Deciphering Website for Special Codes on Siege Packaging Now Available

Wait the SDCC posters had hidden messages too?

Hound: Remember
Cog: to drink
Sideswipe: your
Skytread: Ovaltine

Son of a... Well played Hasbro, well played.

Just tried the codes from all 4 deluxe boxes so far, and they translated as:
Cog: FortressMaximus
Hound: Maccadams
Sideswipe: Sunstreaker
Skytread: Duocon

after inputting the codes I was brought to this screen with a countdown to when I can use the code to "access database content":


Very interesting. Guess we have a month to wait to have our curiosity fully satiated.

The return of the Cybertron Key Code content

Sabrblade wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:How exactly does Siege Hound NOT look like a jeep!?

Well, it's not like it should, since there wouldn't have been Jeeps on Cybertron four million years before they were invented on Earth.

Well, then I guess Sideswipe shouldn't look like a Countach Lamborghini? And Optimus shouldn't look like a flat nosed cab over truck wearing a floodlight as a hat? Well, surprise! They totally do!

Let's be honest here, many of the alt modes for the Siege line were barely designed with the "Cybertronian" aesthetic in mind. If you didn't tell most consumers that Siege Hound was supposed to be some kind of alien vehicle, do you think they wouldn't assume he's some kind of a military jeep?

The codes on optimus and megatron dont work. And if you get too many wrong ones, prowl will come for you

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The return of the Cybertron Key Code content

I had the same thought!

My guess would be it's a countdown (get it?) to the full, money shot reveal of Titan-Class Omega Supreme.

Skritz wrote:My guess would be it's a countdown (get it?) to the full, money shot reveal of Titan-Class Omega Supreme.

Possibly, but then what would the codes be for? I doubt they're gonna give us different codes that'll all lead to the same thing; there's gotta be something else.

Jeddostotle7 wrote:

Skritz wrote:My guess would be it's a countdown (get it?) to the full, money shot reveal of Titan-Class Omega Supreme.

Possibly, but then what would the codes be for? I doubt they're gonna give us different codes that'll all lead to the same thing; there's gotta be something else.

On the one hand, I think you might be right about it being different because as you brought up, they're different codes. But on the other, I wouldn't be surprised if Hasbro made a pool of codes that you could be given tht just lead to the same thing. If this was going on during SDCC or Hascon next year, I'd suggest maybe it's to give a sneak peek at next year's figures like Sunstreaker, or a leader class Fort Max, similar to IDW's take. As it stands though, my money's on it being a countdown to Omega's full reveal. Timing fits that as well, seeing as they'd wanna start building hype over the year before releasing him late summer. Especially since it appears the promotional decos aren't always the final product and they might want to make sure that people will buy Omega since he's gonna be a risk with non-collectors as is with his partsforming so their best bet would be to appeal to collectors to try and get them to buy him, but they might not if the deco is too battle damaged

Let's talk again about Cog, everyone. He's a figure we didn't expect to ever get mere months ago. He's a very different kind of Deluxe Class figure. And he's won over a lot of hearts already. First off, I will say that I like Cog. He's a great update to the original G1 figure. You can still separate him into his component vehicles of Gasket and Grommet. And he's a veritable "weapons pack" for your figures too! I've got the Transformers Legends Fortress Maximus, and the colors on this new Cog toy are almost a perfect match for the reds and blues used by Takara on their release of Fort Max. Your mileage may vary on the color coordination if you have the Hasbro version(s).

The biggest downside to Cog is, of course, the simplicity of his transformation. You just unfold the legs, lift up the head, and pop off the arms to move them to the shoulders. That's it. His transformation is just not very interesting, and the fact that almost half of it is partsforming makes it even worse. Like others have said before, he has trouble holding his own guns securely in his fists, especially in his right fist, for whatever reason. On the other hand, I will note that, at least on my copy, the combination of Gasket and Grommet in vehicle mode works well, despite being a simple flat tab in slot system. It holds together if you're just rolling Cog around on the table, and he stays together even if you pick him up and handle him gently. Any rough play, and he'll come apart, though. The legs peg into the pelvis pretty loosely too, so as you pose Cog, you'll have to contend with the legs falling off frequently.

