In-Hand Images - Transformers Robots in Disguise Warrior Class Starscream

Well, alt-mode isn't that great, but I dig the transformation. Seems impossible yet intuitive enough. I also really appreciate that his chest is not just a fake cockpit. I'd be tempted to pick this up even though I don't have any intention of buying any RID figures.

I hope this means he'll show up on the show soon, my son would love that!

I just wish they would add more decepticons to the warrior class. We need more guys and gals like the queen bee, the leadership on the island, the toad guy.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Well, alt-mode isn't that great, but I dig the transformation. Seems impossible yet intuitive enough. I also really appreciate that his chest is not just a fake cockpit. I'd be tempted to pick this up even though I don't have any intention of buying any RID figures.

But it is fake - or do you mean the whole thing isn't just a fake cockpit?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Well, alt-mode isn't that great, but I dig the transformation. Seems impossible yet intuitive enough. I also really appreciate that his chest is not just a fake cockpit. I'd be tempted to pick this up even though I don't have any intention of buying any RID figures.

But it is fake - or do you mean the whole thing isn't just a fake cockpit?

I mean that his chest is actually made of the cockpit, not a "Faux Parts" design like the Takara Slipstream, whose cockpit is fake, or the Classics Optimus mold who uses a different grill-abs design than the vehicle mode.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Well, alt-mode isn't that great, but I dig the transformation. Seems impossible yet intuitive enough. I also really appreciate that his chest is not just a fake cockpit. I'd be tempted to pick this up even though I don't have any intention of buying any RID figures.

But it is fake - or do you mean the whole thing isn't just a fake cockpit?

I mean that his chest is actually made of the cockpit, not a "Faux Parts" design like the Takara Slipstream, whose cockpit is fake, or the Classics Optimus mold who uses a different grill-abs design than the vehicle mode.

Holy sh|t you're right it does - at least a tiny bit - awesome

That mold is so sexy. Can't wait to buy 6+ versions of it

is it just me, or does he look like he took a lot of ques from Animated?

I have to say- I kinda dig him.

Am I the only one getting kind of a recent-IDW-issues vibe from him?

kurthy wrote:I hope this means he'll show up on the show soon, my son would love that!

I think one of the writers said Starscream was killed by Predaking at the end of "Predacons Rising," with his arm showing up in Predaking's lair during the RID tie-in comics.

bluecatcinema wrote:

kurthy wrote:I hope this means he'll show up on the show soon, my son would love that!

I think one of the writers said Starscream was killed by Predaking at the end of "Predacons Rising," with his arm showing up in Predaking's lair during the RID tie-in comics.

Then why would they bother to release a figure utilizing a brand new mold? Sure there were figures such as Velocirazor, Sawback, Beastbox, and others that were released and haven't appeared (yet) in the show but that doesn't mean he won't be in the show. Quick question though, where did you hear he was killed off? I'm curious about it. Actually, knowing Starscream, he probably escaped and his arm is the only thing Predaking and the others could get their claws on.

Heh, I was going to post these pics from the thread on 4chan! Whoops!

(I never knew Down_Shift was a /toy/ soldier...)

Delta Magnus wrote:Heh, I was going to post these pics from the thread on 4chan! Whoops!

(I never knew Down_Shift was a /toy/ soldier...)

So what do you think of the new seeker mold?

I will admit I am way behind on this tread. But I don't watch RiD. What I am interested in is the new deluxe, or warrior, Windblade plus maybe Ratchet. Any news on when they will be in stores?

Moonshot wrote:I will admit I am way behind on this tread. But I don't watch RiD. What I am interested in is the new deluxe, or warrior, Windblade plus maybe Ratchet. Any news on when they will be in stores?

Eventually, I don't think they've been sighted in the US yet, but the windblade mold looks like absolute crap, I'd hold out for the TT release if I were you

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:Heh, I was going to post these pics from the thread on 4chan! Whoops!

(I never knew Down_Shift was a /toy/ soldier...)

So what do you think of the new seeker mold?

Well, I can only speak from what I can see in Down_Shift's photos, but...I'm not impressed. The robot mode looks good...from the front. The overall shape, the wings and the shoulder pads are all cool but he's so damned hollow it isn't funny. The legs, the arms, the back, even the HEAD is hollowed out. Also, the headsculpt is (IMO) seriously ugly.

The jet mode looks OK from the top but holy undercarriage junk, Batman! The shoulderpads make the wings utterly useless and the hollowness continues unabated.

