Generations Black Shadow revealed!

Don't know much about the character but I'm sure I'll buy him.

I wanted to say something witty about this, but all I can come up with is "Effin Hellz Yeah" proceeded by a *happy dance*

Seibertron wrote:If they don't do Black Shadow, I wonder if they would use "Sky Shadow" instead since that's a name they've used a few times over the years.

While I see that as a not-surprisingly likely name for him, I really hope they go for Black Shadow.

WolfDawg wrote:I saw these pics a while ago. I was under the assumption that it'd be repainted into Energon Galvatron/Megatron. I've never heard of Black Shadow, but I'm all for this repaint!

I think that would be a great repaint opportunity as well for later down the road, maybe in Classics 4.0.

Seeing the pics of Black Shadow kinda make me wish the small drone was longer. I wonder if Black Shadow was an homage to that black Diaclone combiner X-7.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Caelus wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Are these the only two? Can anyone think of any other Japanese exclusive character that got its first appearance in the US/Hasbro line as an homage?

Welllll...

This might be a stretch, but Armada Optimus Prime, Minicon Sparkplug, Overload, and Jetfire are practically Generations toys of Star Convoy, Micromaster Hotrod, Grandus, and Sky Garry.

And of course, the US received a black redeco of Energon Scorponok that was an unambiguous homage to a Japan-only retool of G1 Scorponok.

What about commemorative series Ricochet?

Does Ricochet really qualify as an homage to Stepper, though? Or is he an almost straight up re-release. If he's an homage I'd think we'd have to call all of the first run of G1 homages to Japanese exclusive Diaclone, Microman, etc. toys.

the ricochet/stepper discussion blows my suggestion of PVC Arcee out of the water, although the first official Hasbro toy of the G1 character was taken from a Japanese line.
I think there could be a few others from that line too, but I can't remember if they brought all the characters across or just the ones from the American series. Also, I might be missing the specific point of the question.

Re: the matter at hand, that being the repainting of Thunderwing...remember, even though you can see the remoulded head, that's not a definite indication that it will be a Black Shadow repaint. There's always the possibility that this new head will adorn some green, gold, blue, purple and neon orange monstrosity. Which I actually typed out thinking about the "Rave Skeletor" repaint from the 2000's MOTU line, but looking back, those colours could make Banzaitron too, or even some kind of Energon Megatron/Galvatron inspired repaint.

I know and you know that it should be Black Shadow, but until we see pics or at least official documentation (or computer sales entries or what have you) there's still the possibility that it could be a completely made up colour-scheme.

Seibertron wrote:If they don't do Black Shadow, I wonder if they would use "Sky Shadow" instead since that's a name they've used a few times over the years.

I was thinking the same thing. I would have thought we'd have heard about a trademark application for something like "Black Shadow". Sky Shadow seems pretty logical and acceptable to me.

I honestly pegged Blue Bacchus as the repaint for Thunderwing but I guess calling out Black Shadow as a Phase Sixer kinda locked him into the spot.

Can't wait to see what Botcon does with him! (I'm hoping for a Needlenose remould. Jet & Guns work perfectly.)

Looking really nice. I can't wait to see how the colours on this guy look.