damn, makes me wish I had the original figure it is based on. I would get this one because of the killer shark/beast paint job and the head sculpt is really amazing! Much better than the original figure by far. I would take all the cool stuff of this version and customize the other figure to make one awesome character. Obviously the bright red and purple crap would be the first to go.
CBFF, the headmold obviously is a give away that that is what Hasbro was trying to do, but I wonder if there were intellectual/copy righted reasons why they couldn't name the figure Ransack. However it is still a pretty slick G2 homage, and the shark . . . yup getting on the bandwagon
Hm... the purple guns and red propellers seem wrong, but dat shark deco seems oh so right. Hasbro knows how to paint their plane TFs.
It could also be because Animated/Classics Lugnut stole Ransacks color scheme as well, thus doing this mold in Ransack's colors would seem repetitive, especially with the purple body and green arms.
Perhaps their first intention was to use the Highbrow mold in these colors and the decision to make the toy Powerdive came second.
The head is pretty obviously Powerdive's, at least with the goggles down. I think they might have picked this mould over any helicopter-based ones so that they could use the spinning arm propellers as a sort of homage to the original toy's Rotorforce gimmick.
The only thing preventing me from acquiring this mold before was the ugly head... and Powerdive looks 100X better. Also, did anyone else think of Sky-Byte when they saw the deco?
Good call, especially since Bulkhead there can also carry his rotors as a hand weapon, a la the original Powerdive. That being said, I think this deco works for the mold, it fits the real world stylings a bit better than a heavily purple design would have in my eyes, and either way, it is still looking like a fantastic mold. Flip up visor? Got to love that.
I mean the mold and colors may have come first and then the head later after they decided what character would work well with this mold and colors. Plus the rotors may have influenced the choice. I'm just saying they probably didn't want to do a purple recolor to be Ransack but still wanted to use this mold.
I want this to be TFtM '07 Incinerator's Dad/Grandad. i'd sell my Highbrow and get 2 of these to show off both modes. okay the colors are a bit garish to me, but i like the mold and the upgrades on this enough to overlook the paint.
Exactly what I was thinking. I do have G2 Ransack and Powerdive. And with Ransack being a Corsair, it would've been a no-brainer. Ahh well....I guess this one falls in the same category of which Universe 2.0 Stormcloud is in. Wherein this Powerdive would've made much more sense as Ransack, as U-Stormcloud would've been to Tailwind. Still absolutely love this though. I never really liked Highbrow, colors and head really turned me off to him. But this one's head and deco pretty much sold me from the start. +1 for that reference.
