Plus the many colors of sky lynx is amaze balls. Poor jetfire’s disadvantage is that it’s all plain white.

 

That’s why I’m buying ER Sky-Lynx for my Bots, and SG Jetfire (a superior deco to his normal version imo) for my cons.

 

I kind of wish they did War Within/Galaxy Force-style tetrajets for the Siege seekers. The alt mode wouldn't be curvy, so less G1 cartoon accurate, but it's a far more practical design from a toy engineering standpoint and could have made for a better transformation scheme. That design is also very cool and unique, and would have set the Siege seekers that much more apart from the ER ones.

 

The figure(robot) does have a lot of articulation, but it's got so many issues... I got Elita-1 which is the better version for the paint and such, but the moment I held it in hand, I was disappointed as hell... it feels (plastic wise) like a Cyberverse figure, and the alt mode is actually worse than Cyberverse.... speaking of Cyberverse:

Cyberverse Arcee is a lot better than Earthrise Arcee.

It doesn't lie about being cheaper plastic but actually works better, cleaner transformation, and while a shellformer, her arms are part of the alt mode making her a level higher than Earthrise one... hell the alt mode is better, I don't struggle getting her legs aligned to fit properly like most people struggle with the Earthrise mold. The paint is super nice on it, and the top fin doesn't fall off, she has a better gun (which stores well in the alt mode). Heck the alt mode looks 10x better than the soapbar of ER with more paint and details.

She's freaking amazing looking and by far a surprise to be a Cyberverse figure when she's better than anything else I've seen in the line.

These?












Made by Dr. Wu, if you can find some, get them (note that I painted mine, otherwise they are flat white) as they really complete them perfectly.

Edit: HEY! Just realized that I managed to colour match my paint for the gun (blue) better than Hasbro did for Sunstreaker's yellow fiasco.

Somehow? hell, I've been so disappointed with Jetfire that I feel like Hasbro should return at least half of my money.

Sky Lynx has given me grief with the wings falling off and the side panels (for the base mode) not holding well, but I was able to fix them fairly well, and it's not a question that he's by far superior to Jetfire.

 

Combiner Wars Sky Lynx deserves credit for at least turning into one of the best CW torsos; much better than Hot Spot, and leaps & bounds beyond Motormaster.

 

Agreed.

 

I like the Lynx head as the combiner head, that was a clever touch. As well as Starscream in POTP with the crown in combined mode

 

He forms a magnificent torso!

 

Spoiler

Readers of the Funnies section will get this joke.

 

I really, really don't like TR Sixshot. I keep trying, I really do. But every time I pull him out I wind up disappointed all over again.

I just got the MFT Sixshot and I love the guy to pieces. So I pulled out my TR Sixshot again and... blurgh. He's going to eBay.

... I do really like his car mode, however. Which is hilarious because of all the modes it's probably objectively the most pointless in-universe.

I like CW Sky Lynx more than ER. He's effectively a triple-changer: shuttle to Sky Lynx to Lynx (plus combiner torso which I haven't used in years) and at the end of the day, that's more value to me than the lynx and bird modes splitting since the bird mode is utterly unappealing to me.

I acknowledge that ER Sky Lynx is better for those who want a Sky Lynx but if you told me I could own one and only one, I'd have more fun with the CW version.

Plus, swords.

 

You can't go wrong with either figure. I use ER in my comic, but the CW one works magnificently with Legends scale figures.

 

This is probably not unpopular, and I'm glad he's made the jump to Generations at all, but Barricade should not have to settle for being yet another Prowl repaint. He's a great character and concept, take it further!

 

Hard agree. Give him a rivalry with Prowl and it’ll be excellent.

 

I personally enjoy @theamazingspino's concept on Instagram that Prowl and Barricade are a Jekyll and Hyde situation, the same bot with two different personalities.

 

Dude that’s an even cooler concept. Maybe there could be a one-off story of Prowl based around this concept - the way through his eyes and his “rivalry” with Barricade, only to find out it’s his resentment for himself based on, idk, a war crime he committed or smth,

 

I like Barricade's rival as Bumblebee. Good Cop v Bad Cop is just too obvious for my tastes, overdone

 

That was ever in question?

 

Didn't own CW Magnus till two months ago.

The only bad thing I can say is he can't hold his guns. He's perfect outside of that.

 

This so much. He at least deserves to have his vehicle mode parts remolded and to get a unique headsculpt, even if he keeps the same overall body type. I want my Barricade to turn into a boxy 70s police/muscle car, dammit.

Same, I love both those takes on the tetrajet design. Something about the Siege ones just really doesn't work for me. In theory I like how they look kind of like the Battlestar Galactica Vipers, but the execution just feels kind of boring.

 

I never heard of a Lynx mode for CW Sky Lynx before now.