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Originally Posted by Kimcheese
I picked up Firedrive but only because i saw that a godsend/God-hating Decepticon stole just the blast effects from the packaging. While I initially notified the guy working there out of concern, I asked if I could buy it discounted because they'd probably clearance/chuck it anyway, and managed to leave with an affordable targetmaster.
Thought I lucked out but with people like you I'm starting to wonder if I missed out on some neat blast effects...
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Well, the thing for me, is that I find these "Battle Masters" to be much too chuncky for the deluxes to hold without looking way out of proportion, and that they are absolutely identical aside the slim cosmetic details and colours (and shape of the gun section, with only two variants, single or dual cannons). At least lion and ptero are different but even those are getting recolours.
It's a transformation that's much too simple, the robot bending over and holding itself, their size could have made it possible for a much better robot, articulation, a bit more complex transformation to be better weapons... they are simply lazy engineering.
Sure, the G1 targetmasters weren't that great and very similar but still weren't identical.
If you like to pose your figure in a battle type scene, these blast effect are actually neat.
Someone needs to realize this and sell them as a pack.