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Sanjeev Wrote:
> The concept of a toy being optimized for certain
> poses is kind of an interesting one to me. Like,
> in the designer vinyl thread, we talked about
> "fight figures" (think original He-Man or TMNT
> toys), where the toy is pretty much locked in a
> "battle ready" pose. For classical robot toys, the
> pose was always the rigid, stand-at-attention
> pose. But for a lot of modern toys that are almost
> geared more for adults, we get a lot of crotch
> thrust or wide "A" stances.

If a modern robot toy can't do a nice, relaxed, moderate A-stance than I get mad at it. (Think the stance that all of the Gundam Fix design art has - they even have occasional articles in hobby magazines about how to get your kits and figures into that pose at just the right angle.)


> That's one of my only criticisms of the Unicron
> toy: either he has a crazy-awkward-looking
> "attention" stance, where is ankles look bolted
> together, or he has a really wide A stance.
> Neither looks right to me: the ankles-together
> pose doesn't work on him like it does on a Jumbo
> Machinder, and the wide stance makes him look like
> he's about to do some chop-socky on your ass. Why
> would a planet-sized robot need to roundhouse kick
> me??? But like a lot of modern toys, he's just not
> designed to have a more natural standing pose. :/

What Unicron really needs is a flight stand for zero-gee.

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VF5SS Wrote:
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> but can Hercules stand at attention or is he
> perpetually at ease


Why?

I thought the "hip problem" in Heavy Labor was in the fore and aft rotation of the legs and not the side to side?

Fortunantly Neckbreaker comes with a complete hip replacement for Heavylabor. Heavy labor should consider using a walker and he needs to drink more Ensure so this wont happen again.

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MSW Wrote:
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>
> Why?
>


cuz it's kind of goofy that his shins are so thick he has to stand all knobby kneed like this




It's silly to me :3

SRX managed to turn R-3's creamy thighs into a pair of solid trunks. TFC needs to go for full Japanese over-engineering if they wanna make real collector's toys that break out of the package



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Cliffjumper with a non Choro-Q vehicle mode is weird

Huh. Feels like a completely original transforming car robot design... with a Cliffjumper head.

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well the skinny arms and legs with huge feet and body are essentially like the Choro Q toys.

plus Cliffjumper was kinda weird and tall in the first issue of the Marvel comic

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Faking Pretenders.

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only Raksha wants this

I am unclear on why you'd want a tiny pretend Pretender for your upgraded non-Pretender Pretender figure, but I'm sure somebody wants them.

I agree with VF5SS on the Nightbird. I thought she was lame when I saw her on the cartoon as a kid, and my opinion has not changed.

Well...it kinda-sorta works, right?

I mean, the modern toy is patterned after the G1 Pretender shell...so the lil not-Thunderwing is the actual non-shell robot inside. Seems reasonable to me...

It's funny because modern toy technology has allowed people to recreate a tiny brick robot that turns into a tiny flying brick.

I happen to like blocky robots. The blocky vehicle mode doesn't quite fit with the super sleek Generations figure's jet mode, but I like the idea enough to grab them. I might just buy all three for the sake of having a little modern Metalhawk even if I'm not going to get the hideous Botcon Metalhawk.

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VF5SS Wrote:
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> only Raksha wants this

Oh jeez I actually do kind of want one. But... a hundred freakin' dollars? How big is it?

I like Thunderwing, and I like the idea of an add-on inner robot for the new toy. But I hate the design of the new toy, so I don't care about the add-on. It's a paradox.

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"Oh, the anger is never far, never far." -SteveH

Oh I see, based on the guy's hand in the first pic it looks like Nightbird is only about 1.6 tape measures tall. That sucks.

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asterphage Wrote:
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> I like Thunderwing, and I like the idea of an
> add-on inner robot for the new toy. But I hate the
> design of the new toy, so I don't care about the
> add-on. It's a paradox.

Because we have a tendency to agree so much...I actually think Thunderwing's one of the better things to come out of HasTak's CHUG line (yes, I'm using that acronym). It was a really cool toy to me.

Anyway, as Sanjeev suggested, the way the new toy docks to the nose is accurate. Too bad the jet mode overall is not.



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That fake chibi Thunderwing has a worse jet mode.

How is that possible

Why not just make a new design with a similar head? There's probably some IDW thing they can ripoff.

I got the last two devy bits today! This thing is awesome!



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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2012 06:35PM by B00.

Purdy.

Now, what was the story on the clear red gun?

He made it from cherry jell-o.

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Buh?

He who...?

Each toy comes with a solid purple piece of the big gun and also an identical clear red piece

Ah...well, is the clear red in reference to something? The purple makes obvious sense, but was there a scene in a comic or some shit like that featuring Devastator's gun glowing or melting or something like that?

I think they wanted to justify using the gun pieces as smokestacks in the components' vehicle modes without just giving him another straight purple big rifle.

And then a bunch of people bitched about wanting to just have two purple rifles.

I like cherry jell-o.

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you really need to take a stand on this toy and tell people it's terrible, Peaugh

I did

have the courage

I don't think he can anymore...can he? Now that peaugh does official reviews for a retail website, that's a bit of a conflict of interest, no?

[Granted, this G2 Ramjet is an exclusive for *another* retail website...but still...]

Can your Hercules do this!

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You still haven't made a good Devastator head

for fuck's sake

Wait, so the 'extended forearms' are replacing those parts of the individual figures, aren't they? How many freackin revision parts can this thing need??

And yeah, goddamn, how many times are they going to mess the head up.

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The head thing is almost becoming a running joke...

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so is his mouth always open or does he have an alternate head

That tank mode is going to look great in purple and yellow

Purple and yellow, purple and yellow, purple and yellow, purple and yellow- you know what it is.

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Why does he have minivans for feet?

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New hat and gloves!

Oof, that "rage" face is god-awful. It's like Billy Idol as Devastator. Geez, at least don't have the gnashing teeth.

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Wait--what the fuck was wrong with the first set of forearms?

And for fuck's sake...can SOMEONE make a good Devastator head???

Sanjeev Wrote:
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> Wait--what the fuck was wrong with the first set
> of forearms?


Not GEEEEEEEEEEEEEWUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN enough I guess

> And for fuck's sake...can SOMEONE make a good
> Devastator head???


I swear if they don't I WILL!

Looking very nice...



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