Fake Kibble

[kup]

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.

[GoktimusPrime]

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.

Big Convoy even has fake 'roof lights' on the top of his chest!

[Lord_Zed]

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.

[Golden Phoenix]

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:

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)

[roller]

so does Combat Hero optimus primes robot mode chest/grill count as fake kibble?

[GoktimusPrime]

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
<--front windscreen kibble on back of legs

"Faux" kibble
<--fake windscreen & roof on chest

[Sky Shadow]

I like fake kibble.

(As another example, Masterpiece Prime and Magnus are full of fake kibblyness from their ribcages down to their crotch regions.)

[STL]

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.

[GoktimusPrime]

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.

Yeah, that's 'quasi-faux-kibble' which is what I was talking about with Lio Convoy and Big Convoy. Fire Convoy has it too.