Crosscheck wrote:Looks good, I am glad I waited for him. I hope they do all three Autobot Brothers. I don't think we have had any molds that would make a great basis of either X-Brawn or Prowl though.
Emerje wrote:One of the worst kept secrets in the Legacy line has finally been revealed thanks to users ZetcaReturns and ZipperMan29x over on TFW2005. Even without leaked listings showing this figure was coming in wave 3 it was obvious to anyone that took a quick glance at Legacy Evolution Shadow Striker that she was a pre-tool of Robots in Disguise Universe Sideburn. Unfortunately, unlike the recent trend of making shared tools of two different characters within the same line stand out by changing things up a bit, the only tooling difference between Sideburn and Shadow Striker is the heads. If you were hoping for at least a more realistic looking front end to the car that's unfortunately not happening.
Sideburn will be coming in the summer alongside Cybertron Hot Shot, Infernac Nucleus, a refresh of Strongarm, Cybertron Vector Prime and Armada Galvatron.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
The thing about this particular mold is that there was one thing more besides the head that was actually faithful to Cyberverse Shadow Striker: the altmode. This mold's altmode is pretty faithful to the shape and silhouette of Cyberverse Shadow Striker's pre-Frankensteined altmode, but with the addition of Side Burn's exposed engine and most of its angles smoothed out (but still visibly molded).First-Aid wrote:Emerje wrote:First-Aid wrote:Meh, not bad. but remember, this is not a direct interpretation of the character. This is a geewunned version of the character. WHile there isn't much of a difference, there are some subtleties the RiD1 series had that G1 didn't.
Maybe we will get lucky and this isn't a final product?
Wouldn't "Geewunifying" it mean a more realistic alt mode like we've seen in other reinterpretations of character, not whatever this is supposed to be?
At least two people have it in hand and we're about 3 months from release, this is the final figure.
I do like the head, it's a bit mature, but more importantly I like the effort with the four paint hits and clear yellow. He definitely stands out in bot mode. Though it's a little strange that he's going to be in the same wave as another blue sports car with clear yellow parts.
Emerje
Geewunning is creating more of a blocky and wide/sturdy look vs the smooth lines of the Dodge Viper he was to start. Examples: Prime Arcee, Bulkhead, Knockout, Animated Prowl. All of them lost a lot of the smooth,sleek lines and definition that defined them in favor of very generic bot/alt modes. The blocky front here is definitely more G1 than anything...or Hasbro may simply be lazy.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Ironhidensh wrote:I wonder if the Dodge Viper license is prohibitively expensive, or they just didn't feel it was worth it?
Rtron wrote:The Car Robots brothers' designs weren't blocky at all, they were all rounded and sleek like the Beast bots. They were pretty much "Beast Wars but they turn into cars".
-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
First-Aid wrote:Geewunning is creating more of a blocky and wide/sturdy look vs the smooth lines of the Dodge Viper he was to start. Examples: Prime Arcee, Bulkhead, Knockout, Animated Prowl. All of them lost a lot of the smooth,sleek lines and definition that defined them in favor of very generic bot/alt modes. The blocky front here is definitely more G1 than anything...or Hasbro may simply be lazy.
It's a reference to IDW Mesothulas/Tarantulas, it's the name of his beast mode upgrade tech: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/ChimeraconSabrblade wrote:According to JTPrime, this Tarantulas was originally going to be in the main Legacy Evolution line before Hasbro decided to just go with a straight rerelease of the normal Legacy Tarantulas, and it would have been a new character named Chimeracon.
Not entirely sure how that name fits since spiders aren't chimeras, but whatever.
Not unless one of the 13 is a secret X-Brawn pretool, no. Only time X-Brawn has come up recently was in speculation about that weird "ROBO WLD RDR" listing we had for a while that seems to have disappeared.D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I think X-Brawn is rumored for next year?
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I don't think this looks too bad
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Echoing what has already been said, that is a very nice head sculpt. Hoping some renewed interest in Car Robots will lead to a certain Predacon Multiformer getting a Commander/Leader Class update?
And, well, the original is pretty readily obtainable on the secondary market for not-terrible prices.Rtron wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Echoing what has already been said, that is a very nice head sculpt. Hoping some renewed interest in Car Robots will lead to a certain Predacon Multiformer getting a Commander/Leader Class update?
If they did him, he'd have to be a commander. However, is there anything to update there, though? Like, I can only think about giving him ankle tilts and a waist swivel, at most. Dude is pretty much perfect as he is.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Rtron wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Echoing what has already been said, that is a very nice head sculpt. Hoping some renewed interest in Car Robots will lead to a certain Predacon Multiformer getting a Commander/Leader Class update?
If they did him, he'd have to be a commander. However, is there anything to update there, though? Like, I can only think about giving him ankle tilts and a waist swivel, at most. Dude is pretty much perfect as he is.
Sabrblade wrote:And, well, the original is pretty readily obtainable on the secondary market for not-terrible prices.
Yep I found them last night! Along with SS86 Blaster. No luck on Wheeljack.TF-fan kev777 wrote:Found Legacy United wave 2 voyagers at Target today.
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