Comic Images for Takara Transformers Legends Slipstream and Nightbird

Shockwave7 wrote:I think the package artists are.... shall we say, 'projecting' a little too much of how they'd LIKE these fem-bots to appear in how they're drawing them....

I did roll my eyes a bit when I saw that panel of Nightbird down with her butt up in the air...

Incomprehensible and slightly weird Japanese humor aside, it is funny having tiny BW Megs alongside G1 Megs.

I really don't like that Slipstream doesn't come with the sword. Nightbird comes with all four of the base mold's weapons and then the two new ones. Combiner Hunter Arcee doesn't even come with the four base weapons yet Nightbird does. So why doesn't Slipstream come with Windblade's sword? I'd like to at least have had the option in displaying her with the sword or not.

william-james88 wrote:

Her pose in that box art is very Liefeld-esque. But, I suppose a robot is more likely to be able to do that versus a human being.

Glarryg

william-james88 wrote:

Oh, so it looks like Slipstream got her new body upgrade from Swindle. And look, there's Sentinel Magnus just as he appeared in the Season 3.5 fiction. I wonder if Derrick J. Wyatt had any involvement in this comic.

Alpha Weltall wrote:I really don't like that Slipstream doesn't come with the sword. Nightbird comes with all four of the base mold's weapons and then the two new ones. Combiner Hunter Arcee doesn't even come with the four base weapons yet Nightbird does. So why doesn't Slipstream come with Windblade's sword? I'd like to at least have had the option in displaying her with the sword or not.

It's just something Takara does. If they deem an accessory that came with a figure's original release is unecessary or inappropriate for the character that the mold is to be redecoed/remolded into, they take it out. Thankfully, they were willing to create brand new null rays for her that suit her character far more.

The same thing happened with Henkei! Henkei! Lambor and Alert. The engine piece that came with Sunstreaker (as well as every Hasbro release of the Universe Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold) was left out of Lambor's and Alert's releases since it was a piece that, in the fiction, was more associated with Sunstreaker and not Sideswipe or Red Alert. Takara probably thought the same about Slipstream, thinking "She doesn't use a sword," and took it out, replacing it with the new null rays.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Oh, so it looks like Slipstream got her new body upgrade from Swindle. And look, there's Sentinel Magnus just as he appeared in the Season 3.5 fiction. I wonder if Derrick J. Wyatt had any involvement in this comic.

Alpha Weltall wrote:I really don't like that Slipstream doesn't come with the sword. Nightbird comes with all four of the base mold's weapons and then the two new ones. Combiner Hunter Arcee doesn't even come with the four base weapons yet Nightbird does. So why doesn't Slipstream come with Windblade's sword? I'd like to at least have had the option in displaying her with the sword or not.

It's just something Takara does. If they deem an accessory that came with a figure's original release is unecessary or inappropriate for the character that the mold is to be redecoed/remolded into, they take it out. Thankfully, they were willing to create brand new null rays for her that suit her character far more.

The same thing happened with Henkei! Henkei! Lambor and Alert. The engine piece that came with Sunstreaker (as well as every Hasbro release of the Universe Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold) was left out of Lambor's and Alert's releases since it was a piece that, in the fiction, was more associated with Sunstreaker and not Sideswipe or Red Alert. Takara probably thought the same about Slipstream, thinking "She doesn't use a sword," and took it out, replacing it with the new null rays.

Isn't the sword necessary to form the tail fin?

mooncake623 wrote:

Soraboo1030 wrote:I could probably translate these comics but it'd take a while!

That would be awesome

If you ever do translate them, Soraboo, give us an e-mail (link in my signature) and we will front page it

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Isn't the sword necessary to form the tail fin?

No, those are on her feet. however, the sword does help to fill out the gap in her body in alt mode.

Agamemnon wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Isn't the sword necessary to form the tail fin?

Hellscream9999 wrote:No, it did nothing other than store under her alt mode. In fact it was just slightly taller than her landing gear, so she had a tendency to tip to one side a lot.

william-james88 wrote:No, those are on her feet. however, the sword does help to fill out the gap in her body in alt mode.

Well, the hilt did form a cool rear rotor that made some sense in the VTOL context. Necessary? Not really. But a cool addition in cross function of weapon kibble, in my opinion.

Yeah, considering tf fans b!tched forever about not having weapon storage, now when we get it people b!tch about how dumb the weapons look when attached to the alt mode (cw especially)

I really loved the multiple ways you could store the sword on windblade.

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Yeah, considering tf fans b!tched forever about not having weapon storage, now when we get it people b!tch about how dumb the weapons look when attached to the alt mode (cw especially)

I really loved the multiple ways you could store the sword on windblade.

Speaking of weapons storage, that arcee mold has some of the best weapon storage in the history of the brand. Takara really outdid themselves engineering how it all fits together.

Except that the small pistols' storage in her abs is so tight, it could snap her in half (almost happened to me) but yeah her abundance of weapon ports is nice.

In Slipstream's comic, I see:

Animated universe
Sentinel Magnus
Autotroopers
The Metroplex
Swindle
Unknown wanted poster behind Swindle
Mudflap wanted poster
Slipstream
Magnificus wanted poster
Sky-Byte wanted poster
Rattletrap
Metalhawk
Sky Garry
Road Rage
First Aid
Grandus
Another obscured wanted poster behind dialogue bubble
Doctor Scalpel
Safeguard
Jazz
Jetstorm
Jetfire

Legends Universe
Windblade
Arcee
Rattle holding a small blue figure
Convoy
Metroflex
Ultra Magnus
Alpha Trin
Megatron
BW Megatron
Waspeeter