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12-30-2016, 01:38 PM
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SPLIT LIP
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There's like a weird stigma in Hollywood mechanics that if it's simple, it's can't be taken seriously. Look at the Marvel movies. Does Hawkeye really need itty-bitty arrowheads that transform like the Bay movie Transformers? Iron Man's suit just keeps getting more and more complicated. Falcon can't just have wings, they have to be metal super foldy-uppy wings that break physics entirely because they don't weigh a thing apparently. I'm surprised Cap's sheild isn't made of a million pieces that rotate and spin for no reason.
It's complexity for dummies. Complexity where you aren't rewarded for following the movement's and paths of parts as they change along a predeterimined scheme of conversion. Just a mess of shit. At least in the early Bay movies the TFs had so much kibble like wheels and shit that
some
parts still mattered where they went. Ultimately one form
still
looked like the other. Not here, not given what this Megazord look like compared to the non-transforming one. On the surface it's intricate, but in reality it's anything but, because nothing is intertwined or figured out. That's Hollywood in a nutshell. It makes you
think
there's a lot going on, but really it's just a swarm of meaningless noise. (you can decide whether or not that extendeds past just technology) These toys were doomed to fail.
And yet still, there's things that can't be explained by the shit movie deisgns. Like the partsforming. I'm sorry, but the Dino Thunder Megazord, one of
the
most basic Megazords of the Pre-RPM era, managed to do the exact same trick with the T-rex head (abliet in reverse) without partsforming. Clearly this toy isn't accurate anyway, so why all the partsforming? Did the T-rex legs really need to
detach
? We have decades of transforming toys to look back on that tell us you can do better than that.
And even ignoring that, the cheapness of the toys is even more inexcusable. Hollow, one-part limbs that look like cake moulds from the back. The T-rex limbs fixed in a pose for the sake of the Megazord that's useless in dinosaur mode. Barely any paint or colour seperation through plastic. The gimmicks are tacked-on and meaningless. There's no use of transparent plastics. It just
screams
cheap and worthless.
EDIT: Also, I like Bruno, but his one comment on the video is hilariously pathetic. "Just save up!"
$120 US?
For a shitty toy? Why, for brand loyalty? A brand that is far too often
not
especially kind to its fans? His defending of this movie and its toys is rather... unconvincing.
I seriously wonder who's actually going to buy this oversized mess.
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