Greenlight debuted in the G1 cartoon episode "The Search for Alpha Trion" as one of the Female Autobots, a group of resistance fighters left on Cybertron. While she didn't have any speaking lines, or even a name, for that matter, she still showed up in several scenes. That was pretty much it for her until a quarter-century later, when a text story from Fun Publications in 2010 not only had her as a part of the story, but also gave her the name of Greenlight. After that story, it was another long hiatus for her until she showed up as a member of the Cybertronian colony of Carcer in IDW's previous 2005-18 continuity. She's shown up in IDW's rebooted continuity as well, so it looks like she's here to stay.
History lesson aside, let's get to the pictures!
To start with, she's a remold of the Moonracer/Firestar mold, with a new head, new forearms and hands, and a striking bright green and pale yellow color scheme that's straight out of the G1 cartoon. Her head sculpt is fantastically cartoon accurate, just like her mold-mates' heads.
She even has her little elvish ears!
And, unfortunately, the large backpack.
It doesn't hinder her posing, as most of the backpack is hollow.
She looks great next to her mold-mates in car mode, and has a distinctive enough deco to stand out, regardless of color.
This mold has been used three times now, but thankfully, shows no signs of degradation. The joints on my copy are just as tight as on the first iteration. This allows for some excellent action poses.
As shown above, she also comes with Dazzlestrike, a slight repaint of the Battlemaster Lionizer. Just a touch of matching green on Dazzlestrike's blade and voila! A new character. Her Battlemaster partner does come with a new flaming effect part that attaches to the blade, and it looks really cool.
So in my humble opinion, Greenlight is worth picking up. She and Dazzlestrike cost just as much as each of the individual figures would, despite being an exclusive. There's no mold degradation, the colors and paint app layouts are nice and distinctive, and this is her first toy, despite appearing in fiction for over 34 years! (I have a thing for obscure fembots). My only nitpick is that her new forearms and fists are molded in such a way that they kind of clip over the rear fender pieces, rather than tabbing in as on Moonracer or Firestar. Granted, those pieces don't tab in very well... the fists, too, can't move (they're a solid piece now) so they hang very low.
So that's about it for Greenlight.... oh wait, she IS a retool of a Power of the Primes mold, and NOT Siege Chromia, so that does mean that she has two other modes, as.....
....a combiner arm....
... and a combiner leg.
Speaking of combiner limbs, though she has the capability and combiner hand, there's no indication of that in her instructions. However...I have taken the liberty to finish off this article with the following mini story I've titled "How Orthia Came To Be". Enjoy, and let us know your thoughts on this figure below!
"Elita One, help! I'm stuck in this box!"
"Female Autobots, I need your help!"
"Yo."
"Let's get her out of there!"
"Almost there, Greenie!"
"Yay, she made it!"
"Thanks ladies!"
"Now I just need to get my kitty out. Come on, Dazzy!"
"Wait, Dazzy, nooo! Why did you jump up there? How are we going to get Dazzlestrike down?"
"I have an idea! Female Autobots? Transform, and COMBINE!"
"Wait, Chromia, why aren't you in arm mode?"
"Ask Hasbro!"
"Da**it, Hasbro! We'll just have to do it one armed since Lancer isn't here... yet. Finish combining!"
"Orthia is online!"
"Come to me, Dazzlestrike. That's it... just a bit more!"
"Wait, SERIOUSLY?? Cats!
FIN
