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Jun. 15th, 2017 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsSo one of the many Transformers I've gotten in the past couple of months is Toyword's "Assault", which is their version of Thrust. He's the same size as the Official Takara masterpiece Seekers in plane mode, as seen here with MP-11 Starscream:
However, he, and the rest of Toyworlds versions of the Conehead seekers are taller than the Takara ones. I'd do a comparsion pic, but since the masterpiece seekers are a floppy mess, I'm loathe to transform Starscream into robot mode. Particularly since I got everything nice and lined up in F-15 mode.
But yeah, Toyworld's conehead is a vastly superior product compared to the official seekers mainly because of the chest. In the Takara models, the chest parts are swinging freely all over the place, making it a bitch to try and line things up during the transformation. Assault (and presumably Combustor and Requiem, who are Ramjet and Dirge, respectively) has tabs and pegs and holes to make sure everything is where it needs to be during transformation.
Of course, that's a double edged sword, because those wings are secured pretty tightly in jet mode. The clearance getting the legs out is pretty minimal, so I'm scared I'm going to like snap them off trying to flip them forward for the second step of the transformation from jet to robot.
Which, the robot mode looks good, save for that hideous face (and the faces on the other coneheads aren't much better):
That's the one advantage I'll give to the Takara ones, they have much better looking faces. Well, that, and the clever way they did the arm cannons on the Seekers. The Toyworld models are like the original toys, you unpeg the weapons from the wings in jet mode and re-peg them on the arms in robot mode. The masterpiece seekers have a clever design where the guns are on a hidden little arm so you just do a bit of unfastening and rotating of the arm to move it from wing to arm. Its unnecessary, but when a design can get rid of some partsforming, it gets kudos in my book.
I would like to see Toyworld's take on the normal seekers (Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp) but it would take a bit of re-tooling. For the coneheads, they're able to easily hide the head in the nosecone. But the way the design is, there's no place to put the head for the standard seekers.
However, he, and the rest of Toyworlds versions of the Conehead seekers are taller than the Takara ones. I'd do a comparsion pic, but since the masterpiece seekers are a floppy mess, I'm loathe to transform Starscream into robot mode. Particularly since I got everything nice and lined up in F-15 mode.
But yeah, Toyworld's conehead is a vastly superior product compared to the official seekers mainly because of the chest. In the Takara models, the chest parts are swinging freely all over the place, making it a bitch to try and line things up during the transformation. Assault (and presumably Combustor and Requiem, who are Ramjet and Dirge, respectively) has tabs and pegs and holes to make sure everything is where it needs to be during transformation.
Of course, that's a double edged sword, because those wings are secured pretty tightly in jet mode. The clearance getting the legs out is pretty minimal, so I'm scared I'm going to like snap them off trying to flip them forward for the second step of the transformation from jet to robot.
Which, the robot mode looks good, save for that hideous face (and the faces on the other coneheads aren't much better):
That's the one advantage I'll give to the Takara ones, they have much better looking faces. Well, that, and the clever way they did the arm cannons on the Seekers. The Toyworld models are like the original toys, you unpeg the weapons from the wings in jet mode and re-peg them on the arms in robot mode. The masterpiece seekers have a clever design where the guns are on a hidden little arm so you just do a bit of unfastening and rotating of the arm to move it from wing to arm. Its unnecessary, but when a design can get rid of some partsforming, it gets kudos in my book.
I would like to see Toyworld's take on the normal seekers (Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp) but it would take a bit of re-tooling. For the coneheads, they're able to easily hide the head in the nosecone. But the way the design is, there's no place to put the head for the standard seekers.
