Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
TulioDude wrote:I'm just waiting for the Last Knight Hot Rod.
Sowndwave76 wrote:Jeddostotle7 wrote:Black Hat wrote:He looks alright but the fact we're in a timeline where a basic car chest transformation is apparently too complex to pull off without resorting to faux-parts irks me something chronic.
Hot Rod in particular kinda has to have a fake chest in order to be animation accurate in either mode, in robot mode it's smaller and differently shaped than in vehicle mode. When he transforms from robot to vehicle, his chest/hood literally grows and changes shape. They can't do that on a physical figure.
Yeah, I really don't get why this bothers people so much... If having an alternate part helps make the proportions of the robot better, then what's the issue?
Why does it matter?? If someone wants to claim they'd rather have all alt mode parts used in the bot mode... WHY??? I'm really asking... Is it because that makes a figure have a "pure transformation"?
Again, I'd ask why does this matter...
Imo, I think it's an awesome part of the engineering design that a figure's parts appear to shape/size shift from one mode to the other.
ZeroWolf wrote:Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron user, Praxiusprime77 has let us know that YouTube toy reviewer, TonTon Reviews, has been at it again. This time, has produced a video review for the upcoming Transformers Studio Series 86 Voyager Class Hotrod!
This Hotrod is the first of the 86 movie releases for the line, and comes with several accessories to mimic what he used in the 1986 animated movie, such as his flip down goggles and the saw blade he wields at one point.
We have embedded the review below for your convenience:
What do you think of this version of the classic character? Will you be adding him to a Hotrod shrine? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Percepter wrote:It matters because there's no point in having something that looks like part of the alt mode that isn't. Just make it some neat looking robot chest or something, then. And MP-09 managed to cook in a way to make the chest shrink that served well enough, IMO, so it's not like this can't be done.
Sowndwave76 wrote:You're example of a MP figure doesn't quite apply because not only are those figures larger which literally gives more plastic to work with, they're given a larger budget as well.
o.supreme wrote:Looks Cool, but not in my range of collecting. I am glad for those who are excited. I will make one observation however... I'm not sure where the idea started that SS 86 toys were intended for kingdom, but just wouldn't fit in that line up, but I think we can put that to rest. Like or hate them, it seems these toys were always intended for SS.
I've been given a lot of flak lately because I like to categorize my toys according to how they are released, but it is important. Of course liking toys from every line is ok, and display them how you want, it's your collection. But I can guarantee, a Kingdom Hotrod would have been very different than this one. Not saying better or worse, just obviously engineered differently.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Sowndwave76 wrote:You're example of a MP figure doesn't quite apply because not only are those figures larger which literally gives more plastic to work with, they're given a larger budget as well.
There's also the fact that many MP figures DO use faux parts. Best example, Optimus Prime with his fake belly grill... ALL 3 versions.
o.supreme wrote:Hotrod would have been a deluxe not a Voyager class in Kingdom (should have been also in SS but that's beside the point), whatever different level of engineering you want to make of that. I actually look at ER Prime and SS 86 Hotrod and see no similarities, they look like they belong in completely different lines because they are.
Heh, one could say the exact same thing about these two toys.o.supreme wrote:I actually look at ER Prime and SS 86 Hotrod and see no similarities, they look like they belong in completely different lines because they are.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sowndwave76 wrote:Exactly... & again, even though we could all suffice without faux parts, tons & tons of us would then be crying out for more accurate robot proportions...
After all, most of us agree that’s the most important aspect to get right... Especially now that technology really allows that to be possible.
Yeah, faux parts..... Of almost any complaint about these toys, that’s one I really really don’t understand.
Studio Series is gonna start having toys of characters from the 1986 movie. We think it's so that Kingdom can make room for its Beast Wars toys in addition to the updated G1 toys that it's also going to have.Nemesis Destron wrote:Okay so I was late to the meeting, but why is this Hot Rod under the Studio series/brand?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
grimdragon2001 wrote:to celebrate the 1986 movie
Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr, Slag w/ Daniel, Grimlock w/ Wheelie, Jazz, Astrotrain, Gnaw and Scourge are rumored for Studio Series.Nemesis Destron wrote:grimdragon2001 wrote:to celebrate the 1986 movie
So we can expect other '86 characters not yet released like Kup, Cyclonus, Galvatron...? As oppose to some that have recently been released...UM, Arcee, Springer.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Emerje wrote:Really thought I would see more complaints about how terrible the back of Hot Rod's car mode looks. Everyone seems to be really upset about Ironhide's feet sticking out the back of the van mode, but I guess big gray knees hanging out the back of a car is OK. I think they missed the mark there, surely there's something they could have done to either pull the legs in further or collapse them more. Very unfortunate because the rest of the figure is pretty much immaculate. Definitely going to be posing him on the shelf with the Matrix in hand, that effect part is perfect!
Emerje
According to this news post (unless a mistake was made).Wolfman Jake wrote:We're getting a Studio Series release of Astrotrain!? This is the first I've heard of that.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sowndwave76 wrote:There is a point... Which most people understand-- making the hood of a vehicle fold in any way to make it smaller to fit the proportions of the robot mode involves more parts/pieces, seams in the figure, and just more to mess with both for the designer, and the consumer in terms of the transformation.
If the vehicle hood could be made as the figure's "neat looking robot chest" without any changes in design... They'd do that.
You're example of a MP figure doesn't quite apply because not only are those figures larger which literally gives more plastic to work with, they're given a larger budget as well.
-Kanrabat- wrote:There's also the fact that many MP figures DO use faux parts. Best example, Optimus Prime with his fake belly grill... ALL 3 versions.
Gauntlet101010 wrote:I'm not a fan of fauz parts if they seem egregious. But the car mode hood is well hidden in robot mode. And the end result is just fantastic.
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