Dr. Wu DW-E10 Patriot Tank & DW-E09 Traveler Plane / Sword Dancer (G1 Slamdance)

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  1. Shattered Trousers

    Shattered Trousers That thing Ratchet needed.

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    No doubt!

    If Dr Wu offered Decibel or Legout, or both, they would be instant pre-orders for me.

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  2. Thundershot

    Thundershot Ratchet Fanatic

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    Does Dr Wu have any kind of social media where we can ask them about things? A lot of 3P have Facebook or instagram pages, but I can’t find anything for Dr Wu.
     
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    I think this is them on Weibo, but I've never been able to login to post a comment.
     
  4. HunterGreen2005

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    Finally got around to putting a faction sticker on him! It makes a big difference and is super satisfying! :thumb 

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  5. ckhtiger

    ckhtiger old skool fool

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  6. Mercurius

    Mercurius Lights your darkest hour

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    I put some team stickers on it for combined and vehicle modes. Really improved the look, for sure.
     
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    Getting Twincast recently made me want to grab this figure, so I did. It really is another stepup from their "Squawkbox", because this time I don't feel like "Patriot" or "Traveller" were compromised for their combined mode (Squawktalk suffered a bit with the Squawkbox set sadly)
     
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    KibblerGrrrl Zealous mini-cassettes & fembots evangelist

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    Looking back, I'd love for Dr Wu to consider updating the TR Frumble/Reject molds to fit the WfC/Legacy Soundwave and Blaster formfactor. I think they were the best of HasTak's cassette-tablet-pda molds with good posability and a simple satisfying transformation. With Chatter & Sword Dancer, Dr Wu has demonstrated they could pull off those tiny parts, possibly even improving the TR engineering.

    It'd be so sweet for Soundwave and Blaster to pop out a Rumble or Rewind that instead of only being a plank/slab/"drone armor" they then turn into a tiny tank.
     
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  9. Spicytron

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    To be fair, Grand Slam/Patriot already does that :p 
     
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    KibblerGrrrl Zealous mini-cassettes & fembots evangelist

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    Right, but it doesn't also turn into a bot on it's own.
     
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  11. Insurgent

    Insurgent The Amazing Tango Mysterio

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    Other than the grey/white chest, is there any difference between the normal and toy versions of sword dancer? Thinking of picking one up but can't tell what differences there are.
     
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    It's simple, go for the toy/anime version because it's the most accurate to the original G1 toy. The other version was simply a way for Dr. Wu to make more money off of the mold. He initially released the white chest version and later he released a version that was closer to the G1 color scheme.

    But to address your question the toy version is identical to it's G1 counterpart with grey parts and a face that is painted a deep red color. The original Dr. Wu release with the incorrect colored white parts has a weird pinkish colored face that is not at all like the G1 version...

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    It's personal preference really. I think the pinkish face helps to distinguish it from the rest of the noggin. Was looking on TF wiki for more images of him, and I clearly see a pink face on one of the images in his profile.

    The white body isn't g1 accurate, but doesn't mean it looks bad in itself.
     
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    Thanks guys. Didn't know about the face. Looks like toy version it is.
     
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    I got the toy version mainly because of the face, so I can't say it's a bad choice.
     
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