Simple repackage with a new head: Undercover or Nightops Side Burn.
Looks fine to me.
I don't care much about her but it looks like a combo of the two Shadow Strikers in a way that clearly invokes both. Car is a made-up mobile but seems a perfectly reasonable one. Looks worlds better than Legacy Hot Shots car mode imo.
I'm psyched that we're likely getting a Sideburn/Speedbreaker. While the car isn't quite as sleek as I'd like ideally for him just getting a him is awesome.
-ZacWilliam, really struggling to see why anyone has any issues with this.
I don't care much about her but it looks like a combo of the two Shadow Strikers in a way that clearly invokes both. Car is a made-up mobile but seems a perfectly reasonable one. Looks worlds better than Legacy Hot Shots car mode imo.
I'm psyched that we're likely getting a Sideburn/Speedbreaker. While the car isn't quite as sleek as I'd like ideally for him just getting a him is awesome.
-ZacWilliam, really struggling to see why anyone has any issues with this.
She's not? I mean those pics look pretty purple to me.
-ZacWilliam, a blue-ish purple but solidly purple, not even in the same family as Side Burn to my eye.
She looks pretty damn purple to me and I'm struggling to see a real major difference between her colors on this toy vs her Cyberverse toys/character model.
It looks fine to me, but take that for what it's worth.
What is this selects-ass toy doing in the mainline? This is just a Side-Burn toy with a Shadow Strike head and color scheme. It's incredibly disappointing. Just like Prime Bulkhead, you take the head and color scheme away and you'd have zero idea this was Shadow Striker. What the hell is even the point?
Just do Side-Burn and put this figure in selects as the inadequate "better than nothing" compromise that it is.
I'm pretty much hitching my future in the toy part of the fandom to whether or not Strongarm is as disappointing at this, now.
Just do Side-Burn and put this figure in selects as the inadequate "better than nothing" compromise that it is.
I'm pretty much hitching my future in the toy part of the fandom to whether or not Strongarm is as disappointing at this, now.
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I think the mold is quirky. I like it. I don't hate the amalgamation of Shadow Striker designs, but considering the mold its using, Universe colors woulf have been cool.
I'd love to see it in actual Side Burn/Speedbreaker colors. I can't wait to see Prowl/Mach Alert and X-Brawn/Wildeider. I love those RID figures but they were always so fiddly, Side Burn in particular.
I'd love to see it in actual Side Burn/Speedbreaker colors. I can't wait to see Prowl/Mach Alert and X-Brawn/Wildeider. I love those RID figures but they were always so fiddly, Side Burn in particular.
Alternators Shockblast is definitely purple in every picture I've seen.
Yeah, but people going back and forth about his color way back then was A Thing.
Oof, that Shadow Striker is terrible. What the heck is that alt mode supposed to be.
At least she has clear windows, but it's clear that the cost cutting for Legacy deluxes has reached a point where you cannot successfully make a Transforming robot out of it.
At least she has clear windows, but it's clear that the cost cutting for Legacy deluxes has reached a point where you cannot successfully make a Transforming robot out of it.
I don't have much of an opinion on Shadow Striker here, but I will say that I loved when the Club used Hot Rod for a G1 Sideburn, and I was hoping we'd see an update of that concept. Still, can't be too mad at it potentially being truer to the original...
It's a perfectly reasonable made-up car. The kind we've got a million of since like 1986. Looks fine.
It's not as weird as Elita 1's (which is quirky and I honestly like it) nor as oddly proportioned as Legacy Hot Shots (which I'm not a huge fan of).
-ZacWilliam, it's just one standard unit of made up, maybe slightly sci-fi ish sports car.
It's not as weird as Elita 1's (which is quirky and I honestly like it) nor as oddly proportioned as Legacy Hot Shots (which I'm not a huge fan of).
-ZacWilliam, it's just one standard unit of made up, maybe slightly sci-fi ish sports car.
As someone with no memory of nor attachment to any previous Shadow Striker, I kind of like her. She's a good "generic evil Decepticon lady," which is all I really want.
Not a fan of Shadow Striker at all.
I still have my BotCon 2003 Shadow Striker, so I don't need this to get a version of the character. I'd be getting this because I think it is cool. I love the head sculpt, the chest is an excellent homage to RiD2001 Sideburn/Shadow Striker, and the vehicle mode, while not the greatest, is kind of a fun looking.
I can see why some don't like it, and I don't fault you all for that. I personally kind of like it.
I can see why some don't like it, and I don't fault you all for that. I personally kind of like it.
RID designs with modern Generations engineering. This will be great. The vehicles won't look as nice but the transformations should actually be fun this time.
Yeah, I don't have much of a connection to Shadow Striker, but it looks pretty alright to me. Vehicle mode looks futuristic and compact, doesn't appear to have any hands, feet or elbows sticking out of it; not too shabby. Of course, I am also among those who would welcome a RID '01 Speedbreaker from this mold, so I'm glad that the figure exists will exist?