I just like super robots that combine with stuff to form a bigger super robot.
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Because the G1 toy did it.
That's also actually a really clever transformation just for the Prime part too. Like, it hides the wheels like MP $440 with a lot fewer parts.
The recently revealed MP one is insanely clean for an all-in-one Magnus. TBH, not so impressed by any of the dress-up Magnuses. I like the concept but none of them so far really makes the most of the armoring up concept. I dunno why you'd bother towing around the equivalent of an entire other dude when the only gains are some piddly shoulder rockets.
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X-Transbots' Ultra Magnus really is the best looking one yet, but Newage's really shouldn't look as good at it does given the much harder job it has. We're living in good times.
The cab is impressive but the Magnus parts just don't wow me given they act as slightly less lumpy Lego
I honestly have a hard time considering Ultra Magnus as a 'robot that gets powered up with armor' because of how ingrained it is that his 'powered up' form is literally just his default form without there being a smaller robot. IDK toys that do it just come off more as 'wanting to homage the original toy' than anything else.
If TFTM had embraced the inner robot gimmick it would have explained how he survives getting shot until he explodes.
Just being a robot that can be rebuilt isn't enough? It's not like sparks were a thing yet.
Not when there's no apparent in-universe logic as to who can be rebuilt and who can't.
My guess is that it depends on the severity of the damage and on how long they've been deactivated. Ultra Magnus was ripped apart, but he was only down for, like, half an hour or so.
I mean, the real out-of-universe reason is that he was a big new toy and they're not gonna kill him off that quickly when they still have to sell him, compared to all those season one guys whose toys were off the shelves by then, but that's no fun.
I mean, the real out-of-universe reason is that he was a big new toy and they're not gonna kill him off that quickly when they still have to sell him, compared to all those season one guys whose toys were off the shelves by then, but that's no fun.
I don't mind a little partsforming in general if it results in a better looking toy, but if we're talking about the Newage one, it's breaking into fewer pieces to the Hasbro ones, since Newage's arms are all one piece. To me, if a trailer breaks up into armor bits like Magnus's usually does, it's not even cheating, the thing it's turning into is a pile of armor you wouldn't expect to be all one piece in the first place. And we've seen how wrong the alternative can go in those movie Optimus / Jetfire sets....
Call it desensitization. Torso transforms basically like MP Magnus and the other three or four Legends class Magnuseses. and the partsforming isn't exactly astonishing
If they don't turn gray, they're A-okay
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Transformers had Phase Shift armor before Gundam.
Getting big improvements with small changes is efficient design work.
even the first, crappier Magic Square Magnus from three or four years ago managed to do the same thing. No need to reinvent the wheel and all but i don’t see the need to celebrate keeping the wheel either
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I can't tell quite what you're talking about. The torso transformation on the Newage one is similar to that of the all-in-one Magic Square Magnus, but the Magic Square Magnus with an inner Prime splits into like fifty pieces, not five.
I'm just saying that with a rehashed transformation and the crutch of partsforming, it's far from New Age's best work. Their minibots in particular are incredible. This is a solid release but not exactly raiding the bar
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He can't handle his drinks anyway.