Yeah...Armada Sideswipe is one big bowl of suck. I hate that guy.
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Yeah...Armada Sideswipe is one big bowl of suck. I hate that guy.
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Hell yes!Originally Posted by Tallestblue
"I am not a gun. I'm hitting people with a hammer. On Mars."
The Iron Giant / David Wildgoose
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Ha ha ha! So many coming out of the woodwork. I think I mentioned mine in some thread somewhere, I hate the Energon Dinobots.
Just looking at them makes me angry. Yet I can't sell them, because they are so awful.
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I was going to say them but Grimlock isn't that bad IMO. Swoop was passable. They would have been better if not for the combiner gimmick
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I find Ratchet/Ironhide G1 robot modes to be about as bad as it gets. Alt mode gives them a pass though but not by much.
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Totally forgot about those two! They are shocking!!! No robot heads. Their robot modes are so bad i display them as cars!
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They do have heads! Just because they don't look like the cartoon heads (which came after the toys) doesn't mean they don't have heads!
Their robot modes may be less conventional compared to the other Autobot cars (because they're not as anthropomorphically humanoid) but that doesn't mean that they're bad per se. They have a head, two arms, two hands, two legs, two feet -- and the robots connect to mobile battle platforms. And okay, the heads aren't great - but they're there. And it makes sense when you take in consideration their Diaclone origins where Ironhide and Ratchet weren't the kind of conventional piloted mecha that the other Car Robots were, but were meant to be power-armours (kinda like what Ripley used in Aliens, only on a larger scale - up to 3 Diaclone pilots could operate one of them) that reinforced the other Car Robots by carrying munitions for them (hence the mobile platforms). This is what they were meant to look like.
Maybe Hasbro shouldn't have picked them for Transformers. Maybe these moulds didn't "translate" so well as sentient robots (I disagree). But that doesn't make the moulds inherently bad per se. Just because they're different doesn't make them bad IMHO.
What's wrong with their alt modes? I find them to be pretty good representations of Nissan Onebox Cherry vanettes. Japan has some pretty small vanettes and ambulances (I've been in one) cos they got narrow roads. Here are some photos of real Onebox Cherries:
http://gazou2.mbsrv.net/car/20110817_2131_2036.jpg
http://happy.ap.teacup.com/indigo-li...1298202428.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Vanette
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I add this figure to the list.. forgot his name....but seriously though Cybertron figures were mostly awesome, new molds and all that, articulated and stands well - but of that whole line there's this figure... its bike mode is somewhat ok, but transforming him to bot mode, geeez its quasimodo bikebot or whatever. It's a shame coz the altmode is a good concept but eh the execution is just sloppy, especially since it's a modern day toy... and eery toy in the line is good .
does anyone remember his name?
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They have faces, not heads!They do have heads! Just because they don't look like the cartoon heads (which came after the toys) doesn't mean they don't have heads!
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No maybe about it I am afraid. They translate horrendously when compared to the cartoon. That is not the fault of their design just the fact that they were poor choices by Hasbro.
I remember when I received Jazz & Ramjet as a kid. They were cool toys. Then there was the poor kid who got Ratchet or Ironhide. Imagine their disappointment at receiving such a sucky toy compared to every other Transformer which was infinitely cooler. The real tragedy is that Ratchet & Ironhide played such major characters in the cartoon with the crappiest of crappy toys allocated to them.
I like their alt modes. That is primarily the reason I display them in alt mode as it is show accurate. Maybe getting those 3rd party heads would fix that?
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