He's after yer booty!
Don't threaten me with a good time.
It's not perfect. I can see things that theoretically could have been done better with unlimited time and budget. But they didn't have that, so some things had to give. I'm satisfied, because I don't see anything that doesn't have a fair reason for being the way it is. Tidal Wave has a long and contradictory priority list, and they picked as many things as they could. I may have picked different ones, but I can't say the ones they picked are the wrong ones.
The Legs, their boat mode on the orginal had a gimmick of being able to flip up to have seats for minicons, being a troop transport boat kinda like you see at the start of Saving Private Ryan.
Fort Max does have the excuse of being an awkward CW Metroplex retooling.
I know they'll never do it, but I wish they'd redo Fort Max.
I'm content with the Kabaya one. It keeps a lot more features than TR did, and the size makes it actually fun to handle.
I’m fairly confident they’ll redo Fort Max and Metroplex at some point. They’re going to run out of big characters or ships to turn into big characters eventually. And if not retail, there’s always HasLab.
Oh, that's gone? Dang, that was one of my favorite parts.
I still hate that I had to miss out on Encore Fort Max. ;_;
I really love and appreciate my wife getting me TR Fortress Maximus in its place when it came around, but... well, I don't think I have to explain it here, yeah?
At this point, I'm almost kind of practically willing to settle.
I think.
Maybe.
Sigh. G1 Fort Max is probably the one I've wanted the longest, for as long as its been around, so I dunno. (I'd settle for a Brave Max, if I could get accessories. With the nighttime lights deco and color scheme, I almost prefer it.)
I’ve got the Encore version as well and love it as I could never afford a complete G1 version. I do have the rerelease of him on pre order, but might cancel. He’s honestly just going to sit in a tote in the garage for awhile.
Yeah, I have the Encore version as well and it is great; still has such epic base and city modes. I like it so much that I sold my old, yellowed, probably-never-likely-to-be-complete G1 copy. I double dipped for both the TR and LG versions, and I still love the robot mode. His alt mode(s) just don't really do it for me.
How the TR Fort Max designers went with the old mistransformed not-City mode over Max’s actual fortress mode boggles the mind. I snagged the encore when it was still ‘reasonably’ priced. Awesome figure.
You need to bare in mind that they were working with the first ever titan mold for a retool, so they were limited on the desgin, prehaps the next time they decide to do Fort Max with everything they have learned in the years since the first Titan class was released, they might do the oppocite and do Fort Max first and then a Metroplex, but only time will tell!
I had Encore preordered from the jump, but had to bow out at the last minute due to a... downgrade in our financial status at the time.
Less of an issue now, but now aftermarket prices have made it so that it's practically as out-of-reach now as it was then!
Never got the Encore here, but I did get Brave Max back when he first came out, and still got him somewhere. It really is annoying that with just a couple changes to the legs on the TR/LG version they could have at least had the "fortress" towers, as IIRC by unscrewing a couple plates in the legs, you could fold it up that way without problem
It's strange how things worked out. Fortress Maximus is possibly the most obvious character for the Titan price point, yet his toy was a total afterthought.