Cog is definitely NOT a Deluxe Class Transformers figure that is to be enjoyed in the traditional play patterns. He works great as a display and companion piece to Fortress Maximus, and if that's all you need him for, you won't really find him lacking. If you're like me and you like to pull your figures off the shelf periodically and transform them back and forth, Cog is comes up short, being extremely simplistic to convert and very fiddly when posing in robot mode because of his modular nature and loose tolerances. If you're the kind of person that likes to really "play" with their toys and armor up your other figures or just fool around and see what kinds of silly configurations you can come up with, then Cog is pretty good fun. Is he $20 of fun? I'm not so sure, honestly.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Let's talk again about Cog, everyone. He's a figure we didn't expect to ever get mere months ago. He's a very different kind of Deluxe Class figure. And he's won over a lot of hearts already. First off, I will say that I like Cog. He's a great update to the original G1 figure. You can still separate him into his component vehicles of Gasket and Grommet. And he's a veritable "weapons pack" for your figures too! I've got the Transformers Legends Fortress Maximus, and the colors on this new Cog toy are almost a perfect match for the reds and blues used by Takara on their release of Fort Max. Your mileage may vary on the color coordination if you have the Hasbro version(s).

The biggest downside to Cog is, of course, the simplicity of his transformation. You just unfold the legs, lift up the head, and pop off the arms to move them to the shoulders. That's it. His transformation is just not very interesting, and the fact that almost half of it is partsforming makes it even worse. Like others have said before, he has trouble holding his own guns securely in his fists, especially in his right fist, for whatever reason. On the other hand, I will note that, at least on my copy, the combination of Gasket and Grommet in vehicle mode works well, despite being a simple flat tab in slot system. It holds together if you're just rolling Cog around on the table, and he stays together even if you pick him up and handle him gently. Any rough play, and he'll come apart, though. The legs peg into the pelvis pretty loosely too, so as you pose Cog, you'll have to contend with the legs falling off frequently.

Cog is definitely NOT a Deluxe Class Transformers figure that is to be enjoyed in the traditional play patterns. He works great as a display and companion piece to Fortress Maximus, and if that's all you need him for, you won't really find him lacking. If you're like me and you like to pull your figures off the shelf periodically and transform them back and forth, Cog is comes up short, being extremely simplistic to convert and very fiddly when posing in robot mode because of his modular nature and loose tolerances. If you're the kind of person that likes to really "play" with their toys and armor up your other figures or just fool around and see what kinds of silly configurations you can come up with, then Cog is pretty good fun. Is he $20 of fun? I'm not so sure, honestly.

That's too bad, I love him and welcome all of his kind, he spends so much time combined that turning him back into a robot always feels so refreshing, but, you do you I guess

Well, one of my big interests in him is as a companion to Fort Max so I'm glad there. One disappoint for me I can tell in advance is that his handheld guns are both Cerebros' instead of one being his own, but so it goes. He'll still be fun.

He might not be $20 worth of fun, but Hasbro sets more by weight when pricing so.. And hey, he'd probably be no fancier from a 3P maker while costing twice as much because of their economics, so it's not too bad.

Here are a few quick pics of Cog I snapped up on my "Titans and Combiners" display.

Cog and Fortress Maximus - Bestest Buddies!


Cog - He's holdin' it all together...for now.


Head...err...Entire body ON!

Thanks for the mini review of Cog Wolfman though I would say that the call out for him but would be akin to "Weaponuzzzeeee! Armour on! (or Weapon On! Depending on what your forming with Cog)

Speaking of weaponisers, I meaht to say that I realised something with Six-Gun (it probably won't be new to anyone else) that he has 5mm posts on his wings in alt mode meaning he can have any deluxe with matching holes in their feet ride atop of him! I wonder if you could put a Cog-ised Siege Deluxe like Sideswipe on top of six gun?

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:"pretending to be hound"
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blackeyedprime, you're talking out your exhaust port. Behold:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:"vehicle mode it ain't hound"

Oh, really?

Now put Universe Hound in to those comparisons and see how much more he looks like the G1 figure.

"I say Hound's Cybertronian mode goes too far."
"And I say his Cybertronian mode doesn't go too far enough."

Guys, we get it.

Jeddostotle7 wrote:Just tried the codes from all 4 deluxe boxes so far, and they translated as:
Cog: FortressMaximus
Hound: Maccadams
Sideswipe: Sunstreaker
Skytread: Duocon

after inputting the codes I was brought to this screen with a countdown to when I can use the code to "access database content":


Very interesting. Guess we have a month to wait to have our curiosity fully satiated.

Happy Birthday to Me!!!!

It's funny: this is the most GEEWUN pandering-line and yet people complain it ain't GEEWUN enough.

Skritz wrote:It's funny: this is the most GEEWUN pandering-line and yet people complain it ain't GEEWUN enough.

