Well...


Let's just say that megs looks close to the jp version even if he has the same color scheme of Barney, but dinobot looks like the dumb cousin the jw raptors were too embarassed of to invite him at their parties. He never appeared in the movies because "Blue, Delta, Echo, Charlie and Derp" didn't sound so appealing.

 

Im just glad we got an Ultramagnus with sunglasses instead of the no sunglasses on the siege version. It looks great aside from him being mistransformed in almost all the product shots and in package, but oh well.

 

Doesn't he have serious kibble issues in truck mode? Btw, i wouldn't care that much at your place. I don't usually collect vehicles unless they have a pilot (or unless they can combine into a decent computron), also vehicles can have a weird or silly design even in real life, so by my opinion it's completely justified.
I mean...

 

Agreed. New hands, feet, tail and head and ol' Dinobutt will be good to go. Curious to see what customizers and/or 3rd parties will come up with.

 

Hey, Megs has his front teeth. Why couldn't Dinobot have his?

 

Raptors didn’t have front teeth.


*waits for heads to explode*

 

Yeah it's weird. Same thing with SS86 Grimlock.

 

Maybe it would have broken Hasbro's bottom line? 

 

Ah, I don't think I've seen any pictures from that angle before. The side profile shots are at least 90% of the way there. It's definitely too broad in the snout, though, which throws off the 3/4 view significantly.

It still really doesn't bother me that much. It's still nowhere near as bad as any of the prior attempts at a "velociraptor" head sculpt.

And even with its own idiosyncracies, the rest of the 'raptor anatomy is still miles better than the three previous attempts, as well (although the MP obviously wasn't really trying for that).

 

But the mp was more accurate. Longer tail, digitigrade legs... Ok, the head sculpt was awful but it was exactly like in the cartoon, so it's justified. In this case...idk, the original toy head looked more "raptorish" than this one. This has the same look of my old pet goose: very aggressive in an extremely dumb way.

 

I don't think so. Even with a low budget they could've done a better job. All the issues are in the mold of some parts that are easy to replace, the only parts that require a new engineering job are the dino feet. And even that could be done in five minutes.

 

I feel like a certain ugliness to the raptor mode is needed. Dinobot's in-show raptor was not exactly accurate, and it had some pretty goblin-esque features, this new toy's sculpt is different but still evokes that janky beast, so I think it works fine to me.
The only problem I see in his sculpt that is a serious problem is the stiff shape of his dino-mode hands, otherwise he does a good job at being a detailed version of his cartoon look, frankly, does it better than Primal's gorilla face.

 

Fixing the hands is something that anyone who owns a 3d printer could do, but the tail and the feet are more complex and require a 3p factory to get a proper job on a large scale. And the head... It depends if it's possible to separate it from the rest of the body without breaking anything

Primal has a realistic gorilla face... Kinda. They tried to do something that looked more realistic, they did a good job with the other characters, but failed with this one

 

Absolutely agreed, a big part of Dinobot's character is that he just did not give a fuck. Flicking bits of his clone out of his teeth and burping in Primal's face. He did what he felt was right, when he had to, but other than that he was not at all concerned with appearances or what others thought of him. That raptor mode was never noble or intimidating, it looked funny and awkward and that was part of the charm.

 

*Sees Mega man arms*

...I swear, if Hasbro doesn't do a Megaman Collab figure with this mold, I'm doing it myself!!!

 

Finally preordered Dinobot,Airrazor,and Ractonite.   Took a while to get the money for them but better later then never.

 

Great review but so weird that he's praising Hasbro for color matching as if that's something extraordinary. Has Hasbro lowered our expectation so far that when they do common sense things like getting the color right we're blown away by it?  

 

Yes.

 

Are you referring to "color-matching" regarding the accuracy to the animation? Because he stays right in the review the forearm colors don't match the torso but that's accurate to the series.

So not sure why we're bagging on Hasbro for giving people the GEEWUN Cyclonus they've always wanted.