Botcon 2012 Metalhawk looks freakish/awful/wrong.

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Botcon 2012 Metalhawk looks freakish/awful/wrong.

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Personally,Botcon Metalhawk looks like it's going for the "Robocop" theme.
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It works for a humanoid Pretender shell. Unfortunately, it's a pretty poor choice for Metalhawk--he spends most of his time in Masterforce either in a much less conspicuous human disguise (he just looks like a dude in a three-piece suit) or in his regular robot mode.
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
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Onslaught Six wrote:It works for a humanoid Pretender shell. Unfortunately, it's a pretty poor choice for Metalhawk--he spends most of his time in Masterforce either in a much less conspicuous human disguise (he just looks like a dude in a three-piece suit) or in his regular robot mode.
I think this might have worked better. if they did the inner robot for metalhawk
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I've been looking at a lot of customs lately trying to figure out who the best base figure is.

This guy did something really neat, which was repaint the chest (actually from a Black Shadow) and use the head from CybHot Shot. It looks pretty good:
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I've seen lots of customs that use Universe Cyclonus as a base, which sorta works too:
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I gotta be honest, though, this is my favourite: It's the upcoming FoC Fireflight (retool of Shockwave) with a shooped on head:
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BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
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