MMC OX Assaultus

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by Devastator21, Sep 30, 2017.

  1. mlgpapalouie

    mlgpapalouie The King of Bad Luck

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    My personal opinion is MP10 should come up to about the knee and a combiner should be able to hold an MP figure (like Shockwave in that pic) without it looking absurd
     
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    LazyAza MMC color go brrrr

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    My opinion is that the cartoons shouldn't have lied so fucking much. :lol 

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  3. deathsheadII

    deathsheadII Not a Bounty Hunter yes?

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    innit :lol 

    anyway i know i brought it up but we should all just agree to disagree , options are all good

    not taking away from this is a good looking set from what we have seen so far and i still might buy them for their robot modes
     
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    Zherneboh BRAVE BOMBER

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    Yes, this is how I see him(them?) in my childman's eye.Thus I will be pairing him with legends figures!
     
  5. edgecrusher

    edgecrusher "She wanted nothin', and I delivered." TFW2005 Supporter

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    That's why we don't use the cartoon as a reference for scale. It's too inconsistent. Multiple scenes in the same episode, multiple frames in the same scene even, will vary wildly.
     
  6. zfarsh

    zfarsh Big Penguin Chief

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    @edgecrusher What are your thoughts on this Vortex now that you have it in hands?
     
  7. edgecrusher

    edgecrusher "She wanted nothin', and I delivered." TFW2005 Supporter

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    I'm in no hurry so he's still MISB. Haven't decided what to do with him yet. Waiting to see how the material fares over time as more people get him in and start using him. If breakages become more common, he's unfortunately not going to be a sufficient replacement for UT's Vortex, and will depart. If he's solid and the breakages are a one-off type of thing, he may end up replacing the UT one. Since it's not a critical piece for the collection, keeping it MISB as a placeholder also buys time until XTB or FT eventually announce theirs.
     
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  8. David Hingtgen

    David Hingtgen Chromaticon

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    I don't recall a G1 crossover with My Little Pony---what's up with the second pic?
     
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    deathsheadII Not a Bounty Hunter yes?

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    wondered if anyone would notice fuck knows whats going on there :lol 
     
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    mlgpapalouie The King of Bad Luck

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    Impetus has arrived!!!!

    Sadly I cant open him till I get back home from Chicago on Tuesday
     
  11. Ghilz

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    Watching Peaugh's review. I can't get over how... unpainted he feels. Especially compared to other Ocular Max figures who usually don't quite suffer from MMC's usual "But do we need paint" habit. I love the engineering, but I hate how plain he looks because of the lack of paint applications.
     
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    Well taking that into scale a truck is bigger than about 4 jets. So who’s lying really?
     
  13. lordcryotek

    lordcryotek M'Hael

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    Just got this guy in and took him from alt to arm to bot. Not the most fun transformation due to the tolerances feeling a bit scary, but he's dope as hell in bot mode.
     
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    So my biggest complaint with him so far is an odd niggling one - namely, there’s ALMOST but not quite enough space/clearance inside the tail to store the gun in altmode.

    Good toy.
     
  15. edgs2099

    edgs2099 Optimistically realistic. Moderator

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    Man, once I got the backpack-flipdown thing understood, it's beautiful. It's in my top 3 for the year at this point.
     
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  16. LazyAza

    LazyAza MMC color go brrrr

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    Then what do we reference? because their sure doesn't seem to be a universally agreed on answer at all.

    I've never been able to make sense of why so many people think one interpretation is so much more valid than another. As if their is some irrefutable argument to be made for any one persons preference when their very clearly is not. MP scaling is always a case of what can be done with any given toy and what are the design goals of that toy. If it compliments this and that other thing then it does, if it doesn't it doesn't and that's that.

    This one wanted to be all inclusive, it wanted to avoid partsforming and so it can not replicate the ludicrous mass shifting of the show. Partsforming is required for that kind of thing. That is why Zeta and FT do it, because they know stretching out toys in to 20 inch gestalts would be a nightmare of impossible engineering. The fact mmc was able to get 18 out of their set is a miracle in of itself.

    I don't know why people can't just accept that. But I especially don't know why anyone thinks this combiner is "chug scale".

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    If he's chug scale then he's the biggest god damn chug combiner of all time. :lol 
     
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  17. Yertle

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    I just got mine in from toy dojo today and it’s great. The only problem on mine is that it has a gnarly stress mark on his right arm, straight from the box. It’s bad enough I might contact my vendor.
     

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    That's precisely why we shouldn't use the cartoon to guide scale for a physical product series. That's why there are scale charts. That's why HasTak created them for the universe, even though the cheaply-animated cartoon failed to live up to them, and why Masterpiece product scale was driven by scaling against a fixed point, in most estimations that is MP-10. Once Takara set the scale with MP-10, everything else flowed from that both 1P and 3P that wished to be part of that line. So there is no muddle, no variance or fluctuation the way there is with the cartoon.

    The rest of you post seems to be some sort of rant about partsforming vs all-inclusive. Scale is a separate issue, at least to me. I respect the desire to do all-in-one. The end result being a bit undersized was also a choice. As far as I can recall, I never said this figure was CHUG scale, though I and many others have noted it sounds like it will be a bit undersized compared to the existing market of Masterpiece scaled combiners from Zeta, Toyworld, and soon Fans Toys. I did say the aesthetic of certain team members has some design elements that I find more related to CHUG than Masterpiece. You might be confusing the aesthetics comments with separate comments related to scale and height.

    Regardless, the comment you quoted was just an observation that the cartoon being so inconsistent is a good reason not to use it as a guide for scale. Every post that includes screenshots from the cartoon furthers that argument because each one has screencaps showing very different scaling, mostly due to rather obvious lazy, low-budget, disinterested work on the part of the animators. Yes, look and wonder at how silly it is. No one in their right mind would use that as a reference point for how one robot should scale with another, unless you're aiming for an Salvador Dali kind of avant-garde representation of Transformers where consistency and reality are purposely called into question rather than reflecting a representation of unified teams of Autobots and Decepticons as they would be had they jumped out of the screen, off the comicbook page, or out of the toybox, 30 years later in our adult mind's eye. Which is what the Masterpiece line is all about.
     
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  19. David Hingtgen

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    I may be darn picky about colors, but I think it's so much better(easier?) than being picky about scale. :D 

    At least the toys and toon were pretty darn consistent in their coloring. Mis-colored toys are darn rare, and mis-colored toon footage is most often "the palette of another character entirely" and clearly a mistake. But the toon often can't be consistent in size for more than a dozen frames in a row.
     
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  20. Enfin

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    I suggest MMC put that part I emboldened on the front of the box of their box set :D