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Overcracker wrote:Kitt has been revealed aaaaand…ughhhh.
“Look at what they did to my boy!”

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It's the blue. If they had done that as a dark red or black, I think it would be worked a bit better. I'm not too put off by it though. Still totally getting him.

This is definitely a Prowl/Bluestreak/Smokescreen mold of some type...if it already wasn't, I'm sure it will be in the future.

First-Aid wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Kitt has been revealed aaaaand…ughhhh.
“Look at what they did to my boy!”

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It's the blue. If they had done that as a dark red or black, I think it would be worked a bit better. I'm not too put off by it though. Still totally getting him.

This is definitely a Prowl/Bluestreak/Smokescreen mold of some type...if it already wasn't, I'm sure it will be in the future.

It's supposed to look like Michael Knight so the blue represents his jeans. It should be a little darker, but that's what they were going for.

And yes, he has lights AND sounds as shown on the front of the box.

Emerje

I've seen worse.

Looking at the recent pics he's gonna be voyager size! Uhh ... kinda wish they just kept him deluxe and ditched the lights and sounds. But maybe they're worth it because without them he looks too much like a regular car? I dunno. I kinda hate too large TF cars.

Lights and sounds are great. They are the main feature of Knight Rider. Any child of the 80’s that watched this show every week, will love the fact it lights the scanner, goes wooo-wooo and maybe says “Hello Michael”.

That’s totally the best part of this toy.

The large chin under the front of the car is a bit awkward and off putting, and yes, the blue should have been a bit darker.

I’m starting warm up to him, so I can justify $50 bucks, because I totally want a Knight Rider TF.

The remaining question is… can he fit in a prime trailer?
Yes he’s fairly large. Not sure Voyager sized, but larger than a standard Deluxe car.

Also, anybody know what the offset panel on the hood is for?

Also, is it wrong that now I want a Peter Cullen voiced K.A.R.R? They can call him Agent Garth.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Not feeling it? It seems like it lights up, at least.

https://screenrant.com/transformers-kni ... tt-figure/

Been a while since a figure did that.

Oh?

FREAKING NICE!

Sure, 50$US means that it will be a 70/80$can figure, but man... I want it.

that is a nice looking robot, and I love that they gave the guy who really needed them lights and sounds. That is epic

Overcracker wrote:Also, is it wrong that now I want a Peter Cullen voiced K.A.R.R? They can call him Agent Garth.

THAT is the one I want.

Gosh, as cool/neat as it looks $50 seems a bit high for a DL Bot. Or is it closer to Voyager Class?
I get that it should be slightly higher due to added license of Pontiac and the IP, not to mention electronics, but man this is Leader pricing lol
The others have all been more reasonable, yes? Gigawatt was only $30 wasn't it?

That said, I had to order it because it's Knight Rider!
Though I'm not a fan of eh blue jeans, it does throw the look off a bit.

I have ne interest in in a CARR repaint, but I might be swayed at a Prime repaint for the FLAG Semi.

First-Aid wrote:I have tears of joy with this news. For us 80's kids there are four big vehicles we always wanted as Transformers.

K.I.T.T.
The A-Team's van.
Blue Thunder
Airwolf.


Make it happen Hasbro! And make it a combiner!

Definitely one of the cooler collabs for me, though Gigawatt is still really neat as well. But KITT is on another level of cool.

I'd also get Airwolf and the A-Team Van

Till-all-R1 wrote:Gosh, as cool/neat as it looks $50 seems a bit high for a DL Bot. Or is it closer to Voyager Class?
I get that it should be slightly higher due to added license of Pontiac and the IP, not to mention electronics, but man this is Leader pricing lol
The others have all been more reasonable, yes? Gigawatt was only $30 wasn't it?

That said, I had to order it because it's Knight Rider!
Though I'm not a fan of eh blue jeans, it does throw the look off a bit.

I bet it will be closer to a voyager like Ectotron in size, especially due to the lights and sounds. Add the DOUBLE licence to round things up.

It's basically MP scale, there were some in-hand images floating around of him compared to other toys at the fair, he is big.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:It's basically MP scale, there were some in-hand images floating around of him compared to other toys at the fair, he is big.

MP scale, or Alternator scale?

Regardless, it will match with Ectotron, who is pretty big itself.

I'm looking forward to have it and make lots of comparison pictures.

I've never had an MP but I did have several Alternators. Which feel a bit large and definitely out of scale to ER through Legacy. I wound up selling most of them off except a couple cool looking ones.

