Disappointed with DOTM movie toys

[GoktimusPrime]

I find Roadbuster to be a pretty decent toy, although the amounts of grey bothers some people (I don't mind it though). Bumblebee is also pretty neat in terms of better screen-accuracy, although engineering wise I still prefer TF1 Deluxe Concept Bumblebee. Although technically DotM Deluxe Bumblebee is a retool of Battle Blade Bumblebee.

DotM Deluxe Ratchet was also better than I expected in some ways. Initially I thought he might've been a repaint of ROTF Deluxe Ratchet, but he's actually an entire new mould (afaik). In some ways not as elegant or complex as ROTF DLX Ratchet; but I find the design to be simple yet effective. The transformation isn't as fiddly and there are still some clever elements to it - and the vehicle mode doesn't carry as much robot kibble in the undercarriage as ROTF DLX Ratchet does, which allows the wheels to roll more freely. He also has three Mech Tech ports allowing Ratchet to be armed with 3 weapons in vehicle mode or 5 in robot mode (holding 2 more weapons in each fist). The main drawback with the toy is that the vehicle kibble on the back of the robot doesn't fold in as tightly as on ROTF DLX Ratchet.

Oh yeah, the Mech Tech ports are all compatible with the Universal 5mm Post, so any 5mm post weapon can be inserted into a Mech Tech port! (except for the clip-on ports on Jetwing Prime, although he has 5mm ports too)

Laserbeak is... okay. Well, he's a lot better than say Ravage or Scorponok - and I think Hasbro just went and gave him a non-screen alt mode because, let's face it, he just transforms into too much stuff in the movie for Hastak to really engineer into a single Deluxe size toy! So for a movie "Minion-former" I think he's quite good.

Cyberverse Ark w/ Roller's quite nice as a playset - but no way it's worth $60 (glad I got it on sale for $34). Cyberverse Optimus Prime w/ trailer and Starscream w/ Orbital Assault Carrier were both really disappointing though -- the former feels like a freakin' KO. I'm just using it as a placeholder until I can get a gooderer version of DotM Prime w/ trailer. (-_-) And Starscream I just got after watching the movie for the vehicle... which isn't even that well designed. And the Starscream figure itself doesn't impress me one iota. By current day standards I'm not that impressed with the Cyberverse playsets... the G1 Micromasters had better playsets (and were relatively cheaper too). Although at least Cyberverse doesn't have all kinds of little accessories and ramps to lose!

*shrug* At the end of the day, if the DotM toys don't appeal to you, just don't buy them.

[LordCyrusOmega]

I don't think there any worse or better then previous lines. My only gripe is some feel 'cheaper' then other toys and while the mechtech weapons are cool I prefer more screen accurate for my movie collection and so far the only toys who hold their weapons on the shelf are Sentinel Prime and Shockwave.
I'm only getting the toys that appear in the movie as well as the Cyberverse playsets and any that would fit on my classics shelf. Also the Human Alliance toys and all incarnations of Soundwave and Laserbeak.

[To Punish & Enslave]

[QUOTE=*shrug* At the end of the day, if the DotM toys don't appeal to you, just don't buy them. [/QUOTE]

Hey gok how are you? You must be running out of room by now for your tf collection or at least renting out a storage shed lol. Yeah not a big fan as yet but something might grow on me in the tf3 range. Its amazing how much tf2 stuff i saw sitting on the shelf at tru today. As a mainly mint in box collector the first thing I look for is detail. Because of this it makes it hard for a toy to grow on me by playing with it. I think its great gok that some one like your self can see the good in most tf series and still play with them. I guess im a little bias as the old di cast g1 's I love and keep compairing to these plastic fantastics.

[DELTAprime]

Out of the Hasbro line I've only gotten Leader Sentinel, Deluxe Skids and Mudflap, Voyager Megs and Leader Ironhide. I got Takara's Jetwing Prime also.

Ironhide is going to be my first repaint project after I get some practice on lesser formers. Despite his small size Megatron is a really nice figure. I personally like the Twins design (but the characters still suck). Sentinel is clearly missing paint apps when you compare the finished product to the Hasbro publicity shots. Jetwing Prime is without a doubt the best thing in the DOTM line but he doesn't really count as he is a Japanese exclusive remold of a ROTF figure.

I'm looking for Sideswipe to practice my repainting on, I want a Deluxe Topspin and Voyager Shockwave, they look awesome. But thats all from the currently seen line of toys I want to pick up. And I will reserve judgement on the Soundwave's till I see them cause for all we know they might be crap.

[RagingBull]

i love the new toys for DOTM, i love the mech tech weapons, great new addition, a gimmick that actually adds to figure instead of gets in the way of it.

while i love all things tf movie, the 1 thing i am very disappointed in is the lack of toys for this line. mostly speaking of the mech tech main line.

what we've got so far has been great, but in numbers, its nowhere near the number of figures we got for ROTF. in the month or so since dotm figures came out, ive spent at least half of what i did on the first 2 movies in the same time frame.

does anyone else get the same feeling?

[DELTAprime]

i love the new toys for DOTM, i love the mech tech weapons, great new addition, a gimmick that actually adds to figure instead of gets in the way of it.

I would have preferred the plastic in those Mech-Tech guns to go into the figure. All the sets have a set amount of plastic in them and that dictates how big or small the figure is. More plastic in the figure would mean less in the gun would mean larger figures.

[Fungal Infection]

One thing that sh-ts me about the mech tech weapons is that they don't stay in place - like deluxe Optimus's gun/axe weapon - you can't display the weapon in axe mode, its pretty much stuck in gun mode unless you hold the trigger in place. It would've been nice if they'd taken the spring mechanism out so you can display the weapons in either mode. Same problem applies to Barricade's gun/claw weapon, Sideswipe's gun/blade weapon and so on.

[GoktimusPrime]

Some Mech Tech weapons can lock in deployed position -- but yeah, not all of them can, which is annoying. Especially with melee weapons, because you can't even play with them properly when you need to have one hand constantly on the trigger. *sigh*

I would have preferred the plastic in those Mech-Tech guns to go into the figure. All the sets have a set amount of plastic in them and that dictates how big or small the figure is. More plastic in the figure would mean less in the gun would mean larger figures.

I heard that the reason why the figures are a bit smaller is because of increasing cost of oil/petrol (and hence increased cost of plastic manufacture).

[Paulbot]

One thing that sh-ts me about the mech tech weapons is that they don't stay in place - like deluxe Optimus's gun/axe weapon - you can't display the weapon in axe mode, its pretty much stuck in gun mode unless you hold the trigger in place. It would've been nice if they'd taken the spring mechanism out so you can display the weapons in either mode. Same problem applies to Barricade's gun/claw weapon, Sideswipe's gun/blade weapon and so on.

This would be my main complaint about the DOTM line. I'm being more selective than I was with the ROTF line and have been happy with all the ones so far.

[kaiden]

i didn't collect the previous 2 movie lines but the cost-cutting annoys me.
the unpainted sideswipe bothers me the most but the other significant thing is the sound chips inside leader class figures.

I had a look at Lightning Power Thor and it has 7 phrases! and only costs $49 ($24 during the target sale)

I'm testing Ironhide and he has 2 phrases, 1 chest cannon sound and 2 car sounds (the second one i'm unsure how to get it to play 100%)

It makes me feel so ripped off.