My store is only recently just got the Legacy Evolution wave consisting of Strongarm, Detritus, and Shadow Striker.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
All I see that are too small are the green stripes. Otherwise, that's literally the deco he had in the cartoon.
It goes back to the discussion about the windshield. If he had his round windshield that ended before the split in the legs, it would give more room on the hood for the green stripes. It would really bring the whole thing together better. As it is, the car mode does seem a little too plain white.
And also the numbers are different on the sides, but apart from that, it's literally the same...
That Wheeljack just looks awful. And Trailbreaker looks like a neutral move to me, so I'm pretty good at completely skipping this set.
ZacWilliam, I'd buy a Hound solo, but I'm happy enough with the Seige dude that I don't need it otherwise...
ZacWilliam, I'd buy a Hound solo, but I'm happy enough with the Seige dude that I don't need it otherwise...
I just don't really care about the 5 pack. I've already got most of the figures from the first go-around and honestly, I'm kind of over Hound now. I've got the WFC Stege release and while it's not my ideal version, it's good enough. I would like the earth mode (or would have liked it, were it released a couple of years ago), but not nearly enough now to throw down on four other figures that I don't.
The Wheeljack is hilariously bland. And the Trailbreaker, while not bad, is the definition of a lateral move (although the sky blue windows work better for him rather than Wheeljack for reasons we've discussed). So far nothing's REALLY stepped up alongside Hound to justify this set. But then, cartoon decos aren't the ideal way to do that, I guess.
I do wonder for Origins Wheeljack, he has six slots for Energon rods, Bumblebee only came with five. I'm looking at some of the weapons from the Red Cog pack and wondering if any barrels would fit in those slots. I haven't bothered to get out calipers to see if any are equivalent as I'm not THAT curious and QC being what it is, a lot will require test-fitting anyhow.
On that note I am tempted when Bumblebee isn't in there, to just throw every loose accessory I have into the back and say Wheeljack dropped his sports car mode and went back to the hovervan because the car didn't have enough trunk space for all his junk he hauled around. One of the real life reasons I want one of those battery trucks, the huge front trunk combined with the bed would be a great thing for me.
On that note I am tempted when Bumblebee isn't in there, to just throw every loose accessory I have into the back and say Wheeljack dropped his sports car mode and went back to the hovervan because the car didn't have enough trunk space for all his junk he hauled around. One of the real life reasons I want one of those battery trucks, the huge front trunk combined with the bed would be a great thing for me.
Tangentially, Wheejack's Cybertronian altmode never made sense to me in the context of everyone else's matching their Earth mode pretty well. ("Everyone else" being like four guys, admittedly.)
Storywise, I guess Wheeljack makes more sense in that scene than Ironhide or Ratchet or whoever, but it's always bugged me.
Toy-wise, it's interesting that they gave the engineer-inventor role to a sportscar, which is where this rabbit-hole starts.
That's what I use Prime's trailer for. If he's gonna drag it around every time he converts to truck mode, he may as well haul all of the loose parts!
His bio even mentions that he's a really good driver on top of being a genius inventor and I feel like that aspect is rarely explored.
In the cartoon at least, it's likely Wheeljack didn't get to choose his alt-mode, it was just assigned based on whatever Teletraan-1 had scanned.
Maybe he just decided he liked being a sportscar.
Teletraan 1 just picked alt modes for everyone based on closest color match. It had been a long day and Teletraan could not be bothered with a bunch of repainting.
That's actually a good point. They never dwelled on it in the fiction (that I recall), and later series generally made it more intentional, but as presented in MTMTE, yeah, it sure is a coincidence everyone matched so well.
It would be fun for a What If? toyline to really explore that-- keep the sizes, colorschemes and silhouettes (and not just random heads lol) and mix it up. Optimus as a motorcycle! Starscream as a tank! Constructions as random (and out-of-scale) whatevers. Just go nuts.