Animated Wave 1 toys - comments and poll.

[dirge]

Hey I'm not complaining, Tiby. I'm just disappointed that those who are interested can't enjoy substandard toys.

[The_Damned]

well my BB is awesome and will be buying another one so he is MISC.......

[autobreadticon]

got prowl today, his waist is like a salsa dancer, its hard to for him to pose standing straight up without being all over the place.

i like how you can turn the rear part of the cycle in vehicle mode, makes for cool looking turns and also you can transform it into a leg for a backward kick action.

I don't like how prowl's mouth piece is not coloured, but i think this was done to give him a ninja mask look.

[Tiby]

I returned my Cybertron Mode Optimus Prime Deluxe and swapped him for another one. This one has less problems. No obvious cracks.

[Pulse]

Yes, I'm ashamed to admit that yesterday I ate a tonne of humble pie when one of the biggest TFA figures naysayers in all of TF Fandom encountered Lockdown in the flesh.

I am a massive fan of Muscle Cars & seeing that alt mode of his with its sky-high mountain of metal & serious pair of fats out back... Well, I just cracked & after departing with $25, he ended up coming home with me.

In being unable to post a pic of him at the moment, My Lockdown seems to have a fairly loose leg ball joint . His leg pops off fairly easily & I have to push it on with some force to keep it in place . I'd be prepared to live with this on an older ball-jointed figure but a brand new one? Not good enough Hasbro .

Furthermore, being a deluxe - he seems to be extremely tall in comparison to any other figures in his class. Compared to other deluxes, his proportions are way off & IMO, just don't look right.

Not happy Jan!

[kup]

Yes, I'm ashamed to admit that yesterday I ate a tonne of humble pie when one of the biggest TFA figures naysayers in all of TF Fandom encountered Lockdown in the flesh.

I am a massive fan of Muscle Cars & seeing that alt mode of his with its sky-high mountain of metal & serious pair of fats out back... Well, I just cracked & after departing with $25, he ended up coming home with me.

In being unable to post a pic of him at the moment, My Lockdown seems to have a fairly loose leg ball joint . His leg pops off fairly easily & I have to push it on with some force to keep it in place . I'd be prepared to live with this on an older ball-jointed figure but a brand new one? Not good enough Hasbro .

Furthermore, being a deluxe - he seems to be extremely tall in comparison to any other figures in his class. Compared to other deluxes, his proportions are way off & IMO, just don't look right.

Not happy Jan!

Lockdown is the only figure announced/released which I am considering to get because he looks less 'stylized' in the same vain as the rest of the line and reminds me of Death's Head for some reason. He kinda looks like a Cybertron toy actually.

When it comes to the QC, I am not surprised, I could see the cheapness of the figures from within the bubbles. Design style aside they seem to have chosen the cheapest paints and materials to the point that they almost look KO, particularly Prowl.

The fact that all this line is almost completely lacking in mold detail so that it can be faithful to the cartoon style really doesn't really help much

[kurdt_the_goat]

I have to disagree, at least partly! Of the toys i've got, by far the worst paint application is Bumblebee. The more i look at it, the more i don't like it, there's some serious shade difference between his roof (painted) and the rest (plastic yellow). Prowl doesn't have any problems though, being a matte black plastic with a decent metallic gold. It's simple but it works. Both Leader Megatron and Voyager Starscream have very nice paint application and the red, which is similar on both is a very sharp metallic style, and nicer than pretty much anything i've seen in the movie line. My Cybertron OP has stiff arms but no stress marks, and very solid paint. The red plastic for whatever reason, doesn't look anywhere near as cheap as the Bumblebee does. None of the toys have the plastic swirling look of say Movie Jazz, which is my pet peeve for plastic parts! I haven't seen anything to say this line is any worse or better than what i've experienced before, QC wise.

[jaydisc]

I just got Lockdown and Prowl today... love them both!

BUT... I sort of broke off Lockdown's hand. I was trying to swing it out expecting it to be parallel with his forearm, and I kept pushing waiting for that reassuring click that many of the animated toys have. Well, I got the click, but it wasn't very reassuring.

Can anyone else with Lockdown tell me how far can you swing his hands out?

[Lord_Zed]

I just got Lockdown and Prowl today... love them both!

BUT... I sort of broke off Lockdown's hand. I was trying to swing it out expecting it to be parallel with his forearm, and I kept pushing waiting for that reassuring click that many of the animated toys have. Well, I got the click, but it wasn't very reassuring.

Can anyone else with Lockdown tell me how far can you swing his hands out?

Yup I broke mine to, I wan't excpecting to pay the same amount of attention required to transform a MP to a hasbro Deluxe.

His hands only come out a little way, about 75 degrees maybe so they always point inward like he has cerebal palsy.

Anyways when it comes to Animated I'm middle of the road. I bought Lockdown, he's pretty decent (cept for his damned hands). Engineering wise he's about on par with the bulk of Movie line and the Classics. Unlike those lines however he doesn't have the same appeal for me though. What I've seen of the animated cartoon I didn't enjoy much. I will say these toy still look better than the Armada years. Lockdown really seems to exude that whole superhero/villain look in bot mode. not sure If I dig it though for me there kinda like the Star Wars Transformers line, there clever enough toys but they don't quite feel like transformers to me. Still I will no doubt get a couple of the crazy ones that amuse me (eg Soundwave) but not as much of the line as I did with the Movie TFs.

I can see why people might like them and wanna collect the whole set, but I can't understand those fans on the American boards who think there the greatest thing since G1.

[Tiby]

I checked Lockdown's hands very carefully. There is a blockage which means they can't move any further.

As for the line itself, I was looking at the bot modes and thought: "These are really cool action figures. They actually look like they can do things, without any obvious "block" parts to stop them".

Happy, despite the QC.