TFA/Animated Comments thread

[iceburn]

He does look awesome, Stompy. can't wait to grab him. Definitely a winner for this year.

haha everyone's a winner to you mate

[STL]

haha everyone's a winner to you mate

Except you.

[Golden Phoenix]

Except you.

Ice, your gonna need some cream for that BURN

[Stompy]

Good review man

just curious though, how far can you get the armour onto the original prowl?

You can't get the armour over the original Prowl. Those fins prevent it from being put on. Hence the ability to fold the fins up on the new re-mold.

EDIT:
Actually, you can but the helmet will not fit into the bigger head of the original mold. It can fit in halfway. But the shoulder pads and waist guards can be moved to position.

EDIT 2:
Here's a pic of what it looks like. It actually holds pretty well.

[SilverDragon]

I got the jet twins today.

Jet modes, for want of a better word, suck from the waist down. They look cool in the comic, but in toy form not so much. I'd like some actual wings. But, considering that they have to form half of a robot as well as transform into individual robots, at least they look like jets and not like the it's-a-submarine-because-we-say-so type vehicles that many G1 Pretenders are.

Combined jet mode just looks wrong. Someone over at the TFA Livejournal community described it best in two words: "JET SEX."

Robot modes are where they shine, and I really think that the designers put effort into this. They are really quite poseble, and they are full of character. I find it interesting that a 'good' character is homaging a villain (Jetstorm). While I do like Jetfire (mostly because of his flying ace-style head), I think I like Jetstorm better because of his colours.

Safeguard is quite well done. It's impressive how two very different colour schemes don't clash. I do think that the back is a mess of kibble, so I've been trying to fix that up by posing the arms. So far, my favourite way of doing so is to have the top pair fold over Safeguard's shoulders like a pair of cannons, and the bottom pointed down.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Why oh why did they have fixed, hinged guns on Voyager Starscream? A simple peg on the blasters and some holes on his forearms, biceps and on his wings (for vehicle mode) and he'd still be able to store his weapons in all modes AND be more show-accurate to boot, without much if anything by the way of added production costs.

Likewise, Blitzwing's robot mode could have been so much better if he'd had clips on his shoulders for his guns to clip onto like the ones on his tank turret/plane tail (only hinged so as to move vertically rather than horizontally). It wouldn't have been perfect but he would have got some sort of show-accurate robot battle mode at least.

They're both still fun figures and I'm happy I got them, but it's disappointing to see how a few small changes could have made them (IMO) much better.

[Stompy]

Waspinator Review:

Bio on back of card says that after some experiments performed by Blackarachnia on Waspinator, he became a wasp with the ability to survive even after being blown to bits. His hatred for Bumblebee still lingers strongly.

I guess he shares a common vendetta as Blackarachnia has with Sentinel & Optimus.



Waspinator's new alt mode is of a wasp. The paintjob consists of black on the abdomen neck, back and waist. There's also some silver for the insignia and on the side of his torso. Some light green paint apps on the wasp mode forehead and antennae. There's plenty of clear purple plastic used for the wings, eyes, elbows and thighs. Just enough to break the monotony of dark green for the arms and legs. Play value isn't much in this mode. The back legs can be positioned easily enough in all sorts of angles. Although the four front legs share the one "shoulder" joint. The way the "shoulder" is positioned doesn't allow for much poses for the front 4 legs. Especially when the two are joined on the same arm. The head is pretty much stuck in that one position and cannot swivel or spin at all.

There's a small knob just behind the wings that when pulled back will make the wings flap out by about 2cm. Otherwise it has very little play value and is merely a display piece in alt mode.



The conversion to botmode is pretty much what you would expect just by looking at the two modes. Which is a little simple and somewhat uninteresting conversion.

The bot mode looks great but much like the alt mode, has very little play value besides the flapping wings. There are no new paint apps featured. The robot mode reminds me a lot of Swoop but a little chunkier. There are no included weapons but at least the proportions are perfect.

Articulation is excellent and the tail/abdomen is quite light that balance issues are very limited. There's four points of articulations on each leg, including a horizontal swivel on the thighs. Which I love in figures as it allows for great poses.



The head sculpt reveals a very large serrated jaw and clear purple light piped eyes. It's on a ball joint so it can be moved around as expected with a ball jointed head. Also note the two mini-arms (probably lent to him by Grimlock) that appears on his chest for some "fly-like" hand rubbing action. This isn't present in the alt mode but there is an option for you to make them a little visible in the alt mode.

Overall a very nice looking figure with very little play value. The lack of a weapon is to blame. Even if they incorporated a missile launcher for his tail, especially since the bio at the back says he has paralyzing stingers. A bit of a missed opportunity since the tail is just solid and has no conversion purposes. Definately a display piece.

[STL]

He looks great. I hope to find him sometime soon along with Prowl too now that sightings have popped up.

[Sky Shadow]

Just out of interest, who's the orange robot behind Prowl?

[iceburn]

Fantastic Four - Johnny Storm
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