The older Deluxe Ratchet (left) is one that I painted up to look prettier.
I can’t help myself around Ratchets, okay? I’m sorry! I wasn’t even gonna get this one, but after picking up Sentinel Prime, Graham and Avery and I went to another Target to find some Deluxes so he could get one of the Wreckers, and when the employee offered us Deluxes, I asked for a Ratchet. I knew there was a new Ratchet in there. One I didn’t have. One I didn’t need. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
I can’t even use this guy for anything. He’s too small to hang out with my other movie toys, and I even have another Deluxe Ratchet which I bought because I liked Ratchets which looks more accurate to his robot mode. The only way he’s not redundant is that he’s the right vehicle mode (rather than the previous Deluxe’s truncated vehicle mode) and he’s in the altered vehicle mode deco that Ratchet has in the third film. I am a fool.
More ambulances should have giant saws on them.
But now that we’ve got rationality out of the way, we can move to matters of the emotional level. See, this Ratchet is awesome. He’s not quite as movie accurate and he’s way too small, but he’s pretty fun to play with. He strikes a very good balance between complexity and accuracy, meaning his transformation is pretty damn straight-forward. Even so, there’s some interesting bits in there, like how his head, shoulders, and arms rotate around 180 degrees while his chest and the rest of him stay put. It’s just fun to do.
But most importantly, Ratchet’s weapon, while a completely ridiculous-looking oversized chunk of plastic, is well worth the $12 all by itself. The line-wide gimmick of the larger Dark of the Moon toys is “MechTech” weaponry, and Ratchet’s is his saw blade thingy. When you pull on the lever, the saw spins and flips out and spins and spins. It’s intoxicating. And I made a video of it for you so I can more adequately share it with you, for words are useless in this arena.
And bam, now you want DOTM Deluxe Ratchet.
Flarp it, I wasn’t going to buy any of your human dimension Transformers DOTM toys, and now you’re making me need one. NEEEEEED one. :<
Whoa. That IS pretty sweet!
As Lincoln Osiris said, “I’m like a little boy, playing with his dick when he’s nervous.”
http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9071
My Homebrew View on the Dark of the Moon confusion.
Not bad.
The poor Voyager repaint of Ratchet is still stuck with that lame basket/claw thingy.
http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9072#p15953
Meanwhile…
Looks even more addictive than BM Quickstrike’s switchblade
DAMN YOU WILLIS! I was confident in the fact that I’d save money on the DOTM line, and now you make me want A TOY I HAVE NO REASON TO OWN.
No actually, I already wanted this ratchet but not for the crappy weapon, I wanted this ratchet because I wanted the previous deluxe ratchet but absolutely none of the stores in my entire province got ANY toys from any of the waves that he was packed in, in either of the two colors he was released in. BTW I envy you for having the previous deluxe ratchet. Even if you do have too many ratchets, lol.
This Ratchet looks WAY better than HFTD dlx Ratchet, which kinda sucks. I had no intention of buying another movieverse Ratchet (I have too many). The vid changed my mind. It also might have sold me on the merits of mechtech.
So, as the world’s biggest Ratchet fan, I’m just curious if you ever saw the Ratchet story I wrote for the absurdly-collectible print anthology TRANSFORMERS LEGENDS ($35 and UP on Amazon for a fairly recent paperback? WTF? Actually, I know EXACTLY why it’s so rare. There’s a story, if anybody wants to hear it.) I was very pleased with it from a story standpoint, but I’ve never gotten much fan-feedback on it (probably because so few people ever got to read it). Sigh. This kind of crap is why I try not to do media-tie-in work any more. Tired of doing good work that gets jerked around for nothing to do with me at all.
I own that book and I’ve read it. (It’s on the shelf behind me, actually!) I don’t recall much about the story any more, since it was a long while ago. I don’t recall hating it, at any rate!
(The story has a TFWiki page, but, rightfully so, it’s not full of commentary or feedback: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Healers%2C_Fighters%2C_and_Transformers )
While I’m disappointed that we lose some size for Mech-Tech, I can’t believe how much I enjoy doing those little weapons. I want to post a video of me and roadbuster’s gun riding a tandem bike together!
I…I kinda do. And I don’t even collect toys.
You’ll go blind.