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Video Review - Transformers Age of Extinction Power Attacker Claw Crush Junkheap

Posted by Va'al Mar 19, 2015 at 2:19am CDT 38,701 views
We've posted the Seibertron.com galleries for the sadly badly released (if at all) Age of Extinction Power Attacker Claw Crush Junkheap just the other day - so why not double-dip, and take a look at the embedded video review below, courtesy of our very own site owner Seibertron? Includes comparisons to the other figures in the line (such as Bumblebee and Vehicon Power Attackers), various Voyagers and Deluxes; check it out!

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Comment by Leader_Ultra_Magnus Mar 19, 2015
Seibertron wrote:
Leader_Ultra_Magnus wrote:Ryan, can you please tell me where you acquired these beautiful figures, I need them.


Are you talking about Vehicon and High Octane Bumblebee? If so, I purchased a few cases from Entertainment Earth.


Vehicon and Junkheap mainly, Bumblebee would be a nice bonus.
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Comment by Va'al Jan 12, 2016
This is a blast (hah!) from the past, as we bring you yet another, nay, three other updates to the Seibertron.com movieverse galleries - specifically, Transformers: Age of Extinction and the Takara Tomy counterpart, Movie Advance!

The images below will take you to the definitely not Tracks figure we just saw in our latest post, Generations Hot Shot - a redeco of main cast member with a cape/trenchcoat Crosshairs. And moving back to the green bots, we have the Hasbro and Takara versions of the deluxe stegosaurus Dinobot with translucent green ..bits - Snarl. See if you can spot all the differences in colour scheme by checking out the pics right here.

Takara Tomy: Movie Advanced Snarl

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Age of Extinction: Generations Snarl

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Age of Extinction: Generations Hot Shot

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Comment by Microraptor Jan 12, 2016
You had ONE JOB Takara, color in the fake head. But did you? Noo, instead we paid an extra 20$ for a slightly shinier finish and no actual extra paint apps. What, me? Bitter?
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Comment by MGrotusque Jan 12, 2016
I really like that Snarl figure. All that lime margarita (or urine champaign) clear plastic is intoxicating for me to look at when the light catches it right and highlights all the details.
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jan 13, 2016
Well, the Snarl's don't really look that much different. and Hot Shot looks alright, better than I thought he'd be :BOT:
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Comment by Carnivius_Prime Jan 13, 2016
I've not seen Snarl for sale on the shelves here or else I might have bought him cos he looks cool (if a lil garish with all the green). Almost bought his power battlers figure cos we do have that here and it doesn't look bad compared to other power battlers at least.

Not Shot but Tracks looks decent. I like the Crosshairs mold (especially the trenchcoat)
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Comment by Seibertron Jan 13, 2016
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Well, the Snarl's don't really look that much different. and Hot Shot looks alright, better than I thought he'd be :BOT:


There are at least four differences ...

* Additional metallic green paint apps
* Black shoulders
* Black crotch
* Black tail

I'm not a fan of the metallic paints on Takara's figures, but I do like the additional black/dark gray colors on Takara's Snarl.
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Comment by Sabrblade Jan 13, 2016
In my headcanon, AOE Hot Shot acts just like the rambunctious teenager most Hot Shots tend to be portrayed as, but the difference here that he himself isn't a teenage youngster, but is instead an old guy who just never grew up. :-P
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jan 13, 2016
Seibertron wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Well, the Snarl's don't really look that much different. and Hot Shot looks alright, better than I thought he'd be :BOT:


There are at least four differences ...

* Additional metallic green paint apps
* Black shoulders
* Black crotch
* Black tail

I'm not a fan of the metallic paints on Takara's figures, but I do like the additional black/dark gray colors on Takara's Snarl.

I see those. didn't overly notice the black that much. those extra apps are there, they're just a little bit less obvious to me. now the Crosshairs differences are big, considering how underpainted he was, but this doesn't look really different either way :BOT:
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Comment by Stuartmaximus Jan 31, 2016
Sabrblade wrote:
megatronus wrote:I'm really not getting the folks saying Drift should have been a Generations Springer remold. Really? I can see a Classics or IDW-style Drift coming out of Springer... but AoE Drift? There's no way that mold could have captured the character. Or the cool (and licensed!) car mode.

Version 1.0:

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Springer works for EVERYBODY! :KREMZEEK: :lol:


That's cool, now why couldn't Takara or Hasbro give us this? at the time, i still long for a triple changing Drift figure
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Comment by Va'al Oct 14, 2016
You may have spotted the recent Seibertron.com article on live-action Transformers movie toys that never made it or were never even planned at all (you can read it here and join in with your thoughts). To accompany that, we also have a new addition to the Transformers: Age of Extinction toy galleries, featuring not one but three versions of the character created to oppose Bumblebee: Stinger!

In his Takara Tomy Movie Advanced line AD32 body, using the same mold as Bumblebee, but with the new battlemask headsculpt; the slightly simpler Lost Age LA12 Stinger, with the quick transformation for younger fans, and a darker colour palette than our third gallery - the Hasbro one, in the One-Step changer sub-line, with plenty of comparison images to keep your Friday busy. Check them all out by clicking on any of the images below!

