War for Cybertron Siege Greenlight Pictorial Review
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She was only available to preorder via a wishlist trick at first, and was finally listed and available for sale on Monday, but since she's an Amazon Prime exclusive, Prime shipping means that Greenlight, one of the most highly anticipated figures of the Siege line, has already arrived in some fans' homes! One of those fans is yours truly, and I've taken the liberty of taking several in hand pictures, to help you, fellow Seibertronians, decide if she's a good fit for you.
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
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Posted by blackeyedprime on June 27th, 2019 @ 7:33am CDT
Posted by Emerje on June 27th, 2019 @ 7:39am CDT
gothsaurus wrote:What head is on this custom? Thanks in advance.
Missfire's/Aimless' face plate on Kup's Flintlock Titan Master. The figure itself is a Kup repaint, you can see the teal in his hands.
Emerje
Posted by Decepticon Llorrac on June 27th, 2019 @ 7:58am CDT
Posted by Papa_prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:23am CDT
Wonder if there's a chance that Hasbro will reuse that mold with some remolding here and there to make a leader sized Broadside that has a jet mode that isn't doofy? I'd love to have a large one for my Wreckers collection.
Posted by Nathaniel Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:26am CDT
Posted by william-james88 on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:29am CDT
Nathaniel Prime wrote:Do we have a separate Siege customization thread? Because I really want to see what we can come up with in this line, because stuff like this is hilarious.
You can post it all here.
Posted by Nathaniel Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:32am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Nathaniel Prime wrote:Do we have a separate Siege customization thread? Because I really want to see what we can come up with in this line, because stuff like this is hilarious.
You can post it all here.
I guess that's true too
Posted by o.supreme on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:05am CDT
Mindmaster wrote:Guess I found my stand-in Masterpiece Astrotrain. But what’s the “Astroforce”...?.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:09am CDT
Nathaniel Prime wrote:william-james88 wrote:Nathaniel Prime wrote:Do we have a separate Siege customization thread? Because I really want to see what we can come up with in this line, because stuff like this is hilarious.
You can post it all here.
I guess that's true too
And the Awesome Poses and Pictures thread, I've posted some previous siege silliness there. I have some plans for Shocky and a few Brunts myself, just need to find a 3rd Brunt first.
Posted by sol magnus on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:46am CDT
Posted by Cobotron on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:49am CDT
You can totally post stuff like that here, and should!william-james88 wrote:Nathaniel Prime wrote:Do we have a separate Siege customization thread? Because I really want to see what we can come up with in this line, because stuff like this is hilarious.
You can post it all here.
But there was this photo challenge thread started by carytheone at the onset of Siege. It was fun but kind of petered out. It would be cool to revive though.
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 10:23am CDT
Emerje wrote:Lunatic Prime wrote:blackeyedprime wrote:Crosshairs, I will be picking him up. Dunno if I'd rather have had a tr Kup repaint but at least this way I get the new mold to differentiate the character (repainted Kup figure would have been a bit too similar to orion pax) and I can really pass on Iron hide/ratchet just to have the mold and stick to the third party figures for them.
I'm guessing those are the pics you were going for, I just got them off Twitter instead.
But we actually know what an official one would look like if it were to happen thanks to the Legends comic.
Looks like somebody doesn't like the competition
Emerje
But the custom is better TO ME at least because it resembles the characteristics of the G1 original more.
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 10:26am CDT
THAT. LOOKS. A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!
I just don't like all the visible screw holes and 5 mm ports but it kind of fits the background
Maybe some new type of camo
Posted by bacem on June 27th, 2019 @ 10:38am CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on June 27th, 2019 @ 10:54am CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on June 27th, 2019 @ 10:55am CDT
Posted by Wireless_Phantom on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:04am CDT
Posted by Albatross250 on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:27am CDT
Emerje wrote:
Emerje
Wait a second,a bit off-topic but who is that Full-tilt in Yellow?
Posted by Microbot on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:29am CDT
Posted by sol magnus on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:29am CDT
Albatross250 wrote:Emerje wrote:
Emerje
Wait a second,a bit off-topic but who is that Full-tilt in Yellow?
Sureshot, I would imagine.
Posted by o.supreme on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:37am CDT
sol magnus wrote:Albatross250 wrote:
Wait a second,a bit off-topic but who is that Full-tilt in Yellow?
Sureshot, I would imagine.
Yup, The Manga planted the seeds, too bad it didn't come to fruition (or for some, maybe a good thing)...
Crosshairs from Kup
Pointblank from Hotrod &
Sureshot from Full-Tilt
The Decepticon TR TM's first came from a new mold, then was heavily retooled multiple times. Now our first Autobot TM comes as pretty much a repaint of Siege Ironhide (except for the head). I really have no strong opinion either way, but one wonders if the other two will come from original molds, or be retools/repaints as well??
