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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 24, 2023 20:40:08 GMT
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Post by Benn on Aug 24, 2023 21:37:35 GMT
Chase? The Throttlebot or the Rescue Bot?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 25, 2023 0:21:37 GMT
Rescue Bot from w1
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 25, 2023 0:24:06 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 25, 2023 0:29:45 GMT
Who had United in the "What does UNI stand for?" sweepstake?
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Post by Toph on Aug 25, 2023 4:27:51 GMT
Well at least it's not Universe 3. United 2 is extremely confusing but not as bad as Universe
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Post by Llama God on Aug 25, 2023 7:45:55 GMT
Who had United in the "What does UNI stand for?" sweepstake? I think most of us..?
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Post by Llama God on Aug 25, 2023 7:47:21 GMT
Well at least it's not Universe 3. United 2 is extremely confusing but not as bad as Universe It's okay, in full it'll be Transformers Generations Legacy United, so much easier to disambiguate, as long as everyone uses "GLU" consistently. Which we're already not. Oh.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 25, 2023 7:57:02 GMT
It's just random strings of words now.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 25, 2023 8:18:13 GMT
They make sense to me.
I'm sure names will be along soon
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 25, 2023 9:00:46 GMT
Who had United in the "What does UNI stand for?" sweepstake? I didn't. My money was on Universe 3.0. -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 25, 2023 9:02:36 GMT
They make sense to me. I'm sure names will be along soon Sorry, I meant that the *product line* names are just gibberish now. Generations Legacy United: it's just a string of random words. -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 25, 2023 9:03:59 GMT
So the Legacy gimmick was see-through additional weapons (or giant hands). Evolution was "evo-fusion" ie "bugger all". What will United's gimmick be?
Dare I dream of more minicons?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 25, 2023 9:12:13 GMT
Minicons have to be floating around *SOMEWHERE* but the where isn't obvious yet and neither are any more Armada Characters
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2023 7:14:28 GMT
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Post by Benn on Sept 17, 2023 7:16:10 GMT
That's pretty bad. Not a bad Bumblebee, but a bad Animated Bumblebee. Did they even check how original AniBee looked?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2023 7:29:50 GMT
Which bits are the problem? Looks pretty decent to me, a non animated fan
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Post by Toph on Sept 17, 2023 8:00:13 GMT
The head is really lousy at blending the aesthetics. The polar opposite of Prowl It'd be a tad better if the mouth wasn't off center. The upper arms have something kinda gnarly going on. Almost Core Sludge level bad. I agree, it's an okay Bumblebee (but we've had better), but not a terribly good TFA Bee. But then, Bumblebee is an afterthought. This mold matches up perfectly to this guy:
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Post by Benn on Sept 17, 2023 8:25:02 GMT
The legs and feet are wholly wrong, and I'd argue the porportions of the whole are off. Even by Legacy terms, it's way too boxy.
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Post by Llama God on Sept 17, 2023 8:28:57 GMT
Yeah, my first thoughts were that I’m more excited about seeing what this mold is going to be repurposed as. Because this… well it’s not terrible. But I don’t think I can say more than “it exists”.
The problem with un-Animateding these characters is that originally they were basically stylised G1 guys. So you remove that stylisation and you’re left with… a standard G1 character. Which is what we have here. Nothing terrible, but nothing thrilling or missing from anyone’s collections.
Where this might work is if they do this to, say, Animated Megatron, as that helicopter form has never had a G1 analog. So that might be interesting to see. But we’re going to have Prime first. And in terms of G1-styled Primes with truck modes, there’s been a couple…
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 17, 2023 9:30:27 GMT
I concur with Llama's thoughts. I was holding off on buying Prowl until we saw some more of these, but that's a bland figure and the arms are are shocking. I can't see why I'd want to put this, Prowl and a Prime on a shelf when the originals are so much better. The only use these would have is if you're really into the multiverse idea and you wanted to play a crossover between universes but have all the figures use a similar aesthetic. Which I guess is what Generations is doing at the moment. I can see that as an idea on paper but the reality is it just gives you slightly worse versions of what were great toys.
I do get this this might be working for some people though. I feel exactly as above about the BW figures, but the opposite when it comes to Armada. I'm really keen on getting more of those, which totally goes against the point I'm making. I guess somewhere someone will be excited.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2023 10:05:55 GMT
As frequently happens our US correspondent and I see this one very differently! The head is really lousy at blending the aesthetics. The polar opposite of Prowl It'd be a tad better if the mouth wasn't off center. The mouth is directly inherited from the animated deluxe. For me the head's the bit of the toy which is really screaming ANIMATED to me The upper arms have something kinda gnarly going on. Almost Core Sludge level bad. Again I can see the animated style quite clearly here. I agree, it's an okay Bumblebee (but we've had better), but not a terribly good TFA Bee. But then, Bumblebee is an afterthought. This mold matches up perfectly to this guy: Not sure I see it but side by side comprison However this is one of the few things we can be reasonably sure he won't be turned into: Bumblebee and Chase are in the same case!
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Post by Nigel on Sept 17, 2023 10:12:12 GMT
I don't like that Bumblebee. It's too far removed from Animated.
Annoyingly, I have Bulkhead (which I like) and Prowl (which is okay) which makes me want Bumblebee to go with them. But it can wait until I see him cheap.
I agree that this aesthetic would work with Megatron, as well as other Animated-originated designs such as Lugnut and Sentinel Prime. Maybe Blitzwing. I'm already awaiting Trashmaster repurposed as Wreck-Gar.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2023 10:12:37 GMT
Not sure I see it but side by side comprison OK, can see what you're getting at now they're side by side
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2023 10:35:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2023 10:56:27 GMT
Looks like a g1-esque body with an Animated style head plopped on top like a bad Photoshop. Oh dear!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2023 11:07:45 GMT
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Post by Benn on Sept 17, 2023 11:40:09 GMT
Car mode is adorable and makes me wonder how they've messed up the robot so bad...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2023 11:49:56 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 17, 2023 12:08:45 GMT
The arms look better in the second set of photos. They must be mistransformed in the first ones. I was wondering if that was the case.
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