It worked for my mother, at least, since she never read any comics, and I refrained from telling her about the Winter Soldier's true identity. She saw the first Cap movie, and then when watching the second, her jaw dropped when Cap first said "Bucky...?" during that final fight.
The original Armada Megatron toy would also never ever shut up, always shouting "Decepticons, attack!" at the slightest touch of the turret.
In fact, I can't think of a single Unicron Trilogy toy that had a sound chip in it whose noises weren't super obnoxious and couldn't be silenced when just...
I mean, it happened before.
DOTM's pre-release marketing led us to believe Shockwave would be the main antagonist of that movie, as a red herring to hide the fact that Sentinel was the true main antagonist for that one as well.
The upper arms on that figure being static and immovable did always bother me, too, yeah. Especially since the previous Optimus mold had way more upper arm articulation.
Those static shoulder pylons, however...
Well, I'm just glad I got the shoulder upgrade kit from SamMakesToys, and wish I'd gotten a second one from him in anticipation of Legacy Galvatron since he doesn't seem to be selling pre-printed kits anymore and I don't have a 3D printer of my own to...
On a related note, Armada's gimmick-heaviness was inspired by the gimmick-heaviness of Kenner's Ghostbusters toyline in the 90s, which is where Aaron Archer came from before he joined Transformers during Beast Wars.
Sure, but given how small the prisons in his legs were on the original figure...
For me, the perfect balance of articulation, gimmick, and complexity can be found in the Cybertron Defense Scattorshot toy from the Cybertron line. That figure is incredibly basic in its transformation (about five or six steps, even), yet it has all the necessary articulation one would expect a...
I feel like they did that as a red herring. What little we could see of them from the trailers made it look like they were going to be the primary antagonist force of the movie, whom the miners were all directly working for as slaves, with Sentinel as their unwilling puppet governor likewise...
ConnerTheWaffle storms headlong into the Disney Era with his retrospective on Ninja Storm:
And, unlike previous seasons, he's going into this one completely blind, have a never seen Ninja Storm before, offering a fresh perspective this time around.
Keep in mind that cogged Orion was the same size as Darkwing, who was also about the same size as Sentinel. Should Darkwing and Sentinel be Deluxes or Voyagers?
Based on the artwork I posted above, it looks like miners would all be Deluxes, cogged 'bots would all be Voyagers, and the super-special Optimus Prime and Megatron would be Leaders.
Although, was Alpha Trion still larger than Orion & Friends even when they got their cogs? If so, then I guess...
Since I got started with Beast Wars, I was already spoiled by used to my figures having full articulation. So, when I first got to experience any G1 figures, I was like "These things have less joints than a Power Rangers megazord!"
This post inspired me to go and finally make this post (over on Seibertron since we don't have a dedicated TF: Prime thread--or least, from what I could find--and the post was one of those that's way too long to fit into just one post here on The Allspark).
Yeah, Simon Bennett revealed Saban's dislike of pirates on Twitter, but the original tweet has disappeared. A screencap of it can be found at the 02:04 mark in this video:
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