You can please some of the people most of the time...

I just got Sideswipe and Hound from HTS about an hour ago. Both are great figures. I really like Sideswipe. Great bot mode and the alt mode is cool too. I like hound a lot too. I think the Universe version had a cleaner alt mode, but I like the weapons and color of this one. He's a nice figure.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I just got Sideswipe and Hound from HTS about an hour ago. Both are great figures. I really like Sideswipe. Great bot mode and the alt mode is cool too. I like hound a lot too. I think the Universe version had a cleaner alt mode, but I like the weapons and color of this one. He's a nice figure.

Sweet, glad to hear your thoughts on Sideswipe. I found all 4 at target over the weekend, and then ordered another Sideswipe, Hound and Skytread from Hasbro at the MUCH better price, so once they arrive today, I'll be returning them to Target to cash in on the savings.

Sideswipe was the only one I didn't open yet, he's going under the tree, so at least I get to choose the better paint job before I return one of them. Its going to be hard to wait 19 more days till I get to open him.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Skritz wrote:It's funny: this is the most GEEWUN pandering-line and yet people complain it ain't GEEWUN enough.

You can please some of the people most of the time...

I feel like the complaints have been more, the Cybertronian modes aren't Cybertronian enough. Or maybe that's just me. Not gonna stop me from enjoying these toys though.

Speaking of which, I just finally found the Weapon Masters at Target. Time to enjoy!

Lucky you Cobo I'm tempted to try my luck at Smyths toys, here in the UK they got combiner wars, titans returns and potp figures not long after they hit you lucky Americans

I got Hound, Sideswipe, and Flywheels from HTS just a couple hours ago. I haven't opened Hound yet, but the other two are great. I'm also happy about the scale because they work alongside my seeker collection. Reflector will probably be too large, but if it really bothers me I can always shell out for the Botcon set. (I'm not going to do that.) (I hope.)

The only disappointment so far is what I was most excited for: the fire blasts are underwhelming. I put Firebolt's on Flywheel's gun, and that worked well enough, but I also wanted to attach Blowpipe's blast to Sideswipe's chest and it just won't stick. Lionizer's effect has limited utility, and can't really work like I hoped. The SDCC display got my hopes up too much.

The whole package still works together, and I like the play feature, but at least now I'm not going to think about buying extra Battle Masters for Fire Blasts. One of each will be more than enough.

To clarify the remark about sizes, Sideswipe and Classics/Universe Starscream are approximately the same height, though the official numbers are 4m and 5m, respectively. That's close enough for my purposes, and I'm still undecided about getting all of the tetrajets, especially since I don't know if the coneheads will make an appearance.

Cobotron wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

Skritz wrote:It's funny: this is the most GEEWUN pandering-line and yet people complain it ain't GEEWUN enough.

You can please some of the people most of the time...

I feel like the complaints have been more, the Cybertronian modes aren't Cybertronian enough. Or maybe that's just me. Not gonna stop me from enjoying these toys though.

I agree, but if they had been more Cybertronian they would have looked less like the pilot episode-inspired designs, which have the Earth-like robot modes. Meaning they got G1 toon robot modes with only slight hint of kibble that doesn't quite match the show. Now, again, personally I would have been 100% on board with some MTMTE, Stormbringer or even War Within styling but it's clear these guys were designed so the robot mode would be as much of the Sunbow cartoon as possible.

That and as I mentioned before: these Cybertronian modes are clearly meant to be deliberately retro-futuristic, meaning they look futuristic for the eighties. It's certainly a very unique vibe, that's for sure.

Last, but not least, here's my review of Flywheels (a.k.a., Skytread). Since Flywheels in the original name, and the one I'm most used to, I'll be using that for the remainder of this review, but to anyone not in the know, it's the character named "Skytread" for the Transformers: Siege line to which I am referring whenever I say Flywheels.

I, along with many other fans, had been anticipating Flywheels since we knew we were getting Battletrap in Power of the Primes. Of course, many of us were hoping for the same kind of update we got with Battletrap, where we would get two figures with their own alt modes and robot modes that combined into the classic characters from G1. I recall a LOT of people loved how Battleslash and Roadtrap turned out in PotP, but opinion seemed to shift a little more once Flywheels was fully revealed for Siege.

