RotF "Autobot Strike Mission" Box Set Revealed

Why did they have to ruin it with a battle damaged figure ??? couldn't they just put in the regular version of Sideways ???
sorry for the rant i just don't like battle damage, it seems pointless.

That seems very random. Sidewys was never baattle damaged, Longarm didn't xsist, what's the point of this?

Autobot Firestorm wrote:If Sideways was going to be accurately "battle damaged," shouldn't he be cut in half?

LOL They should have put an arcee in here instead Breakaway

They should have repainted these guys. This is just a lame repack of extra figures. I can't tell. Is that even the rarer brown variant of Breakaway? If it is, and this set cheap enough to offset the fact that I already have Longarm, I may still pick it up. But they really should put more effort into these exclusives.

Cool idea but i have them all already.

Jacob P. Galvatron wrote:

YRQRM0 wrote:That seems very random. Sidewys was never baattle damaged, Longarm didn't xsist, what's the point of this?

I believe Longarm was in the prequel novel, The Veiled Threat.

That is correct, he was, along with several other guys that were toy only (some renamed) from line one, and a few newer ones. I recall Knockdown, I'm still reading it. He is also, like several of the other non-movie Deluxes from TF1, semi-based on one of the 'drone' models from the video games.

Breakaway is used in the games. He's the flying and sniper type for the Autobots in the console ones.

Overall, I agree that these should of been repainted or something to make them more exclusive. About the only thing to gain here is the Longarm for people that missed the first one.

I could see this as being an 'off-camera' accompliment to the fight in the beginning of the movie, though. Sideways was running -away- from someone when he was spotted, and as the Constructicons exist reusing their body forms amongst members.

Longarm should be repainted into Hoist, Breakaway should be redecoed into Powerglide, or maybe an Arielbot. Rampage should be red, and Sideways should be made into Deadend. Then, this set would be nice.

I can't believe nobody's mentioned it, but they should've had Rampage red, like in the movie. With a repainted Longarm or a different figure, this might be worth it.