Wave 2 Velocitron deluxes out in New Zealand with first look at Shadowstrip

No universe designation for "Decepticon Crasher". Guess that makes her a G1 native (rather than a GoBot) after all.

Huh.

That's an interesting way to release the G2 Stunticon decoes. Kind of clever, but did it really warrant creating a new character/name trademark instead of just calling it "Shadow Dragstrip?"

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:"Shadowstrip"... Well played Hasbro. Making him not G2 Drag Strip, so no inherent obligation to finish off the team.

I don't follow. Is there a difference between G2 dragstrip and shadowstrip? I don,t see how those are different characters.

Overcracker wrote:
Wait... did we know we were getting repaint of Dragstrip? Or is this the leaked "Shadow Striker"?

Interesting its out without any pics before hand.

Yes it's a fun surprise in that sense but a letdown that it isn't the shadowstriker we had in a listing. And yes, this would indeed be that shadowstriker since it was confirmed that the next wave would only have 2 new bots and be padded with repacks. The part that makes no sense though is that Cosmos is not one of those getting repacked.

Gearslide wrote:Huh.

That's an interesting way to release the G2 Stunticon decoes. Kind of clever, but did it really warrant creating a new character/name trademark instead of just calling it "Shadow Dragstrip?"

That way they avoid the obligation of releasing the rest of the team in G2 colors: new character that homages the deco, so he can be a mere substitute

william-james88 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:
Wait... did we know we were getting repaint of Dragstrip? Or is this the leaked "Shadow Striker"?

Interesting its out without any pics before hand.

Yes it's a fun surprise in that sense but a letdown that it isn't the shadowstriker we had in a listing. And yes, this would indeed be that shadowstriker since it was confirmed that the next wave would only have 2 new bots and be padded with repacks. The part that makes no sense though is that Cosmos is not one of those getting repacked.

Interesting... thanks.

At least its one less figure I need to get. Already have Drag Strip, and don't need a G2 repaint that may or may to get a complete team as cool as the black, gold and blue is.

Toy Colors Hot Rod? Boring, easy pass.

As for the Shadow Striker-Shadowstrip situation, sad reminder that the listing we got technically didn't actually say Shadow Striker:It's just that between that and JTPrime referring to it as "Shadow Stri" based off of more extensive info they had (I could be misremembering that part, but I think I remember that being the case), everyone autofilled the full name as Shadow Striker because there was no other existing name it could be. So yes, no Shadow Striker.

I cannot decide whether I actually like Shadowstrip here, I'm gonna have to do some thinking on this one. It's either gonna be my first Legacy Stunticon purchase or another pass. This is probably a part of why Crasher didn't use the Dragstrip mold I guess?

EDIT: Also for anyone on the fence about Shadowstrip specifically for the reasoning of "what if they don't do a full G2 Menasor and just make Dragstrip", JTPrime did find a listing for a Legacy "Deluxe E Robo WLD Ridr" and up until this instance had no clue what it could be, so make of that what you will.

So much for Shadowstriker:( guess that's money saved

Nemesis Primal wrote:Toy Colors Hot Rod? Boring, easy pass.

Agreed, Toon accurate colors would have been nice.

And in the meantime, there's STILL no sign of Deluxe Cosmos anywhere near my realm! Boo!

So I guess that's it, Crasher really is stuck using the inferior version of the mold. I guess the moron who wasted Hasbro's money on the downgrade (it looks no more earthlike or G1 than SIEGE, while having worse plastic color layout and losing the shoulder port; what a total waste) to increase the ROI on their bad decision.

Nice to have G2 Drag Strip though. So I guess G2 Motormaster will either be the Commander-class for this line, or a Selects release, and they won't be doing a box set. I'm not too surprised that it turned out not to be Shadow Striker, since we haven't had a new Side Burn or anything resembling him. It's not like with our expectation of Armada Blurr where we were seeing Unicron Trilogy signs everywhere and knew we were getting a suitable base mold (Pointblank).

