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Galactic Odyssey Collection : Dominus Criminal pursuit.
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Irrellius Spamticon
Feb 2, 2021, 12:38:06 AM2/2/21
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So I got this set yesterday but didn't have any time after work. It shipped in the tan Selects box but it looks like someone tried to peel the label off of mine. The faction insignia is one I've never seen before, it's truly odd. I'm guessing it's representing the unaligned refugees of Dominus, but having an insignia sort of goes against being unaligned. Apparently Dominus has a natural population that uses transtector bodies, so it's a Headmaster planet. The inside of the box is made up in the Earthrise colors and has a planetary map in the lid. Along the top is some words in Cybertronian, but the planets Micron, Dominus, Biosphera, Botropolis, and Paradron are labeled in English. I'm guessing all 5 of the Galactic Odyssey Collections have the same box. There is a file-card for Dominus as well, giving a small descriptor in 5 languages. Domians are Cybertronians who are small and can't convert.
The "Criminal Pursuit" label is a little vague. We have a spy and law enforcement, but law enforcement working for the bad guys. Which one is the criminal and who exactly is pursuing who? Is Barricade on the verge of discovering Counterpunch's true identity? Is Punch on the verge of capturing Barricade?
Both bots are packaged in robot mode, with Punch/counterpunch's 1 gun and Barricade's 3 guns.
Barricade: So now he has all of the accessories that Siege made sure to only give 3/4 to each character to share these molds. Barricade had the shoulderguns and light bar but no handgun. Prowl had the lightbar but no shoulder guns, and of course the others had no lightbar, but for Earthrise Barricade has all 4 parts, when they still took the shoulder guns from Prowl.
So the shoulder gun are smaller, and they went to great lengths to make his legs not look hollow, and to give his chest more material. He transforms nearly the same as his Siege self, but he's got less purple. Some of his clear places are painted over black, but it really could have used 1 more layer of black. There is some excess paint on his windshield for mine. He's got a lot of parts that are clearly designed to lock together in both modes but don't seem to. Notably his chest doesn't lock, and his arms don't lock in to the doors in car mode very well. Luckily these are not required.
I don't like that he's another reuse of another mold, but I do like that we're getting something. A character with some history that has a recognizable form, I just wish we got some car detail remolding, a minor reshell of some kind.
Lastly I wish there was an official way to store the guns under the car mode. I know it wasn't a Siege thing, but there is a lot more empty room under the car this time, and he comes with an in-pack partner that has an undercarriage gun storage. It would have been easy to have 5mm ports under the hood flap or inside the front end behind the headlights.
Punch/Counterpunch.
Comes packaged as Counterpunch, but his Autobot signal on his back is exposed, so Barricade might be suspicious. I never had the first release of this toy, but apparently it came with Prime Master Armor, and this version just has a pistol. I guess that's why they decided to let Barricade have all the accessories, because Punch was limited. The shoulders are kind of misassembled, so my first few forays in to car mode didn't go too smoothly, but once fixed, it's a lot more stable. I might just be over critical because of how much I liked the G1, but the G1 had more transformation between Punch and Counterpunch, here it's just some shoulder massage, a hand swap, flipping insignia panels, and a head tilt. His car mode is also 2/3rds in the legs, so there's quite a bit of shellforming, and he doesn't really have any toes in either mode. With that said he's still decent, even though the shoulder configuration for Punch just plain makes no sense. I guess it's a decent character but I am just too used to the G1.
It's sort of weird to have a blue and yellow car packaged with a police vehicle with guns on the hood in a box that talks about Transtectors, and it's not Nightbeat and Siren. Especially since we've got Nightbeat colors now.
The "Criminal Pursuit" label is a little vague. We have a spy and law enforcement, but law enforcement working for the bad guys. Which one is the criminal and who exactly is pursuing who? Is Barricade on the verge of discovering Counterpunch's true identity? Is Punch on the verge of capturing Barricade?
Both bots are packaged in robot mode, with Punch/counterpunch's 1 gun and Barricade's 3 guns.
Barricade: So now he has all of the accessories that Siege made sure to only give 3/4 to each character to share these molds. Barricade had the shoulderguns and light bar but no handgun. Prowl had the lightbar but no shoulder guns, and of course the others had no lightbar, but for Earthrise Barricade has all 4 parts, when they still took the shoulder guns from Prowl.
So the shoulder gun are smaller, and they went to great lengths to make his legs not look hollow, and to give his chest more material. He transforms nearly the same as his Siege self, but he's got less purple. Some of his clear places are painted over black, but it really could have used 1 more layer of black. There is some excess paint on his windshield for mine. He's got a lot of parts that are clearly designed to lock together in both modes but don't seem to. Notably his chest doesn't lock, and his arms don't lock in to the doors in car mode very well. Luckily these are not required.
I don't like that he's another reuse of another mold, but I do like that we're getting something. A character with some history that has a recognizable form, I just wish we got some car detail remolding, a minor reshell of some kind.
Lastly I wish there was an official way to store the guns under the car mode. I know it wasn't a Siege thing, but there is a lot more empty room under the car this time, and he comes with an in-pack partner that has an undercarriage gun storage. It would have been easy to have 5mm ports under the hood flap or inside the front end behind the headlights.
Punch/Counterpunch.
Comes packaged as Counterpunch, but his Autobot signal on his back is exposed, so Barricade might be suspicious. I never had the first release of this toy, but apparently it came with Prime Master Armor, and this version just has a pistol. I guess that's why they decided to let Barricade have all the accessories, because Punch was limited. The shoulders are kind of misassembled, so my first few forays in to car mode didn't go too smoothly, but once fixed, it's a lot more stable. I might just be over critical because of how much I liked the G1, but the G1 had more transformation between Punch and Counterpunch, here it's just some shoulder massage, a hand swap, flipping insignia panels, and a head tilt. His car mode is also 2/3rds in the legs, so there's quite a bit of shellforming, and he doesn't really have any toes in either mode. With that said he's still decent, even though the shoulder configuration for Punch just plain makes no sense. I guess it's a decent character but I am just too used to the G1.
It's sort of weird to have a blue and yellow car packaged with a police vehicle with guns on the hood in a box that talks about Transtectors, and it's not Nightbeat and Siren. Especially since we've got Nightbeat colors now.
Zobovor
Feb 2, 2021, 7:28:50 AM2/2/21
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On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 10:38:06 PM UTC-7, Ob1k...@att.net wrote:
> I'm guessing all 5 of the Galactic Odyssey Collections have the same box.
They've been different sizes depending on the toys. The Biosphera package with the Autobot Clones was much smaller.
> I'm guessing all 5 of the Galactic Odyssey Collections have the same box.
> The "Criminal Pursuit" label is a little vague. We have a spy and law enforcement, but law enforcement working for the bad guys. Which one is the criminal and who exactly is pursuing who? Is Barricade on the verge of discovering Counterpunch's true identity? Is Punch on the verge of capturing Barricade?
> I don't like that he's another reuse of another mold, but I do like that we're getting something. A character with some history that has a
> recognizable form, I just wish we got some car detail remolding, a minor reshell of some kind.
> I never had the first release of this toy, but apparently it came with Prime Master Armor, and this version just has a pistol.
> It's sort of weird to have a blue and yellow car packaged with a police vehicle with guns on the hood in a box that talks about Transtectors, and it's not Nightbeat and Siren. Especially since we've got Nightbeat colors now.
Zob (renaming Planet Master "Dominus" is honestly pretty clever, though)
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