Good paint job, but the head makes him look like a Decepticon lumberjack. I think I'll pass on this one....
I love the new head mold, but I agree with a lot of you; it really seems suited to a different body for some reason. Still, very neat! I'm personally not digging the red color. This particular car seems to me to suit the movie silver deco. All said, I'm still gonna buy him I love that mold so much!
This is the first time I've seen a Hasbro toy that was *loved* when it was seen months ago have totally random, off-the-wall hatred heaped upon it during a TakaraTomy preview. Usually it's the other way around: Hasbro pics = Hatred. TakaraTomy pics: Love and praise. Then you prefer repaints with the same names? You know, half of early G1 was practically like this - guys who were either simply repaints of some other guy or a retool of some other guy. Actually, this is a Hasbro mass-release figure that is being released as an exclusive in Japan (probably because TakaraTomy couldn't fit it anywhere in their line). It''s a retool, that means money was put into it to change the design, and changing the head is probably one of the most important changes you can make for a minor retool/repaint of a figure to create a new identity for it. Besides, what, you expect them to only make all-new tools for releases? I hope you enjoy toylines where you only get one or two toys every few months, then. As I've said earlier, they did it back in G1 and it seemed to be perfectly acceptable, and they've been doing it since then, and people loved the seekers. Now it's unacceptable? While this is something of an acknowledgment of Sideswipe's G1 colours, this is conceptually a homage for modern toys named swerve, such as Alternators Swerve and Universe Swerve, who were both red, black and gold sports cars. And hey, now movie Swerve is a Corvette, just like Alternators Swerve.
ummm... I wasn't flipping about it, I was explaining to the meathead who only just now realized all hasbro/takara ever do is repaint existing toys. I know G1 was filled with repaints.. I'm the one who pointed out the 9 different starscreams, etc. And it wasn't acceptible back then either to most parents who thought buying the same damn toy 9 times was ridiculous. I personally on have 1 version of any given model. My chevy blazer is available as a GMC Jimmy in different colors, but just because that is true, I don't need both just coz they have different names.
I like the new head sculpt. I also like Sideswipe's mold, but I don't need another one. I do like that new head a lot, though. Dilemmas dilemmas.
I gotta get this! I dont really mind the head.. but when i saw this at Bot Con i noticed it has blue windows. They look black in some of these pics but they are blue. Thats probably the only thing i dislike about it.
Wow.... I was going to get this for sure.....but if that is any indication of how Hasbro's will look, then I'm out. That color and tone of red looks nothing like the stock photo. Dull red For The Definite Loss.
The production sample at the BotCon Hasbro booth looked good -- not orangey: S6301108.jpg - Hasbro Display - TFW2005.COM
Could someone post a better link to amazon.co.jp please? The link provided isn't the regular site, but some sort of "mobile(phone?" site link. I want to preorder it but can't find it at the regular Japan Amazon site, you see. Cheers!