As for Hot Rod... Well, good for people who missed out on the mold and don't want to pay $90 or whatever he's going for. But I do seriously wish Hasbro get the smeg over their block about doing him in magenta already. It's been 36 smegging years, damnit. Although by that same token I'm not surprised they once again didn't do it. Only other possibility besides toy colors that I would have expected was a Cybertron Hot Shot homage.

At first I wanted Shadowstrip to stand in as a SG version of Dragstrip, but bow I think I'd want him to be a bodyguard for SG Goldbug.

I'll be pasing on theese two. Race car modes for both are still pretty bad though Shadow Strip looks pretty good as an arm -the colors make him look less like a bulldozer gone wrong. Honestly prefer fracture over crasher, if she had been the potp Jazz mold then maybe (it's not like its a big deal to hasbro to have incompletable combiners hahahaha). Depends on what/if they use a figure as a repaint/retool for Gobots Psycho.

Hotrods still going to be crazy priced if it's £33 for a voyager deluxe but seeing as they havent got his colors right yet the toy color version might work for me (and if they paint his roof the right color -they finally got clampdowns lambo panels paint matching so who knows)

Definitely want Crasher, will probably cave and get Shadowstrip.

Cyber Bishop wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:Toy Colors Hot Rod? Boring, easy pass.

Agreed, Toon accurate colors would have been nice.

I was personally hoping for an IDW Rodimus (considering IDW Blurr exists) or a SG Hot Rod, but it does seem like even the people who are saying they might get the Toy Colors one would still rather have the magenta anyway, magenta seems like it would have been a safer bet than what they're going with.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I'm not too surprised that it turned out not to be Shadow Striker, since we haven't had a new Side Burn or anything resembling him. It's not like with our expectation of Armada Blurr where we were seeing Unicron Trilogy signs everywhere and knew we were getting a suitable base mold (Pointblank).

People weren't expecting Universe Shadow Striker, they were expecting a Generations version of the much-more-well-known Cyberverse Shadow Striker as presumably an Elita-1 repaint/remold.

"Shadowstrip" actually looks like a pretty cool repaint. Kinda makes me wish that Menasor's other arm could use it. Sadly, I gather it was set up only to work with Dead End. But a matching black car looks really good as Menasor's arm...

I'm always a sucker for toy-accuracy, I'll happily pick this Hot Rod up if it even has tampographs to mimic the sticker detailing like what was done with the Titans Return toys.

SpaceEagle wrote:I'm always a sucker for toy-accuracy, I'll happily pick this Hot Rod up if even has tampographs to mimic the sticker detailing like what was done with the Titans Return toys.

Hot rod interesting because the legs on the origional toy and animation model are very different.

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

SpaceEagle wrote:I'm always a sucker for toy-accuracy, I'll happily pick this Hot Rod up if even has tampographs to mimic the sticker detailing like what was done with the Titans Return toys.

Hot rod interesting because the legs on the origional toy and animation model are very different.

Yeah, that's what makes me interested to see how they'll go about it. I still prefer the toy colours over the 'toon colours anyway but I'm still hoping they lean more into it to really make it more worthwhile than that one Netflix Prime set that vaguely had the same colours as the toy and nothing else.

william-james88 wrote:...Shadostrip and Deceopticon...

Er, "Shadowstrip" and "Decepticon", surely?

Anyway, it's nice that they're (hopefully) giving (all?) the G2 versions new names, so we can either imagine they're upgraded forms of the same characters (à la Soundblaster and Twincast) or new characters in their own right (à la Soundblaster again).

This latest version of G2 Dragstrip reminds me of the old "John Player Special" version of the Tyrrell P34 car, which Dragstrip was based upon.

Fuck, my walmarts haven't even started stocking this line yet, and these guys have wave 2 before hasbro even announces it