Mog
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Filling in and improving what Hasbro neglected. Customized Knights of the Old Republic figures:
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There’s not much they can change in the transformation process for the Tread’s arms, legs, and yellow array. Maybe tweak connection tabs and proportions. But the improvements and changes will be in the chest, cockpit, and connection to the Legioss. Sentinel could design it to make the Legioss connect “deeper” into the Tread. But we’ll see.
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Without the Sentinel in hand, all I can do is speculate. It just seems like the most logical locking spots: one under as the connecting boom and two above in the arms. The only other potential locking spot I could think of is having the Legioss arm boosters connect into the Tread chest circles. But a top-down locking connection just seems like the most secure and easiest way to go about it. Of course, there’s still the question of how to pull off the cockpit and chest.
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I thought it’s just two: the lighter blue with gold weapons (exclusive) and the darker blue with silver weapons/fish (mass release). Of course, if previous lines are any indication, there will eventually be about 3 billion versions of Cobra Commander. . . give or take.
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Unless you want a telescoping or segmented connecting boom, there’s not much that can be done, design-wise. On the Tread, there’s just not that much room for where that boom would have to come out of. Where Sentinel can improve the design is making a more solid, locking connection between the Tread and Legioss. A lot of us are speculating that those slots on the arms of the Legioss are additional connecting points. Both Toynami’s and CM’s connection just kinda “sits” there. Toynami’s “looks” like the most unified, but you wouldn’t be flipping the combined fighter upside-down.
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Make no mistake: I absolutely love and adore the Toynami Beta. But even I know it can be improved upon, especially with all the gaps in bomber mode (pictures “borrowed” from Anymoon):
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Yup, that CM's combined fighter mode looks like the Legioss and Tread were on separate shelves: Not flush with each other at all.
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Poor CF can’t catch a break!
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What’s a joke is that the CM’s Legioss’ head couldn’t turn, the Legioss’ tailfins couldn’t get pushed in completely, and the yellow array on the back of the Tread stuck up in bomber mode.
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No obvious teases . . . yet. At least nothing like how they sneaked Yellow’s bike on Rey’s box art. They did show a drawing about a year ago for their “Genesis Breakers” reimagining. But that was mostly a reimagining of Stick’s ride armor.
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Wound up becoming a prequel and EU display:
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Don’t have a Sentinel yet, and only own the Toynami. But here’s my observations: Part of it has to do with how the feet collapse into the legs. Toynami’s really don’t collapse at all. The other part involves how the back of the chest intakes are hollowed out a little to allow the legs to fit in more compact. The back of the Toynami’s chest intake is a solid block that the legs butt up against. And lastly, the way the whole hip assembly flips up for fighter mode is something the Toynami version never did. There’s a slight adjustment of the hips between fighter and battloid mode, but it’s almost unnoticeable.
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It’s still amazing how compact they got the legs and feet to get in fighter mode.
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Thanks! Max isn’t locked to any piece of land; he belongs to the skies.
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I thought the other darker blue (more akin to the Cobra Trooper/Cobra Officer Blue) is the mass release version?
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Looks at the past two pages. So when the Fuke is Houquet’s Legioss gonna be up for preorder and what’s the planned release date?
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An old attempt at copying one of my favorite GI Joe comic book covers:
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I thought those speeders were supposed to be dirtier? One of the dumbest, funniest scenes from Season 1 though.
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The good thing about the Guld figure and the Yammy 1/60 is that the cockpit rotates so that Guld is facing out in battroid mode (instead of down toward the ground).
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Or that one that had its hyperdrive crushed by a Sith while in hyperspace, and wound up smashed to hell with no onboard survivors. Well, technically it’s a Republic destroyer. But very similar.
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For all of us Yanks out there, may all your 4th of July family gatherings be calm, relaxing affairs . . . like this:
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Longer. Bellyplates. For. Battroid. Pics of Gerwalk, preferably showing the underside. Both issues are related, and that bellyplate design is biggest design choice that utterly mucks up all three modes.
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Yah "hobbitted" the figures! Peter Jackson would be proud. Martian steel: it's thinner than Terran steel but more resistant to projectile weapons and dissipates heat from a laser shot faster and more efficiently.
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A bunch of Jedi and Rebel scum:
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Hey! Not all us accountants are soulless bastards that know the cost of everything but the value of nothing. Blame the lawyers; they screw everything up. “No, no, no, don’t use R2-D2 too much; per the contract, we have to pay a royalty to Lucas for every minute he’s on-screen.” “If you change the dish on the Falcon, we can claim it as our own Disney-developed design. It’ll keep our royalty costs down, and we keep the profits from any toys or models inspired by the new design.”
