What's up, skinjobs?
So, Christ, another chapter of the Prime trilogy's closin' up already,
and once again I've done almost nothing about it.
So before Power of the Primes makes me eat my words about Combiners -
"I just don't feel like I need any more Combiners ever, ever ever, amen."
"How likely is it that we'll get like, a, um,
"Combiner Wars Hun-Grrr? Zero at this point, I would imagine."
- let's at least catch up a little bit with a tasty Titans Return sleeper hit!
Won't you shake it one time for Quake!
Now, this maroon marauder was one of two Decepticon repaints in Titans wave four,
reppin' Club Con against three original-mould Autobots!?
That's privilege in action!
But honestly, I was way more pumped for these two.
Unremarkable background bad guy flunkies are pretty much my aesthetic.
So call my name and Quake me up. Quake me up inside!
So Quake's a rather reserved recolour of the understatedly superb Hardhead figure
in a decidedly more dour palette of maroon, indigo, and grey -
with, like, Hardhead's implied SPDSTRINT flap basically pavemented over
and a couple of cheeky bicep Deceptizaps
and because it's a Titans Return figure, the Double Targetmaster thing's out the window.
Why though? We have the moulds!
But I just can't be mad though, when he's rockin' such a gorgeous head slab
with one of the crispest face sculpts of the whole thing!
Check out his granitey vanity, snuggled in there on the extremely square collarbone plateau with the
shoulder-mounted hearing loss cannon!
Kinda love how the torso slopes outward there - sucker looks jacked!
Now, at this point in the video, I'd normally talk about his body parts and what's cool and interesting about them,
but he's not makin' it easy.
Like, the legs definitely separate the ground from his butt,
and his arms are really really there,
but I think this might be as close as it's possible to get to, like, default Transformer?
I mean, the tank cockpit and the smidge of minor tread sculpting are the only clues that it even transforms!
He's just the best kind of basic!
Not like Combiner Wars basic, like some boilerplate robot dickhead
with a bunch of mode garbage hangin' out of his arse.
Like, he holds a very specific charm which somehow manages to meld his unmistakable badass G1 identity
with a compelling kind of ambiguity that plays perfectly into the whole Titan cross-play thing?
Take away the tank factor and suddenly he's just a kind of baselline body type,
like one of those Megatron: Origin worker/soldier Joe Sixpack nobodies in middle-ground mid-tone colours
with a standard issue Level 1 rifle? He's just - who is that?
Plus he absolutely rocks the arse out of every single Titanmaster head ever! He could be literally anybody!
So yes, Quake's robot mode is a damn fine robro, smouldering with subtle proletariat chic!
Let them eat Quake?
's all I got.
[HORRIBLE NOISE METAL]
Oh, I forgot to do his pants. Hup!
I just hurt my finger with my other finger.
All right! One cheeky flip-out fold-down and we're in cybertank town!
'Cos we're still copying from Hardhead's workbook, it's basically nothing like G1 Quake's
compact crushbox mode.
But it's still a tank, kind of!
And it's actually an extremely sound little flat boy. Like, it's super low and sleek and futurey,
and it looks slick AF with this deep burgundy carapace and transblucent cockpit!
#Claret and blue army!#
And check it out, for once he's not pullin' that weakbod impostor thing with like, four tiny lame-ass
roller wheels that don't work!
Instead he's just got the two tiny lame-ass wheels that don't work, and like, one slightly bigger
lame-ass roller thingy that barely works?
Twin-hinged tilt on the cannon, so you can properly open that bitch up
and also the head hole's still in play for Titany hijinks!
Suppose we should talk about Chasm there.
Hello, Chasm. Y'alright?
Safe.
So it's a bit of an odd one, but still a fairly fierce tank mode! But it can be so much more than that.
Just lose the cannon and, what is that?
Some kind of research crawler? Moon buggy? Just a car?
And, y'know, you can maybe stand him up on his treads like Animated Ratchet,
maybe jam a crane arm in there?
Maybe not THAT one, but y'know! You get it! there's potential.
So yeah, Titans Return Quake is a super solid Deluxe duderino
and a love letter to the joy of anonymity!
Like, he's kind of liberated the mould from being one very specific guy, to being a totally different very specific guy
and also nobody in particular?
How you doin' that?
But in any case, it's just really nice to have Quake on the scene! Like, he fits in with anybody,
you can finally reunite the FOC Escalation squad, [Wave complete!]
and, all told, he's just low-key one of the best Titan boys going!
So cheers for watching, drop us a like if you fancy it,
, and please,
Quake me up before you go-go.
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