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Fri May 30, 2014 10:57 pm

Nobody going to comment on the incorrect way his arm weapons are transformed?

News Credits: 101 · Sat May 31, 2014 2:25 am

wolverinetodd wrote:Nobody going to comment on the incorrect way his arm weapons are transformed?

Already done on page 3.

Torneira wrote:Deep sigh... I am guessing the person who put him in this pose, doesn't know a lot about Transformers. For starters his armcannons shouldn't be positioned like this. It looks dumb.

And his chest is falling halfway to the ground...

Sat May 31, 2014 9:33 am

Why would TRU release this after Acid Storm shelf warmed so badly? If TRU really wanted to make money they would have released Air Warrior. True Fans like me would be compelled to buy three.

News Credits: 251 · Sat May 31, 2014 10:42 am

1984forever wrote:Why would TRU release this after Acid Storm shelf warmed so badly?

Because Sunstorm is more widely regarded and more known than Acid Storm?

If TRU really wanted to make money they would have released Air Warrior.

Who?

True Fans like me would be compelled to buy three.

There is no such thing as a "true fan". Everyone's got their own thing.

News Credits: 101 · Sat May 31, 2014 11:25 am

Mindmaster wrote:
True Fans like me would be compelled to buy three.

There is no such thing as a "true fan". Everyone's got their own thing.

Right with you there, Mindmaster. "True fan" is an impossibility.
However, there's plenty of :SICK:

FANBOYS

to call themselves "true fan".

News Credits: 251 · Sat May 31, 2014 11:38 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
True Fans like me would be compelled to buy three.

There is no such thing as a "true fan". Everyone's got their own thing.

Right with you there, Mindmaster. "True fan" is an impossibility.
However, there's plenty of FANBOYS to call themselves "true fan".

Not to mention that if an individual was a "true fan", not one would indulge in third party products and fully support Hasbro, since they're the ones that came up with Transformers to begin with. And I'm fairly certain that, based on the adult part of the spectrum, we've all had that one third party product that we either really want or already have, and I'll be the first to say that I'm guilty of that.

With that being said, let's not stray from the topic at hand.

News Credits: 1235 · Sat May 31, 2014 12:09 pm

Siger wrote:
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Bring it on

... wut?

Sunstorm...bring it on?

Sat May 31, 2014 4:45 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
True Fans like me would be compelled to buy three.

There is no such thing as a "true fan". Everyone's got their own thing.

Right with you there, Mindmaster. "True fan" is an impossibility.
However, there's plenty of FANBOYS to call themselves "true fan".

It's kinda funny how 1984's definition of a TRUE FAN(TM) is an obsessive completionist.
On a more relevant note, I actually like this guy's deco. Animated homages (as rare as they are) are always welcome. Plus, it's the first second? time that Sunstorm has a deco that isn't just "Starscream, but yellower"

News Credits: 293 · Sat May 31, 2014 5:13 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
1984forever wrote:If TRU really wanted to make money they would have released Air Warrior.
Who?

the generic purple clone. and no i dont mean one of the many animation errors.

News Credits: 10 · Sat May 31, 2014 10:22 pm

If this is inexpensive, the only value in this release is customizing fodder. Also, who transformed it and thought the arm canons look like that?

News Credits: 5749 · Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:31 pm

The infamous Transformers Columbia Facebook page is at it again! This evening they bring us some new official promo images of the upcoming Hasbro Toys"R"Us Exclusive Masterpiece figures Sunstorm and Prowl. Check out the new images mirrored below:

News Credits: 461 · Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:35 pm

Brown head huh?

News Credits: 251 · Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:45 pm

Eh... No particularly digging the brown dome on Sunstorm. Nothing a lick of properly applied black paint won't fix. Besides that, I'm alright with him. Nice to see he's got some sort of flame pattern going on, so he's got that going for him.

Are there any notable differences we know of between Takara's Prowl and this Prowl? If there aren't, and the quality on this one is top notch, then I'll consider getting one myself.

Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:00 am

mooncake623 wrote:Brown head huh?

That's because he looks like s**t.

