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Been collecting the rockbots, pretty satisfied with them all.
Nucleus and Magneous are really similar but I feel like there's just enough difference to make them still interesting - their vehicle modes look different enough to make them cool. I think I prefer Nucleus just because I like the white/gold space suit/vehicle color scheme, combined with the retro rocket booster things on the back.
Bouldercrash is, unfortunately, probably the weakest of them. Serviceable trike, but having that stiff spine/tail hanging down is a weird choice and the fact that it's just this ramrod straight bar hanging down from his back is pretty limiting for such a small bot. Why doesn't it have some kind of hinge or something? Idk.
Shard, meanwhile, is quite possibly my favorite of the bunch. The tail on Shard can bend backward a bit more to make it more like a proper tail - it's still a little limiting but not so much that I care. I think this might legitimately be one of my favorite helicopter bots, too. The blades are short and dense enough they don't seem likely to suffer that dreaded bend they so often have to deal with, they spin very smoothly, and the whole thing just has a really pleasing shape to me.
I'll admit they're not for anyone who's got some symmetry-based OCD, but personally I'm pretty happy with these guys.
