Out of curiousity

[droc123]

Does any know why exactly, Rolf & Earl were left out of the New Rock-afire? I've seen pics where the new stage shows them on the tv, but why didn't they work them into an animatronic?:-/

[Charon the Sabercat]

Rolfe and Earl were the expendable characters they switched out for the guest animatronics. Why bother building a mijjin for them when it'd be easier to just use the old bot on a TV screen?

Personally, I'm kinda glad they didn't make a Rolfe and Earl mijjin. They're scary-lookin' enough as is...

(... has anybody else noticed that you can abbreviate Rolfe and Earl and the Rockafire Explosion the same way? (RAE?)

[captslappy]

The biggest reason is the mijjin bots are all identical in movements. You can put the cosmetics of any of the 6 characters on another frame and they will still move the same. The original Rock-afire characters were each unique with a different number of movements. Earl would have required some modification and they were not uniform then.

[NickRyder]

Which is kinda cool in a way, you weren't limited in terms of characters and mechs. So really theoretically you could have nearly limitless numbers of new shows, new characters etc. But I do admit, those Mijjin's are a tad weird... but definately represented a leap forward in terms of what the bots could do.

I think had the 'NuRae' been allowed to develop and evolve, it could have been pretty neat. But what did hurt the NuRae was that really none of the characters PLAYED any instruments. They were less of a band and more a bunch of singers and dancers and characters. Now if they could have used a combination of NuRAE/ClassicRAE then maybe it could have been really neat. Characters that could really move and play instruments, had some more realistic movements, instead of very robotic movements...

What I would be interested in seeing is a comparison of the Mijjins to the SecondGen RAE bots and how much the two of them had in common.