Yeah, this totally looks way better and not completely disturbing

not to mention the amazing crumbling plastic on Chewy.

 

Paint job on the robot heads are pretty bad there.

 

GPS aside, the old headsculpts are indeed way better than the new ones. Chewbacca looks especially ridiculous. Plus, it's not like humanoid heads are anything new with Transformers.

 

Man, I loved my original ones right until the day they crumbled from GPS but these head sculpts kinda kill the excitement. Chewy looks terrible and Han is completely unrecognizable and looks like a generic robot head.

Man, At least this one SORTA looks like Han Solo


WHO is this supposed to be?

 

when I see these I think..huh..not that bad. Then I see the oversized weapons on the Falcon, a Chewy "mech" head and think.."not this shit again.."

my thoughts too

 

Ford being asked about the Star Wars Holiday Special.

 

Trash.

 

Yeah see...I dig the concept of re-envisioning Star Wars vehicles as transforming piloted mecha. But these robots with stylized versions of their pilot's heads? Cheezy as all get-out.

Still, splitting the difference and giving one half of the pair a generic robot face and the other a Chewy face seems like a strategy that will please absolutely no-one.

 

If they're mechs, why emulate their appearance and weapons at all? There's something wildly stupid about this whole idea, but I like it. And getting a solid version of it is fine. Either sit it out, or let the idiot child within have themselves a time.

 

Thats why these are kind of appealing to me, they're not trying to be humanized robot versions of the characters which I've always found super lame.
now if only they actually used Transformers characters but with Star Wars alt modes, I'd actually probably buy some of these.

 

The packaging makes it look so enticing. I dunno if I’d open it. The Japanese really know how to make a toy look irresistible.

 

I have the Falcon on the way to me from Amazon.co.jp - more than likely I'll be displaying this thing in alt mode most of the time opposite Vader's Advanced X1 TIE.

And speak of the devil, they just arrived (along with Black Series 6" 4-LOM and Gamorrean Guard).

Yeah, that is seriously creepy. I mean, I get what they were trying to go for with capturing Ford's face (right down the robo hair, sad brow eyes, and curled lips) but that's not what I want in a Transformer (an anthropomorphized robotic Han Solo). I'll take the generic mouth-plated bot head sculpt, thanks (with the targeting scope; that's a neat touch). Chewie's robo head sculpt is Beast Wars-y in its own way.

 

This.

 

These would work so much better if the vehicles would transform into actual Transformers characters rather than questionable looking roboic versions of their riders. Skywalker coming with an X-Wing that turns into Jetfire or Hot Rod would be awesome, not to mention a Millennium Falcon that splits into Springer (his movie personality was heavily inspired by Han Solo anyways) and, say, Broadside.

 

Get rid of the stupid Han and Chewie heads and replace them with Skids and Mudflap. By Transformers standards, the millennium falcon makes the perfect junk ice cream truck.

 

Someone went crazy trying to make the Falcon look weathered. The super black panel lines and the heavy streaks down the exhaust ports look much worse in these photos than the ones when this was first revealed.

 

I'm honestly shocked that Lucasfilm approved those bot modes, they look SO bad.

 

Hello, 'absolutely no-one', here  )) - Personally, I think they they went with a best of both worlds approach. I really didn't want a Han Solo head like the previous version, but I would have missed a Chewie head.

I do wish they'd actually modified the earlier Vader/TIE Fighter's robot head to look more 'Transformery' , though, like they did with the Han robot.

I have to admit that the new Star Wars-formers line isn't quite what I expected, design-wise, but I'm starting to like what I've seen so far, despite certain flaws (I'm not fond of TIE Vader's shoulders, and he could have done with a better light saber).

If Takara carries on with this line, I think it's a must-have for Star Wars/Transformers fans. At the very least, I want a Luke Skywalker/X-Wing (minus orange flight suit) and a Boba Fett/Slave 1.

 

I want this but that price....wow

 

one question: Does Han shoot first?