There’s a chance, but then again all the Bumblebee designs are thick and bulky. It’s just the design of the characters more than anything.
Maybe, I'm curious to see how much better or the same he looks in PVP's review (which you know it's coming).
Man, what a great design. I wouldn't have been at all surprised to see Ratchet and Wheeljack go the faux chest+kibble route but they instead chose to flex some incredibly effective/intuitive engineering and it's great to see. Ratchet's alt mode reminds me of the G1 exo-suit and now I love the idea of customizing one into an upgraded model.
Yep. Every figure has to make compromises to meet budget. Remember back in Energon when half of the combiner teams were just repaints in order to get three teams instead of two?
this community is so petulant to you yet you spent an entire thread bragging about the people you blocked for not liking soundwave's alt mode, and now you want to literally turn off everybody else's comments? dude, do yourself and the boards a favor and just leave if you're so unhappy. i also remember you shitting up bayverse threads constantly before the bumblebee movie came around. hell, you literally still go into bay threads just to remind people you hate the designs i know it's incredibly hard when there's even a single person who doesn't agree with every opinion you might have, but that's life.
I can forgive the hollow legs. It will allow you to get a deeper knee bend. I would def how much it’d cost to put some type of folding cover for the arm at the manufacturing level?
Yeah, back-of-the-legs being hollow for transformation that ALSO happen to allow for that deeper knee bend I've never had a problem with. I think the hollowed-out upper legs (though they aren't too bad) and the forearms with no panels with a figure that JUST qualifies as nu-deluxe sized is where it gets a bit silly--if only because the hollowness in the arm goes so far back and really deep into the arm versus--say--Sideswipe, who has a 5mm port that at least fills his a little. This isn't Impactor, so at minimum having hinged panels for the arms would have been nice. Or having the hollow part be underneath the arm, letting the hands swing out that way, and putting a little extra spending into a wrist swivel.
So the mode that doesn't need wheels has fake versions of them? I actually don't mind real vehicle parts in robot mode, as it's part of the character (although it is cool when they're able to tuck them away). But this... I suppose it's to make him accurate to the film version. I'd rather they just show the real wheels in that case, even if they're proportionally larger than on-screen. It's not a deal breaker though. Just a bit disappointing. Overall- I've only looked at the photos, not the video, but I really like this Ratchet. My only issue is that I think he should be taller. I guess with that beefy chest (which I like) he isn't really small though. This is alternate takes done right. He is different but recognisable. Even in G1 continuity it makes sense to me that if vehicle modes are different on Cybertron, then the robot should look a bit different too. I know that's not the case in the cartoon, but since they're only in their Cybertronian format in episode one, I don't mind a bit of creative licence. Only Siege van I have is Crosshairs. I like him a lot, but his van looked more like an Earth scifi military vehicle to me, than something alien. This does look more how I'd imagine a Cybertronian vehicle to look. I just received the Takara repaint of BBM voyager Optimus. I've yet to convert him, but ( small issues aside, which I won't get into here, as it's not the thread for it, they can be summed up with "OBSTRUCTIVE ARM KIBBLE" and "FLAPPY BITS",) he looks really good. From photos/video the alt mode looks good too... but I'd really like to see what a BBM Cybertronian version would look like. Voyager siege Optimus, is a very decent Optimus, (in some ways better than Earthrise*) but his alt mode suffers the same issue as the Siege vanbots. Its more like a more military souped up version of his earth mode, although it works very well in that way. It's just not what it's meant to be. *Not better overall. They each have their strengths and weaknesses.
I think Ratchet is pretty good, but he does suffer from a a few pet peeves that the others mostly avoid, I'd bet if BBM figures do really well he might get a Voyager years later. The engineering still seems quite interesting though. I really hope a comic picks up these characters.
He looks good! I'm so happy. Been waiting so long for a Ratchet/Ironhide mold I actually like. Transformation looks creative and fun, and I'm impressed they actually managed to turn this design into a cohesive alt mode. Will probably look even better in Ironhide colours. Well done, Hasbro! (I make fun of them all the time, but I'm still happy when they make good figures.)
Maybe it's just me, but the fact that so many of you are freaking out about how "small" a half-head shorter bot is lacks even fundamental perspective. And that goes double to the whole "a decade ago we had larger figures!" when the Animated figures being so large was the exception even back then. I have to assume nobody's talking about Prime figures because that would kill their own arguments.
Huh, in Chefatron's review his figure has a very loose, floppy waist, but just finished watching PrimeVsPrime's video, his copy has a tight waist joint. Interesting.
So SS Ratchet is a lot smaller than ER Ratchet. This is a great comparison of the smaller SS scale to Generations scale.
Thank you for saying it. Hasbro definitely cuts corners, and figures have gotten smaller, but they also have improved in many ways. I think paying $20 for a hoist and $20 for a cliffjumper that are both in scale is perfect for me. Allows all the budget while also not having to make everything the same size. It’s really funny when you look at what hasbros other lines sell for $20, like the black series Yoda, yet transformers seem to always get the most complaints. They also don’t like to mention the FOC line either, which had many stinkers
