typh0id wrote:Watched Peaugh's review...STILL think it looks craptacular and I'm actually blown away at how many people thinks this garbage looks good...The only thing I can say for it is that is has a pretty cool transformation...But it transforms from a horrid looking jet (that for some reason has giant hands sticking out of the back) into an even more horrid looking robot...
I have tried, but I don't think I'm ever going to understand it.
The people liking the robot modes of Starscream, that new Constructicon, the new Jetfire (UUUGH), the Fallen or most of these movie characters... mindblowing. Truly.
What are they seeing that I'm not?
What are they not seeing that I am?
Everyone has different tastes, sure, but it bugs me when I can't look at someone with a differing view and go, "Ok, I kinda' see it. They like THIS because of THIS."
I can't do that here... and that's frustrating. If something's not pretty, or functionally credible or full of character... what is the draw?
Confusing... I see a toy and I go, "What would have to be changed to make this toy cooler? What points about this figure could be changed to make it worse?"
It's like, after years of toy buying, I have things set in my head, things by which I can say a toy is "bad". Plastic quality, joint quality, balance, coloring, whether or not the robot would function right in real life (like The Fallen's limb armor banging onto each other)... and I don't think other people do that.