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View Poll Results: Pick your favorite 80's toy line! | |||
Go-Bots | 59 | 80.82% | |
Rock Lords | 14 | 19.18% | |
Voters: 73. You may not vote on this poll |
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05-16-2012, 07:45 AM | #26 |
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Went with Rock Lords because I remember owning most of them when I was young. My favorite was the green two headed guy.
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05-16-2012, 09:17 AM | #27 |
Dark Lord of the 'Ark
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100% certain he ment in scale character wise, where as with Transformers, Blaster was bigger than Devestator, and almost equal to Metroplex, where as Powerglide was as small as Rumble and Frenzy (Who were often shown to be just a tad bigger than humans, and Powerglide was equal to just about any other TF.)
You can rationalize it's because Transformers was cobbled together from several lines, but the inconsistancies still percist even to today, where classics Grimlock is a full size class smaller than Classics Optimus. Further, when Blackout and Starscream, while being amongst the largest TFs in their universe, were both barily larger than Bumblebee, and quite a bit smaller than Optimus. Something that was never fixed for Blackout. Scale... character wise or alt mode wise is something that continues to elude Hasbro. Gobots at least had a somewhat consistant character scale, if not vehicles. And I wouldn't say scale eludes them - more likely it's just not a primary concern of theirs (or Takara's). But most of the early scale issues are due to their respective cartoons and how the character models were treated, as well as the fact that the original TFs were cobbled together from a couple different toy lines (which set the precedent, really). At least Sunbow tried to keep a sense of scale (failing spectacularly in some cases). Quote:
And if we're going to get into inconsistancies with vehiclular scale within a line, need I point out a certain TF combiner with a space shuttle for an arm, and a korean war era army jeep as a leg? ;P
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05-16-2012, 09:29 AM | #28 |
WINGNUT & SCREWLOOSE!
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Location: Dallas
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Starscream: "Everyone! Get in Astrotrain!" Astrotrain: "....you're joking... right?" Later, aboard/inside Astrotrain- Scrapper: "Constructicons! Merge to form Devestator!" Astrotrain: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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05-16-2012, 12:40 PM | #29 |
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Fife, Washington
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100% certain he ment in scale character wise, where as with Transformers, Blaster was bigger than Devestator, and almost equal to Metroplex, where as Powerglide was as small as Rumble and Frenzy (Who were often shown to be just a tad bigger than humans, and Powerglide was equal to just about any other TF.)
You can rationalize it's because Transformers was cobbled together from several lines, but the inconsistancies still percist even to today, where classics Grimlock is a full size class smaller than Classics Optimus. Further, when Blackout and Starscream, while being amongst the largest TFs in their universe, were both barily larger than Bumblebee, and quite a bit smaller than Optimus. Something that was never fixed for Blackout. Scale... character wise or alt mode wise is something that continues to elude Hasbro. Gobots at least had a somewhat consistant character scale, if not vehicles. And if we're going to get into inconsistancies with vehiclular scale within a line, need I point out a certain TF combiner with a space shuttle for an arm, and a korean war era army jeep as a leg? ;P |
05-16-2012, 01:18 PM | #30 |
WINGNUT & SCREWLOOSE!
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I will admit Hasbro made a good attempt to keep a consistant scale with Animated (And in fact, there are situations I prefer Hasbro's scale, over the canon show's. Like Waspinator and Swindle both feel much better as autobot sized, and not huge decepticons)
And while I strongly dislike Prime, I'll happily admit Hasbro is trying to keep something of a consistant scale... as well as they can working inside only *two* size classes. (THIS IS WHY THEY NEED SCOUTS! Bumblebee needed to be a scout, with Ratchet as a deluxe, and Arcee as a legend, or cyb commander)
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05-16-2012, 05:39 PM | #31 |
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Nowhere
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Gobots get my vote, Rock Lords were cool in a different way but the majority if not all were still rocks.
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05-19-2012, 08:22 PM | #32 |
80s toy archeologist
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Arizona
Posts: 2
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Gobots for sure. They can get you from land sea and air.
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