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News Credits: 6 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:52 am

New images of the upcoming Transformers Henkei Strafe release from TakaraTOMY have surfaced on a Japanese blog.

http://ameblo.jp/ganbo-store/entry-10221813643.html

Check out Strafe's hot red chrome!

News Credits: 2 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:55 am

I dig it

looks like I thought it would. G1 Strafe colours, glad they didnt go G2

News Credits: 5 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:42 am

There are a number of other items that I would rather spend $100+ on at this point. I really wish Hasbro would use some of these ideas for their Universe Special Editions. It would be nice to get a US version of this, Electro Mirage, Clear Starscream, and even the new molds of Thrust and Dirge at a reasonable price. They arn't too terribly bad of a price in Japan, but man it costs a lot to bring the imports over here.

News Credits: 767 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:01 am

seibertron.com member Jenus has showed us new images of the upcoming Henkei exclusive repaint of Universe Cyclonus as Strafe. From the coloring we can see that this is indeed G1 Strafe.
The images are from a Japanese blog called ganbo-store.

See the original posting by clicking here.

Stay tuned to seibertron.com for all your Transformers related news!

News Credits: 4 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:01 am

I like it. The red chrome looks real nice.

Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:35 am

Meh, and the reason we didn't get a new head mould is?

News Credits: 1 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:59 am

3 shades of red plus orange, yuck - they should have gone G2 on this guy.

News Credits: 97 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:09 am

Looks sweet, glad I'm getting one. I do wish they'd done his helmet horns and especially the wings behind his shoulders in orange, to imitate the G1 figure's towering shoulderguns.

News Credits: 409 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:50 am

I would like to see what some kitbashers can come up with regarding the head.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:06 am

Great redeco of a great figure.

And what are they going to call the former Technobot's partner? Computron? I can get used to it's deco. Going by the Universe bio, he's supposed to turn into a "heat-ray rifle", so the deco fits nicely.

Primus C-00 wrote:Meh, and the reason we didn't get a new head mould is?

1/3 because a new head isn't warranted, 1/3 because the existing head's pretty good, and 1/3 because IMO a new head (especially one based off G1 Strafe as he appears in the Universe bio i linked to earlier in this post woulda fraked up the transformation from robot to jet mode. The red and silver become white and red on the G1 version, but even that's better left in G1 IMO.

Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:00 am

Pimp my handheld energy blaster---that gun is badass!can see Elita 1 and Arcee kneeling in front of him, bein' his "hoes"

News Credits: 1082 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:25 am

I'm a fan, and you can get for less than $100 shipped. Look around.

Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:41 am

Could someone tell me, please, how anything resembling Cyclonus could make an Autobot? These repaints are just examples of being L-A-Z-Y. Why not take the already recycled to death Classics Seeker mold, paint it black and white, slap an Autobot insignia on it and call it Air Raid?

Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:51 am

Seeing as all of the posts I seem to have put up recently have been negative - its time for something positive
I like the target master - that gold chrome looks pretty slick. :grin:

News Credits: 1 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:52 am

Barrelass wrote:There are a number of other items that I would rather spend $100+ on at this point. I really wish Hasbro would use some of these ideas for their Universe Special Editions. It would be nice to get a US version of this, Electro Mirage, Clear Starscream, and even the new molds of Thrust and Dirge at a reasonable price. They arn't too terribly bad of a price in Japan, but man it costs a lot to bring the imports over here.

Yes, and yes.

If this was a US release, even an exclusive, I may get it, but I'm not spending that kind of scratch on this redeco.

It's nice, but not $100+ nice.

News Credits: 198 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:53 am

I don't not like it but I don't love it either. Seeing this, I can't decide whether this is what I really wanted to see or if my heart was set on the G2 colors.

Those comments aside, he's interesting. I do wish his faceplate would have been different-a modern update of G1 Strafe, not really his whole head though. I also wish the jet tip would have been orange instead of red.

I'll still probably pick him up.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:59 am

It looks pretty good, but I just can't see this mold as anyone other than Cyclonus. To me he's "Coast Guard Cyclonus"

Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:32 am

As a nameslapping repaint tagged Strafe, that freakin' blows.

As a potential figure representation for Shattered Glass Cyclonus, that's a possible win.

News Credits: 23 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:36 am

With the photoshop so far...looks oookaay. I don't know what else they could really do. I only see a Con with this mold however. Still, I'm waiting to see some actual photos. Prob my least favorite looking exclusive to date on one of my more fav cls/uni mold.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:55 am

Ugh. No Thanks.

If I had it, I'd call it Shattered Glass Cyclonus.

Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:11 am

Jesus wept. At least retool the head.

News Credits: 198 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:24 am

No surprise that the other day, all preorders at BBTS were gone. Now there are 150 available. I suspect that number will grow as others get a glimpse at him.

Strafe is definitely polarizing.

News Credits: 4 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:31 am

Love the colors and the toy overall

... but $100.00 ..hmmm ouch ... For that amount I think I'll continue completing my Masterpiece collection

News Credits: 217 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:33 am

Didn't like him at first glance but he's growing on me. He's not "apply-for-a-credit-card-in-Japanese" worth of good though.

News Credits: 129 · Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:54 am

It can't be SG Cyclonus.

One of his defining traits were the orange/yellow wings which mimick the spolier Hot Rod had. Also, the chest coloring is wrong.

This is Technobot Strafe, love it or leave it.