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Windblade's in that frustrating position of being cool, but also being shoved in everyone's faces every two seconds causing dislike for her. Like Charizard or something.

Kurona wrote:Windblade's in that frustrating position of being cool, but also being shoved in everyone's faces every two seconds causing dislike for her. Like Charizard or something.

Kurona wrote:Windblade's in that frustrating position of being cool, but also being shoved in everyone's faces every two seconds causing dislike for her. Like Charizard or something.

Charizard is shoved in people' s faces all the time and they don't like him? New to Pokemon scene as my boys are interested. Not any of our favorites, but acceptable to us.


I don't mind Windblade. I expect to see her added to the line action movies at some point. Drift as been made into less of a generations toy character and more of an RID, and movie character, minus MTMTE/LL, of course.

Tigertrack wrote:

Kurona wrote:Windblade's in that frustrating position of being cool, but also being shoved in everyone's faces every two seconds causing dislike for her. Like Charizard or something.

Charizard is shoved in people' s faces all the time and they don't like him? New to Pokemon scene as my boys are interested. Not any of our favorites, but acceptable to us.


I don't mind Windblade. I expect to see her added to the line action movies at some point. Drift as been made into less of a generations toy character and more of an RID, and movie character, minus MTMTE/LL, of course.

Due to some new forms and stuff it got a few years ago, Charizard enjoyed a ridiculously huge marketing campaign; not to mention said forms and stuff it got was far more than its fellow starters. Got quite a bit of 'ugh'ing and sighing from a fair portion of the fanbase.
Though then, of course, a lot of that's due to the whole "It's popular and everyone else likes it so therefore I hate it" thing.


God, I wouldn't be surprised to see Windblade added to the movies. Was almost surprised to not see her in TLK.

Kurona wrote:Windblade's in that frustrating position of being cool, but also being shoved in everyone's faces every two seconds causing dislike for her. Like Charizard or something.

I like how RID handled it, shoved in everyones face, but they all love it except Strongarm. lol, Windbag.

Yeah I was actually quite surprised (but happy) not to see Windblade shoehorned into The Last Knight. I actually didn't mind her presence in the RiD15 animated series, she was pretty good. But in the comics I am indifferent, and in Machinima's CW..well... . Anyway, Hasbro's going to do what they are going to do until the next *fan vote* I guess...

I have no plans to get the Titans Return Windblade Deluxe, but I am happy for Fans that have found her and enjoy the final result.

Kurona wrote:God, I wouldn't be surprised to see Windblade added to the movies.

Ugh, live action Murderblade. No thank you.

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Windblade's in that frustrating position of being cool, but also being shoved in everyone's faces every two seconds causing dislike for her. Like Charizard or something.

POOCHIE!! You win the day, WJ. Enjoy your "No-prize"

I was going to pass on Windblade, but her facesculpt and robot mode detailing are making me reconsider...

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:God, I wouldn't be surprised to see Windblade added to the movies.

Ugh, live action Murderblade. No thank you.

Honestly, {i]most[/i] of the Transformers that get any screentime are pretty entertaining. The AoE crew (especially Hound), Nitro Zeus, Megatron himself... The only actually annoying Transformers from the movies were the Twins, Brains, Wheelie and to some extent Cogman. The rest were either entertaining or at worst nondescript.

Nay, the biggest problem with the TFs in the movies is they're overshadowed by the godawful human characters. Granted, not all of them are horrendous (Simmons is superb when he's actually got a proper role in the movie, and I for one liked Mikaela) but most of them are dreadful and completely stole the limelight from the robots.

Honestly I wouldn't mind a Windblade in the movies provided she isn't pushed too hard (have her as one of the crew and give her some decent lines for sure, but don't make her the Chosen One who can fix everything with WOMAN POWER). Heck, I'd like to see her movieverse design and potential actress. I wouldn't mind Mari Ijima actually, given that she speaks very good English, can definitely act and would make a good counterpart to Ken Watanabe's Drift.

