That’s exellent, thanks for the tip!

 

"Sorry, buddy. It's for the best. Trust me."

 

my Trypticon came perfectly and i like him a lot

 

You failed him.

I just preordered it at BBTS, Hopefully, it comes in this month.

 

I like how they managed to change the omega feet to get that bit of extra height in this way. I think they look fine but probably limit some articulation

 

I don't mind the way the wheels and bumper fold up on the back of OP but who else takes it off and throws it the trailer?

 

PrimeVsPrime





PrimeVsPrime

 

He needs swivel at his claws.
Now he can't even put his middle finger up.  

Size is about right if you ask me.
How i saw G1 cartoon, Scorpy was half a head smaller then Fort Max.

 

Love it. Can't wait.

 

Prime, Wheeljack and CJ arrived yesterday. I put together a papercraft Teletran 1 for my son. (Printed at 45% for smaller scale)

 

That is awesome!

 

Also, you gotta watch out for the Matrix. My son told me "it's gone" and I had to spend several minutes looking around. Found it down the side of the cushion of my easy chair.  

 

My God! Scorponok is a thing of beauty! I'm trying to decide if it's worth the 5 minutes of pure joy I would get to experience with it, before my wife bludgeons me to death for buying a toy that big.

 

No really, this still counts

It is the year 1989 blah blah let's just get to it, okay?



So, right, y'know, I had originally thought I could do Power of the Primes Octopunch today, what with his squad of pretenders being pretty much the only Hasbro releases in 1989 which weren't Micromasters. But it turns out I have absolutely nothing else to say about Prime Masters. But you know who else was a Pretender in 1989? Starscream, Jazz, Grimlock and Bumblebee. And sure, I have already reviewed a Starscream, way back in my first ever review. But this is Pretender Starscream, alright. Who says? I say. Let's do this.

Starscream's appearances in the Marvel comic got off to a slow start. In the early issues he didn't get much of a chance to jostle with Megatron for leadership since Megatron was ousted from power so early on. There were a few hints of insubordination here and there, but in comparison to his cartoon portrayal, Starscream was practically just one of the lads...

...right up until he gained godlike omnipotence and slaughtered everyone. It's the quiet ones you have to watch out for, certainly. And when Starscream goes quiet, you ought to be getting nervous. It's never a good sign. Of course it all went pear-shaped and Starscream was defeated and killed (giving way to a coda which haunted my nightmares for a while), but was brought back in short order thanks to his Pretender release, a chance for the toy designers to actually make him look like kids expected him to look. I have to admit it, the G1 Pretender Starscream robot is a hell of an improvement on the original Seeker mould, and I don't mind who knows it.

And likewise, this Earthrise Starscream ought to be an improvement on all previous iterations as well, right? Well now. Hm. Here's the thing. It is and it isn't. Let's be straight, this is the best Starscream that looks and feels like you think Starscream ought to look and feel. He turns into an F-15. He has the proper cockpit-chest dealie. Those shoulder vents are there because there's nowhere else for the actual jet intakes to go. This is a proper Starscream. But he's also got a bit too much bulk in the chest, which translates to way too much bulk in jet mode, and this is all down to the serious problem that what you get is essentially just an upscaled version of the 2006 deluxe Seeker mould. With my tinfoil hat on I might wonder if this was to leave customers unsatisfied enough that a new Masterpiece Starscream would still be desirable, but more rationally I think the designers had spent so long on Siege Starscream and the rest of the WFC lines that cranking out ER Screamer on a lower budget just made sense.

And don't get me wrong, this is still a hell of a toy, and it seems to capture something about the character that few toys, even Siege, have managed. It feels very Starscream. I can practically hear Chris Latta screeching in my ears from that utterly perfect headsculpt. Actually, hang about on that for a sec - it really is one of the finest headsculpts I've seen, not just for its accuracy, but for a really exquisite Mona Lisa smile that vanishes and reappears depending on the angle of the light in the room. Sod the controversy with Siege Thundercracker getting Starscream's smirk-face, this head manages to be both in one.

There was a certain kind of thrill running through Starscream's late appearances in the Marvel comic. The sense that, having briefly become so terrifyingly powerful, Starscream was someone to be genuinely feared rather than the whinging failure that he'd been in the cartoon. He got to be a semi-regular presence right up until the penultimate issue, thanks to his Pretender toy giving way to an Action Master, and eventually his boring old G2 toy. He'd probably have got to stay anyway - Starscream had pretty much entered the big league, and would rarely leave the franchise again. Even in Beast Wars his torch was carried by the suspiciously similar Terrorsaur. So yeah, if you're not much into Starscream you're plum out of luck. After 30 years he's not going anywhere. Pathetic fools. There's no escape.

 

Another Weapons Exchange Program

"Hey, Jinrai, this Ion Blaster fits perfectly! Not sure about the hair tr..."


"..."


[whistles "The Touch" theme]


PE PC-16 Jinrai Prime's Ion Blaster with a repurposed Gundam blast effect (2.5mm connector). This 3rd party blaster fits ER Optimus Prime perfectly, including the contour of his forearm. The heads are not exchangeable, though.

 

Is that Scorponok a early sample? Or is it coming out earlier than expected now?

 

Earthrise impresses again: Wheeljack, then Astrotrain, now Starscream!

 

Man....Indiana must be the LAST place to get everything. Earthrise Optimus was spotted in January, and I still haven't seen him locally after 3 months.

Now there's a Scorponok somewhere already??? I mean, I know it's like a sneak-peek or whatever, but dang!

 

Found mine at a best buy of all places