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Originally Posted by joelones
I know it's not the place here but I'm genuinely underwhelmed by Earthrise. Don't get me wrong, I think the engineering is much improved and designs are nice. But despite the price hikes, the toys still exhibit the same cheap feeling plastic and hollowness we're accustomed to seeing with most mainline TFs.
For example, look at Optimus, voyager scale at leader price...The cab is nice, in terms of engineering, arguably one of the best renditions of a mainline OP but the plastic is utterly terrible feeling and the trailer's ridiculously under-scaled and under-painted (and not to mention no roller).
Price is undoubtedly the biggest problem I have with these, and unfortunately that's the new norm going forward. OP is close to $80 after taxes and with lack of sales and shody distribution, we're essentially now forced to buy at regular price. I'm not sure how many of you justify that price and are Ok with dropping $80 on a mainline voyager figure. G1 nostalgia at insane price points I guess.
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You can also tell Hasbro has gone back to their old ways of budget oriented toy design. Look at Siege, if a figure's transformation is too simple, they would add more articulation and panels to cover hollow parts. Starscream is a perfect example. Its transformation is not as complicated as other voyagers, so they added panels to make sure it as zero hollow parts. They added shoulder forward swing, spring structure in the legs. Now looking at Earthrise, all figures I can see has lots of hollow parts except Leader OP. It is very clear to me they lowered their budget for Earthrise compared to Siege.
