Tell me something, Hasbro. Why is it so hard for you to get the shoulders right on Armada Optimus's standard robot mode? You failed to get them right on the original Super Base toy, successfully got them right on the Super-Con figure, and have now replicated the failure of the Super Base figure's shoulders on this figure. Heck, even Takara's prototype that they showed off with Selects Star Convoy had correct shoulders. Why, Hasbro? Why, outside of the Super-Con toy, do you insist on making Armada Optimus perpetually lifting his shoulders above his head?Hmmm. Not 100% sold on super mode. Will have to see some better images of it.
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Personally, as a kid, I always considered them Armada Dinobots. But I guess the reason AVP put them in RiD'01 was due to some canceled plans that 3H had for those Dinobots in the Universe comics, in which they would have been a RiD'01 Dinobot team.And yet the RiD continuity DARES to RUIN this utterly with its Walmart Dinobots:
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(as an aside, I don't get why these were assigned to the RiD continuity anyway, where there was ALREADY a bot with the terrible name of Slapper...)
But then I guess Grimlock ruins the Dinobot naming pattern anyway, on day one. Kings no listen to naming conventions, they bash brains.
Team leaders get to start their name with "Grim." It's the Dinobot equivalent of "Prime."
Before become team leader, Grimlock's name was Schlock.
I would make the why my shoulders hurt joke but I don't want to summon the Walky.Tell me something, Hasbro. Why is it so hard for you to get the shoulders right on Armada Optimus's standard robot mode? You failed to get them right on the original Super Base toy, successfully got them right on the Super-Con figure, and have now replicated the failure of the Super Base figure's shoulders on this figure. Heck, even Takara's prototype that they showed off with Selects Star Convoy had correct shoulders. Why, Hasbro? Why, outside of the Super-Con toy, do you insist on making Armada Optimus perpetually lifting his shoulders above his head?
Personally, as a kid, I always considered them Armada Dinobots. But I guess the reason AVP put them in RiD'01 was due to some canceled plans that 3H had for those Dinobots in the Universe comics, in which they would have been a RiD'01 Dinobot team.
It also may have been based on the fact that, during Armada but before Universe, all of the store-exclusive releases that were redecos of molds from pre-Armada toylines were sold under the RiD'01 label, except for those three Dinobot 2-packs, making them an anomaly that might have led some to consider them sort of "de facto" or "honorary" RiD'01 figures since they had all of the same characteristics as the pre-Universe, Armada-era, RiD'01 store-exclusive releases, save for having the RiD'01 label itself.
Hey wait a sec! Those seem like basic sized figures. Are they the "mini" dinobots I saw at walmart the other day?
And "Slapper" can join "Slag" for the contender of "Most Misogynistic Name For a Transformer Outside the US" award:(as an aside, I don't get why these were assigned to the RiD continuity anyway, where there was ALREADY a bot with the terrible name of Slapper...)
It wasn't really anything to write home about, but given it had to be a trailer, base and a pair of pants AND incorporate an auto-transforming gimmick, it's not surprising the base mode is kinda forgettable.
Hopefully they can do something good now that they don't have to account for a bunch of motors and a bigass battery pack. The legs look worlds better at least.
I'm not liking Volcanicus, and it hurts because I was prepared to be the biggest fan of the thing.
When I saw Sludge's janky robot mode I was completely optimistic. It seemed like they were taking advantage of the limitations of Core Class instead of running into them. Those robot legs would never be accepted in a Deluxe, but Core can get away with it, and it allowed for a weird transformation step they otherwise wouldn't be able to pull off. It seemed like they were willing to prioritize a cool combination no matter the cost, even if that cost was something they couldn't normally get away with.
I'm not seeing it anymore. There is no reason the fists need to face the wrong way. They're separate pieces (sigh). The pegs could face any way they wanted. It's not a compromise if you're not forced into it for some other reason. It's just a standalone design decision.
I was encouraged when Grimlock didn't have a separate foot piece, but it doesn't look great, and it hardly matters when the head, abdomen, and fists (sigh) are all separate pieces. What's two more pieces at that point?