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News Credits: 409 · Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:44 pm

I seem to be one of the few people that love this Whirl. I feel so un-hip. What were people hoping for a Whirl? Is there a picture?

Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:51 pm

Stormrider wrote:I seem to be one of the few people that love this Whirl. I feel so un-hip. What were people hoping for a Whirl? Is there a picture?

Don't feel un-hip; people were simply hoping for a figure reflecting his most recent and widely loved characterization from James Roberts' More Than Meets the Eye comic.

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News Credits: 462 · Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:53 pm

Stormrider wrote:I seem to be one of the few people that love this Whirl. I feel so un-hip. What were people hoping for a Whirl? Is there a picture?

IDW Whirl, I guess.

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Stormrider wrote:I seem to be one of the few people that love this Whirl. I feel so un-hip. What were people hoping for a Whirl? Is there a picture?

I'm with you man, I like this figure. I personally find IDW Whirl too stylized to really work in a toy form.

News Credits: 15 · Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:10 pm

Words cannot describe how awful this looks.

News Credits: 7 · Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:17 pm

The only problem I see with a truly MTMTE Whirl would be getting him to stay standing up, which could probably be accomplished with simply beefing his legs and/or feet up a little, or perhaps an option to split his feet into two toes each. I'd say "have kibble end up on his ankles for support, like Prime Starscream", but Whirl's design looks like it planned everything out perfectly transformation-wise; you can see how the back half of his alt mode is essentially just his legs folded up.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:24 pm

It's the one I wanted so I'm happy. I don't follow the IDW comics so I'm not all that crazy about the IDW version above. I do wish he had the original ski feet rather than the Bayverse movie feet and the backwards legs aren't even accurate to the original Dorvack Ovelon Gazette figure it came from. The "gerwalk" mode is also unique to this figure, them much have thought he needed be a triple changer to sell. I wonder if you can spin his legs around to make them bend properly?

Emerje

Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:52 pm

so whats the 3rd mode?

News Credits: 60 · Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:53 pm

Do my eyes deceive me? Clear backing decals ala Takatoku style? :DANCE:

News Credits: 7 · Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:53 pm

Emerje wrote:I wonder if you can spin his legs around to make them bend properly?

The legs can be configured into a "normal" position:

Pretty clever how they got both G1-toy-accurate and MTMTE-esque legs out of it.

Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:28 pm

You know, I was unsure about it before, pretty much not really interested. But looking at it with clear images and sort of posed decently, this is one wicked robot. It is very unlike many other transformers in how it looks, and it freaking SCREAMS robot - Everything from the monocle eye, to the clamp hands and digitigrade legs. He can swap his fists out for pure wrist weapons, and to add to the asymmetry he's got the single antena on his head. I am definitely %100 getting this figure. I don't even care that his shoulder joints are thin, they add to being the spindely sorta mech factory robot that he looks like to me. Absolutely wicked robot.

Stormrider wrote:I seem to be one of the few people that love this Whirl. I feel so un-hip.

Now you have company! :grin:

Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:33 pm

please stop with the stickers hasbro. please

Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:37 pm

griftimus prime wrote:please stop with the stickers hasbro. please

I do agree with this. God Metroplex was annoying to sticker. I hate stickers, esp since i'm probably OCD and need them to be PERFECTLY centered everywhere. Don't get me started on paired stickers for left and right sides of things. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 462 · Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:59 pm

Ultra Markus wrote:so whats the 3rd mode?

Gerwalk Mode

News Credits: 6 · Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:48 pm

I wonder... if the head is mounted in a particular way, you might be able to deploy it and the arms in gerwalk mode, and that'd start to look more like IDW Whirl than it already does...

Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:58 pm

Whirl just may become my favorite figure of the year. I know it's early to say, but I really dig this one.

Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:26 pm

Rated X wrote:Actually springer was just too big. I think scale was disregarded in springer because kids think big is cool. This new whirl figure figure seems a bit shorter and is more to my liking. It should go nicely with the upcoming fansproject Roadbuster.

Ignoring stupid scale debates, Springer is actually one of the more substantial Voyager figures we've had in a long time, and he still only barely lives up to snuff when I compare him to Voyagers from certain older lines, though Sandstorm I'd say is more closely on par due to extra plastic content.

With everything continuously getting smaller, combined with a greater love of MTMTE over strait up G1, I'm barely looking forward to this release at all. Until I know for sure he can reach up and punch himself in the face, this voyager sits tenuously on the back burner for me.

Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:13 am

This Whirl figure looks sooooo good its putting tears of joy in my eyes.

THIS IS EPIC :michaelbay:

THIS IS ALL-TIME ROBOT LOOKING OF ALL ALL TIME :michaelbay:

I'm not saying its the best but I'm LOVING THIS FIGURE

Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:24 am

O-M-G, omg, this Whirl looks even more robotic than animated voyager Shockwave and that's a very very good thing :michaelbay:

This is Bought On Sight.
Legendary patterned robot voice is for this one.

This Whirl Vs. Animated Voyager shockwave
:grin:

Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:09 am

He looks pretty great to me. I only question the stability of those feet. They look wobbly.

Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:10 pm

I'm blown away. I've resisted springer, grimlock and most of 2013 line - this I will hunt for and buy on site.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:18 pm

DarkEnergon wrote:I've resisted springer,

You're mad. :shock:

News Credits: 6 · Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:54 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
DarkEnergon wrote:I've resisted springer,
You're mad.

Indeed. I'd say that figure represents my ideal transformer. I guess if realism is important to you he comes up short, but otherwise he seems perfect.

News Credits: 15 · Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:37 pm

DarkEnergon wrote:I'm blown away. I've resisted springer, grimlock and most of 2013 line - this I will hunt for and buy on site.

Wait...

You've resisted Springer, Grimlock, and most of the 2013 line, yet you're blown away by this flimsy-looking, disproportionate piece of ****.

Are you cra--...I don't know how one could achieve this, honestly

Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:41 pm

Mkall wrote:I'm with you man, I like this figure. I personally find IDW Whirl too stylized to really work in a toy form.

Sabrblade wrote:IDW Whirl, I guess.

*fixed*

I'm not sure why he's been drawn like a TFA character for a while, probably to make him seem more emotive somehow. Either way, I feel the majority of the people commenting on his IDW design are being short-sighted.

Edit: *I wrote a thing here that didn't make any sense*

All my petty arguments aside. Am I disappointed? Yes. I would have preferred it if we'd gotten some sort update rather than just giving his G1 incarnation a few joints. It's not a horrible figure though and I will be picking it up, simply because I love Whirl. I'll just assume the designer was an old fan and had a nostalgia-gasm while throwing this thing together.

I'm more disappointed by the size, I was really hoping we'd see an upturn from small voyagers after the last wave came out, I guess not.