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Steevy Maximus

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The Phazer said:
Given we probably won't get another one for twenty years I'm so sad about what a mess that toy is. Ugly painted windows and pram wheels 30% too big for the chassis.

The current design team has obviously just given up on alt modes.
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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.
 
Sabrblade

Sabrblade

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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.
 
Shadewing

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Dekafox said:
Honestly, I think the pose makes the legs look worse than they are, if you compare them to the animation model. That also seems to me to be the reason for the tires.
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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.
 
Andrusi

Andrusi

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That's a pretty good toy of a Gears cosplayer.
 
PrimalxConvoy

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Won't there be a Studio 86 version down the line?
 
Andrusi

Andrusi

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What did Gears do in the movie?
 
MrBlud

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I’ve always headcanon’d that the attack merely destroyed their body storage while both Wheeljack and Windcharger were in their BT Bodies
 
Sabrblade

Sabrblade

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NovaSaber said:
Yeah, the story of Binaltech basically says exactly that; that Wheeljack's GT System duplicate survived, so he didn't die when his original body was destroyed.
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Not exactly.

Superomegaprime said:
My mistake, but then Wheeljack somehow comes back to life for Victory series, then I wonder if during the time gap between season 2 & the movie, he invented a cloning means and cloned himself so that he could live beyond the battle of Autobot city?
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MrBlud said:
I’ve always headcanon’d that the attack merely destroyed their body storage while both Wheeljack and Windcharger were in their BT Bodies
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What actually happened is, after the later chapters of Binaltech were split off into their own alternate timeline separate from the main one (via time-travel shenanigans similar to those that split the timeline in two at the end of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time), the denizens of the BT World were eventually able to make contact with the main timeline, and the Wheeljack and Prowl of the BT World were sent across the dimensions to get some supplies from the main timeline to bring back to theirs.

After a couple of supply trips back and forth, however, the two ended up stranded in the main timeline due to the Quintessons of the BT World sealing off that world from all others with a Quadrant Lock (the same thing they had used in the G1 season 3 episode "The Face of the Nijika" to seal off the world of the Zamojin).

With the BT World versions of Wheeljack and Prowl unable to return back to their home dimension, the two simply decided to stay in the main timeline and take the places of their deceased counterparts who died back in the events of TFTM, switching out there BT bodies for new ones similar to those that they had before they received their BT bodies (and similar to those of their deceased counterparts).

All this was done to explain how Prowl is alive in The Headmasters, and how Wheeljack is alive in Victory, as these events took place in early 2011, in a short manga story titled "Controverse".
 
Magnusblitz

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Sciflyer said:
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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Same thing. I even found a Brawn in a store the other day and again debated getting him, but in the end decided I'm not gonna be paying $25 for a deluxe that I'm not immediately sold on. Though every time I skip a guy like this I worry in 5 years I'll be regretting it. At least for Brawn I still have the Titans Return Legend-size one.
 
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