Transformers Platinum Edition Blitzwing and Astrotrain Video Review
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 11:35pm CDT
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Here's what Chuck had to say:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Platinum Editions have been around for a few years with varying degrees of desirability. This set, featuring dramatic repaints of Blitzwing and Astrotrain, probably falls somewhere in the middle. While I and many others would've preferred paint schemes closer to the original animation models, I can appreciate what they were going for with tributes to the Duo-Cons and Multi-Force. Fans of unique paint schemes will be all over this but I can only recommend it for $50 or less.
To see the molds as they once were, you can see the galleries of Astrotrain and Blitzwing in their G1 skins, then decide which version is right for you.
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
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Posted by Shockwave7 on April 29th, 2015 @ 9:51am CDT
And they want like $80 bucks for these? No thanks. As fond as I am of G1, I'll go with the modern versions. They're not perfect, but they're a darn sight better than G1 after 30 years of advancement in toy making.
Posted by gothsaurus on April 29th, 2015 @ 12:27pm CDT
Blitzwing does look good like this. Wish they went ahead and renamed these two and gave them new character bios and Autobot sticker for the "new MachTackle".
Very weird. Will try to pick them up if I can find them.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 29th, 2015 @ 7:54pm CDT
gothsaurus wrote:I wish they had a little more paint apps on Astrotrain to fix the weird orange oddities on the train mode. Maybe ReproLabel will help us out there.
Blitzwing does look good like this. Wish they went ahead and renamed these two and gave them new character bios and Autobot sticker for the "new MachTackle".
Very weird. Will try to pick them up if I can find them.
The orange in train mode is for the Tackle part of the MachTackle homage. it's not that bad in hand. The blue really pops since it's mostly on the die-cast parts
Posted by gothsaurus on April 30th, 2015 @ 10:19am CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on May 1st, 2015 @ 2:12am CDT
gothsaurus wrote:Hey Chuckdawg... I'm talking about the weird triangle of orange on the side... and the tiny strip of orange on the front of the train.
I know. It's weird, I should post a pic but some of that orange with the blue matches the design of Tackle in vehicle mode. Gotta hand it to them they tried, it didn't work that well, but they tried.
Posted by gothsaurus on May 1st, 2015 @ 9:15am CDT
Makes me want to take my own crack painting one of these. Maybe if it goes on clearance, or if someone REALLY wants Blitzwing but wants to toss out Astrotrain.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on May 1st, 2015 @ 2:55pm CDT
gothsaurus wrote:If they stuck with a white fin, you could have left it sticking out in the front like MachTackle. Oh, and a blue head would help.
Makes me want to take my own crack painting one of these. Maybe if it goes on clearance, or if someone REALLY wants Blitzwing but wants to toss out Astrotrain.
If they could've swung it that the shuttle was white and blue, while the train was orange and blue, that would've been sick.
Posted by gothsaurus on May 1st, 2015 @ 3:31pm CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on May 2nd, 2015 @ 1:24am CDT
gothsaurus wrote:Agreed. ALSO it just dawned on me... they could have done Blitzwing like another two Landcross team members... like the plane and military vehicle. (green tank, white and red plane). Trying to envision that... Maybe I'll buy an extra Overcharge and paint it. HAHAHAHAHAH.
How much you wanna bet one of the Bot Con attendee sets will feature Generations Blitzwing done in these colors?
Posted by gothsaurus on May 4th, 2015 @ 11:17am CDT
I had to take a sec last week to try these colors out on the G1 toy.