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News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 7:57 am

Shadowstrip and Crasher have been appearing slowly at retail across the world and not everyone has picked them up. We have video reviews below from fans who did get them, fellow Seibertronians Chuckdawg and Thundertron, if you want to see and know as much as possible about the figures before getting them.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:This figure looks slick. I wasn't 100% sure if I'd like the G2 figures being released piecemeal in the Speedia 500 line, but Shadow Strip blew me away. The black and gold deco pops, and the metallic turquoise on the head and guns really bring everything together nicely. While I'm not sure if I'm all in on G2 Stunticons, Shadow Strip really makes me excited for what's coming.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:15 am

If Walmarts preorders for Crasher and Shadowstrip ever actually were in stock, that would have been nice. But after 3 years of Netflix exclusives why am I surprised? We know the game. These will be in stores well before any pre orders would have shipped anyway. If you can find them that is.

News Credits: 387 · by **Bounti76** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:31 am

I'll probably get her because fembot, but I think POTP Jazz would have been a way better mold for Crasher to have used.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:04 pm

Bounti76 wrote:I'll probably get her because fembot, but I think POTP Jazz would have been a way better mold for Crasher to have used.

Thinking on it, despite matching alt modes, it probably would have cost too much to retool the mold as to remove the combiner peg (for us collectors, an additional limb would be welcomed, for kids probably not as much given the last retail releases of compatible toys was back in 2018). That and this isn't the first time that hasbro have given us crasher from Mirage (I still love the 08 Walmart exclusive Fracture), so they might have figured "let's go with tradition!"*

But yeah, I reckon budget had a part to play with Crasher here. I'm still wanting her.

* - not saying that's what happened, but I could have easily seen that being part of the process, seeing what was done before.

News Credits: 30 · by **DeathReviews** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:08 pm

I confess interest in Shadowstrip, just because I'm impatient to finish Menasor

. Plus, the colors seem a much better match for Motormaster/Menasor's body component....

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 6:14 pm

DeathReviews wrote:I confess interest in Shadowstrip, just because I'm impatient to finish Menasor . Plus, the colors seem a much better match for Motormaster/Menasor's body component....

If you were thinking about using Shadow Strip as the other arm you'd be wrong, dead wrong. The ports on the Menasor arms are different on each side.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 7:02 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:Thinking on it, despite matching alt modes, it probably would have cost too much to retool the mold as to remove the combiner peg (for us collectors, an additional limb would be welcomed, for kids probably not as much given the last retail releases of compatible toys was back in 2018).

Leave the peg and call it "Prime Wars Universe".

Emerje

by **M. Spector** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 7:17 pm

I wonder if we'll see any other Stunticon G2 esq repaints in this line? Besides Dragstrip there's still three other limbs that could be shined up, and since there's been such a debacle about Wildrider/Brakedown maybe one of those two would be a good candidate (my vote is for G2 Brakedown for sure )

News Credits: 4 · by **Ham-Man** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 12:07 am

I reviewed the pair in the one vid but for my money Crasher is slightly cooler. Unless of course you're all about that G2 life.

News Credits: 11 · by **primalxconvoy** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 6:58 am

Great YouTube reviews from legit YouTubers! Cheers for the informative content! Much appreciated!

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:21 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:OMFG HARDCORE UNCENSORED VERSION HMMMMM GODAMN SO HOT!

....I'll be in my bunk..

News Credits: 11 · by **Munkky** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:49 pm

I was never a big fan of Siege Astrotrain, and I don't know enough about Japanese G1 to justify buying Galaxy Shuttle, but he at least wears the mould well and looks pretty nice. I've deceided I do really want Velocitron Hot Rod, I justlike the colour scheme a lot more than the original Studio Series version, but I notice none of the sites I usually go to for pre-orders have a listing for him. They all have Galaxy Shuttle, a few have Crasher and Shadowstrip, but none have Hot Rod.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:40 pm

I am excited enough for Galaxy Shuttle that I went back and bought a WFC set I missed out on to go with him. I am very much looking forward to him

News Credits: 6 · by **RodimusPrimeUkraine1** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:17 pm

For those like me who think galaxy shuttle did not work all the way, I am thinking the armada Jetfire/Astrotrain mold would work fine.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:46 pm

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:For those like me who think galaxy shuttle did not work all the way, I am thinking the armada Jetfire/Astrotrain mold would work fine.

