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Not bad....but I will have to wait on the Takara repaint. I just can’t stand those stickers.

That combined form is neato!

(I for one don't mind Starscream's arms I prefer my seekers with a little bulk)

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I would totally take a Skywarp repaint of this with a movie-style starscream head for the combined mode

Wow, that's a lot of paint on Starscream's head!



I'm pretty sure the figure has no plastic in any of those colors so that means it's using black, silver, gold, pink, and maybe red for the eyes if they aren't also pink. Most transformers figures are limited to up to three paint colors total, and here Screamer has four or five just on his head. That's pretty impressive.

If they have to use stickers I really wish they'd stop using foil stickers, I think most figures would have looked better with regular matte stickers. Foil stickers only look good on already chromed or metallic painted parts or when they're used in place of chrome in specific spaces (like TR Voyager Prime's tanker).

Emerje

I would totally take a Skywarp repaint of this with a movie-style starscream head for the combined mode

I have a feeling Hasbro may not be too eager to do another Skywarp right now, after the Combiner Wars one is still warming shelves two toy lines later. For some reason, Skywarps are rarely good sellers. On a side note, I appreciate some good old fashioned fan service as much as the next person, but after many nods to Starscream's crown in recent years, I feel it's becoming a bit too cliche.

Black Bumblebee wrote:I hope that whoever did that to Jazz gets fired. To put that sort of slogan on a character that is traditionally voiced by an African American is all sorts of messed up.

also there doesnt need to have any political garbage infecting our favorite hobbies

Lore Keeper wrote:

I would totally take a Skywarp repaint of this with a movie-style starscream head for the combined mode

I have a feeling Hasbro may not be too eager to do another Skywarp right now, after the Combiner Wars one is still warming shelves two toy lines later. For some reason, Skywarps are rarely good sellers. On a side note, I appreciate some good old fashioned fan service as much as the next person, but after many nods to Starscream's crown, I feel it's becoming a bit too cliche.

A TRU exclusive Skywarp showed up in computers at the PotP Voyager price point and is believed to be a Starscream repaint.

Emerje

I would not be surprised to see Skywarp and Thundercracker as deluxe limbs for Starscream. As well as Thrust and Dirge. Then we could get a Starscream repaint as Ramjet.

PotP Starscream looks cool.

But still no smirk. I think I may stick with his CW incarnation as my go-to.

Emerje wrote:A TRU exclusive Skywarp showed up in computers at the PotP Voyager price point and is believed to be a Starscream repaint.

Emerje

(Pst That was Thundercracker)

RustedCross wrote:I would not be surprised to see Skywarp and Thundercracker as deluxe limbs for Starscream. As well as Thrust and Dirge. Then we could get a Starscream repaint as Ramjet.

Anyone else notice that Dreadwind's wing transformation placing them on his legs is just like what we saw on Classics Ramjet and Dirge? This mold also already has the Conehead asigned to it if they kept it with the retool. Wouldn't surprise me if they had extra wings to go with this mold.






Emerje

Emerje wrote:

RustedCross wrote:I would not be surprised to see Skywarp and Thundercracker as deluxe limbs for Starscream. As well as Thrust and Dirge. Then we could get a Starscream repaint as Ramjet.

Anyone else notice that Dreadwind's wing transformation placing them on his legs is just like what we saw on Classics Ramjet and Dirge? This mold also already has the Conehead asigned to it if they kept it with the retool. Wouldn't surprise me if they had extra wings to go with this mold.






Emerje

I can already sense TT licking their chops for a seeker combiner; btw, dreadwing doesn't share a mold with thrust, but the alternative aerialbot, due to sharing the pivoting shoulder struts - but, he does have an angled cut-out for a cone head

I'm totally down for deluxe coneheads! Of course, being a recent returned to collecting compare to most people, meaning I don't even have a Starscream in my collection. Or most of the iconic early G1 characters, really.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

RustedCross wrote:I would not be surprised to see Skywarp and Thundercracker as deluxe limbs for Starscream. As well as Thrust and Dirge. Then we could get a Starscream repaint as Ramjet.

Anyone else notice that Dreadwind's wing transformation placing them on his legs is just like what we saw on Classics Ramjet and Dirge? This mold also already has the Conehead asigned to it if they kept it with the retool. Wouldn't surprise me if they had extra wings to go with this mold.






Emerje

I can already sense TT licking their chops for a seeker combiner; btw, dreadwing doesn't share a mold with thrust, but the alternative aerialbot, due to sharing the pivoting shoulder struts - but, he does have an angled cut-out for a cone head

So many possibilities! I'm going CombinerCrazy!

Hellscream9999 wrote:btw, dreadwing doesn't share a mold with thrust

They have most of the same leg parts and pelvis, and I think the same arms up to the shoulders. If they can mix parts, like Thrust's head and maybe his shoulders mixed with Dreadwind's other parts and new wings and maybe a cockpit in the combiner peg we could have some decent Coneheads. G1 Thrust could be a little tricky, would probably have to use the entirety of the Air Raid mold's legs like Armada Thrust, but a new back and wings for G1 accuracy. That would also give us an option for a more accurate Seeker mold to go with the existing head mold used on UW and SG Starscream.

