RhA wrote:morphobots wrote:Sorry, but I really don't see why this exists, and using the Optimus/Motormaster mold with those floppy hips for the third time is beyond me. No matter what fixes I've found to try on Menasor, the only leg pose I can get out of him without collapsing is standing up straight. I fully expect this offering will be the same way.
Pretty much this. Menasor looks great, but he's structurally flawed. And that's a big, floppy shame. I see no reason to get this mold a third time. Not even his sweet headcrest can persuade me.
I agree with the both of you and I thought this toy was a huge missed opportunity on Hasbro's part. Do we really need yet another version of an Optimus Prime toy in this line? It could have easily been an Ultra Magnus toy. I also thought the choices for the limbs were poor. Ironhide could have easily been given First Aid's mold to make it closer to his incarnation from the classics or, better still, he could had been remolded to look like the Bayverse Ironhide with the two cannons - I would have bought that in a heartbeat.
The choice of Sunstreaker is also WTF. I would rather have the deluxe Groove figure from Takara's United Warriors as part of the limb. Heck, it would had been great if we get Groove recolored or redecoed as Wreck-Gar or Highwire - that way, at least North American fans can get their hands on this mold instead of yet another remold of the Dead End/Breakdown buck.
With Breakdown, Dead End, Streetwise, Dustup, Jumpstream, Sunstreaker, and Brake-Neck, sharing more or less the same mold, there was no reason not to use Rook's mold and give it to Ironhide, either, and give the police SUV to Prowl instead of the car buck for the eighth time. Heck, why even make it G1 Prowl? Could have been nice if this was RID Prowl or even Steeljaw.
Mirage is probably the only one that made sense in that group because they haven't reused the Drag Strip mold, so it makes financial sense for Hasbro to have this fig. Personally, I would like to see another new mold (besides Groove), but it's a nice repaint nonetheless.
Having a combiner made from components from across Transformers' history in the past 30 years would had been better than this - I know it's supposed to follow IDW continuity, but it would have been great if they did something different to make this figure less bleh. A RID (2001) combiner consists of Optimus (Hot Spot), Skidz (Mirage), X-Brawn (First Aid), Prowl (Streetwise), and Sideburn (Dead End) would have been awesome as well.
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