I can't be the only one who sees that it would, seemingly, be very easy to retool/repaint Windblade into Slipstream right? She's got the right alt mode basically. She's got a feminine bot mode. All she needs is a new head and paint.

Or am I crazy?

 

No you're not crazy. Or we both are? I mean she is just perfect for it.

 

I'd rather see her as an extensive retool.

The problem is slippy needs to look somewhat like her seeker brothers. Maybe stick some f15 wings on there, give her a fake canopy chest. Could be pretty sweet.

Nightbird is an excellent candidate as well but hasbro seems to have forgotten she exists.

 

I agree with you, Ryoku. Windblade does have potential to be repurposed as Slipstream.

 

I won't disagree that the canopy chest is important but a) we haven't seen the figure in hand yet so it is possible, unlikely but possible, that something could be done with it. B) if it was this or nothing, I think I'd be okay with this.

 

If anyone have any brains left at Hasbro. it'll happen.

 

I think they should. No retooling beyond a new head and a different weapon are needed IMO.

 

I'd be extremely pleased if they did

 

It's not a bad idea but I always thought she would be a TFP Starscream repaint,

 

The TFCC figure is exactly that and it's ok but honestly in the video game her chassis is much more similar to Windblades' and she looks better for it.

 

I could see it happening, and I think it would be a great reuse of the mold.

 

 OMG are you guys psychic - cause I was saying to myself "call me when you do a PROPER Slipstream retool and repaint" - freaky man, freaky

 

Slipstream is the only logical step I feel. Retool the wings and a new head, hell, that's all I'd need for my Slipstream. She doesn't NEED to look like the Seekers, so I'm okay with her being her own jet.

 

Yeah as said the club did that and for what ever reason it didn't work for me.

 

Ideally with new wings, chest and head.

Although in an ideal world this would've happened the other way around. Windblade would've been the Slipstream retool.

 

I had the same idea last year when she was first shown to us. Like the others said some retooling on the head and wings will do wonders.  

 

1) Slipstream in WFC shared similarities to the basic Seeker body-type, but was not the same. I could see Windblade being used to equal effect as a Slipstream.

2) Nightbird never was a Cybertronian or Transformer.

 

Literally, everyone I've talked to who is enthused in customs has brought up Windblade as Slipstream since the toys reveal.

 

New head, new wings, new deco Slipstream done. It's been brought up since before we ever saw a figure, just the comic images.