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News Credits: 21 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:05 am

looking forward to this figure JUST not this version once again is there any proof that the pictures we looking at are the prototype and not the finished product if he looks like this in the package hes nothing but a vampire wannabe.?

somebody should say something to habsro with all these crappy looking paint jobs that they do im for one am tired seeing hasbro doing crappy job at painting these figures when we know they can do better but they decide not to.

News Credits: 5 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:54 am

This clearly isn't the finished version. Best guess I've seen is that whoever stole the damn thing took some finished parts and some unfinished parts. And people say that these stolen items are good for Hasbro.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:02 am

Counterpunch wrote:
Geekee1 wrote:I want a red and white shattered glass repaint of this.

Not to be picky, but wasn't he red and orange ala Hot Rod?

Possibly, I haven't looked at the comic in awhile, but I remembered it as red and white. You may be correct though. Either way I want one.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:26 am

Sledge wrote:This clearly isn't the finished version. Best guess I've seen is that whoever stole the damn thing took some finished parts and some unfinished parts. And people say that these stolen items are good for Hasbro.

I have to agree. I'm doubtful that this is a production piece.

Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:27 am

I wonder if they can take the design for titanium Scourge and enlarge it into a classic version. Hmmmmmm.

In the Killing Jar, he was different shades of yellow with some green on him. I just looked at the transformers wiki to see.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:39 am

The legs still seem scrawny to me, but that's a minor complaint.

What I really want to know...

... Is Nightstick attached via a Minicon jack?

Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:41 am

Cyclonus looks irresistable.

I hope Nightstick can at least turn his head around the other way if that sunbathing position is the proper way to attach him to Cyclonus' jet mode.

Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:14 pm

Works better if that little dude can go under the jet.

There is this pivot thing on the foot of this little dude. I've ruled out wheels. I wonder what that is.

News Credits: 14 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:29 pm

Definitely not the final version. From the other pictures we had seen, Nightstck. (that's the little dude's name) had black legs and barrel.

And some of the tan plastic in Cyclonus looked silverish or even dark gray. Granted it could be Hasbro's photoshopping the images but still Nightstick needs to be black, not tan.

As for the pivots, they just look like his feet. since he turns into a gun, his legs are cylinders, so I guess they are there so he can stand.

I can see no other purpose for them.

Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:45 pm

Overcracker wrote:Definitely not the final version. From the other pictures we had seen, Nightstck. (that's the little dude's name) had black legs and barrel.

And some of the tan plastic in Cyclonus looked silverish or even dark gray. Granted it could be Hasbro's photoshopping the images but still Nightstick needs to be black, not tan.

As for the pivots, they just look like his feet. since he turns into a gun, his legs are cylinders, so I guess they are there so he can stand.

I can see no other purpose for them.

In both the plane mode, and the gun mode, and i presume in the robot mode as well, the foot pivot didn't move. No change in position. Yes, they're the foot. But why make a pivot for them that won't be used anyway?

News Credits: 1 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:57 pm

Will be picking up a few of these! Thanks for the pics. :APPLAUSE:

News Credits: 8 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:26 pm

Thats the best figure ive seen this year. cant wait to get him.

Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:55 pm

This looks to me like the paint job hasn't been finished yet.

I like the mold, although I'm likely going to wait and see what the Henkei version is like.

News Credits: 56 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:08 pm

This is going to be THE must have figure of the year, IMO.
Cannot wait!

Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:53 pm

That's not unpainted. That's how it's gonna look. Hasbro just spiced up the first photos to make everyone excited.

Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:38 pm

Cyclonus=Win

News Credits: 4 · Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:03 pm

Mirage22 wrote:That's not unpainted. That's how it's gonna look. Hasbro just spiced up the first photos to make everyone excited.

agreed.

They have Universe deluxe wave 4 up on Entertainment Earth now, and Cyclonus looks identical to the mismatched test-shot lookin' thing we see here.

Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:31 am

Remember the first Classics Starscream. His ad photo was painted beautifully. But the actual toy features unpainted face, and pretty much the rest of the silver/white parts.

Cyclonus could go the same way too.

News Credits: 409 · Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:57 am

I'll wait for the Henkei version if this is going to be the paint job.

Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:23 am

Fantastic mold, but I'm in agreement with most on the paint. I'll probalby end up picking it up out of impatience, but I'd like to see Henkei pics before I decide for definite.

Or maybe I'll get the US version, then the Henkei when it comes out and repaint the US ver. into Shattered Glass

News Credits: 7 · Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:06 am

I will wait and see what people have to say once he is released and I will also have bette idea of if he is worth getting when I see him in the store. But he looks like a great mold from pictures.