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Wow. That's some extensive retooling. Fantastic job Hasbro/Takara. It's this kind of retooling that demands buying each version.

AND I have to say that revisiting the original mold... that's one dated looking helicopter. If anything needed an updated altmode, that's a candidate.

Also, if they do a Pretender repaint in gray and red, I'm in for that too. The VTOL looks amazing. Bowled over.

This figure is looking more and more like a complete piece of crap.
















Bravo, Hasbro.

Sodan-1 wrote:This figure is looking more and more like a complete piece of crap.
















Bravo, Hasbro.

Seriously thought you were legitimately calling it crap for a second.

Haaaaaa.

Okay, so seriously. If they wanted to include this in their convention exclusive GI Joe crossover line of repaints (hint hint hint), I'd take this is green and/or gray with Joe/Cobra logo as well.

Yeah, so, seriously. I'd take a full line o' army green classic vehicles from truck to plane to copter. Just don't make them change INTO the Joe characters and we're good. Big mechs are much more awesome than gangly awkward homages of Star Wars/Avengers. Those are so much fail.

Any other great repaints you want to see out of these guys? Pretenders and Duocons are on the table. Any others?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:I'm starting to think that Sandstorm was the original mold and Springer's the remold. This is such an extensively changed figure, but you can see where some things seem to fit the visuals and design better. Like this was almost intended.

That's not a diss to Springer. I'm thinking they released Springer first to get sales going.

Either way, however it worked, absolutely impressive figure. Dang.

Actually, more plasusible would be that the general base of the mold was developed first, and the character specific details were developed on the side at the same time. Think of as the evolution of pretooled heads: one base mold with two main head molds to switch out.

if both characters parts are on the same mold, I'd love them to use the majority of Springer (alt mode and such) with Sandstorm's head and vehicle front, for Battletrap, if they do him.

edit: oh, and preordered.

Springers bot mode and car mode look better to me.
Sandstorms Aerial mode looks sick, and the vehicle mode is growing on me.
This is the first time i'm really wanting both remoulds.

There are some issues present in both that sorta turn me off, and thats the legs. Back kibble on sandstorm looks rough, and the big wheels are kinda wierd (since the overall car body seems of a certain depth that suggests normal wheels appear at the rear, but then giant ones interupt that flow).

What I think is going to look rad on Sandstorm is the gun that can pivot in what looks like all directions. The buggy mode will look awesome with the gun pointing off to the side. Speaking of the terminator robot reference, the VTOL craft does look similar, and the vehicle being a buggy mode fits that post-apocalyptic look.

I think that Sandstorm ist also a great Remold, and I think it's also the first one where Hasbro go so far with a repaint, in the hole Transformers History. That it's not just an amazing repaint, but also remoldet and got a hole new alt mode.

Sandstorm is looking better and better. All that detail is I'm not caring if it might turn out to be a DoT. It looks good in all kinds of ways

wow, this figure might have me hold off on getting Springer. (even though they really do look entirely different)

MINDVVIPE wrote:Springers bot mode and car mode look better to me.
Sandstorms Aerial mode looks sick, and the vehicle mode is growing on me.
This is the first time i'm really wanting both remoulds.

There are some issues present in both that sorta turn me off, and thats the legs. Back kibble on sandstorm looks rough, and the big wheels are kinda wierd (since the overall car body seems of a certain depth that suggests normal wheels appear at the rear, but then giant ones interupt that flow).

What I think is going to look rad on Sandstorm is the gun that can pivot in what looks like all directions. The buggy mode will look awesome with the gun pointing off to the side. Speaking of the terminator robot reference, the VTOL craft does look similar, and the vehicle being a buggy mode fits that post-apocalyptic look.

I agree on all counts
Except for one thing, if you look at the robot mode pic at the gun, you can see a similar mounting point to the one springer's uses to mount underneath the copter mode. I don't think it can rotate, i think that's just the round sculpting right underneath

MINDVVIPE wrote:Springers bot mode and car mode look better to me.
Sandstorms Aerial mode looks sick, and the vehicle mode is growing on me.
This is the first time i'm really wanting both remoulds.

There are some issues present in both that sorta turn me off, and thats the legs. Back kibble on sandstorm looks rough, and the big wheels are kinda wierd (since the overall car body seems of a certain depth that suggests normal wheels appear at the rear, but then giant ones interupt that flow).

What I think is going to look rad on Sandstorm is the gun that can pivot in what looks like all directions. The buggy mode will look awesome with the gun pointing off to the side. Speaking of the terminator robot reference, the VTOL craft does look similar, and the vehicle being a buggy mode fits that post-apocalyptic look.

I agree on all counts
Except for one thing, if you look at the robot mode pic at the gun, you can see a similar mounting point to the one springer's uses to mount underneath the copter mode. I don't think it can rotate, i think that's just the round sculpting right underneath