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News Credits: 668 · Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:39 am

Starscream looks a little better than I first thought, but still not something I'd buy. Brawn, on the other hand, I think looks awful. Wouldn't buy that at all. Had it come out during the GDO when it was supposed to, I'd have bought one to keep as spare parts in case my Bulkhead had ever broke, but that's it.

Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:06 am

Not feeling these. As much as I like the paint on Screamie, I have the originals these are based off, and with all the great figures out there I still want, can't justify the purchase. The heads look really, really cool though.

Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:48 am

News Credits: 101 · Sat Feb 22, 2014 5:02 am

As a Starscream fanboy, I REALLY want that thing... Especially to display him in TANK MODE! :lol:

However, I'm not sure I'm ready to pay the price. :-(

News Credits: 241 · Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:36 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
Mkall wrote:Can't say I'm all that interested in this. If this is how they're introducing the GDO Voyager molds in Japan, I'm curious to see what the others will look like.

I can see it now: GDO Hot Spot as IDW Pyro (which... actually wouldn't be a bad idea).
Many people do wish that the Hot Spot tooling had existed at the time that BotCon 2010 had its Pryo figure.

Some have put the Hot Spot head on their BotCon Pyro, incidentally enough. >:oP

The final two GDO Voyagers, Hot Spot and Powerdive/Ransack... who could they be repainted into?

Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:58 am

yeah these repaints are just weird. i dont see a starscream when i see that mold. i mostly see blitzwing and a bit of doubledealer. and brawn bulkhead looks bad. its not a brawn mold at all. just sthap TF cloud. sthap. the megatron and prime were alright but its like they are not even trying.

News Credits: 462 · Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:06 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
Mkall wrote:Can't say I'm all that interested in this. If this is how they're introducing the GDO Voyager molds in Japan, I'm curious to see what the others will look like.

I can see it now: GDO Hot Spot as IDW Pyro (which... actually wouldn't be a bad idea).
Many people do wish that the Hot Spot tooling had existed at the time that BotCon 2010 had its Pryo figure.

Some have put the Hot Spot head on their BotCon Pyro, incidentally enough.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:13 am

So absolutely, positively suck-tacular it could strip the chrome off a trailer hitch. Way to go Takara. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:11 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
Mkall wrote:Can't say I'm all that interested in this. If this is how they're introducing the GDO Voyager molds in Japan, I'm curious to see what the others will look like.

I can see it now: GDO Hot Spot as IDW Pyro (which... actually wouldn't be a bad idea).
Many people do wish that the Hot Spot tooling had existed at the time that BotCon 2010 had its Pryo figure.

Some have put the Hot Spot head on their BotCon Pyro, incidentally enough.

The final two GDO Voyagers, Hot Spot and Powerdive/Ransack... who could they be repainted into?

If they went even more extreme than Brawn and blew Minicons up into Voyagers...

Firebot and Makeshift?

Firebot already got Hot Spot's deco once, and Makeshift's the first dual-rotor that springs to mind who isn't Highbrow or Obsidian. The latter also deserves to be honored as the best original name to come out of Armada by finally having it attached to a non-tiny toy. (No, Prime Wheeljack doesn't count)

Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:14 am

Not interested in the Starscream, though the colors do pop, but I will acquire the Brawn. He will do nicely in filling in my Prime expanded universe Autobots.

News Credits: 3 · Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:27 am

Brawn?

News Credits: 1 · Sun Feb 23, 2014 2:07 pm

Starscream actually looks pretty awesome. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but good. Don't think I have a spot for it in my collection though.

Brawn on the other hand is crap. It just doesn't not work at all. My initial thought was if it'd look better as Ironhide, but I think Bulkhead has too unique a physique to really work as anyone else.

News Credits: 5749 · Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:33 am

e-Hobby and the TakaraTomy Mall have updated with many new images of the recently revealed Takara Tomy Exclusive Transformers Cloud TFC-A02 Brawn and TFC-D02 Starscream. Starscream is a redeco of the Transformers Generations Voyager Doubedealer mold, and Brawn is previously canceled Voyager GDO Brawn, which is a redeco/remold of Transformer Prime First Edition Voyager Bulkhead. Enjoy the new images mirrored below:

Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:04 am

I can see jet judo.

News Credits: 20 · Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:22 am

It seriously looks like the Bulkhead body is just a suit that Brawn is wearing. Such a tiny head! XD I love it and hate it.

