Speaking to my concept, does anyone know of an appropriate femme-bot with a compatible head? Sadly, Kingdom Arcee uses a smaller ball joint connection and I have little faith in my ability to tweak that connection...

 

I’m a madman. Someone stop me!

 

See Hasbro?

It's not difficult to give us characters from Superlink/Energon.

 

Question (hopefully not something that's been answered several times and I just couldn't find with a quick search) regarding Legacy Prowl: Does only one of Prowl's shuriken lock open? I have two of this figure and it looks like the shuriken that opens by turning it clockwise doesn't lock open like the counter-clockwise one does, which is the case on both. Is this the same for everyone?

My guess is that the both are assembled from the same parts and the blades are flipped to make the clockwise one, but it was all designed to be counter-clockwise with some internal notches I can't see.

 

DNA Design

 

It’s a shame that the helmet didn’t come as a completely resculpted head— considering it looks huge when placed over the existing one— but I understand the reasons. Other than that, this looks like a fun upgrade to an already fun figure.

 

It looks nice, but DNA design has always been overpriced for me.

 

What? Haha, they took the gimmicks, that hampered the original (the transformation gimmick and the necessity to roll) and translated it 1:1? Why? This isn't aimed at kids anymore. Make it partsform and look good, not this. This looks awful. I want a shield on either arm and not that whole bulky skeleton holding the pieces

Dear DNA, we are collectors, not Kids. This could've looked so much better

 

is the "necessity to roll" really a "gimmick" that "hampered the original"?

because it is kind of a motorcycle

 

hmm, maybe not a full on head but a mask on the Samurai-helmet, like how some real-life Samurai helmets had them, would have been neat.

 

It doesn’t look that restrictive apart from the wheel on his arm. Hopefully the shoulder articulation isn’t terrible. Other than the shoulder pad and helmet being too big, I think it looks good.

 

I am disappointed they failed to realize they could have used the 5mm ports on the toy’s shoulders to hold those armor pieces.

In fact, I’m disappointed they just straight-up copied the design of the original Samurai armor, wholesale. They could have done a ton of clever things to improve the design, but chose not to.

 

Wouldn't that mean his arms would be rendered 100% immobile? Like, if you plug those sidecar halves into his shoulders, there's no longer any room for them to move.

 

Everything looks too big  
That may be good for compensating, but not esthetics. The Armor was very sleek in the cartoon

 

A mask would be fine, but it’s still a helmet built to fit over what is essentially a helmet. And given that the plastic can’t be made very thin, it makes for a giant bobble head. Either way, I think a slimmer, resculpted samurai head (with or without mask effect) would look better.

 

If you’re an incompetent engineer, and make the shoulder armor huge blocks which deliberately obstruct shoulder movement, then yes it would.

Otherwise, no. It’s not that hard to design something which fits into a peg and leaves room for the shoulder to rotate.

 

This is actually pretty disappointing. I was hoping this would be an improvement over the original Samurai armor that hasn’t aged very well, but it looks like they just copied it and made it worse.

At the very least, I expected them to actually give us two wheels to place on the forearms, which would’ve been more accurate, but they didn’t even give us the option to put one on the arm without forcing us to have the blade out.


If they just could’ve made this partsform (which I think would’ve been easier and cost less), it would’ve been a lot better. Still wouldn’t fix the aesthetic issues, but at the very least it wouldn’t have the functional problems of the original.

When the silhouette was revealed, I thought this was going to be an instabuy, but now it looks like I’m going to be passing. I owned the original back when it first released and had gripes with it even as a kid, and seeing how this just copied that and made it even less aesthetically pleasing, I don’t see a point in paying DNA Design prices for that.

 

Disappointing that they didn't include the option to split the wheel in half. I always loved that on the prototype for the original toy and it would've been great to see that functionality restored (in a way).

 

This is what a good kit does.

No real unnecessary features.

 

And it’s also accurate to the show. So it’s would have been nice if they did that.