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Well I was looking at the picture that was released a few days ago showing Elita-1 with the rest of Wave 2 including Tuner Skids, and when I look at Elita-1 she look like she had a different weapon arm than Chromia, I mean you can easily tell its not Chromia's weapon arm. So maybe this Elita-1 figure is just an early prototype. No matter what Ill pick up Elita-1 plus this Mudflap, because this is the fist year that I want to try to get every single new item that comes out.

amcgrath929 wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:Sooo, despite all the claims of racism, Skids and Mudflap are apparently selling well enough to merit more repaints.
All the mistransformations make it impossible to properly judge these figures yet, but I dislike how 'neon' Mudslinger is compared to his drones.

amcgrath929 wrote:I though Elita-1 was originally supposed to be all black?

Nope, the image we had before had hints of reddish/brown right where the final product has them.

I'm kinda surprised no one expected Elita-1 to be a repaint, actually, combiner or not.

Hmph, well if this the third and final sister they give us, I'll just use the Arcee from the 2007 movie line as my third sister.

If you use the 2007 Arcee, they won't combine. Part of the reason we all bought these figures was for the combination of the three. It just seems kinda pointless to have two pieces of the puzzle and not even try for the third.

And he's right. We knew this was a repaint for a good long while now.

StarscreamLeader815 wrote:Well I was looking at the picture that was released a few days ago showing Elita-1 with the rest of Wave 2 including Tuner Skids, and when I look at Elita-1 she look like she had a different weapon arm than Chromia, I mean you can easily tell its not Chromia's weapon arm. So maybe this Elita-1 figure is just an early prototype. No matter what Ill pick up Elita-1 plus this Mudflap, because this is the fist year that I want to try to get every single new item that comes out.

That's just your mind playing a trick on you. Seeing what you want to see, but the fact of the matter is, it's just a straight repaint, and what you see in these pictures here is what you're going to get. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

The combined form is Arcee, and two Chromia molds. One being the original blue Chromia, and now this pink, silver, and black Elita-1 repaint of the mold. Simple as that. No mold modifications, no new head, no new weapon.

Sucks, but it's true.

StarscreamLeader815 wrote:Well I was looking at the picture that was released a few days ago showing Elita-1 with the rest of Wave 2 including Tuner Skids, and when I look at Elita-1 she look like she had a different weapon arm than Chromia, I mean you can easily tell its not Chromia's weapon arm. So maybe this Elita-1 figure is just an early prototype. No matter what Ill pick up Elita-1 plus this Mudflap, because this is the fist year that I want to try to get every single new item that comes out.

Welcome to the site!

Unless you're making some pretty steady cash, my advise to you is don't collect everything just because it's a Transformer. It will only lead to regrets down the road.

Mkall wrote:

StarscreamLeader815 wrote:No matter what Ill pick up Elita-1 plus this Mudflap, because this is the fist year that I want to try to get every single new item that comes out.

Welcome to the site!

Unless you're making some pretty steady cash, my advise to you is don't collect everything just because it's a Transformer. It will only lead to regrets down the road.

Concortedly.
Just buy the figures you want, not all of them.

Oh, and uhh... welcome, I guess.

Thanks for welcoming me to the site everyone. I've been using this site for a few years now. so I decide I want to join this awesome place. I been collecting transformers since the Beast Wars and I keep most of my Transformers in their package prison. Now about this Elita-1 photo that showed up a few days ago. I stared at thing for five minutes and even tried to make it a little clearer, and I swear that weapon arm is different than Chromia's. well back to staring at it again.

Great, another Mudflap repaint. Why bother releasing this when the previous two uses of the mold are still clogging pegs nation-wide? Mudflap/Tuner Mudflap make up a good 75% of the entire ROTF stock left in just about every store in my area. Most stores are clearing out their inventory to make room for the Generations/PCC/HFTD wave due out later this summer, but I still can't bring myself to purchase a Mudflap, even at clearance prices.

Autobot032 wrote:

amcgrath929 wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:Sooo, despite all the claims of racism, Skids and Mudflap are apparently selling well enough to merit more repaints.
All the mistransformations make it impossible to properly judge these figures yet, but I dislike how 'neon' Mudslinger is compared to his drones.

amcgrath929 wrote:I though Elita-1 was originally supposed to be all black?

Nope, the image we had before had hints of reddish/brown right where the final product has them.

I'm kinda surprised no one expected Elita-1 to be a repaint, actually, combiner or not.

Hmph, well if this the third and final sister they give us, I'll just use the Arcee from the 2007 movie line as my third sister.

If you use the 2007 Arcee, they won't combine. Part of the reason we all bought these figures was for the combination of the three. It just seems kinda pointless to have two pieces of the puzzle and not even try for the third.

And he's right. We knew this was a repaint for a good long while now.

StarscreamLeader815 wrote:Well I was looking at the picture that was released a few days ago showing Elita-1 with the rest of Wave 2 including Tuner Skids, and when I look at Elita-1 she look like she had a different weapon arm than Chromia, I mean you can easily tell its not Chromia's weapon arm. So maybe this Elita-1 figure is just an early prototype. No matter what Ill pick up Elita-1 plus this Mudflap, because this is the fist year that I want to try to get every single new item that comes out.

That's just your mind playing a trick on you. Seeing what you want to see, but the fact of the matter is, it's just a straight repaint, and what you see in these pictures here is what you're going to get. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

The combined form is Arcee, and two Chromia molds. One being the original blue Chromia, and now this pink, silver, and black Elita-1 repaint of the mold. Simple as that. No mold modifications, no new head, no new weapon.

Sucks, but it's true.

Yeah, i see your point. But, the fact that the third sister is just a Chromia repaint and we haven't seen a decent combined picture of the bikes tells me that this isn't going to be anything amazing. I mean at least 2007 Arcee is purple..