He's certainly got a bunch of shiny copper, but no brown. The toy has a lot of copper AND brown, and I think the latter is really what is throwing it off. I think the contrast between the two colors accentuates it as well (as opposed to if it was just all the same copper color).
The hips being brown when they were white on the show also sticks out a lot IMO, even though it's a relatively small part of the overall figure.
It’s probably due to the brown plastic being the unpaintable type, which is fairly notorious for more limited color choice compared to most other plastics. Kind of like how TM2 Megs has gold paint with mustard-looking plastic but a bit more extreme.
toy colors Tigerhawk is more visually interesting anyway.
toy colors Tigerhawk is more visually interesting anyway.
The extra-bulky front legs contrasted with the stick thin rear legs sure is something.
Can't sabotage what was already broken.
The colors look better in these new pictures. It looks like Takara is using weird lighting in their stock photos again.
I wonder if there will be an upgrade kit that makes the rear legs a bit beefier and adds a "Battlecat/Catilla" styled helmet, amongst lots of extra gumf no one wants for the bargain price of 45 dollars?
You can totally sabotage something that's already broken. Just because something is working badly doesn't mean it can't be made worse in some way.
Why do you have to go and call me out like that.
Wait, what? How? Was Beast Machines Takara's idea?
Wrong sabotage.
They’re definitely more consistent but the shade itself looks like he’s consisted of 50% Ovaltine
It appears the hind legs are so scrawny because they have to transform on to the top of his chest. I doubt it.
They're bird legs. They look fine to me.
The BW toy and the show model also had bird legs but weren’t this comically tiny. It’s not just that they’re thinner, they’re also shorter than they used to be. It’s definitely a compromise for the robot mode proportions. it doesn’t help that the front legs are even beefier and longer than the model or old toy and the resulting beast mode emphasizes the difference between the limbs even more.
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Got to thinking, as long as they're doing Beast Wars, I'd love a show-accurate TransMetal Rattrap. Backpack that flips, detachable wheel-shields, and his gun. Bonus if he gets his bombs, too.
He's the second biggest TM character I want, the first being Rampage.
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I want a new tm cheetor and megatron...
I want a new tm cheetor and megatron...
Probably as clip on, partsforming "armour" then for the legs.
A new TM Megatron would be cool. And I suppose a new TM Cheetor would be nice, but honestly, the original toy was pretty cool, and it's gonna be hard to improve on that.