Also, the plastic has the "metallic swirl of doom" which at best makes him look horribly cheap and at worst is potentially a signifier of the figure crumbling to bits in a few years.

Delta Magnus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:Heh, I was going to post these pics from the thread on 4chan! Whoops!

(I never knew Down_Shift was a /toy/ soldier...)

So what do you think of the new seeker mold?

Well, I can only speak from what I can see in Down_Shift's photos, but...I'm not impressed. The robot mode looks good...from the front. The overall shape, the wings and the shoulder pads are all cool but he's so damned hollow it isn't funny. The legs, the arms, the back, even the HEAD is hollowed out. Also, the headsculpt is (IMO) seriously ugly.

The jet mode looks OK from the top but holy undercarriage junk, Batman! The shoulderpads make the wings utterly useless and the hollowness continues unabated.

Also, the plastic has the "metallic swirl of doom" which at best makes him look horribly cheap and at worst is potentially a signifier of the figure crumbling to bits in a few years.

Jeez the head is hollow, this is getting a little out of hand - definitely won't pay $23 for this now

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:And, since it's American TRU, that just means the prices'll be jacked up to hell and back...

Not necessarily. Their prices for Titans Return toys were quite normal. They are just jacked up in peak seasons (which is not he case now). Last year's Clash of the TF exclusive TRU figures were even cheaper than the regular releases. Also, this was found at canadian tru.

Pretty sure she's referencing our TRU's jacking up the prices to scalper levels, don't entirely remember if rid is suffering as badly as the cw figs, which were at $23 when I was there a couple weeks ago, but I definitely won't pay $23 for any of these

You guys could just do a quick search online, America has their RID warriors at 16.99 http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... age=search

Same old price.

No 'in-hand, in-hand picture' joke?

Deadput wrote:If you can't tell Prime is my most hated show due to wasted potential and lack of characterization outside of a couple of characters.

I dont think any of us could tell when your signature has a Prime image in it. I thought it was your favourite show, no joke.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Well, alt-mode isn't that great, but I dig the transformation. Seems impossible yet intuitive enough. I also really appreciate that his chest is not just a fake cockpit. I'd be tempted to pick this up even though I don't have any intention of buying any RID figures.

The fact that his chest is part of the alt mode is AMAZING! It also means I was right woohoo!

So I'll take every color of this mold you produce, ok HasTak?


While you're at it, could you remold RID/TAV Windblade into Slipstream, and then put out multiple colors of her as well?


Thanks.

As we all noticed, this takes a lot of cues from G1, especially the colouring. This makes me wonder if this toy will hae a slightly altered wide release or just stay exclusive to toysrus. Because Megatronus was the only Legion that wasnt in a different deco from his normal show appearance and thats because he wasnt released outside of the Clash fo the Transformers line.

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:And, since it's American TRU, that just means the prices'll be jacked up to hell and back...

Not necessarily. Their prices for Titans Return toys were quite normal. They are just jacked up in peak seasons (which is not he case now). Last year's Clash of the TF exclusive TRU figures were even cheaper than the regular releases. Also, this was found at canadian tru.

Pretty sure she's referencing our TRU's jacking up the prices to scalper levels, don't entirely remember if rid is suffering as badly as the cw figs, which were at $23 when I was there a couple weeks ago, but I definitely won't pay $23 for any of these

You guys could just do a quick search online, America has their RID warriors at 16.99 http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... age=search

Same old price.

Online, sure, and maybe I'll have to do that to get these, but in (my) store the CW deluxes are $23, but the site lists them as $19, so the same can, and may hold true for the rid figures

And being completely honest, $16 for the normal warrior figures is still too much for me, for what you normally get...

Its free shipping at 19$, I dont know why people go to the stores if its more expensive, especially when everyoe is telling me they arent stocked well. Plus, Toysrus stores allow you to price check with amazon and other stores https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Rob ... n+disguise?tag=seibertron07-20&

Does TRU price match their own freaking web site?

Cobotron wrote:Does TRU price match their own freaking web site?

Sadly no, and thats a policy shared across north america.

At first when I saw this Starscream, I was like...



Now I'm like...



Those hollow bits tho! At least his back kibble isn't too bad.

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Does TRU price match their own freaking web site?

Sadly no, and thats a policy shared across north america.

Really?


That's dumb as h*ll.

its cool but last time i was at TRU deluxes were $23, no deluxe is worth that especially RID ones.