Takara Tomy: Movie Advanced Stinger (188 images) - Deluxe Class

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Takara Tomy: Lost Age Stinger (93 images) - One-Step

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Age of Extinction: Robots In Disguise One-Step Stinger (87 images) - One-Step

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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Oct 14, 2016
Wish I could have got the deluxe Stinger, or better yet one that actually looked like his alternate mode. But the one-step is still a decent figure
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Comment by william-james88 Aug 11, 2017
The Seibertron galleries are back in full swing and there is a lot of ground to cover. So not only do we have galleries of the newest toys but of toys that we never covered before such as these two from Takara's Movie Advanced line. This was the Takara movie line for Age of Extinction which had the more complex toys. While the Hasbro Age of Extinction line only had one mold that came from a previous line (voyager Drift), Takara rereleased plenty of molds under Movie Advanced such as AD12 Revenge Optimus Prime and AD08 Battle Blade Bumblebee, which we now have galleries for.

Both of these molds were first used in the Hunt for the Decepticon line with the Battle Blade motif, as Battle Blades Optimus Prime and Battle Blade Bumblebee. Since many fans previously had these toys already, along with the high cost of importing these, there was not an overwhelming demand for these in the west and thus there are very few images of these two Movie Advanced releases online, let alone images of them compared to the previous uses of their molds. But now we have rectified that. take a look and compare the differences.

Takara Tomy: Movie Advanced Revenge Optimus Prime (129 images) - Voyager Class

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Takara Tomy: Movie Advanced Battle Blade Bumblebee (111 images) - Deluxe Class, Voyager Class

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Comment by Autobot Roadburn Aug 11, 2017
Honestly I've never really been a fan of this Bumblebee mold. His proportions (especially his neck) are kind of awkward and he's got gorilla arms, plus his face looks really angry and skull-like. I do wish I had one of the versions of that Optimus though, I like how he looks quite a bit.
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Comment by Seibertron Aug 12, 2017
Autobot Roadburn wrote:Honestly I've never really been a fan of this Bumblebee mold. His proportions (especially his neck) are kind of awkward and he's got gorilla arms, plus his face looks really angry and skull-like. I do wish I had one of the versions of that Optimus though, I like how he looks quite a bit.


I would agree. It's an OK mold, nothing spectacular. Way too long and spindly, plus the angry skull face that you mentioned was pretty off-putting to me as well. I'm always shocked to see fans referring to the Battle Blade Bumblebee figure as the "ultimate" deluxe class figure when it was always such a turn off to me.

I think the DOTM Deluxe Class Bumblebee would be the ultimate Deluxe Class Bumblebee ... if they could figure out how to give him the side door windows in vehicle mode and get rid of the spoiler. Basically, I'd like to see some minor modifications to that mold to make him be more in tune with his 2007 look. Close, but not "perfect".
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Comment by Autobot Roadburn Aug 12, 2017
Seibertron wrote:
Autobot Roadburn wrote:Honestly I've never really been a fan of this Bumblebee mold. His proportions (especially his neck) are kind of awkward and he's got gorilla arms, plus his face looks really angry and skull-like. I do wish I had one of the versions of that Optimus though, I like how he looks quite a bit.


I would agree. It's an OK mold, nothing spectacular. Way too long and spindly, plus the angry skull face that you mentioned was pretty off-putting to me as well. I'm always shocked to see fans referring to the Battle Blade Bumblebee figure as the "ultimate" deluxe class figure when it was always such a turn off to me.

I think the DOTM Deluxe Class Bumblebee would be the ultimate Deluxe Class Bumblebee ... if they could figure out how to give him the side door windows in vehicle mode and get rid of the spoiler. Basically, I'd like to see some minor modifications to that mold to make him be more in tune with his 2007 look. Close, but not "perfect".


I guess I always liked the original 2009 Camaro mold and its variants, it felt like it was a bit more compact and had less open space than the DotM version (mostly I didn't like how his back panels folded up). It definitely has its issues but I feel like it's a tiny bit more streamlined. Outside of that, yeah, the arms finally looked right and the head was mostly good outside of the eyes being a bit dark and sunken - I really liked the painted eyes on High Octane Bee, he actually has my favorite head sculpt besides the Masterpiece.

I'm looking forward to the new Last Knight Bee mold because he looks like he might be the new best deluxe - kibble folds up nicely, face looks great, wheels are in the proper spot and the little guy even has the extra wings like MPM-3! As long as he's actually able to be found somewhere (I still haven't seen a single wave 2 deluxe in my area) then he's going to be my go-to deluxe Bumblebee.
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Comment by william-james88 Aug 12, 2017
Seibertron wrote:I would agree. It's an OK mold, nothing spectacular. Way too long and spindly, plus the angry skull face that you mentioned was pretty off-putting to me as well. I'm always shocked to see fans referring to the Battle Blade Bumblebee figure as the "ultimate" deluxe class figure when it was always such a turn off to me.

I was gonna say you wont like my top 5 BB list then, but as it turns out that one isnt there. So you'l like it after all. But there are so many movie bees I think I will make a list just for movie bees too.
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Comment by Quantum Surge Aug 12, 2017
No demand for these repaints, yet finding these is extremely hard, let alone any version of Battle Blades Prime (not to mention any version loose on eBay somehow has a missing chest window). I knew I shouldn't have skipped out on him on the only time I saw him. If anyone's got a spare HFTD Battle Blades Prime, please send me a PM!
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Comment by william-james88 Aug 12, 2017
Quantum Surge wrote:No demand for these repaints, yet finding these is extremely hard, let alone any version of Battle Blades Prime (not to mention any version loose on eBay somehow has a missing chest window).!

I dont remember the forum discussions being very alive for these repaints. People were all over that soundwave, dispenser and wheeljack but not so much for these. Maybe Tomy predicted that and didnt make a huge amount and so the low demand was anticipated by them. Or maybe I dont know what I am talking about 8-}
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Aug 12, 2017
I still think the 2007 Bee mold was the one that was most accurate. If it weren't for the arms, that mold would have been the ultimate representation of him in my mind
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