Next up, we're on to the Voyagers in our series of galleries looking at the new Combiner Wars Transformers toys, and so, here's Silverbolt! The leader of the Aerialbots with the crippling fear of heights is the first of the Generation 1 combiner team leaders to be updated for the Combiner Wars line, and he's rather cool.

Silverbolt himself is a great and faithful update of the original, right down to the passenger jet alternate mode that looks close to his original concorde alternate mode. The robot mode likewise nails the look of the original, with all the style of an updated design much as we have been seeing throughout the Combiner Wars line. Silverbolt comes with a pair of accessories - a long rifle and a shield, both of which can mount on the arms, though the rifle also fits into Silverbolt's hands. The two accessories combine into a huge weapon which can mount beneath the nose of the jet mode. It even features a fake wheel molded in to compensate for the fact it covers the landing gear when attached.

The main draw of the Combiner Wars toys, though, is combining them into a single gigantic robot, and Silverbolt serves as the torso of the combination. Any four limbs can attach to form a gigantic and poseable combined mode - and make no mistake, the big guy, Superion, can hold poses well. Even simply combining the toys is a joy to do.

Silverbolt is a great example of what the Combiner Wars line is all about. He's solid on his own, but comes into his own if you also have the Deluxe class toys to make the limbs for his combined mode. Well worth checking out - and on that note, check out our gallery at the link below:

Combiner Wars Voyager Silverbolt Gallery



Combiner Wars Silverbolt Robot Mode


Combiner Wars Silverbolt Jet Mode


Combiner Wars Silverbolt Robot Mode, posed with weapons


Combiner Wars Silverbolt with Generation 1 Silverbolt


Combiner Wars Silverbolt combined "limb-theft" Superion mode, using Powerglide as a blaster

 

Silverbolt is just incredible looking.

I can't wait to pick him up.

 

I heard that! I went to my Toys R Us and Target, and both stores said the figure is discontinued, along with Optimus. I don't know why they would say that, but there is always online retailers.

 

LOL, the Arielbots were my absolute FAVORITE combiners when i was a kid, but MAN ALIVE does G1 Silverbolt suck on ice.

 

Picking mine up this weekend from a friend who bought an extra one for me!

 

Superion looks pretty good next to that 3P Devastator.
Not better, but definitely good.

 

Agreed. I'm loving that CW Superion is equal height to Green Giant. I still dislike his over all aesthetics. Something about those skinny legs just urks the crap out of me. Though he is, without question, LEAGUES better than RotF/Universe Superion.

This being said. I cannot wait for a comparison between the Hasbro and Takara releases of CW Superion.

 

I originally preferred the Universe Silverbolt, but now I think my mind is changing over to this one. I would still like to see Superion combined with the leg Jets on like the G1 toy.

 

The way Silverbolt's fists stick out the back of Superion's knees really hurts the look. Is it too much to ask for panels on the forearms to conceal the fists like on Classics Megatron?

 

Loving this figure now.

Boy, that G1 Silverbolt is in pretty bad shape.

 

at least they could have made them removable like g1 optimus prime and maybe store in the compartment where superions head stores.

 

Unfortunately, it seems like for every good thing Hasbro does there is some silly oversight they miss. Either that or it's a cost thing.

 

Thanks again for the gallery. Just stokes my anticipation more, but distribution is what it is.

 

Cheers Foster (and everyone else too  )

It's my original from when I was a kid in 1986, he's had a lot of play and love over the years. One of the legs isn't even the original...

Truth be told a lot of my older toys have play wear, but I really don't care, because those old bots are my childhood. You ought to see my Hot Rod!

 

Concorde. (Concord is a grape, not a plane).

 

 

Bought mine on HTS and just shipped yesterday. Pumped

 

Great Gallery , make me even more glad I preordered the Takara superion set.

 

Mine on the way from Amazon. I'd like to see comparison to the Takara one before committing to the rest of the group.

 

Once you get used to Silverbolt's puke yellow, he's a nice figure. The yellow-orange actually looks decent under certain light sources like a lamp. I also did Radio Free Cybertron's floppy ear fix...which worked well.

 

That's weird that they said that. Silverbolt is part of wave two with motormaster. They cannot be discontinued.