Judged on its own, Flywheels is a great update of the original G1 toy. While that thing was fun, it was mostly an "autoformer" that produced a robot with very funky proportions and minimal articulation, even for a G1 toy. This modern update fixes all of those issues, giving us a figure that we convert manually, resulting in a robot mode that looks proportionate and cool, like the original animation models from The Headmasters and G1 toy commercials. Flywheels is not slouch in articulation either, sporting some nice ankle tilts like the rest of his Deluxe Class contemporaries in the SIEGE line. The battle damage paint is again kept to a minimum and works well to enhance the look of the toy without being overbearing. The "paint scrapes" are relegating entirely to the tank portion of the figure and end up on the feet and outsides of the legs. You hardly notice they're there unless you're looking for them.

How does Flywheels stack up when compared with Battletrap, his partner in crime from Power of the Primes? Again, it would have been nice had the two been done in the same style as one another, either both having individual robot modes for their two vehicles, or both lacking that addition altogether. At least they are compatible with one another, so they can swap shirts/pants if you really want to. They do look silly and mismatched that way, mostly because of the stark color contrasts, but you can do it if your heart desires. From not having the individual robot modes, Flywheels does transform into robot mode more easily than Flywheels, is noticeably less "fiddly" when posing, and looks overall more cohesive in sculpt. Do the individual vehicles modes have as much advantage? Yes and no. While both the SUV and helicopter of Battletrap suffer from having to combine with one another, on top of being individual vehicles and robots (essentially, they are combiner pieces in Legends scale), the tank of Flywheels turns out quite well (aside from some design/molding issues). The jet component gets stuck with two Deluxe sized robot arms for an undercarriage on a jet that's Legends sized. It's not elegant, but it's not horrendous. It's just disappointing. I think we would have gotten more play value out of Flywheels had been designed in parallel with Battletrap, but in robot mode, they still look good paired up together on display. Like Battletrap, you also can't really securely seat the flying vehicle atop the ground vehicle securely with Flywheels, meaning that if you want to replicate that G1 "pre transformation" pose with these figures, you just have to balance one atop the other.

Going back to the design/molding issues mentioned above, most of the problem is with the tank component. Everything about the jet component works as intended, and the only downside is the robot arms hanging out below the fuselage. The tanks is more problematic, and these issues have been noted by several other reviewers as well. The tank turret doesn't peg in securely. There is a lip of plastic, intentionally molded on the butt of the rifle, that keeps it being able to push the peg all the way into the tank. Either the peg needed to be longer to accommodate that molding decision, or the lip in the sculpt should have been eliminated before production. The turret sits okay, but will fall out easily, especially if you pick up and manipulate the tank at all. The other issue is that the pieces that form the tank turret don't snap in place at all. The tabs are too long/thick and will pop out of their slots. This means that the parts don't lay flush and will always look a little slanted and off unless you fix the tabs yourself with some sanding or trimming. I've hear rumors of some hip joints being "frozen" with Flywheels, but my copy doesn't seem to have any issue.

Overall, I'm glad to have Flywheels, but he could have been designed and polished just a bit better, especially considering he should have been easier and more cost effective to engineer and produce than Battletrap just one year earlier.

Dannshinigami wrote:Where does the middle barrel come from on Chromias cannon?? The muzzle is from the sight on her machine gun but not sure where the rest comes from

Pegs in front of the rear wheels.



Anyway, FedEx just dropped off my Micromasters from HTS! I'll be playing around with these later.

Emerje

You know, it's a shame we just got an Elita-1 in POTP because she could have been neat to have in Siege with a presumably more accurate altmode of a cybertronian ground vehicle, since iirc we only briefly see her being some sort of car-thing in the show. Presumably it would be similar to what Moonracer has but I could see a 'proper' Elita-1 working as a small-ish Voyager.

That said for what it was worth, I did dig her Macross-esque reuse of Starscream. Does anyone have a pic of how Siege Optimus scale with POTP Starscream/Elita-1?

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I just got Sideswipe and Hound from HTS about an hour ago. Both are great figures. I really like Sideswipe. Great bot mode and the alt mode is cool too. I like hound a lot too. I think the Universe version had a cleaner alt mode, but I like the weapons and color of this one. He's a nice figure.

Poopdoody! I didnt know they were up on HTS. NONE of my stores are eveb trying to reset f9r a new line. If they had Siege figures, they have been puckef fr9m the back.

Oh well, I got the two autobot MicroMaster teams for 7 99 a piece abd free shipping, so that was worth it.

BBTS has the Siege stuff for sale now, not just pre-order: my stuff (except the deluxes) has been sent to my Pile of Loot.

