I feel less guilty for passing on the animated line now.

 

but i agree with Ramrider-if there are hidden wings and if they have hands, they wont be too bad in my book

 

is it me.... or they look kinda.... stupid?

 

I really don't like the look of these guys, in ANY of their modes.

 

I'm really hoping these are mistransformed. With hands and wings, I'd probably get these because of the novel approach to combining. If the pictures are accurate...  

 

My thoughts exactly. I hope they mistakenly used the picture of an Activators version or something because, given the amazing step up in quality with the earlier waves of Animated, these figures are ridiculous.

 

These are bad.

But on the bright side...

there's a new Swindle and Blurr pic on that site, yaaay:

Transformers Animated Deluxe Figures Wave 5 - HASBRO - Transformers - Transformers at Entertainment Earth

 

Nope. These are the first full pictures we've seen of them period. Their animation models were shown at Botcon, but the only one's who saw those are the people who went to the no pictures allowed panel.

Personally I'm going to wait for more pictures of these guys to really form a full opinion on them. It's not like we've had many TF toys that end up exactly like the first pictures we ever saw of them.

Swindle looks really good, not perfect, but still really good. It's nice to see that his stomach cannon and shoulder weapons can be put away in bot-mode, and that it doesn't look as though he'll have transparent purple plastic for parts of his limbs. I'm definitely going to get him.

 

These are, it has to be said, pretty gross-looking. I hope the animation models can win me over, or that there are better versions of these guys coming out, because tidy-looking robot-mode combination notwithstanding, there's almost nothing impressing me about this two-set.

EDIT: Blurr and Swindle, on the other hand, are pure sex on both legs AND wheels. That pic is the best Animated blurr has looked, and Swindle's colours are G1 as hell. Good to see that Animated is still plugging away strongly despite this disappointment...

 

Well that's... Underwhelming.

They don't even really have the "Animated Aesthetic". Chalk this one up to "cool idea, poor execution"  

 

I'm holding judgement until someone buys a test/prerelease off Ebay.

Those hands and wings have got to be mistransformed, I mean looking at alot of the Images put out now its a good chance they are.

 

Wow! I can't believe how underwhelmed I am!

And from a line that for the most part, has given us some really impressive engineering.

 

I like them. The combined form is cool, though I share the complaint about the apparent lack of hands on each mode.

I'm getting them regardless. The jets look decent, the individual robots seem cool enough, and the combined mode at least looks fun.

 

thats lame

 

Some Fan work to made them have hands.

 

They look real close to being good, but right now I'm hoping they are slightly mistransformed.

 

Transformers Animated Jetfire and Jetstorm Set - HASBRO - Transformers - Transformers at Entertainment Earth

AHA! I knew something was amiss. Check out the artwork - he's got Wings! They probably detach to form weapons. The hasbro photographers, who as we know are as dumb as bricks, left them off. And probably screwed up the hand/arm transformations too.

 

Swindle looks perfect, he'll probably join my favorites line-up.