Posted by Ominous Sand on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:47am CDT
Posted by Jtprime17 on June 27th, 2019 @ 12:07pm CDT
Posted by Rodimus Knight on June 27th, 2019 @ 12:09pm CDT
Nathaniel Prime wrote:Do we have a separate Siege customization thread? Because I really want to see what we can come up with in this line, because stuff like this is hilarious.
What did they use for the add ons for this
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 12:16pm CDT
Sideswipe looks great. Definitely want him but not the Duocon. I hope somebody on ebay wants him only. And let's see which thirdparty company makes the best add on weapons for him to make him truly G2.
Posted by Rogue-Primal on June 27th, 2019 @ 12:20pm CDT
Posted by joevill on June 27th, 2019 @ 12:42pm CDT
Posted by Nathaniel Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 1:34pm CDT
Rodimus Knight wrote:Nathaniel Prime wrote:Do we have a separate Siege customization thread? Because I really want to see what we can come up with in this line, because stuff like this is hilarious.
What did they use for the add ons for this
Siege Shockwave, with his armor and a couple of Brints to make Megawave
I saw this digibash online and wondered if you guys would like it if this idea came to fruition
Posted by Rogue-Primal on June 27th, 2019 @ 1:38pm CDT
With all these ideas im surprised hasbro hasn't made any new contracts for a game with this title to finish this potential trilogy name.
Posted by Nathaniel Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 1:46pm CDT
Rogue-Primal wrote:Could work for both deluxe Soundwave and Blaster too.
With all these ideas im surprised hasbro hasn't made any new contracts for a game with this title to finish this potential trilogy name.
I would love a new game, primarily because I missed out on getting FOC for PS4, and Devastation is hard to find. Don't even think of bringing up ROTDS though
Posted by Rogue-Primal on June 27th, 2019 @ 1:53pm CDT
Nathaniel Prime wrote:Rogue-Primal wrote:Could work for both deluxe Soundwave and Blaster too.
With all these ideas im surprised hasbro hasn't made any new contracts for a game with this title to finish this potential trilogy name.
I would love a new game, primarily because I missed out on getting FOC for PS4, and Devastation is hard to find. Don't even think of bringing up ROTDS though
I regret owning that can of rotten worms. Reused WFC/FOC characters and weapons for a third time. Many of the Cybertronian levels were also ridiculously tedious compared to older games and sometimes you die too easily on the lowest difficulty. Saving Cliffjumper (protect others with turret part) Shockwave infiltrating and lowering defenses (no checkpoints and way too many enemies) and lastly defending Movie Optimus as Grimlock. So not worth the replay.
But let's not stray too far off topic.
Posted by o.supreme on June 27th, 2019 @ 1:56pm CDT
Nathaniel Prime wrote:I would love a new game, primarily because I missed out on getting FOC for PS4, and Devastation is hard to find.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?siteid=0&pub=5574891718&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1&mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR%20...%20%26_sop%3D15%3C%2Fa%3E%26
I do agree though about FOC. I wish somehow that both WFC & FOC could be downloaded for PS4, since I completely skipped PS3.
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on June 27th, 2019 @ 1:57pm CDT
Posted by RodimusConvoy13 on June 27th, 2019 @ 2:01pm CDT
Posted by Rogue-Primal on June 27th, 2019 @ 2:15pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:Nathaniel Prime wrote:I would love a new game, primarily because I missed out on getting FOC for PS4, and Devastation is hard to find.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?siteid=0&pub=5574891718&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1&mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR%20...%20%26_sop%3D15%3C%2Fa%3E%26
I do agree though about FOC. I wish somehow that both WFC & FOC could be downloaded for PS4, since I completely skipped PS3.
Unfortunately Hasbro removed digital licenses. PS3 is sometimes cheap but finding good deals for the games is a little tougher since discs could not be recalled by hasbro and their value has risen as a result and even the Playstation NOW on PS4 has no license to allow the games on rental subscription service. Even brick and mortar stores like Gamestop dont seem to carry them or they disappear faster than word spreads that they were spotted.
Posted by Sabrblade on June 27th, 2019 @ 2:28pm CDT
Or more like Sakamoto was just having some fun (he does that a lot).o.supreme wrote:Yup, The Manga planted the seeds,
Posted by Nathaniel Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 2:48pm CDT
Rogue-Primal wrote:o.supreme wrote:Nathaniel Prime wrote:I would love a new game, primarily because I missed out on getting FOC for PS4, and Devastation is hard to find.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?siteid=0&pub=5574891718&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1&mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR%20...%20%26_sop%3D15%3C%2Fa%3E%26
I do agree though about FOC. I wish somehow that both WFC & FOC could be downloaded for PS4, since I completely skipped PS3.
