Yeah, that's pretty awful. Proportions are terrible in both modes. I'm trying to figure out what they used for reference because he barely resembles the toy or animation models.
I'm not so sure, we've gotten quite a few versions of Hotrod(imus), Arcee, etc in quick succession, so maybe Gears will get another version in a few years too?
I feel the same way about this Gears that I did when Brawn was announced. His face and upper body are fine, but the lower part...egads. I don't know what's going on with those skinny, doofy-looking wheels in vehicle mode, either, but they're an eyesore. I feel like this team is capable of much better.
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- Apparently, a like-minded photoshopper also found that Legacy Gears features an (sadly unpainted) opening chest, as featured in the G1 episode where he gets his old grumpy personality back via a (disk/cassette?).
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We're just ignoring the fucked up tire in the vehicle mode stock photo huh?
Never change Hasbro stock photography, never change lol
Never change Hasbro stock photography, never change lol
Eh, we’ll probably get another round of 84-86 in about 10-15 years when costs force the average deluxe down to the size of a core. Or when the need to match Sunbow character models gets exhausted (which is probably a factor in the alt mode complaint, the team is prioritizing the robot mode over the vehicle mode).
That said, while I get what you’re saying about the windows, I’d much rather have painted windows than Hasbro use clear plastic. Because with the part/sprue counts down to where they are, I’d take the unsightly painted windows over a bunch of clear parts prone to breakage in a couple years.
In addition to what Dekafox said about the pose making this figure look unflattering, I think what's so off-putting about how this figure looks is how it tried to have its cake and eat it too. Meaning, they tried to make his robot mode resemble the cartoon model, but also tried to make the truck mode look realistic and not at all "cute and chibi" like how it was for the original toy. The more realistic proportions of the truck have created a more stretched look that adds more mass to it, more mass that had to go somewhere in the originally stout robot mode design, whose legs have now become longer and lankier thanks to the more realistic truck bed being longer itself.
Yeah, this is about as close as you can get to the Sunbow model. For me, I'm really not that picky. Gears has had ONE other toy since the original, not counting the Movieverse toy, And the T30 one is a nowadays lazy "was okay" at the time one, but it was just a brawn-ish head on Swerve's body in Blue and Red. All the other Minibots get mulitple toys or reimaginings, like Universe Hulking Powerglide, or the Gold Box "Can be at least three different continuities" Seaspray. Swerve himself gets more love then Gears does, despite being a remold of Gears.
Gears is one of the few Early G1 Autobots that is constantly forgotten about, Hell SKIDS gets more love and attention and he's pretty much "Sir Not Appearing in this Cartoon". Even when it might have been easy to do; Like with how the POTP Brawn toy transformed and looked, thet could have made Gears out of him with little issue; New chest and head like Outback got, leave off the Sheild/gun thing and he'd not be a terrible Gears but still never happened.
Won't there be a Studio 86 version down the line?
Play dead during the attack on Autobot city
Nuh uh.
So we need Studio Series Wheeljack and Windcharger
We already got a dead guy two-pack in Buzzworthy, what's a couple more.
Not a bad looking Gears...
I can dig it.
I can dig it.
