[TimothyR]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

That you can blame on the original toy design for the Gazette from Dorvack. I'm perfectly fine with it (it's a vast improvement, frankly), but I can totally understand why someone else wouldn't be into him because of that.

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

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

had they designed the figure based off of the original whirl, and the original whirl art.. where his knees bend properly, this figure would've been pretty cool.

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.

either go all G1 or all IDW.. and if you're going to find a middle ground, do it the right way..

i'm sorry.. from the waist up, whirl is pretty nice looking, but the legs ruin it.. there's no way to make him look imposing on a shelf.. he's either gotten broken knees.. or has a child's ski for feet .. (yes, i understand that he basically had ski's in G1.. but, they were big and fit his proportions nicely, these don't)

it's just a shame.