Unfortunately Hasbro removed digital licenses. PS3 is sometimes cheap but finding good deals for the games is a little tougher since discs could not be recalled by hasbro and their value has risen as a result and even the Playstation NOW on PS4 has no license to allow the games on rental subscription service. Even brick and mortar stores like Gamestop dont seem to carry them or they disappear faster than word spreads that they were spotted.
I find plenty at Gamestops everywhere, but Devastation costs 20$...
Which is a lot more than what I played for what I considered the best game ever, Titanfall 2.
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on June 27th, 2019 @ 3:01pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on June 27th, 2019 @ 3:10pm CDT
Lunatic Prime wrote:Looks like somebody doesn't like the competition
Competition has nothing to do with it, YOU are the one that posted broken image links and didn't fix them. I did you a favor, no need to be like that.
But the custom is better TO ME at least because it resembles the characteristics of the G1 original more.
I didn't say it didn't look better, I just said we had an official representation of what that would look like. Even if it is just Sakamoto going a little rogue, Takara Tomy still printed it knowing how fans would react.
Emerje
Posted by Sabrblade on June 27th, 2019 @ 3:24pm CDT
I think he was referring to the notion that TFormers doesn't permit hotlinking their images, with that site being the aforementioned "somebody" and this Seibertron board (or other sites in general) being its competition.Emerje wrote:Lunatic Prime wrote:Looks like somebody doesn't like the competition
Competition has nothing to do with it, YOU are the one that posted broken image links and didn't fix them. I did you a favor, no need to be like that.
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 3:45pm CDT
Hey, don't take it personal - I was just messing with you a bitEmerje wrote:Lunatic Prime wrote:Looks like somebody doesn't like the competition
Competition has nothing to do with it, YOU are the one that posted broken image links and didn't fix them. I did you a favor, no need to be like that.
And the images were fine when I posted them. I always preview posts and check them after submitting them.
Maybe one of our admins disabled them because of TFormers' guidelines.
They don't?Sabrblade wrote:I think he was referring to the notion that TFormers doesn't permit hotlinking their images, with that site being the aforementioned "somebody" and this Seibertron board (or other sites in general) being its competition.
Oopsy
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:12pm CDT
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:12pm CDT
bacem wrote:So, what was the point of greenlight's new arm? There are no hinge on her wrist, which makes her fist hangs out a bit more than the other, and they don't put extra articulation too, it is just one molded piece, so what gives? Does it makes her more screen accurate or something?
The only thing I can think of is that the remolding does make for a better looking combiner leg with the hands now behind the wheels instead of front and center looking like someone is making a fake pair of glasses with their hands.
Posted by no-one on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:16pm CDT
Ha, we did the same thing! We upgraded so both my wife and I could have our own rooms. We're totally adults and stuff!Burn wrote:Buy a bigger house.Cyberpath wrote:It's starting to become a little overwhelming, so many great cartoon-inspired figures.. and they all require resources and space. What to do, what to do..
I did.
Now I can't afford Siege figures.
Problem solved!
Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that. Might be a appropriate time to give it another go at some front page love... hint hint, wink winkCobotron wrote:You can totally post stuff like that here, and should!william-james88 wrote:Nathaniel Prime wrote:Do we have a separate Siege customization thread? Because I really want to see what we can come up with in this line, because stuff like this is hilarious.
You can post it all here.
But there was this photo challenge thread started by carytheone at the onset of Siege. It was fun but kind of petered out. It would be cool to revive though.
The real reason I came here was to share this, even though everyone has already received their Ms. Greenjeans. Old WillyJ gloom spreader and his fear mongering had me worried, but she came packed nice and tidy
Posted by o.supreme on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:23pm CDT
Posted by Skritz on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:25pm CDT
Posted by no-one on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:28pm CDT
To be fair, Plain Dealings is in North LA, I'm in southern LA. There's bit of an inside joke dig somewhere in thato.supreme wrote:My Greenlight was packaged nicely as well. To be fair, that other pic was from Louisiana. Not sure if it was a one-off, or if others arrived in similar fashion....
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:30pm CDT
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well hey, they turned into a ghost town after the idiotic closure of the marketplace in favor of an awkward proprietary eBay Lite thing. They've got to try and retain what little traffic they still get somehow.
Who do you mean now?
TFormers.com?
Posted by Cyberpath on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:33pm CDT
Skritz wrote:Btw anyone a bit weirded out that Crosshairs has the cartoon/comics head and not his toy-accurate head when usually Hasbro tend more toward the toy designs. Maybe its because his regular head design was too much like Ironhide?
I think they've gone more cartoon lately, especially with the SIEGE line. Both molds and decos. (But not without some "misses" like Soundwave's visor.)
That's why the brand unification thing doesn't really bother me as much anymore and why SIEGE is so tempting.
Posted by Cyberpath on June 27th, 2019 @ 4:41pm CDT
Isn't it enough that we have to get three exact copies of the same action-figure in order to get the full character?
BTW, anyone got him yet? Any good?