Black Hat wrote:Regarding Megatron's cloak, the problem with cloth on action figures (especially TFs) is it usually looks woefully out of scale. A fabric square that's for the sake of argument 6 metres in size will not behave the same as a square of the same fabric cut to 6 inches due to the effects of gravity and the fact the smaller square is proportionately thicker- you'd have to make the fabric much thinner and more flexible/less stiff for it to look convincing. And regrettably, even higher-end manufacturers like Mezco can't get fabric to not look overscale on their figures (hence why their figures all look like they're wearing woolen pyjamas) so what hope does a retail-budget toyline have? Short of using expensive microfibre cloth (which would push the price of the figure up) it just ain't happening. I'd like it if a 3P made a replacement that either went the route of the original DOTM figure with a soft vinyl cloak (except done better) or took a leaf out of the Revoltech Amazing Yamaguchi line and made a multi-part plastic arrangement connected by joints, allowing for positioning and a better looking (if somewhat stylized) solution.
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.'
Sabrblade wrote:probably cost at least $800. No one here wants to have to pay that much for a Transformers toy, right?
Sabrblade wrote:Regarding Devastator's scale with the other figures, in order Devastator to be the correct size when set against everyone else, he would have to be the size of a real person, which would be a ridiculously large size and probably cost at least $800. No one here wants to have to pay that much for a Transformers toy, right?
Overcracker wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Overcracker wrote:Megs is looking better than I thought. Not feeling the soft goods shroud however. Seems just a bit cheap.
But still, makes me want to get Megs.
Also I want Cog and Sideswipe.
Why does having a piece that should be made of fabric, be made of fabric, feel cheap? Vinyl doesn't shift and drape and fall like actual cloth does.
Because it looks wrong, it doesn't drape correctly even though it is cloth. It's not even remotely close to what the onscreen shroud looked like. Very Soft vinyl, or another kind of fabric that is less stiff may have looked better and correctly draped on him. Also, it looks too clean.
The material used is what looks cheap.
ZeroWolf wrote:All this just goes to show how hard it is to literally please everyone!
-Kanrabat- wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:All this just goes to show how hard it is to literally please everyone!
There's also a prime rule:
When trying to please everyone you ALWAYS end up pleasing no one.
Nathaniel Prime wrote:Yeah, the new Prime looks great, way better than the first one, and Bonecrusher looks awesome. About his scaling, wasn't he this size in the movie anyway? I mean I watched it yesterday, so it's still pretty fresh in my mind, but Bonecrusher did look to be that size. Anyway, everything coming out of Studio Series is awesome and I cannot wait anymore for them. My local Targets and Walmarts still have Stinger and Lockdown, with the occasional other figures from Wave 1. I didn't expect the dissappointment upon actually seeing SS Megatron in store. The pictures I saw didn't make his grey plastic this ugly. He is a great Megatron figure though. Siege of course is where I might actually buy some figures that I need, like Prime, Megatron, and Shockwave. And some Weaponizers. I love those guys
Nathaniel Prime wrote: I didn't expect the dissappointment upon actually seeing SS Megatron in store. The pictures I saw didn't make his grey plastic this ugly.
-Kanrabat- wrote:That paint touch up look great on Megs!
Make me want to do it myself.
Nathaniel Prime wrote:Yeah, the new Prime looks great, way better than the first one, and Bonecrusher looks awesome. About his scaling, wasn't he this size in the movie anyway? I mean I watched it yesterday, so it's still pretty fresh in my mind, but Bonecrusher did look to be that size.
Ig89ninja wrote:I think the main disappointment with everyone is that everyone wanted a bigger Bonecrusher that the first movie deluxe, then we were announced a voyager after so many years, and now we see it’s barely any bigger than the original even when standing upright
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:I think the main disappointment with everyone is that everyone wanted a bigger Bonecrusher that the first movie deluxe, then we were announced a voyager after so many years, and now we see it’s barely any bigger than the original even when standing upright
Is there a comparison of both figures together that shows this?
Ig89ninja wrote:Carnivius_Prime wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:I think the main disappointment with everyone is that everyone wanted a bigger Bonecrusher that the first movie deluxe, then we were announced a voyager after so many years, and now we see it’s barely any bigger than the original even when standing upright
Is there a comparison of both figures together that shows this?
Not exactly, but we can use SS Bumblebee as a common dinominator(sic) and figure out his rough scale
ZeroWolf wrote:I don't quite understand people's frustration with bonecrusher...he looks the part to me and I'm my mind scales perfectly So you may not want him but I do, and devastator aside, I think Studio Series has knocked them out of the park scale wise. All this just goes to show how hard it is to literally please everyone!
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