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I haven't built mine yet, but I'm in total agreement.
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I like how this guy fixed the colors: https://brickset.com/article/117215/improving-the-new-renegade
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I don't think I made my point very well. I wasn't worried about the buggy staying in place. I was just saying that the feature seemed to be focused on the "action" element. You fly low and drop off your buggy in one quick swoosh. Unlike the Galaxy Explorer where you have to first land, open the rear doors, and then pull out the ramp. The former seems more fitting for a kids action theme than an 18+ Icons set. Whereas fiddling with functional bay doors and ramps might appeal more to us older "kids". I noticed that too! Weird.
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In the video, the designer shows the drop ship fall very quickly and swooshes the ship away. I don't think he got the memo on 18+ Icons sets. Adult Icons sets should have interesting, well thought out mechanisms that don't sacrifice the overall integrity of the design for an "action" feature. Just dropping an exposed buggy out of an otherwise empty mid section of the ship -- that belongs in a kid's action theme, not in Icons. The buggy doesn't even look like it fits snugly into the ship's midsection. It just hangs back an entire stud behind the front cross beam. If the front of the buggy sat on and hid the crossbeam, it would feel like, hey, someone carefully designed this. As it is, it just looks haphazard.
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Same. I honestly cannot believe this was approved, especially as an 18+ Icons set. This looks more like a 9-14 set, and is less polished than, say, 70816:
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Personally I don't see the appeal. Ignoring all the small aesthetic changes, I'm not a fan of the legs being so separated (both vertically and horizontally) from the main fuselage in fighter mode. And there was seemingly no effort to recess the head in fighter mode.
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I'm not a huge Transformers fan but I mean c'mon...it's perfectly understandable to wish that projects with the aesthetic and story-line you like get the budget and talent they deserve. And I really hate the sanctimonious invocation of "children's toys" as a shutdown for any and all laments. God forbid an adult want something different than whats on offer from a 40 year old franchise with an entire series of multi-hundred dollar engineering marvels marketed almost exclusively to the "kids" who were alive when it began.
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Entire shape of the forearm and thigh guards and handlebar covers, Yellow's tiny windshield, probably a lot more when you look closely.
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Lol. Of course they would try this. https://brickset.com/article/113691/lego-may-be-considering-phasing-out-paper-instructions
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What, you don't want a $20 skiff plus a $60 mound of sand?
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New o-ring Joes are hitting Targets! https://surveillance-port.com/2024/09/17/super7-reaction-g-i-joe-hitting-target-stores/ -
That seems really bad. Seems like a "so close but so far" situation. Maybe they can do another release with a clear coat or no panel lines, and include a gunpod hand that fits into the arm, and maybe improve how it holds together in battloid mode without the side covers. Those seem like minor changes with major benefits.
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So none of the hands that can hold the gunpod fit into the arm when transformed? I don't like that... Doesn't the HRM require the gun handle to be removed to stow it in fighter mode? Does the Three Zero gunpod stow without removing parts?
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Tread looks great. I wonder how much the Legioss is truly nestled into the Tread in combined fighter mode. The angle in the pic could be hiding a gap, but I'm guessing it'll be close enough. Anyhow...exciting times!
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Glad to know I was right to not care about this thing from the beginning!