I don't know. She looks as female as G1 Firestar* or any of the other G1 Female Autobots:



Head isn't too far off either. I think they nailed the G1 look.

*chose Firestar, rather than G1 Arcee, to make a point. A direct comparison to Arcee would've been made as a counter argument otherwise.

 

Thank you for saying this, because I'd even posted on twitter yesterday morning that this looks like a dude bot with a chest protector. Absolutely nothing about it is feminine, and the face is very generic. It's not a bad figure to me, but I don't understand the link/homage even as an "updated" Arcee.

I'm glad that there's a fanbase for it, though.

 

cool

 

In one of the pics you can see her giving the gun a hand- Who am i kidding.

 

Go ahead and call me crazy, but I could totally see myself putting a new head on the blue version and using it as Blurr. Not at full price though, if I see it go on sale then maybe.

 

the good thing about this is, if they don't get the head right it isn't hard for another 3rd party to make a good head.

 

That's a good point.

 

Although, from another perspective: I will honestly say this:

I haven't seen a "good enough" G1 Arcee head from anyone. That's my opinion. There have been a few tries at Radicon, and by smaller third party group, and I never know what to make of them.

Most of them don't bring out the "girl" part of Arcee, well. A lot of them look like "rage of a woman" face, and Arcee just doesn't have that kind of character in the G1 shows.

So to me, at the moment, I cannot think of a head that I would substitute. Even Hasbro hasn't done a good job with past G1 Arcee homage heads.

I guess it's just a difficult thing to do?

 

... Delicate Warrior.

 

That

But again, I don´t see those two here as any tf fembot ever done before and the main reason to pick her up is to pass as a cybertronian version of my OC, however she will need some small paint aps for that to happen anbd I wish the shoulders could be closer to the body and the chest lifted to the same angle as the hood on my art.

 

I did consider that when I wrote it. I know a lot of people love Delicate Warrior, but for me, she just doesn't do it. The face just doesn't have enough "character" in it, I don't know what it is.

 

Hey man, nothing wrong with that. Everyone has their preferences.

 

ah, it wasn't meant to be anything against what you said =)

I dunno, I just don't dig it. I like this Arcee's "body", the head I am not crazy about. I do think it have more of a sniper male or a "tech male" vibe though

 

I love perfect effect. Especially, their reflector homage. Maybe I was stretching it a bit with the movie Arcee comparision 

 

other pics (from hobbybase)

 

Damn, now I want the blue one again  

 

Again with the blue. Want to see more pics of the color I preordered....

 

I'm so loving the blue one!  

 

Ah I totally agree on the Reflector, they knocked that one out of the park.

Lol and yes it was a little bit of a stretch on that comparison  

Oooo I am loving that visor! Gives her a real 'Tron' bot look. These won't replace my Delicate warrior as Arcee but I am definitely so happy I pre-ordered both when they went up on Robotkingdom. Now we just have to hope PE won't do an iGear and delay the release of these again...

 

There's something wrong with the head...Just does not sell Arcee IMO. Whatever I won't be buying it anyway...