First Look at Transformers Legacy Shadow Striker

Good thing, I just saw this on Facebook.

Pretty clearly a pretool for Legacy Speedbreaker/Sideburn, a mashup of her BotCon 2003 and Cyberverse incarnations, ala Skyquake. Now she just needs a slingshot, unless we're also getting a Buzzworthy repaint of a more recent Wheelie.

william-james88 wrote:And we know this is supposed to be her after she's been experimented on since her eyes are asymetrical.

Her eyes were already assymetrical before she got rebuilt:



This new figure just has an identity crisis.

And, honestly, why is she blue? Like, that's straight up just Side Burn's deco covering the majority of the figure. She won't have to be redecoed into Side Burn, she already IS Side Burn!

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:And, honestly, why is she blue? Like, that's straight up just Side Burn's deco covering the majority of the figure. She won't have to be redecoed into Side Burn, she already IS Side Burn!

It's not Side Burn blue, but it's not quite the Cyberverse color either:

It's closer to him than anything else, especially with all that red and silver too.

Clearly Sideburn directed most of this toy and its engineering and features, but they failed to go for the Botcon Shadow Striker look beyond the sideburn engine chest.

The car mode is pretty bad.

At the end, i have no attachment to any version of Shadowstriker, but i can see this failing to be any of the versions and just not working for fans of the character.

I am curious what they’ll do for side burn, because that car mode is terrible for him.

Well that's unfortunate. Not a fan of making her "Cyberverse Shadowstriker" when it's "RID01 Sideburn, but painted to look like a currently popular character"

Another car bot with an awful car mode as much as I want Shadow Striker, this one isn't for me. Even RID reuses of her might be a skip when the car mode is going to be that offputting compared to the original toys -even if the bot modes were a bit janky. Hope she gets a RED release.

Well D-Max is gonna be upset.

Personally though, this works for me? I liked Cyberverse Shadow Striker alright as a character before but always thought her design was kinda generic except for her head, and I don't care at all about Side Burn or any of his repaints, so I'm actually cool with getting this as probably my only use of this mold (although I guess I'd maybe consider Roulette if she looks good enough and doesn't come in a 2-pack with the other Shadow Striker). I very much enjoy the roof kibble being removable so you can actually pose it convincingly as a shield instead of it just permanently hanging off the arm, and they nailed the head sculpt.

Not seeing the complaint about the color, maybe there's just some weird color receptor differences going on but to me that's definitely a dark indigo that leans more purple than blue.

Sabrblade wrote:It's Legacy Prime Bulkhead and Knock Out all over again.

This is a figure for no one.

I mean, I like this Shadow Striker as well as Bulkhead (& Prowl, & Skyquake, & Arcee), so I guess it's for people like me who care about the characters but aren't as invested in 1-to-1 media accuracy at all times.

I do agree that Knock Out is bad though, I was hoping to like him when I got him in hand and the alt mode (& paint job) is great, but the robot mode is just so not fitting for him and he can't really hold the spear in any convincing ways.

....in other news, I saw Prowl and Crosscut at Target a few days ago, thus marking the first time I've seen any Legacy Evolution Deluxes at mass retail, and I grabbed Shrapnel finally from a semi-local comic store, so I am caught-up on my desired retail Legacy purchases until I either find Scarr in a store in the coming months or my preorder comes in.

In OTHER other news, people are word-of-mouth leaking details about Bombshell now too, but I think I'm gonna wait for everyone to see Shadow Striker and put their two cents in before I drop that Bombshell rumor

I'm not attached to the character nor the show it's from to really care one way of the other, it's a non buy from day one. I do feel it's a miss in terms of the character because that's one aspect I thought was interesting, her design, this figure doesn't do her justice at all. And it's a real shame that Hasbro can't afford more unique Bots given all the other built in repaints/reuse such as the case with all the Datsun releases. With so much reuse available for those types or even the simple repaints like DK-2 Guard, DK-3 Breaker all the Seekers etc. Surely a few one off Bots could be attainable without the need for an immediate reuse.

And especially now with how the core transformer bot can be reused and just have a different outer shell/car mode rather than having to design and tool all new for each one saves a lot of resources.