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News Credits: 337 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:14 pm

I am slightly disapointed in this. Atleast the paint job is ok IMHO.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:20 pm

It would have been great if the Wave Crusher was remolded into a weapon, but the color scheme is quite satisfactory, largely due to the use of transparent purple plastic.

News Credits: 17 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:36 pm

I dig it.

News Credits: 972 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:38 pm

Plastic looks cheap, if only because of the horrible choice of colour. The mauve/lavender purple doesnt help at all, although the design itself is not too shabby.
My least favourite of the Botcon molds we have seen, but I am happy to see that he does not have any of Thundercracker's blue paint on him anywhere.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:57 pm

Why not make a REAL cliffjumper instead?

News Credits: 34 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:57 pm

Yeah, I also figured it would be based on Bumblebee's classic mold... but I like it!

News Credits: 1 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:09 pm

Meh. The other Decepticons are going to pick on him.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:15 pm

Still psyched about this set! And there's a certain appeal to the smallest guy being in charge--maybe a Napoleon complex? Anyway, sort of neat to think of this guy hovering in the background while his seekers skirt past him and pelt Autobots with laser fire.

Still cool--still excited!

Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:23 pm

Can you believe me I was expecting this guy to be a Seeker? XD

News Credits: 1 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:23 pm

did this come as a suprise to anyone. Bumblebee was cool, Cliffjumper was meh, this one sucks. all purple would look cool but not lavender

News Credits: 3 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:24 pm

He would have been better with a weapon in my book, and a cool decepticon symbol. More sinister looking face also. Oh well, I'll eventually get him, and make a weapon for him.

News Credits: 3646 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:24 pm

Redimus wrote:
Ultra Prime wrote:
CyberTooth wrote:I would say a Jetfire repaint is likely. There's yet to be 20 buck [retail] figure in the lot.

Now then... which classics molds have they yet to reuse for the "must be there to spend too much money on" exclusives? I suppose they'll most likely be Autobots though to maybe balance things back out.

Grimlock, Mirage, Hotrod, Astrotrain & Megs have not gotten the repaint treatment yet (Assuming Dreadwing is the Jetfire mold). So the question is will any of those figures be the mystery figure(s)? Or will folks lucky enough to be able to go get treated to a real suprise and end up with Classics Sunstorm?

How would sunstorm be counted as a treat?
He's not even a real charecter.

He's not? He was the main villain in some of the Dreamworks comics. He has a slew of toys. And yes, he even has a brief cartoon appearance.

Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:48 pm

You know, I figured that this would happen. Not the Bumblebee repaint as we all saw that coming, but with the amount of people who got all bent out of shape about the Seekers, Dirge especially not getting remolded wings and how crappy that was, I just knew that the Bumblebee repaint was going to get everyones' love instantaneously.
I'm still going to order an away package, but this has got to be the worst figure I have ever seen. We have pages and pages of how much Dirge sucks because they didn't make 'prper' wings for him, and this load of junk doesn't have a remolded anything, and must be the cheapest look Exclusive figure I've ever seen. I mean, I try not to be as negative as many when repaints and stuff come out and I try to not be so dour about Hasbro and stuff, but considering that somebody found fault with the Botcon Thrust because he had the big Ramjet bombs instead of null rays, I find it hard to believe that this thing with its scribble-y 'paint' job is going to be so well recieved in light of so many people thinking that the Seekers stink for some reason.
Oh well, I like the rest of the set, but this figure blows. Still gonna try an' order me a set though

News Credits: 7 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:59 pm

I like him more than I thought that I would. He's not a character that I'm very interested in, but I thought he was going to just be plain white. He's not incredibly exciting, but not bad.

News Credits: 8 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:05 pm

A very nice job on this years only exclusive that doesn't have me seeing red!

Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:12 pm

it looks mexicanized

News Credits: 5 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:32 pm

CyberTooth wrote:I would say a Jetfire repaint is likely. There's yet to be 20 buck [retail] figure in the lot.

Now then... which classics molds have they yet to reuse for the "must be there to spend too much money on" exclusives? I suppose they'll most likely be Autobots though to maybe balance things back out.

Considering that comic cover we saw, I don't think we're going to see Classics repainted for the con-exclusive figures. Ultra Magnus (already released) was shown leading a squad of Cybertron-repaints: Springer from C.D.Hotshot, Huffer from Armorhide, and Elita-One from Thunderblast. C-Grimlock and some of the Classics-Minicons were also shown.

Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:42 pm

I'm shocked...no really, i am :roll:

i like it though.

Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:02 pm

This supposed to be the year of the seekers....it should've been sunstorm instead of the bumblebee mold. What a piece of crap.

Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:11 pm

God I hope we don't get another damn Sunstorm. Though I'm not a huge fan of the deco on this guy I like the mold and should be interesting to see how they characterize him in the comic. For me its really the characters that make the toys.

Which is why I hate Sunstorm. He's a overpowered character with very little depth to him. Though I do love orange on TFs so he always leaves me enjoying the look of his figures but still hating them.

Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:16 pm

Awesome

Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:17 pm

All this figure did was confirm that I did indeed just pay $400 CDN for 3 seekers. Regardless of what they do with the Dreadwind figure, he'll still just be a bigger space-filler than lil' Bugbite is since neither of those characters mean anything to G1 or the Classics as we know them.

It's a shame this wasn't an 'all or nothing' boxset. Having 3 characters that matter with 2 that mean exactly squat is what makes it a hard pill to swallow.

Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:03 pm

Even though the face doesn't seem like a Decepticon, I still really like it! I'm glad I'm getting this set! Can't to see the rest of the box set and the "extra" exclusives! Maybe we'll get a Megatron painted as Megaplex or something. If they decide to do Galvatron, I hope there's a new head sculpt at the least!

News Credits: 1 · Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:16 pm

meh. i think the only reason that people will buy the set is for the seekers.

Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:30 pm

cellshock wrote:All this figure did was confirm that I did indeed just pay $400 CDN for 3 seekers. Regardless of what they do with the Dreadwind figure, he'll still just be a bigger space-filler than lil' Bugbite is since neither of those characters mean anything to G1 or the Classics as we know them.

It's a shame this wasn't an 'all or nothing' boxset. Having 3 characters that matter with 2 that mean exactly squat is what makes it a hard pill to swallow.

Dreadwind is a G1 character though. He didn't appear in the G1 toonof course, but he was in the Marvel comics.

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