the brand feels even more stale and on its death spire than it did last year. there's no cartoons that are so balls-to-the-wall good that people are constantly going back and rediscovering them, the old marvel stuff may as well be undiscovered cave drawings that only 5% of the active fandom has read, current comics are in a nebulous state of existence, our last few shows have been short-changed, budgeted to hell and barely promoted or aired, and our flagship movie has been delayed horribly. there's tons of products on the shelf, but i really want to know what hastak's plan to keep the brand and characters in the public eye is besides "maybe our 40-going-on-50 year old legacy fans and the dripfeed of new fans slowly drying up will pass it on?" i'm hoping having a cartoon on nick will be a welcome change, although considering hasbro let cartoon network consistently just air their shows in dead time and under-advertise them five separate times, they'll probably let nick do whatever they want to the show as long as toys kinda sorta sell.
Hey SS86 BB Arcee looks pretty decent and at least her backpack can pass for something out of the Rocketeer.
Every time my phone gets a new signal this site requires me to log in anew (happens at least 4 times when walking the dog), and about one in ten times when I click the login link up top I end up on the damned HISS Tank page.
Speaks for itself, I suppose: (bottom end is even worse) Well, how ya gonna fix one of these? Don’t even have the other broken half. I’m thinking try to find a bit of plastic or rubber scrap to glue in to the other side??
*Rechecks* All right, you're correct. She doesn't look bad overall. I'll just have to wait until I get her in-hand to pass judgement. *Checks too* Hmm, you're right. Overall not too horrible, especially considering the pricepoint. Might be some hope for her after all.
There seems to be a rumor, and I don’t know where exactly it started, that X-spanse is a bad figure, and I think that is an complete and utter lie. Every time I bring up X-spanse I’m met with “Oh, I heard he was a bad figure” when in reality it is one of the cleanest Jetformers I own with nice articulation and blast effects, he makes use of his budget and manages to look great in both modes. And I am 100 percent not biased because I did not grow up with G1 nor the X-men cartoon, and have yet to actually finish either. So sitting here with a clean jetformer with a tight transformation and really damn good articulation and have everyone who has never handled the thing automatically dismiss it as bad makes me really mad. Unless they’re basing their claims on Hasbro’s products shots, in which case I can’t blame them. You can’t even call it a mistransformation when they DONT EVEN TRANSFORM HALF THE DAMN THING.
Trolls are supposed to be funny, you've already failed. If you're actually serious with your post then you're tone deaf and can't read a room and need to have your post removed. This is called the rant thread for the specific reason of bitching and whining. You bitching and whining about it firmly plants your ass in the same camp.
He’s more old cartoon styled, so I associate him with G1. And a retool isn’t something that only shares a couple of parts, because then there have been a lot of completely unrelated figures that only share a few parts, X-spanse is nowhere near a retool.
He only takes a few parts away, he is mostly original tooling, parts, transformation, and accessories. It’s like telling me Tarantulas is a Blackarachnia retool because he has her gun.
which Nova Prime is that? Did Hasbro release one and I missed it? Bc it doesn’t look like either of the 3rd party ones I own. Rant: Man 3rd party companies need to do reissues more regularly. I missed out on the Mmc IDW getaway and the retool into override. Both of which I like the look of even though Calidus’s transformation makes me nervous everytime. Actually on that subject, How do some of these transformations pass through QC?! Hastak and 3rd party both. Like, “oh this clearly doesn’t have enough clearance. let’s pass it through anyways.” Seraphicus Prominion I always feel like I’m gonna break going into vehicle mode, because the stupid side panels just refuse to go over the hands even in proper configuration, unless you flex the plastic really, REALLY hard. He wasn’t cheap either after the trailer, so… if he breaks i’ma be pissed.
It is the primo x mortis upgrade by snd for battle core Optimus, and if u even think about doing it, be careful bc it’s a pain to do with risk
Upgrade kits are a rant in and of themselves for me, because there is no consistency among the companies that make them. Some are just weapons and gap filler bits or like extra armor pieces that pop in or on. Other companies do entirely new headsculpts that have to be screwed on, which is admittedly easy. And then some are just “hey dismantle the entire figure and then do all this 95 steps of BS for a figure that only looks marginally better. EG, Kingdom Galvatron. I was thinking of buying the upgrade kit, from whatever company it is that makes it. It just makes him like half an inch taller, and you basically take the entire leg assembly apart to do it, and it can’t transform properly after. The gun is nice but, he already has the fusion (plasma? antimatter? What does Galvatron’s arm gun actually do in canon again?) cannon and those weird ship things, which in my head canon are drones he controls like bits or funnels from Gundam, which is way cooler than a boring old gun imo. So the kit ultimately to me isn’t worth it. Anywho, micro rant aside there, your Nove Prime looks nice. I dont have that version of OP anyways, so no worries on that front. The sword is cool though. More transformers need swords, or just melee weapons in general.
This seems to be an issue related to designing in CAD. what works as a computer model does not necessarily work as a physical object in real space. Takara & Hasbro understand this, even if they still make some boneheaded choices. But a LOT of third party designers clearly lack the experience to know whether or not the thing they've designed is actually workable. MMC's Nova Prime hands are bloody infuriating. But it IS MMC and their stuff is usually very cleverly designed, specifically from that designer. I feel like there's a very specific way things need move there that simply most of us haven't managed to figure out. ToyWorld's Orion (the IDW OP) is the worst figure I've ever encourntered for this. Just no clearance at all for many parts, they either have to flex and bent or somehow pass *through* parts. Plus there final position for some parts leaves them under constant stress.
Tbh I hadn’t even considered that angle. But this is a valid point. and yea MMC even when they have clearance issues are typing soundly designed and solid. For example: Calidus’s torso rotating around his body when he transforms is a really great bit of engineering. Actually doing it makes me hecka nervous in practice lol. I’ve watched a lot of reviewers and stared at the instructions for Seraphicus for a long time, hoping I’d just have an “aha!” moment. It has yet to happen, and a lot of the reviews I’ve watched start in vehicle mode and mention you need to flex the pieces in question over the hands to go to bot mode, but they never go backwards or start in bot mode. So its like “hey you should mention this” but I’ve yet to see it happen. Oh well, we’re all pretty aware of it by now since it’s an old figure. I wonder if the black repaint version fixed the issue.
yeah, the amount of third party stuff i've had where i'm like "i can see how this should work without flexing" but it doesn't actually work is... a little scary. i mean, with how much product there is and how many joints they've all had, it's inevitable, but still just crazy how much of this engineering is situational. planet X cacus and his legs that only fold up one incredibly specific way are probably the biggest offender i have right now, his robot legs having to collapse into a dinosaur body while you also slide the two inner-leg panels past each other to clear his thighs at the same time is a fucking mess of a design in-hand.
