That's what I did for the most part, but on occasion while playing, I'd let Goldbug ride instead so I could use the ramp.
Takara Missing Link G1 Series
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The big shortcoming of the Powermaster Prime/GG mould was that there's nowhere to put the head when you have the trailer configured into base mode. Of course this wouldn't be a problem if the head could become Roller...
Honestly, I was so used to early G1 toys having parts left over in one mode or another that it never bothered me.
Yeah, at that point in the brand's history, leftover parts with no altmode storage was par for the course.
It would be neat if they could engineer it so that the Super head and the regular head both lower into the torso, with the regular head inside the Super head. Then in regular robot mode, the regular head comes out, and when you go Super, the bigger head comes up/out and encompasses it (or the regular head goes back down, and the Super head comes out with the regular already inside).
Hmm...
The chest piece, I just kept in place. If I'd known the head could attach to it (thanks, Hasbro), that would have helped. Waist, I either kept attached or had both in place, since it formed the trailer hitch as well, and then just set it aside in robot mode instead of truck.
That leaves the fists and gun. I guess I put those aside.
I think if they didn't cover the screwhole with the faction rubsign, the gun might have fit there?
As for the fists, maybe if the missile launchers could attach to the sides of the trailer like in the cartoon, I might have just put the fists up in front of the trailer. Kinda be a proto-PMOP/PotP Rodimus that way.
TakaraTomy teaser pic for the cartoon-colored Bumble and Cliff two-pack:
...which we've already seen on display:
...which we've already seen on display:
The blackout teasers were already pointless but this is at the point of parody now.
They need to go back to the strategic placing of bald men in front of the display. That worked great for keeping Devestator obscured for a while, didn't it?
As a balding man, I volunteer my services. It feels good to give back to the community.
I was looking at my Preorders guys and I just can't keep a Preorder for both versions of Missing Link Arcee. I can probably swing $100 for her, but not two.
The problem: I can absolutely not decide which version to drop.
Prototype Version:
Pros -Looks more "authentically 1986" to me. This Headsculpt especially looks 86-y and the colors being "off" is actually kind of more authentic too.
Cons: Thise colors are Kinda ugly and not as "Arcee" as ideal.
"Anime" Version:
Pro: Looks like Arcee. Pretty.
Con: Too clean and too perfect to the animation. It feels Inauthentic, I guess. An actual 86 toy would not have been this clean and on model.
So there we go. Anime looks better but misses the Real 86 Toy feel that's the whole point. Prototype has that down but looks less pretty and "Arcee" without any white.
Which one should I actually get???
-ZacWilliam, just needs to decide and cancel one
The problem: I can absolutely not decide which version to drop.
Prototype Version:
Pros -Looks more "authentically 1986" to me. This Headsculpt especially looks 86-y and the colors being "off" is actually kind of more authentic too.
Cons: Thise colors are Kinda ugly and not as "Arcee" as ideal.
"Anime" Version:
Pro: Looks like Arcee. Pretty.
Con: Too clean and too perfect to the animation. It feels Inauthentic, I guess. An actual 86 toy would not have been this clean and on model.
So there we go. Anime looks better but misses the Real 86 Toy feel that's the whole point. Prototype has that down but looks less pretty and "Arcee" without any white.
Which one should I actually get???
-ZacWilliam, just needs to decide and cancel one
I struggled with this, too. Anime colors looks "right" for Arcee, but the figure itself is a re-creation of a prototype that only existed (as far as I know) in the orange Creamsicle flavor.
Ultimately, I decided that I have the SS '86 Arcee to look "right", and went prototype on Missing Link for authenticity.
(On the other hand, if they ever did that Headmaster Arcee from Chromedome mockup, that would be in traditional Arcee colors...)
Ultimately, I decided that I have the SS '86 Arcee to look "right", and went prototype on Missing Link for authenticity.
(On the other hand, if they ever did that Headmaster Arcee from Chromedome mockup, that would be in traditional Arcee colors...)
I like and have preordered both versions, but if I had to drop one, it would be the prototype. The anime is the version that I would have 100% bought as a kid, to round out the Movie cast. It is the look that I want. The prototype is cool for what it would have been and is an interesting curiosity. However, seeing an actual G1 Arcee in Movie colors, with the rest of the G1 Movie cast, will be a wish fulfilled, and I wouldn't pass it up.
That's what I want as well, my problem is that I don't think either IS it.
An actual 1986 Arcee release would have had the head that's on the prototype, a color scheme that's closer to the movie than the Prototype but maybe 25% more "wrong" than the Anime version, and sported maybe a third more random stickers.
-ZacWilliam, the Anime one feels like the "Fixed" version Takara would have released in the 2000s about the same time they gave the Bumblebee minibot toy a Cartoon face.
I didn't buy either version, but that was my thought, too, that a REAL 1986 Arcee toy would have been a mix of both available M.L. versions.
Well, then, the only real solution is to buy both and do some part-swapping between the two.
There is another solution...
Kill the Batman?
Kill the wabbit!