Talk:Marco
Tri-Rex
[edit]browsing these, i see every mention of the tri-rex toy's components read "... The toy has neither a human mode nor a complete animal mode..." the problem is, each entry has an image of the component, clearly in human mode. perhaps i am misunderstanding, due to lack of familiarity with animorphs fiction, but it seems me "transitional mode" does not really fit, given the supposed lack of a human mode. (also, said "transitional mode" looks no less human than the "human mode" of other toys of the components).
as i am assuming that the "transitional mode" statement is backed by fiction of some kind, what would be the best way to handle this confusion? a blurb in the notes section? rewording the toy entry? something else i am failing to think of? RAKninja 12:42, 28 October 2012 (EDT)
- Humans don't generally have giant, beefy dinosaur arms.--RosicrucianTalk 16:56, 28 October 2012 (EDT)
- Humans don't generally have paws for feet, chunks of tiger hanging from their shoulders, bird feet dangling from their arms or any of the other horrible things the other Animorphs figures have, either. Yet none of those are said not to be human. Is there anything on the packaging or instructions that specifically identifies these toys as transitional forms or are we just saying they are because they look that way? --Khajidha 20:18, 28 October 2012 (EDT)
- I don't know if the packaging or instructions say anything about it, but considering the head sculpts have distinctive reptillian features, that makes me want to say they were intended to be in transitional mode. --Detour 20:37, 28 October 2012 (EDT)
- Humans don't generally have paws for feet, chunks of tiger hanging from their shoulders, bird feet dangling from their arms or any of the other horrible things the other Animorphs figures have, either. Yet none of those are said not to be human. Is there anything on the packaging or instructions that specifically identifies these toys as transitional forms or are we just saying they are because they look that way? --Khajidha 20:18, 28 October 2012 (EDT)
- As the person who wrote the descriptions in the first place: As Detour says, the head sculpts are distinctly not human. That's not all, either--look at Marco and Cassie's legs, for instance, which are scaly and end in dinosaur feet for absolutely no transformation-related reason. (Contrast with deluxe Tobias, who has perfectly reasonable human legs.) These modes were not the work of somebody trying to make something that looked like a human. (Even TFU.info can only bring themselves to call it "alien mode.") --Andrusi 12:32, 30 October 2012 (EDT)
- Thanks for clearing that up. all i had to go by was the rather unconvincing "human" forms of other toys in the articles, such as the beetle toy on this very page. RAKninja 20:37, 31 October 2012 (EDT)