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09-10-2011, 05:47 PM | #11 |
Smells Lemony
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I like the MP Rodimus, but he's not one for everyday transforming. His biggest flaw is parts bloat. I think the designers tried to put as many hinges, flaps, and swivels on this figure as they possibly could. The end result is just as you said, Flimsy and Fiddly. If the designers had figured out a way to eliminate 10-20% of those parts Rodimus would be a much stronger figure.
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09-10-2011, 06:01 PM | #12 |
Not Hasbro approved.
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Oh yeah, i haven't bothered to compare Hasbro and Takara TBH, but apparently they did something with the Hasbro version that removed one of the ratchets in the elbow joint.
Why, don't know. Maybe the apparently missing part was on the same sprue as one of the trailer components? I suppose, what i was getting at, when i called it fiddly and flimsy is that there's a few interesting ideas in the to... adult collectible...but somehow there's just too many 'cool' but unresolved ideas going on there, and a fair chunk of the time it's case of slowly tweaking parts until they seem like they're where they're meant to be. |
09-11-2011, 07:03 AM | #13 |
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Yeah, though I can see where some of those were "oh crap, now this doesn't fit right..." design after thoughts. Personally, I don't find him "flimsy" so much as what you're also describing as overly complicated in places. Anyway, my only real gripe, which is found on both versions of the figure, is the shoulder design. All that articulation in there and he still can't lift his arm all that well.
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