Toy Review - Generations IDW Waspinator

[Zommael]

Stay positive. They need doing right.

I quite like the Universe Dinobot. But I do take your point. Maybe they could do updated versions of the Transmetal or TM2 forms, or even BM for Cheetor, rather than trying again for the original forms. Admittedly that wouldn't give us a completely perfect first season cast, but it would avoid those who've bought some of the earlier releases ending up with doubles of the exact same character.

[Verno]

I quite like the Universe Dinobot. But I do take your point. Maybe they could do updated versions of the Transmetal or TM2 forms, or even BM for Cheetor, rather than trying again for the original forms. Admittedly that wouldn't give us a completely perfect first season cast, but it would avoid those who've bought some of the earlier releases ending up with doubles of the exact same character.

Dinobot is ok. I have the Henkei versions of both he and Cheetor, but ultimately he's too small.

As for Cheetor, both modes suffer from the same thing - the gimmick. The jaw opening mechanism is far too cumbersome for such a small, thin figure. Doing away with that would be a great start for that mold, but there is still quite a bit wrong with it.

The point of these Generations figures was to get as close to screen accurate as possible, at least in robot mode. Cheetor and Dinobot were never designed to be that.

[Bidoofdude]

I'd like them to do the rest of the S1 cast. Dinobot would probably have to be a voyager to capture my interest though. I honestly wouldn't mind if they did Cheetor as one of the later figures, as I'd rather have characters that haven't been done and then the redos.

[Verno]

I'd like them to do the rest of the S1 cast. Dinobot would probably have to be a voyager to capture my interest though. I honestly wouldn't mind if they did Cheetor as one of the later figures, as I'd rather have characters that haven't been done and then the redos.

I couldn't agree more.

If Hasbro are scared people won't buy them (which I think the response to and sales of the BW Generations toys (when and where available) disproves anyway) go with the 'Deluxe' sized characters. Blackarachnia, Tarantulas, Airazor, Scorponok -- and if dinosaurs are in vogue atm, start with Terrorsaur! They've already wheeled his original mould out of the retirement home to turn it into an AoE toy. Give us a new one!

[MayzaPrime]

I couldn't agree more.

If Hasbro are scared people won't buy them (which I think the response to and sales of the BW Generations toys (when and where available) disproves anyway) go with the 'Deluxe' sized characters. Blackarachnia, Tarantulas, Airazor, Scorponok -- and if dinosaurs are in vogue atm, start with Terrorsaur! They've already wheeled his original mould out of the retirement home to turn it into an AoE toy. Give us a new one!

I have said it since I first got Terrorsaur so many years ago, I would love a screen accurate figure of him!

[Verno]

I have said it since I first got Terrorsaur so many years ago, I would love a screen accurate figure of him!

The designers would certainly earn their keep if they got him screen accurate considering how little 'bulk' there is to hide his robot parts in beast-mode. Ultimately, his beast-mode may have to suffer some concessions to give us an accurate robot, but I'd take that any day of the week.

[MayzaPrime]

The designers would certainly earn their keep if they got him screen accurate considering how little 'bulk' there is to hide his robot parts in beast-mode. Ultimately, his beast-mode may have to suffer some concessions to give us an accurate robot, but I'd take that any day of the week.

I agree, I would much rather an accurate robot mode than a beast mode.

[Bidoofdude]

The designers would certainly earn their keep if they got him screen accurate considering how little 'bulk' there is to hide his robot parts in beast-mode. Ultimately, his beast-mode may have to suffer some concessions to give us an accurate robot, but I'd take that any day of the week.

You'd have to sacrifice bot or have a lot of kibble (preferably somehow removable).

[GoktimusPrime]

The designers would certainly earn their keep if they got him screen accurate considering how little 'bulk' there is to hide his robot parts in beast-mode. Ultimately, his beast-mode may have to suffer some concessions to give us an accurate robot, but I'd take that any day of the week.

But the current Terrorsaur toy's robot mode is accurate! It's the cartoon model that deviated from the toy, not vice versa. The original toy designers would've required a time machine in order to travel to the future to see how Mainframe's animators would adapt the Terrorsaur toy as a cartoon model, then travel back to their original point in time and attempt to tweak the Terrorsaur toy to make it look more like the cartoon. This in turn would create a multitude of questions regarding temporal paradoxes (would they actually be able to alter their own universe or create a new one or destroy their original one etc.???).

The cartoon wasn't even out yet when I got Terrorsaur, so the idea of how he looked compared to the show was never an issue. And when the show did come out, I actually thought that the toy still looked better. The larger wings on the toy makes him look more majestic instead of those stunted puny bat-wings on the show model. Pteranodons have six metre wingspans! It doesn't make sense for him to have itty-bitty wing-a-lings like in the cartoon. I also prefer the colours on the toy ... the black and purples look nicer and help break up all that red, which the show model doesn't do nearly as well. But I must admit that the beak looked nicer on the cartoon model, although both the toy and cartoon were anatomically incorrect in giving the beast mode teeth; like modern birds, Pteranodons had toothless beaks. Toy pteranodons are often erroneously given teeth by toy-makers (making it look more like a Ludodactylus instead ).