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LBD "Nytetrayn"

LBD "Nytetrayn"

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When Cybertron was out, Burger King had tie-in toys. One was an Optimus cab that transformed like a traditional G1 Optimus Prime, with the front of the truck forming the front of the torso, only now all futuristic and angular.

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"Oh man," I thought to myself. "That is kinda neat. It would be great if that was done with a full-featured figure."

Years later, they did just that with Galaxy Upgrade OP, and somehow... it just didn't seem as cool as I always thought it would, and I'm not even sure why.


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CoffeeHorse

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I love the idea of it. I love that GUOP's basic robot mode isn't just a boring version of the super mode.

They just didn't go far enough with it. It really needs some leg armor that actually looks like Cybertron Prime's legs.
 
Undead Scottsman

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GUOP seems fine in a "This is hte only way we'll get a version of this character anytime soon." way. Like if I missed Cybertron, and wanted a version of that character on my shelf, it'd be fine for that.

But these days when we're getting stuff like Armada Op, he just feels like a missed opportunity. Glad he happened though, I'm super happy with Nova Prime.
 
LordGigaIce

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MrBlud said:
I feel like Cybertron was far enough ahead (and close enough to present day) that any “update” is essentially going to be a more expensive, inferior version of the one that already exists.
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Mostly agree, but Override proves there are improvements to be made. Sure she lost her Cyber Key gimmick, but on the whole it's a better proportioned and poseable figure than the original. So I'm not against them taking cracks at Cybertron just to see what they can do. They might surprise us.

I mean aren't Cybertron Hot Shot and Vector Prime rumoured to be coming up? That should be a good test to see what they can improve on, what they have to scale back on, and if the update is worth it. The originals of those figures in Cybertron were good but not great, so it's going to be interesting to see how modern takes stack up with what's improved upon vs what's taken away.
 
LordGigaIce

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LBD "Nytetrayn" said:
When Cybertron was out, Burger King had tie-in toys. One was an Optimus cab that transformed like a traditional G1 Optimus Prime, with the front of the truck forming the front of the torso, only now all futuristic and angular.

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"Oh man," I thought to myself. "That is kinda neat. It would be great if that was done with a full-featured figure."

Years later, they did just that with Galaxy Upgrade OP, and somehow... it just didn't seem as cool as I always thought it would, and I'm not even sure why.


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The way the robot mode arms just sit there at the sides, bolted onto the side of the cab, and the slightly off proportions all around to accommodate the armour gimmick limit the standalone robot mode.

If you hypothetically made an Optimus Prime out of a truck that looked like that, and it didn't have to combine with an armour set, it would look rather cool, I think.
 
G.B.Blackrock

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MrBlud said:
I feel like Cybertron was far enough ahead (and close enough to present day) that any “update” is essentially going to be a more expensive, inferior version of the one that already exists.
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That seems to be happening more and more these days. While I certainly still support new figures for those who now can't easily get the old ones, if it isn't superior in some important way to the original (and I already have the original), I'm not going to buy the new toy and will be perfectly happy with my original.
 
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Sigh, I just got the recent troop builder multipack and found that the "extra" Autotrooper head is really just a faceplate. In order to attach it to Earthrise Ratchet, I would need to hack his head in half and then file/saw away at the back of his head and to glue it to the spare Autotrooper face...

I REALLY think Takara missed an opportunity to make a cool Japanese police van from the Earthrise Ratchet/Ironhide mold. It hasn't really been used as much as the Lambor molds so I wouldn't mind some more characters made from it.

How about you folks?
 
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TheSupernova

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PrimalxConvoy said:
Sigh, I just got the recent troop builder multipack and found that the "extra" Autotrooper head is really just a faceplate. In order to attach it to Earthrise Ratchet, I would need to hack his head in half and then file/saw away at the back of his head and to glue it to the spare Autotrooper face...

I REALLY think Takara missed an opportunity to make a cool Japanese police van from the Earthrise Ratchet/Ironhide mold. It hasn't really been used as much as the Lambor molds so I wouldn't mind some more characters made from it.

How about you folks?
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I think the Skids mold would have looked good in a police deco, too.
 
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I mentioned this earlier in the thread (or maybe over in the picture thread) that I was hoping to use my 2 Deseeus Army troops as more Autotroopers. I'm still hopeful that there will be some 3D printed solutions to allow that to happen.
 
PrimalxConvoy

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Gizmoboy said:
I mentioned this earlier in the thread (or maybe over in the picture thread) that I was hoping to use my 2 Deseeus Army troops as more Autotroopers. I'm still hopeful that there will be some 3D printed solutions to allow that to happen.
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They could work as "undercover" or "SWAT" versions of Autotroopers, working alongside Deepcover.
 
G.B.Blackrock

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PrimalxConvoy said:
Sigh, I just got the recent troop builder multipack and found that the "extra" Autotrooper head is really just a faceplate. In order to attach it to Earthrise Ratchet, I would need to hack his head in half and then file/saw away at the back of his head and to glue it to the spare Autotrooper face...
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Surely someone's making (or will make) spare connector points for these faceplates. I'd have to assume that looking for something like that would be far preferable to destructive surgery on your toy.
 
The Phazer

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PrimalxConvoy said:
Sigh, I just got the recent troop builder multipack and found that the "extra" Autotrooper head is really just a faceplate. In order to attach it to Earthrise Ratchet, I would need to hack his head in half and then file/saw away at the back of his head and to glue it to the spare Autotrooper face...

I REALLY think Takara missed an opportunity to make a cool Japanese police van from the Earthrise Ratchet/Ironhide mold. It hasn't really been used as much as the Lambor molds so I wouldn't mind some more characters made from it.

How about you folks?
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I wouldn't mind a police van but bluntly now we have the SS86 mold let's never use that Earthrise tooling ever again.
 
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