The Energon Pub

Sabrblade wrote:Oh boy. This is going to make so many people mad.

Why? I think it's great.

...oh. Well then.

Am I still disappointed that Armada Blurr isn't here? Yes, HOWEVER, this Blurr is waaaay more appealing to me than the alternate rumor of "G1 Blurr with the blues switched" ever was. It's got a way better head sculpt than the G1 version, the amount of retooling is unexpected, and it's probably the closest we'll get to an Animated Blurr anytime soon, so I guess I'm in.

This looks unexpectedly good! It's not perfect, but it does dramatically impove this mold IMO. Far better than the rumored toy colored Blurr.

This renews my hope for more toys of IDW designs. Might have to pick this up. Why does so much of this line look good.

Well its exciting that they're revisiting idw! Love a lot of character designs from there

I like the colors and headsculpt but not enough to double dip on this mold. Rather wait for an updated tf:animated blurr someday

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Oh boy. This is going to make so many people mad.

Why? I think it's great.

They were expecting Cybertron Blurr. I think the Ovveride was great (except the price) and would like to se more like it! This is good for what it is though.

I would have welcomed an Armada Blurr update and we'll probably see one eventually since Hasbro has surely seen the fan speculation by now, but I like this one too. I'm setting up a display of Cybertronian G1, pre-movie G1 and post-movie G1 and this one will fit in nicely with the Cybertronian group (Universe Blurr will be pre-movie and SS86 will be post-movie) so it's a definite get.

I do wonder if a proper Armada Blurr remake will actually be called Blurr after we saw RID Scourge become amalgamated with Nemesis Prime. I guess it didn't stop Prime Universe Arcee from keeping her name.

Emerje

Sabrblade wrote:Oh boy. This is going to make so many people mad.

More like perplexed in my case. Don't know where he will fit in my collection, but I'm going to get him anyway.

Found a cheftron vid review of this figure

https://youtu.be/YIuUJv6t-2M

Hopefully they reissue Sunstreaker in this line, and if they don't soon I'm going to assume they don't like the character considering how many times I've seen Arcee released in the last four years...

Till-all-R1 wrote:Hopefully they reissue Sunstreaker in this line, and if they don't soon I'm going to assume they don't like the character considering how many times I've seen Arcee released in the last four years...

Yeahhhh...all that's in the line has been leaked already per Will's post.

Till-all-R1 wrote:Hopefully they reissue Sunstreaker in this line, and if they don't soon I'm going to assume they don't like the character considering how many times I've seen Arcee released in the last four years...

I find it a bit ironic how G1 Sunstreaker is portrayed as someone who is proud and protective of his appearance, yet the ER figure's paint job is such a botch.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:Hopefully they reissue Sunstreaker in this line, and if they don't soon I'm going to assume they don't like the character considering how many times I've seen Arcee released in the last four years...

I find it a bit ironic how G1 Sunstreaker is portrayed as someone who is proud and protective of his appearance, yet the ER figure's paint job is such a botch.

Blame the hardest color to manage, Yellow.

SS86 Blurr is a massive pain in the ass to transform. I’ll be skipping this figure.

TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:SS86 Blurr is a massive pain in the ass to transform. I’ll be skipping this figure.

HOW?

Were you around at the ROTF times?
SS Blurr is a 1-step changer compared to those.

TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:SS86 Blurr is a massive pain in the ass to transform. I’ll be skipping this figure.

Not being a fan of the character in general I passed on Blurr, in fact I found him to be tad annoying in the movie. lol However, with the recent Pulse sale bringing it down to $15 I couldn't pass it up to complete the 86 movie lineup.

Anyway, hearing this slightly bothers me as pretty much every figure I've bought has a somewhat easy transformation.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:SS86 Blurr is a massive pain in the ass to transform. I’ll be skipping this figure.

HOW?

Were you around at the ROTF times?
SS Blurr is a 1-step changer compared to those.

Blurr, has a few things here and there that make the transformation unpleasant. Getting everything to tab in for car mode is a chore for instance.


His chest doesn't really stay in place in robot mode. He's not terrible, but I'm glad I picked up for cheap from Amazon rather than paying full price for him.

All in all, he has some interesting bits of engineering and some other decisions that boggle the mind.

TR Blurr I think does it much better, and gets a good hover car mode out of it.

Overcracker wrote:
TR Blurr I think does it much better, and gets a good hover car mode out of it.

That we can agree on. TR Blurr is the superior toy. He have a much cleaner look too.

Yes TR Blurr is the better mold. But the TR deco isn't great, hence why I went for the Legends version which is gorgeous!

IDW Blurr is a surprise, but a pleasant one. I don't like the mold much, but I will get this one

Overcracker wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:SS86 Blurr is a massive pain in the ass to transform. I’ll be skipping this figure.

HOW?

Were you around at the ROTF times?
SS Blurr is a 1-step changer compared to those.

Blurr, has a few things here and there that make the transformation unpleasant. Getting everything to tab in for car mode is a chore for instance.


His chest doesn't really stay in place in robot mode. He's not terrible, but I'm glad I picked up for cheap from Amazon rather than paying full price for him.

All in all, he has some interesting bits of engineering and some other decisions that boggle the mind.

TR Blurr I think does it much better, and gets a good hover car mode out of it.

Hard to transform? Nah. I think TR blur isn't as good, it slopes in reverse (the bottom slopes up, very inaccurate), and Blur gets his giant back arm pieces on the Studio Series release. The head sculpt is iffy, but I might actually pick this up and see what I think about it in hand.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:Hopefully they reissue Sunstreaker in this line, and if they don't soon I'm going to assume they don't like the character considering how many times I've seen Arcee released in the last four years...

I find it a bit ironic how G1 Sunstreaker is portrayed as someone who is proud and protective of his appearance, yet the ER figure's paint job is such a botch.

Blame the hardest color to manage, Yellow.

*says the one with victory Leo as a signature*

I heard it was white that's hardest, but thinking back on it Sunstreakers colors may be a bit off. Apparently it was bad enough for Lazy Eyebrow to have to repaint. Maybe that's another reason Bumblebee is such a bad character?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Overcracker wrote:
TR Blurr I think does it much better, and gets a good hover car mode out of it.

That we can agree on. TR Blurr is the superior toy. He have a much cleaner look too.

Hilariously, the extra kibble on 86 Blur is much more accurate

Also, check your grammar!

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Overcracker wrote:
TR Blurr I think does it much better, and gets a good hover car mode out of it.

That we can agree on. TR Blurr is the superior toy. He have a much cleaner look too.

Hilariously, the extra kibble on 86 Blur is much more accurate
!

Kind of, it's still excessive and too much ends up overflowing, resulting in a look that ends up just as bad if not worse than none at all ala TR Blurr.

I greatly prefer TR Blurr, but I also enjoyed the titan master play feature