megatronus wrote:TimothyR wrote:shajaki wrote:TheVenocWarlord wrote:Shockwave7 wrote:If you like movie4 leader Optimus - buy it. More power to you.
But to me, it's a clumsy, kibble-shackled mold that bears only a passing resemblance to the lithe, flexible CGI model they used for the movie. All the action sequences I saw showed Prime with a form-fitting, almost organic humanoid physique, that had extremely pliable armor plating. This toy? Nope.
Easy pass. Evasion Prime was the only no-brainer purchase of the lot, and that, only because it was so G1-friendly. So far the movie4 assortment has been a huge letdown.
Pray tell how they could make it more movie accurate? It's going to have back kibble no matter what. Or are you the type that's G1 or nothing?
Really, most of the Movie Generations are great, as is the Generations line in general.
agreed. as many others have pointed out, matching a toy to the actual movie model is damn near impossible. the silver knight prime from the movie has ZERO kibble. he cant conceivably transform into his iconic truck mode.
great? that's laughable.
these figures are awful. they're cheap feeling, they lack paint, they lack articulation, and they're tiny. so no, they're FAR from great.
you're telling me that, had hasbro put in more effort, the shoulder kibble couldn't have folded up neater? the waist panels couldn't have folded up more neatly? the fuel tanks on his back couldn't have been hidden somewhere?
see.. i believe they could've done all of that.. but no, not with a simplistic line like this, that would add too many steps.. cause, you know, that's way too many steps for a kid.. cause.. apparently there are tons of kids out there with $47 to purchase this thing.
the whole line has been a failure.. there are two main line bad guys TWO. the on screen dinobots aren't even close to being in scale and aren't even close to being colored correctly.. as for the main autobots.. if you want those figure colored correctly, you're going to have to pay extra. it's ridiculous.
The whole line a failure? Now THAT'S laughable.
Some figures are better than others, and some are plain bad, but there are plenty of winners.
"Plenty of winners"... Really? You can't actually believe that... Who.. Who is a winner?
Deluxe drift?.. With that paint job, nah.. A robot that comes with FOUR swords yet has no wrist rotation.. That's not winning to me.. No ankle pivots.. It's 2014 and the damn figure costs $16, I expect its feet to stand flush.
Or how bout new bumblebee.. Once again the ankles aren't articulated, his "battle mask" aka his battle sun glasses are just plain bad. Hasbro still hasn't figured out the yellow paint vs yellow plastic problem. So.. Yet another figure that I wouldn't consider a winner.
Deluxe scorn.. First off DELUXE scorn is the first problem, it should've been a voyager.. It's red, which is ridiculous. It's got a tail arm, which is perfectly fine because it's accurate.. But not a single joint in the tail itself? Really? That's just crazy. This figure comes close to being a winner but there's just too much wrong with it.
Now you could say voyager hound.. Which I'm on the fence about.. I'm not a fan of his feet at all, they really make him difficult to balance. All of the weapons are really cool but the fact that his arms and wrists aren't articulated enough to get the best possible poses is a shame. which is similar to drifts problems. His color, like all of the figures is plain wrong.. And, for me at least, getting his weapons to stay tabbed in in truck mode is an absolute nightmare.. It's to the point where I don't even bother putting them on the truck.
Galvatron comes close to being a winner.. But he's got no depth.. His color is awful, all of the molded details are lost, no wrist articulation.. And again he should've been larger.
The rest of the line doesn't even come close to winning.. Not by a long shot.
I understand that not every figure is going to be perfect.. But I expect the good to outweigh the bad.. It doesn't with this line.. Now take a figure like Takara's armada starscream.. No ankle pivots, no wrist swivel, simpler transformation.. Yet it's a great figure because it has a wonderful paint job, an accurate color scheme, looks good in both modes, and everything stays secure in jet mode. That's a winner.
And don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed the movies, they're not great but they're fun.. And I've really enjoyed the toys.. But AOE doesn't have any gems in the line.. It doesn't have figures like ROTF leader prime, leader starscream, leader ironhide, human alliance jazz, human alliance soundwave, human alliance barricade, voyager bludgeon, deluxe battle blades bumblebee, and so on.. This line just doesn't have any figures where in a couple years, when the engineering declines even further, we're going to say, "man, I wish they still made figures the way they were in AOE".
SO ADORABLE...Must...resist...buying...multiples!
