Oof, you need to work on your quotes...
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Emerje wrote:You might have an argument with Tigatron, though I would argue that he appeared like that on the front of the package of every Tigatron released at the time so people have long since familiar with that look compared to a figure that the majority of people didn't even know existed until this Tarantulas repaint happened. But not the other two since Sandstorm and Shadow Panther are both based on figures that were made and sold so it would be odd to change those now. Shadow Panther even got an MP.
The point alludes you. These redecos have been packaged with the Mutant Mask as the default face.
Case in point:
TFWiki wrote:A retooling of Kingdom "Predacon Scorponok" featuring a different head based on the original toy's "mutant head,"
TFWiki wrote:"Mutant Tigatron" is a redeco and retool of the above Voyager Class Tigatron. He features a new head emulating the mutant head of the original toy
TFWiki wrote:Part of the fourth wave of Kingdom Deluxe Class toys, Shadow Panther is a retool of Cheetor from the same line, with a new head based on the original figure's mutant head.
But you're making the wrong point since, like you quoted from TFWiki below, it isn't a mutant mask. There are no official images of what that figure's robot face would have looked like, but the unpainted prototype that Sabr posted did have a purple face so it makes some sense to base it on the 10th Anniversary face which also had a purple face plate and a more complete deco. Saying this figure should have an all silver face because the mutant mask was all silver isn't supported by anything. Shadow Panther's bot head isn't silver, Mutant Tigatron's bot head
isn't turquoise, Sandstorm's bot face isn't sandy and the original Tarantulas' face was also
pretty colorful. But I'm actually doubting that's the original head that goes with that figure since retail figure had a clear purple face molded from the rest of the clear purple parts so this figure should really have an orange face. But my point still stand, we know what both faces of the above figures look like, we don't know 100% what the bot face on the orange figure would have looked like, it could be anything, they chose to go with something we've seen before.
As far as MP Shadow Panther, yes I know it exists. I own it.
Then you should know better.
Emerje wrote:And again you need to be corrected that the new Tarantulas is using the ROBOT face, not the mutant mask that was used in the cartoon.
Yeah, it sure does look like it.
TFWiki wrote:"Beast Wars Universe Tarantulas" is a redeco and new-head retool of the aforementioned Legacy figure, in a primarily orange color scheme inspired by the prototype deco for the original 1996 Tarantulas toy. The figure's new head is based on the original Tarantulas mold's non-mutant robot face
That's me
corrected. Otherwise it would be quite embarrassing.
Did I really have to say the orange one when I talked about the NEW figure to differentiate it from the one release 2 years ago that we aren't even talking about? Seriously?
Also TFWiki is using "retool" to mean it's different from the original release, we all do it. More accurately it's an alternate tool.
Emerje