This Heatwave isn't ideal, but it blows away the stuff Armada fans had to put up with before Legacy.
I think that's another reason I find the kvetching about newer figures getting the Generations makeover eye rolling.
I have Armada Megs, Optimus, and Starscream. I love those figures, but they are flawed.
And be it an Armada Starscream who was too small or an Armada Megatron who was just a G1 Megatron with a new head... we didn't have the best of luck getting remakes. Then Legacy knocked Armada revisits out of the park.
RescueBots, for whatever else it may or may not be, has been pretty well represented between Medix, Chase, and Heat Wave. Even if all three have been retools or pretools, they all seem to be pretty solid representations of the designs.
Which is another reason I don't really buy the angst over Heat Wave. This is a design from a pre-school oriented show. That stuff never got the time of day before, now it's getting the mainline treatment and oh no the arms/torso/engine aren't 100%...
I had to make my peace with CW Armada Megatron for years if I wanted an Armada Megs who could bend his knees. Heat Wave having faux parts on his arms on an otherwise faithful design for his first Generations outing is pretty damn good.
We talk about "maturity" but the characters in the cartoon were already very mature. All of the Rescue Bots were coded to having grown up adult minds who took every emergency situation seriously with the gravitas that each one deserved. The show didn't talk down to children, and was arguably more intelligently written than what was intended for its target demographic, skewing it a bit older in a way that made it popular with older viewers.
I mean, hey, Heatwave himself was voiced by Steve Blum using his Wolverine voice, when he didn't even use that voice for Wolverine himself when voicing him in The Super Hero Squad Show.
Let's not confuse quality of writing and tone with artistic style.
RescueBots-in-Generations beckons the question of if they should have the chibi designs from the show, or a "serious" blowup to bring them in line with the Generations line as a whole.
I'm not trying to take away anything from the show bringing that up, it's been a talking point around RescueBots' representation in Gens ever since the first listings of their characters surfaced.
Medix and Chase both erred on the side of downplaying the kiddie/chibi look to make them more "serious," so I don't think it's so bad they opted for that direction with Heat Wave.
I haven't seen any of Rescue Bots either, so I've been skipping the new offerings. Can't collect everything.
Same. Going back to an earlier discussion in this thread, I skipped most of it. So Chase was a pass and Heat Wave will be a pass. Happy for those that wanted them though.
Now I did pick up Medix, but that was more due to liking his design.
