Hasbro to make new hands and feet specially for this set, but they feel...dainty. She needs giant punching fists and more stable-looking feet. Plus with bigger hands, that might help break up the red/teal a little better.
     
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  6. T-Hybrid

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    Nope.
     
  7. MnemonicSyntax

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    OP, I'm not sure why you just can't pretend they are male?
     
  8. GR1ML0CK

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    You make a good point.
     
  9. Hanzkaz

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    You're right. I still wish there were a few more subtle modifications done to Pyra Magna, just to differentiate her further from Hot Spot.

    I still wonder, though, if CW Legends Groove is actually secretly a pretool of Rust Dust and the poll had been fixed from the beginning..
     
  10. Hitokiri

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    Nah. I actually like this combiner but I just have no interest in it. I wouldn't mind having the sword though.
     
  11. Autovolt 127

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    Honestly it'd be less of a reason to buy it.

    I only want Victorion for the novelty of her being the first fembot combiner and nothing else.

    Unless IDW can give me a reason to care about her character?
     
  12. RobotKnight95

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    Glad to see I'm not the only one that wants this. :) 

    But yeah I'm with the party that says it's not the gender or premise that's the issue but rather the figures and their design which has been an issue with Combiner Wars since the beginning. Constant retooling and repaints. Now I have no quarrel with the set aside from the lack of white, which if I recall was suppose to be the tertiary color. It's just frustrating that Hasbro couldn't get the colors right similar to Windblade, another poll created charater, where Takara did a much for faithful job than Hasbro. If Combiner Wars wasn't limited the ways it was and Hasbro did a better job with the paint it would've been more appealing.

    All that being said here's hoping Takara gets their hands of the set and give a better paint job than Hasbro.

    Though I have to point out the double standard in that fans were complaining of "sexualizing" female characters but then complaining when this set gives them just the opposite by going against the "Barbie-doll" female design. Granted these are probably two separate parties that have different ideas of female portrayals in design for the franchise.
     
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    Another for the pile of "don't care about the gender but the color and color layout hurts". I like garish color schemes, really. Piranacon is my second-favorite combiner. Victorion though. No bueno. The digibash on the first page is sublime . I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
     
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    The colours used on Victorion are quite nice. Except when you put them together.

    Either of them would look great paired with black (or very dark grey), but paired with each other they just look wrong. Replace either colour in the scheme with black and Victorion would look pretty cool. Personally, I'd replace the red to get a black / turquoise mix, but I can see a red / black mix working, too.
     
  15. Dirge121

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    Ditch the Alpha Bravos and replace them with a pair of Rook remolds as bodyguards, then redo the colors and I'll bite. Also replace legends Groove with Legends Shockwave.

    Just calling it a dude doesn't change that the colors are awful and two Alpha Bravos is the last thing I want. I was really excited for Victorion until we actually saw it.
     
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    I love this post.

    But Lord help ya if you want a fembot to look female. It seems you should want your gem bots to be modeled after Roseanne Barr or Rosie O Donnel.
     
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    i'd like it better if it had better colors. lol it looks really stupid.
     
  18. GizmoTron

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    I like Victorion just the way she is, a continued reminder of why fan-vote combiners should never happen again.
     
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    I don't care about any of the robots gender, male or female. I wish the toy had an original torso. I already have Defensor and I will be getting Bruticus. A third with the same torso is just too much for me. Pass.
     
  20. AnonymousDwell

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    I actually like Victorion. I would like her/them more if the individual bots were original molds, though.

    But I'm still going to try and get the set when it comes out. Since they're all original characters, I don't have to worry about scale (I don't read the comics so I can just pretend whatever scale I want.) I can display them with MPs or anything else I want, just to have a female combiner is really a cool thing to me.

    (Affirmative Action Figures! :p  I just thought that up.)
     
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