Hasbro Mechtech 3D Toy Viewer Update: Deluxe Roadbuster
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 5:50PM CDT
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Posted by ConBotFormer on April 26th, 2011 @ 6:45pm CDT
Posted by Seibertron on April 26th, 2011 @ 7:59pm CDT
Posted by El Duque on April 26th, 2011 @ 8:39pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:I am looking forward to this figure a lot. Plus I love AMP. Good stuff!
AMP! Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Monster is where it's at!
Posted by MINDVVIPE on April 26th, 2011 @ 10:08pm CDT
Posted by NatsumeRyu on April 26th, 2011 @ 10:09pm CDT
ConBotFormer wrote:Uhm...where is his mouth? And look at his big ass nostrils. Still hope he's cool in the film.
LOL! Tell me where Bumblebee's mouth is and I'll tell you Roadbuster's! Ha ha.
Posted by BeastProwl on April 26th, 2011 @ 10:50pm CDT
Posted by rich prime on April 26th, 2011 @ 10:53pm CDT
El Duque wrote:It's that time of the week again! Hasbro has updated their Official Transformers Website's Mechtech 3-D Toy Viewer with this week's featured DOTM figure, Deluxe Roadbuster. Use the 3-D glasses that came with your DOTM Preview Cyberverse Optimus Prime to see Roadbuster in all his 3-D glory.
Coming soon: Sentinel Prime (Leader Class) - 05/03
BADASS
Posted by Bumblevivisector on April 26th, 2011 @ 11:03pm CDT
On the one hand, it seems like cheap name-dropping to throw a bone to older die-hard fans since they don't look too much like their respective namesakes. On the other hand, it proves someone did a little more homework this time than for ROTF, so as long as they're bad-ass, who cares?
And all through my childhood, Roadbuster was the TF toy I wanted most but never had, and any version of him has to be better than the blasphemy of Playskool Energon Ironhide being named Roadbuster in Superlink, right?
And then I saw this mugshot. As much as I want to see that helmet as resembling LeoZack (another personal fav), something about his face and torso makes me think of Beast Machines Rattrap. And I really don't want to think of that, ever again, as long as I live, since he personified the very concept of taking a complex, well-rounded character and raping their very essence in order to mutilate them into something less interesting to suit a new creative team's more contrived story. No, Michael's masterpieces don't deserve to be thought of that way, since the Bayniverse has at least had the simple decency to not pretend to have ties to any previous continuies just so it can retcon 20 tons of organic garbage into them to build a more solid foundation for it's shaky story. No, I loved ROTF for falling flat on its face and not trying to take any of our old friends down with it. And no matter how hard this Roadbuster falls on his face (hopefully due to an exploding Mech-Tech Pathblaster-TM), I shall gaze upon said non-visage and remember just how much worse the movie might have been a decade ago, and hope that all knee-jerk Bay-haters do the same.
The Wreckers and their fans have survived worse.