Bad Move Hasbro!!! Elita-1 Power Of The Primes

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  1. grindcore138

    grindcore138 TIME TO DELIVER A PIZZA BALL!

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    Power of the Primes Elita-1 is actually good as hell. Hasbro didn't drop the ball, they slam dunked the absolute shit out of it.

    Personally I love that she's both a Voyager and looks like a goddamn power lifter, it's a nice change of pace from the usual "supermodel" look most fembots get stuck with, usually resulting in some Krazy Kibble™. I mean, I actually really like POTP Moonracer (her headsculpt is mighty kawaii), but trying to make her super skinny while also being a Combiner limb didn't exactly have the most elegant results, did it?
     
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  2. geekatron prime

    geekatron prime The Grammar Police must be on strike.

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    Don't mind her being a jet at all. Never going to use the combined mode with her anyway (looks like crap to me). Would be nice if they did finish off the rest of the female autobots, just so we can have the whole gang together at least.
     
  3. Haywired

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    I wish the figure was a land vehicle... But Moonracer mold really isn't to my liking. PoTP Elita's at least a decent jetformer instead of a "meh" carformer.
     
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    I dont like her as a jet ether but its nice to finaly get some thing and its not a pos like moonracer and chromia where, its even an eath vehichle

    I got one just for the head sculpt and will be making my own elita while i turn her body into voyager windblade
     
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    I'm fine with it, hell I own it. Works better than Starscream actually!
     
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    I just checked, and yep, turns out she is a jet.
     
  7. Dachande

    Dachande MULTI-QUOTE- USE IT. Super Mod

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    First fgure in ages that I bought and returned because it is utter crap. Poor tolerances, extremely boring transformation, moon boots...
    Yeah, my vote for worst figure of the line ONLY because I was looking forward to an Elita-1 figure and got that monstrosity.
    I will happily go without than go with that figure.
     
  8. T-Hybrid

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    "BAD MOVE HASBRO! NOW JOE SCHMO ON A FORUM IS PISSED!"

    Thanls OP, i needed the laugh.
     
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  9. Dirge121

    Dirge121 I'll be your end of days

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    It’s an okay figure but just highlights how bad the base mold was. In remolding it so the legs can actually peg together they removed its ability to have the knees peg in place for robot mode. Just pose it and put it on a shelf.

    The design itself I love, I’m totally down for more buff robot girls. I just wish the figures tolerances and engineering weren’t such bollocks.
     
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    To be fair I think the idea they wanted to go for was to make her a combiner torso, so making her something bigger then a cybertronion car was kind of a must.

    Dropping the ball in this case would be if they don't put out two more female character's as combiner limbs, just to round out the whole concept.
     
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    yeah, optimus is 100% the kind of dude to support his wife being buff. especially since she's a fairly prominent lady on cybertron in sunbow. before potp elita came around, my plan was to customize an rid optimus into elita-1
     
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    Speaking as someone who has Elita One in hand... I love her. The colors really pop and are full of character, she wears the mold better (in my opinion) than Starscream, and has a tough, commanding presence, and I don't mind the change from car to jet. She just feels a little more unique (compared to the other femmes) this way. Even the crummy quality stickers add to her appearance, in my eyes. Arm her with the Prime Master of your choice and she looks superb.
     
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  13. Goaliebot

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    That’s not even the worst part! The worst part is that Hasbro did this on purpose. Expressly to upset the true fans. I know because I asked! I was there at the 4th Annual Hasbro CEO Golf Match and Business Talk and I stood at the mic and asked “Excuse me Mr Charles Archibald Hasbro III... I am a fan and the best fan and I speak for the fandom when I ask why you made Elita-1 a jet and not in scale with the other CHUGCWTRPotP fembots? Is this what your grandfather Archibald Q Hasbroworth founded Hasbro for? Was this what he dreamed in 1811 in that repurposed seal hunting shack in Alaska?”.

    And he just laughed.

    Threw his head back.

    Pounded his gnarled old fist on the table.

    And laughed that coughing, wheezing laugh.

    “You fool!” He hissed as his assistants helped him stand in rage. “You... “fans”. You pathetic worms! I had my scientists make PotP Elita 1 a Voyager jet precisely to spit on you fans!”. He cackled loudly again before taking a long pull on his oxygen tank. “Show this... fan... what we think of him and his kind!” he ordered with a wave. 5 henchmen then took me outside and beat me to death. Then they refused to validate my parking.

    True story.
     
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    Absolutely agreed. I love the fact that Elita’s figure is just absolutely hench. I just wished that, in addition to being hench, the figure was actually available.
     
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    She’s not main line due to limited release, but Nautica should be included. I’ll be getting her this week. She seems like a nice figure from the reviews I’ve seen
     
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    I stand corrected, I forgot all about her. You're right. Even better. OP's still wrong, though.
     
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    I like the current Elita-1. One of my favorite figures from POTP.

    Gotta include Nautica. It pays to have knowledge to help others. She’s a nice figure and like her purple deco.
     
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    smf2045 Aficionado of Combiners

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    PotP Elita-1 is loads better than Starscream. I like jets, so i don't mind her being a jet at all.

    I honestly don't understand the problems with Elita-1 or Moonracer, and I like both. YMMV and all that.
     
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    I enjoy potp Elita. I sold off my Botcon 2009 version after I got her. I don't mind the jet mode or buffness. Hell, my only gripe is that she doesn't have 2 more combiner limbs to finish her off.

    Fingers crossed for Velocity and Anode.
     
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  20. Fade2BlackZarak

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    The only acceptable alternative to the Voyager Jet mode that we got is an a retool of Generations Arcee. I'd have loathed getting a third of that Moonracer mould.

    EDIT: In my opinion, of course.
     
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