Transformers Legacy toyline

[ZacWilliam1]

I feel like the toys is what you would get if you put RiD Sideburn and Cyberverse Shadow Striker on either end of an animorphs type slide bar and moved it 75 to 80 percent toward Striker.

-ZacWilliam, it's her Cyberverse vehicle with just a dash of his changing it up in the details.

 

[lastmaximal]

This whole thing is so weird. In trying to make something that's both, they made decisions that led to a weird mishmash that is not sufficiently either and so might as well be neither. It's almost Side Burn's robot mode transforming into Shadow Striker's altmode, except the altmode doesn't end up looking much like Shadow Striker's altmode.

It has some of the angular vibe, such as in the doors/sides. But the rest of the altmode, in particular the oddly blobby hood, looks nothing like Shadow Striker's. What should feel more like Prime Wheeljack with a different hood ends up being something like a stock car with an odd three-part hood.

(I don't know, were they taking inspiration from ROTF Shadow Striker's pointy hood along with the window colors? Because both of those are absurd choices for something ostensibly homaging Cyberverse Shadow Striker. But then, this is the design team that made a BW Scavenger head instead of an Antagony head, and decided to make Antagony.

Edit: Googling it and even the shape of the headlights is a closer match. What is going on.)

 

[LordGigaIce]

Most backers probably weren't getting charged Japan prices, which IIRC, were quite high in comparison.

I've lived in Canada all my life so I just accept that different regions will have different pricing and sometimes you just gotta accept that

 

[Rhinox]

So Sandstorm is amazing. Like, spectacularly good. Shard is also really decent. I like her even without the whole 'pick her apart and use her as armor' gimmick. Haven't opened the rest yet. Really looking forward to Silverbolt and Starscream.

 

[Platypus Prime]

In my head cannon this is both why Origins Wheeljack looks like this and why he went back to the 'van'.

 

[unluckiness]

The thing about this mold's altmode is that it is still 90% Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and no exposed engine or change in color scheme is gonna change that.

Besides the engine and the windows being red (which seems to be a reference to ROTF Shadow Striker), the only major visual differences are that its sharper angles have been rounded off and smoothed out a bit, but most of which are still visible in the molding.

When you order a car from Wishdotcom.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Honestly, as far as the mold goes, the only thing that really bothers me is the... protrusion... on the front.

(The flames should be better, too, but that's a separate issue.)

Exactly. Hasbro has made KO vehicles for many of their TFs (especially of licenced cars), so they could easily do the same for Sideburn.

What with the overpriced Fire Convoy and this lame Sideburn, I think Hasbro has done RID dirty recently so far.

In RiD 2001, even. They just made X-Brawn's headlights into circles and called it a day.

 

[Sabrblade]

In RiD 2001, even. They just made X-Brawn's headlights into circles and called it a day.

They removed his tail lights, too.

 

[Lobjob]

Most of the car can even work as is, just the rear bumper is a flat plank and that car front is entirely... You know what, why is Shadow Striker's vehicle mode nose so... bulbous to begin with? I'm boggled at how one gets from the show model to this toy; If that were leaner and more angular like the Ultra class toy's, there might have been less work to do. Like, from there just round it off and make it a single shape rather than three.


This is the bit that genuinely makes it feel like an unfinished digibash.

This is what I was getting at when I asked "why" it had to look this way. This *isn't* how her front looked in the show. Its like, an inverted version of it. It feels like the car was designed in chunks and then just put together with the front silouette not being taken in to account.

Its just a weird car design, which only bugs me because everything else about the mold is so cool.

 

[Sabrblade]

This is what I was getting at when I asked "why" it had to look this way. This *isn't* how her front looked in the show. Its like, an inverted version of it. It feels like the car was designed in chunks and then just put together with the front silouette not being taken in to account.

Its just a weird car design, which only bugs me because everything else about the mold is so cool.

I think I figured out what the protrusion at the front of her car mode might be a reference to:

This would also explain not just the red windows but also the car's anomalous bulbous shape.

 

[Rhinox]

Surprising no one, Gears is also super good. Like, can we revive Tiny Gawd status?
I need a Swerve from this mold so I can take him with me and have a tiny buddy for when I'm bored as hell at work.

 

[Andrusi]

Honestly, as far as the mold goes, the only thing that really bothers me is the... protrusion... on the front.

She's from Cyberverse, not Prime or RID15. You can say nose.

 

[Shadhausen]

Surprising no one, Gears is also super good. Like, can we revive Tiny Gawd status?
I need a Swerve from this mold so I can take him with me and have a tiny buddy for when I'm bored as hell at work.

I'd probably consider Gears a Tiny God if his vehicle mode wasn't crap.

 

[lastmaximal]

I think I figured out what the protrusion at the front of her car mode might be a reference to:

This would also explain not just the red windows but also the car's anomalous bulbous shape.

Yup. That was my guess too. The headlights being off may be part of it as well.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Honestly that almost redeems it for me. At least it's based on something. Probably the wrong something, but at least there's a reason.

 

[Sabrblade]

Honestly that almost redeems it for me. At least it's based on something. Probably the wrong something, but at least there's a reason.

It's the Aligned mindset all over again.

 

[unluckiness]

They should make a Bumblebee with the body of a Camaro but the hood of the Beetle lol

Somebody get Gordon Ramsay because they shouldn’t have let the designer cook.

 

[Blot]

It's the Aligned mentality all over again.

I've been told that this is way better and more creative than dumb old "characters looking like their look".

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

They removed his tail lights, too.

Safety last!

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

She's from Cyberverse, not Prime or RID15. You can say nose.