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Proof the Movie Designs DO Mesh With Other Lines

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We wanted the design to be more realistic.

Addendum: You know, a few people I’ve shown this to asked, so I’ll go ahead and clarify:

Movie Optimus does not have a super mode. This is just Voyager Optimus with his smokestacks/guns slung under the arms, and Galaxy Convoy’s booster pack  stuck on top of his (ample) backpack.

One last burst of obvious immaturity

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So, I feel like I should apologize a little for how bitchy my last entry came off. Work is a good thing, and I do ultimately like doing freelance things.
That much done: time to get one more lump of saved Transformers ranting off my chest so I can get back to the usual here. I’ve pretty much got all the characters I wanted from the movie line already, which feels good considering the sheer girth of merchandise out there.

The Transformers Wiki article on Scale has been no end of amusement for me, especially in regards to the movie’s alleged attempts at realism not working out with the toy line at all. It’s nitpicky as hell, but it is kind of noticeable when it’s explicitly said that Blackout is the largest (assuming the shape of a transport chopper) and he manages to be one of the shortest in his particular weight class. And Bonecrusher, the dude who hated the spy who shagged me manages to look pretty massive with his huge arms and wide stance, until placed next to… well, anyone.

Bonecrusher Wuvs You This Much
Bonecrusher wuvs you Thiiiis Much

I ended up siding with the smaller (Voyager-Class) Optimus since he was both more sleek looking, and half the cost of the Leader version. Another plus is that his truck cab features a tiny cowboy-hatted driver (who I hear is made to represent Peter Cullen, his voiceover actor) instead of a jumble of circuitry visible through the front windows. I guess having an upside down armpit cowboy is an acceptable tradeoff for everything else. His weaponry comes in the form of two long rifles instead of one stumpy arm blaster. The most common gripe most seem to have is with the giant backpack he ends up with, but that I really rather like. Heck, he even has (shortened) Mini-Con-compatible pegs on it. I guess the only thing that he loses in my eyes is sheer mass. He kind of loses his semi truck ‘oomph’ when he’s dwarfed by Ratchet. But at least he doesn’t make a bunch of noises every time I try to change him…

Scale!

Which is kind of tricky, for the record. At least the part where the legs lock back into the truck cab.

More like HasBLOW, AMIRITE!? LOLHEADSHOT

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I got a box of air in the mail yesterday.

Well, not really, but close. I used some online coupon to order some of the forthcoming Movie Transformers figures and apparently most of the Western Hemisphere did at the same time, since I got a weird confirmation email earlier in the week stating “CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN SHIPPED”

Below that, under “Items not Shipped” was a list of every single thing I had ordered, begging the question of how an order for products can ship, without the products being shipped themselves. Cut to yesterday, when I got a box in the mail just a bit small to be one, let alone a handful of Deluxes, and opened it to find:

  1. One packing list
  2. Some of that those plastic pillow things for padding
  3. The two “freebie” sigil magnets the stuff was supposed to come with.

The question won’t stop nagging me- Why not just an envelope? Two flat fridge magnets and a packing slip aren’t exactly fragile goods, not big enough by far to justify a carboard box and air-cushioning.

I think someone in that mailroom must be oddly diabolical, or worse still, the company itself hires exclusively psy-ops specialists who know how to create nagging hiccups, ingenious in their simplicity. TO HASBRO, YOU ARE THE TOYS.

Okay, I’m done stealing Shortpacked!’s material. I got a pretty substantial amount of Guardian spriting done at work today, enough to make a mock screenshot or two and come up with a probably over-ambitious menu screen design. Trying to settle on a finished resolution so the sprite look less HUGE as they do at 320×240, so probably something just shy of 640×480 is in order. I think I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve on how to both cut corners and make nicer backgrounds at the same time.

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