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Re: Wonder Festival 2016
I think Optimus Primal looks great, and I'm thrilled that he's in scale with Generations Rhinox and Rattrap -- which in a way retcons those two figures into a pseudo-MP class themselves. (They were already fantastic updates to their original toys to begin with.)
Looking at the UW Bruticus, I was initially bummed they would get a shuttle version of Blast Off that we wouldn't, but damn. What's up with that Blast Off? I don't remember him having bright orange all over him in G1. The bot arms are in full view sitting on the side of the alt mode. And the tail fin is clearly a removeable piece, which cheats the part of the transformation where the fin moves from the rear of the shuttle to the bot mode's back. Not even an armature. Takara went to the trouble of making a brand new mold, and yet... I'm having trouble seeing it as an improvement even if it is ostensibly more G1 than Hasbro's fighter jet Blast Off (which at least has the right coloring).
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