Love the Omega Spreem picture. Actually spoiler it did look like they were building more than one "Guardian Robot" in Transwarped...
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Love the Omega Spreem picture. Actually spoiler it did look like they were building more than one "Guardian Robot" in Transwarped...
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Mine transforms into jet mode just fine. Too bad it sucks. The tank mode's not that much better either really. :/Originally Posted by Robzy
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Yeah, that's what I mean. Mine transforms fine, but IMO the best "mode" is robot. I think the others look rather underwhelming to say the least!
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I decided to give Animated another chance. This time I bought Oil Slick and Grimlock
To be quite honest these are not too bad. Aside from the obvious with Grimlock and his gaping chest wound, his robot mode is very nice. My favourite so far.
Oil Slick also has a good robot mode but I could've sworn his head in the proto pics looked like he had some kind of fluid in his helmet, but it wasn't to be found in the finished product
After some more playing around with all my Animated TF's I have to say I am pretty happy with the purchases I have made (Lockdown, Soundwave, Grimlock, Oil Slick)
I think I will buy the rest of the Dinobots and Swindle and that will just about do it for my Animated collection, unless I find Atomic Lugnut and Sunstorm
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Orignally the plans for Oilslick were to have some liquid in his noggin, but Hasbro changed their minds due to safety concerns about water quality from China and what would happen if the helmet broke. Fair enough in my mind. I have never been a fan of liquid and toys, unless they are designed to go in the water.
The only reason to get a Blazing Lockdown IMO is for the chainsaw....
Blurr is pretty awesome as well. If you want to get something larger, Magnus and Megatron are great too.
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Snarl (Slag) and Swoop are very good toys, you won't be disappointed with them.
And good call on Atomic Lugnut, it's one fine looking specimen.
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Blurr has a nice sleek car mode that holds together well. The switching the position of the arms and legs during the transformation works great. The tall lithe robot mode looks like a runner. Very pleased with the toy.
Swindle's shortness doesn't bother me, he's compact but full of character. The thing I love most about Swindle though is his gun and the way it changes colour ("lighting up") when loaded and ready to fire. It's such a nice little extra touch that surprised me and made me smile.
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Comparison between regular and Samurai Prowl:
And yes, I know I made a transformation mistake with Samurai Prowl in those pics - the waist wasn't turned around correctly. I can't be bothered redoing the shots.
Overall I think the original Prowl is a better toy.
Sidecar attachments aside, Samurai Prowl is a retool and slight repaint of the original toy. Here's a list of differences that I've noticed and which one I think is better...
+ Windows are blue with "tech" sculpt deco on the front windscreen on Samurai Prowl. On the original they're a grey tint with no "tech" decos. I prefer the original.
+ Original Prowl's front windscreen is "U" shaped whereas Samurai Prowl's is "W" shaped. I don't like/dislike either over the other.
+ Headlights on original Prowl are black whereas Samurai Prowl's are clear blue. While I'm not fond of the blue, the effect is nice because it makes the headlights stand out whereas original Prowl's are barely noticeable. So I'm gonna give the point to Samurai Prowl in this department.
+ Samurai Prowl's head crest is made from the same transparent blue that his eyes are with the crest painted over with gold and grey. Unfortunately the paint apps on the crest is sloppy allowing for a lot of blue piped light to "bleed" from around the crest. The eyes and crest is also smaller which doesn't look as nice as on the original to me. Original Prowl's eyes are metallic sky blue with a gold and grey painted crest. The paint apps on the original are also sloppy, but doesn't look as bad since there's no light bleeding (as there is no light pipe gimmick). So while the basic execution isn't inherently better or worse on either toy, the result looks worse on Samurai Prowl so I'm giving the point to the original toy here.
+ The gold arrows on Prowl's gauntlets are pointing upward on Samurai Prowl but downward on the original. I don't think either looks better or worse than the other, but Samurai Prowl's arrows is obscured by large black tabs which are required for attaching his Samurai armour. Because it's a reasonable part of the gimmick I can forgive it. So equal points here.
+ Original Prowl's engine block has grey painted accents and his fingers and thumbs are painted beige. Samurai Prowl's engine and fingers are unpainted which makes it look very dull. Original Prowl wins here hands down (sic).
+ The vents on the outer thighs are gold on original Prowl but black on Samurai Prowl. While both work to break up the beige of the upper legs, I think the gold works better on the original toy whereas the black just looks dull on Samurai Prowl, especially given the unpainted black fingers and engine. Preference for the original here.
+ The ninja stars on original Prowl are entirely gold whereas on Samurai Prowl they're a combination of gold, grey and black - which is a nice touch. Unfortunately this is undone by the fact that - for some reason that eludes me - the ninja star gimmick has been REMOVED from Samurai Prowl! The teeth for on the cogs that allow the shurikens' blades to extend and retract have been removed - resculpted so that they're smooth. I pulled hard to get the blade to come out but they wouldn't budge. I don't see why Hasbro has done this... surely it wouldn't save them any money since the existing mould already has toothed cogs - and it would still be the same number of parts. Odd. So I'm gonna give the point to the original toy here.
+ The strobe lights are red and blue on the original, whereas they're both blue on Samurai Prowl which looks dull. Original is better here.
Overall the original version of Animated Prowl is a better toy IMO. I'd only recommend Samurai Prowl if you're a fan of the show and you really want a version of the toy with the armour/weapon. Otherwise don't lose any sleep over it. Unfortunately the armour cannot attach to the original Prowl toy.
I'm also not a fan of them calling this toy "Samurai" Prowl considering that he's meant to be a freaking ninja. But it seems that TF Animated has blended the concepts of Samurai and ninja together... which irks me... but it's clearly something not restricted to Prowl since his master Yoketron also had armour. The original Prowl toy is better in terms of capturing a more authentic essence of a ninja.
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+ Samurai Prowl doesn't come with a traffic light on a string.
= Automatic win for Samurai Prowl.
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