Blast effects.
Blast effects?
Preordered Magmatron and Code Red. I guess Tidal Wave is (quite rightfully) the Titan this time around.
Little bits of rubbery plastic that become a staple of the commander & titan class figures, well, primary commander class of late!
Thought so but man, they’re tiny. Smaller-looking than the previous effect parts though that may just be a shrunken image of them I guess.
I work with new nurses young enough to be MY DAUGHTER. THAT will mess with your head a bit.
In regards to Magmatron: On the whole, I think the new figure provides enough to be a justifiable improvement over the original. I think my biggest issue is the same one I had with Silverbolt: In trying to maintain accuracy to the original design/look of the character, they end up keeping a lot of the “oddities” of the original design I wished had been addressed better/differently. Magmatron always had a ”messy” design due to his nature as combiner, but I think the inclusion of the extra articulation ends up “accentuating“ the design’s innate “jank”.
All that said, I think between the two, the newer version IS the superior product. Better articulation in bot mode, better details, better deco, and I think the Dino parts are ALL improvements over the original. Hell, given the age of the original (last major release was a 2005-ish Sonokong run), the new one is probably cheaper and easier to get.
Blast effects!
Hand lasers?
They're the exact same ones that come with Omega Supreme, just in purple.
I see. Haven’t had the time to watch the video yet.
I mean, I own the original, so I remember it pretty good. I acknowledge the new guy is a step up, but we’re not talking original Cheetor vs Earthrise Cheetor. Compared to that glow-up, yeah, Magmatron is lateral.
I’m not trying to knock the new toy (I do like it), it’s just that I don’t think there’s as much room for improvement as there is with, say, the year-one BW toys, or any of the G1 toys.
Perhaps a better way to say it is: this new Magmatron is very evocative of the old toy, in a way that I’m not used to seeing with Generations updates. It’s neat. I like them both.
GodDAMN, they gave him some luscious thighs.
It just dawned on me. Despite his name, Big Convoy is actually supposed to be the exact same height as both Lio Convoy and Optimus Primal. If we do get a new updated Big Convoy figure at the correct height he is supposed to be at, then he won't really be as big as his name implies.
Big doesn't necessarily mean tall; Big Convoy is bulkier.
I hope we get BW2 Galvatron...
Yeah, my first reaction was "the new toy looks a bit better but not by much" then I went back and looked at some photos of the original and you're right - it's close, but there are a lot of little bits that add up.
That said, I'm still on the fence as whether the new one is (personally) worth getting. I tend to agree with Steevy that I wish they had experimented with changing some things up in the design a bit to try and improve it, but I understand that's always a risky move and may piss people off (just look at the reaction to Legacy RID Scourge). Might need to dig my original out of storage.
If i were in charge of making a new Magmatron, the only thing that'd be on the list to change for sure are the head wings. Dude thinks he's Dumbo.
Fixed it for you.
