Looks pretty good so far. I'm wondering if, like Shockwave, TakaraTOMY will include the option of a right hand.

I'm also wondering about height - to keep 'scale' with the other cars released thus far, I would imagine in robot mode Inferno would rival Optimus Prime, possibly even being a bit taller taking the top of his head into account.

Quote Originally Posted by kurdt_the_goat View Post
At first glance, he looked a little thick... but comparing with the cartoon, he pretty much looks spot on except thankfully better in waist design. Compared to his "competition", takes almost no liberties with the source material...
Which is personally to my taste Makes you wonder if the reason TT has doubled down on cartoon accuracy is because the others are taking more inspiration from the toys? He is fairly clearly differentiated from the others. Seems his ladder is quite well collapsed too!
I thought that getting as close to screen accuracy as possible was the point of the MP series, so this simpler design would be in keeping with that objective. Then again, I have no interest in third party products, so I have no idea how far ahead they are or if TakaraTOMY has seen their design choices and taken those into account.

Quote Originally Posted by Jazzman View Post
The head sculpt seems to be G1 toy accurate, rather than toon accurate...
As kurdt pointed out, there are occasions when the toy-accurate head was seen on-screen, so maybe it depended on who was drawing Inferno at the time. Still, I wonder if there might even be two different faces once the official colour photos are released, like the ones on MP Bumblebee.