We can compare that with Lugnut back in the day which was a dedicated mold to a new version of that character. What I mean is that Knock Out while he may be a G1ified version, that mold choice is more opportunistic than one specifically made for a G1-ified version of him. As does Jihaxus, and as does G2 Prime (and so will "RID Scourge" when he comes out) and so does Tarantulas. Sure, there is some deviations, but he gets a lot of love in that dedicated mold. As obvious as I felt that Bulkhead was, there was a debate over who that toy was refencing, which is enough for me to label that toy as not being at all close to his cartoon model (which is exactly not the point of that toy).īut you made me think of something with metroplex. The deviations seem to be more detail, not really changing his look, at least not to the same extent. Sure, I get you, but there's no debate to be had about which character this is representing. Like I said, he still has some small deviations from his cartoon design that look to be mainly aesthetic differences rather than anything necessary. William-james88 wrote:Yeah that's right, Metroplex is faithfull too.Only to an extent, though. Granted, Metroplex's cartoon model was already so toy-accurate to the look of the original toy to begin with, so the only way Hasbro could have maintained his cartoon accuracy would have been for them to simply make an enlarged version of the same toy from 2006, but which they evidently didn't want to do, opting instead to make an all new toy with a design that's only mostly (but not completely) faithful a recreation of the look of the original toy. He has a little design deviations from his cartoon design that make him only about 75% cartoon-accurate instead of the much higher percentile that each of the non-Prime Legacy toys seen so far all appear to have. All to say I wont be buying any of those toys.It's also similar with Cybertron Metroplex. And sure, I will concede that we do have a good enough show accurate Prime Arcee and Bulkhead to contend with in the past but that is not the case with Knock Out. It's also odd that the listing specified them as coming from the Prime Universe (which at least for Bulkhead did need clarification) and yet they get the neo G1 treatment. The G2 characters look like their G2 selves, the BW characters also look like how they did on the show, and the whole point of this new Menasor is that they are going out of their way to be show accurate (which seems to be a gamble that paid off), leaving the Prime characters at odds. And I personally find it a disservice that we are now in an era where we can have toys that look like the show and the only era in Legacy that doesn't do that is for the Prime characters. I liked Prime, I liked the toyline and the show, a lot. The toys seem fine as toys, but interestingly, those are all molds I will surely experience through redecos or p/retools if I fid them more invoking of the character they represent. While I am glad the toys exist for anyone who wants them and likes them, I will say that I am not fond of those Prime toys like Bulkhead, Arcee and Knock Out. All look great, and hope they keep the variety coming I don't plan to get them, but I think Prime Arcee,Bulkhead, Tarantulas, G2 Prime etc. O.supreme wrote:Also it's not like any of the toys are inherently bad choices. Okay, I just got sidetracked, back to the reason for the post!!! The peculiar looking handheld blaster featured in this post has an alternate reason for being, please swipe and see how you can finally upgrade your WFC deluxe Arcee with the Cog double blaster weaponizer mode featured in the show!!! Cant wait to see all the combinations everyone uses it for. You can see our Red Cog here comes with one of those, but it also accepts a 5mm post on each end to enhance blasters with energon fusion or just simply plug onto any 5mm posts across the line. In episode 5 season 1 of the WFC series Arcee and BB visits mercenary SoundBlaster carrying energon vials. Before I tell you everything about the pack, I wanted to highlight this special weapon that comes in the pack. This character is inspired by the War for Cybertron series, where Red Cog appears in multiple episodes looking like an awesome autobot trooper. Happy TF Tuesday everyone!! I hope you all have seen the reveal of Legacy Deluxe Target Exclusive Red Cog with weapons pack! I worked on this item with the great Hasui Shogo at Takara Tomy.
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