New Gallery: Combiner Wars Leader Class Skywarp

The black on Skywarp looks amazing.

I admit this looks great.. but I do have one niggle. The purple on the chest should be Black! the middle part is meant to be his jet mode cockpit, so why is it not the same colour?

I kind of wish they'd been "less" accurate and put the decoration on the inner edge of the tail fins instead of the outer edge.

I'd be happy to own all of them "For the right price" I suppose I should put some effort into getting a Thundercracker while they are still around and cheap - I don't think I've ever seen anyone selling Starscream though - not been looking especially hard mind.

I saw Thundercracker at Target today. After seeing one in hand, it still doesn't look or feel like a seeker to me.

Decepticon Sunstorm wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:I saw Thundercracker at Target today. After seeing one in hand, it still doesn't look or feel like a seeker to me.

I bought him 3 months ago, and he feels worthy of the seeker title to me.

What about starscream?

Ironhidensh wrote:I saw Thundercracker at Target today. After seeing one in hand, it still doesn't look or feel like a seeker to me.

Exactly! Hasbro either make the Seekers too small (Legend or Deluxe) or too big(leader). I passed on these leader retools because of it.

I get it though, Hasbro likes to milk things... Fine just know that my wallet is closed until there's a proper Voyager class for these Seekers and Megatron(Or I'll just stick with the United version of him).

Overall the Leader class just feels like a filler line with the exception of Ultra Magnus and Jetfire.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:b) the dinobots only started existing on earth).

Not in every case.

I was referring to the more popular interpretations.

Dreamwave's The War Within was popular back in its day.

As was (and still is) Fall of Cybertron.

I have to say the Marvel Comics was my favorite Dinobot origin. They were on the Ark when it left Cybertron... The Ark woke them up thousands of years early to fight shockwave.... They got trapped in the tar pit till ratchet tracked them down.

Loved those issues.


Wheeljack building them on a whim... I really HATED that idea. For a group dedicated to being in disguise and low profile... Robot Dinosaurs don't make a lot of sense.

The fact that The ark rebuilt them based on the lifeforms around at the time... THAT worked for me

william-james88 wrote:

phantom1592 wrote:
I have to say the Marvel Comics was my favorite Dinobot origin. They were on the Ark when it left Cybertron... The Ark woke them up thousands of years early to fight shockwave.... They got trapped in the tar pit till ratchet tracked them down.

Loved those issues.


Wheeljack building them on a whim... I really HATED that idea. For a group dedicated to being in disguise and low profile... Robot Dinosaurs don't make a lot of sense.

The fact that The ark rebuilt them based on the lifeforms around at the time... THAT worked for me

Thats a gorgeous origin story, which issue has it?

Issue 7 or 8? I think they wake up in 8, but Ratchet solo arc started around 7 I think.

Sabrblade wrote:

phantom1592 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

phantom1592 wrote:
I have to say the Marvel Comics was my favorite Dinobot origin. They were on the Ark when it left Cybertron... The Ark woke them up thousands of years early to fight shockwave.... They got trapped in the tar pit till ratchet tracked them down.

Loved those issues.


Wheeljack building them on a whim... I really HATED that idea. For a group dedicated to being in disguise and low profile... Robot Dinosaurs don't make a lot of sense.

The fact that The ark rebuilt them based on the lifeforms around at the time... THAT worked for me

Thats a gorgeous origin story, which issue has it?

Issue 7 or 8? I think they wake up in 8, but Ratchet solo arc started around 7 I think.

The backstory is told in Issue #4, while Ratchet's finding them in the Savage Land (of Marvel Comics lore) happens in Issue #8. But the intermediate issues lead up to Ratchet's finding them.

Really?!? I would have thought that was all after the original 4 issue miniseries... strange that they would have included cliffhangers like that...

Been a long time since I read it though. That was one of my first ever comics back in the 80's

I remember it as a 'Big' comic... Basically a TPB before they were common... but I must have kept collecting them up through Circuit Breaker at least...

I love the idea of Ratchet the last remaining Autobot forced to team up with Megatron... and tracking down the lost dinobots for some extra muscle for the inevitable betrayal.

Also my favorite Ratchet of all time

william-james88 wrote:Fellow Seibertronian Death has a video review for one of the latest figures in the Generations "Combiner Wars" line: Leader Skywarp, a redeco of Starscream. Enjoy!



Are any of you getting these leader Seekers? And how do you find the use of the Jetfire mold for them? Let us know!

so far we've yet to see those turn up in physical stores in the UK! at the moment it's just Magnus that's shelfwarming in places like TRU & Smyths Toys. btw i take it those seekers are the last of the CW Leader Class line before we go onto the Titan Wars stuff?