Full Reveal of Torso Mode for Transformers Power of the Primes Voyager Starscream
Friday, November 17th, 2017 9:49pm CST
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Posted by Deathsanras on November 17th, 2017 @ 9:58pm CST
Black Bumblebee wrote:I hope that whoever did that to Jazz gets fired. To put that sort of slogan on a character that is traditionally voiced by an African American is all sorts of messed up.
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Please stop stereotyping.
Posted by Hellscream9999 on November 17th, 2017 @ 9:59pm CST
I have to say... I... like it, the bot mode isn't the greatest, but I dig the combined mode, using the ever solid silverbolt method of turning bulky arms into perfect legs already sets him above a lot of other torso's in my eye's. I also find it kinda funny how fan modes of silverbolt eventually turned into hungurr and digibashes of galvatron turned into a starscream combiner... maybe hasbro pays more attention to our random ideas than we thought?
Posted by RustedCross on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:07pm CST
Posted by Deadput on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:08pm CST
(I for one don't mind Starscream's arms I prefer my seekers with a little bulk)
Posted by spiderbob007 on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:08pm CST
Autobots
Great
Again

Posted by Hellscream9999 on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:17pm CST

Posted by Emerje on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:20pm CST
I'm pretty sure the figure has no plastic in any of those colors so that means it's using black, silver, gold, pink, and maybe red for the eyes if they aren't also pink. Most transformers figures are limited to up to three paint colors total, and here Screamer has four or five just on his head. That's pretty impressive.
If they have to use stickers I really wish they'd stop using foil stickers, I think most figures would have looked better with regular matte stickers. Foil stickers only look good on already chromed or metallic painted parts or when they're used in place of chrome in specific spaces (like TR Voyager Prime's tanker).
Emerje
Posted by Lore Keeper on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:21pm CST
I would totally take a Skywarp repaint of this with a movie-style starscream head for the combined mode
I have a feeling Hasbro may not be too eager to do another Skywarp right now, after the Combiner Wars one is still warming shelves two toy lines later. For some reason, Skywarps are rarely good sellers. On a side note, I appreciate some good old fashioned fan service as much as the next person, but after many nods to Starscream's crown in recent years, I feel it's becoming a bit too cliche.
Posted by Ultra Markus on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:24pm CST
Black Bumblebee wrote:I hope that whoever did that to Jazz gets fired. To put that sort of slogan on a character that is traditionally voiced by an African American is all sorts of messed up.
also there doesnt need to have any political garbage infecting our favorite hobbies
Posted by Emerje on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:25pm CST
Lore Keeper wrote:I would totally take a Skywarp repaint of this with a movie-style starscream head for the combined mode
I have a feeling Hasbro may not be too eager to do another Skywarp right now, after the Combiner Wars one is still warming shelves two toy lines later. For some reason, Skywarps are rarely good sellers. On a side note, I appreciate some good old fashioned fan service as much as the next person, but after many nods to Starscream's crown, I feel it's becoming a bit too cliche.
A TRU exclusive Skywarp showed up in computers at the PotP Voyager price point and is believed to be a Starscream repaint.

Emerje
Posted by RustedCross on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:26pm CST
Posted by bodrock on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:28pm CST
But still no smirk.

Posted by Deadput on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:36pm CST
Emerje wrote:A TRU exclusive Skywarp showed up in computers at the PotP Voyager price point and is believed to be a Starscream repaint.
Emerje
(Pst That was Thundercracker)
Posted by Emerje on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:42pm CST
RustedCross wrote:I would not be surprised to see Skywarp and Thundercracker as deluxe limbs for Starscream. As well as Thrust and Dirge. Then we could get a Starscream repaint as Ramjet.
Anyone else notice that Dreadwind's wing transformation placing them on his legs is just like what we saw on Classics Ramjet and Dirge? This mold also already has the Conehead asigned to it if they kept it with the retool. Wouldn't surprise me if they had extra wings to go with this mold.




