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Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:45 pm

Transforms from bird to bird.....

News Credits: 11 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:46 pm

Crazy-futuristic-VTOL to freaky-ass death-condor? Sure, I can get on board with that. I wish his head looked a lot better, but the vehicle mode is cool enough that I can overlook that. I'm pleasantly suprised.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:58 pm

Eww!

News Credits: 9 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:04 pm

Wow.

Just WOW.

Now it looks like a strangled, drowned and plucked chicken.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:07 pm

I like my TF's fugly a lot of the time and this is fugly!! His bird mode looks like something i'd see in a Godzilla movie.

The headsculpt is not what LB should look like, in either mode. To me that figure should look like his name sounds. Fast and lethal. If that makes sense.

IDK.....if i see him for a couple bucks on clearance then i might get him.

He has a charm about him though. I do like monstrous TF's so he could win me over.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:10 pm

Mykltron wrote:Now it looks like a strangled, drowned and plucked chicken.

HA! that's exactly what he looks like! Good call. He's borderline ridiculous. They should have named him Cutthroat instead of Lazerbeak because that's who he looks more like. IMO

Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:22 pm

Looks to me like a newborn baby bird with those big bulb eyes and weak pecker. Doubt the movie version is so anemic. So I hope.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:25 pm

Beericade wrote:...and weak pecker.

This guy is actually growing on me. Although there isn't much transformation involved, though I like the extending neck and tail gimmickry. I'll have to see it in hand before making the choice...

News Credits: 1 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:33 pm

I kinda like it.

I have Scorponok & his repaint in movie monster mode hanging with my Godzilla stuff.
This will fit right in with those guys.

News Credits: 8 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:50 pm

man i didnt think the figure could get any worse but then i scrolled down and it just got worse and worse and worse to the point where i felt like puking. Thanks for ruining another great character bay.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:52 pm

thedriod wrote:its vehicle mode looks like the dragon hawk from gi-joe sigma six

and that is the only reason I'm excited for this. I actually wasn't until these recent pics, but I'm sure I can just leave the neck & tail in alt mode and fold out the wings when I want to! (plus, with the feet folded down he looks a little like a Metal Gear)

Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:57 pm

I'm gonna get this because I love Laserbeak, but the Chicken/Vulture head WILL be covered at all times.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:58 pm

monstergrotusque wrote:I like my TF's fugly a lot of the time and this is fugly!! His bird mode looks like something i'd see in a Godzilla movie.

Really, this is precisely why I like him. What's more badass than a Godzilla monster? A transforming robot Godzilla monster. And from the context of the film universe, it really does make a certain amount of sense; Soundwave doesn't seem to have any sort of decent self defense capabilities floating in space, so his drones need to defend both him and themselves. Only makes sense to me that Laserbeak would be so tricked out.

I don't see what the complaints are about, honestly; his smaller, compact mode is a spitting image of Laserbeak right down to the head, albeit very Movie-verse-looking, which should be expected at this point. The only part that doesn't look like Laserbeak is his second bird mode, which frankly I'm glad we even have since neither Ravage nor Scorponok had proper alt modes. At least Laserbeak actually transforms into something completely different this time instead of not transforming into anything or just curling up into a ball and calling itself a space rock.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:42 pm

That is one terribly stupid looking head in beast mode. if that head wasn't so dumb looking, i'd actually want this..but... argh, its so retarded looking. Maybe I'll get it, and just never take the helmet part off.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:16 pm

That looks like crap. What we've seen in the game trailer and the Super Bowl trailer looks much better than this. It's like ROTF Soundwave all over again.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:20 pm

[quote="monstergrotusque"His bird mode looks like something i'd see in a Godzilla movie.[/quote]

It's "bot/bird-mode" looks like the monster bird from the
the 1957 film "The Giant Claw".

The toy looks decent enough technically but 'dang'
it has a serious "3-bagger" of a noggin module.

I think it will look decent enough with my movie
Scorponok and Ravage figues on the shelf.

>> Would you like to know more?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Claw

News Credits: 3 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:24 pm

...and here I was hoping this figure couldn't get any uglier. What a disappointment..

Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:36 pm

Megatron Wolf wrote:man i didnt think the figure could get any worse but then i scrolled down and it just got worse and worse and worse to the point where i felt like puking. Thanks for ruining another great character bay.

so how is an alien type mechanical bird supposed to look like in real life?

News Credits: 3 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:49 pm

So my take on this is his alt mode will be a radio controlled flying machine ala the weird cockpit/painted face(those Airhogs have some strange designs) and he will transform into Laserbeak. It looks weird but I have confidence it will make sense when we get to see the movie.

News Credits: 1235 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:56 pm

That is one fugly bird.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:14 pm

Michael Bay sucks and he ruined Laserbeak! DOTM is going to be the worst movie ever made! It's all Bay's stupid fault!

Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:36 pm

OptiMagnus10 wrote:Michael Bay sucks and he ruined Laserbeak! DOTM is going to be the worst movie ever made! It's all Bay's stupid fault!

I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.

I will say this though: the Cassettes were all dumb. The concept was dumb even in the 80s and the farther Laserbeak gets away from being a stupid ass cassette and the closer he gets to being a badass phoenix, the better.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:41 pm

Prankmeister wrote:
OptiMagnus10 wrote:Michael Bay sucks and he ruined Laserbeak! DOTM is going to be the worst movie ever made! It's all Bay's stupid fault!

I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.

I will say this though: the Cassettes were all dumb. The concept was dumb even in the 80s and the farther Laserbeak gets away from being a stupid ass cassette and the closer he gets to being a badass phoenix, the better.

Well, he didn't have to be a "casette", if you really wanted to contemporize that design, they can be data discs...
I agree, Michael Bay has kinda made things too wierd. WFC was the perfect middle ground.
Finally, i'm all down for a badass phoenix, but that ain't a badass phoenix. At best, its alt mode is cool, and the the beast mode is okay without the tail and neck+head.
I'm sure if FP made a laserbeak, it'd trump every iteration possible, while still being G1 enough.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:49 pm

I'm most definitely in the minority here, because I couldn't care less about G1 and don't care how 'true to G1 Laserbeak' this Laserbeak is. This is Bayverse Laserbeak, not G1 Laserbeak. If it doesn't reference G1 Laserbeak I'd actually practically call it a plus at this point; I'd love to see more new things and less of the same.

Of course, I'm a huge fan of Kaiju, Godzilla-esque monsters, so I'm also pretty biased towards the goofy looking design here. It just screams 'Mecha King Ghidorah minus two heads' to me.

It also reminds me very much of this Kingdom Hearts enemy:

http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-02 ... wyvern.jpg

It looks like so many cool things to me that I stop caring how much it looks like Laserbeak at all.