Mon Feb 24, 2014 6:13 am

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:It seriously looks like the Bulkhead body is just a suit that Brawn is wearing. Such a tiny head! XD I love it and hate it.

that crossed my mind as well.

i really don't think prime bodies with generations style heads thrown on them look very good.

starscream looks very cool.. i love the G1 accurate colors.. had this figure been released in the US for $20.. i'd probably buy it.

oh.. and i REALLY hate the null ray placement in robot mode. i'd rather them be in the proper position or just use a different concept. if they had maybe.. sawed them in half and made them looked jerry rigged to be handheld guns.. i think that'd be really cool and fit the uniqueness of the figure.

Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:41 am

doubledealer. those are not your colors. give them back to starscream before he finds out. bulkhead, take that mask off you are not fooling anyone

News Credits: 123 · Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:26 am

I have to admit - I do like both of these figures. I'm just less enthused about the price tag.

Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:54 am

That Bulkhead is no Brawn. The only thing it is good for is the the head. Buy it, take the head off, use it on a custom that actually resembles Brawn. Hasbro/Takara and their shoehorning.......what will they think of next?? I surely hope the Generations Arcee coming out is not just a Generations Arcee head on a TF Prime Arcee body.....

News Credits: 462 · Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:59 am

shockblast2 wrote:That Bulkhead is no Brawn. The only thing it is good for is the the head. Buy it, take the head off, use it on a custom that actually resembles Brawn. Hasbro/Takara and their shoehorning.......what will they think of next?? I surely hope the Generations Arcee coming out is not just a Generations Arcee head on a TF Prime Arcee body.....

They said at Toy fair that Generations Arcee is a car.

Though, it's a little ridiculous to think that they'd do to a mainline Generations figure what was done to this small time super limited side line.

Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:10 am

I wonder if the shoulder issue is fixed on this version of the Blitzwing mould. This will be the fourth time (twice with Hasbro and twice with Takara) that this mould has been released and I know from experience that the issue wasn't resolved as far as Hasbro is concerned when the Double Dealer version was released. This being the second so far for Takara-ish, I wonder if it's been fixed. Anyone pick up the Takara version of Blitzwing? Did Takara resolve that shoulder issue just based on the problem with the Hasbro version?

News Credits: 123 · Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:13 am

shockblast2 wrote:That Bulkhead is no Brawn. The only thing it is good for is the the head. Buy it, take the head off, use it on a custom that actually resembles Brawn. Hasbro/Takara and their shoehorning.......what will they think of next?? I surely hope the Generations Arcee coming out is not just a Generations Arcee head on a TF Prime Arcee body.....

Here's a novel concept:

If you don't like it, don't buy it.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:13 am

Alos, both figures look WAY better than either of them should.

El Duque wrote:

That deco looks so much nicer than his GDO figure's deco:

wolverinetodd wrote:I wonder if the shoulder issue is fixed on this version of the Blitzwing mould. This will be the fourth time (twice with Hasbro and twice with Takara) that this mould has been released and I know from experience that the issue wasn't resolved as far as Hasbro is concerned when the Double Dealer version was released. This being the second so far for Takara-ish, I wonder if it's been fixed. Anyone pick up the Takara version of Blitzwing? Did Takara resolve that shoulder issue just based on the problem with the Hasbro version?

Nope. Takara didn't fix it either.

News Credits: 123 · Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:17 am

Sabrblade wrote:That deco looks so much nicer than his GDO figure's deco:

I know, right? It's just plain unfair.

Still would have preferred the GDO release stateside for $20-$25, but the deco is admittedly a huge improvement on the Cloud version. Alas.

News Credits: 86 · Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:12 am

wolverinetodd wrote:I wonder if the shoulder issue is fixed on this version of the Blitzwing mould. This will be the fourth time (twice with Hasbro and twice with Takara) that this mould has been released and I know from experience that the issue wasn't resolved as far as Hasbro is concerned when the Double Dealer version was released. This being the second so far for Takara-ish, I wonder if it's been fixed. Anyone pick up the Takara version of Blitzwing? Did Takara resolve that shoulder issue just based on the problem with the Hasbro version?

I have it. His QC is better than Hasbro's (as is Doubledealer's is better than Hasbro's Blitzwing) but the issue isn't fixed with Takara's Blitzwing either.

Sabrblade wrote:Alos, both figures look WAY better than either of them should.

El Duque wrote:
That deco looks so much nicer than his GDO figure's deco:

Agreed 100%. Both of these Cloud figures look really nice all things considered.

Randy