I was a soley Magic Square collector, but after buying a few Newage figures, I am all 100% Newage. And honestly, New Age scaling is more accurate to the show and toys. Not a big deal, but I do prefer their scale and paint for sure.
Funny thing is that Ironhide, Ratchet, and Bumblebee all have a similarly designed gun (if not completely identical). It reminds me of the similar rifles of the Datsuns and the similar/near identical guns of the LamBros (Sideswipe mold & Sunstreaker mold). If they reissued Ken, I wonder what a similar reissue for Ryu would look like...
To be more precise you need to slide up the black shoulder pads (it's tight but they do slide up a bit) to make place for the side flaps to close. Spent some 15+ minutes to figure it out as well 😅
I'm pretty sure they will come out with a version C. How do you all feel about mixing painted vs non painted, toy accurate vs cartoon accurate bots in your collection? Me since in collect mainly MS i go for cartoon and as we know there is no paint, but like I want to get the Mech Fans Ultra Magnus, but its metallic version. I do have pained NA soundwave and powerglide, but idk if it will look weird, maybe I should wait for another version.?
I mix my MPs. I just get whatever I think looks good, I’m not bothered by inconsistency of paint. I dynamically pose mine in a mix of bot & alt modes which changes as I mess with them. You can never indulge too much imo
The Magic Square version is not just better but way better, Better posing, better design, better functionality, slighter better size. If all you care about is pant and vehicle mode Newage is your style. I don't give two shits about the shine so I go with what's better in every regard. The sizes of Newage are so f'ed.
As a kid, I would have preferred non transforming action figures that actually look like the cartoon robots over the delicate, awkward looking toys we actually had. I'm looking at you, Ratchet and Optimus. And you too, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper you pot bellied middle aged has beens.
Thanks for starting and ending this video with what may very well be some of the most traumatic moments of my entire life.
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I was a soley Magic Square collector, but after buying a few Newage figures, I am all 100% Newage. And honestly, New Age scaling is more accurate to the show and toys. Not a big deal, but I do prefer their scale and paint for sure.
I agree!
Anyway Newage has a bad habit to put joints just below the pelvis. They look awful.
Thank God they didn't do that for the dinobots
Funny thing is that Ironhide, Ratchet, and Bumblebee all have a similarly designed gun (if not completely identical). It reminds me of the similar rifles of the Datsuns and the similar/near identical guns of the LamBros (Sideswipe mold & Sunstreaker mold).
If they reissued Ken, I wonder what a similar reissue for Ryu would look like...
I have to watch this one after I open mine and avoid spoilers. but stoked for this one!
It is great they put this one back out
I had the same issue with bump. The arms need to pop out more to get it just right
To be more precise you need to slide up the black shoulder pads (it's tight but they do slide up a bit) to make place for the side flaps to close.
Spent some 15+ minutes to figure it out as well 😅
MS's paint is as if I did it myself 😅
I'm pretty sure they will come out with a version C.
How do you all feel about mixing painted vs non painted, toy accurate vs cartoon accurate bots in your collection? Me since in collect mainly MS i go for cartoon and as we know there is no paint, but like I want to get the Mech Fans Ultra Magnus, but its metallic version. I do have pained NA soundwave and powerglide, but idk if it will look weird, maybe I should wait for another version.?
I mix my MPs. I just get whatever I think looks good, I’m not bothered by inconsistency of paint.
I dynamically pose mine in a mix of bot & alt modes which changes as I mess with them.
You can never indulge too much imo
Can we get a MP Ironhide
can i ask regading thr optimus prime is that magic square
Yes that is the Magic Square metallic repaint which I was hoping we would get with this one
The Magic Square version is not just better but way better, Better posing, better design, better functionality, slighter better size. If all you care about is pant and vehicle mode Newage is your style. I don't give two shits about the shine so I go with what's better in every regard. The sizes of Newage are so f'ed.
As a kid, I would have preferred non transforming action figures that actually look like the cartoon robots over the delicate, awkward looking toys we actually had. I'm looking at you, Ratchet and Optimus. And you too, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper you pot bellied middle aged has beens.
That would have been cool and they seemed to do that with the action masters but too little, too late and too small
Yeah they all looked like shit