It would either be the outside of the arm or the outside of the truck.
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Well, he IS a robot, that's probably not a sign of any sort of condition...?
Yeah, I've never minded visible screws in robot mode unless their somewhere where they obviously shouldn't be (middle of alt-mode windows or something). Mechanical bits-and-bobs are to be expected on a robot.
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When I was little I had a flea market robot, not sure what 'vintage' that had its faceplate missing. I turned the head around and used the back-of-the-head screw hole as a Shockwave eye. So I can't criticize anything. Besides, I've seen a great many bots with flat-headed screws (which almost never appear on an actual toy) as molded-in detail, so it just fits anyway.
In one of those "Martians never invented the wheel" type tropes, Cybertron never discovered any screwhead types other than flathead, objectively the worst type. Many historians attribute this to the fact that Cybertronians are all named things like "Blastwave" or "Latinword Prime," so they never produced a Phillip.
My apologies to Blastwave, but even he has got to admit that his name is the most generic of all generic Transformers names.
Their Boxing Day is over, let the incomprehensible Celebratory Sign Language Song begin!
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This Is Dukey-Dumpy, My Childhood Superhero. Yaaay Dukey-Dumpy.
This Is Dukey-Dumpy, My Childhood Superhero. Yaaay Dukey-Dumpy.
Transformers is the franchise that has actual characters called Windbreaker, Drill Nuts, etc. We're lucky Long Haul wasn't called Take Dump, merging with his fellows to form Big Dump.
Magnus seems pretty fly for a- no, no wait...wrong reference...
Rabbi?
I’ve been in Japan for the past week and the Transformers situation is dire. If the stores have any, it’s usually identical to Hasbro AOTP leftovers. Anyway, not a huge fan of the Wild King copy-paste limb robot play pattern but picked up World Dragnus. He’s alright though proportions are kind of wonky no matter what mode you do. I find his stilts mode is the most preferable. Having a narrow waist and gigantic shins and feet with no ankles does limit posing, I find. The double 5-mm peg combination system isn’t the most secure and tolerances in general could be better. He does have a striking color scheme and a Metal aesthetic, so he’s cool. I do like the super robot anime-esque combining gimmick in concept. He’s neat for the price I paid for him and a decent souvenir. Maybe I’ll pick up some of the incoming black repaints to fill in a complete super mode.
His minions are the aforementioned Wild King limb bot. Not much to say. Okay in robot mode, turn into rectangles and are statues in beast mode. They’re ostensibly dragons but look more like the Jersey Devil. They’re not bad and carry over the strong, distinct color pallet and motif. I do wish they’d just priced the set up and given us four so Dragnus can havehis own super mode.
Also new base backdrop. No more cheapo flimsy bases. Sure, it’s clearly the Danger Room but eh it works well enough as a generic sci-fi backdrop.
His minions are the aforementioned Wild King limb bot. Not much to say. Okay in robot mode, turn into rectangles and are statues in beast mode. They’re ostensibly dragons but look more like the Jersey Devil. They’re not bad and carry over the strong, distinct color pallet and motif. I do wish they’d just priced the set up and given us four so Dragnus can havehis own super mode.
Also new base backdrop. No more cheapo flimsy bases. Sure, it’s clearly the Danger Room but eh it works well enough as a generic sci-fi backdrop.
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Or if they're particularly egregious like how Universe Ironhide's arms are small and weedy enough that the six visible screws take up the majority of them.
To be fair, Universe Ironhide had a LOT of problems. The screws were not his biggest concern.
That whole line of Universe '08 was plagued by the team overthinking very simple problems. I'm not even saying they should have made everything super G1 referential. Classics '06 managed to reinvent classic designs without the figures being fiddly, weedy messes.
The insistence on forcing movie-style aesthetics and engineering into a line that should have been more simple and straightforward really undermined a lot of what they were going for.
I honestly would never have known had you not said anything.
And even now, I'm like "Ah, okay."