I get that Transformers reuses names all the time, but it's a bit weird how this Sky Lynx could almost stand in for the original (at least, it's beast mode standing in for the original's robot mode), but part of a totally different faction. Dunno how often that happens.
*glances over to green DotM Powerglide who could pass for a Movieverse Fuzor Sky Shadow* Hmm...
ILL-Star wrote:It's funny how some can say there is no resemblance between the figures and the character models of Skylynx and Darksteel. Aside from the switch in bulk and stature, they look very much the same.
While there are quite a number of similar features between the show model and toy, I don't think I'd have guessed who these two were if it weren't for that comparison chart whoever made up. Sky Lynx's distinctive features are his lankiness and robot-head-in-the-dragon-mode's-mouth, neither of which are reflected in the show model; Dark Steel is closer, but the dragon head appears to be different, he's got no "fingers" on his wings, and that 'second head'/gun isn't at all homaged.
It's kinda like Beast Machines, where the toys are "close enough" to the show models, but not really that accurate.
And now that I think of it, it saddens me that the show is apparently ignoring all the Predacons with colorful bios and going for the two with utterly basic, uninteresting ones. No honorable Grimwing with a ugly growth whispering naughty things in his ear, no maternal Ripclaw, no "wants to see the world burn" Laserback... *sigh*