Transformers Legacy toyline

TheSupernova

TheSupernova

How did we get so dark?
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Yeah, that vehicle mode is a whole lot of not good. But, yeah, it's pretty clear she's a pretool of Side Burn.
 
Sabrblade

Sabrblade

Continuity Nutcase
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MrBlud said:
OOF.

That vehicle mode is…oof
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The whole thing is oof. It's Legacy Prime Bulkhead and Knock Out all over again.

This is a figure for no one. It tries to be everything it possibly can be all at once, ultimately being none of them.

It wants to be Cyberverse Shadow Striker, but completely fails to do so from the neck down.

It wants to be Universe Shadow Striker, but instead has RID'01 Side Burn's blue/red/silver colors for some reason.

It even wants to be ROTF Shadow Striker with those red windows, but nobody asked for that.

It's basically Dragon Ball Evolution made manifest as an action figure.
 
unluckiness

unluckiness

Somehow still sane
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Even without accuracy into account, mold looks pretty bad. car mode is half of a pair of dress shoes, stick arms, barrel chest, no abdomen. Bleh. It’s partly due to being based off RID Sideburn who had funky proportions too but given how simple this looks, IDK why the proportions couldn’t be altered to be more balanced.
 
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Sabrblade

Sabrblade

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And, honestly, why is she blue? Like, that's straight up just Side Burn's deco covering the majority of the figure. She won't have to be redecoed into Side Burn, she already IS Side Burn!
 
ZacWilliam1

ZacWilliam1

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Looks fine to me.

I don't care much about her but it looks like a combo of the two Shadow Strikers in a way that clearly invokes both. Car is a made-up mobile but seems a perfectly reasonable one. Looks worlds better than Legacy Hot Shots car mode imo.

I'm psyched that we're likely getting a Sideburn/Speedbreaker. While the car isn't quite as sleek as I'd like ideally for him just getting a him is awesome.


-ZacWilliam, really struggling to see why anyone has any issues with this.
 
ZacWilliam1

ZacWilliam1

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Sabrblade said:
And, honestly, why is she blue? Like, that's straight up just Side Burn's deco covering the majority of the figure. She won't have to be redecoed into Side Burn, she already IS Side Burn!
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She's not? I mean those pics look pretty purple to me.

-ZacWilliam, a blue-ish purple but solidly purple, not even in the same family as Side Burn to my eye.
 
Princess Viola

Princess Viola

Dumbass Asexual
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Sabrblade said:
And, honestly, why is she blue? Like, that's straight up just Side Burn's deco covering the majority of the figure. She won't have to be redecoed into Side Burn, she already IS Side Burn!
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She looks pretty damn purple to me and I'm struggling to see a real major difference between her colors on this toy vs her Cyberverse toys/character model.
 
Undead Scottsman

Undead Scottsman

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What is this selects-ass toy doing in the mainline? This is just a Side-Burn toy with a Shadow Strike head and color scheme. It's incredibly disappointing. Just like Prime Bulkhead, you take the head and color scheme away and you'd have zero idea this was Shadow Striker. What the hell is even the point?

Just do Side-Burn and put this figure in selects as the inadequate "better than nothing" compromise that it is.

I'm pretty much hitching my future in the toy part of the fandom to whether or not Strongarm is as disappointing at this, now.
 
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Lobjob

Lobjob

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I think the mold is quirky. I like it. I don't hate the amalgamation of Shadow Striker designs, but considering the mold its using, Universe colors woulf have been cool.

I'd love to see it in actual Side Burn/Speedbreaker colors. I can't wait to see Prowl/Mach Alert and X-Brawn/Wildeider. I love those RID figures but they were always so fiddly, Side Burn in particular.
 
Haze Arquebus

Haze Arquebus

Cursed Punweaver
Citizen
Sabrblade said:
And, honestly, why is she blue? Like, that's straight up just Side Burn's deco covering the majority of the figure. She won't have to be redecoed into Side Burn, she already IS Side Burn!
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ZacWilliam1 said:
She's not? I mean those pics look pretty purple to me.

-ZacWilliam, a blue-ish purple but solidly purple, not even in the same family as Side Burn to my eye.
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Princess Viola said:
She looks pretty damn purple to me and I'm struggling to see a real major difference between her colors on this toy vs her Cyberverse toys/character model.
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Finally, Legacy Alternators Shockblast.
 
CoffeeHorse

CoffeeHorse

Exhausted, but still standing.
Staff member
Council of Elders
Citizen
Alternators Shockblast is definitely purple in every picture I've seen.
 
Haze Arquebus

Haze Arquebus

Cursed Punweaver
Citizen
Yeah, but people going back and forth about his color way back then was A Thing.
 
The Phazer

The Phazer

Well-known member
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Oof, that Shadow Striker is terrible. What the heck is that alt mode supposed to be.

At least she has clear windows, but it's clear that the cost cutting for Legacy deluxes has reached a point where you cannot successfully make a Transforming robot out of it.
 
ZacWilliam1

ZacWilliam1

Well-known member
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It's a perfectly reasonable made-up car. The kind we've got a million of since like 1986. Looks fine.

It's not as weird as Elita 1's (which is quirky and I honestly like it) nor as oddly proportioned as Legacy Hot Shots (which I'm not a huge fan of).

-ZacWilliam, it's just one standard unit of made up, maybe slightly sci-fi ish sports car.
 
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