Recent content by lastmaximal

And I suppose to be fair, one of the cool things about the franchise originally was the cool names. (The same brand has someone officially called "Steve From Accounting", which I will eternally appreciate) Although the "they should have named it" stuff tends to come from backlash over reusing...

Now I'm wondering if they'll also do Jetfire as a "figure with frame" situation, or something like Armada Op as well where the jetpants legs are in a "trailer" and not the main robot. Like the front half of the shuttle, maybe with its own shorter wings, turns into the main robot while the rear...

Having recently looked up the MOTU/WWE line, my first thought was to make Triklops, like, three Seekers. Maybe the coneheads. But really Triklops works well for (Animated/T30 style) Blitzwing. Two Bad can have Rumble/Frenzy armor. Fisto can have X-Brawn themed armor (is he ambidextrous?). If...

Media literacy and critical thinking in general is just in the toilet, including gauging the nature and nuance of even humor. There were always some voices shortsightedly ranting about things in message boards and the like, but the explosion of YouTube giving people with too little to say, too...

I thought that too about SS86 Commander class Op, but having one in hand it's pretty remarkable. I still like the Earthrise Op mold very much, as I rediscovered when I made the Pepsi Convoy custom. But the engineering on SS86 is interesting, like they took a bunch of tricks and ideas from the...

Now THAT was amazing, even to witness from afar as a non-collector of the line. The mashups were so good.

I wonder if they ever tossed the idea around of "Star Convoy Optimus Prime", with "Star Convoy" being like a function designation a la "Special Ops" Jazz. If nothing else, it'd be kind of funny.

Okay, I... I may be interested. (Photo from @Protoman) But maybe this time I can wait? There's going to be more Dramatic Capture-ing of this mold at some point, right? Maybe right before they debut the NEXT new new new Seeker mold? It's looking reasonably clean. Like, the same notion, but...

That bit was confusing, yes. Were we meant to get 3 AND 4? Or just 3? I continue to be surprised by, and kind of like (stock Eastern European?) accented Grimlock. Have we ever gotten that to go with his grammatical divergence? I think I'll view that as an upgrade of sorts to the character...

Just occuring to me now that "Star Upgrade Optimus Prime" might not have been too bad, and there's precedent for it too. Although hey, who cares, I know what I'm calling it regardless of what the box expects.

Big Poppa Prime, the Big Bad Autobooty Daddy. ROLL OUT, IF YOU HEAR ME!

Meanwhile, Star Optimus Prime... Or is that specifically to connect "Optimus Prime" to the Thirteen in the limited lore of the toyline, and not create any wrinkles about "who's Convoy?" ("He's just zis guy, you know?") (Also, I miss the Archer era and some of its trappings and philosophies...

I'm in a lot of the modern game for the redecos. Sadly after the apparent heyday of Selects we're down to a bit less than before (and most of it in an exclusive capsule or another), but sometimes we still get the occasional Razorclaw (yay). It's just enough drip-fed hope to get me to still...

No dispute here regarding "there are better mentor figures to match with Man-At-Arms". There are many better. But at the same time I've gotten used to the fact that this isn't how these lines are designed. (I was begrudgingly fine with Bee getting crammed into the GI Joe collab, but not as the...

Ironhide as Man-at-Arms armor is preferable to Brawn. For this sort of thing, both role and visual interest are important -- it has to "make sense" characterwise (and this is where I feel Bee falls short) but should also have a distinct enough look and feel from the norm. It's one reason...