Clay wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:30 pm
Well, what do we think about the selection for the new Legacy figures? We've got a broad swath of series represented, and I feel that we in this thread should take full credit for it.
"Mostly well-executed but mostly not for me" sums it up, I guess?
The tiny Energon Megatron is probably my favourite of the bunch, both for how cute it is and how completely random it feels. I kind of love it? And the inevitable Galvatron redeco would pair wonderfully with a big Unicron toy.
Turning BW Snarl into an approximation of actual tasmanian devil instead of a demonic weasel (?) like the vintage toy led to a surprising amount of changes overall. I like it? And as with Kingdom Rattrap, the Cores feel a lot more "Beast Warsy" than the bigger size classes because they're still a mess of ball joints.
Not a fan of Animated or the aesthetic, so neither of those figures hugely appeal, but Prime seems remarkably well done and Bumblebee...does not. Chase is in a similar bucket as Optimus for me, very well done but not personally appealing. Windblade's hollow wings are an eyesore.
Tigerhawk looks
so similar to the original that it's actually a bit weird. I've had the Razorclaw version for decades and I like it, but at the end of the day it's a very un-dynamic mountain of spring-loaded gimmicks, and seeing thumbnails of what looks like exactly the same toy actually posing was momentarily very confusing.
The hollow wings and guns on a $77 Leader-class toy are ridiculous though, and the beast mode doesn't impress me much.
I can't say that I see the appeal of rock-vehicles. Like, at all. I'll pass on those.
Thundertron looks like what you'd get if you challenged someone to design a new Thundertron based off of a verbal description of the old one, without ever actually seeing it. It's recognizable in the broadest of strokes, but doesn't actually have any details in common. I'd have said that the shoulder-claws in robot mode were the most recognizable feature so I can't help but rate the old one higher than the new one.
Denyer wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:21 pmI reckon the Studio Series Scrapheap beats all of them, although would have been interested in the Rock Lord wannabes if they turned into rocks rather than vehicles made out of rocks.
Honestly? Yeah. I'm not a Junkion fan but Scrapheap is immediately more eye-catching than all of the Legacy stuff.
Denyer wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:21 pm
Also there seems to be a SG pre-tool of Armada Wheeljack done from the thoroughly over-exposed Sideswipe mould? I'd go for a Wheeljack/Rampage if one shows up.
A few years ago I would have been excited for an Armada deco, but after fourteen releases over four years I'm starting to hope someone accidentally deletes the CAD files.