I disagree, when I look at the Activator in RL next to the deluxe, I find the Activator as a more faithful representation as well as a better toy overall.
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I disagree, when I look at the Activator in RL next to the deluxe, I find the Activator as a more faithful representation as well as a better toy overall.
For me it depends on the toy... but overall on most toys it's a pretty clever way of incorporating kibble that cannot be incorporated into the alt mode. A good example of this is the faux-kibble on Binaltech/Alternators Tracks - the chest is a fake roof/window to make it look like G1 Tracks' chest. It serves no other purpose, but it's a pretty neat touch. It doesn't compromise the toy's integrity IMO so I quite like it.
Then there are other toys with faux-faux-kibble, like Lio Convoy and Big Convoy whose bodies kinda look like G1 Optimus Prime like truck bodies, but really aren't anything of the sort - but is intended to evoke the image of Optimus Prime.
http://pyresdomain.net/TF/BeastBoxAr.../Leoconvoy.jpghttp://pinkystudio.hp.infoseek.co.jp...ig_c/BC-03.jpg
Big Convoy even has fake 'roof lights' on the top of his chest!
I kinda like fake kibble at least on some toys such as the afforementioned MP Prime, Powermaster Prime, Movie Bumblebee and Binaltech Tracks.
Yes it's kinda a cheat, but lets face it in all the old G1 comics and Cartoons the TF's use a bit of morphing magic to transform, it's only from the post USG1 japanese cartoons where the characters transform in a toy acurate fashion. For me Fake Kibble just suggets the Transformation is even more complex than what can be done with a toy, and when I was a kid It was always fun to imagine ways in which the fake kibble would become part of the vehicle mode proper.
Hmm that makes me thing of a question for a new thread.
I was re-watching some of the Animated episodes, and I noticed something about Sentinel Prime.
His chest isn't supposed to be the front of his vehicle mode. Sure, it kind of looks like it, but I think it is just supposed to sort of look like it while not actually being it.
I spotted this:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/jimme...her/kibble.jpghttp://www.seibertron.com/images/toy...elprime065.jpg
If you look at his back, you can see the front and the windshield of his vehicle mode on his back, just like the figure (except for some different colours)
so does Combat Hero optimus primes robot mode chest/grill count as fake kibble?
I would say yeah. Laser Prime's chest is also sculpted like faux-kibble but has never been officially painted that way (although I've seen customs :)).
Golden Phoenix: Animated Bumblebee's show model also shows faux-kibble from the toy.
"True" kibble
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/tr...atedkibble.jpghttp://www.siebertron.com/images/toy...mblebee044.jpg<--front windscreen kibble on back of legs
"Faux" kibble
http://www.tfw2005.com/resources/att...7988_thumb.jpghttp://www.siebertron.com/images/toy...mblebee037.jpg<--fake windscreen & roof on chest
I like fake kibble.
(As another example, Masterpiece Prime and Magnus are full of fake kibblyness from their ribcages down to their crotch regions.)
Leader Class GF/Cybertron Optimus Prime comes to mind too but I'm not sure how much of that is fake kibble.
http://www.seibertron.com/transforme...rime/579/1/70/
The windows at the back in robot mode? They really aren't the front of the truck but look "like" it in robot mode. It's supposed to be a nod to G1 Prime.
http://www.seibertron.com/transforme...ime/579/1/105/
Of course, the grill has to be fake kibble.
Yeah, that's 'quasi-faux-kibble' which is what I was talking about with Lio Convoy and Big Convoy. :) Fire Convoy has it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by STL