I like Windblade, at least from a design point of view. She's like a robo-geisha/kabuki actress with a cool jet mode and a nifty sword (though IMO it's more like a Chinese jian or dao sword than a katana) and her colour scheme is nice too. I wish she wasn't touted as the greatest achievement in Transformers history but I don't dislike her at all.

Anyway, topic.

I wouldn't mind a con/boxset exclusive retool of Windblade into another fembot, if it were possible to go beyond a mere headswap anyway. Looking at her design, I don't know if it would be possible to use Windblade's robot bits and Scourge's vehicle bits and weapon and make her into Thunderblast? Scourge is too manly to be Thunderblast but has the right alt mode, whilst Windblade has a good robot mode but turns into a jet.

The combined form of Windblade's swords could work as a "wave motion tuning fork" (As TV tropes has dubbed guns that charge up energy between two prongs) kind of cannon. I agree that the seat makes for kind of a bulky hilt, but the marching orders for Titans Return require a weapon that can seat a Titan Master (be it a single weapon or two that combine) so it's not like the designers had a choice.

Regarding Titan Master Optimus Primal, if we don't get him in TR he'll probably turn up as an accessory for the Power of the Primes Optimus Primal.

I went out today and yesterday to get a couple more Titan Masters (Fangry and Ptero) and hoping to get Wolfwire, but the stores around me have obviously not gotten Wave 5 in yet. I didn't want to go home empty-handed today, so after some time agonizing over who to grab as a consolation prize I wound up picking up Breakaway to turn into Minerva (an idea I've seen bandied about a few times and one implementation of). I decided to go with Minerva since I like her and since it would be a more straightforward bash than turning the toy into a more accurate Lightfoot/Getaway (the most straightforward starting point I can think of for him would be the Universe Sideswipe mold). Plus there's room/the potenial to make room for the seat/helmet.

The TR Chromedome mold is not exactly the brilliant translation of the original design to modern form that, say, Hardhead is. It has a substantially different transformation and a reliance on faux-parts. Beyond that, the way they did the canopy was just plain stupid and makes it kind of annoying to open.

Fangry and Ptero are neat, but they have something of a shared flaw in their vehicles' gun modes: The designers only accounted for the mode as a handheld weapon, they didn't take mounting it to a vehicle or base mode into account. With Fangry it's a clearance issue caused by the dragon head, with Ptero it's the angle of the peg compared to the body. He needed an additional peg on the top of the seatback or something... Though at least with Powermaster Optimus Prime one of Optimus' own weapons provides an option. As does the Chromedome mold's large gun, so the slated-for-customization Breakaway has replaced Blurr in my PMOP's trailer.

Heads up!
There is another way to attache the combo-sword to TR Windblade:


Other pics here: http://imgur.com/a/9XPOL

Cheers!

Battoman wrote:Heads up!
There is another way to attache the combo-sword to TR Windblade:

Now that actually looks effectively dangerous! I like it!

Still looking for shots of the swords mounted onto the wings backwards if anyone wants to oblige.

Emerje

Kinda reminds me of this:



From the Legends Magna Convoy thread

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

ExciKaiser wrote:

Rated X wrote:She is definitely on her way to becoming the new Bumblebee.

Why not. I'm really tiered of Bumblebee. too much Bumblebee.

I realize we havent seen Bumblebee on the POTP leaks. What a great line it seems to be.

Not really a fan of Windblade just because of the whole "fan vote" aspect...

Heh, if you can even call it that, since Hasbro misconstrued the results of the vote into something that no fan ever voted for.

Thats exactly how I feel. The fans didnt "create" that character. Hasbro did. And they use her to troll the fans.

Rated X wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

ExciKaiser wrote:

Rated X wrote:She is definitely on her way to becoming the new Bumblebee.

Why not. I'm really tiered of Bumblebee. too much Bumblebee.

I realize we havent seen Bumblebee on the POTP leaks. What a great line it seems to be.

Not really a fan of Windblade just because of the whole "fan vote" aspect...

Heh, if you can even call it that, since Hasbro misconstrued the results of the vote into something that no fan ever voted for.

Thats exactly how I feel. The fans didnt "create" that character. Hasbro did. And they use her to troll the fans.

