I want its babies!
wasn't too bothered by the grey proto pics, but damn does this thing shine up nice in colour!
Lightspeed is the worst of the bunch, but he's not terrible. Bot mode is actually pretty nice when posed and the vehicle's alright. I'm probably just down on him because he's all red, and he's a car. Fairly plain, but that's what he has to be.
Strafe is really nice in vehicle mode, a huge improvement over the G1 design actually, and I liked that a lot. Bot mode is a nice update too, and I love that he can use the guns or the wings as swords, or seemingly both together. Very cool.
Afterburner is presumably the chef of the group, going by his oven mitts, but other than that he's fantastic! Even the hands aren't too bad, just a bit unusual really. Both his modes look great (LIGHTCYCLE!) and he's got some brilliant weapon options. I like the shoulder missile pods, but reckon he'll probably be sporting the hammer if I get him.
Nosecone's lower legs don't wow me, but the rest of his body makes up for it. And the colours! Oh the colours! Really great bot mode, my favourite of the team in fact, and his alt mode is much nicer than I thought possible given what they had to work with. Wonder if the designer only had Nosecone as a kid and really loves him?
Scattershot is a serious badass in robot mode. The standard and powered-up vehicles are alright, but he does make a nice torso. The whole combined form looks awesome, actually. Wasn't sure about the bow weapon before, but I kinda love it now.
Going to have to see prices, but the somewhat "out there" designs of these guys have me really excited. I've no particular love for the source characters but these toy designs give me the same feeling as when I saw RID Magnus and Prime for the first time way back when.
assembling a Neo-G1/TF:TM cast. Please PM if you have (or know of) the following at a reasonable price: Classics or Henkei Astrotrain, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, or 3rd Party iGear Ratchet and Ironhide.
Also looking for Universe Repugnus and Overbite, Frostbite and Longhorn and any Webdiver toys.