Almighty Unicron wrote:I'm only lackadaisically following PR- I know they're using the Gokaiger suits in the 2nd half of megaforce, what are they doing with the ranger keys?
First of all, the Gokaiger suits are being used more as a 'Super Mode' sort of function for the Rangers here; they'll morph into the Goseiger suits like normal, then use cards to turn into the Gokaiger suits, then whip out Mobirates and use keys to change into different Rangers from there. So yeesh, that'll be seamless. Anyway, the keys in the show, vis a vis stock footage, are going to be the same as in Gokaiger, but the ones they'll be selling as part of the American toyline have received the same treatment as American Ranger toys usually do: They've been 'bulked up', with wider, thicker, apparently-intended-to-seem-more-muscular upper bodies, which just looks really stupid in the Ranger Key format. I mean:
Also, can't tell from the pics, but they're apparently actually only half the size of the Japanese keys. BofA's version of the Mobirates looks expectedly lackluster as well.
But hey, we're getting a Legacy Dragon Dagger, and a new version of the Dragonzord that can combine with the 2010 Megazord!
New Generations out at Target today, so I grabbed…two different Megatrons! Ended up going for the Legends/Cyberverse/Whatever this scale is now Megatron over the Starscream pack because Megatron came with Chop Shop and, you know, Deluxe Insecticons. Then I almost missed them because they were over in the completely other column actually with the Star Wars toys, but they had the new Comic-pack 30th Anniversary Deluxes, so I nabbed that Megatron too, since it had shot to the top of my want list ever since I found out it was being made.
Legends Megatron is a solid Commander-level toy. First off, he actually has a turning head! Wonder of wonders! Just all around great posability for something of this size in general. Transformation is rather simple, folding the arms up into the turret then unfolding the legs and just wrapping them around the rest of the body to form the tank, but it works and it all ends up letting the turret turn, so. Dig the Megatron Origin styling, if Hasbro’s going all-in on IDW comic-basings for these new toys, at least they’re varying which ones they’re basing them on. Chop Shop is cute, but way simple; his transformation is literally just one step: just lay him down and he’s in bug mode! The instructions don’t even pretend on this! Makes a neat pair of giant scissors for Megatron though, I guess, complete with geared scissor action from the back, and even has a more substantive transformation to an alternate weapon mode where he becomes a big, nasty-looking plow thing that attaches to the front of Megatron’s tank mode. A cool little set, overall.
Deluxe Megatron thankfully delivers on what I wanted from this toy, bar a couple of niggles. Legs are annoyingly hollow and I’m not entirely sure why their panels are jointed (seems to be to let them flare out just a bit more in robot mode), kinda like how I’m not sure about why those panels on the backs of his shoulders pop out. Transformation is very much an exercise in just lining pieces of the altmode together, definitely comes from the G1 philosophy of ‘chunks of the vehicle form all the parts of the robot’ rather than revealing robot parts out of vehicle kibble/parts. I’m not super-wild about the kreoforming of the wings/fusion cannon, but it works and looks good in both, so eh. I’d like him to have the ‘tron lights’ deco represented all over him, but I get that such a thing wasn’t really in the budget, and the colors he has going on are cool enough as-is; I love the dark grey/black with metallic purple flaked in, looks snazzy as hell. Also, the Decepticon symbol in the center just being a tampo and not made up of individual panels like in the comic makes me a sad panda, since that was one of my favorite details, but at this scale I can live with it. It’s just a cool figure of one of my favorite Megatron designs in years, from one of my favorite arcs in the comic (screw the Costa haters, ‘Revenge of the Decepticons’ was sweet), and barring a couple of likely-budget-related oversights, they nailed it.
Orion Pax actually looked better in-package than I expected, I may end up getting him.
TFPBH Prowl (deluxe) - the new head makes for a very different personality than Smokescreen, but the colors aren't different enough on the body from Smokey.
BWprowl wrote:Deluxe Megatron thankfully delivers on what I wanted from this toy, bar a couple of niggles. Legs are annoyingly hollow and I’m not entirely sure why their panels are jointed (seems to be to let them flare out just a bit more in robot mode), kinda like how I’m not sure about why those panels on the backs of his shoulders pop out. Transformation is very much an exercise in just lining pieces of the altmode together, definitely comes from the G1 philosophy of ‘chunks of the vehicle form all the parts of the robot’ rather than revealing robot parts out of vehicle kibble/parts. I’m not super-wild about the kreoforming of the wings/fusion cannon, but it works and looks good in both, so eh. I’d like him to have the ‘tron lights’ deco represented all over him, but I get that such a thing wasn’t really in the budget, and the colors he has going on are cool enough as-is; I love the dark grey/black with metallic purple flaked in, looks snazzy as hell. Also, the Decepticon symbol in the center just being a tampo and not made up of individual panels like in the comic makes me a sad panda, since that was one of my favorite details, but at this scale I can live with it. It’s just a cool figure of one of my favorite Megatron designs in years, from one of my favorite arcs in the comic (screw the Costa haters, ‘Revenge of the Decepticons’ was sweet), and barring a couple of likely-budget-related oversights, they nailed it.
Orion Pax actually looked better in-package than I expected, I may end up getting him.
The panels on the back of his shoulders I think might be an IDW choice that Hasbro is emulating, and just meant to add depth to the figure.
The "tron lights" should be easy enough to add yourself if you have paint and brush, I prefer him without them though. Not sure I understand what you mean about the Decepticon logo in the chest being panels on a toy like this.
See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?
JediTricks wrote:Not sure I understand what you mean about the Decepticon logo in the chest being panels on a toy like this.
Well if you look at the symbol on his chest in the comics, it's not just a flat painted/tampo'd detail, it's actually three-dimensional, made up of several individual panels fit together and on top of each other. It was a really nice little detail I liked about the design (and was impressively consistently rendered throughout the comics) and thus I was sad that they just tampo'd the symbol into the spot on the toy (and it doesn't even fill up the whole space the way the one in the comic does).