Emerje

Anyone else see a new Seeker mold out of Swoop? Not sure what you'd do with the legs in jet mode, but in robot mode you've got the cockpit and some Combiner Wars intakes on his upper shoulders. Plus Swoop's head looks very similar (not exact) to Starscream's if you take away his headfin. It even has the side intakes on his head!

My reaction to Starscream's torso:
My reaction to MAGA Jazz:

Starscream is not only the chunkiest voyager in years, but his torso mode looks like some sort of shiny ape... hulk... Thing. Like if RotF Starscream chose sticker-bling instead of tattoos. I'm happy that some others here like it, but the cockpit, wings, and random kibble do not a torso make for me. That said, we all knew more-or-less how this torso would look from the Elita-One leak. His face looks a lot more statuesque than starscream's usual features, reminds me of the face on Legends Giga. Do like the crown, though! Overall, Starscream seems a lot like his Wave-mate Grimlock: every mode suffers for the rest and none are really great.

The MAGA Jazz thing... oh boy! I wasn't going to touch PotP Jazz before, but this and the potential of a running change make him a lot more interesting, if only as a crazy moment in TF history. That said, it may not be a good kind of crazy. The conflict and hatred that arises whenever politics touch this board gives me pause.

Unlike a lot of people here, I find this political stuff endlessly amusing (though I probably shouldn't)... and I'm already planning to display PotP Jazz with TR Sentinel and generations Jhiaxus.

!Rant inbound! I understand this is sensitive ground, but could you argue that Jazz is one of the most multi-cultural autobots ever? He had an African-American VA with some memorable mannerisms, a Japanese-designed toy that turned into a German racecar, became a cyber-ninja in Animated with nods to eastern fighting styles and spirituality, and did it all while sporting white, blue, and red - the colors of many countries' flags. Add to that his white-ish-but-may-have-been-sculpted-to-be-Japanese pretender shell and you have one cross-country concoction of a character!


Why yes, I am very new here. What ever would make you think so?

Seibertron wrote:Anyone else see a new Seeker mold out of Swoop? Not sure what you'd do with the legs in jet mode, but in robot mode you've got the cockpit and some Combiner Wars intakes on his upper shoulders. Plus Swoop's head looks very similar (not exact) to Starscream's if you take away his headfin. It even has the side intakes on his head!

The legs are able to fold like Rook, so a seeker retool is in no way out of the question. cough Takara cough

Fellow Seibertronian Tranzilla e-mailed us some exciting insider information that will help you find the highly anticipated Transformers Power of the Primes Wave 1 products. Tranzilla was able to confirm the Target DPCI numbers for each class size as well as Target's initial pricing. As you have probably already heard, the Deluxe Class figures have already been showing up in Target stores around the US. Here's the information that he shared with us.

Tranzilla wrote:Located Slash, Skrapnel, Beachcomber, and Windcharger at the Target in Ellicott City, MD tonight. Also was able to confirm DPCIs for the upcoming releases. They are:

087-06-5845 Prime Masters $4.99
087-06-5849 Legends Class $9.99
087-06-5863 Deluxe Class $16.99
087-06-5868 Voyager Class $24.99
087-06-6020 Leader Class $44.99

Another user on Twitter, @Frerebear, posted an image of the two Legends Class Dinobot Slash figure that was found at a Target store in Ellicott City, Maryland.



You can use a website resource such as Brickseek to see if your local Target store(s) has these products in back. If you can't find them in the toy section, just ask a friendly Target employee to help you out. Be sure to be nice to them, because they are doing you a favor and it's possible that they might not be able to pull figures from the back even if they do have them in stock.

If you find them in stock somewhere, please make sure to let other Transformers fans know by sharing your sightings in our Sightings Section and our Sightings forum. Happy hunting!



087-06-6020 Leader Class $44.99



087-06-5868 Voyager Class $24.99



087-06-5863 Deluxe Class $16.99



087-06-5849 Legends Class $9.99



087-06-5845 Prime Masters $4.99

2 targets near me have them! The Time to strike is next morning.

With the Jazz toy, if Hasbro recalls it because of what the printing on it could be, they might have made an unintentional limited edition Jazz figure! XD

Are...Are people really freaking out about this? Does none see how minor and absolutely irrelevant to anything this is?

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:With the Jazz toy, if Hasbro recalls it because of what the printing on it could be, they might have made an unintentional limited edition Jazz figure! XD

I don't think Hasbro has ever recalled a Transformers toy before, which is pretty amazing after 33+ years. It's highly unlikely that they'd recall it because it says MAGA in Cybertronian. That'd just be silly.

Seibertron wrote:

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:With the Jazz toy, if Hasbro recalls it because of what the printing on it could be, they might have made an unintentional limited edition Jazz figure! XD

I don't think Hasbro has ever recalled a Transformers toy before, which is pretty amazing after 33+ years. They're certainly not going to recall it because it says MAGA in Cybertronian. That'd just be silly.

Well, if there ever was a first, it would certainly be in the heated american political climate of 2017 over Hasbro wanting to distance themselves from any potential implication of association with the Trump administration. People have freaked out over far less, unfortunately. This could very much end one for the history books of the franchise, as silly as it may be.

But what do I know of 'murrican politics? I ride mooses up rivers of maple syrup.