Unless the price is absolutely insane, I will own this. Glad I got the prototype color version originally.
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Unless the price is absolutely insane, I will own this. Glad I got the prototype color version originally.
lol them making the box styled after the US boxes for headmasters since arcee was only a headmaster in the US continuity is genuinely a nice touch
Well, SITE SPONSOR Big Bad Toy Store, has the regular Missing Link Arcee toys at $98. So if I were to guess, and this is just a guess, I would say that it will be in the range of $120 -$150.
And at very least with Takara doing the packaging it'll say transform instead of convert.
I like that Ironhide! Why couldn't the Bayverse look more like that? Look how cool that is next to the Bayverse figure! The head design is an order of magnitude better. The feet and shoulders are great too, as they look less like random bits of metal forming general shapes of feet and shoulders and more like actual feet and shoulders! The car bits look great in robot mode too.
I need to import this line.
I need to import this line.
Takara Tomy T-SPARK Steel Machine God Adamas Machina AM-T03 Star Saber
Pre-orders for all of the above (in this post), plus some others that I've previously shown are available at Ami Ami.
ML Arcee has a shade of pink that's closer to the cartoon and she's fully compatible with vintage G1 Headmaster toys.
Plus, it seems that ML Hubcap and Bugbite might be future releases.
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Man, those GLP-1's really did the job for Chromedome.
I wonder how tall Star Saber is? And do they have two chest modules and only one transforms?
I wonder how tall Star Saber is? And do they have two chest modules and only one transforms?
At the time, the designers wanted the 2007 movie Transformers to look truly alien and inhuman, far removed and different from everything that had come before (after all, this was still the era where Aaron Archer's mantra was along the lines of "Never look back, always look forward, keep reinventing the wheel, make everything new be different, etc." along with Steven Spielberg wanting them to be as alien as E.T. in an attempt to recapture the "magic" of E.T.).
Inhuman faces were the norm during the Beast Era, and we only complained a little bit.
Man that Vs image is sad.
It'll balance out pretty quickly if they ever figure out how to make a Seeker.
They kind of already did? RobotMasters' Seeker got eclipsed by the Classics Seeker, but it's essentially a G1 Seeker with articulation. A little refinement would pretty much get them there. Probably have to include the extra fists to give it the true G1 look, but otherwise it's pretty accurate to the original.
The problem is Prime set a standard of not relying on separate fists. If they're willing to Ironhide it then I guess anything is possible.
Note: they dragged out Nemesis Roller but don’t have Roller with the Autobots and it still looks horrible.
That's really the biggest issue with maintaining the G1 look of the Seeker; those fist boxes contribute a lot to the classic look, but they have to go somewhere in jet mode that I just don't think is feasible in the space available. The RM Seeker seems like the most elegant solution while still maintaining a mostly G1 look, but it won't look exactly like the G1 figure (granted, Ironhide and Ratchet break this trend, but they're so far the only ones to do so). On the other hand, those wizards at Takara may just figure out a way to make the fist boxes transform out and prove me wrong. Time will tell, it will be interesting to see how they choose to solve it.
With how retro-focused the line has become in recent years, I do kinda wonder what things would be like today had they continued along that line...
Sunstreaker came with optional big boxing glove mitts because the built in hands were so much smaller than the look he was known for, so that's also an option.