Via Chefatron on YouTube we can share for you a new set of in-hand images of the Transformers Legacy Deluxe Class Skullgrin.
Skullgrin is part of the new Legacy Wave 3 Deluxe and he’s designed as a very interesting mix of elements of his G1 Pretender shell and inner robot. Alt mode is a blocky Cybertronian tank which managed to hide the ram skull head very well. As with previous Legacy figures, Skullgrin shows a good range of poseability and several accessories. As an unexpected surprise, his twin sword/rifle weapons are made of soft plastic. We also have comparison size shots next to other figures.
See all the images after the break, as well as Chefatron video review, and then join to the ongoing discussion on the 2005 Boards!
barry
Everyone, this is what well groomed fingernails look like. Please refer back to this before taking any similiar photos of your own. Please.
Bob Schoonover
Ish? Mine don't go in further than this, so it's a bit janky looking with the white handlesView attachment 29735627
3Y3
I might have missed the answer, but can anyone tell me if his two sword/guns can attach to the front of his turrets? (as in the peg his hands hold can fit into the front hole of his tank turrets) One of my main issues I have with the alt mode is I find the turrets too short and would be amazing to 'extend' them with the other guns.
Vanya
After seeing one of these in Target and getting a good look at it, I'm now 100% sure I don't want one.
I think a core class version might worked better for me.
ScorponokIsHere
The horns are rubberized, both on the head and on the shoulders. Since the large horns are jointed on the head with an unpinned hinge, that could in theory become stretched badly. But nothing structurally within the robot is rubberized.
Seeaich
My main fear about Kingdom Megs was actually that long term he may suffer from the now well-documented softer/rubberized plastic degradation of solid plastic that has happened to other figures like quite a number of TR Mindwipes wingtips, the disintegration of TR Wolfwire's canopy hinges, and ROTF Bludgeons melty caterpillar treads. I have still bought one after failing to resist the allure of the Beasties but it's still a worry, and not an entirely unreasonable one IMHO.
I have read anecdotal reports of snapped/broken areas on the Dino-skin mounting "skeleton", which could be QC but also we may all find similar issues later if he ends up suffering the long term plasticizer migration that is the theoretical cause of the previously-mentioned degrading toys.
Gepard
That's the essence of his question, though: advance reviews showed (and claimed) that the joints are floppy rubber, while tfwiki says they're nylon, and he's wanting to know which is correct before buying the toy.
ScorponokIsHere
Then that is also wrong!
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Tfwiki does not say the joints are made out of rubbery plastic.
Also, I own Legacy Skullgrin and can confirm that they are not.
Gepard
I believe A.T. was talking about Skullgrin.
ScorponokIsHere
Wait, what issue are we talking about regarding Siege Apeface? Not all of Apeface's white is nylon. Some of it's regular ABS. His chest is painted, for one, and his white plastic has two distinct textures, depending on which kind of plastic it's made out of.
Regardless, Kingdom Megatron's joints are not soft plastic. They're nylon, because they have to be, but they're not soft. They can't be. He wouldn't work.
EDIT: Also, the Tfwiki entry doesn't say anything about his joints being rubbery? It says the outer skin parts are a rubbery PVC, because they are, but that's not anything structural.
ApocalypseThruster
TFWiki says the soft plastic used on his joints is nylon, similar to Siege Apeface’s white plastic, so jury’s still out. If anyone can confirm, please do.
Gumblor Gimbles
Morbius' rubber had issues though, so i can understand the fears.
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ScorponokIsHere
*2 years later, nobody's kingdom megatrons tore and everyone's just apocalyptically paranoid weirdos*
Robomaster726
Same. Mine arrived from Pulse, beating out Inferno and SS Hot Rod who shipped two days before him and still have yet to arrive.
Anyhow, yes. An alt head would have been greatly appreciated. Or at least something resembling a jaw on the provided head. Didn’t have to open, but molded. Looks a bit awkward to me. The sword blasters he has, the plastic really isn’t as soft as I was expecting. It’s flexible but still rather solid
Gumblor Gimbles
I remember a lot of complaints, to the extent that I skipped him because everyone told me his soft plastic felt like it would tear. I'd be happy to post screenshots when I find the posts
CG76
I just got it, and it’s not too bad. But I wished they could have given us an alternate head.
danidogma
SMOG
Yeah, I really liked that approach a lot more. I found it grounded the stories more. It was still scifi-fantasy, but still with at least one foot in semi-realism. That's the version of the fiction that captured my imagination back then, not the cartoon version… which I always saw as fun, but more lightweight.
There are a lot of different fictions by now, but even in the days of G1, there was never just one version of the fiction. Between the cartoon, the comics, and the Tech Specs bios, a kid would end up with 3 different takes on the same characters and setting (and also the Marvel UK, which was a different branch than the Marvel US comics, though they shared some stories). And of course, the Tech Specs were written by the original writer of the Marvel comics series, so there aren't as many differences there.
It's also funny to think that a lot of the tropes from the Transformers cartoon that we recognize today were probably the result of animation shortcuts and Saturday morning plotting. Like the Decepticons being able to fly in robot mode, which was just a storytelling gimmick so the Cons could quickly escape at the end of every episode after losing the battle. Again, in the comics, most Transformers couldn't fly unless they had an aerial vehicle mode.
Of course, the cartoon is the best known version now, mostly because it didn't require kids to spend any money, and remained easily accessible.
And technology was different in the 80s too. There was a global oil crisis (gee wonder what that was like, lol) so fossil fuels and the struggle for resources was very much on people's minds. It's no wonder the original Transformers focused more on the mechanical, fuel-burning side. Computers were also much less advanced and not ubiquitous. Nobody was really thinking about nanomachines and the kind of emerging technologies we are seeing now.
Still, mass-shifting was probably the goofiest part of those old comics. At least until the time Optimus Prime's mind got saved on a floppy disk. That was pretty dumb
zmog
Raiyuki
Honestly did not know that; cool to learn something new. Shame most series didn't keep that extensive rebuilding since then
TF Hot Rod
The skin is but most of the hinges I don't think are soft plastic.