Transformers Legacy toyline

[ZacWilliam1]

It's fine, just leave it on his back where it belongs.

-ZacWilliam, where it looks fine and does the good work of Throttlebotting up the mold a bit.

 

[unluckiness]

Being unable to leave it on his back is the entire problem.

 

[ZacWilliam1]

Then there is no problem it fits on his back fine and stays on his back fine.

-ZacWilliam, does the fact that it part forms during the transformation seriously bother you? I honestly can't imagine caring about that.

 

[MrBlud]

Clearly they *want* to carry “problems” on their back that could otherwise easily be removed…

 

[unluckiness]

There isn’t any problem…? I just decided not to buy that toy and moved on. I don’t understand why this is an issue.

 

[Shadewing]

There isn’t any problem…? I just decided not to buy that toy and moved on. I don’t understand why this is an issue.

You're the one that seems to be making it one...

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Partsforming does suck. Anything that has to be set aside disrupts the flow of idly flipping something back and forth. In ER Cliffjumper's case I was prepared to completely forgive it if they took advantage of it for a Camshaft remold, but that never happened.

I'd still forgive it. I still want the Omnibots.

 

[Darth_Prime]

Omni and Throttlebots should be on everybody's list.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

My Powerdashers are lonely.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

There isn’t any problem…? I just decided not to buy that toy and moved on. I don’t understand why this is an issue.

Did you see the upgrade kit that allows it to fully transform without the need to remove it?

 

[MrBlud]

I feel like if you don’t want to pay $25 for a toy you aren’t enamored with; you definitely don’t want to spend $60 on said toy AND an upgrade kit…

 

[unluckiness]

I don’t trust 3D printed parts for anything that has to move. Plus, Bumblebee is an exclusive, making it somewhat harder to track down and it’s just more effort and money I’m not willing to spend when another Bumblebee is a matter of time.

Partsforming does suck. Anything that has to be set aside disrupts the flow of idly flipping something back and forth. In ER Cliffjumper's case I was prepared to completely forgive it if they took advantage of it for a Camshaft remold, but that never happened.

I'd still forgive it. I still want the Omnibots.

All I ask is that the partsforming thing do something. Transplanting an unchanged third of the vehicle mode as a backpack is just inelegant and the kind of thing I’d expect from MARS Convertors or dollar store knockoffs.

You're the one that seems to be making it one...

“I don’t like partsforming.”
“Nah man, just put those bits somewhere else and it's fine.”
“That’s partsforming.”
“Why are you causing problems?”

 

[CoffeeHorse]

If it had only one peg and could stay in one of Cliffjumper's hands the whole way, I'd be happy with it. There aren't enough bots that enter robot mode with an accessory already in hand.

 

[unluckiness]

That'd be cool. We need more of that and weapon storage that a toy's suite of articulation can actually access.

 

[LordGigaIce]

It'd be a pretty good mold if they retool away the lame car trunk on a stick, sorry, "shield."

I just stick it on his back and it's fine imo

I don’t like partsforming.

Neither do I and if ER Cliffjumper started a wider trend then I'd have more issues but it didn't.

I look at it like I look at faux parts. I don't like faux parts. But sometimes they can work in certain contexts. Like ER Prime's faux grill abs.
ER Cliffjumper's partsforming is the partsforming version of that for me- something I don't like in concept but which works well in this specific case.

If you want a deeper explanation it's because I can stick the back of the car chunk on his back and it looks perfectly fine.

 

[Platypus Prime]

I admit when it comes to any sort of Partsforming discussion, that my first Transformer ever was a G1 Thundercracker. I used a sandwich bag as a near-permanent accessory for him. Still eventually lost EVERY part except for the two wings. So I'm just about immune by this point. Or possibly just traumatized.

Both helps and doesn't that a friend gave me, decades later, both the Legends and Deluxe Classics molds of Thundercracker for different birthdays, and I later got the Earthrise mold on clearance, so I *know* it doesn't have to be that way even if the guns do have to pop off and back on. It's still a vast improvement.

 

[Andrusi]

If it had only one peg and could stay in one of Cliffjumper's hands the whole way, I'd be happy with it. There aren't enough bots that enter robot mode with an accessory already in hand.

Well great. Now I need to dig RTS Fallback out of storage.

 

[Steadfast]

There aren't enough bots that enter robot mode with an accessory already in hand.

Interragator comes to mind, as does the downside of integral-but-detachable-- if he drops his gear, his altmode reaaaaally suffers.

(IIRC one episode of BW had TM Megatron let go of his weapon and then they fell together like it was glued to his leg or something. It's a minor thing, but jeeeez.)

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

In-hand image of the clear Optimus.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It's nice to see that color scheme still appearing from time to time. One could build a whole collection of Primes with that scheme.

I kinda want to, but Cybertron Galaxy Force Prime is expensive these days.