I wonder if they'll do Hot shot out of the Elita one mold?
I wonder if they'll do Hot shot out of the Elita one mold?
I'm referring to the recent NEW talk of Armada Blurr that started up with Pointblank's reveal long after Velocitron Blurr's reveal.
Which is likely a throwback to when the big leak indicated that Velocitron Blurr was seemingly intended to be a remold of Blanker into Armada Blurr Instead of the SS retool we ended up getting.
Now that people have seen Pointblank, it’s like “yeah, I could see them getting an Armada Blurr looking guy from this”.
Clarification: After writing that above, I realized that I didn’t type that as such in my original post. Autocorrect decided it wasn’t cooperating with me at that moment and I missed it. Sorry for the confusion, and I corrected it above.
While the transformation "skeleton" could work, we haven't seen as many extensive retools in recent lines, mostly just alternate heads/weapons. Seems to be a different approach to reusing molds as compared to CW/TR/POTP.
I'm shocked that they haven't done that already.
If you all say so. I don't think they're so similar.
I mean, sure, they're at least as close as some of the BotCon toys of the past, but I'd hope that's no longer our standard.
They got Cybertron Prime out of an Ultra Magnus. This is a much smaller leap than that.
I won't argue further. Certainly I grant that such things are possible (given the desire and resources to make the effort), and never suggested otherwise. This is more about assuming things that not only haven't even been announced yet, but which Hasbro has specifically said they think is beyond what they can do easily. If they say so, I'm not going to second-guess them.
If I'm wrong (perhaps Hasbro was just deflecting?), I'll still happily consider the new Armada Blurr toy whenever it's revealed, and decide whether or not to buy it based on how good a job they did and how much I decide I want that toy.
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To clarify, when Mark says that he thinks Armada Blurr from Pointblank isn't doable, he's likely talking about the fact that, while we fans would be satisfied with a Blurr that looks like the one quoted below, Hasbro wouldn't be. They'd want to go all the way to make it look like Armada Blurr proper, not just a gray and blue Pointblank wearing Blurr's head. And "going all the way" is what he's probably referring to when he says it isn't doable.
I don't think it's unrecognizable.
It's a nice color scheme either way.
Like the wings?
I think the lack of his "cape" is a problem, but not in the way people are thinking of. Blurr has that because he's a near-total shellformer, with his robot mode made almost entirely out of blue parts that aren't part of his silver vehicle mode, and Pointblank is not. You can put Blurr's colors on Pointblank in either mode and have it be immediately recognizable as Armada Blurr, but the Blurr-decoed Pointblank robot doesn't turn into the Blurr-decoed Pointblank car. Even an alternate "backwards" robot mode would still require his big blue boots to turn into the silver rear third of the car.
I do think a "compromise" deco is possible that would be immediately recognizable as Armada Blurr in both modes, but I also think it would be further outside the lines than Hasbro's been willing to color lately, to say nothing of fan reaction.
I do think a "compromise" deco is possible that would be immediately recognizable as Armada Blurr in both modes, but I also think it would be further outside the lines than Hasbro's been willing to color lately, to say nothing of fan reaction.
To put it another way, aside from the very exceptional oddity that is Velocitron Scourge, when's the last time the current Hasbro team gave us a redeco/remold that was just "close enough" (like what BotCon and the TCC used to do) instead of giving the full extra effort to really make the redeco/remold look "proper" and "accurate"?
And, outside of special cases where the redeco/remold is meant to be the character in a new/different bodyform altogether, I mean.
And, outside of special cases where the redeco/remold is meant to be the character in a new/different bodyform altogether, I mean.
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Every single one of the Botcon beast homages are garbage color wise.
They’re readily recognizable sure but all of them are inferior to the genuine article.
Ironhide also seems to be particularly egregious since he’s lacking a stripe DESPITE costing $10 AND being in the hyper-accurate line.
They’re readily recognizable sure but all of them are inferior to the genuine article.
Ironhide also seems to be particularly egregious since he’s lacking a stripe DESPITE costing $10 AND being in the hyper-accurate line.
My Soundwave hasn't been affected yet, but I have seen it on Cyclones. I guess OG Siege Megatron is immune to it?
I should have specified Netflix Soundwave and Kingdoms Grimlock from the two pack, Siege seems to have been spared this with the possible exception of Jetfire. Cyberverse Deluxe Arcee is a severe case of yellowing, lets jsut say she's meant to be white and pink. You'll probably notice some discolorment on Selects Artfire too.
It's alleged Hasbro addressed this in a Q&A and blamed it on a faulty batch of plastic.
It's alleged Hasbro addressed this in a Q&A and blamed it on a faulty batch of plastic.
My Botropolis set is still fine.