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I prefer the original WFC Starscream toy. They could have upscaled it and saved themselves a bit of dosh on the R&D, added some Takara styled metallic paint, a bit of battle damage and weathering to it and called it a day. I would have bought it then.
SS-109 Bumblebee Movie Concept Megatron
I will probably buy the inevitable official and repainted/oversized KO versions of this figure. It looks SOOOO good. Heck, I wouldn't mind this repainted in G1 Blitzwing colours.
SS-109 Bumblebee Movie Concept Megatron
I will probably buy the inevitable official and repainted/oversized KO versions of this figure. It looks SOOOO good. Heck, I wouldn't mind this repainted in G1 Blitzwing colours.
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That WfC Starscream is awful.
Megatron feels too much like an Action Master who a few sort of alt modes have been mushed in. Scorponok looks worse than the Weaponiser. Wheeljack looks more like the film design but I think I prefer the mainline one. Mohawk is... ghastly but was always going to be. Scrapheap looks nice enough. Starscream is woeful. I am absolutely baffled as to why you should show it in comparison to the original game CAD or the deluxe given it is significantly worse than both of them. Rumble is... kind of fun?
Fairly slim pickings.
Fairly slim pickings.
Them showing awesome concept vs completely different and mediocre reality feels almost like deliberate trolling.
They've got like four lines running concurrently. One of them is bound to get screwed over on quality.
It doesn't help matters that those are very /simple/ designs; its not like they are completely unrelated or you can't tell what goes where. It's very clear where the chest, legs, and feet are; Megantron basically just lies flat on his back. we see that the sides of the tank flip down and reveal wings, jet mode is largely just tank mode with a cockpit; but it works becuase the tank mode is already very sleek and streamlined. The only improvement inmo is the toy has the cannon on the underside where it would be more effective.
I'm not an engineer; but it seems like there's no reason they couldn't have made the alt modes look more like the concept; when it looks like the concept art feels like its designed with toy potential in mind.
Megatron's tank mode is really good in a Metal Slug kind of way. The jet mode isn't great, but I never expected him to be a triple changer to begin with so I can just pretend it doesn't exist.
I will get the Junkion and perhaps Megatron (the toy didn't seem to be as good as the previous post's CG/concept renders) and Scorpa-not (as it's kind of got G1 Insecticon colours). The robot mode isn't great though...
I do not understand Megatron's alt modes. Those are clearly not the same things as the concept art. It's not that the proportions are off or some details are there but the wrong shape. They are not the concept vehicle modes at all.
It seems like so much more work to accomplish so much less.
It seems like so much more work to accomplish so much less.
I believe they were aiming to be faithful to the robot mode desgin and its not like this Megatron had a on screen appearance and they are working off the CAD files they have for the desgins, same goes with Gamer SS!
They're calling it Gamer Edition and yet none of them have voice chips to yell racial slurs at you like real Gamers.
Smh Hasbro, missed opportunity.
Smh Hasbro, missed opportunity.
Maybe if they ever do MP verisons they'll have voice chips that can be programed via a app to say whatever you want them to say, like "Until all and GONE!!" or "MEGATRON!!! (screaming style)" or "Bow to me, your new leader!"
Metal Slug was my first thought when the pics were tiny and a little blurry. Once we got the full pics though, it's really kind of a mess.
That's so 2006. Gamer Edition is trying to reflect today's gaming, by releasing designs that obviously needed more time in development.