Cyberverse was good, but I was thinking more along the main line TV series. I haven't seen Earthspark yet.
Cyberverse was good, but I was thinking more along the main line TV series. I haven't seen Earthspark yet.
I can't get past the mobile game aesthetic. I don't know why it bothers me. There's nothing wrong with it. Something in my brain just gets itchy when I see it.
I really enjoyed the Cyberverse movie with the dinobots.
I think they kinda fumbled the end of the season, but otherwise Earthspark is fantastic and I highly recommend it. It's probably the freshest take on Transformers we've had in awhile. (Even while having the prerequisite cast of Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee etc. etc.)
Something about the CGI aesthetic of Earthspark really puts me off, especially the Transformers themselves. Somehow they managed to make robots fall into the uncanny valley to me, I don't know how but they did it.
I always liked the lack of nose Prime look. It just felt alien robot to me which really worked.It's because they have noses, isn't it?
To be fair, most Optimus Primes don't have visible noses anyway.
And like Animated I like it for the most part save the art style. It's not as egregious as Animated in my mind, but it's the faces, man. Earthspark's robot faces are just WEIRD
Some are better than others. Optimus is the worst. Arcee looks fine. Everyone else looks varying degrees of "off" to me.
There really wasn't much to support Universe 1.0, either, unless you were a club member.
So I just opened SS86 Ultra Magnus and WOW, photography on this figure was so misleading. Even seeing pictures from earlier in this thread showed him as a slightly more mellow blue, closer to the movie or a darker version of his toy blue, but in person it has a LOT more purple to it, I'm guessing in the same way that the Troop Builder 4 pack seeker was a purpler blue than Thundercracker. But it looks like a completely different blue from some of the photography I've seen of it. Unfortunately, I don't really see them doing a toy colours version of this mold anytime soon, as it wouldn't be enough of a change. Still seems like a very solid and fun figure though!
Any good photos out there that show more how it looks in-hand?
I will be so salty if this is the Ultra Magnus that gets a toy deco.
What would be the point of a toy deco without the inner white Prime robot?
Soooooo.......Does Snarl actually exist and when are we going to get word on Swoop?
I've seen Snarl once, at a GameStop, and never ever again since (and I didn't have the money for him at the time, so I missed out). That was last summer/autumn.
Meanwhile, retail stores are still filled to the brim with leftover Sludges and Coronation Starscreams that simpy won't go away.