@@mrzirak792 actually that was only an addition for the recent remakes of battletrap and whatshisface. in g1 it was just two veachles that become one robot
Gotta say this is one of your best creations. There's an almost chibi quality to the vehicles where the forms are simplified without sacrificing the defining characteristics. With the car composing the bulk of the robot body, I wasn't sure how the jet wouldn't just end up as kibble but the way you did it is perfect, having the jet fold over the torso like an apron. And with fewer stud-based hinges this robot looks much less fragile than some of your earlier models. Great work!
Man, I have wanted a more simplistic design for both Shatter and Dropkick since the movie came out. Who knew just what I was looking for would be made of LEGO. I am thoroughly impressed.
I'm surprised you didn't mention how the wings of her jet mode are different between her movie model and the G1 Duocon design. Here, they're mounted flat against her back like a Seeker, making her silhouette appear larger, while on the original movie design, they're mounted perpendicular to the engine intakes, draping over her shoulders like a cape. That's one big difference I noticed in the design compared to the original, not the harrier jet cockpit on her chest, which I just assumed was an unavoidable byproduct of the Duocon design process.
Once again, absolutely amazing. I was hoping that since she was a Plymouth GTX, there’d be some genius way to get the sunglasses shape in the bumper, but at this scale that’s kind of asking too much. Looking at Shatter, I’m not sure if I prefer the blower in the middle of her chest or the cockpit. Movie Shatter actually used the underside of the plane for her midsection, so maybe that would have been cool to see in a G1 Duocon, like the car forms a big hole in the middle and jamming the jet through it would make it transform instead of just slamming the vehicles on top of each other. The two look great together, and I’m really happy how these two have been received in the fandom. We need more muscle car transformers, dang it. Both are too cool to cross over as little as they do. We need more boats, too.
I know I say this a lot, but I think this one is your best yet. Seriously, your builds have only ever improved, and these G1 characters especially have been great.
i'm really surprised at how the jet flays apart into 3 segments, and also the way you handled the duocon element on dropkick and shatter, as i was expecting something like siege flywheels.
Hasbro should've done this for Studio Series. Instead of giving a deluxe for each vehicle and having two figures that were fairly inaccurate because each figure was missing the kibble of the other vehicle or relying too heavily on the figure's alt mode's parts, they could've gone the duocon route and sold both vehicles in a pack that would combine to make a more accurate robot mode.
It never ceases to amaze me how you can engineer Masterpiece- or even 3rd-Party-level complexity into such a small scale and still maintain structural integrity, AND grant them almost full action figure posability on top of it. Dropkick and Shatter as Duocons somehow feels better than them being Triple-Changers, especially considering the drastic size difference of their Alt-Modes. You can suspend disbelief, somewhat, with Astrotrain, Blitzwing, Octane, Broadside, and even the jet/helicopter figure that wasn't imported for the franchise with how they're shaped and how one Alt-Mode folds or unfolds into the other with relative ease and somewhat similar shaping. You don't get that same strange congruity between muscle cars and a jet or helicopter any more than you did with Sandstorm's, Springer's, or Movie Drift's Alt-Modes. Yes, they LOOK cool, but they don't fit together as a singular entity. These are far superior to what our HasTak overlords have given us for these two so far.
I like the Duocon idea of it, but what would happen if it was a straight up triple changer, made in Lego? That would be most impressive. I do like the designs of both vehicles and the combined robot though.
That robot mode looks slick as hell. And don't ask me why, but the little antenna made me think a Lego headmaster was possible. Have you considered it?
These g1 designs are good but I really want some more movie stuff than the larger scale g1 stuff.it’s just my opinion you can do whatever y oh want but I prefer movie designs like the rest of the terror cons
Can you use Lego to build two robots that can transform into a police car and a fire truck respectively, and then combine them up and down to form one big robot?
@@studentscissors please make a future build tutorial video for how to build a brick built and articulated lego Big Fig version of my favorite heffallumps and woozles based character named Wooster The Giant Woozle from my favorite episode of The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh Season 1 Episode 7 titled The Great Honey Pot Robbery please
