New ROTF Galleries: Thrust, Gears and Breakaway Variant

I know about Breakaway varient for a long time, but it seems that the store near me all have the dark varient for some reason.

It's interesting to note that Thrust and Gears have the more traditional styled Decepticon and Autobot symbols on them instead of the movie styled ones, which is even odder because both are pictured on the back of the box with the correct movie styled symbols.

Wonderful WOnderful job on these Galleries!! Gears is growing on me alot and Thrust is a must... Cant wait for these to show up here in Ohio...

Seibertron wrote:It's interesting to note that Thrust and Gears have the more traditional styled Decepticon and Autobot symbols on them instead of the movie styled ones, which is even odder because both are pictured on the back of the box with the correct movie styled symbols.

What makes you say the movie-style symbols are the "correct" ones? These characters didn't appear in the movie, and they're G1 homages, so to me the traditional style symbols are the "correct" ones.

I'm curious about the Breakaway variant. That's a very dramatic change. Do you think the original color was a mistake, and the darker one was supposed to be the original color but the factory used the wrong paint? Or do you think they just didn't like how it looked and decided to change it?

Kibble wrote:With all the hype around the mold, I was really looking forward to Thrust...after opening him the other night, can't say that I'm on the bandwagon. Transformation is ordinary and the bot mode is lacking...and it's not even the head. The upper torso is too hollow, the feet too big and flipper-like, and the wing placement in bot mode just doesn't do it for me. Maybe if they were flipped around and showed the insignia, I dunno. Jet mode looks pretty nice, though.

How does the plastic feel? I saw a recent review on RotF Thrust where there's mention of criticism of the Breakaway mold for using thinner/cheaper feeling plastic.

GuyIncognito wrote:What makes you say the movie-style symbols are the "correct" ones? These characters didn't appear in the movie, and they're G1 homages, so to me the traditional style symbols are the "correct" ones.

By "correct", I meant they should use the movie styled faction symbols on the toys that are part of the movie toy line. I'm also not a fan of when the movie styled faction symbols show up on toys outside of the movie toy line (i.e. TFA Prowl). Hopefully this will be a running change at some point.

Mkall wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:I know about Breakaway varient for a long time, but it seems that the store near me all have the dark varient for some reason.

Aye, the light variant was only available in the eraly runs before Hasbro did a Running Change and started producing him (and others) in the darker colours

hmm I never knew that was it the same for Sideways dark varient?

Hmm I'll probably get Thrust. I dunno yet. I like the Breakaway mold. I just wish the Breakaway variant had a darker green too.

Should I get Gears or try to find Stockade? I'm not really sure. I don't have that mold yet.

Tyrannotaur wrote:
Should I get Gears or try to find Stockade? I'm not really sure. I don't have that mold yet.

A) You're not going to find Stockade anywhere, except maybe eBay for double retail price.
B) Gears is an awesome repaint, and IMO is way better looking that plain black Stockade, who'd kind of boring.

GuyIncognito wrote:

Tyrannotaur wrote:
Should I get Gears or try to find Stockade? I'm not really sure. I don't have that mold yet.

A) You're not going to find Stockade anywhere, except maybe eBay for double retail price.
B) Gears is an awesome repaint, and IMO is way better looking that plain black Stockade, who'd kind of boring.

C) Just get both, Autobot vs. Decepticon