The Armorhide mold is one of my favorite little fellas. There was a popular mod at the time of buying an opening Hot Wheels trailer and adding some ToyHax stickers to give him an Optimus-style trailer, so I jumped on that.
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those look nice together! I need to unbox mine!
They're fun. I wish they'd do Jungle Attack Starscream to finish off the G2 Cancelled Camo Seeker guys
I think the very first I saw it applied to was Energon Strongam, which wasn't more than a year or two earlier.
The first I saw it was Energon Divebomb.
At this point would it even be surprising if they do it?
What is kinda surprising is that we've gotten all of these obscure/unreleased Seeker redecos/retools in either the Siege or Earthrise molds, but not a single release of Sunstorm from either mold.
If it were even a little easier and cheaper to get, I might talk myself into another Thundercracker/Skywarp 2-pack to make Bitstream and that Starscream.
My Seeker wishlist is...
Jungle Attack Starscream (preferably as a new character)
Blackout
Sunstorm
G2 Starscream
Bitstream (we have a Hotlink and generic purple Air Warrior so why not?)
Just go all out. And preferably in the ER mould. The Siege Tetrajet mould is fine, but I prefer the F-15 ER version.
Hasbro, for whatever reason, seems really hesitate to embrace Sunstorm. They never did the Classics Seeker up in that colour scheme. They've only repainted him from one of the many legends Seeker moulds they've had. And the rumours of them doing a WfC Seeker that messed with that one BotCon set never panned out.
You've got the Titanium version, a repaint of Armada Thrust for Universe 1.0, a repaint of Legends Cybertron Starscream, a blindpacked Kreon, a TRU exclusive MP that had weird brown highlights, some botshots, and a Voyager Animated release that was part of a two-pack. That's it as far as Hasbro releases go, which is pretty paltry when you consider the number of Seeker moulds and Seeker mould repaints they've had. You'd think he'd have shown up a bit more often.
And the other guy who came with Hufferhide. I didn't think much of this redeco back when it was new since I primarily thought of Springer as a helicopter and a mostly green guy, so this gray armored car seemed like an odd choice. (Not that I would have gotten him anyway, since in the summer of 2007 I was working a shit speedway job in preparation for a marginally less shit Disney food court job and could not afford Botcon toys.) In this time of trying to exactly recreate G1 cartoon models, though, I find myself appreciating him a lot. I still think G1 Springer needs to helicopt, but he can be Unicorn Trilogy Springer, or Movie Springer who's a totally different and unrelated guy from ROTF Springer and hangs out with the Target redecos, or whatever else I feel like that day.
He's quite nice, the black and those little bits of blue do so much in making him a lot more visually interesting than the Evac recolor.
I got him ages ago. He pairs SO BEAUTIFULLY with the cheetor, you finally have an appropriate "big cat and little cat". It's taken till now to get it right, cause theres really only a subtle difference in size, and they would have still been badly out of scale to each other in the original beast wars line.