Designer notes for Strongarm
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Officer Strongarm is popping out of the animated 2015 Robots in Disguise portal and into your collection! I always felt she was a stand out character in the series and from the overwhelming response the team got on the livestream the other day, all of you thought the same!
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A welcomed cybertronian police woman and an appearance from the RID series is really what Legacy brings to the table. Now I know what alot of you are thinking, was the Elita One mold the perfect base body for this character. The team thought it would be great to have these two side by side with some similarities, they make a great team featured here. Also, just some more insight, some other concepts and ideas are always in flux utilizing different molds for pitches so availability and timing always play a factor.
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Koki san from Takara Tomy really did a wonderful job making this partial remolding the very best it could be. Some screenshots I captured from the animated series look almost identical to how she turned out here.
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I pushed pretty hard on trying to get all the deco I could for this character. In her animated appearance, there were definitely some details and colors that seemed to jump around quite a bit. Even alot of the promotional art and toys for her had so many things differentiated it was hard to choose the right direction. I felt the two tone blue was a must and the face deco came out outta this world. Noted for future reference, the factory had quite a time trying to live up to the highly complex deco on such a small surface. The design journey on some of these characters keeps me up at night!! The final look though is so worth it in the end!
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Also, some of you may notice I’ve upgraded Strongarm here to an officer of the cybertronian police instead of a cadet. I feel she’s earned her stripes taking down the likes of so many crazy characters from that RID series. I’m excited to further make a solid police force with Prowl and some Autotrooper’s.
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Autobots Roll Ing Down….errr the street…uhmmmm, yeah! Trying to think of an acronym for RID lol! Sorry folks, got nothing in the tank today!
I think she looks much better here.
She looks great there, and based on Elita-1 will look good with Minerva (cause I have no Goshooter) and CW Rook, I always headcanoned him and Strongarm as a cop team.
Someone more familiar with RID15 could probably nitpick it, but to me this looks great. It's wild seeing RID15 of all things skip the crude homage stage and get something this good for its first update.
Looks good to me. I'm curious how they changed it from hood-backpack to hood-shoulders, though.
Looks like they just folded them down forward to hang over the actual shoulders.
Oh, okay. I thought the hood was a separate piece or something, looking at Elite-One there.
I added a pic to my post above to illustrate.
It's not a perfect solution, but it gets points for efficiency.
If her lips are the same color as her eyes, does that mean they light up too?
I didn't like them on Elita 1, Webb is why I painted them grey and silver. I'll probably paint Strongarm's (black?) too.
Amazon just dropped me a line that Devcon should be shipping end of next week.
-ZacWilliam, when of course I'll be out of town on vacation.
-ZacWilliam, when of course I'll be out of town on vacation.
With Amazon, you have special delivery options, which include:
- Throw my box over my fence into my back garden.
- Throw my box over my neighbor's fence into their back garden.
- Place it 200 yards from my front door, preferably on the pavement and/or near oncoming traffic or a source of water.
- Place it in front of my door after punching/kicking/denting it (this requires an additional fee of 1-2 potted plants/outside decorations being broken or taken by the delivery staff).
- Replacing my order with random, out of date knock-off beauty products from China (no refunds).
- Donating it to a community kleptomaniac of your choice.
- Keeping it in the delivery van and forgetting about it.
(All options are now linked to your NEST home security system. All video footage becomes the right of Amazon, which may be used to upload to YouTube to generate additional revenue for all related parties, except the delivery or warehouse staff, because f*ck those guys, Marketing dept. Ftw!)
Can't I say I feel it was worth comromising four of these dinobots to make a not great combiner. Upper body looks fine but those legs are just giant blocks that maybe look like feet if you squint at them.
While drunk.
Oh well, Swoop and Snarl are still great and the rest beside Sludge are various degrees of adequate, excepting the lack of elbows. Sludge though, man... Really wish they could have taken a second pass at those legs at least.
While drunk.
Oh well, Swoop and Snarl are still great and the rest beside Sludge are various degrees of adequate, excepting the lack of elbows. Sludge though, man... Really wish they could have taken a second pass at those legs at least.
I so wanted to love this, but I just don't.