I kind of miss the red but I’m glad the pea soup green and the rust brown are gone.
Tidal Wave does look really nice. As much as I like him, I wasn't originally going to get the Titan release. But they have packed so much good stuff into it that I can't pass it up. Oh, and I am a little miffed that he has a much better base mode than TR Fort Max. Didn't see a Tidal Wave base mode coming, and I sure didn't expect it to look as good as it does.
Huh. Thundertron just hit my Pile of Loot. Wasn't expecting him for a bit.
Better stop that pirate before he steals your loot.
He's after yer booty!
Don't threaten me with a good time.
It's not perfect. I can see things that theoretically could have been done better with unlimited time and budget. But they didn't have that, so some things had to give. I'm satisfied, because I don't see anything that doesn't have a fair reason for being the way it is. Tidal Wave has a long and contradictory priority list, and they picked as many things as they could. I may have picked different ones, but I can't say the ones they picked are the wrong ones.
The Legs, their boat mode on the orginal had a gimmick of being able to flip up to have seats for minicons, being a troop transport boat kinda like you see at the start of Saving Private Ryan.
Fort Max does have the excuse of being an awkward CW Metroplex retooling.
I know they'll never do it, but I wish they'd redo Fort Max.
I'm content with the Kabaya one. It keeps a lot more features than TR did, and the size makes it actually fun to handle.
I’m fairly confident they’ll redo Fort Max and Metroplex at some point. They’re going to run out of big characters or ships to turn into big characters eventually. And if not retail, there’s always HasLab.
Oh, that's gone? Dang, that was one of my favorite parts.
I still hate that I had to miss out on Encore Fort Max. ;_;
I really love and appreciate my wife getting me TR Fortress Maximus in its place when it came around, but... well, I don't think I have to explain it here, yeah?
At this point, I'm almost kind of practically willing to settle.
I think.
Maybe.
Sigh. G1 Fort Max is probably the one I've wanted the longest, for as long as its been around, so I dunno. (I'd settle for a Brave Max, if I could get accessories. With the nighttime lights deco and color scheme, I almost prefer it.)
I’ve got the Encore version as well and love it as I could never afford a complete G1 version. I do have the rerelease of him on pre order, but might cancel. He’s honestly just going to sit in a tote in the garage for awhile.