This version of Magnus doesn't seem to be much of an improvement. Seems just like a "clean" version without the damage. I have a hard time distinguishing what the differences are in his full-armored robot mode.

 

HELL YES! Dinobot is perfect! After over ten years...my holy grail is finally in (affordable) action figure form!

 

I like the brief, but you'd have to be a very forgiving person to be satisfied with the execution. Previous Ultra Magnuses lacked an earthcab botmode. For me, this holds an intrinsic appeal, and is one of the essential details. If the figure sells well, it might get another do-over sometime in the next 5 years, but they may be working on along different lines by then. Maybe there'll be some intrusive linewide gimmick, or updated altmodes to contend with, or compromised to accommodate another pre-tool.

That said, I do like Magnus with the sunglasses look. It gives the whole headsculpt a subtly different attitude. Overall, the final figure pushes some nostalgia buttons that the Siege version didn't. If I see it at retail, I probably won't be able to help myself. But definitely a lot less than what I was hoping for.

If anything, people are a little over-forgiving of Siege Magnus. And of course when it comes to supposedly 'Cybertronian' modes, people let them away with murder. Superfluous detail, gaps all over the map, exposed joints and hinges. Everything wrong this time was wrong originally.

 

You joke, but it's not like his beast-mode didn't kinda walk funny in the original show.

 

I hope all the money they saved by clearly not even trying on Ultra Magnus is what let them make these other figures so awesome.

Dinobot is absolutely glorious, and he will be mine. So happy to FINALLY get a good mainline figure of one of the best characters ever.

 

The hands mate. The hands.

 

Amen! For it's price range, Dinobot is the ONE!  Compare that to his original and henkei version, it's lightyears away! 

Not getting him though 'cause I already have the wallet killing version. 

 

Yup...They sure are dino hands...

 

Gaps? I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE GAPS!  

 

something you’ll get over. Always do. Cliffjumper was the worst figure in Earthrise until people saw Megatron and then they saw Arcee and so on and so on until they get them and realize small things don’t ruin a figure. They do. You’ll get over it and move on until next toy to complain about

 

I'm not the best with Digibashs (espessially with changing whites to other colours/shades) but I'd love to see a Kingdom Delta Magnus.

 

Okay, anybody in the know: is there an Optimus cab that is 1:1 the same with nekkid Magnus there?

 

HOLY CRAP AIRAZORRR!

Also, that Dinobot looks bomb. If the MP wasn't a thing, I'd be all over that.

 

Doesn’t matter if there’s no trailer hitch

 

Air looks pretty good in bot mode (although let’s face it, short of a FansToys MP scaled version her alt mode will always look like a robot under a bird). Magnus looks good too.

Dinobot... looks really odd in my eyes... The obvious faux dino head surrounding the actual alt mode head looks really strange once you see it. And his legs hanging out under his alt mode torso is wonky.

 

I'm rather impressed with how articulated Airazor's beast-mode is. The beak even opens.

 

Hey, that's actually not bad at all.

Curious observation, Dinobot's packaging classifies him as a Predacon. In fairness, he started off as one and sort of went back to it a while later, but beyond that, he was a Maximal for the most part, yeah?

 

Well, no, it wasn't, because the arms weren't exposed on the Siege version. The cab detail wasn't mercilessly cut in half where the transformation joint fell. The alt mode at least looked like a coherent vehicle, if a made-up one, and not a half made-up half realistic truck. Literally, the cab stops halfway before turning into a completely different design. It doesn't resemble a real truck cab in the slightest.

There's plenty wrong with this toy that wasn't wrong on Siege Magnus.

 

I'm pretty convinced based on this that the engineering needed to do a better Magnus would take something like the nearly confirmed Rodimus Prime.

I think the slightly bigger than Voyager height is still right for scaling with the SS bots but the truck mode needs more mass and the big improvements would come from extra articulation, less hollowness, and maybe less sacrifices for the armor-up gimmick.

So my basic takeaway would be to have it be Commander class. You'd have a cab and part of the trailer transform directly into an animation accurate robot mode with the rest of the trailer forming a battle platform.

That way, you get a more stable, less hollow, more articulated robot about the same size and a vehicle mode that can carry a couple of deluxes.

Essentially: take the Titanium figure with better proportions and have it form 1/2 of the truck mode with the other half forming a battle platform.

 

Really looking forward to some 3P raptor hands for Dinobot.