Animated Wave 1 toys - comments and poll.

[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.

[jaydisc]

Thanks Zed & Tibby. I'll take it back and swap it this week.

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.

I couldn't agree more. Pardon the cheesy phrase, but it's such a revolution as opposed to an evolution.

I can't wait to put them behind glass.

[kurdt_the_goat]

Check out the Lockdown review by peaugh on youtube (i can't link atm), he details how you can fix the QC issue - seems pretty simple.

[jaydisc]

Awesome. I've seen it (and all his reviews), but I'll go back and look.

I love his reviews because they're so concise. There's another reviewer that starts each review with the matrix, prime helmet and some stupid quote and he just waffles for 10 minutes every time. I can't take it.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Well I have all the first wave apart from BB and the twin pack and I think they're all mostly good.

Only thing that really p's me off is that lack of attention to scale (which is consistent with mostly all TF lines).

They seem pretty solid. Would have liked Lockdown's grey parts to be in chrome though.

[Kyle]

Just took 10 minutes to type up my thoughts on each of the Wave 1 toys but the board has already logged me out (so quick) and I'vé lost all my typing.

[1orion2many]

Just took 10 minutes to type up my thoughts on each of the Wave 1 toys but the board has already logged me out (so quick) and I'vé lost all my typing.

Go take a typing class