Dunno about the "trolling" thing. That's just "Bush did 911" conspiracy theory. But yeah, Hasbro did create her for around 90%.

What I want is a REAL fan created character. From the ground up. Go with the basic questions as usual for a month. then the month after, let the people decide on the specifics of the vehicle mode, parts by parts. The next month would be the design of the bot mode, parts by parts. The last 2 month would be to decide the backstory. Overall, the FAN design project should last between 6 months and a year.

Then, and only then, we will have a TRUE "fan created" character.

Tigertrack wrote:

Kurona wrote:Windblade's in that frustrating position of being cool, but also being shoved in everyone's faces every two seconds causing dislike for her. Like Charizard or something.

Charizard is shoved in people' s faces all the time and they don't like him? New to Pokemon scene as my boys are interested. Not any of our favorites, but acceptable to us.


I don't mind Windblade. I expect to see her added to the line action movies at some point. Drift as been made into less of a generations toy character and more of an RID, and movie character, minus MTMTE/LL, of course.

I think Pikachu is more guilty of that than Charizard, although Charizard did get two new forms not long ago. Back when the game came out, Charizard was the bad-aft starter to have.

Back on topic:

What if the COmbined Titanmaster weapon is supposed to be a RAIL GUN? Huh? Huh? Maybe its supposed to be swords that combine into a cannon?

But I agree, on their own they are kinda sucky looking on her. Someone with bigger forearms might make them look pretty cool though. A Voyager perhaps?

Honestly, aside from my usual gripe about non-headmaster characters having partsforming heads, I am very excited for this Windblade. I loved her original molds alt mode, but the limbs were floppy in between modes. I find this one's body is better proportioned with the Kibble, and captures both an amazing altmode and a good robot mode.

I love that Hasbro has chosen to make working Tilt Rotors a staple for Windblade. With every figure, I dread the day we find out its just molded to look like a tilt but they continue to articulate the fan housings.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't we supposed to get a mass release die-cast Titan Master and the last of the Japanese Headmaster homages?

Rated X wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

ExciKaiser wrote:

Rated X wrote:She is definitely on her way to becoming the new Bumblebee.

Why not. I'm really tiered of Bumblebee. too much Bumblebee.

I realize we havent seen Bumblebee on the POTP leaks. What a great line it seems to be.

Not really a fan of Windblade just because of the whole "fan vote" aspect...

Heh, if you can even call it that, since Hasbro misconstrued the results of the vote into something that no fan ever voted for.

Thats exactly how I feel. The fans didnt "create" that character. Hasbro did. And they use her to troll the fans.

Granted, I was more referring to the specific design of Windblade rather than her personality. The fans did choose her most basic elements, but no one asked for a Kabuki Transformer. Now, as far as the character's whole personality is concerned, yes, fans didn't create that, but what we got of her personality is fine (or at least, the IDW comic and RID 2015 cartoon personality versions are fine, while the murderous emo personality of hers from the CW cartoon is awful).

Do you think takara will ever release a Slipstream from that Windblade?

I agree Takara really should make another Headmaster set.
That would be a very useful thing to have.

For the most part I think this new Windblade looks good, but the thing that's really bugging me are her legs, they look way too thick & stocky for a female character. I haven't seen anyone else mention this, is it just me?

They're fine really, just not for this character. They've been bothering me quite a bit because every time I look at TR Windblade, I love how she looks, but then the legs don't really match her comic silhouette at all. Shame, really.

For anyone interested, I'm looking to buy a tidalwave, thunderwing, and wingspan, pm me if interested

homicide wrote:For the most part I think this new Windblade looks good, but the thing that's really bugging me are her legs, they look way too thick & stocky for a female character. I haven't seen anyone else mention this, is it just me?

I think the main problem with this Winblade are not the legs, but the head.
In order to fit all the details of the face and hair they had to shrunk it down a lot, and the face ended being too small compared to the rest of the body.
I have the feeling the legs are too square, instead of big, while the overall too bigness of the limbs is due the head being too small.
Can we have a pic of Windblade featuring another headmaster?