Another Look at DOTM Laserbeak

Is anyone else REALLY missing Energon series Divebomb right about now? I know I am.

heh---think of it this way. a crap load of TF fans are gonna buy the toys anyway, so why should Hasbro improve the quality? They could make them as crappy as the stuff one gets from KOToys, and people will still buy them.

Wraith

He looks like some kind of attack drone. I'll reserve judgement until I see his alternate "Laserbeak" mode. At least he doesn't transform into a folded up Ravage like...um Ravage.

ugly as sin

I just caught a 2-3 second glimpse of what the CGI Laserbeak would look like in the DOTM TV game commercial, and this plastic monstrosity bears only a passing resemblance to the CGI.

The CGI version looks like some sort of "mechanical baby dragon"--all metal, with a pair of "turbo-fans" built into the shoulders [don't remember what you call them--basically fans encased in a shallow cylinder like Transmetal Megatron's T-Rex mode], and metallic feather-like wings, and a tail. No arms or legs, as far as I can tell.

The toy's black head and red wings are NOT screen-accurate.

It bears very little resemblance to what we saw in the trailer. Maybe it's an activator or something like that.

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:I just caught a 2-3 second glimpse of what the CGI Laserbeak would look like in the DOTM TV game commercial, and this plastic monstrosity bears only a passing resemblance to the CGI.

The CGI version looks like some sort of "mechanical baby dragon"--all metal, with a pair of "turbo-fans" built into the shoulders [don't remember what you call them--basically fans encased in a shallow cylinder like Transmetal Megatron's T-Rex mode], and metallic feather-like wings, and a tail. No arms or legs, as far as I can tell.

The toy's black head and red wings are NOT screen-accurate.

Yeah, well, when have Hasbro been fussed about colour? Blue Jetfire, blue Megatrons, yellow Rampage...

Mykltron wrote:

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:I just caught a 2-3 second glimpse of what the CGI Laserbeak would look like in the DOTM TV game commercial, and this plastic monstrosity bears only a passing resemblance to the CGI.

The CGI version looks like some sort of "mechanical baby dragon"--all metal, with a pair of "turbo-fans" built into the shoulders [don't remember what you call them--basically fans encased in a shallow cylinder like Transmetal Megatron's T-Rex mode], and metallic feather-like wings, and a tail. No arms or legs, as far as I can tell.

The toy's black head and red wings are NOT screen-accurate.

Yeah, well, when have Hasbro been fussed about colour? Blue Jetfire, blue Megatrons, yellow Rampage...

True.

What I'm most concerned about is the toy itself. While I can always repaint the whole thing in screen-accurate silver, or dry-brush it for a more realistic look, there's little I can do if the toy itself sucks.

You guys know i hated this. but he's a cool lookig fig.

It's a Wyvern, I like it.

Almost looks like it wants to be a Zord.

After seeing the game trailer I am pretty sure that this is LB.
It would be nice to see a better pix of it too.

He`s kinda meh for a deluxe, but if they make a legends version, i´ll get it so my Soundwave can have another minion.

I realize this may be mistransformed but so far it's looking bad. I agree that for scaling purposes I'll pick up a legends class version if they make it.

its vehicle mode looks like the dragon hawk from gi-joe sigma six

if you pictures its wings inside of the fans, and its feet somehow molded into a track

Doesn't look quite as menacing as the video game depiction as well as what we saw in the Super Bowl trailer.

How many times do I have to say this? Takara and Hasbro have equal hands in the creation of these toys. I get really tired of those people that knock Hasbro everytime a piece of garbage comes out. As far as this toy is concerned, it looks ok from the neck down. I likely will not buy it unless there is an awesome alt mode. I did not buy a Ravage because the alt mode sucks even though I do have the mail in version still sealed in the mailing box.

thedriod wrote:its vehicle mode looks like the dragon hawk from gi-joe sigma six

if you pictures its wings inside of the fans, and its feet somehow molded into a track

Good call. In the new picture it almost looks like there's a cockpit detail. Who knows though. I still remember when pics came out of Ravage's chicken alt-mode and that was way off

cannonfodder4000 wrote:Hey, does this guy remind anyone of The Giant Claw?






I know that they both look like bald eagles but still.

I can't believe I actually mixed up vultures with bald eagles. >.>

I don't know what I think of the toy, since it looks mistransformed and the quality isn't too good, but I am glad they put him in the movie. I had been hoping they would so that we'd have both season 1 non-humanoid cassettes.

Not much transformation we see going on here. We have that dragon/long-neck mode, and then the more bird-like mode with that painted face... :S The question might be how badly it's mistransformed, but I agree it's not looking very promising so far....

If that dragon looking thing in the trailer was Lazerbeak, than this looks nothing like him, and so far a bigger price of crap than how the original looked.

The painted head appears to be windows on top of it. Maybe he transform into a vehicle or something.

