I'm not saying Beachcomber and Cliff aren't characters too, I'm just saying the market doesn't demand them in the same way - perhaps because Beachcomber is a boring hippie, and Cliff is basically just red Bumblebee.Dominic wrote:I would disagree about Beachcomber and Cliffjumper. Cliffjumper is an intentional mediocrity. And, Beachcomber did get screen time.
Doesn't matter, he was fun when he mattered and hasn't had a real toy since then. Why not have him?My comment about Brawn is also about relevance. When is the last time he showed up and did anything?
To me, that's par for the course, the comics stylize and cybertronize characters in ways the toys won't, so either go 3rd party or accept the differences, that's my philosophy. Whirl doesn't look that much like his comics version, but it still gets me there."Generations" Wheeljack is a good generalized Wheeljack. But, it does not look enough like the comics to represent the character as seen in the comics.
Is there an image you can share that shows IDW Wheeljack that would inform how the existing figure doesn't get there? I'm quite curious on this one, for some reason.
Swerve really makes it hard not to want mini-vehicles characters that scale, he's such a satisfying figure with so much personality and such good sculpt and paint. I wonder if that rumor was accurate at all.Scourge wrote:I would love a Brawn in the same scale as like Swerve and Tailgate. If he could look as good as thosee two that'd be pretty keen. I think he wss rumored to be a thing, but canceled.
For me, it was that inability to finish the transformation so that the chest locked down right and the head raised up all the way. Had the engineering not misfired, I at least would have felt like its issues were surmountable, but the fact that it needs significant customizing just to transform the way it was intended breaks it.Ratchet and Ironhide yes please. I tried to like their Universe toys but yeesh those things are rough.
I was picturing something bigger, more squared off, more detailing.I'm pretty happy with Hound, I thought they pulled him off pretty well. I cant really see what they'd do differently on a new one.
Backstop the rhino? That's a funny idea!More old Mini-bots in that Legends scale, ideally with a targetmaster feature of some sort. Brawn, Seaspray, Pipes, Hubcap, those dudes would be great in that size. Maybe a new Backstop while we're at it? And more Decepticons in that size please thanks.
Pipes if he weren't a repaint/remold of Huffer, I'd be sad because then I'd want that mold to be Huffer instead of the Optimus we just got.
We did just get a new Decepticon in that size, Blackjack, and we're getting the Cobra Rattler guy, Viper. I dunno what it is, I saw Blackjack recently and wasn't tempted to get him, maybe it's the simplistic transformation, maybe it's the $10 pricetag, but I suspect it's harder for me to connect to little Decepticons than Autobots. I wouldn't mind them trying more though, I do want Viper despite not really digging the Powerglide original.
Ha! Those are some varied tastes. Overlord would be cool in a larger size. I am still somewhat sated by Energon Scorponok, but I suspect I'm in the minority. Your choices are very comics-centric, very Roberts-centric really.More cool-ass Voyagers because I was really enjoying that size class for awhile there. Overlord! Scorponok! Maybe some Dinobots that aren't Grimlock?
And hell I don't know. Dudes like Metalhawk, Snare, Topspin and Twin Twist, those could all be pretty keen.
Kup has that head thing, even I was almost swayed into buying that head; and the alt mode isn't Cybertronian, but for me it's just his awkward shoulder area that would be a drawback. That said, I'm not into a new version, I'm content with the existing one just because it's ok enough for my tastes, but I could be swayed by a really killer new figure.O6 wrote:What's wrong with the existing ones? I have a real problem seeing a better Kup being made. (Disclaimer: Get that third party head. The only problem is now fixed.)
As for Perceptor, I got mine out recently and it's got wonky shoulders in a different way (they don't lock down), that is frustrating, and I miss the alt mode, but same with Kup, it'd have to be a pretty snazzy new figure to get my attention at this point. I wonder what Dom was going for with these 2 as well.
So many figures would be better as Voyagers, it's almost like an arms race now - they make one character bigger and all of a sudden everybody else feels too small.Shockwave needs at least a Voyager to be great; I wouldn't actually mind a Leader class toy of him, but his repaint/remould potential is pretty limited, so a Voyager is more realistic.
Sky Lynx is a pretty derpy design, and I'll say it: it's all the shuttlebird's fault, the lynx half looks ok (sculpt only, those colors are needless there), despite being simple so it can be motorized.Sky Lynx was never going to happen as long as Archer was in charge (reportedly, he used to keep one on his desk as a reminder of "what not to do.") and it's probably even less likely now that he's gone. Sky Lynx is a toy you cannot make in the modern era. Why? He doesn't turn into a robot. And if you change him to make him turn into a robot, then he isn't Sky Lynx anymore. The best chance you have of getting a new Sky Lynx is in some off-the-wall kid focused line where the toys don't usually transform traditionally in the first place. You could probably get away with it in, say, the RID15 one step toylines.
Its overseas exclusivity makes it too challenging to consider, it's a $20 figure for $80+.. You're absolutely right on Cloud Rodimus, although I think he would work better with a new head.
Not false. It's a little weird going from $25 Voyager to $45 Leader without anything in between. Maybe they need to drop Voyager and go with Ultra, but only if that came with a larger size and more complexity, none of this "we charge more and shrunk the product" shit.I can't see either of these dudes working at Voyager scale, but that's because I like big-assed toys for big-assed leadery dudes. This is why the Ultra class needs to come back, it was the perfect middle ground between the often too-fucken-big Leaders and the too-small-for-some-dudes Voyagers. Because, to me, Voyagers are like...they're obvious mid-sized dudes. Like, a Deluxe Roadbuster or Whirl or Blaster or Inferno would be too small. (Thunderwing should have been a Voyager. I bet he would work great as a Brainstorm retool now. Hell, so would Metalhawk.) Overlord NEEDS to be at least Ultra-sized, but Leader would be best. (I could see a good remould of Megatron as Overlord.)
You are a hypocrite, and it should evolve to recognize that your black-or-white mentality isn't the only possibility out there. You have no problem calling out Ironhide and Ratchet, but give no allowance for anybody else to have any shades of gray in their belief system beyond that, it's your way or fuck you.Prowl wrote:How should it evolve? By arbitrarily deciding a toy that I liked before sucks now just because it crossed some predestined expiration date of coolness? You know the Star Wars movies are over thirty years old at this point, right? They're really starting to show their age!
And only A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back hold up without effort, Return of the Jedi and all 3 prequels are flawed. I'm not so blind and fearful of change that I can't see that some things work entirely and some things don't hold up, no matter how much 7-year-old me loved ROTJ in theaters.
Nobody is telling you not to like something. I like GoBots and G1 Astrotrain, doesn't mean I'm going to rant at everybody who suggests those aren't the zenith of transforming robot toys and have no room for updating.Cool toys is cool toys, and if I objectively liked it five, ten, or twenty years ago, why the hell would I not like it now?
Well, it was not nice talking with you, as usual. Enjoy being not only wrong, but entirely incapable of recognizing why you're wrong. Don't for a moment think you've accurately ascribed fuck-all to my beliefs though, you clearly haven't connected even slightly, you have no understanding of anything I do, you are an unreasonable person disconnected from reality. You come off as a zealot espousing the rigid belief system of one as loudly and often as possible without consideration of those around you.I understand that other people have different tastes. Your tastes seem to indicate that you'd prefer to just see the same few characters re-hashed over and over until we get some theoretical 'perfect' version of them monumentalized in plastic, in which case, yeah, GI Joe would probably be more to your habits. Or just stick purely to MP TFs.
