Say what you will about the movie... that scene was awesome.
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The music makes the scene a whole lot better, you see Optimus transform and start rolling, taking hit after hit before just smashing into the cons with some jumping into the air a avoid being hit!
Micronus is a great idea but I feel rather let down by the execution. Solo mode is great as far as Micromaster-sized dudes go. Armor mode is a cool addition but the mode itself has a combination of rather stiff articulation and shirt limbs, making him pose better theoretically than in practice. Not much else to offer. Considering the Apex Armor in Prime is the most signifcant appearance, I’d have preferred fists to Dragonzord/King J-der pipe fingers. The wheel attachment things at the back are really annoying. The whole thing looks like it was built in a cave with a box of scraps. The arms and lower body can come off but I dunno, the arms aren’t very convincing weapons and I guess the big ol’ tire is a decent Mad Max shield. Would have liked some more pop-out weapon and a weapon mode for the remaining torso lump. Assault unicycle mode is alright. I’d have preferred this concept to have gone to a bigger size class. It’s very barebones as is.
Gotta ask; What's with the blue hook football? (Hookball)
Also; complete haul from TFCon Chicago!
My MVP WIN from the con was this:
Have been trying to complete my set of Energon Tech Spec cards and he was one (of 6*) I needed and was one (of 2**) I figured would be stupid expensive to get,
And it was $3.
*Beachcomber, Checkpoint/Prowl, 'Energon' Ironhide, Overcast, and Ultra Magnus
**Overcast being the second one.
Now, can anyone answer me about if the Sam's Club Starscream and Prowl pack included a card(s)!
Also; complete haul from TFCon Chicago!
My MVP WIN from the con was this:
Have been trying to complete my set of Energon Tech Spec cards and he was one (of 6*) I needed and was one (of 2**) I figured would be stupid expensive to get,
And it was $3.
*Beachcomber, Checkpoint/Prowl, 'Energon' Ironhide, Overcast, and Ultra Magnus
**Overcast being the second one.
Now, can anyone answer me about if the Sam's Club Starscream and Prowl pack included a card(s)!
I agree that the armor tends to get in its own way from time to time, especially the odd iron cross rotor things. I also wish they had another joint so they could be rotated further up in robot mode (maybe they do, I don't have it on hand).
There's a lot that's impressive about the execution, and it being at the price point it is I'm fine with a lot of the sacrifices (I don't feel like paying a higher price point price tag for these tweaks in particular). My main issue is that while I love clear plastic and it's executed well here, I don't like clear plastic joints on such a tiny guy. Wish they'd gone with opaque.
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I'd prefer the armor to be Voyager/Leader size. The Apex Armor in Prime was gigantic and the impact of "tiny guy becoming an enormous unit" would be much greater than "tiny guy becomes slightly less tiny." The higher budget would probably allow them to do the weaponizer thing better than the half-assed implementation the current toy does.
He's supposed to be some Japanese wageslave reincarnated as a JRPG slime with unlimited potential blah blah blah. I gave up when they started having hugging corporate meetings in the middle of a story and expecting the audience to go with it.
I played a gacha machine and won him when I went to pick up my order of those guys. I accidentally left him on the mecha base setup during the first photos and decided that nah, he stays.
He's supposed to be some Japanese wageslave reincarnated as a JRPG slime with unlimited potential blah blah blah. I gave up when they started having hugging corporate meetings in the middle of a story and expecting the audience to go with it.
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Hmm, I'll have to come back to that.
I don't know if Autobots slide as easily/naturally into the corporate world as Decepticons do.
Make of that what you will.
IDW tried REALLY HARD to make the Deceptions analogous to the Russian Bolsheviks/Communists, which you'd think would be anathema to the whole corporate thing... but even then Megatron superfan and
And then you realize what a bureaucratic mess the USSR actually was and it's strangely not such a bad comparison
All of that being said, I occasionally play around with a Transformers/Office parody in my head centred around a small Autobot team.
Hot Rod is Michael. Cliffjumper is Dwight. Optimus Prime is David Wallace
