Group Shot of the 86 Leader Dinobots and More Images of Swoop and Latest SS Reveals

Sweet pics

Overcracker wrote:Definitely picking up Side Burn and Hot Shot on sight.

The real question is... will they eventually give us the repaints for both? Super Side Burn and Excellion. Hopefully Excellion is easier to Gert this time around than he was originally.

Vector Prime might be interesting. I own the original one, but would like to see what a modern take on him does. At least his soft rubbery wings and sword probably won't be a thing.

His sword was soft plastic? I remember it being hard plastic for some reason.

william-james88 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Definitely picking up Side Burn and Hot Shot on sight.

The real question is... will they eventually give us the repaints for both? Super Side Burn and Excellion. Hopefully Excellion is easier to Gert this time around than he was originally.

Vector Prime might be interesting. I own the original one, but would like to see what a modern take on him does. At least his soft rubbery wings and sword probably won't be a thing.

His sword was soft plastic? I remember it being hard plastic for some reason.

The Hasbro version (left) used soft plastic for the sword and wings, while the Takara version (right) used a harder non-bendy plastic.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Definitely picking up Side Burn and Hot Shot on sight.

The real question is... will they eventually give us the repaints for both? Super Side Burn and Excellion. Hopefully Excellion is easier to Gert this time around than he was originally.

Vector Prime might be interesting. I own the original one, but would like to see what a modern take on him does. At least his soft rubbery wings and sword probably won't be a thing.

His sword was soft plastic? I remember it being hard plastic for some reason.

The Hasbro version (left) used soft plastic for the sword and wings, while the Takara version (right) used a harder non-bendy plastic.

Ahhhhh the good old days of child safety standards, and when they mattered.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I may have skimmed over the article, but does Swoop really come with a flight stand?

No. He's just flight stand compatible.

Having tiger strip Grimlock, I gotta admit, I wouldn't say no to G2 coloured Dinobots. The blue and green swoop in particular.

~ Grim

Yep, it looks like the designers used the model sheet section that depict Swoop's wings in a configuration that doesn't really follow what they actually did in the cartoon.



In the cartoon, no matter what the model sheet conveyed, they drew Swoop's wings so they reached further back, attaching closer to his rear 'claws'. And the section of the wings which connected to the body were not angled forwards. They went pretty much straight out from the side of the body, tapering slightly inward. This had the wings extending out further, and using a 3-hinge setup for better 'flapping' poses, not a 2-hinge setup.



I wish they'd gone that way instead. It would give Swoop more presence with a wider wingspan, and I'm sure they could have accommodated the 3-hinge wings with the engineering and not sacrificed the robot mode's cartoon accuracy.



The 2-hinge setup, combined with the shorter wingspan, diminishes the appearance of the wings by comparison to how he was conveyed, in action, on the series.

3rd party wing extensions in 3…2…1….

Rodimus Prime wrote:Just waiting for him to be up for preorder...

Same, not waiting like I did with Snarl and then have to scramble to find one. I'm surprised it didn't go up this week like SS Suntreaker and SSGE Sideswipe did since they were all revealed at the same time.

Emerje

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:One good thing to me about Swoop: he appears to continue the trend of odd number release dinobots being good. He looks great. I am continuing to enjoy him as more photos come out.

Emerje wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Just waiting for him to be up for preorder...

Same, not waiting like I did with Snarl and then have to scramble to find one. I'm surprised it didn't go up this week like SS Suntreaker and SSGE Sideswipe did since they were all revealed at the same time.

Emerje

Preorders go live at 1 today on Pulse.

He had already sold out when I checked at 1:20. So much for that! Ordered one on BBTS. Was hoping it would go up on Target, but it hasn't yet (Target Prime is available again so there's that).

Emerje