At least Overdrive and Camshaft showed up in Alternators/Binaltech. No such love for my beautiful boy Downshift...
Alternators is way too long ago anyway. We're due for a new set, and a complete trio this time.
They made him in Cybertron! And though I really want his original vehicle redone today, I'd be very excited by a modern version of the green muscle car too.
Get Cybertron Bendy Prime instead. He's technically a Cybertron Prime in that scheme!
This is a "You'll never stop at one" situation.
You fibber. The only hands I see are Optimus's, and there's nothing in those hands!
You fibber. The only hands I see are Optimus's, and there's nothing in those hands!
There have been a handful of other "Downshifts" since the 80s (there was an Armada MiniCon before the Cybertron figure), but G1 Downshift has yet to receive a second toy.
I've picked up most uses of the Cliffjumper/Bumblebee mold, as there's a lot about it to like. But I still feel the partsforming hatchback piece is a mistake. Drop the bazooka thing and use the tooling money on a few pieces that make an arm for the trunk piece to sit on and fold up onto the back. Let the upgrade kit makers produce the bazooka for whoever wants it, but release a fully engineered figure. Not the other way round like we got it.
I haven't looked into the upgrade kit that gives that arm, as the cost is an issue and I don't even know how durable that would be in the long run. But this is functionality I feel they could have put in themselves.
I haven't looked into the upgrade kit that gives that arm, as the cost is an issue and I don't even know how durable that would be in the long run. But this is functionality I feel they could have put in themselves.
Can't. Car skis too iconic.
My son has two of the Cliffjumper mold, and loves them, and finds it odd that the partsforming bugs me so much.
The transformation is otherwise fairly nice, and I think that's where the problem happened. The designer worked himself into a corner, and he liked what he'd already done too much to go back to the drawing board, so he took the easy way out on the remaining part.
It's telling that this wasn't a widespread thing. It wasn't an Earthrise Deluxe "feature." It wasn't Hasbro cutting the budget again. It's one particular design that went wrong.
It's telling that this wasn't a widespread thing. It wasn't an Earthrise Deluxe "feature." It wasn't Hasbro cutting the budget again. It's one particular design that went wrong.
I do too. I just can't imagine why it would bother anyone.
-ZacWilliam, Omega Supreme was one of my favorite TF toys as a kid so...
It's almost like we have different tastes, or something.
Leaving aside that for now, I guess that after all this time, the alleged Glyph/Tapout release leaked a whiiiile back has been debunked or (assuming it was ever true) has been canceled/abandoned? Heard about it, then stopped hearing about it, and I don't generally pursue leaked info or discussion so I never found out anything more.
Because as much as this little issue sticks in my craw, I do like this mold well enough to keep painting up versions of it and these are two characters I want to see. And if I have to paint them myself, well... sure.
Leaving aside that for now, I guess that after all this time, the alleged Glyph/Tapout release leaked a whiiiile back has been debunked or (assuming it was ever true) has been canceled/abandoned? Heard about it, then stopped hearing about it, and I don't generally pursue leaked info or discussion so I never found out anything more.
Because as much as this little issue sticks in my craw, I do like this mold well enough to keep painting up versions of it and these are two characters I want to see. And if I have to paint them myself, well... sure.
I couldn't find the one for Bumblebee though.
I would think that they want to avoid making all repaints from the same molds for a number of reasons. One could be that they want us to buy versions of upcoming molds?
The fact that people gave the reasons why they didn't care for the partsforming on the ER Cliffjumper mold and then someone goes 'I can't imagine how it would bother anyone' is like
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Everyone's welcome to like what they want. It's ok. If some facet of a toy bothers you, that's valid, didn't intend to imply otherwise. I was more commenting on my own mindset on the matter, it's such a nonissue to me personally, such a deeply unnoticed innocuous thing, it feels deeply weird to be reminded that anyone cares about it.
Again that's not saying there's anything wrong with caring. I certainly have my nit picky likes and dislikes too. I passionately hate "elbow curl" style arm articulation where the hands are at a perminent 90 degrees to the elbow. Absolutely ruins any figure for me no matter how cool it is otherwise. (Looks at Cybertron Scourge). I'm sure that there are folks out there that can't imagine that ruining a figure, so I get it.
-ZacWilliam, more just saying the parts forming thing is so far from being something I personally care about I'm always surprised when others do.
Again that's not saying there's anything wrong with caring. I certainly have my nit picky likes and dislikes too. I passionately hate "elbow curl" style arm articulation where the hands are at a perminent 90 degrees to the elbow. Absolutely ruins any figure for me no matter how cool it is otherwise. (Looks at Cybertron Scourge). I'm sure that there are folks out there that can't imagine that ruining a figure, so I get it.
-ZacWilliam, more just saying the parts forming thing is so far from being something I personally care about I'm always surprised when others do.
I also hate "gorilla/muscle-builder arms" too. I really hated the "cr@pple-damage" paint of most of the Siege line, the unfinished rear end of Astrotrain, the awful design of the recent Blitzwing, most of the anime-"accurate" (sic) MPs and the short stature of Siege Shockwave, which is why I didn't bother with most of them.