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News Credits: 129 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:13 pm

A lot has been made of the Perfect Effect Motorbot lately. She's great, most of us who have her can agree on that. I saw a lot of negative comments on iGear's Delicate Warrior as part of that discussion that I didn't think were necessarily fair. So I took a small set of pics to give us another look at this great figure for those who may still be undecided.

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News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:31 pm

Delicate Warrior's great. I'm fully satisfied with her as my classics Arcee.

News Credits: 10 · by **Trikeboy** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:17 pm

Delicate Warrior is a great item and did not deserve the bad press it got. People were still hurt over Valkyrie and I presume misplaced their rage. Her price point wasn't the best though. This toy has a great robot and vehicle mode, though it comes with a display stand it stands on its own, highly poseable and has an almost perfect likeness to the on screen character. She is my classics Arcee. I will not be buying Motorbot, well, not the pink version anyway. I could use the blue one as Chromia.

BTW, thank you for this thread Counterpunch, my only complaint about Delicate Warrior was her backpack was a bit too high in robot mode. Now I see your pictures I realise I have mine mistransformed. I have no complaints about Delicate Warrior.

Edit: Actually, I do have 1 complaint: Why couldn't Hasbro have done this by now?

by **Rated X** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:53 pm

Im kind of wishing I had picked one up at Botcon. What stopped me is that since I have both Valkarie and Medic, I did not want to upstage Medic since Igear never did a repaint. KO Toys once talked about KO repaints but it never happened. I might still get one if the price drops. But I gotta agree with Counterpunch that this is the best Classics Arcee. Period.

News Credits: 33 · by **Genocide G2.0** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:20 am

I think the body looks great and hearing the articulation is that good makes me want pick her up , however the head sculpt well the face is what puts me off after watching season 3 lately the face doesn't look like arcee it's an excellent stand in and a character i realy want but i'd like to see hasbro take her on first.

News Credits: 2 · by **Banjo-Tron** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:33 am

I think Delicate warrior fits perfectly, in terms of how she looks. But in other aspects, she is pretty crappy. I have my review below, for anyone who is interested.

PS. Delicate warrior is not by iGear, they are merely a distributor.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:52 am

Wondering when/where the Elita -1 version will ever be released? Iirc, Firestar was also in the works (though her face sculpt was to put it mildly not too nice).

And yes Counterpunch, this version though lightyears away from PE Motorbot(those guys had it easy 'cause Arcee + a motor cycle alt mod makes a perfect, pardon the pun, gynoid mode)

Arcee G1 is shoe horned in a blocky car mode. Try making a feminine looking 'bot from those specs. More or less, despite the curves implemented on her, she'll come out as a shell former. The Valkyrie released by Impossible toys(did I get the right?) tried to make her too feminine but ended up with a preying mantis looking monstrosity. Spindly extremities and an over sized head.............uggh!

Delicate warrior was far from perfect but she's the best version we have to contend for now, until Takara eventually releases an official one (or simply just release the proto type that one of their head engineers made when he was a rookie (probably iirc Hirofumi Ichikawa).

Mine btw sits on G1 Hotrodimus' right shoulder (like literally)

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:54 am

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:00 pm

I think this is a great looking Arcee in both modes, but I think it is a pretty crappy 'transformer'. **** just gets crammed underneath her. If you want something that looks nice for your shelf, it's a good purchase. If you want something to play with and transform, this probably isn't the figure you want.

News Credits: 129 · by **Counterpunch** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:31 pm

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:34 pm

I like Delicate Warrior, but somehow I feel like Motorbot (?) is a better Classics representation.

Delicate Warrior is very show accurate, which is an incredibly awesome feat in and of itself, but I think she just doesn't fit in with the rest of the Classics line.
All of which have been updated and modernised and given a more detailed look. Some even homage different, more recent/ iconic representations/ incarnations of the characters.

For instance Perceptor, looks a hell of a lot like IDW Perceptor and turns into something looking like a realistic version of Animated Perceptor.

Delicate Warrior however, well she just looks out of place.

She almost looks like she jumped of the screen, which would have been awesome a few years ago, but now just makes her look weird in the Classics line.

The PErfect effect offering bring in a G1 ish robot-mode, inspired by the idw look, loads of modern detailing and articulation, plus it homages the now more iconic bike alt-mode for her (which I'm still iffy about).

That however, doesn't make DW crappy.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:15 pm

Critiques for G1 toon accuracy?? That kinda new, lol.

The classicsverse has a few. Even if they aren't as close as Arcee, I'd consider Hot Rod, Bumblebee, and Starscream to be fairly toon accurate. But I've said it once and I'll say it again, the classiceverse has so many conflicting styles just within it's own various lines, and you're in a whole new ball game when you toss in 3rd party figures.

But it's all in the beholder, I suppose.

Website · by **Flux Convoy** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:31 pm

Hey bud, any chance we could get a pic of that movie trio with Motobot instead of Delicate Warrior? I'm really finding it difficult to decide on an Arcee. I know I'm getting a version of Motobot for certain but I can't decide which deco. Pink would obviously fill in for Classics Arcee for me. Blue, I really can't place. She's too much of a departure from Chromia to work for me. :/ Thoughts, suggestions?