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EBay seller SPX_Toys has again provided the fandom with a first look at some upcoming Transformers Movie toys. This time it's the smaller, 'legends' class figures of the Decepticons Starscream and Blackout.

click here for Starscream

click here for Blackout

Blackout looks pretty good!

Starscream? Oh dear me no.

-Nick

HA! To think that's what ALL of our Transformers figures looked like back in the day! How far we've come, my friends.

Hooray,... more crap.

I will say this: it's great to see something that is a throwback to the Transformers of yesterday.

But for some of these Legends...ugh. Someone call Randy Orton and tell him we need some Legends killed.

i hate to keep saying it.. but:
BAGAWK!!!!
from jet to chicken with automorph technology!

I've seen those before, and good for them, making money over crapy ugly looking cheap toys. I can't wait for more...

Reminds me of GoBots

Come now, John. I don't think you hated saying that at all

The jet mode's a bit lumpen towards the back, but it's not that bad. Robot mode... it's... well... it's quite a nice colour, I suppose?

-Nick

Starscream says "Who said I look like bacon?" =P

Regardless of what anyone thinks about Starscream's design, I don't believe anyone could, in good conscience, agree that that is a good looking toy.

Pyro Nosra wrote:Reminds me of GoBots

Thats what i was thinking. And because they look like Go-Bots im gonna get them. I miss the Go-Bots.

My failure-sense is tingling. Those are funny as hell but look terrible.

Horrible. Blackout, again, looks miles better than Starscream, but both still rate as horrible in my book.

G1 transformer toys look a thousand times better than these. They have actual arms for one thing. Plus they felt good quality in your hands.

These are vomit frozen and shaped. To look like lumps.

I pity the poor child who asks for Movie Starscream for his birthday or something and gets THIS one.

C'mon guys. Do you have any idea how small these gusy are? They are like Micromaster size! (right?)
I pity the toy designers who have te translate the movie's rediculous transformations to such a minitoy. Not an easy task at all.

legends when i read about legends figures i expected they a class of with more detail im not big collectore when it comes to transformers but the there calling these classes in detail as a newtype of transformers action figures it confuses me when i read legend figures i was thinking one step up above the voyager class type but not a step down from fast action battler figures.

Rodimus sucks wrote:C'mon guys. Do you have any idea how small these gusy are? They are like Micromaster size! (right?)
I pity the toy designers who have te translate the movie's rediculous transformations to such a minitoy. Not an easy task at all.

Yeah, really. If you look at some of the comparison pics floating around, the movie Legends are actually smaller than the normal Cybertron Legends toys.

Yeah, the look weird, I know. But you try to make a two inch tall helicopter turn into something that looks like the movie design for Blackout. Considering the complex bot modes, the small scale, cheap and simple transformations that the designers have no choice BUT to work with, I think these are not too bad. I mean Starscream looks like an F22 in vehicle mode, and he looks like his bot mode when he's transformed. mission accomplished. And he has balls joints for crying out loud, that's enough to impress me.

Fans need to be more forgiving, especially when it comes to smaller, cheaper figs.

Looks like a load of crap to me.

Lord Crump wrote:G1 transformer toys look a thousand times better than these. They have actual arms for one thing. Plus they felt good quality in your hands.

These are vomit frozen and shaped. To look like lumps.

Yes G1 Transformers had arms! G1 Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp had at least half of an arm and another half that you put on after transforming them... if you could find them both. But that was cool because it could be like battle damage or something.

There were a lot of "battle damaged" transformers in our household missing hands or wings or just a weapon system.

But that was good because you could feel that quality. It might have been in the die cast that made a lot of those figures topple over at the slightest breeze. It might have also been because at most they had two points of articulation and the rest was pure quality goodness. It could have been a lot of things.

All I know is that when I put Devastator together, I knew I had a solid lump of brick... if I could find all the connector pieces, the chest wings, the lower arms, hands, and head. A quality brick.

Much love for G1, but it's much better in my memories.

The Starscream isn't the greatest toy ever, but it'll be cheap and it's a pretty good representation of his movie form. Blackout actually look ok for a Legend toy.

Starscream... Er, yeah, somehow I had a feeling that was gonna happen. Well, except for the spatulas. Why did they put the effort into the torso, rather than the arms?

Blackout? Blackout is fast becoming my favorite of the movie Decepticons. This miniaturized version certainly hasn't hurt... He looks the best of the movie LoCs we've seen so far.

okay let me get this straight starscream and blackout are already movie legends and the movie hasn't even come out yet nor did the toys.i mean you got to be kidding me more frickin repaints and legends.sorry for complaining but im tired of starscream already wheres scourge or cyclonus or even the other g-1 seekers.starscream died in 1986 in transformers the cartoon movie at the hands of galvatron.

Wow, those look bad. Boy am I glad I'm avoiding the movie Legends.

blackout looks kinda like vortex in vehicle mode