I understand your point, but I always prefer clear windows to painted. It just makes it feel more like a vehicle. I do like the smokey windows suggested above. I think that would have looked really nice.
Jazz needs those arm gaps plugged. Other than that, the pegged front wheels, and the inaccurate number, he looks decent. Hot Rod still looks better but he also costs more, so that's not really a surprise. If you want pure trash, watch any of the live-action movies. The '86 movie is fantastic. Sure, it's imperfect, but it's still a ton of fun. Mine was the original RID (and it would have been Beast Wars if I didn't think Beast Wars was a knock-off franchise, but that's a whole other story). People seem to forget that G1 never got much love (at least as far as western transforming toys go) for almost 20 years. And then it got reissues, repaints, some OTFCC/BotCon stuff... and then MP-1. We didn't really get much in the way of new G1 stuff outside of the first couple of Masterpiece releases (MP-2 was just a white repaint of MP-1 though) until 2006 with the Classics line (and we didn't get MP-3 and MP-4 until 2006 either, with MP-5 following in 2007), and by that point, the first live-action movie was about a year from release, which brought in a lot of new old fans, hence the G1 pandering. In contrast, Beast Wars got a 10th Anniversary line which was just a bunch of reissues, some repaints and some tweaks included, plus two new moulds (the new Deluxe Megatron and Optimus Primal figures), as well as the Transmutate build-a-figure, but the line didn't do very well. The reason it didn't do well? Most people who grew up with Beast Wars would have been teenagers or, at their oldest, early 20s by the time this anniversary line came out, so they weren't the sort of people with disposable income to spend on toys. Add to that the fact that only ten years later, plenty of people probably still had their old toys or had parted ways with them in recent years because they no longer felt the need to own them (and a non-transforming build-a-figure was scarcely enough to convince them to replace what they already had), and you get a recipe for commercial failure. Since then, we've had a smattering of Beast Wars releases mixed into other lines over the years, with the good figures among them tending to be sought after and the bad ones tending not to sell well (or, in the case of figures such as Universe Dinobot, most people only wanted the Henkei version because it wasn't coloured like a ****** with broken crayons painted it). It's clear that Hasbro has finally decided it's time for Beast Wars to get some more love, and it took roughly the same amount of time as G1 did to get that love. The rest will happen in time. We've already had things such as a (terrible) new Sky-Byte, a new Cybertron Optimus Prime/Galaxy (Force) Convoy and an Armada Starscream that was so overrated just because that design hadn't had any love since the original toy. The rest will happen. It just takes time. I know it sucks, and as someone who likes G1 but didn't grow up with it, I get why people are frustrated that G1 is pandered to so much, but there are logical reasons for it. And, as someone who has little patience: everyone needs to have some patience for the other stuff to be made.
We're getting Rodimus Prime in Kingdom, and according to the leakers he'll be more toy-inspired. Oh my god, for the last time, this line is NOT replacing Siege/Earthrise (or even a good chunk of TR), it is SUPPLEMENTING it. That's why the new figures of the '86 cast are split between SS86 and Kingdom. The fact that ER Optimus, Arcee, and Wheeljack are being reissued for Kingdom at the same time as SS86 is coming out, and that CW Devastator is being reissued next year as well, and according to the listings and leakers the TR '87 Headmasters are being reissued, only further backs this up.
Ok, but Prime still had his gun drawn and aimed. Someone in an inferior position without gun drawn and aimed is not going to out-draw on someone with their weapon ready, surprise gun or not.
Ya know now I see why jazz looks abit off to me now. He doesn't have the blue and red stripes on the back wheels
Read the Autocracy IDW trilogy. There's a literal mirror of the 86 movie scene with Prime/Hot Rod/Megatron, but this time Optimus takes the shot. It's entirely possible. But you're also trying to put logic against a movie that wanted to kill as many old characters as possible to fit new ones for their hour and a half long toy commercial.
You know, Jazz seems to be missing something compared to the other ones. Hot Rod, Scourge, Kup all look freaking fantastic but Jazz looks just a bit too simple. I think the door wings would have helped immensely, as well as a bit more greebling maybe?
It's the lack of rear fender stripes and blue windows as opposed to grey/black, I think. As well as the lighter shade of blue they used, as opposed to a more vibrant blue
No one should buy them since they are stolen but considering they aren't out for another few months (and some aren't even announced) ~$40 for voyagers and ~$26 for deluxes isn't bad at all.
TF1 - 5/10 TF2 - 2/10 TF3 - 4/10 TF4 - 3/10 TF5 - 3/10 Bauverse - 3.4/10 TFTM - 6/10 Art is subjective, the Bayverse (movies) are art.
