Kurona wrote:The first isn't really that common and sounds like a problem exclusive to the Jetfire mold. What exactly did that hinge do?
What do you mean by the second exactly
The hinge on Generations Jetfire lowers his engines and tails so they sit lower and not up behind his head.
By removing the hinge Starscream, Skywarp & Thundercracker instead of having the "Classic" wing shape they have double wings - now I realise some IDW realted designs have a slit in the wing - but the wings sit much lower they certainly don't sit up above the head like that.
Also they didn't really put a lot of effort into remoulding as much as they could have such as the lower legs, or hands. - not essential but by removing the hinge they remove the option to display them in a more traditional look to the shape of the wings.
Personally I'd have live a bit more effort put into them considering some of the joint are to tight and some way to loose (a flaw carried over from Jetfire) and even if they are not traditional they probably could have kept the jetboosters too.
The only explanation I can come up with for such a silly change to make - in removing that hinge is to save a fraction of a minute in assembling them, or maybe something to do with the strength of the wings - speaking of which did they really need to make the wings that immobile ?
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As for the Fansproject issue some of the parts on their headmasters - (also the Maketoys version of Metroplex - especially the arms) but in particular the Saurus Ryu Combiner have the same left and right arms meaning instead of screw holes always being on the inside or the outside edge the are all on the left or all on the right with a divot moulded in the other side to loosely coincide with the shape of the screw hole you can also tell that some of the limbs are the same piece twice due to them not being quite a symmetrical mirror as you'd expect. This applies to beast feet and robot arms in particular.
It was also the case on their version of Mindwipe in this shot guns - they are the same rather than a left a right kind. with screw holes on the same side.
The only instance I can think of where this is a positive is when there is asymmetry in the design so it's a positive on G1 Hardhead's rifles for example Usually the way guns attaches it stand out in a bad way - in Hardhead's case it works though.
Another thing I'm not a fan off is the use of stamps in areas that show to obviosuly - when they are using paint stamps as well why use plastic stamps too ? That can sometimes be place in a really ugly place such as Animated Soundwave - all end up with a huge scar on their leg because of it.
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