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Ratchet looks great, and so does Bluestreak.

I wonder how people will react to the mostly white nature of Ratchet though.

I love his G1 toy weapon, it looks great, and now I think we need more reprints of this mold. Diaclone anyone?

They both look pretty good. Bluestreak at first glance seems to be the best use of the Prowl mold to me. I wish Ratchet had a red crest though

Oh gee golly!

These look very pretty! However, I noticed it's not using the "chubby" more toon accurate head that you see on Barricade. Was this a mess-up??? I do recall the G1 toy having the same head as prowl if I'm not mistaken.

Also I am hoping for a marvel "red head " version of Ratchet for an exclusive down the line,

but truth be told I really digging these. I have the molds already but the color scheme was enough to get me to want these again - the charm and of recolors and retools.

I would love to get a Blue / Blue ( silver) streak version

Finally, no more Prowl-colored helmet for Ratchet.

Where are his red underpants?

Picking up both, though.

i want to know if that bit in the back of ratchet gun is a wrench

notirishman wrote:

Bluestreak looks on point. The only big "cartoon accuracy" criticism I would give is that the upper arms should be gray, not red. I'm not bothered by the reuse of the Prowl mold head either, as they always looked very similar anyway. I don't think the original toys had different head sculpts, and the cartoon models are close enough, despite some small detailing and shape differences. Technically, the pelvis should have been retooled too, but whatever. A little bit of silver paint on the lower torso would have been good too. I guess the shoulder cannons could have been retooled too, as they are supposed to look different than Smokescreen's, but they don't look bad on Bluestreak. I accept them doing "double duty" in that sense. Overall, I'm very happy with how SIEGE Bluestreak has turned out.

notirishman wrote:

I'm also very happy to see that Ratchet has his animation accurate dark gray/black head crest. The shoulders look good with those red highlights and the light bars as visible kibble from alt mode. They can't really do the Red Cross symbol anymore, so I can't knock them for not being that accurate to the G1 cartoon model. In that regard, I also accept the "extraneous" red paint detailing on the wrists, collar, leg panels, and feet, as otherwise, Ratchet has got a LOT of white/negative space in his deco. What does bother me, though, is that they DIDN'T paint the few parts that are SUPPOSED to be red, like his hands and pelvis. Looking at the plastic color layout for SIEGE Ironhide, I think they should have cast those parts in red plastic and just painted over the shoulders in white where needed. Paying attention to that detail, along with the rest of the detailing "embellishments," would have made for a very sharp looking toy with just two main colors (plus that delicious light blue clear windshield).

Both are a given. I only wish they developed new launchers for Bluestreak.

Cool!
Bluestreak = Gimme, gimme, gimme!!
Looks like Ratchet has a bunch of re-sculpted bits. Nice!

Yes--I think that's why I'm not feeling this Ratchet--he's too much of a brick of white. Red waist would have broken it up and red hands would have helped.

Rachet looks pretty slick, and I'll echo Sabrblade's sentiments about the head crest

Bland looking figures, i will hang onto my iGear Ratchet and my Universe Classic Bluestreak.

Aw yeah, its our boy Ratchet and he's looking...well, he looks good enough. Damn it Siege, stop making me like 1984 Autobots!

This is awesome I maybe wish this was that color or that was this color but man this makes for an awesome week of previews thanks dude!

I love Ratchet having that style gun! Gotta have him.

Finally!! I wait for this really much!!! I really love Ratchet!!! Awesome! Take my money! Also glad to another glad return with a nice Bluestreak! Please Hasbro/Takara and siege masterminds...give me B and Dinobots and make this guy really happy forever!!!

Skritz wrote:Aw yeah, its our boy Ratchet and he's looking...well, he looks good enough. Damn it Siege, stop making me like 1984 Autobots!

Dude you’re pooched, these are so cool!

Hey if you all could pick like 2 out of the 3: Prowl, Bluesteak, or Smokescreen, which would you pick? They’re like the Autobot Seekers. So cool.

00Stargrave00 wrote:Hey if you all could pick like 2 out of the 3: Prowl, Bluesteak, or Smokescreen, which would you pick? They’re like the Autobot Seekers. So cool.

I would pick Bluestreak: he is a talker, and thus is very relatable to me.

My 2nd pick would be Smokescreen cause cool name, racecar alt mode, and Prime made me love and pay more attention to Smokescreen characters.

00Stargrave00 wrote:Hey if you all could pick like 2 out of the 3: Prowl, Bluesteak, or Smokescreen, which would you pick? They’re like the Autobot Seekers. So cool.

Probably Bluestreak and Smokescreen.

00Stargrave00 wrote:

Skritz wrote:Aw yeah, its our boy Ratchet and he's looking...well, he looks good enough. Damn it Siege, stop making me like 1984 Autobots!

Dude you’re pooched, these are so cool!

Hey if you all could pick like 2 out of the 3: Prowl, Bluesteak, or Smokescreen, which would you pick? They’re like the Autobot Seekers. So cool.

I love that notion of autobot seekers, I never thought of it that way but it works perfectly.

william-james88 wrote:

00Stargrave00 wrote:

Skritz wrote:Aw yeah, its our boy Ratchet and he's looking...well, he looks good enough. Damn it Siege, stop making me like 1984 Autobots!

Dude you’re pooched, these are so cool!

Hey if you all could pick like 2 out of the 3: Prowl, Bluesteak, or Smokescreen, which would you pick? They’re like the Autobot Seekers. So cool.

I love that notion of autobot seekers, I never thought of it that way but it works perfectly.

I thought I was maybe being too dorky about that
The Rovers? The Adventurers? Locators? Shoot where’s my thesaurus ...

Now that I see these two and like the way they look, I might as well dip for Prowl and Ironhide...

...when I come back from deployment and go on leave.

Hm... Not sure what I was expecting, but Ratchet took me a second to get used to and I already love it. And Bluestreak actually looks nice to me here despite me not liking the design for Prowl. I was always going to pick up the Ratchet figure but I may actually pick up Bluestreak and potentially Smokescreen. Also it would appear that they didn't end up pinning Ratchet's side panels. Let's just hope they managed to fix the issue of the panels popping off

Well Bluestreak looks perfect, he's easily the best use of this mold and a guaranteed purchase. That red really pops, and I'm glad he looks to have dark windows as opposed to Prowl's clear ones. Maybe having the mold in-hand will help me come to a final opinion on Barricade...still nothing on when or how he's released though, which isn't helpful.

Ratchet though...ehhhh. I can't really tell what his weapon is even supposed to be at this angle, the G1 cartoon head sculpt/coloring is still off-putting to me, and he's so blindingly white. Ironhide has two different shades of grey plus battle damage in robot mode, what happened here? I mean I'm glad they didn't go full G1 cartoon and make him all white, but I still think they went too far in that direction. Maybe when we get official pics of him and see his alt mode he'll look better, but right now all I like about him are his retooled shoulders and his windshield.

00Stargrave00 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

00Stargrave00 wrote:

Skritz wrote:Aw yeah, its our boy Ratchet and he's looking...well, he looks good enough. Damn it Siege, stop making me like 1984 Autobots!

Dude you’re pooched, these are so cool!

Hey if you all could pick like 2 out of the 3: Prowl, Bluesteak, or Smokescreen, which would you pick? They’re like the Autobot Seekers. So cool.

I love that notion of autobot seekers, I never thought of it that way but it works perfectly.

I thought I was maybe being too dorky about that
The Rovers? The Adventurers? Locators? Shoot where’s my thesaurus ...

The Cruisers?