You can get a feel for the on-screen transformations of most of the movie characters (unless his name is Hot Rod), but that was almost never reflected in the final Hasbro toys. But i was trying to go as simple as possible.Īnd that's really how they would have approached the character in 1986, if they'd actually produced a toy in her likeness. > This thing was kind of a pain, especially since i have zero experience I can think of maybe 20 other characters I would absolutely love to see in this format (in no particular order: Elita One and her Auto-chicks, Devcon, Emirate Xaaron, Unicron, Alpha Trion, among others). So, yes, I would absolutely buy a retro G1 Arcee toy with no leg articulation, die-cast toes, and ugly stickers all over her body. New toys designed in the old G1 style could probably get away with being pretty simple. It didn't take a genius to come up with the transformation for Windcharger or Gears or Starscream. Most of the early G1 toy designs were extraordinarily simple. Not everybody's got an engineering degree.īut, here's the thing. Coming up with a fully transformable toy isn't something that just anybody can do. I totally get that action figure versions of Transformers are a lot easier to design. Doing small 3 3/4" Ninja Turtles action figures in the style of the vintage Star Wars figures doesn't really work, since TMNT had its own specific aesthetic. The problem is when Super7 starts playing mix-and-match. This is also why the ReAction Figures assortment does so well, because it taps into a very specific late 1970's/early 1980's action figure aesthetic. This is why Super7 is producing the TMNT Ultimates, which are essentially scaled-up and highly articulated versions of the Ninja Turtles toys from 1988 (they are, I believe, doing Thundercats toys as well). There is something very, very marketable about toys that are designed in the style of toys we all had from our childhoods. > Nobody wants G1 toy inspired to lack articulation, or have stickers. On Wednesday, at 9:57:17 AM UTC-6, Irrellius Spamticon of the Potato People. She hasn't even been released yet and she already needs a redo. I don't understand how Takara managed to botch this one so badly. Honestly, the third-party FansToys figure called Rouge managed to capture Arcee's proportions more authentically. I won't even bother remarking at length about the physical positions they put her in for this photo shoot. It's Kenner putting superhero muscles on all the Star Wars characters all over again, only the female version of that. There are a lot of hypersexualized anime figurines sold in Japan and they're obviously trying to capitalize off the trend and sell to a specific market.
Her pelvis and abdomen are far too rounded, more closely matching the human physique than the angular look that's part of her design. It seems like they shifted down her "shirt collar" to force it to align with her lower-set, perkier boobs. Her boobs are gigantic and pointy, which doesn't match her animation model. But they didn't even try for an accurate design, because her robot proportions are all skeewampus. Granted, she's a character who has virtually zero visible car parts hanging off her robot mode, so I'm sure an accurate design was a huge challenge. Just like with Hot Rod, they pretty much folded up her whole vehicle mode and just stuffed it behind her back. Her press release says she's got three interchangeable faces (smiling, sad, and surprised), three weapons, and three blast effects.Īnd here are some maybe not-so-good things about her. She has some character-specific features like her telescopic visor and Junkion-tripping claw, both from from The Transformers: the Movie, as well as blast effects for her gun. She's got some kind of mid-torso tilt, double-hinge knees, articulated ankles and toes (?!), among other things. She looks like she's got amazing articulation. (She didn't consistently have the holster, but I think she drew her weapon from her hip in at least one installment of "Five Faces of Darkness," so it's a legit canonical thing.) She's got a big rifle, which befits her sometimes-function as a gunner, and a holster on her hip to keep it in. A lot of unofficial Arcee toys sort of forget that cars have trunks, and her "transformation" is just her robot legs folded up and hugging the sides of the car mode. Here are some good things about her: The car mode is very authentic and accurate to animation. MP-51 is a gigantic backpack, and it also comes with Arcee:
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