Hidden Transformation points

[brr-icy]

i was tfing my animated shockwave when i found that there is a joint in the middle of his abdomen that folds the bottom forward from this:


to this:


anyone else ever noticed this or anything else on other figures?

[slippy]

Animated Starscream has those little things that pop up on his forearms.

[UltraPrimal]

@brr-icy,

Yeah, you're actually suppose to do that as part of the transformation from Longarm to Shockwave, but it's not mentioned in the instructions.

[brr-icy]

Originally Posted by UltraPrimal

@brr-icy,

Yeah, you're actually suppose to do that as part of the transformation from Longarm to Shockwave, but it's not mentioned in the instructions.

yeah i thought that, i was just extending the legs for shockwave and it clicked down, i was kinda surprised

barricade has those extra feet flaps as well

[Pulverise2]

always loved the purple Animated shockwave....

[brr-icy]

Originally Posted by Pulverise2

always loved the purple Animated shockwave....

got both, purple for shockwave and grey for longarm prime, anyone else find any other hidden features on other molds?

[UltraPrimal]

The extending bits on TM Cheetors thrusters. Hmm, almost an innuendo there, "extending thrusters".

There's also another TF I see people review all the time and they always manage to mistransform it. Just can't remember which one it is. Damn, that's gonna bug me all day.

[Uberman]

I was mucking around with Blazemaster last night, and he has a crap load of pin joints in his central body that, honestly, I can't tell what they're for. There's just a whole bunch of them. It also looks like his shoulders are supposed to clip around his backpack strut, which holds him together really nicely, but the instructions don't really clearly show that.

Actually, come to think of it, I think Blazemaster has some of the worst instructions I've seen in a long time. [Although reverse-transforming Animated Shockwave was very difficult the first time... his instructions and how he was packaged don't match, and that's the first time I've ever had to do that. What a bother.]

[Pascal]

Originally Posted by UltraPrimal

The extending bits on TM Cheetors thrusters. Hmm, almost an innuendo there, "extending thrusters".

Really?? I've had that figure twice and never noticed.

Tons of steps/features are left out from instructions on modern Transformers. Hasbro said in the last Q&A that they want to give the fans little surprises here and there but that's BS to me.

[JLvatron]

Originally Posted by Pascal

Tons of steps/features are left out from instructions on modern Transformers. Hasbro said in the last Q&A that they want to give the fans little surprises here and there but that's BS to me.

Haha, bad try Hasbro.
Who do they think they're foolin? It's poor quality control, that's what.

It happened with G1 as well, but it's even more now.