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Cyber Bishop wrote:Ill add some photos to this thread..
Ok some side by side pix of classics/generations Thunderwing next to his G1 counterpart.


Hasbro did a marvelous job in bringing this character back to life for a new age. The colors are nice and let you know exactly who this character is.. However the C/G one is so much smaller and not as imposing as his G1 counterpart. The articulation is superb on the new one as he can get into so many poses where the original is just a block that can move its arms up and down.


They streamelined his back kibble so he is not as "blocky".


Now to the jet modes

The only thing missing from the new one is the smaller robot. And to be honest the original could have been made as a stand alone character with no smaller robot. I know in the marvel comics you never saw his bot mode only pretender shell and to be honest that is all you need.



Combined with his smaller robot the original Thunderwing is pretty long and even with the drone on the newer one he still is no where near as long.







So in a nutshell yeah he is not as large and imposing as his original version but his articulation, accurateness (you look at him and know he is thundering) and menacing look make up for that., this is why I can only give him a 90%. If they remade this version that would be about 2 inches taller he would have been a solid 100% for me.

Cyber Bishop wrote:Trailcutter - 95%

I love this guy.. I could not give him a solid 100 due to the lack of his "missile" hand and the lack of making his backpack sit correctly with the silver visor thing pointing forward and the missiles pointing up..

The only way to get the missiles to point upward is to have the silver piece pointing up (for those that have him you get what I am talking about...

Mkall wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Trailcutter - 95%

I love this guy.. I could not give him a solid 100 due to the lack of his "missile" hand and the lack of making his backpack sit correctly with the silver visor thing pointing forward and the missiles pointing up..

The only way to get the missiles to point upward is to have the silver piece pointing up (for those that have him you get what I am talking about...

This project may be of interest to you then...

Cyber Bishop wrote:Ill add some photos to this thread..
Ok some side by side pix of classics/generations Thunderwing next to his G1 counterpart.

So in a nutshell yeah he is not as large and imposing as his original version but his articulation, accurateness (you look at him and know he is thundering) and menacing look make up for that., this is why I can only give him a 90%. If they remade this version that would be about 2 inches taller he would have been a solid 100% for me.

TK415 wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Ill add some photos to this thread..
Ok some side by side pix of classics/generations Thunderwing next to his G1 counterpart.

So in a nutshell yeah he is not as large and imposing as his original version but his articulation, accurateness (you look at him and know he is thundering) and menacing look make up for that., this is why I can only give him a 90%. If they remade this version that would be about 2 inches taller he would have been a solid 100% for me.

Interesting point about the size/intimidating factor. I have and love Generations Thunderwing. The figure is awesome and I agree he is not intimidating, but also like Bishop said, he is menacing and he is pretty wicked looking.

That robot mode is spot on, I have never compared them that closely. I know him from his comic depictions and I thought that he was one excellent Thunderwing.

Wow, comparing him to the original and what Bishop talked about I can really imagine a nice voyager with an awesome mini-con, something like Vector Prime and his mini-con, Safeguard. That would work well. But as it is, like Bishop said, he is great. 90%+