Site sponsor Robotkingdom has posted official images of several upcoming assortments, and among them are the Asian exclusive Transformers Generations GDO Leaders Ironhide and Starscream. These are G1 deco of DOTM Leader Class Ironhide and HFTD Leader Class Strarscream. As far as we know we two are not currently scheduled for domestic release.
i love both the iron hide and starscream. but i have a red DOTM voyager ironhide and a G1 colored 2007 movie starscream. but i do want that megatron, hotspot, thundertron and ultra magnus.
Ironhide looks a lot better than I expected, robot mode isn't nearly the flood of red that I thought he'd be. But Starscream looks horrible. Alt mode isn't bad, but all that white in bot mode just brings out how ugly movie Starscream really is.
The only thing those movie leader figs do for me is make me wonder if maybe they shoulda just made Ironhide red from the start. Other than that, I couldn't possibly care less about those figures.
That red Leader Ironhide looks great. I'd buy that as soon as I saw it if it were available. I certainly won't be spending the extra coin to get it shipped from overseas. Too bad they don't remove the electronics and weird chest cannon, too, while they recolor it.
Starscream looks awful. Robot mode coloring should be #1 when doing this kind of thing. It looks like they thought the jet mode was more important.
Yeah, they really know how to ruin a figure with 'battle damage', don't they.
Ironhide looks great though. Especially with the painted wheels. It's amazing how much of a difference that makes. I already have the Voyager version though, and I doubt this leader will get released here.
Well LC Red Ironhide looks OK and i heard this LC mold is crap! Never had it and probably will never buy it!
LC Starscream looks like puke and re-puke if that makes sense? Anyway i have the orginal mold in the so called right movie colors. Too all the TJ Maxx and Marshall stores, go ahead and reserve a spot for this Starscream mold since thats where all toys end up after about a year anyway.
PowerDive = WANT
Megatron= WANT, but someone needs to come with a new head mold and non-limpy swords! COUGH!! Head Robots Cough!
Hot Spot = WANT to the billionth power and someone needs to make his two fireball cannons for Hot Spot as well. Hello 3rd parties out there.
Not sure who the other two are, but they look cool too!
Of these figures, only Hot Spot appeals to me, as I have the original. I also have G2 Megatron, and this new Banzaitron repaint is hideous...doesn't remotely remind me of his G2 incarnation. Some of the same colors, but not in the right places.
Starscream isn't as bad (to me). I still wouldn't pick him up, even if he was a domestic release. Ironhide I would pick up if he was offered in the U.S., but I'd repaint his feet. It looks like he's wearing nail polish. Maybe he borrowed it from Chromia?
Stockade wrote:Well LC Red Ironhide looks OK and i heard this LC mold is crap!
Where did you hear that? Aside from limited pose-ability, I've only heard it described as anything from "decent" to "great". I've never heard anyone call it crap.
Ironhide's true colors! This does look much more better than the DOTM Voyager repaint. Screamer looks better in his Leader mold than the '07 Target release.
Generations Voyagers are okay and we already saw the Voyager Prime and Screamer, but TT and UM are excellent!
Know what's funny? I remember playing that Bayverse Transformers game on my old PS2, and they had a G1 skin for Starscream. I thought he looked really good in those colors and wished they made an awesome toy of him in those colors someday.
Yet now...he looks awful.
I'm not sure if it's an exact color-scheme from the game, though.
In any case, couldn't they have given him a different head like they did for the G1 retool of the 2007 voyager toy?