First Images of Movie Legends Starscream and Blackout

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.