Flame Toys' IDW Drift Revealed at Toy Soul 2016

Looks incredible.

Microraptor wrote:He's almost Gundam-esque.

Makes sense, the original design in the comics had that same kind of flare.

william-james88 wrote:

Microraptor wrote:He's almost Gundam-esque.

Makes sense, the original design in the comics had that same kind of flare.

To an extent, yes. But this thing is way more OTT. The crazy-huge and detailed swords, the mile-long legs and massive feet, the exaggerated A-stance and the increase in thickness are all more Gundam-influenced. It's not bad, one of the best things about non-transforming figures is that they can be a lot more stylized, but I feel it kinda detracts from Drift's overall character.

Microraptor wrote:the mile-long legs

His legs look disproportionately short to me, especially his squat little thighs. Even the art gave him longer legs, I don't know how they got them so short on the figure.

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The very IDW inspired and officially licensed Flame Toys Drift - a non-transforming figure - finally has a full colour look to him, courtesy of the Hong Kong's company's social media accounts! Attending Anime Expo untl 4th July with distributor BlueFin, Flame toys are showing it off at the stall during the event, but you can also check it out below.

That's the best looking figure I have absolutely no interest in I've seen all year.

Tarn? Nice.

smdudajr wrote:It doesn't even transform ... what is the point? A transformer that doesn't transform isn't a transformer. These are just action figure statues basically.

Let me just say... I completely agree with you.

However, the budget to make some characters transform and look like what people see in the comics would be huge (probably). These are action figure statues, essentially, which is what some people want. As for myself, I'm not highly interested, but I understand the sentiment.

On another note, if extremely media-accurate, articulated, cheap-ish TF models were produced, I think it would be cool.

While there's yet no update on the Tarn figure from Flame Toys based on the IDW More Than Meets The Eye/Lost Light character of the same name and design; we now have a better, clearer look at the teaser for the non-transforming action figure to allow us to look in closer detail thanks to Flame Toys' Facebook page. Though nothing else about Tarn has been revealed as of yet, take a look at the picture below and tell us what you think in the comments!

Deadput wrote:Lol A non Transforming figure of a Transformer addicted to Transforming.

Oh the irony!





Not saying this is a bad "figure" just taking note of the situation.

Heh heh -- I do love that myself. I'll just envision this as post-transformation cog burnout, pre-Delphi Tarn

I wonder if the size of this layout next to Drift is relative to the actual figure though -- like, if Tarn is that much bigger than Drift as shown here. What size would that make him; Leader? Either way if the price turns out to be low enough, this could be a nice alternative to Kultur if you don't care about transformation and just want a display figure and don't have an awful lot of money. Or if you're just a bit uneasy about third parties to begin with. I wonder if they'll make the rest of the DJD or other IDW-original characters like Rung or Aileron; their focus does seem to be on IDW which would explain why they went with Drift first -- being easily the most well-known IDW-original character Either way this is getting me excited.