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Does TRU price match their own freaking web site?

Sadly no, and thats a policy shared across north america.

actually it depends on the store and the manager, i get price matching done at gamestop all the time and at TRU its up to the manager. Ive had TRU price match a few times but each time it was one of the managers who did it, tried at a different store and they said no. Its a total gamble

Robogeek1973 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Does TRU price match their own freaking web site?

Sadly no, and thats a policy shared across north america.

Really?


That's dumb as h*ll.

Ditto that.

I grabbed the tru exclusive repaint of rid scorponok, Paralon. He has a new head sculpt that looks like beast wars scorponok.

We had some pretty amazing news yesterday about three new Robots in Disguise Toysrus Exclusives. The most interesting was the new mold no one kenw was coming, Starscream. However, there was some other cool stuff about these toys that we are only learning now. For instance, the Scorponok redeco, Paralon, actually has a new head. And this head looks like an homage to Beast Wars Scorponok. Fellow Seibertronian Matrix_Holder took some images of this new toy to show the robot mode. Enjoy!

Matrix_Holder wrote:I grabbed the tru exclusive repaint of rid scorponok, Paralon. He has a new head sculpt that looks like beast wars scorponok.

That's a BIG cranium. Like he's wearing a goofy-looking puffy hat.

While playing around with him some more I discovered that if yiu take his arms off those shoulder claws come off and they can snap around his hook hands for an better beast wars look.

He has BW Scorponok's head?!?


Well damn, I may need that as well now.

Wonder if Takara will release this in BW Scorponok colors

Not gonna lie, I'm actually not liking the head on paralon... it's a pretty great likeness/homage to BW Scorponok, I love that it can really look like scorps too with the legs on it's sides, and big claws, actually really, really well done

grimdragon2001 wrote:Wonder if Takara will release this in BW Scorponok colors

I kind of hope so since both of the decos so far are very similar to two existing RiD cons Quillfire and Fracture.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:Heh, I was going to post these pics from the thread on 4chan! Whoops!

(I never knew Down_Shift was a /toy/ soldier...)

So what do you think of the new seeker mold?

Well, I can only speak from what I can see in Down_Shift's photos, but...I'm not impressed. The robot mode looks good...from the front. The overall shape, the wings and the shoulder pads are all cool but he's so damned hollow it isn't funny. The legs, the arms, the back, even the HEAD is hollowed out. Also, the headsculpt is (IMO) seriously ugly.

The jet mode looks OK from the top but holy undercarriage junk, Batman! The shoulderpads make the wings utterly useless and the hollowness continues unabated.

Also, the plastic has the "metallic swirl of doom" which at best makes him look horribly cheap and at worst is potentially a signifier of the figure crumbling to bits in a few years.

Jeez the head is hollow, this is getting a little out of hand - definitely won't pay $23 for this now

On the flip side, the head and guns are cast in the same blue plastic as the feet and forearms, meaning the entire headsculpt's deco is painted.

Loving Paralon, way better colors for the mold! Prime is a skip, already own the mold (the previous version minus wings and things). Starscream looks really cool, but he does look extremely hollow...

william-james88 wrote:

Deadput wrote:If you can't tell Prime is my most hated show due to wasted potential and lack of characterization outside of a couple of characters.

I dont think any of us could tell when your signature has a Prime image in it. I thought it was your favourite show, no joke.

I do love the Prime aesthetic the robots have (except the bland silver noseless faces) and the dude in my sig is my OC Deadput that I made up during when Transformers Universe was a thing also said OC is based on the purple Japanese release of Terrocon Cliffjumper since I don't think purple works for Cliff like at all.


Well it's complicated it was my fave show and I loved it watching it through until the end but it was during Predacons rising and after the show was over I realized that I was supremely disappointed I mean not even the Bay movies disappointed me as much as Prime did.


I just wish it was better

SureShot18 wrote:

grimdragon2001 wrote:Wonder if Takara will release this in BW Scorponok colors

I kind of hope so since both of the decos so far are very similar to two existing RiD cons Quillfire and Fracture.

They probably wont, Takara Tomy doesn't like to use the same mold more than once if they can help it. At the very least they might do him as a magazine exclusive or something, but not likely for retail.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:

grimdragon2001 wrote:Wonder if Takara will release this in BW Scorponok colors

I kind of hope so since both of the decos so far are very similar to two existing RiD cons Quillfire and Fracture.

