TFCon Exclusive Night-bird First Look

Kinda plain, but so was Nightbird. If I had the money to spend, I'd get her. But, as it stands, even Arcee is a maybe.

Facts are facts..$150 for a deluxe figure is not happenening with me....

Is she unpainted? There's a lot of grey there.
If you're going to make a figure that's predominantly grey you need to paint ALL the little details, add in bits of silver, black and white on all the little moulded detail. Otherwise it just looks unfinished. Though I guess that'd up production costs, and this figure's already far too expensive for me.

Also, as a side note: can you bludgeon people with Sai? I thought bludgeoning was for big club type weapons?

$150 are too much.
I prefer to wait for the $49 regular NightBird figure, preordered more than two years ago (...). After all, NightBird was not a transformer, there is no reason to pay the difference for this senseless addition, also considering that I already get Arcee.

I think the mold looks better as Night-bird than it does Arcee, either way, both are a pass.

Well, I like this better than the Valkyrie and Medic...but not by much. Committed to this as well. Maybe I can use this head on Animated Arcee and use that body mold and this head...

Justicity wrote:Is she unpainted? There's a lot of grey there.
If you're going to make a figure that's predominantly grey you need to paint ALL the little details, add in bits of silver, black and white on all the little moulded detail. Otherwise it just looks unfinished. Though I guess that'd up production costs, and this figure's already far too expensive for me.

Also, as a side note: can you bludgeon people with Sai? I thought bludgeoning was for big club type weapons?

Sais are traditionally blunt, used primaraly for blocking bladed weapons. Since they can't slice or stab, bludgeon is the proper term for a sai strike.

That said, Night-Bird's appear to be stylized 'bladed' sais capable of slashing and stabbing

PS: seeing the figure, that paintjob makes her look like a female Megatron.

This is one of those figures that shouldnt even transform as her character was a robot created by humans with no transformation. Those Arcee fenders on her shoulders should have been eliminated with the car mode alltogether. I still hate the weapons being glued to her fists and now it appears they have permanantly attached a pair of sai to her wrists. I doubt they are removable because where would you put them with a gun and sword permanantly attached to her fists. But I could be wrong...

joevill wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:I think the problem is that she certainly doesn't look $150 great.

What would you pay for it?

$80. Tops. That's my price with full realization that it's a convention exclusive.

Having the TRNS versions 1 and 2 in hand as of today, there are serious problems with the mold. Rather, the production process is problematic. I should do something to complement what Pascal posted on these already.

Personally, I think you guys are being a little rough in your criticism of these figures. These are 3rd party products. FansProject has gone beyond the call of duty with the items they're producing, especially for the money and ingenuity. FansProject is NOT the norm. Their quality and designs almost rival Hasbro themselves. Impossible Toys has some great ideas but their quality is not the best. I think Arcee is actually a step in the right direction for them. It is a better quality product than most of the Quintessons and the Transformers Animated humans.

It is not on par with the level of quality we've come to expect from fan favorite FansProject. It is however, the first ever accessible G1 Arcee toy. Ever. For those of you that can't or don't appreciate this, it's something for which I've been waiting 25 years. I'll take it. My only hope is that this gets Hasbro off their butts to finally give us Arcee after all these years. TFA Arcee is not a substitute. Nor is Energon Arcee. I basically want the toy Impossible toys made but at the price and quality we know Hasbro will give us. and maybe a little bigger wouldn't hurt.

I'm currently knee deep in galleries for Munitioner, Explorer, TRNS-01, TRNS-02, and Warbot. I'm not a fan of 3rd party products yet I'm amazed at these products at the same time. Warbot has die-cast on him? Seriously? Wow. They're all fun guilty additions to my official Transformers collection.