10/15/2023 0 Comments Autobot ark background![]() ![]() Basically, you meet somewhere in the middle with option 1, you focus on several rooms that fold out rather than a massive room sized playset. Or, at the least, a reasonably priced Haslab ala Jabba's Palace. I've already explained how #3 can be done at Titan scale. If I'm the head of Hasbro's TF products team and I buy into the idea of doing a Generations playset, I'd say "why revisit the Ark rather than make a Titan Class Nemesis into a playset instead?" I'm not discrediting the Playset idea at all, but I sincerely consider getting Mainframe & The Last Autobot out of the Ark a pleasant surprise at its reveal announcement, so I supported with my wallet. Honestly, how many of us can imagine Hasbro would give us modernized, physical representations of Mainframe & The Last Autobot? Yes, not many asked for these 2 "obscure" characters, but they're not unwelcome right? That must've took some rare "Eureka!" moments and creative & engineering efforts from the design team, so credit where credit is due. Think of what would be a harder idea to come up with? Ark Playset or Kingdom Ark? We did get 4 instantly recognizable representation of the Ark, Mainframe, the Last Autobot and Teletraan-1 (Oh and one super-mini inedible gummy bear red OP, LOL!) in one tidy package. I know Kingdom Ark is not what many of us imagined/wished it should be, but let's not discount its worth. #2 Playskool is – if I have to bet – the option most in the realm of possibility, especially since Hasbro did give us this Kingdom Ark in the main Generations line. Mainly because I doubt the main "Generations" TF design team just don't have that "out of the box" creative/design freedom to get approval from the Hasbro Suits to do option #1, 3 or 4 WELL anymore. That's why I think this relatively affordable Titan sized G1 Kingdom:Ark is likely a once-in-a-decade thing. But this should be called an Autobot Base playset rather than an Ark playset though. This would look great and still be in scale with Core Class and doable at Titan Class price but likely there's near-zero gimmicks that increase the design & production cost for Hasbro. Similar to the SDCC '14 Dinobots set ( SDCC 2014 G1 Dinobots and Pop-Up Ark Gallery – Transformers News – TFW2005) but in plastic. Oh, and you need to set aside a small room to have the play space for it.įinally, another route to go is do a "Crashed Ark at St-Hilary" playset. This thing will be ginormous and even more expensive than Unicorn. ![]() I dub this the "Moonshot Ark": A HasLab project needed to surpass Unicorn in scope to get anywhere good and play-compatible to Core Class figures to be fun. #3: Hasbro go all-out bet the house and design a close-to-toon proportion Ark similar to the old Legacy Classic treatment for the Millennium Falcon ( Star Wars Legacy Collection Millennium Falcon – Raving Toy Maniac – The Latest News and Pictures from the World of Toys) that works in-scale with Core Class figures. This Playskool one is not what most of us would get to match our collection right? But for the kiddies, hell yeah! Second would be a Playskool-style, chibi-fied Ark (like this Millennium Falcon: Playskool Star Wars Millennium Falcon Playset | Gadgetsin) to be play-compatible with Rescue Bots or those blind-bag Turbo Changers. Likely not in-scale with anything as the Ark but in Teletraan-1 mode can work well with Core Class figures. That's a fairly simple thing to design, and could be doable in Commander/Titan class price point (depending on the size & gimmicks Hasbro's willing to make it). G1 Ark on the outside and turn into Teleraan-1 when the panels pop open. So how would a bona fide Ark playset look like? And play with what? I see 4 scenarios:įirst, design something like the '11 movie-based Cyberverse Ark ( Cyberverse Ark Picture Review – Transformers News – TFW2005) did. And without any playset-minded gimmicks like those awesome, awesome TMNT/MOTU/Batcave playsets built into it, it's really more like a diorama than a proper "playset". As in: this Ark can reasonably considered play-compatible with TR-era Headmasters and still borderline call it in-scale, (to be really in scale would be the included OP the size of a grain of rice & those that came w/ Unicorn and Reformatting Galvatron, but there's ZERO play value) but those TR headmasters got so little play value/articulation worth its (light)weight to be fun. Actually this Kingdom Ark is kind of an in-scale playset, just in a "bad" way. ![]()
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