End of Februar

 

That is a crazy amount of paint wear to show in an official video.

 

It's the hand-painted sample. Those things are always chipped to hell. Take a really close look at the magazine spreads some time.

 

At this early stage it’s a hand painted grey prototype. So paint wear is expected. Skyfire was the same in his preview video and he turned out fine. Same with the trainbots etc.

 

Adorable

 

Nice touch having a rail track motif on the sword hilt.

 

Dont know what they were doing in the original stock photos with the arm wings flapping everywhere. I get they try to show articulation, but those wings were everywhere else but near his arms in the P.O. pictures.

 

It's the hand painted prototype

 

Is it finally member or is there one member left ?

 

One more, the 6th and final member - Kaen.

 

Are these two ladies text to speech programs? Their speech sounds so... unnatural.

Anyway, feels disheartening that not only does he have the sides of the train as giant panels hanging off the shoulders - something the G1 toy doesn't have - but then the front of the train also has wing panels behind that. He has double wings, it seems.

 

I've seen you somewhere before...

 

So he got Brundlefly-ed

 

So arms articulation:
- almost 90° elbow
- biceps torsion (waist swivel)
- armpit up not received

That leg blocks are huge, more bigger than feet themselves!

Edit: why the Raiden Cannons are foldable?

 

I'm guessing to fit in Seizan's alt mode

 

Wow - this is looking great, so good to see the video - getting super stoked for the rest of these.

 

Man, I know it's only a few weeks away, but this wait for Yukikaze is making me antsy. It feels like it's been longer between this and Getsuei than the wait between Shouki and Getsuei was (though I don't think the actual time frame is any different)

 

It hurts to look at him with such underpaintings and with a torn insignia... 

Takara-Tomy falls every year in terms of paint quality and not only... 

 

Please read the last page or so. This is a hand painted PROTOTYPE.  

 

Seriously, this paint talk has got to stop. That is a hand painted grey prototype. That's why the plastic showing through the scratched paint is GREY. The final production version will not be fully painted, and the parts that are painted would have a similar colour of plastic underneath. It would never be grey. This figure is 9 months away from release. The factory tooling most likely isn't even done yet. This is not a production sample. Just a very early resin prototype. Skyfire's prototype also had tons of paint scratches and he is not even painted for the final version.