The CW Prime mold did not have potential because it just sucked lmao.
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I like how much it grows going from truck to robot.
It made an okay Motormaster. It was terrible for Prime. And also terrible for Menasor.
I kinda hoped they'd make a terrible Ultra Magnus out of it too. With a trailer that breaks into pieces that are interchangeable with combiner limbs.
Last in my haul is Bumblebee. I like him but there are a few things about him I don’t like. Articulation is decent, though his left elbow is waaaay tighter than his right and the sheer size of his feet make some poses awkward regardless of the tilts. Paint is what it is but it is a bit offbrand that his windows are black. May try to fix that but it isn’t terrible. The yellows don’t match. This isn’t even like sunstreaker’s clear blue bleeding through, the yellow paint really needed one or two more coats. Transformation is decent. He comes woth a gun that stores on his back. It works. I don’t like his face since the expression is a bit too grumpy for Bumblebee.
vehicle mode is totally not a Beetle. Wish the roof were a bit rounder and the hood has a weird slope to it. It looks like a PS1 render of a Beetle. It rolls and all the lights and rims are painted so it’s alright in my book.
Bee is a neat little figure. I don’t have much to dtraxt from him and he is a solid little figure. My only complaint is that the various deluxe minibots usually come with some kind of accessories to offset their diminutive size. Bee has a tiny pistol and is tiny himself and not particularly complex. He isn’t a bad toy by any means just not a good value.
also, I cracked the color mixes. This is gonna be a fun little project.
vehicle mode is totally not a Beetle. Wish the roof were a bit rounder and the hood has a weird slope to it. It looks like a PS1 render of a Beetle. It rolls and all the lights and rims are painted so it’s alright in my book.
Bee is a neat little figure. I don’t have much to dtraxt from him and he is a solid little figure. My only complaint is that the various deluxe minibots usually come with some kind of accessories to offset their diminutive size. Bee has a tiny pistol and is tiny himself and not particularly complex. He isn’t a bad toy by any means just not a good value.
also, I cracked the color mixes. This is gonna be a fun little project.
I had hoped a third party had done that with an Optimus trailer, giving us a Powermaster Prime look.
Saw a 3d print model for a toy based head (complete with the backplate) and arms (all black with sculpted wheels) for that Bee. If a proper injection molded upgrade kit shows up with those I might consider it.
Wish the stock head had been at least as friendly and upbeat as the Origin Bee one.
Would love this retooled into Glyph.
Wish the stock head had been at least as friendly and upbeat as the Origin Bee one.
Would love this retooled into Glyph.
I think that's the reason they made it, honestly. They probably could have gotten the ok from VW to paint Netflix Bumblebee up in Sunbow accurate colours, but they didn't just want that. They wanted something that evoked G1 Bumblebee that they could recolour any way they wanted, for any character they wanted, without having to get additional approval from, or send more money to, VW.
Cliffjumper's half Porsche 924 Turbo/half Mitsubishi Starion wasn't going to cut it going forward, so they made a faux-VW Beetle.
I like this guy like you wouldn't believe.
They finally did the accessory set right. The accessories are made for specific Siege characters, but they're made of modular pieces and work as generic weapons you can give to anyone.
But I don't have any Siege toys, so I guess he'll have to keep them all himself.
I don't think there's any intended way to do this, but it works. The bomb and the energon canister are just rattling around in there but they're not going anywhere.
They finally did the accessory set right. The accessories are made for specific Siege characters, but they're made of modular pieces and work as generic weapons you can give to anyone.
But I don't have any Siege toys, so I guess he'll have to keep them all himself.
I don't think there's any intended way to do this, but it works. The bomb and the energon canister are just rattling around in there but they're not going anywhere.
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I was thinking with all of those weapons on his back: " A-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go, Heigh-ho, the derry-o, A-hunting we will go."
This set is a mixed bag. You guys weren't kidding about the Skullgrin mold. It's not good. I like the Allicon in robot mode. I don't know if there's something I'm missing but it appears to be impossible to tab the arms into place in beast mode. It's not about the tolerances between the tabs and slots. They just don't even line up. Oh well. The Seeker is just Thundercracker. I don't know what's up with some people's cameras, but it is not even the tiniest tinge in the direction of purple. On the bright side, it's a better looking Thundercracker than the actual Earthrise Thundercracker. It's a keeper.
