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[fenrir72]

Reminds me of Dezaras' metal eating gun pose.

[bacem]

i never puts out final judgement and decision until i saw a video review. with RID, even is there are a lot of gimmick line, at least their warrior class are fun, with decent articulation and interesting transformation. my first impression with RID was not good, but the video reviews of the warrior class change that. significantly. with cyberverse however, my first impression of them are less than meh. and the video review that is out so far, none can bring my impression up to above meh. i know there are definitely people who will love this line, but sadly i can't see myself being one of them right now. here's hoping there's a cyberverse figure that actually got my interest, or else 2019 will be kinda dry for me.

[MaverickPrime]

What angers me the most is that they insist on insulting children's intelligence by thinking they won't care that their toy looks and feels bad, not only is the gimmick weak in both ambition and execution, but it also is completely barren of any paint from the waist down. It's like this was a knockoff.
How can Shockwave be so food and Starscream so pathetic IN THE SAME LINE?

[Ultra Markus]

sorry to say that none of the toys that came after TF Prime/Beasthunters will ever live up to the same standards, i get these are geared for kids and thats great but what we got a decade ago from the tv shows was far better, its like they put most of the effort to make the toys interesting on the generations and movie lines and left the cartoon line lacking
the new show interests me and i like the designs i just wish they gave a bigger crap about the toys

[dragons]

The recent review of Transformers Cyberverse warrior Shockwave thought us that some toys in this line could be solid. Well, now we have a review for warrior Starscream which teaches us that some toys in this line can also be exactly what fans expected. Xortrider has just uploaded his review of the figure and we learn some tidbits we were all unaware of before.

For one we now know the toy's action gimmick, which is that the torso can spin when wound up. Also, we learn that his legs are on the same joint and are devoid of any articulation like knees, thigh swivel or ankle tilt (basically like G1 Jumpstarters but with an extra hip joint).

So let us know what you think? Do you think at least your kids will like this Starscream?

Enjoy the review!

I didn’t need video review of figure to tell me there is no knee articulation I know that by looking toy picture waist toroso spin around round up feature is nice surprise

[Aimless Misfire]

Running 3 or 4 different lines at the same time is totally %&$#!$ stupid! They need to drop this baby crap that doesn't sell & just concentrate on Generations.

[Evil Eye]

Seems Shockwave ate the rest of the budget for the toyline.

[Autobot N]

Seems Shockwave ate the rest of the budget for the toyline.

It's only logical that, if there's going to be only one good toy in the line, it has to be Shockwave.

[Aimless Misfire]

The Star Wars fans are boycotting the crap Disney is making. Why can't the Transformers fan do the same? Don't buy this over-priced low quality crap. Buy Generations, Studio Series or Masterpiece. Simply leave this garbage rotting on the pegs. Maybe then Hasbro will get the message.

As long as you keep buying it, Hasbro is going to keep making it.

[william-james88]

Running 3 or 4 different lines at the same time is totally %&$#!$ stupid! They need to drop this baby crap that doesn't sell & just concentrate on Generations.

That assumes Generations toys sell well. The truckloads of unsold wave 1 Rodimus Prime toys at my Walmart says otherwise.

[AcademyofDrX]

I hate this toy that wasn't made for me. I know they make other toys for me, but that isn't enough. They should stop making toys that aren't for me and only make toys for me.

[ZeroWolf]

I hate this toy that wasn't made for me. I know they make other toys for me, but that isn't enough. They should stop making toys that aren't for me and only make toys for me.

Very well said, and welcome to seibertron

Aimless, kids buy these. Does that mean you're going to run up to little kids wanting to buy the toys of the characters they've been watching, and tell them they can't because you don't like them? Can't see that working out well

Better yet imagine someone doing that when g1 toys were on shelves...

[chuckdawg1999]

I hate this toy that wasn't made for me. I know they make other toys for me, but that isn't enough. They should stop making toys that aren't for me and only make toys for me.

Very well said, and welcome to seibertron

Aimless, kids buy these. Does that mean you're going to run up to little kids wanting to buy the toys of the characters they've been watching, and tell them they can't because you don't like them? Can't see that working out well

Better yet imagine someone doing that when g1 toys were on shelves...

I think that's a brilliant idea. In fact let's go further and rip the toys out of kids hands, what's the worst that can happen?

[Ultra Markus]

I hate this toy that wasn't made for me. I know they make other toys for me, but that isn't enough. They should stop making toys that aren't for me and only make toys for me.

Very well said, and welcome to seibertron

Aimless, kids buy these. Does that mean you're going to run up to little kids wanting to buy the toys of the characters they've been watching, and tell them they can't because you don't like them? Can't see that working out well

Better yet imagine someone doing that when g1 toys were on shelves...

I think that's a brilliant idea. In fact let's go further and rip the toys out of kids hands, what's the worst that can happen?

I don't think we need to go that far but I think kids deserve better like how it was for me as a kid during g1 I was in awe with the toys, I don't see that with these

[Skritz]

Running 3 or 4 different lines at the same time is totally %&$#!$ stupid! They need to drop this baby crap that doesn't sell & just concentrate on Generations.

That assumes Generations toys sell well. The truckloads of unsold wave 1 Rodimus Prime toys at my Walmart says otherwise.

From my experience in shopping in store primarily for my collecting rather than online, Generations suffers from:
1) Not having a serie or movies kids are into.
2) Parents thinking buying the cheaper, dumber figure is better because 'kids are stupid'.
You have no idea how often I saw a kid wanting to buy either a Generations, TLK or Studio Series figure only for the dumb parent to snatch it out of their hands, check how many steps it has and put it back on the peg and shove a one-step changer onto the kid who eventually cave in. Parents aren't inclined to buy the more complex figures which have been a mainstay of Transformers because they think it's 'too complicated' for their child.