Alright, I think I can live with this. That black thing has what looks like a cockpit, and the wingy thingies appear to be a swivel ducted lift fan, so what we're looking at here is a cross between a Cybertronian Bird, and a take on a futuristic Osprey, not unlike the ones used in Avatar by the military landing parties. The painted eagle head then is nothing more than a Lasewrbeask joke on the shark-mouths. Colors need some work, but then we got a G1 Ravage long before we got the actual Movie Ravage, so there may be hope there. Now, if we can get a picture of the Ebay quality for his "bird mode" so we can figure out how badly mis-transformed he is, we'll be set.

By the way, I LIKED Movie Ravage's figure, but I'm using him based on his Beast Wars incarnation.

After viewing he latest pics of Laserbeak, I have to say I'm warming up to the toy. Looks almost decent in "dragon/vulture" mode, and the red wings can be easily remedied with a coat of silver or dry-brushing.

As for the alt mode, and I'm not even sure if it's a proper alt mode...not so much.

He's so cute and adorable! Who would be afraid of this little- (gets cut off as Laserbeak attacks me)

ACToys member b-o-t brings us the best images of DOTM Laserbeak to date. Hard to say if the transformations are accurate, but these look reasonable given what we've seen in the movie and game trailers. The images are mirrored below.

I'm pretty sure that wyvern mode is the coolest thing I've ever seen. Bought on sight as far as I'm concerned.

That is a strange beast and strangely enough i find those last couple of pictures have me warming even though i hate the first couple... i dont know i might get it.

Whaddafuuuu... ??? Hell NO!!
Looks like I'm gonna save a buttload of money this year.

If they would have just left off the bits for the fake alt mode, this might have been decent. But with the "cockpit" hanging under his chest and the super chunky wings, this just looks to out of proportion and strange. Too bad because I bet LB will be pretty cool... for the 5 seconds or so he's probably going to be in the movie.

I'm actually liking this guy. Even though I doubt he'll have it in the movie, I think his alt-mode is much better than what Ravage turned into. I like different, so it's cool

Well the parrot mode sucks but Im digging the other mode !!!

It just...it just isn't getting any better is it?

looks like it was molded off a Zord....
but
IDK, mixed feelings

Transforms from bird to bird.....

Crazy-futuristic-VTOL to freaky-ass death-condor? Sure, I can get on board with that. I wish his head looked a lot better, but the vehicle mode is cool enough that I can overlook that. I'm pleasantly suprised.

Eww!

Wow.

Just WOW.

Now it looks like a strangled, drowned and plucked chicken.

I like my TF's fugly a lot of the time and this is fugly!! His bird mode looks like something i'd see in a Godzilla movie.

The headsculpt is not what LB should look like, in either mode. To me that figure should look like his name sounds. Fast and lethal. If that makes sense.

IDK.....if i see him for a couple bucks on clearance then i might get him.

He has a charm about him though. I do like monstrous TF's so he could win me over.

Mykltron wrote:Now it looks like a strangled, drowned and plucked chicken.

HA! that's exactly what he looks like! Good call. He's borderline ridiculous. They should have named him Cutthroat instead of Lazerbeak because that's who he looks more like. IMO

Looks to me like a newborn baby bird with those big bulb eyes and weak pecker. Doubt the movie version is so anemic. So I hope.

Beericade wrote:...and weak pecker.

This guy is actually growing on me. Although there isn't much transformation involved, though I like the extending neck and tail gimmickry. I'll have to see it in hand before making the choice...

I kinda like it.

I have Scorponok & his repaint in movie monster mode hanging with my Godzilla stuff.
This will fit right in with those guys.

man i didnt think the figure could get any worse but then i scrolled down and it just got worse and worse and worse to the point where i felt like puking. Thanks for ruining another great character bay.

thedriod wrote:its vehicle mode looks like the dragon hawk from gi-joe sigma six

and that is the only reason I'm excited for this. I actually wasn't until these recent pics, but I'm sure I can just leave the neck & tail in alt mode and fold out the wings when I want to! (plus, with the feet folded down he looks a little like a Metal Gear)

I'm gonna get this because I love Laserbeak, but the Chicken/Vulture head WILL be covered at all times.

monstergrotusque wrote:I like my TF's fugly a lot of the time and this is fugly!! His bird mode looks like something i'd see in a Godzilla movie.

Really, this is precisely why I like him. What's more badass than a Godzilla monster? A transforming robot Godzilla monster. And from the context of the film universe, it really does make a certain amount of sense; Soundwave doesn't seem to have any sort of decent self defense capabilities floating in space, so his drones need to defend both him and themselves. Only makes sense to me that Laserbeak would be so tricked out.

I don't see what the complaints are about, honestly; his smaller, compact mode is a spitting image of Laserbeak right down to the head, albeit very Movie-verse-looking, which should be expected at this point. The only part that doesn't look like Laserbeak is his second bird mode, which frankly I'm glad we even have since neither Ravage nor Scorponok had proper alt modes. At least Laserbeak actually transforms into something completely different this time instead of not transforming into anything or just curling up into a ball and calling itself a space rock.

That is one terribly stupid looking head in beast mode. if that head wasn't so dumb looking, i'd actually want this..but... argh, its so retarded looking. Maybe I'll get it, and just never take the helmet part off.

That looks like crap. What we've seen in the game trailer and the Super Bowl trailer looks much better than this. It's like ROTF Soundwave all over again.