MP 42 Diaclone Sunstreaker - Cordon

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  1. Night Flame

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    Not 100% on it yet, but it looks like it sits on a plate that folds backwards, then possibly has a secondary fold to end up with that little divot on the chest you see above it in bot mode. There may be a spin involved someplace too.

    However they did it, it's great to see a "repaint" that involves an extra transformation step, with new parts to accomplish it.
     
  2. oku

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    Fake, smaller light bar on bot mode.
     
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    Now all I need is Deep Cover
     
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    I wonder if that ship has sailed... Especially with the number of people who seem to want a new Sideswipe mould (judging by the 3P BadCube thread).

    I think Ikkstakk is right in his easier post about how this works: it's the same light bar in both modes, but it rotates/swings around during transformation:

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    (Unless they took the easy option and you just unclip it and reattach it the other side.)

    EDIT: Actually I'm not convinced either of these are right now that I look at the pictures again. In alt mode you can clearly see too black discs (screws?) beneath the red light bar, but they aren't visible in robot mode, so somehow it seems to that the light bar pushes down in robot mode. I suppose those two black discs could be springs, so that the alt mode light bar pushes into the roof while he's in robot mode, but that wouldn't work well for the legs filling in robot mode roof area in alt mode. Hmm.

    Weird!

    Do it! I love how it should result in a Sunstreaker that can easily be swapped between 'toon and toy. (Although I don't love how much it's going to cost me!)
     
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    Wow, seeing them together makes Cordon's lightbar look really undersized... or Clampdown's comically oversized. Love the cop show idea, but with Cordon's stone-cold killer visage and Clampdown's barely-discernable smirk, I might suggest a personality reversal.
     
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    It's not the same light.

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    Yep, I just edited my post before seeing yours to say that you can see the black circles in the alt mode light bar, too, which aren't visible in the robot mode one. So I'm baffled too...
     
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    What if we're looking at a painted sunstreaker with glued on parts and the prototype hasn't been finalized yet?
     
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    It's definitely a painted Sunstreaker - even in these latest official product pictures, you can see yellow beneath the white paint at the knees. But, like the head and shins, the roof is a new piece not from a repainted Sunstreaker (thus the smokey windows), and I think it's probably the final piece given that you can see it's cut out below where the siren fits (you can see this in the angled alt mode picture). So I don't think the siren is just stuck on as a temporary measure, although I could be wrong.
     
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    I think very very few of us here actually owned the original Diaclone police Sunstreaker toy. All you have to get is that these colors existed before Transformers did; that's all the appeal some people need for this.
     
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    I own an original and I like the color scheme more than the yellow, but I can also see why they didn't want another police car at the time.
     
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    Obligatory "MP+ Sunstreaker toy accurate face with arm gun" coming in 1 year.....
     
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    NOT TRUE!!! How can they glue on a lightbar and charge 20 bucks extra?????

    Actually they can.
     
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    I really want this guy, and I'm sad he's an exclusive and costs so much. :<
     
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    Not exclusive...but lower production run for sure.
     
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    He's not an exclusive. I just preordered him on AmiAmi for 105.00
    Still pricey, but I'm a completionist and LOVE the Lamborghinis.
     
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    He's nice if not really plain. It's a wait and see for me like most Diaclone releases. Just picked up Loudpedal the other day.
     
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    I'm down for a new Sideswipe that does a better treatment of Red Alert's differences, would be cool to further differentiate Tigertrack and Clamp Down that way. But they might as well do a Deep Cover before then, he is Clamp Down's brother after all. Hope they don't attempt it before they go the other carbots, but then they do seem to like releasing at least one Lamborghini per year. When they run out of Sunstreaker repaints it's either move on to Stunticons, or redo Sideswipe...
     
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    Having no extra faces makes me feel like I'll be posing a car that has a turd face and with less accessories. Double KO... Now I'm not 100% sure he'll be reserved having that issues and for more money and less items.... Decisions, decision...
     
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    I love how Takara made took the doofy head of the original G1 Sunstreaker and actually made it look cool. Same for MP+ Megs.