First Look At Upcoming Netflix Deluxe Cheetor and Ironhide Redecos

You know that mindset people have about repaints forcing you to buy the second release because it'd be better? It rings true wuth Cheetor because that's what the figure shouldh've looked like.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Plus that Megatron have one hell of a SEXY paint job.

If the all but confirmed spoiler box megatron is just the earthrise version of the mold, but with the netflix deco scheme, I would be incredibly happy, because both of those versions fall just short of being different enough from siege mainline to be worth the price of double dipping, but I know I'm getting box 3 for the paleotrex alone anyways.

Really wish that Paleotrex was sold separately. I'd rather not get another Megatron.

o.supreme wrote:It may be because the picture is small but I don't see any difference between this Cheetor and the standard one.

Looks like a darker blue (more accurate) for the plastic on the shoulders and matching darker paint on the face and legs, but fewer paint apps overall.

I like the darker blue better than the lighter blue, but the more paint apps overall more than I like the better blue, so I'm probably sticking with the regular release.

Pretty sure the sparkless are different to Quint troops but hey.

Ironhide quint just looks bad, doesnt help that the alt is pretty bad but now the robot mode looks dull in the way it is painted.

Cheetor, making the blue better still can't improve the figures flaws for me and it looks like the blue crotch desnt match the plastic but this may not be final production figure. Hope it looks a bit better for those that are after him and that the deco doesnt frustrate those that have already picked up Kingdoms.

No doubt this line will have one figure I want but the chances are getting slimmer

THAT is the Quintesson troop builder? Not the Alicon!?

Well. That's one Quintesson figure I don't need.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:It may be because the picture is small but I don't see any difference between this Cheetor and the standard one.

Looks like a darker blue (more accurate) for the plastic on the shoulders and matching darker paint on the face and legs, but fewer paint apps overall.

I like the darker blue better than the lighter blue, but the more paint apps overall more than I like the better blue, so I'm probably sticking with the regular release.

It also has a more realistic coat color for the cheetah, with tan plastic instead of yellow, and more pronounced cream underbelly paint apps, instead of retail's lighter shade of yellow. It also omits the blue on the shins so that the cheetah legs have realistic coloration instead of the prominent blue heels. Looks like a different spot pattern too, with smaller and more details. Seems like the philosophy was using the netflix line's slightly increased paint budget to get a more realistic cheetah first, then more accurate robot colors where it wouldn't contradict the cheetah accuracy, with a small backstep in realism to give the cheeta green eyes in a nod to the show.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:THAT is the Quintesson troop builder? Not the Alicon!?

Well I mean, the Alicons weren't even IN the show, so..yeah, not in the show-based repaint line.

Never watched the show, but the toys had to have come first here, right?

I mean, why would they have Ironhide drones instead of Alicons when they knew Alicons were available? Weird!

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:THAT is the Quintesson troop builder? Not the Alicon!?

Well I mean, the Alicons weren't even IN the show, so..yeah, not in the show-based repaint line.

Never watched the show, but the toys had to have come first here, right?

I mean, why would they have Ironhide drones instead of Alicons when they knew Alicons were available? Weird!

To save money on CGI models. They already had one for Ironhide, so they recolored it.

The Netflix line was likely a last minute thing conceived after Hasbro realized that the cartoon's first season wouldn't be coming out until after the Siege toyline would be done and succeeded by Earthrise. Recall how the Prime Wars Trilogy cartoon began when the Combiners Wars toyline was already on its way out to be succeeded by the Titans Return toyline. Evidently, Hasbro did not want a repeat of that and just put out a line of quick and dirty redecos to have something on the shelves to tie in with the show upon its release.

Of the first wave Netflix toys, Decepticon Mirage and Hotlink were the only one whose specific decos actually showed up in the cartoon's first season. But, Mirage felt like an afterthought thrown into the show rather than something planned to really advertise the toy, while Hotlink was just one of many background generic Seekers instead of something truly meant to sell a toy, as though Hasbro looked at the Seekers and just picked one to base the toy's deco on and named it "Hotlink" because the onscreen generic's deco was "close enough". And while Scrapface did appear in the show, it wasn't until the second season, by which point the writers would have had more time to put him into the show.

Of the Wave 2 Netflix toys, Elita-1, Bumblebee, and Nemesis Prime all showed up in the show, but the first two were actually meant to be normal Earthrise toys instead of Netflix toys, but got shifted around thanks to COVID-19 messing up Earthrise's distribution. Nemesis, on the other hand, only got a blink-and-you'll-miss-him cameo appearance inside Optimus Prime's imagination for only a split second, and so was hardly anything of actual import.

Any other characters who appeared in the show that also had Netflix toys bore a greater resemblance to their regular Siege and Earthrise toys, lacking the specific degree of battle damage that their Netflix toy decos had. In Ultra Magnus's case, he resembled his Siege toy when he was alive, while his Netflix toy was colored with the intent of resembling his dead body from the show. However, said corpse had to have originated from the show itself rather than the show taking inspiration from his toy since, despite the intention, the toy's deco does not match the onscreen appearance of his corpse in the same way that his living self matches the look of his retail toy, or in the same way that everyone else in the show resembles their normal toys.

I might actually cancel my Cheetor preorder to wait for this one.