>>8577826>What's everyone's favourite bad toy? Something objectively meh but still subjectively loved?I haven't posted about him in a long while so I had to take some new pics, but I think we'll all agree that '07 movie legends Starscream is some objectively utter shit. But I love him. I got this version in some TRU pack, the clear plastic and detailed paint are supposed to represent him reformatting into his Earth alt mode, I guess? The robot mode is garbage, the transformation is laughably incomplete, and the weird joints and sculpting on his arms and hands make him look like he's always singing an opera or doing "Italian hand talking", if you know what I mean. He can barely stand on his janky chicken legs, and he's got this weird hole in his jet mode in a half-hearted attempt to let his cockpit show through his torso and it doesn't work at all.
Conversely, the ostentatious "reformatting" paint job is actually exceedingly well done and looks really nice, which just makes it all the more hilarious that it's splattered onto this ugly pig of a toy. The ball joints on the wingtips and the arms just hiding beneath the tailfins are just perfect, and the fact that this thoroughly botched toy transforms into such a thoroughly botched plane as the F-35 is thematic icing on the cake.
I'll never get rid of this charming piece of shit.