Well, Hastak did a poor job with her this go-around. PXL_20201202_233849559.MP.jpgRatchet and Lifeline arrived today because I didn't get around to cancelling my order. I figured I was going to sell her off immediately, but I thought I'd give her a chance. She also lacks the line's signature ankle tilts, which is just baffling. Maybe I'm missing some things but there's nowhere for her limbs to actually attach in car mode, they just sit there under the car shell. I've handled shellformers before but this is next level.
Sure, articulation is pretty good, but the transformation is abysmal. I didn't realize just how bad this mold is. I will give it credit for looking ever so slightly better with the white shoulders that blend into the alt mode more than IH's black ones, and there's some nice paint detailing that only shows up in bot mode, but man I'm just not feeling these van molds. It's nice enough but still a very dull figure. I'm gonna have to do some real soul searching to figure out whether I want to keep the vans or stick with the cybertronian bodies. I'm still disappointed that there's absolutely no difference between Ratchet and Ironhide except the light bar and the heads. Ratchet and Lifeline arrived today because I didn't get around to cancelling my order. TF-fan kev777 City Commander Posts: 3635 News Credits: 36 Joined: Thu 5:48 pm They have put out 3 versions of the Siege mold and 3 more of the Earthrise mold so far and I would expect the were into production one right after the other, so you could basically leave the leg assembly line up and running all throughout production. With how complex the leg assembly is, I actually wonder if they automated some of the assembly for the legs, where it actually made more sense ($$$) to re-use the molds and the automated assembly instead of just making new legs without all the extra parts and figuring out the new assembly methods. Overall he is a really good Optimus Prime. Some of the choices made on this figure are weird. They left the wheel hinge in there too, using more parts, but then making it completely immovable by adding the back leg panel. A big flaw on an otherwise incredible toy. Just seems wasteful for somethin vestigial to still be around. That would also avoid them to make the flaps (that's 2 extra parts to make and assemble). I really don't see why with all that tooling, they couldn't just retool them to no longer have the vestigial ports. That's why it's such a shame that they recycled parts from the Earthrise version for the legs. Totally new way to get all that new detail, I was very impressed.
I was very surprised at the transformation since the top part is nothing like the siege one. The colours are definitely better with a more unified blue (the hands matching the head, crotch and legs) and the central leg peg section is also blue now making the legs a lot better looking. William-james88 wrote:So I finally got to experience Earthrise Prime though the Netflix release.
#EARTHRISE RUNABOUT MOVIE#
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