Emerje
Posted by Hellscream9999 on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:47pm CST
Emerje wrote:RustedCross wrote:I would not be surprised to see Skywarp and Thundercracker as deluxe limbs for Starscream. As well as Thrust and Dirge. Then we could get a Starscream repaint as Ramjet.
Anyone else notice that Dreadwind's wing transformation placing them on his legs is just like what we saw on Classics Ramjet and Dirge? This mold also already has the Conehead asigned to it if they kept it with the retool. Wouldn't surprise me if they had extra wings to go with this mold.
Emerje
I can already sense TT licking their chops for a seeker combiner; btw, dreadwing doesn't share a mold with thrust, but the alternative aerialbot, due to sharing the pivoting shoulder struts - but, he does have an angled cut-out for a cone head

Posted by Skritz on November 17th, 2017 @ 10:57pm CST
Posted by Ultra Markus on November 17th, 2017 @ 11:09pm CST
Hellscream9999 wrote:Emerje wrote:RustedCross wrote:I would not be surprised to see Skywarp and Thundercracker as deluxe limbs for Starscream. As well as Thrust and Dirge. Then we could get a Starscream repaint as Ramjet.
Anyone else notice that Dreadwind's wing transformation placing them on his legs is just like what we saw on Classics Ramjet and Dirge? This mold also already has the Conehead asigned to it if they kept it with the retool. Wouldn't surprise me if they had extra wings to go with this mold.
Emerje
I can already sense TT licking their chops for a seeker combiner; btw, dreadwing doesn't share a mold with thrust, but the alternative aerialbot, due to sharing the pivoting shoulder struts - but, he does have an angled cut-out for a cone head
So many possibilities! I'm going CombinerCrazy!

Posted by Emerje on November 17th, 2017 @ 11:17pm CST
Hellscream9999 wrote:btw, dreadwing doesn't share a mold with thrust
They have most of the same leg parts and pelvis, and I think the same arms up to the shoulders. If they can mix parts, like Thrust's head and maybe his shoulders mixed with Dreadwind's other parts and new wings and maybe a cockpit in the combiner peg we could have some decent Coneheads. G1 Thrust could be a little tricky, would probably have to use the entirety of the Air Raid mold's legs like Armada Thrust, but a new back and wings for G1 accuracy. That would also give us an option for a more accurate Seeker mold to go with the existing head mold used on UW and SG Starscream.
Emerje
Posted by Seibertron on November 17th, 2017 @ 11:54pm CST
Posted by Latebrus-K on November 18th, 2017 @ 12:02am CST



My reaction to MAGA Jazz:




Starscream is not only the chunkiest voyager in years, but his torso mode looks like some sort of shiny ape... hulk... Thing. Like if RotF Starscream chose sticker-bling instead of tattoos. I'm happy that some others here like it, but the cockpit, wings, and random kibble do not a torso make for me. That said, we all knew more-or-less how this torso would look from the Elita-One leak. His face looks a lot more statuesque than starscream's usual features, reminds me of the face on Legends Giga. Do like the crown, though! Overall, Starscream seems a lot like his Wave-mate Grimlock: every mode suffers for the rest and none are really great.
The MAGA Jazz thing... oh boy!

Unlike a lot of people here, I find this political stuff endlessly amusing (though I probably shouldn't)... and I'm already planning to display PotP Jazz with TR Sentinel and generations Jhiaxus.

!Rant inbound! I understand this is sensitive ground, but could you argue that Jazz is one of the most multi-cultural autobots ever? He had an African-American VA with some memorable mannerisms, a Japanese-designed toy that turned into a German racecar, became a cyber-ninja in Animated with nods to eastern fighting styles and spirituality, and did it all while sporting white, blue, and red - the colors of many countries' flags. Add to that his white-ish-but-may-have-been-sculpted-to-be-Japanese pretender shell and you have one cross-country concoction of a character!

Why yes, I am very new here. What ever would make you think so?