And next up in todays news, TFW2005 user roroy23, has been kind enough to share some in hand pictures of Mastermind Creations Reformatted Eupatorium the Warrior(Their version of Elita 1). Special thanks to him, and hopefully we’ll be seeing more pictures of her soon! Check out his pictures, discuss, and drool; after the jump!
Digger
I kinda liked that design although it made her seem like she was where some weird ass tracksuit.
Digger
Oh how we love nickel. Sxs is doing nautica but I was kinda hoping for mmc to do her, it'd also make a good fire star since they got a similar design although she is taller.
mx-01 archon
I honestly really liked her Milne-designed body she switched into near the end of Dark Cybertron. Very "classic", but with some design embellishments that made her look more warrior-like. Sleeker than her original "berserk" body. But she was hardly in it, before they changed her up again, giving her the WFC design for Robots in Disguise. Was never really a fan of that design, especially in the context of the more mercenary IDW Arcee. It was too bubbly and "friendly" looking.
LazyAza
Yup yup I'm generally pretty sick of seeing every fembot be a super slender deluxe too, hoping we get more tall deluxes n short voyagers with more mass and less kibble in the future.
This is why I really want mmc to do nautica because she's officially meant to be more muscular in design, an actual robo girl with mass to her outside of simply being the most requested character and all the modern idw ladies are like that now, they actually look like proper transformers and not "human sexy lady bot with wheels on her hips" haha.
I don't think reform will see another arcee potentially for a long time still though but other fembots for sure. Nickel is technically the next so at least we get to look forward to her being nicely different being all small n rolly polly like she is.
Digger
The figure does match the design well apart from the paint you mentioned. It just doesn’t seem like the arcee I think her to be, she just seems, dainty? For lack of a better term. I kinda want something like her SOTW or Optimus Prime design, something more identifiable and tough.
LazyAza
The alt mode was based on her in comic alt mode, a hovering armored car which griffiths design evoked rather well:
Still wish she had gotten her actual in comic colors though, still seems like such a waste to have given her such g1 colors and none of her gold metallics especially.
Which come to think of it are their even any arcee designs besides this one worth doing? I can't think of any off my head that I'm particularly fond of. I'd rather see something entirely original almost that makes nods to her various incarnations, good excuse for a wheeled design then for sure. You could give her a very g1 head and then as a bonus her idw berserker head would be bad ass.
Digger
I doubt it’ll ever come to fruition but I wish they went a car instead of a nondescript floating object.
trence5
It's AMAZING – love this girl .
Honesty
I still kinda wish I snagged Asterisk back in the day.
Happy with Shadow Azalea – she's my Combiner Hunters Arcee because no way in hell am I using that shitty Hasbro version.
Happy with my beautiful IDW Arcee. And happy with Elita-1 and Solus. If only someone made a chipped/cracked IDW helmet/head for Elita.
redrum2581
i've really enjoyed this mold, i only have the queens and shadow
TM2 Dinobot
I still want the blue one
Still need Arcee and Elita 1 for that matter
zfarsh
I am only missing the best one…. the Shadow Azalea. But she is way overpriced, and so many others available at much cheaper. Still, Shadow Azalea is the best one, and if budget wasnt so limited, i would have gotten her.
dedlight
although I don't really regret it because those two are probably my favorite versions of the mold along with Solus.
dedlight
I wasn't so strong lol
LazyAza
I'm just glad I was able to stop myself from dropping the 90-120 bucks on the blue and black versions of her. Lordy were those versions over priced as heck.
dedlight
because collector lol
Gotta Catchem all.
LazyAza
The instructions are Azalea's instructions, not Zinnia's since Zinnia is the same exact mold but with less content she didn't need new instructions. The swords were never going to be included with her and the fenders are exclusively included with Salvia unless you specifically requested them through the MMC hub FB page and I don't believe they are available via that method anymore.
This is why it pays to do your research before making a purchase, Zinnia was essentially just a basic value-lacking recolor of Azalea and little else which is implied on both the box and the listing photos of the product.
I dunno why I bothered to get that version either myself lol.
cylor
Perhaps on the boards you can find somebody who's bought Salvia and is willing to part with Zinnias flaps, I think that it's your best bet. Anyway, the lack of the flaps doesn't detract from the figure's aesthetics, in my opinion, and it helps better differentiating it from the various Arcees out there.
mx-01 archon
Zinnia's shoulder parts came with the Salvia Prominon/Solus Prime variant, or were available through MMC directly, IIRC.
She wasn't originally supposed to come with those parts because she represents the "Paradron Medic" character, who used Arcee's animation model but omitted her shoulder pods. But fan outcry saw them releasing the extra parts eventually, anyways.
Honesty
Is she the green one?
She didn't originally come with the shoulder-thingies. And she also doesn't come with swords if I recall.
The shoulder-thingies were given away for free with another figure if I recall correctly.