I’m no designer or engineer. But this doesn’t seem that hard, especially considering some of the remolds that have been done in the past.
I'm liking Pointblank, but Peacemaker's just...meh.
Eh? I think he looks even worse. His alt mode just has a big hole in the back because they didn't have enough parts for his spoiler, it's too long, and the doors now have carriage steps. It doesn't work at all, and the robot mode remains awful.
Bad times for Legacy in general between this mess and painted fecking windows on Dead End.
IDK, I have an overly nostalgic fondness for the classic Targetmaster partners. This version of Peacemaker would fit in rather well with them.
That said, if Hasbro wanted to release multipacks of the Battlemasters or the Legends Targetmasters in Selects, I would be all for better-articulated versions, too.
I guess what I'm saying is, more Targetmasters is always a win to me?
From all the material Mark has shared...I'm not sure I believe that. Now, that doesn't mean other factors haven't come into play...but they've done some crazy ass remolding and have been pretty damn "loose" in their reinterpretation of non-G1 characters. I stand by my earlier comment!
Going by the images, I would say it would be pretty easy to get a Armada Blurr out of Pointblank, just pull a Universe 2.0 Sideswipe/Sunstreaker, where the torso is facing the other direction and a new head plus a different weapon
I think people are getting to hung up on the shoulders looking similar and are ignoring the huge elephant cape in the room.
I think the general idea is that, for non-G1 character updates, close enough counts. In that respect, Pointblank would be the best G1 update to retool into Armada Blurr, as those shoulders are similarly prominent on both characters. But, there is enough different that it would likely not please all fans of Armada Blurr.
Incidentally, has Armada Blurr actually been rumored? Or was everyone making an assumption about what Velocitron Blurr would be before he was revealed? I just wonder if Armada Blurr is even on the table?
People did think Velocitron Blurr would be Armada Blurr, yes.
I think Starscream and Megatron are the only confirmed Armada names as of now. Optimus was rumored as maybe a 20th anniversary figure. Blurr is pure speculation at this point.
There's also a Hot Shot listing
Not 100% confirmed to be armada, but it'd be weird if it wasn't
Not 100% confirmed to be armada, but it'd be weird if it wasn't
I don't assume that, just because robot modes look superficially the same, one character (often with a radically different vehicle mode) can easily be mapped onto another.
In this case the vehicle mode isn't radically different. There is really nothing complicated about this unless they think they would have to find a way to keep the cape.
Okay I like the cape. But a well articulated toy would be better off without the cape anyway.
Okay I like the cape. But a well articulated toy would be better off without the cape anyway.
No, it was on “the big leak” from last year.
When the leakers revealed 2022’s product line up, the information provided AT THAT TIME was that Pointblank was going to be remolded into Armada Blurr. Override and Cosmos were intended to be retools of SS Hot rod and Origins BB, which Hasbro themselves even revealed those original plans.
That list has basically run to completely accurate in characters, 80-90% accurate in how the characters were addressed. At some point, the plan for an Armada Blurr was dropped, and we got the IDW version instead.
The deviations wouldn’t be any more extreme than what has been done to Elita 1, or the Pretenders, or the Prime Universe interpretations.
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I don't think it's unrecognizable.