Skritz wrote:BBTS has the Siege stuff for sale now, not just pre-order: my stuff (except the deluxes) has been sent to my Pile of Loot.

I havent gotten my notice for that yet. Magnus too?

Flashwave wrote:

Skritz wrote:BBTS has the Siege stuff for sale now, not just pre-order: my stuff (except the deluxes) has been sent to my Pile of Loot.

I havent gotten my notice for that yet. Magnus too?

I got arrival notices for Deluxes and Voyagers (I just picked up the littlest dudes at Target, so I canceled them from BBTS yesterday or the day before.) The Preorders for Shocky and Magnus just went up recently. No shipping info on them yet.

I just opened my Megatron and Optimus. These are some amazingly thought out figures. The transformations are actually puzzles (particularly for Prime), which was always part of the fun.

It is quite refreshing to have these have minimal cheats in the design. For instance, the windshields are really the windshields. PotP have the fake double over windshields, that just didnt work for me.

If I were to grade these two:

Robot mode
OP: 5/5
Megs: 5/5
Both of these figures in robot mode make me feel like I could reenact scenes from TF:TM or Season 1.

Alt mode
OP: 4.5/5 - only real gripe is the grille is unnecessarily covered by another grille
Megs: 4.5/5 - back is a little unfinished looking, and the cannon cannot tilt, but otherwise a darn good tankatron.

Articulation
OP: 5/5
Megs: 4.5/5 - lacks wrist swivels

Accessories
OP: 4/5 - weapon storage could be better.
Megs: 4.5/5 - great weapons integration. If the sword came apart it would be perfect.

Overall
OP: 4.5/5
Megatron: 4.5/5
The best of what going unapologetically G1 could mean.

These are very refreshing figures, and if you know the character and the alt mode, transformation makes sense but is not so obvious it is insulting. I sure hope this doesn't lead to a letdown with the seekers or other voyagers.

The only other downside to me is that there really is no point to another neo G1 prime or Megatron (at a Voyager scale). Which can be good because they may as well do other series Primes and Megatrons post Siege, since we know they want at least prime occupying shelves at higher price points.

I'll finish up my reviews of the Transformers: Siege Deluxe Class Wave 1 figures with a few shots of Flywheels/Skytread.

Prepare for trouble. And make it...DUOCON?


They got dressed in the dark again.


Turns out, you can hug your children with nuclear arms!

Just opened my Micromasters. I predict these are going to be stolen pretty easily, the bubble is just barely secured with glue and only has one strip of tape on one side. A little pull and the bubble just pops off with little resistance. That's quite the change from previous lines where bubbles were taped on every side.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Just opened my Micromasters. I predict these are going to be stolen pretty easily, the bubble is just barely secured with glue and only has one strip of tape on one side. A little pull and the bubble just pops off with little resistance. That's quite the change from previous lines where bubbles were taped on every side.

Emerje

When I grabbed my set of Micromasters, the bubble was sealed, but by the time I got back to my car, the bubble was already starting to come off just from me grabbing it by the bubble after checking out. I admit, as it came off cleanly, I was happy for a split second before I realized just how insecure the packaging was

hope a 3rd party accessory provider would provide a widget to solve sky tread's turret hole issue, though I envisage they'll just provide a new gun

So far I'm really enjoying the siege figures - they have their quibbles but I guess we expect more and more from our figures. OP is probably my favourite iteration of the character I own... the transformation is involved but satisfying, and not overly complex to not be fun.

Eek, better write Hasbro and the retailers about this issue. This is something they will care about.

Skritz wrote:It's funny: this is the most GEEWUN pandering-line and yet people complain it ain't GEEWUN enough.

Well, mostly what's been happening just lately re: Hound is the rest of us being flabbergasted that, with how GEEWUN-pandering he is, someone could say he doesn't look like G1 Hound in altmode. So we've been pointing out all the things in common.

I'm really digging the deluxes in this line. The blast effects from the battle masters are fun too. I used those and some explosions from the Disney Store Exclusive Black Series Stormtrooper.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I'm really digging the deluxes in this line. The blast effects from the battle masters are fun too. I used those and some explosions from the Disney Store Exclusive Black Series Stormtrooper.

Looking good! Hound looks awesome as I expected but Sideswipe looks better than I imagined.

Regarding the Cybertronian vehicle modes, one of the things I love about this line is that the vehicles could kinda sorta work as future Earth modes (like how Animated is IIRC set in either the future or a high-tech present thanks to reverse engineering Megatron)- so Sideswipe doesn't turn into a Cybertronian car that looks suspiciously like a Lmaborghini, he IS a Lamborghini, but one made in 2088.

