This is what I've thought since pics first surfaced. That huge expanse of gold plastic seemed kind of dull, but I'd hoped something was being lost to the camera. Oh well, Reprolabels will probably come up with something.
More pictures are out of Armada Prime. It’s like, my wallet says no, my brain says “wait for repaint”…but I’ll be dipped if it doesn’t look gorgeous.
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Worth noting the image source did some minor updating by adding red to the super mode eyes and the gold to the small bot toes.
Even More Legacy Evolution Commander Armada Optimus Prime In-Hand Images
TFW's users seem to have been enjoying our continued coverage of the recently-revealed Legacy Evolution Commander Armada Optimus Prime figure, so we thought it'd be nice to highlight yet another photo gallery to start off the weekend, this one courtesy of TFW board member Phamduc. This gallery...
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Worth noting the image source did some minor updating by adding red to the super mode eyes and the gold to the small bot toes.
Armada Prime's super mode is a certain kind of nostalgia for me. Its just so...one of a kind. No other primes look like him, hell, no other primes look like his normal robot mode either. I'll always love it, and now I can pose it beautifully. Peak Aaron Archer. I'd snag a Jetfire so fast too.
Little touches that make it look so much nicer, even.
No parking means no parking.
The problem is, other than shiny gold, he is kind of boring looks wise. A few black painted lines like we see in the anime would have helped to break it up a bit though.
It's a decent deco, and the headsculpt is great (though I'm not sure about goign with toy accuracy over show accuracy here) but the vehicle mode is just wrong all around and the bot mode tries. It tries SO hard but I'm not sure it gets there.
I dunno; I don't have an especial fondness for RiD so I probably wasn't going to pick this up anyhow, despite being a junkion-type, but is this doing it for RiD fans?
While I liked RID, its about my favourte TF show, this Towline, be honest, I'm not exactly a super fan of the mold, mainly how the arms store in vehicle mode, its troublesome getting them in and the joint on the elbow I fear will break, one day, then Towline wasn't exactly a important character, he had his debut ep and after that he didn't show up again until the finally same with Skids, but at least Towline had a memorible quote "No Parking, means no Parking!!!" otherwise he would pretty much be a forgotten character similar to most of the Spy changers, they barely had any personalties to them and the show focused primary on the Autobot brothers, OP, Magnus and the combiners for the Autobots as characters
For me, it feels like back when Cybertron Scourge was redecoed into RID'01 Bruticus in the 2008-2009 Universe line, which was both weird and awesome at the same time. In that sense, this to me isn't RID'01 Tow-Line as seen in the cartoon, but a new-body upgrade of him from a post-series point in time.
Evolution!
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Nope.
But Tow Line didn't ultimately need improving anyway. Replacement Combatrons or Spychangers with articulation is really the only things I'd be interested in (or the Predacon Base at Titan scale I guess), otherwise RID is already a very show accurate line for the most part with good articulation - all that remakes are going to be is more cheaply made inaccurate versions.
If I get an enterprise transformer, it has to be a titan class AND it has to only come up to the knee on metroplex. Literally the smallest titan ever.