Tried tank mode.
Well, it's more secure than microscope mode at least.
Well, it's more secure than microscope mode at least.
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is the new perceptor even a working microscope
working in massive quotation marks
working in massive quotation marks
Far as i can tell, the lens don’t even let light through the other end
Which, you know, it cannot be stressed enough, Titans Return Perceptor, which was based on the toy, used the cyan, and has a complete tube with windows on, already has covered, because it's not Studio Series and doing those things made sense for that toy
The scope is roughly the width of a pencil and seems to have the innards occupied by a ratchet joint
No coincidence either that the TR "working" scope is oversized and a bit doofy looking as a result.
They did that in TF 2010 though.
Make one whose shoulders stay attached to his torso
Valid
nah hug that transformers that don't turn into vehicles >>>>>>>> ones that turn into vehicles
don't @ me
Perceptor doubles down on the value then by turning into nothing. I mean the functional part of the microscope is and has always been the tube on his shoulder. The rest of him doesn't look like a microscope stand of any vintage, it's just a Cybertronic lamppost.
Still, if that's what you want, I just keep going back to this, we have the Titans Return and Studio Series ones right now, which are respectively the perfect toy-based and cartoon-based representations of the character. There is literally nothing to complain about. If you have any complaints with one of them, it's probably because you want the other one. This is one of the easiest characters to get right and it's no great surprise that they've done so both times.
A part of me wishes it was possible that he could have been in Siege and got a new, different, probably vehicular alt mode, but considering the Soundwave that turned into nothing, that's much less likely than that he would have turned into a slab of robot with a tube on.
Still, if that's what you want, I just keep going back to this, we have the Titans Return and Studio Series ones right now, which are respectively the perfect toy-based and cartoon-based representations of the character. There is literally nothing to complain about. If you have any complaints with one of them, it's probably because you want the other one. This is one of the easiest characters to get right and it's no great surprise that they've done so both times.
A part of me wishes it was possible that he could have been in Siege and got a new, different, probably vehicular alt mode, but considering the Soundwave that turned into nothing, that's much less likely than that he would have turned into a slab of robot with a tube on.
Perceptor was one of the first Action Master Elites.
The only thing I can come up with is that maybe the idea that the treads are how he maneuvers as a giant microscope has just become an expected thing? Looking around, I'm finding people making reference to him doing that in the cartoon, but I don't wanna go watch Carnage in C Minor to find out. But either way, the treads aren't visible in the movie in any mode and they really shouldn't be on the toy. And I definitely don't feel like Studio Series is a line where you have to take the additional step of making his knees bend backward and calling it out on the packaging as an attack mode.
(it's actually the episode child's play, did a quick check of the wiki)
Awesome. I didn't look there past a couple of Ctrl+Fs, thanks!
Technology got bigger and sillier in 2005, right?
I kinda like the original tank mode. I wish Hasbro did.