the shadowstriker doodle is indeed true... strongarm was also leaked.... oh no....

 

Here’s my money.

 

Correction her original toy was a remold of sideburn

 

I also own her! I wouldn't say she sucks though... What's a word halfway between "sucks" and a "hesitant 'ok'"?

 

mediocre?

although mediocre can often (usually?) also mean "ok", negatively...

 

I know about the original but that's a very different version of her. The difference is basically that of G1 and TFP Arcee.

 

Then let me change the view, this shadow striker seems to just be pulling prime dreadwing, combing two iteration of herself into one

 

Only it does it horribly by claiming it's one version when it's just a recolor with a new head of someone else who it's clearly intended for. Skyquake had way more elements of TFP, this has a head.

 

Skyquake really only has a head and wings, his not that much better his more obviously meant to be g1 then he is prime

 

Not really. His shape is very reminiscent of TFP and there are very blatant differences from how G1 does things all around. The shoulders, shins and heels are all different from G1. His nosecone vanishes while it ends up on his calves/shins on G1, and the thrusters transform out of the heels much more like TFP. The only things that stand out as G1 are the chest, large thrusters and overall design language of the jet.

This thing stands out as having the entire body of the other version except for the head.

 

Fine, but shadow striker looking like sideburns doesn’t mean sideburn came first, it just combining universe and cyberverse, just there not a whole lot between them to do much with, and with this sketch, there a good chance it looks more of a mix then this on the actual toy

 

The mixing was clearly done in a way to sacrifice elements from the Cyberverse version to use it as Sideburn in the future. There's no other reason why the mixture would be so lopsided when they're touting this as Cyberverse. This isn't just a sketch, it's a trace of a photo of the toy; the design elements you see are what you get unless they didn't trace large parts or the leakers are lying.

 

I must have missed something. Why are we discussing terrible MS Paint doodles as if they're official figure releases?

 

What does that response even mean?

 

SS86 Wreck-Gar was first leaked by the same person in the same way a while back

 

They're by a known and infamous leaker/artist here on the boards.

 

If the drawing is correct this is super disappointing to me. I was hoping for Cyberverse Shadowstriker not Sideburn in purple. I'm stoked we're getting sideburn probably pretty soon(and hopefully roulette), but I was hoping that since Cyberverse, like the UT, is pretty G1 in design it would be pretty close to the on screen appearance. I'm still buying it since I want each continuity to have its own shelf. Of course all my complaining could be useless as it may be fake.

 

Honestly, I assumed Shadow Striker would be a re-head/retool of Axlegrease, who'se already a blue-purple lady-car with Frankensteinable limbs - like the Cyberverse version. But a RiD/Universe version sounds cool too.