They probably wont, Takara Tomy doesn't like to use the same mold more than once if they can help it. At the very least they might do him as a magazine exclusive or something, but not likely for retail.

Emerje

Yeah I realize that is just the unfortunate truth, sadly.

SureShot18 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:

grimdragon2001 wrote:Wonder if Takara will release this in BW Scorponok colors

I kind of hope so since both of the decos so far are very similar to two existing RiD cons Quillfire and Fracture.

They probably wont, Takara Tomy doesn't like to use the same mold more than once if they can help it. At the very least they might do him as a magazine exclusive or something, but not likely for retail.

Emerje

Yeah I realize that is just the unfortunate truth, sadly.

Our best hope is either a 3rd Party or KO...

Actually, that tends to just be true in the Legends line. Meanwhile in the TAV line, they've seen virtue in giving Strongarm and Steeljaw exclusive new decos in Grejeeber and Phantomjaw -- if they're fine with making random recolours out of nowhere, I'm sure they'll be fine with new tooling.

Kurona wrote:Actually, that tends to just be true in the Legends line. Meanwhile in the TAV line, they've seen virtue in giving Strongarm and Steeljaw exclusive new decos in Grejeeber and Phantomjaw -- if they're fine with making random recolours out of nowhere, I'm sure they'll be fine with new tooling.

So not all hope is lost for a BW Scorponok deco and, hopefully, we'll be able to get a Skywarp or Thundercracker out of Starscream. Heck, since they've made new characters out of recolors we might even get a brand new seeker! Wishful thinking though...

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

Kurona wrote:Actually, that tends to just be true in the Legends line. Meanwhile in the TAV line, they've seen virtue in giving Strongarm and Steeljaw exclusive new decos in Grejeeber and Phantomjaw -- if they're fine with making random recolours out of nowhere, I'm sure they'll be fine with new tooling.

So not all hope is lost for a BW Scorponok deco and, hopefully, we'll be able to get a Skywarp or Thundercracker out of Starscream. Heck, since they've made new characters out of recolors we might even get a brand new seeker! Wishful thinking though...

Takara saw fit to make warp and cracker out of TFP Starscream, so it's definitely a possibility.

Plus they've done redecoes in the line referencing the characters' "origin" before. Take Drift for instance; they released his warrior toy as normal, but then later done a redeco of him in his IDW whites and reds.

Wow! I didn't notice that his face is almost identical to BW Scorponok! Maybe this is going to be used in the Takara Legends line for that 20th year anniversary of Beast Wars celebration? That would be pretty dope!

Am I the only one unhappy to see Starscream again? At the very least, some Predacon wounds would have been nice.

Freakin' popularity contest, I swear.

Zeedust wrote:Am I the only one unhappy to see Starscream again? At the very least, some Predacon wounds would have been nice.

Wounds he wouldn't have had treated after all the years that passed between Prime and RID? Knowing how vain Screamer is, surely he would have treated them.

For all we know, this new body design could be the result of his injuries, with him needing to get a new body after the Preds wrecked him in his previous one.

Zeedust wrote:Am I the only one unhappy to see Starscream again? At the very least, some Predacon wounds would have been nice.

Freakin' popularity contest, I swear.

To be fair, the entire show is a popularity contest. The leader is Bumblebee and Prime shows up once in a while to sell more toys. Plus you have the popular Drift and Windblade characters show up to cross sell media they were hyped for and lastly you have Grimlock who is ever present. And guess who shows up to help for one episode at a time: none other than Jazz and Ratchet! But all of that is balanced with the villains who are mostly original and extremely inventive in design. So its a fun show to create the biggest amount of new characters in quite a while and hedges on some big names on the good guy side.

Emerje wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:

grimdragon2001 wrote:Wonder if Takara will release this in BW Scorponok colors

I kind of hope so since both of the decos so far are very similar to two existing RiD cons Quillfire and Fracture.

They probably wont, Takara Tomy doesn't like to use the same mold more than once if they can help it. At the very least they might do him as a magazine exclusive or something, but not likely for retail.

Emerje

These 3 will probably all show up unchanged in japan at TRU like the last Clash of Transformer figures did last year. Then they could do as they wish. Last year they had their own normal Bumblebee release, plus TRU exclusive Clash Bumblebee and then a remolded Supreme Bumblebee. So the Scorponok mold has a potential of 3 releases in Japan. We already know 2, the third could be a heavier remold using the new head. Just looking at possibilities based on this line last year.