TCC Armada Skywarp Packaging!

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  1. PoweredConvoy

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  2. Rakzo

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    Sh*t. I wish that Takara would release this so I could get it cheaper.
     
  3. ElekTriC

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    would be the only one with a different head
     
  4. Novaburnhilde

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    Awesome, love the artwork. :D 
     
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    no ramjet also had the skywarp head in armada
     
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    Very tempting, already getting Ramjet so maybe I'll get him too. Plus its Armada, I love Armada.
     
  7. Lord Black Cat

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    This looks really great. Nice job on the packaging!
     
  8. Raiyuki

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    This ticks all the right boxes for me, including the literal one. Can't wait!
    I do kinda wish they could include a Minicon though. But oh well.
     
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    Tri-lingual packaging for the LOLs ;D
     
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    Ugh, that packaging is perfect. Don't make me spend $50 to get that mold another time!
     
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    Abysmal. I know it mimics Armada packaging but I can't shake that feeling... :(  Figure's great though, I'm sure.
     
  13. Shin-Gouki

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    I wish Takara would release it as I refuse to give Fun Pub any more money.
     
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    Trilingual packaging for the win!

    Too bad there's no Minicon..
     
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    I'm probably too young to say this, but that packaging hits me right in the nostalgic spot.
     
  16. artiepants

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    Needs the old RiD01-Cybertron logo to REALLY sell it...
     
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    I've never subbed before, but Skywarp and Ramjet are making me think about it. I just got the Takara Thundercracker and I haven't decided if I need the last two versions or not.
     
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    Oh man, that Armada-style packaging is giving me such a nostalgia boner.
     
  19. Afterburner

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    Unlikely, but who cares anyway? Things to consider:

    There really is no Armada Thundercracker, that blue jet is really just a powered up Starscream. That's the way Hasbro's cartoon presented him, and that's the way it is. If Hasbro didn't want it, they should have had better control over their own fiction, end of story. They took a year off so there are no excuses. There is no significant fiction with an Armada Thundercracker character at all. So if you have TakaraTomy's Classics Armada Starscream and Armada Starscream Super Mode, you really have the best representation of the fiction and line complete already when it comes to this design.

    Skywarp was of course only in the comic, which continued into Energon and didn't even have an ending. It's a throwaway continuity even moreso than the Armada show, which is atrocious to begin with. So really, he's a nobody as well. If it is the classic G1 Seeker symmetry you are looking for, not only are there tons of other Seeker sets that provide it for you already (and 3rd party versions to come), but these don't really provide it in that in Armada, Skywarp randomly has a different and non-traditional head than the other two seekers. So why collect all 3? Back in Armada, we had yet to have seeker updates at all, so this was the best we were going to get (or so we were told). So the appeal made some sense on a level of desperation for something we cared about, but now what are you really collecting here? A nobody who channels neither the symmetry of the G1 seekers nor accurately homages the Armada version thanks to lacking any of the remolding beyond the head (not to mention none of these come with a Micron). All of that for whatever kind of outrageous price they are going to charge you. You would probably be able to import TakaraTomy's Starscream and Starscream Super Mode both for less.

    So I don't think there is anything to lament. I have to wonder as we get past the Beast Era and into updates of more modern toys that either don't need updates and/or come from appallingly poor fiction that has already been overwritten or obsoleted, what is the point? Do enough people even care? Hopefully not.

    Ramjet has an even weaker case than Skywarp, by the way, in that Ramjet channels nothing Ramjet at all beyond being white as a base and a jet, which Slingshot could also say. There is a reason they dump that on you for being in the Club, no one wants to buy it otherwise.
     
  20. XXLMagnus

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    Will BBTS/TFSource be carrying this?