News Credits: 123 · Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:16 am

Granted, Takara's Sunstorm is far more cohesive than TRU's. But, for all the deco complaints I've seen, you have to give TRU Sunstorm this: the flames on his wings are awesome!

Also, I don't see any noticeable difference on Prowl, but I still suspect Takara's QC and overall quality to be better. That's not gonna stop me from picking up a TRU Prowl to display in vehicle mode, though.

:grin:

News Credits: 1 · Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:17 am

Teeth.

Teeeeth.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:22 am

Rated X wrote:
mooncake623 wrote:Brown head huh?

That's because he looks like s**t.

For once, I'm there with ya on this. This thing is hideous and another sign that the new design team needed to do more research.

Just what were they basing this ugly deco on, exactly? I know I've previously suspected either Animated Sunstorm or the G1 Sunstorm video game model from the ROTF video game, but neither of those looked quite like this. And that fire pattern on his wings, while true to the spirit of Sunstorm's appearance in the Dreamwave comics, is so tacky and makes him look less like he's on fire and more like he's just come off of the aircraft edition of Pimp My Ride. Even Hot Rod's/Rodimus' flames are subtle by comparison.

At least the Takara version has a deco that is recognizable, being based off of Sunstorm's brief cameo in the first episode of the Sunbow cartoon. If the new Hasbro team wanted a different yet also recognizable deco for this version, it would have been much nicer for them to have gone with the deco he had in his most famous fictional appearance: The Dreamwave G1 comics. I'm honestly surprised that that didn't come to their attention first when searching through the archives. But then again, they did find the RiD Jhiaxus toy before finding any of Jhiaxus's more famous comic book appearances (G2, IDW G1, or otherwise), so I guess it's just another one of those cases.

Yeah, it's probably too late to blame anyone on the design team for not being more informed at the time, as this deco was probably worked on and put together way back. But it's still a very ugly deco and a real disappointment to behold. :-(

Now, Prowl, on the other hand, is another story. Wonderful! Simply wonderful! He looks virtually identical to Takara's version, which is all one could have ever asked of Hasbro short of asking for an even more show-accurate deco (but this deco as it is is perfectly acceptable). Only question that remain is if whether or not he comes with any of the Amazon Japan toy-accurate shoulder cannons. They're not a must for me, since Prowl was cannon-less in the cartoon, but it is a curiosity to be inquired about.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:44 am

The kid playing with them makes me wince. Get your filthy mitts off my collectibles ya damned hooligan! though, prowl is supposed to be a fairly reasonable price right?

Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:55 am

Agreed - the brown "helmet" = why?

And yeah............teeeeth!

News Credits: 6 · Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:46 am

Maybe the color values on my monitor are different - Sunstorm doesn't seem to have a brown helmet, but rather a gold one. I like it. And the flames. I can't afford it, though, and only having one of the MP seekers (that I got for $25), I'm not inclined to push the financial envelope to get him. :-/

News Credits: 8 · Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:51 am

Never realized until now just how small prowl is, looks like a voyager

Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:53 am

I like how they show a kid playing with them, even though it's a expensive collectible that will probably fall apart in most kids' hands.

Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:33 am

Prowl looks like he's squatting in preparation to take a dump into that kids' fist. At least the photographers finally have the figures transformed correctly!

News Credits: 14 · Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:42 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Rated X wrote:
mooncake623 wrote:Brown head huh?
That's because he looks like s**t.
For once, I'm there with ya on this.

It clearly the lighting of the photo thats throwing a lot of folk off, that head is the same colour as the null rays and the lower leg sections which looks to be gold and not brown!
Id say the yellow will turn out darker also once in-hand.

I will be picking this fella up when he hits UK shores, though I will wait a little longer for the 1/3 off which happened last time I bought Acid Rain!

Perhaps the original idea of Masterpiece figures sticking to the G1 faithful colour template is being slightly relaxed on repaints which gives the company a more flexible approach to putting more of these out at a quicker pace and saves them a few quid so it can spent bringing us even more awesome Transformers! :???:

Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:54 am

mooncake623 wrote:Brown head huh?

Ugh! I so didn't notice the "golden brown" helmet/head thing because I was so distraught with the "more yellow than orange" color of the entire figure. Looks like I might need to find and buy the IGear's version afterall.