It probably would for a custom though you probably would get away with just using jetfire as a stand in.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:52 pm

Robot mode looks great, aint gonna lie. But man, both vehicle modes look so terrible. I was able to brush them aside with astrotrain since the deco worked well enough to give a uniformed look, but here the deco seems to highlight disorder.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 5:32 pm

william-james88 wrote:Robot mode looks great, aint gonna lie. But man, both vehicle modes look so terrible. I was able to brush them aside with astrotrain since the deco worked well enough to give a uniformed look, but here the deco seems to highlight disorder.

I'm the opposite. I thought Astrotrain was a mess in both alt modes, but Galaxy Shuttle can get away with it because he was never intended to be a NASA shuttle to begin with and if he wants to also turn into a weird two tone train that runs on four rails that's fine too, maybe those are a thing on some planet.

Emerje

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 5:41 pm

And, apparently, retooling this Astrotrain mold into Galaxy Shuttle wasn't a recent idea. Rather, the Galaxy Shuttle headsculpt was a pretool built into the mold back when it was first made several years ago. It's only surfacing now because of the alternate pretooled head having been discovered by the current Hasbro team after all this time.

News Credits: 6 · by **RodimusPrimeUkraine1** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:02 pm

Sabrblade wrote:And, apparently, retooling this Astrotrain mold into Galaxy Shuttle wasn't a recent idea. Rather, the Galaxy Shuttle headsculpt was a pretool built into the mold back when it was first made several years ago. It's only surfacing now because of the alternate pretooled head having been discovered by the current Hasbro team after all this time.

That would explain the robot mode inaccuracies

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:49 pm

Emerje wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Robot mode looks great, aint gonna lie. But man, both vehicle modes look so terrible. I was able to brush them aside with astrotrain since the deco worked well enough to give a uniformed look, but here the deco seems to highlight disorder.

I'm the opposite. I thought Astrotrain was a mess in both alt modes, but Galaxy Shuttle can get away with it because he was never intended to be a NASA shuttle to begin with and if he wants to also turn into a weird two tone train that runs on four rails that's fine too, maybe those are a thing on some planet.

Emerje

I mostly agree with this. I liked Astrotrain, and in many ways I like the Galaxy Shuttle more. I like the colors and head sculpt on him more.

I don't mind the transformation inaccuracies either, I am used to those by now, and he still looks good and quite frankly I am not sure how else we could get this opportunity to get him

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 8:22 pm

I'm glad to finally have Greenple. Now my Infernos/Grapples crew is complete!

It's funny that the mushroom peg of the neck gives him a green tongue.

News Credits: 6 · by **RodimusPrimeUkraine1** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:32 am

Suggestion: sell one of those Grapple duplicates.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:56 am

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Suggestion: sell one of those Grapple duplicates.

There are no duplicates in that picture, each one is a unique figure. If he wanted to sell one he would have a long time ago.

Emerje

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 10:58 am

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Suggestion: sell one of those Grapple duplicates.

No duplicate at all here. Every single one of them are a unique deco. Some were hard and expensive to obtain.

So, noooooooooope. I'll keep my presioussessssss.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:22 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Suggestion: sell one of those Grapple duplicates.

No duplicate at all here. Every single one of them are a unique deco. Some were hard and expensive to obtain.

So, noooooooooope. I'll keep my presioussessssss.

Not surprising since I see a BotCon Exclusive hiding in the back (or was that just a club Exclusive?)

You going to get the G1 originals?