Zobovor <
zm...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 3:17:48 AM UTC-7, Gustavo Wombat, of the
> Seattle Wombats wrote:
>
>> Blaster I will happily pick up, and only think he’s a little redundant,
>> since I expect he is a Soundwave remold.
>
> His Titans Return edition was awkward and clunky and much too large. I'm
> happy he's getting a new toy. You're the second person I've seen mention
> that they're going to make a Soundwave out of Blaster. Honestly, I don't
> see it. It would be an awful Soundwave, and they already gave us a good
> one in the Netflix series. I think we'll get Twincast before we ever see Soundwave.
No, I assume Blaster is a remold of the existing Soundwave and he will feel
a little samey. Is he not?
>> I don’t like that they are replacing things on Perceptor that should be
>> silver with white, just to match the poor animation. It’s also a character
>> whose G1 toy basically holds up even now. And the Titans Return toy was
>> great.
>
> You'll be happy when and if they do a Magnificus redeco, won't you? That
> seems like at least a possibility.
I have my G1 Magnificus with Ga’mede. Never seriously considered getting
the RTS or Titans Return Magnificus redecos. Why mess with perfection?
Plus, Ga’mede is half the draw.
Now, if they toss in a nice Ga’mede, so Magnificus can have his pet Twink…
but if they do he will probably be a Daniel redeco, and no, that’s not ok.
Especially with legs perpetually bent so he’s crawling around on his hands
and knees. Just no.
(Huh, I don’t think there was a Titans Return mold Magnificus)
>> I feel similarly about Blitzwing, at least regarding the Titans Return toy.
>> And Lazer Optimus Prime with the G2 toy. They are hitting the point of
>> diminishing returns with some of these characters.
>
> Titans Return Blitzwing had design issues and bad stickers. I hope the
> new one is basically the G1 toy with better articulation, because that's
> pretty much what we need.
Design issues?
I mostly play with the Combat Hero Megatron version of the mold, so if
something changed, I might not remember it. (I do wish they gave us a plain
G2 version, as the toy seems made for it)
> I'm excited about Laser Prime. It feels more like a true homage to the
> G2 version than the last one we got, which was too small and had no trailer.
>
>> Where’s Wheelie? And Glyph? And Devcon? And Slipstream (recently featured
>> in Cyberverse)? And that female Decepticon car also featured in Cyberverse?
>
> I think Wheelie is coming in the same mini-Studio Series that's giving us
> Exo-Suit Spike. I think Hasbro looked at doing Devcon out of Studio
> Series Scourge, and decided it would be too expensive to do him justice.
> I hope they change their minds about that.
>
> I'd rather see Ladybug and Blow-Out before Glyph and Tap-Out, but I'd
> ultimately buy all of them.
Glyph is a linguist. Just a function we don’t seem to have. I think I
really want to fill out a science team of Autobots, exploring some dead
world, with an archeologist, a linguist, a paleontologist… we have a
metallurgist or two already…
A bunch of Autobots, just exploring the universe, basically not part of the
big war. It just gives the possibility of different types of adventures,
like when GI Joe was rescuing tigers and stuff in the late 70s.
I don’t have a story idea around it, or a grand design of any kind, I just
want some Autobots living the dream of a peaceful life. Maybe they’re
exploring the depths of Cybertron, or the lost world of the Go-Bots (“they
look like robots, but they had organic brains… I think they died off
because they couldn’t reproduce without organic bodies and genitals”)
>> The Dinobots are at least larger than ever. It gives them a reason to
>> exist, even if I don’t think they are as awesome as everyone else does.
>
> I did play around with Grimlock and I see the problem you have with his
> feet. I can get the foot parts to pop off on my toy pretty easily, but
> in the course of transforming him and playing with him, I've never had it
> happen accidentally.
I may have flattened pegs on a strut or something. Now, go look at the side
panels on Slag…