Mayhem Transformers Discussion: United We Shelfwarm

[unluckiness]

I like the guns but I have a knockoff of the old 3P kit so I just used the guns from that one. The giant missile launchers on that one always seemed like they simply could not find anything else to do with the oil tank and was superr fiddly for something conceptually simple so I never liked it. The gapfillers on the DNA kit not being black really killed my interest since the rest was stuff I didn't need. Unfortunately, the only real way to make a decent battle station is a complete remake of the trailer.

 

[Princess Viola]

Got Armada Megatron and Armada Starscream today.

Both pretty cool.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Updating Armada has to be hard. The originals already had to sacrifice articulation to afford all that they do, but the budget has gotten worse and the same articulation cuts aren't on the table anymore. Something else has to give, and a lot of it. But they decided not to completely give up the gimmicks either. This took some expert level penny pinching.

This is why I don't complain about Hot Shot's legs or Starscream's wing sword. It is a feat that these are as good as they are.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

I'm waiting for Galvatron.

 

[unluckiness]

This looks pretty good aside from the feet sticking out of the middle boat. Why did they do that? Tidal Wave doesn't even have generic robot feet.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Giving him leg articulation means they have to give him useful feet to support the weight, I suppose.

 

[Princess Viola]

Updating Armada has to be hard. The originals already had to sacrifice articulation to afford all that they do, but the budget has gotten worse and the same articulation cuts aren't on the table anymore. Something else has to give, and a lot of it. But they decided not to completely give up the gimmicks either. This took some expert level penny pinching.

This is why I don't complain about Hot Shot's legs or Starscream's wing sword. It is a feat that these are as good as they are.

The only thing that I wish is that Starscream and Megatron at least had non-functional Mini-Con hardpoints like Hot Shot has on his vehicle rear so you could at least pretend if you still have the OG Mini-Cons.

But I guess since they're not doing Mini-Cons (thanks Micromasters or as I like to call them Microshitsters for flopping), they figure that'd just be pointless.

 

[unluckiness]

Maybe they would have done better if they weren't literal nobodies. Or at least had better weapon modes. The Earthrise floormasters were some of the lamest crap they've come up with and the two packs were just kinky jive with a handle.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Micromasters didn't even try to make sense as a part of Siege. They were just there. They go well with Modulators, but those didn't come out until Earthrise.

 

[Princess Viola]

I like how they didn't even bother to try and make the Micromaster vehicle modes in Stege look 'Cybertronian' at all.

I mean you could say the same with the bigger Stege toys too but like they at least generally add some non-Earth elements to the vehicles.

 

[unluckiness]

If the Deluxe and up robots are the size of their Earth counterparts, it'd make the Micromasters around the size of a large-ish dog. I guess that's not-Earth enough lol

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Because scale in Transformers is ever consistent.

 

[Dekafox]

They gotta fit in the ring if they're going to defend their wrestling titles.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

The artist will just draw the ring as big as it needs to be in the next shot anyway.

 

[unluckiness]

I bought the orange axe and a purple axe. Thinking about going ham and buying the blue and red ones because at this point, I'm not spending money on figures but the gradients on those two seem noticeably worse.

 

[unluckiness]

Tidal Wave really needs a sammich
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[Spin-Out]

this mf has no ass

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It looks good to me, but it doesn't look as massive as it really is. This company has a lot to learn about proportions.

 

[unluckiness]

Fanshobby has technically sound toys for the most part but no sense of aesthetics. He needs flared shins, a bigger lower body in general, big hands and a smaller head to imply size.

I'm interested in this if the handle is 5mm compatible. On the big side for the generations scale but way better than the knife that came with armada Starscream.

 

[MEDdMI]

Tidal Wave really needs a sammich
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The gun turrets look like cow udders.