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News Credits: 3646 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:37 am

The reliable eBay seller and Seibertron.com friend eToysHunter has provided us with yet another gallery of a prototype of an upcoming Transformers figure. eToysHunter has supplied us with 20 new photos of the upcoming Thundercracker figure from the toyline of this summer's blockbuster Transformers Movie. Thundercracker is a remolded repaint of the Voyager Class Starscream figure. Thundercracker sports a new robotic head which is more in-line with what the Transformers fandom is used to. Click here to view many detailed photos of the all-new Thundercracker figure from eToysHunter.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:51 am

Schweet!
I'll have to get two for an emergency head
transplant for Starscream.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:56 am

And they said nothing good happens after 2am! :grin:

Edit: This is a Voyager right? About the size of CLA Jetfire? If so sweet.

News Credits: 3646 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:03 am

Yeah and I needed to be in bed about 3 hours ago. I have to get up in 5 ... tomorrow is going to suck. Tonight is the 3rd night in a row that I've been up way past my bed time working on Seibertron.com.

Hanging out at my buddy's place tomorrow night for Thursday Night comedy night on NBC. Will work on the Revoltech and Beast Wars 10th anniversary galleries tomorrow night while watching the comedies with my friends.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:16 am

Still can't like it...I can't justify G1 repaints of Movie toys. And I like the movie TF's for the most part...

Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:27 am

I like the face. It looks more humanoid.

News Credits: 4 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:37 am

Now that doesn't look too bad. Better than Starscream that's for sure.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:52 am

That's an odd placement for the faction symbol. Does Starscream have it on his tailfins, too?

Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:57 am

Anybody else find it a bit odd that Hasbro gave the movie people the go-ahead to make Starscream's head the way they did(I would assume they would have had to, given that it's their IP), only to scrap it for a more traditonal seeker head when his repaints started rolling around?

Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:40 am

I really want to like this line, but...ah don't feel like getting into it right now.

Anywho, thats an awful lot of kibble. Looks better than Starscream though.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:02 am

this head + this body sculpt make up for the suckiness that was cybertron thundercracker.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:22 am

I don't know why Hasbro are now using Bayformer molds to create non movie transfomers.

Still, awesomne gallery[/code]

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:26 am

Just so the line has some consistency, I suppose.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:28 am

I think he looks like a cross between Armada Thundercracker and
Movie Starscream. The head and colors look Armada Thundercracker's and the body looks like Movie Starscream.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:30 am

its that old adage ain;'t it? you can't have one seeker without the others

and you can't have one figure without a ton od repaints and remolds

Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:37 am

I'm apparently the only person who hates that new head, looks hideous to me. The Movie Starscream head may not look like Starscream, but I still think it looks a hell of alot better then that one.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:39 am

Rattrap in your avatar reminds me of Starscream.

I'm not fussed about Thundercracker's head. I don't hate it. I don't love it.

News Credits: 665 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:25 am

Godmodule wrote:Still can't like it...I can't justify G1 repaints of Movie toys. And I like the movie TF's for the most part...

My sentiments exactly. G1 colours just don't work on movie toys. Especially not on the F22 mold, you can say what you want about Movie Starscream, but at least his colour scheme makes sense.

This guy just looks strange, like he doesn't know what generation of transformers he belongs to. He looks like some time-travelling experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:56 am

I still think it looks terrible even with the slightly less horrendous face. In jet mode the gaps pretty much ruin the sleek surface of the irl life raptor and his head still pokes out of his bum.

At least this way if Skywarp is released as an exclusive it won't be taken quite so harshly, and the odds are looking good that 'Ambulance Ratchet' will have a slightly more G1 head.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:18 am

I am not a robotic technician or a genius of the field (so, correct me if I am wrong), but, wouldn't have the Starscream/Thundercracker being so top heavy make him walk a bit clumsy- like the way the AT-ST walked in Return of the Jedi (even though the AT-ST's legs are reversed)?

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:10 am

its official. thundercracke is better than movie scream.

Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:39 am

Meh. I still dont like this design. It still looks like a robotic gorilla, just with a different head on it. Yuck.

News Credits: 1014 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:45 am

Ummm, no.

Thundercracker isn't even in the movie. What next? A repaint of Bumblebee as Cliffjumper?

News Credits: 23 · Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:10 pm

First Gen wrote:What next? A repaint of Bumblebee as Cliffjumper?

Don't tell me that would surprise you.

I like the jet, I like the colours, but I hate that robot form. Man, the chest just pisses me off. And the melted seeker head is an improvement, but it hurts to say that...