Mayhem Transformers Discussion: United We Shelfwarm
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Sincerely though, I feel like you could get rid of the dials and eyepiece and Perceptor would be a lot closer to an electron microscope cabinet than he ever was to a child's optical microscope. And considering no one ever looks in his scope and he makes beep-boop noises while he magnifies, I find it easy enough to pretend.
i look in the scope
I can take or leave the tank mode but the microscope mode needs some work on the SS toy. Some way to hide or retract the thighs, locking the legs in place and to solidify the standing base of the microscope would be appreciated. Feels very fanmode-y as-is and as far as the tank goes, at least you can jostle it and it'll keep together.
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Does yours make beep-boop noises when he magnifies or did you read poorly?
So I wondered just now how Hasbro could mess up that tank mode so bad in the 80s, and discovered to my own surprise that technically they hadn't.
Microchange Microscope Robo has TWO tank modes and they chose the worse of the two for the Transformers release, omitting the other one.
Microchange Microscope Robo has TWO tank modes and they chose the worse of the two for the Transformers release, omitting the other one.
Those look identical to me except for the angle of the center section. Is that all that's going on here? If so, that seems less like two modes and more like angling up for a mortar shot.
To be fair, gerwalk mode
Eh, gerwalk mode exists because the creator liked it all along and wanted the robot to look like that, and then accidentally made it so that the toy could still turn into that too. Personally I'm all for the vibe of half of a fighter plane with fists and jet skates and don't need the other two modes particularly. And now you can get gerwalk models with Macross girls bent over them as a personal mount, I think it all works out.
Bringing this back up to say yeah, it's like even when they're not using the G1 toy as reference, they're still leaning on it as an excuse there. Retracting the thighs would make a lot of headway toward looking like the animation model. Maybe they just looked at the animation model and got sad and didn't want to try anymore.
yeah that is genuinely all it is
microchange trys to pretend that they're three different modes by calling the mode with the center section down 'scope tank' and the mode with it angled up 'scope cannon' but it's really not
It was probably a friday afternoon and the designer went "eh, close enough."
Another baffling decision is the tab on his taint that serves as the contact point to the surface for microscope mode. Like, why? Would that extra millimeter of crotch really make him any less accurate?
Also tried shining a laser pointer through the scope and it went through. It theoretically could be a working scope but the lens are not quite transparent enough I guess.
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Motormaster looks surprisingly good from the waist up. The legs are a clusterhug but that's to be expected given how he has to pretend to be a whole truck+ trailer when he's just the truck.
Hasbro's had that rule of not releasing combiners that require multiple specific figures to work - Combiner Wars had to be cross compatible across a wide selection of figures, Titan combiners came in a single box, and Battleslash and Roadtrap worked independently and hid the fact that they could combine in the instructions. I like that Menasor solves this by taking advantage of the cartoon combination and allowing Motormaster to combine with his trailer for a super mode that you can optionally attach other Stunticons to.
i like how blitzwing got Menasor hands accessories and Menasor's Batman cosplay.
the only thing i'm really interested in is the elita-1 but also mostly for the minerva version of the mold
i mean i might still pick up the elita-1 release if i see her but yeah
i mean i might still pick up the elita-1 release if i see her but yeah
I was curious about Tarantulas, but I'm not sure if it's really an upgrade over the original mold. Guess I'll wait for reviews.
I'm going to steal April's Elita 1 because I just love that stupid car mode so much. It's sad and I want to take care of it. Someone pointed out that it looks like the Homer and it's uncanny, down to the megaphone on top. Actually not a terrible robot either.
Edit: The Tarantulas is certainly more show accurate and articulated than the original, and has a decent transformation into a spider that looks like a spider and also like the CG one. It's hard to see how that isn't an improvement. It looks on par with the rest of Kingdom.
Edit: The Tarantulas is certainly more show accurate and articulated than the original, and has a decent transformation into a spider that looks like a spider and also like the CG one. It's hard to see how that isn't an improvement. It looks on par with the rest of Kingdom.
Legacy Tarantulas is an upgrade in every possible way.
Eh. Maybe I'm just burned out on the constant rehashes of old stuff. Just doesn't seem like enough of an upgrade to bother over the BWX version. I'll decide when more in-hand pics show up.