Ohhh no no no no, I can't believe Hasbro dropped the ball this HARD with this Breakdown.... they played us for fools man... Im returning this sh*t, this level of lazyness and disrespect should not go easy on them
I might be getting a bit out of touch with the wider fandom (good or bad? Hard to tell yet), but what’s the big brouhaha with Breakdown? Especially since we’ve only seen him in his “calf mode”.
Well, unfortunately, that calf shares a lot of the vehicle design with Wildrider, which is very much not a Lamborghini Countach.
It wouldn’t be a big deal if the three cars thus far hadn’t been G1 slavish to a fault. If they were willing to change things up, they may as well may have changed things like Menasor’s doofy cartoon head or Motormaster’s clusterhug legs trying to approximate an entire truck.
There’s also how this is the last reveal. Regardless of the actual intentions, it comes across as Hasbro knowingly keeping it in the dark to make a few more sales off the folk four members in who will buy it anyway due to sunk cost.
There’s also how this is the last reveal. Regardless of the actual intentions, it comes across as Hasbro knowingly keeping it in the dark to make a few more sales off the folk four members in who will buy it anyway due to sunk cost.
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Yeah, the rear end is definitely slightly remolded to look vaguely Lamborghini-esque, but the front end appears to just be Wildrider
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Why the hell would they even badly misrepresent the product they're selling you when they've been happy enough to display Menasor with bare limbs for over a year and on all their packaging material?
From a brief glance, I almost wonder if someone might've just painted a Wildrider for a mockup, but those clear windows strongly suggest not.
I'm not going to make any big angry grr Hasbro statements because lol, but it's just... WEIRD that they'd go to all these lengths, commit this hard, only to still be held back by Energon-era budget logic in the home stretch. And here I thought a big part of the remit was to avoid those limitations, which were also a factor as late as Combiner Wars. Hence the team being split across all these waves, and the car designs even helping facilitate it due to not having to contain a combiner peg.
It's still more G1-faithful than an entirely different/new member, but wow.
I'm not going to make any big angry grr Hasbro statements because lol, but it's just... WEIRD that they'd go to all these lengths, commit this hard, only to still be held back by Energon-era budget logic in the home stretch. And here I thought a big part of the remit was to avoid those limitations, which were also a factor as late as Combiner Wars. Hence the team being split across all these waves, and the car designs even helping facilitate it due to not having to contain a combiner peg.
It's still more G1-faithful than an entirely different/new member, but wow.
I'd like to amend this comment with the information that Quickstrike was the one on trial and Inferno was the one on jury duty.
Walmart's receipts back in the day would tell you otherwise!Of course he wasn't. He's a hyena.
New TM2 Jawbreaker = Kangaroo?
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I am going to reserve final judgement on Breakdown until I see full vehicle mode and robot mode pics. But I will admit to feeling disappointed at the lack of Lamborghini-adjacent design cues. I'm sorry, but you can't take a Ferrari 308-esque design, slap some paint on it, and expect people to believe it's a Lamborghini Countach.
Still, if this is the final version, he'll most often be in either robot mode or leg mode, so I guess it isn't a deal-breaker. It's just...why cheap out now?
Still, if this is the final version, he'll most often be in either robot mode or leg mode, so I guess it isn't a deal-breaker. It's just...why cheap out now?
Inferno wasn't on the jury - he was court stenographer. Had a typewriter and everything.
I think we should wait to see the official reveal before judging too harshly.
Someone on TFW pointed out there are some aspects of the fake Ferrari that Wildrider is having some Countach details too.
Though I admit a new front end and backend would have been ideal.
Someone on TFW pointed out there are some aspects of the fake Ferrari that Wildrider is having some Countach details too.
Though I admit a new front end and backend would have been ideal.
Breakdown being the guy that Ruins Everything Forever feels kinda appropriate, honestly.
Just got Optimus. Scourge shouldn't be upset that his gun's been repatriated, as he's got a rather colour-coordinated Targetmaster (Singe) that compliments him nicely.
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Too bad, they stopped translating the Legends comics because some took issue with the artist, it was a fun take.
It's Legacy and I couldn't find the Velocitron one, so it's fine.
Not really. The original source pictures were joined together "side by side" in groups of 4 and 1 large one and sequenced vertically. I've just joined them permanently in a vertical manner. Nothing has changed and people are able to read them in the way they were intended.
That's a limitation of this website, not the original pictures, due to the low resolution of uploaded pictures. The original pictures would no-doubt lose some details too. I can see them fairly well in this state, regardless. My original, joined-up images are also crystal clear.
However, here are the originals, hosted somewhere else. They might not stay up forever, so if you want this combined version, download it when you can. Just tap each image once to open it in a higher resolution after the links
Legacy Velocitron Comic 1 — Postimages
Legacy Velocitron Comic 2 — Postimages
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