Desregarding the Hasbro or Takara versioning, I still like the look of this..
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Desregarding the Hasbro or Takara versioning, I still like the look of this..
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I'm hoping they're just prototype colours and that the final product will look better. They're not terrible colours... just not what I think most people would be expecting - i.e. more show or toy accurate colours. This toy appears to have a white head with a red crest. G1 Ratchet had a white head with a grey crest in the cartoon and a red head with a white crest in the comics.
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its very likely to be Universe. It is very 'UnTakara' but very 'Hasbro' in its look and feel.Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
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...possibly. But I've seen pics of Henkei Ratchet on sites like Amazon Japan and they're using the same pics. But it's possible that they're might be using it because there's no other available pics... *shrugs* we should know more by the end of the year.
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TakTom and Online sellers have been using Universe placeholder pics for most of their Henkeis and then replaces them when the real pics are replaced.
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Just look at *that* blue. I think that would make it a hasbro. And the mis-match white.
Mould still blows chunks though. Not even henkei can save jigsaw ironhide/ratchet.
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To be fair to HasTak, making a G1 show/comic-accurate Ratchet and Ironhide is bloody hard to do. Yes, it's very jig-saw-esque because all that vehicle kibble has to go somewhere and still create a robot mode that betrays nearly none of it!
With very few exceptions most of the vehicle mode just vanished into thin air in the G1 cartoon and comics with the robot mode essentially missing 2/3 of the vehicle!
In order to achieve this in a toy there are only options for HasTak; they can either:
1/ Have a detachable trailer; which is what we had with OTFCC/BotCon Ironhide and Ratchet, or...
2/ Incorporate the vehicle kibble into the robot mode.
Those are the only two choices for HasTak. Their additional challenge on top of that is to try and make the robot mode look like the comic/show model which doesn't show 2/3 of the vehicle mode. On top of that they also have to confine to a set budget and price point/size class. This is not an easy feat so I'm not quick to judge on the jigsaw look of the toy.
The G1 robot was based off the front section of the vehicle - the trailer/deck section usually vanished into thin air
BotCon Ratchet
E.J. Su's Ratchet carries his vehicle kibble on his body
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The design could of certainly have been better. Breaking up the windows into 3 distinct panels is the main issue. They didn't have to do that but they did. Neither Hasbro nor Takara have never been good at painting panel edges and sadly this toy NEEDS that so that its windows don't have an 'in your face' broken look to them.
That is my main criticism of the toy, the 'broken' windows.
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Looking at all the probs with this Classics Ironhide/Ratchet mould, How cool would it have been if they'd recycled the Botcon versions of them, slapped on a little bit of chrome to differentiate it & bam! = We're all happy!
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I wouldn't go that far. Some would be very happy with the toy tribute while others would be disappointed that they didn't go for a cartoon/comic (for most part) 'combined' approach.Looking at all the probs with this Classics Ironhide/Ratchet mould, How cool would it have been if they'd recycled the Botcon versions of them, slapped on a little bit of chrome to differentiate it & bam! = We're all happy!
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