How does Megatron tunnel when the drill doesn’t reach past the treads?
Depending upon the remolded shoulders, there should be a 5 ML port on either side that lets you put the cannon futher forward, so if this was a real machine, it would likely slide forwards to start tunnelling and when he needs to stop, it moves backwards, that's my thoery anyway!!
I think I’d much rather pay the $50 extra for them to take another swing at it.
He hasn’t aged well in anything except price.
T30 Metroplex was never good. Just big.
That's been a pretty common problem with drill tanks in fiction.
Which ones? The only examples I can even think of (of drills not reaching past the treads) are very specifically the Transformers ones that are retools of regular tanks, which have their drills in place of the tank's cannon.
"Drill tanks" normally have the drill(s) in front of the main body, and the majority of them don't even have turrets.
Even the ones whose designs look the most non-functional for other reasons (Cybertron Menasor comes to mind) get the "drill is the part that's farthest forward" part right.
"Drill tanks" normally have the drill(s) in front of the main body, and the majority of them don't even have turrets.
Even the ones whose designs look the most non-functional for other reasons (Cybertron Menasor comes to mind) get the "drill is the part that's farthest forward" part right.
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As long as they don't hold themselves to the original appearance of his alt mode to the level they've been doing since WFC.
To be fair, the original 1986 Metroplex toy's altmodes still look better than those of Thrilling 30 Metroplex.
Oh yeah. This is how I felt about the Ark too, and what I've been saying about a Lost Light if they ever make one. Er, but scaled to like Core and old Cyberverse, not the main line...
This has been the case for a few of their offerings, for me. I can understand lumping together, say, 4 Core class sticker sheets into one set, or multiple Micromaster/WFC cassette sets into one set, and I've even picked up a few such offerings since the total is still reasonably priced.
But as much as I love the hell out of that Prime/Beast Hunters Smokescreen set for Buzzworthy Silverstreak, I have zero use for the stickers-and-parts stuff for Wheeljack that's bundled with it. Same for the Slicer set, as I'm content with the look of Exo-Suit guy.
I would love for all of the dumb "we want clear windows... and now we want to cover them up" cel-shaded window nonsense to be on separate sheets. Those are the most optional of optional things. Move them to a whole separate category of stickers, and just make sets that restore old paint/sticker details or break up large chunks of color or complete a look.
I'm guessing of it is also justifying the cost of making a sheet of a certain size, or something, which is why there's so much other filler as well (the G2 Go-Bot Op would be interesting, but there's so much tacky-looking filler I never seriously considered it). Instead of those I'd love more "alternate options" for some stickers (Kingdom Tracks has gold and yellow hood flames; the TR Laser Op sheet had original stickers and reissue stickers, iirc). This is a great way for a single order to really feel worth it, as in an era of redecos coming out in short succession you can sticker multiples up.
Or, since they're clearly fine with smaller $5 sets (of which they make a few), some offerings could probably be trimmed down to the $5 or $10 range.
The quality has always been good and I've gotten lucky in terms of not getting poorly-cut stickers etc, and their customer service has never failed me. It's kind of stunning that all these years later no one else seems to have really stepped up to play in this niche (although there are some sellers with what looks like water-slide decals or rub-transfer stickers?). But this also speaks to how much of a go-to they are.
But the costs are just getting prohibitive and as good as the finished product might look compared to bare plastic, it takes me a while before I can talk myself into dropping $25 on stickers.
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A good chance for some folks that missed out to get him!
I'd say most of them suffer from the same general issue (just google "drill tank") which is a screw that is not as wide in diameter as the body of the vehicle and/or other stuff in the way. Some are worse than others of course, but on the whole - a real tunnel-boring machine isn't especially dynamic looking; they're just soda cans with grinders on the end.
Technically you only need the drill to work like that if you're trying to tunnel; if you're just drilling to mine out ore, you just need to be able to touch the rock.
That said, robot mode would be a way more efficient way for Megatron to do things so the drill tank is really just them trying to square away an alt-mode.
That said, robot mode would be a way more efficient way for Megatron to do things so the drill tank is really just them trying to square away an alt-mode.
I'd say most of them suffer from the same general issue (just google "drill tank") which is a screw that is not as wide in diameter as the body of the vehicle and/or other stuff in the way. Some are worse than others of course, but on the whole - a real tunnel-boring machine isn't especially dynamic looking; they're just soda cans with grinders on the end.
That's boring, all right.
Motormaster up for pre order at BBTS.
This is definitely cool because I hear that he was tough to get. If only they could tool a much better-looking car mode for Breakdown to go with it. The other bots' alt modes look incredible, IMO.
I am glad that he is getting resissued, but it would be neat to get a boxset of all of them.
I never found him in the wild last time but was able to get all of the limbs. I’m not even a big fan of the Stunticons but it just looked so nice. I have a feeling the Aerialbots will be next. I’d love to see a proper Computron.
Me too! Especially since I had to sell my Combiner Wars version in the Great purge of 2018. I always loved the G1 set as a kid, especially scattershot.
Rumor was Defensor was next.
Makes sense as Motormaster can be retooled as a Firetruck far easier than he could be a Concorde. Limb placement should be roughly similar too.