Till-all-R1 wrote:I've never had an MP but I did have several Alternators. Which feel a bit large and definitely out of scale to ER through Legacy. I wound up selling most of them off except a couple cool looking ones.

I miss Alternators. That was an amazing, different line. Except for the Optimus...it kinda sucked.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:It's basically MP scale, there were some in-hand images floating around of him compared to other toys at the fair, he is big.

MP scale, or Alternator scale?

Regardless, it will match with Ectotron, who is pretty big itself.

I'm looking forward to have it and make lots of comparison pictures.

Closer to modern MP car scale. Alternators were 1:24 scale, while MPs are generally 1:32.

There was a comparison in car mode with Ciffjumper and SS-86 Bee somewhere, and he looks pretty large against those 2, but not huge like an alternator would.

Overcracker wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:It's basically MP scale, there were some in-hand images floating around of him compared to other toys at the fair, he is big.

MP scale, or Alternator scale?

Regardless, it will match with Ectotron, who is pretty big itself.

I'm looking forward to have it and make lots of comparison pictures.

Closer to modern MP car scale. Alternators were 1:24 scale, while MPs are generally 1:32.

There was a comparison in car mode with Ciffjumper and SS-86 Bee somewhere, and he looks pretty large against those 2, but not huge like an alternator would.

So, Ectotron will be in perfect scale with the K-2000 I guess?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:It's basically MP scale, there were some in-hand images floating around of him compared to other toys at the fair, he is big.

MP scale, or Alternator scale?

Regardless, it will match with Ectotron, who is pretty big itself.

I'm looking forward to have it and make lots of comparison pictures.

Closer to modern MP car scale. Alternators were 1:24 scale, while MPs are generally 1:32.

There was a comparison in car mode with Ciffjumper and SS-86 Bee somewhere, and he looks pretty large against those 2, but not huge like an alternator would.

So, Ectotron will be in perfect scale with the K-2000 I guess?

Maybe. I think Ectrotron may be a tad too small. But we'll see.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:It's basically MP scale, there were some in-hand images floating around of him compared to other toys at the fair, he is big.

MP scale, or Alternator scale?

Regardless, it will match with Ectotron, who is pretty big itself.

I'm looking forward to have it and make lots of comparison pictures.

Closer to modern MP car scale. Alternators were 1:24 scale, while MPs are generally 1:32.

There was a comparison in car mode with Ciffjumper and SS-86 Bee somewhere, and he looks pretty large against those 2, but not huge like an alternator would.

So, Ectotron will be in perfect scale with the K-2000 I guess?

too small. Ectotron would need to be leader to scale with Knight

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:too small. Ectotron would need to be leader to scale with Knight

Might be, but the in-hand images with comparisons will be the final judge.
Regardless, this make the 70$can price tag reasonable. It will almost be leader sized, with lights and sounds.
I'm glad that it is not a Toys R Us exclusive over here because they'd sell the damn thing at 95$can fos sure. That is, based on what they asked for Afterlife Ectotron some years back.

Man, the scale arguments are tough. I always thought Ectotron scaled pretty well with deluxes, but I guess he's a touch too large.

I think the only crossover that fits is Venom from the old Marvel Crossover line. Maybe?

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Man, the scale arguments are tough. I always thought Ectotron scaled pretty well with deluxes, but I guess he's a touch too large.

I think the only crossover that fits is Venom from the old Marvel Crossover line. Maybe?

I do have that one.
The comparison time shall be interesting.

Makes me wish would have done right and made Gigawatt a voyager class instead!

Nemesis Destron wrote:Makes me wish would have done right and made Gigawatt a voyager class instead!

I do love the fact that Gigawatt is part of the WFC Sideswipe family, but indeed, he should be bigger to fit with the other X-Overs.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:Makes me wish would have done right and made Gigawatt a voyager class instead!

I do love the fact that Gigawatt is part of the WFC Sideswipe family, but indeed, he should be bigger to fit with the other X-Overs.

I think y'all are losing it. Knight Rider is the one out of scale with the rest.

Ectotron is a great voyager and scales nicely.

Gigawatt was done correctly as a deluxe.

If anything, Knight should have been deluxe. But I prefer that they went for a different scale to get the lights and sounds in there.

I think it would have been possible to put all the lights and sounds in a Deluxe Knight Rider.
But it may have resulted in a more expensive bot, ironically.