First Look at Buzzworthy Bumblebee Troop Builder Multipack

that seeker is so odd, its basically just getting another thundercracker

Bounti76 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:that seeker is so odd, it's basically just getting another thundercracker

Given that most of these pictures are from screenshots, it's possible that the color is not just straight up blue like Thundercracker, but maybe more of a teal or violet blue, like some of the generics in G1 episodes.

But with at least two dozen other options before they got to any of the half dozen blue decos that look like Thundercracker, they had plenty of other options to go with. You'd think the purple/lilac Air Warrior would've been the first one they'd go for. Maybe one of the green ones or the decos that look like other characters or something.

Bounti76 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:that seeker is so odd, its basically just getting another thundercracker

Given that most of these pictures are from screenshots, it's possible that the color is not just straight up blue like Thundercracker, but maybe more of a teal or violet blue, like some of the generics in G1 episodes.

Ideally he'd be a "Decepticon Air Warrior" and purple or even that "sea blue" on the right, but I guess they were aiming for the guy on the left.



Personally I intend to use him as Bitstream.



Emerje

I think I will be getting at least 3 of this 4 pack, if not 4. I love the skull and auto troopers. I will probably sell off some of the seekers, unless they are purplerish, then I will keep 3.

Sowndwave76 wrote:It is really difficult to tell from the different photos the actual color of that seeker...
The one of the back of the packaging, both modes look lighter.
Then the one of the bot mode looks darker.
But then the one of just the jet mode looks lighter again.

I can't decide if this is Hastak being coy and appeasing both those who want a random a seeker and those who want Thundercracker or not... I would have to assume this blue is in fact different... But how much?

I think your probably right. They don't have to reissue Thundercracker, as he (appears to be) fairly close to his color scheme, but you can use it as a generic if you want.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:G2 Cybertronian trooper ... okay, you lost me, Hasbro. Can someone point me to a panel?

They're Jhiaxus' troops from the Marvel G2 comics.



Emerje

alekese wrote:

Emerje wrote:

While I'm loving the trend of alternate heads in these BB 4packs, and as cool as the red visor on the autotrooper alternate head is, a quick tfwiki check shows that the only time autotroopers had red visors was in... Kiss Players. So, uh, props to legacy for being exceedingly, dangerously thorough in its breadth of represented continuities?

Bottoms up, Atari!

I've done Quintesson army building too, but have way more 3P Allicon's since the ER deluxe's aftermarket price (naturally) rose until troop building with it is no longer worth it large scale, so choosing it over a Sharkticon was a great call AFAIC.

All the debate over whether this Seeker's different enough from TC really makes me miss Zobovor's old site; he could analyze that particular issue way more thoroughly than any other fan or TFWiki. The frustrating part is that even if it is different enough, it begs the question: are we ever going to get as many different repaints of the ER Starscream mold as Classics Starscream got, legit and KO? And if so, how many of us might actually devote the space and cash necessary to collect them all someday, especially if, like me, they already have most of the Classics Seekers? (Pretty sure I only lack the Games of Deception trio, unless there's some obscure same-size decent quality KO I'm unaware of)

I guess my point is, I'd be more excited about ER Air Warrior too. Could it be that Hasbro's decided that shade of purple is now Slipstream's color scheme, and won't slap it on a G1-CHUGenerations Seeker until they tweak the mold a bit to give us a female Seeker ripe for army buildin'?

But speaking of excited, I doubt anyone here is more excited for that Skullgrin retool than me! I really hope that it's deemed the most obscure and least desirable of the bunch, and floods Ebay as soon as this is released, even if that risks sending Hasbro the wrong message about revisiting that particular well in the future. I need to throw the rest of my custom Cybertronians up on Transtopia sometime.

All in all, looks like this should be Target's Buzzworthiest 4-pack to date! Not that they can't try to top it down the road.

The Troop building set is a neat idea, the Earthrise Allicon was hard to get so it's nice that another version has been included. I'm tempted to get this for the Autotrooper and the G2 guy, but as with many troop building sets I'm guessing it'll be hard to come by because people will buy multiple of them.

Only keen on two if the figures in the set. I don't have any earth mode jets other than ss86 starscream yet and not really wanting a generic before having the main jets.

I'm definitely not interested in multiples of the trooper box set though so for me, it's kind of lost in what it aims to be. Shame the voyager loses out on including an alt head too. I might be more inclined to pick up skull grin and use him as a secondary jiaxus troop.

Well it's a clever way to mitigate the fact that it's another repaint/remold bundle of figures that most people have already. They've embraced it, though maybe they should have called it the "Army Builder" pack . I doubt I'll pick this one up since I've reviewed pretty much all these figures in their original form. You can't deny that's a good deal though, especially in this time of non-existent inflation (that actually DOES exist).