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Originally Posted by TimothyR

huh?.. you can't blame the original figure for that.. that falls SOLELY on hasbro.

You can if the original design for the legs sucked. They were skinny, immobile sticks on skis and anything would be an improvement IMHO. The MTMTE version is much more dynamic and posable in toy form, and I prefer that to the G1 design.

Besides, I've seen Hasbro attempt to improve the skis-for-feet design before and they haven't been very successful (DOTM Whirl can barely stand unless you really tighten up his ball-joint ankles).

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G1 whirls legs looked great and worked perfectly with the figure.. these however, completely suck.

Agree to disagree, then.

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like i said, if you leave them in the intended position they look awful and don't work well, and if you spin them around, they still look awful and don't work well. the only vast improvement is that the legs have a knee joint.. other than that, there are zero improvements.

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but, they decided they wanted to go with more comic style legs.. which they COMPLETELY failed at.. rather than giving him the movie starscream raptor type legs, they simply articulated the knees the wrong way and figured that'd be good enough.. well, it's not. this is a terrible compromise of source materials.

I'm not sure how you're transforming your Whirl, but I count two joints at the knee on each leg, and to me they do an excellent job of creating the raptor/chicken-leg stance.

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Originally Posted by Nymesys Prime

How tall is the Master chief figure? do he scale with the MI figures??

Around two inches or so - which is standard size for a Mega Bloks minifig, really. It's the same basic design (structurally) that's been in most of their Halo sets to-date.