[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Thanks for the mini-review. I'm still on the hunt for him myself, but I've been lucky enough to get both Soundwave and Soundblaster, but have yet to run across Grimmy. Once I get him, I will add my own thoughts on the toy.

But in FOC Grimlock's defense, he's not supposed to look like an Earth dinosaur. He's a space dino . And MP Grimlock's alt mode was supposed to look like the cartoon, not an actual T-Rex (which it pulls off beautifully). So blame Sunbow and Floro Dery for the inaccuracy, not the MP toy design. I can't say much about BW Dinobot's alt mode, even excusing the influence of Jurassic Park and the limited scientific knowledge of velociraptors at the time.

In other news, MP Soundwave is awesome and I highly recommend him, even at $190 (but you might want to wait for the TRU release). Laserbeak is equally amazing in his own right and does some really neat engineering tricks.

There's no excuse for an incorrect dinosaur.
Ever.
I don't care how braindead the FoC game designers are, they can look at a fucking picture and replicate it.

And Masterpiece means perfect in both modes. Takara is way too obcessed with a reaaaally awful 80's cartoon.
MP Grimlock has a great robot mode, but he's just an expensive non-transforming actuion figure to me.
Dinosaur alt modes are my top priority. Robot modes are incidental and unimportant.

As for BW Dinobot... that wasn't so much a slam on his dinosaur inaccuracies... it's that he's got a reeeeally bad beast mode. Dinosaur or not.