Yeah, I mean Legacy and I mean the alt modes are the ones that look bad. The robot mode looks great! And it's much more smooth and animation accurate unlike the very greebly Astrotrain.

 

The secret to G1 Blitzwing’s success is that it doesn’t give a damn about moving the arms outwards. Unfortunately for HasTak, this fandom doesn’t allow that anymore, so they’re stuck struggling to add articulation to a design built without it. That’s why modern Blitzwings have big backpacks and sometimes some fake parts. It’s a sad trade-off. Most choose the arms and the accompanying sacrifice.

 

Damn, the more I look at it the more I wish I had gotten in it back when it was available.

 

In terms of Blitzwing, I think it is still possible to have articulated arms that store into the body of the tank like the G1 toy. Some sculpted wheels+tank treads, and some jointed limbs at the leader or voyager size is an instant buy for me.

no need to overcomplicate it. Just upscale the G1 toy and put in decent articulation. The remainder body of the tank that makes up the awkward lower portions if his arms in bot mode can be fold away panels similar to SS Blackout.

That being said. I’m still excited for Legacy Blitzwing. I can live with the clunks of plastic under his wings in fighter jet mode… sort of…

But this is a thread about Astortrain! Lol

 

TakaraTomy Legends

 

If it were that easy, don’t you think they would’ve done it by now? You’d need to completely redo the tank body and wings to pull it off, and by then, what’s the point?

The best route to making a good articulated Blitzwing is to redesign Blitzwing. They did it with Animated, and would you look at that, they made a wonderful Blitzwing toy!

 

I think MFT and DX9 did very good jobs on their atempts for a G1 blitzwing.

 

Yes, yes they did. Thanks Quippy.

“But these are higher price point 3p figs” some might say…

The quality of plastic doesn’t have to match the 3p version. The scale of the toy will also be smaller than an MP scaled Blitzwing. It’s also much easier for HasTak to produce TF’s since its their business. The production cost compared to the 3p companies will be lower. We probably haven’t gotten this because they don’t want to invest the man hours and just take the easy way out. Looks good enough, people will buy it and we’ll meet our target without spending too much time and money. Also they can just keep redesigning Blitzwing every few years since they know its a more popular character.

They also did redesign Blitzwing with T30 and… it was… different…