I only bought this set for the Autotrooper, and I'm glad I did because it's the highlight of the set. I'm sure it was a fine Ironhide and Ratchet, but it really wears these colors well.
Have you even stood it next to Thundercracker? Because it's a completely different shade of blue. It's not really even close.
Yeah, but, it was consistently and repeatedly advertised and argued as being a shade of purple.
When I first saw it, it was a must get. Then I soured on it after seeing some in-hand pics. Then some pics comparing him to Thundercracker came out and I was on board again.
Yeah, he should be purple, but he's definitely a more... lavender... shade of blue than ole' Lightninghonkey and distinct in his own right. I'm glad I picked him up when it's all said and done.
I said it's a better looking Thundercracker than Earthrise Thundercracker. That would have been an odd thing to say if I hadn't noticed that the blues are different. Obviously I noticed.
Point is, if they'd sold this version first and called it Thundercracker, nobody would have questioned it.
This forum's reading comprehension is really piss poor.
It's definitely one of those things that appear different on a screen/via a camera and in person. (It even varies depending on the lighting; doesn't look the same between Coffee's and LGI's pics.)
It's distinct from Thundercracker's slightly greener blue, which, in both Earthrise and Siege, seemed to have a drop of yellow in there -- which I didn't realize until I made a slightly-less-greebly version of the Siege one in the cartoony light blue I prefer for TC. (It's certainly not the toy dark blue that the Deluxe Seeker from Generations had.)
BUT while I maintain that it's a distinct blue from Thundercracker's by way of shading more toward red than yellow, it's only just so. And it's still more blue than it is purple. That it only really becomes apparent when you put them side by side is indicative of that. I can see what CoffeeHorse means by this being reasonably Thundercracker-y on its own. They definitely should have gone a click or five further away.
(I'm sure there's one of the many background Seekers that IS this bluish purple, that's not the point I'm making at all.)
The Autrotrooper is absolutely the star here, with the Seeker a fair second for the custom potential (which would be higher if it were half as easy as the Siege one to disassemble, damn rivets). But I'm annoyed at the new "this alt head is actually just a mask" bit, because that makes making a custom out of the Earth mode van mold harder.
The other two are tied for last (although I am less fond of the Quintesson goon mold). I wish they'd put the Devastation Runatwin redeco or really anything else in this set instead of them. Maybe even SS86 Gnaw in the funky Pit of Judgment colors. Or hell, a second, car-based Autotrooper -- Earthrise Prowl with opaque windows and its own neck thing that can take the other Autotrooper head.
It's distinct from Thundercracker's slightly greener blue, which, in both Earthrise and Siege, seemed to have a drop of yellow in there -- which I didn't realize until I made a slightly-less-greebly version of the Siege one in the cartoony light blue I prefer for TC. (It's certainly not the toy dark blue that the Deluxe Seeker from Generations had.)
BUT while I maintain that it's a distinct blue from Thundercracker's by way of shading more toward red than yellow, it's only just so. And it's still more blue than it is purple. That it only really becomes apparent when you put them side by side is indicative of that. I can see what CoffeeHorse means by this being reasonably Thundercracker-y on its own. They definitely should have gone a click or five further away.
(I'm sure there's one of the many background Seekers that IS this bluish purple, that's not the point I'm making at all.)
The Autrotrooper is absolutely the star here, with the Seeker a fair second for the custom potential (which would be higher if it were half as easy as the Siege one to disassemble, damn rivets). But I'm annoyed at the new "this alt head is actually just a mask" bit, because that makes making a custom out of the Earth mode van mold harder.
The other two are tied for last (although I am less fond of the Quintesson goon mold). I wish they'd put the Devastation Runatwin redeco or really anything else in this set instead of them. Maybe even SS86 Gnaw in the funky Pit of Judgment colors. Or hell, a second, car-based Autotrooper -- Earthrise Prowl with opaque windows and its own neck thing that can take the other Autotrooper head.
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I'm not sure I agree. The Air Warrior is just a bit too purple to work as G1 Thundercracker.
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