Toy Review - Age of Extinction Autobot Hound (Voyager)

[GoktimusPrime]

There's still future movies, Ironhide didn't get one until DotM.

Honestly, I'm more miffed about Lockdown only getting a deluxe. The best antagonist of all TF movies only gets a crappy deluxe!?!

From a vehicular scale POV it makes more sense. A Lamborghini Aventador is about 4.8m long and 1.1m high. I don't know what the exact dimensions for a Western Star 5700 are (the WS5700 is nearly 5x the weight* of a Lambo Aventador), but I'd wager that they'd be significantly larger than a Lamborghini Aventador. Sure, Lockdown is almost the same height as Optimus Prime in the movie, which appears to be a scale discrepancy. I guess AoE Lockdown can mass-shift between his car and robot modes. A Voyager Class Lockdown may be more to scale with Optimus Prime in robot mode, but he'd be oversized in vehicle mode.

Also, I guess that Hasbro didn't want to have a larger and more expensive Voyager Lockdown toy cross-competing w/ Voyager Galvatron.

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*Lamborghini Aventador is approx. 1.6t (1575kg); whereas the Western Star 5700 is approximately 7.7t (7711kg).

[FruitBuyer]

From a vehicular scale POV it makes more sense. A Lamborghini Aventador is about 4.8m long and 1.1m high. I don't know what the exact dimensions for a Western Star 5700 are (the WS5700 is nearly 5x the weight* of a Lambo Aventador), but I'd wager that they'd be significantly larger than a Lamborghini Aventador. Sure, Lockdown is almost the same height as Optimus Prime in the movie, which appears to be a scale discrepancy. I guess AoE Lockdown can mass-shift between his car and robot modes. A Voyager Class Lockdown may be more to scale with Optimus Prime in robot mode, but he'd be oversized in vehicle mode.

Also, I guess that Hasbro didn't want to have a larger and more expensive Voyager Lockdown toy cross-competing w/ Voyager Galvatron.

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*Lamborghini Aventador is approx. 1.6t (1575kg); whereas the Western Star 5700 is approximately 7.7t (7711kg).

That's a fair point and I'll admit not something I really thought about. I definitely understand the reasoning behind it though it still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. They should have done something similar to what they did with Animated Lockdown which was voyager size transformed, that way the scale wouldn't be as much a problem.