Need a bit more color. Other than that, it looks very cool!  

 

Huh, about the only complaint I have right now is that he's a little under painted and the weird extended arm pipes. Since some figures are mistransformed in the package I'll wait until people get him in hand to see if there's a lack of spoilers or not.

 

Nice sculpt but it seems like Hotrod here is getting a downgrade in quality. I see red color molded wheels painted black on the outside with big red mushroom pegs popping out through his hubcaps and pretty much entirely color molded in red...I think this is a downgrade from Bumblebee and Optimus. Here's hoping they're putting more effort into Arcee.

 

Yup, I'll be picking him up for sure.

Grimlock next please.  

 

He does need some more contrasting color, but other than that, it looks soooo much better than beefed up Warrior Class Hot Rod.

 

Looks great.

 

I had the chance to see the first four in store awhile ago. I was really tempted, but held myself back. I kind of viewed this line as "don't need, but really neat - maybe someday for the right price." After seeing this one though, I'm good with passing on the line. The mold looks cool, but the lack of paint or orange plastic is a no go for me. I'm excited for everyone who is into it though.

 

I want to see Deluxe Thunderhowl.

 

Didn\'t Bandai America do something like this for Power Rangers?

 

Well you don't have to be TOO excited about smashing my hopes for a decent Hot Rod figure.

 

I was looking at the arm pipes on Hot Rod again and comparing it to the control art for the animation model and those extended curvy pipes are accurate to the control art. They seem to vary a bit in the show though. Sometimes they're like the control art and as we see on the toy and other times they're closer to the G1 design.

 

He looks like the weakest of the bunch so far which is a shame, because Hot Rod has a great character design. Hasbro never quite seems to be able to do his figures justice.

 

Everyone is talking about the long pipes which don't really bother me. I'm looking at his legs and wandering why they didn't finish painting them. You can clearly see where they started to paint the upper legs orange and then the orange just stops abruptly but there's still more leg. It kinda looks like most of the figure was molded in red and they just lazily painted some parts orange.

Anyway... lazy paint job aside... these figures actually look GOOD, I'm regretting that I already got the Spark Armor versions of Optimus and Megatron… more so the Megatron. I mean Optimus is OK and this version isn't that much better but Megatron with a tank mode that actually looks like a tank instead of a robot doing a yoga pose! Yes please!

Plus I'm kinda interested in this build a figure. It says non transforming so I'm not expecting much but considering he does have what looks like vehicle mode kibble I'm going to figure out some way to fan mode a vehicle mode out of that guy!

I want to wait and see all the figures in the line up first before I commit to collecting them but so far I really like what I'm seeing. What's also weird... I'm not really a fan of effects parts in general but these actually look good. I especially like the flames that come with Hot Rod. These look better than the Siege effects parts in my opinion. That's saying a lot considering I don't even like effect parts but I actually do like some of these. The only one I've seen so far that I'll probably never use is the Matrix blast thing that comes with Optimus.

 

These new Cyberverse figures have a much improved aesthetic. I still have zero interest, but good for the people who like the show to finally not be stuck with sub-par toys.

 

He looks great...now we have another Hotrod to attack right @WEEGEE @iacon45 @Autobot1000?

 

Can't talk, configuring death star.

 

Just think of those pipes like Wolverine's claws.

SNIKT SNIKT

 

I'm kind of trying to think of them as guns.


So far, Bumblebee and Hot Rod, and possibly Arcee are the only ones in this line I'm considering getting. Optimus, Megatron, Grimlock and Shockwave should be bigger (imo), so I'll probably pass on them..

 

Which makes sense since the show and toys portray them as flame throwers. So they extend past his hands so he isn't setting his arms on fire every time he uses them.

 

Egads!