The robot mode's been talked about but the vehicle mode's pretty bizzare. The robot mode kneecaps above the front fenders look out of place and it has an extra set of headlights.
I can't imagine Prime Soundwave being Leader class given how skinny and not particularly tall or complex he is. He doesn't even have as many minions, with just laserbeak and maybe Ravage if we go by Beast Hunters toys.
The Quintesson dude looks to be a color swap of the Pit of Judgement bailiff. Cybertronian Empire is conceptually a deep cut but has a really simple color scheme.
They also used the designation "trooper" twice outside of Autotrooper and couldn't come up with a better name than "Troop Builder...
it comes of as a low-effort experiment on troop builders in the TF franchise. The sort of thing that either sells well and they keep doing it or shelfwarms and they point to it as the reason why they don’t do troop builders when asked at conventions.
All the parts are a new bigger tooling and the transformation’s slightly different but the general idea is heavily based on the Classics Seeker mold.
Also selling toys as a multipack would allow for better pricing probably due to overall less spent on manufacturing, shipping and packaging.
Optimus colors and jungle camo for the Rolling Thunder version and jungle, tundra and desert camo for the ICBM version with a limited run (horrible) Monkey King colors too. The ice and desert versions came with retooled vehicle mode parts, gun, head and missile head that were sold as a separate...
I like how this looks but being less Optimus is kinda a negative now that I bought the corresponding Megatron. Also, the gasmask has to partsform with no dedicated spot to place it in.
The most interesting thing about the multipack is that they just called it the Troop Builder Multipack instead of IDK, the Legion or Batallion or something.
Isn't this more likely a G2 Dreadwing color reference? I'd expect some white and red if they wanted a King Atlas homage.
I find the colors are much better than Skyquake. Pea-soup green and salmon are not very aesthetically pleasing. Also a slight disappointment that he has a cannon barrel on...
To be fair, Prowl's death scene was one of the most detailed aside from like, Optimus. I'd be scratching my head at marketing it as dead Prowl instead of regular Prowl with a couple orange smoke cloud effects though.
Also, painted sky blue windows always suck.
It really is. Compared to the old Generations deluxe, it accomplishes a lot more with less moving parts and looks a lot more user-friendly to boot. It just could have used a few more parts to cover up the fists, clean up the shoulder stalks or to fold up the bumper in robot mode. The axe being...
This thing screams mediocrity in every aspect. I might pick up Bumblebee and call it quits. It's like the designers had to figure out how to get that chonk within the current budget and rushed everything else.
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