Someone give Astrotrain a sandwich, like, damn.
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Studio Series discussion
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Studio Series '86 Astrotrain: The Apology Tour.
Who was supposed to be the one jettisoning some weight again?
I don't know if Combiner Wars Shockwave is actually hold-able, I asked that myself and someone said his slot prevented Superion from doing it, but the 'radar ship' Shockwave apparently can be used. And I may just modify the handle from the other one anyway if it's not too far off.
I couldn't remember either, but some Googling turned this up.
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I seem to remember the combiners' elbows being too weak to hold him up for long, though. Ditto for Viper/Powerglide.
Well they were just the bots legs and were primary ball joints and then you add on the weight of a core class figure and you get a floppy arm
I had planned to test out Viper with Bruticus as an extra Combaticon, now I'm not so sure. Do the new frame style combiners have ratchet elbows or are they just friction hinges?
Legacy Menasor has ratcheted elbows.
So there's hope anyway!
I just appreciate finally being represented.
Ok, I just saw the little reveal video they posted, and this shocked me, they split the difference on the Matrix! The USB is for powering it for display, but AA's are used for the 'wireless' use! They really did think this through, it can't be killed by a lithium pack dying! Though it looks like the 'handle' of Shockwave's upside down submarine mode rotates 90 degrees to connect to Bruticus, so I have no idea why they molded the 'eye' out of the ship's bridge tower.
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Bruticus is just weird decisions all the way down. Committed enough to matching the animation model that they gave him weird proportions, but not enough to remember what his arms looked like in the cartoon, but still enough that Onslaught-Only Bruticus doesn't get to have real legs. A new Shockwave toy has special tooling specifically to let Bruticus use him as a weapon, but instead of being a small Shockwave that he can use as a handgun like the cartoon episode they're referencing, he's a shoulder cannon. I like too many Combaticons to successfully skip him, but man I would love to understand the designers' thought processes.
The designers' though processes: "Oh, hey! Wouldn't it be cool if...?"
I think this might be unintentionally intended (if that's even a concept) as someone's 'dream' Bruticus, like "What would happen if Bruticus was Liokaiser level?" but without the same budget. So you have the odd mixes like a frame combination system for stability but greater integration of the legs than those that came before, the giant accessory gun made from a Tier-1 Decepticon character, a base mode that actually looks like it does something and can carry other Combaticons in trailer mode, etc. It's by no means perfect by any stretch, the design lends itself to being one of those "This is the most awesome thing ever" or "This is nothing like what I want to buy" without a lot in between, though I myself fall squarely in a weird "I really like this, but I question some of the choices made" camp. My big worry is having a hinge in both the leg limb bots AND the frame will be a mess if the two don't line up just right, and tolerances in Transformers aren't always spot-on.
In my own head-canon this will be Bruticus after a rather extensive rebuild, an attempt to get rid of some of the problems the original had by giving each Combaticon a specific role, extra hardware to assist integration, etc, in hopes of making a less unstable warrior, with Shockwave taking a direct hand in guidance, like how Megatron proposed himself as Devestator's head in one of the old comics.
In my own head-canon this will be Bruticus after a rather extensive rebuild, an attempt to get rid of some of the problems the original had by giving each Combaticon a specific role, extra hardware to assist integration, etc, in hopes of making a less unstable warrior, with Shockwave taking a direct hand in guidance, like how Megatron proposed himself as Devestator's head in one of the old comics.
Preorders for the Matrix are up, already sold out on Pulse.
I ended up putting in an order on BBTS. At first, I had told myself that I didn't need it. But then I saw all the bits/bobs/features/The Touch, etc. I'm a weak man.
I ended up putting in an order on BBTS. At first, I had told myself that I didn't need it. But then I saw all the bits/bobs/features/The Touch, etc. I'm a weak man.