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News Credits: 767 · Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:48 pm

Somehow, she looks even more masculin than Starscream ... 8-}

Yea, that photoshoped head would be much better, but it would also need a new chestpiece to look more boobish, SS is just to flat.
It's kinda sad, but also hilarious how most heads by them look horrible, especially this, Counterpunch and Nightbeat.

Fri Jul 05, 2013 6:44 pm

I'll save my criticism on the head sculpt for when I get it in hand. Pictures don't do all figures justice. It may not be as bad as it looks. But even if it looks the same, I still think she looks pretty good.

Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:00 pm

ILL-Star wrote:I'll save my criticism on the head sculpt for when I get it in hand. Pictures don't do all figures justice. It may not be as bad as it looks. But even if it looks the same, I still think she looks pretty good.

OOHH my poor friend in denial.
j/k

You are very right about pictures not doing figures justice though. Best of luck with your buyer's satisfaction.

News Credits: 36 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 5:37 am

Well I've already got 5 versions of this mould, I might as well make it 6!

I would love for a 3rd party to redo the head-sculpt, here's hoping

News Credits: 11 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:46 am

That's one sexy toy!

News Credits: 5749 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 11:46 am

Also from the HK-TF forum was have some additional in-hand images of the TFSS figure Slipstream, a retool/redeco of Transformers Prime First Edition Starscream. The figure should ship out from TFCC at some point between now and the end of the year. For now enjoy the images mirrored below.

News Credits: 7 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:32 pm

I see what they're trying to do, but this mold just strikes me as still being too masculine for a Slipstream.

Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:50 pm

They had the perfect mold.
They had the perfect deco.

And then someone passed that head sculpt. WHO thought that was a good idea!

Also, it just occured to me that Slipstream has DUCK LIPS. WHY? :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 25 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:58 pm

RAcast wrote:Also, it just occured to me that Slipstream has DUCK LIPS. WHY?

You ever see the Dolan meme? That's what her her head sculpt looks like to me.

News Credits: 1235 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:00 pm

Is she sniffing his nipple?

Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:04 pm

LOST Cybertronian wrote:Is she sniffing his nipple?

That would be silly, [Prime] Starscreams don't have noses.

News Credits: 251 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:08 pm

RAcast wrote:
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Is she sniffing his nipple?

That would be silly, the majority of Prime characters don't have noses.

Fixed.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:24 pm

IMHO I don't think this head sculpt is all that bad really but to each their own. If the people at Dr.Wu are seeing all this maybe they'll deliver us a more accurate Slipstream head sculpt. After all they did one for Optimus. :VEHI:

Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:52 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
RAcast wrote:
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Is she sniffing his nipple?

That would be silly, the majority of Prime characters don't have noses.

Fixed.

Urrmm yeah they do. The noise is the bump-thing in the middle of their face coming out of their helmets, so this thing.

News Credits: 25 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:01 pm

Yweggo wrote:
Urrmm yeah they do. The noise is the bump-thing in the middle of their face coming out of their helmets, so this thing.

here let me lay down this beat, see if you pick it up. While it's debatable as to whether or not TFP character models have noses, a majority of them don't. (the majority of autobots come to mind). Those that have "noses" are dubious at best because they can look like part of the brow, or are barely noticeable. Slipstream is one of the latter, her "nose" look more like it's part of the bridge and mostly her brow.

News Credits: 462 · Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:55 pm

El Duque wrote:

"May I have this dance?"

Sun Jul 07, 2013 11:54 pm

These pics are better than the ones from the other day. Her face actually looks quite a bit like Arcee's I think. And I believe Arcee has even made that duck lip expression from time to time. Definitely fits in with the Prime line very well.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jul 08, 2013 12:04 am

Eh this is a very easy pass for me. That face......... That face.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jul 08, 2013 1:11 am

Best figure for this mold. EVER! This mold(and it's voyager counterpart) has always been fembot material, so Slipstream is the perfect character for it.

njb902 wrote:Eh this is a very easy pass for me. That face......... That face.

Nothing wrong w/ her face as far as I can tell.

BTW, no, she has no nose and she does NOT have duck lips, RAcast.

Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:00 am

Manterax Prime wrote:Best figure for this mold. EVER! This mold(and it's voyager counterpart) has always been fembot material, so Slipstream is the perfect character for it.

njb902 wrote:Eh this is a very easy pass for me. That face......... That face.

Nothing wrong w/ her face as far as I can tell.

BTW, no, she has no nose and she does NOT have duck lips, RAcast.

It's deceptively less bad from angled shots (which most of these are), but find a shot of the face straight-on. It's horrifyingly bad with her mouth-half-open-duck-lips. I honestly don't know why they didn't just go with a regular smirk, as it would have look so much better.

[Third picture on the first page is a straight-on picture]

News Credits: 12 · Mon Jul 08, 2013 4:10 pm

I like her, but I wish they had used the Voyager mold. With the exception of Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia (and the repaint into Arcee) I can't think of a single female Transformer bigger than a Deluxe.

Ah well, kitbash time I supposed!