Actually, slightly off topic but I wouldn't mind a Transformers series set in the future- partly for an excuse to have effectively Bubblegum Crisis WITH TRANSFORMERS and partly because you could have a really interesting dynamic where the Decepticons (and initially the Autobots before the Earth authorities realize they're the good guys) are actually vulnerable to Earth weapons and are caught unawares; they expect to be facing organics with primitive munitions of no use against Transformer biology and tech, and instead have to contend with ray rifles capable of seriously injuring them.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I'm really digging the deluxes in this line. The blast effects from the battle masters are fun too. I used those and some explosions from the Disney Store Exclusive Black Series Stormtrooper.

So the US is getting that stormtrooper afterall. Does the desney store also have the exclusive Phasma?

Black Hat wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I'm really digging the deluxes in this line. The blast effects from the battle masters are fun too. I used those and some explosions from the Disney Store Exclusive Black Series Stormtrooper.

Looking good! Hound looks awesome as I expected but Sideswipe looks better than I imagined.

Regarding the Cybertronian vehicle modes, one of the things I love about this line is that the vehicles could kinda sorta work as future Earth modes (like how Animated is IIRC set in either the future or a high-tech present thanks to reverse engineering Megatron)- so Sideswipe doesn't turn into a Cybertronian car that looks suspiciously like a Lmaborghini, he IS a Lamborghini, but one made in 2088.

Actually, slightly off topic but I wouldn't mind a Transformers series set in the future- partly for an excuse to have effectively Bubblegum Crisis WITH TRANSFORMERS and partly because you could have a really interesting dynamic where the Decepticons (and initially the Autobots before the Earth authorities realize they're the good guys) are actually vulnerable to Earth weapons and are caught unawares; they expect to be facing organics with primitive munitions of no use against Transformer biology and tech, and instead have to contend with ray rifles capable of seriously injuring them.

I would be down with your series idea with one tiny little addition, humanity basically had gundams to throw against the Cybertronians.

Anyway, okay RodimusConvoy13's picture has pushed me over the line on Sideswipe, so I think I'm now after all the Siege Deluxes Curse you hasbro.

william-james88 wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I'm really digging the deluxes in this line. The blast effects from the battle masters are fun too. I used those and some explosions from the Disney Store Exclusive Black Series Stormtrooper.

So the US is getting that stormtrooper afterall. Does the desney store also have the exclusive Phasma?

Yes. The Disney Store got Phasma, the stormtrooper and Zuckuss.

Got Sideswipe today. He's definitely on the short side as Generations Deluxes go, but still cool and fun and the size difference doesn't look too bad in person. I also think it's a cool touch that his off-white plastic is the same ivory color that a lot of G1s had under their chrome.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I'm really digging the deluxes in this line. The blast effects from the battle masters are fun too. I used those and some explosions from the Disney Store Exclusive Black Series Stormtrooper.

Sideswipe really benefited from the excessive amounts of red paint used when they could have just done red plastic. It makes the colors really pop and feels like a sign of Takara Tomy's influences (something they regularly did through to Legends) and the biggest benefit of their shared releases. It finally feels like the new practice is starting to pay off.

I didn't realize Disney still had physical stores, both of the stores here in Maine closed down a long time ago (between 10 and 15 years ago).

Emerje

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Got Sideswipe today. He's definitely n the short side as Generations Deluxes go, but still cool and fun and the size difference doesn't look too bad in person. I also think it's a cool touch that his off-white plastic is the same ivory color that a lot of G1s had under their chrome.

Glad you’re enjoying him!

Emerje wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I'm really digging the deluxes in this line. The blast effects from the battle masters are fun too. I used those and some explosions from the Disney Store Exclusive Black Series Stormtrooper.

Sideswipe really benefited from the excessive amounts of red paint used when they could have just done red plastic. It makes the colors really pop and feels like a sign of Takara Tomy's influences (something they regularly did through to Legends) and the biggest benefit of their shared releases. It finally feels like the new practice is starting to pay off.

I didn't realize Disney still had physical stores, both of the stores here in Maine closed down a long time ago (between 10 and 15 years ago).

Emerje

They have a major online store too with many exclusive products, like the star wars ones that would have gone to TRU instead.

Thanks so much Zelda for fantastic scale pics. Seeing Sideswipe with a nice selection of deluxes from loads of generations lines really shows how well he fits in.