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[The Nemesis]

That's a solid looking Grimlock. I have a love/hate relationship with the PoP one. I like his upper body with the massive shoulders looking fittingly hulk-ish for a bot of his characterization and style, but I don't like his lower leg/feet design, the limitations imposed by him having to be the combiner torso, and the proportions of his dinosaur mode. Also Volcanicus is a huge disappointment, unfortunately as were most of the PoP combiners. I'll probably end up picking this one up if/when I see it. Wheelie I'm ambivalent on as I never liked the character and Headmasters only made that problem worse. but otherwise sure, why not.


Kind of a shame they didn't include a Daniel figure with SS86 Hot Rod. Actually it would be fun to have a whole set of the Autobots' Sunbow companions included in SS86 lines packed in with appropriate Cybertronians. Spike with Bumblebee, maybe Sparkplug with Ratchet/Wheeljack, Carly with Ironhide, Chip with Perceptor? And if they wanted to go whole-hog, S3 Spike with Rodimus Prime and S3 Carly with... I dunno... some other post-movie bot (I can't think of anyone who starred in an episode in which she was significant other than Grimlock in Madman's Paradise, but we've already got Grimlock)



Not sure I see a need for the rest of the Dinobots to be released though. Unless there's something obviously in need of fixing from their PoP designs, the last versions do a solid job of being reminiscent of their OG figures and none of them really suffer for the inclusion of the combiner gimmickry.



Now if only they would go back to packing each one with a gun and a sword instead of either/or (or none in the case of PoP Grimlock)