Wish something could be done about her butt-stinger & that there was some way to move her tire up to her shoulders more...
Yeah, I did that a few pages back. There's actually small nub on her arms where the connection for the blades is though. Although I likey the silver insignia. Seems more fitting than red, since Prime's insignias are done in silver and maybe gold for the 'cons. But I'm pretty sure the bike's side panels are connected to her arms, so they can't end up on her back like that. Or maybe I'm wrong.
This is my new Movie arcee. Looks pretty damn close to the 07 arcee toy and I need a stand in. Please hurry up and reveal bulkhead and eradicon hasbro!
Well, it seems like the blades are just attached via pegs on the arms (look at the bike mode, you can see the peg there). That said, it might still be impossible to attach them to her back.
If you look at the side panels to the alt mode - those side skirts (above the blades) appear to be molded close to the shape of her wings. It's possible that those are actually able to rotate up to look like her wings - and would look more accurate if the filler space was removed...
She has a Tail But when I buy her she's being renamed Chromia and my Rotf is going in the trash.....or just put in bike mode and given to my Joes.
Technically in the show she has a loincloth design & we don't know if she's been transformed correctly for this pic - but she does have a long buttflap in the show too... Plus - it appears that her seat is actually aLOT bulkier than it is in the show, so it may be possible to reduce around HALF of it's bulk in both modes...
Well that's what I meant lol. By "nubs" I was referring to the raised plastic rings that are most likely holes, since they are not part of the design of the blades themselves in bike mode. Personally, I couldn't care less as to whether or not they store somewhere, since I will never ever use them ever . Although I've drawn out a transformation scheme for this, and I can't find any way that those panels on the bike form accurate wings for her. I'm sure peaugh, vangelus, or optibotimus will get this in a few months though, find some crazy awesome solution, and my problems will be solved. Not that I was ever gonna pass this thing up anyways.
It seems the side panels in bike mode are attached to her shoulders by a rotating pin - that would allow them to rotate up to roughly the correct position for her wings in bot mode...
So, was anybody else looking at this and asking themselves: A) How does the head transform? B) How do the hips transform? I can figure out every aspect of the transformation except that. Can't wait for Toy Fair to get some actual pics. Sunday can't come soon enough...
Judging by the pegs on the outside of her legs, I think it's a safe bet that after you rotate her waist, you un-peg the legs from each other & rotate them out & away from each other. With the chest, it seems the windshield rotates around in some fashion & the sides of the headlight rotates down (toward the gastank) after you stand her up & the head likely comes from under the tire-well... Checked figure again: I don't see an allegiance symbol on her chest - so I'll be removing that when I pick this figure up...