Even if the line was just decent/'normal' figures I suspect that Generations would still suffer because it's done in a style and with characters many kids don't know. By that I mean the young kids, under 8-9 aka the only demographic that still buy toys beside us manchildren. Anything older is into video games or watching dumbass youtubers.

[ZeroWolf]

I hate this toy that wasn't made for me. I know they make other toys for me, but that isn't enough. They should stop making toys that aren't for me and only make toys for me.

Very well said, and welcome to seibertron

Aimless, kids buy these. Does that mean you're going to run up to little kids wanting to buy the toys of the characters they've been watching, and tell them they can't because you don't like them? Can't see that working out well

Better yet imagine someone doing that when g1 toys were on shelves...

I think that's a brilliant idea. In fact let's go further and rip the toys out of kids hands, what's the worst that can happen?

I don't think we need to go that far but I think kids deserve better like how it was for me as a kid during g1 I was in awe with the toys, I don't see that with these

You were in awe with the jumpstarters? Not all of g1 was gold.

[william-james88]

You were in awe with the jumpstarters?

HA! I was actually going to respond the exact same line.

[ZeroWolf]

You were in awe with the jumpstarters?

HA! I was actually going to respond the exact same line.

It's easy for us as adults to pick these apart but we're never going to see things the way a child would, no matter what. I can imagine that some people could have easily been the same with the g1 toys, especially as the line went on. If these toys draw more kids into the fandom then, you know what? More power to them.

[Skritz]

Running 3 or 4 different lines at the same time is totally %&$#!$ stupid! They need to drop this baby crap that doesn't sell & just concentrate on Generations.

That assumes Generations toys sell well. The truckloads of unsold wave 1 Rodimus Prime toys at my Walmart says otherwise.

It might just be my area but, in general, Leader sell less than Voyager who sell less than deluxe. Not to mention there are other factors, such as:
1) An over-abundance of Wave 1.
2) Rodimus Prime is a nobody to anyone not familliar with the '80 movie and season 3 compared to, you know, goddamn Optimus Prime. I suspect Optimal Optimus will do just as bad. Fortunately this one is a figure I do intend to get, unlike regular Rodimus.

[Ultra Markus]

You were in awe with the jumpstarters?

HA! I was actually going to respond the exact same line.

You took my comment out of context!
You should know better than try to be smart with me
Where you a kid back then?, no?
Then don't judge!
I was referring the cars like jazz and bluestreak the seekers even shockwave and soundwave, yes they had simple transformations and little to no articulation but the detail was there
I don't see that with the current tv show toys

[Sabrblade]

You were in awe with the jumpstarters?

HA! I was actually going to respond the exact same line.

You took my comment out of context!
You should know better than try to be smart with me
Where you a kid back then?, no?
Then don't judge!
I was referring the cars like jazz and bluestreak the seekers even shockwave and soundwave, yes they had simple transformations and little to no articulation but the detail was there
I don't see that with the current tv show toys

Also doesn't help that what came out back in the 80s was pretty new, innovating, and revolutionary back then. After 30+ years, what was new and awe-inspiring to kids back then isn't so much anymore to us cynical adults of today.

[Ultra Markus]

You were in awe with the jumpstarters?

HA! I was actually going to respond the exact same line.

You took my comment out of context!
You should know better than try to be smart with me
Where you a kid back then?, no?
Then don't judge!
I was referring the cars like jazz and bluestreak the seekers even shockwave and soundwave, yes they had simple transformations and little to no articulation but the detail was there
I don't see that with the current tv show toys

Also doesn't help that what came out back in the 80s was pretty new, innovating, and revolutionary back then. After 30+ years, what was new and awe-inspiring to kids back then isn't so much anymore to us cynical adults of today.

Exactly!

[Emerje]

I was completely in awe of the Jumpstarters when they first came out. Watching them roll across the dining room table and then jump to their feet in robot mode was mind blowing to my simple 5 year old brain. I broke the plastic hook on Topspin from playing with him so much.

Emerje

[Sabrblade]

You were in awe with the jumpstarters?

HA! I was actually going to respond the exact same line.

You took my comment out of context!
You should know better than try to be smart with me
Where you a kid back then?, no?
Then don't judge!
I was referring the cars like jazz and bluestreak the seekers even shockwave and soundwave, yes they had simple transformations and little to no articulation but the detail was there
I don't see that with the current tv show toys

Also doesn't help that what came out back in the 80s was pretty new, innovating, and revolutionary back then. After 30+ years, what was new and awe-inspiring to kids back then isn't so much anymore to us cynical adults of today.

Exactly!

Yeah, so, to put it another way, if we had somehow never gotten the G1 stuff back in the 1980s, but did still get everything post-G1 (let's pretend for this hypothetical scenario that the Transformers began with, say, the latter G2 stuff in 1994 or 1995 instead), if we were to instead get the G1 stuff, for the first time ever, in this day and age, the 1980s engineering of those toys wouldn't be as impressive after all the other more advanced stuff that had come before. At most, it would be seen as a sort of novelty of quaintness, which the non-Warrior class toys of this line can best be described as. The 1980s were the right time and place for the G1 stuff to come out, and with the non-Warriors of this line evoking that level of gimmickry and simplicity, they feel more like product of the 1980s' time than of today. A 30+ year regression in Transformers toy engineering.

[-Kanrabat-]

Oh dear.... Compared to Shockwave, Starscream is sad, sad, SAD!
So far, only Warrior Shockwave is on my radar.