Toy Review MP Acidstorm

[lancalot]

Well my friend finally sent it over :D So firstly the box is really nice , it has nicely embossed graphic on it ....
On with the figure ... the first thing i though of is that the green is really nice and it a solid figure with good plastic , with the grey silver having a green tint to it and not like the gray on Thundercracker ... From the picture that i saw on the net of the digital camo only on the wings only , which bugged me alot not having the middle section also done in it , but having the figure now i don't really mind that .
In robot mode the different shade of grey really set his appearance and all of the grey has a slight green tint to it as well which is very nice and with the green eyes and canopy set him apart from the other seeker, Also of note is that his missile pod is yellow which is the only place that uses yellow on the whole figure and it not even seen...
The build quality is really solid and the being brand new he really stiff as hell , so transforming him the first time would be pretty hard if you don't know what your doing as the head section is very fiddly to get through and the chest section wouldn't even move , but lucky i done seeker transformation alot of time that i know which direction it can be forced to move ... the actually instruction is totally new and not a redone like Thundercrackers' one...
My figure has a scratch on his nose:( but beside that the paint app is really nice , i like the blend on the thrusters ...There are two QC problem with my figure , the first is on the right leg tail fin , it doesn't fold up propery in robot mode and just keep falling off ...and also oh the right wing where you fold it up .. it just clips off there as well , but i think that is due to the new stiffness ..but i'm surprise that it actually detachable in the new mold ..i though i snapped off:eek: as the v1 is a pin joint and not detachable ...
So is he worth it?.. totally :D ... A green official MP seeker ! From the solid build feel of the green plastic and grey/green paint apps totally beautiful . He heaps better then Thundercracker ...

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[Kazza]

Oh man I can't wait for this!! So envious.

[Ultra Mackness]

That does look cool! Thanks for sharing these shots lancalot

[Autocon]

Anyone have all the seekers to put together?:eek:

[Sinnertwin]

That green is horrible. I love it! Especially the eyes. I wasn't planning on picking this guy up, but now that i've had a good look at the inhand images, come November i think i will.

[lancalot]

Anyone have all the seekers to put together?:eek:
half of my seeker are in storage atm..:( might do a group pic on the weekend :D


That green is horrible. I love it! Especially the eyes. I wasn't planning on picking this guy up, but now that i've had a good look at the inhand images, come November i think i will.

He certainly stand out from the rest of the seekers......

[lancalot]

:eek:I just saw this on his package .... Its funny how they printed it for the US market?..

So he be release here for sure then .. :)


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[Tetsuwan Convoy]

:eek:I just saw this on his package .... Its funny how they printed it for the US market?..

So he be release here for sure then .. :)


I wouldn't bank on that, my SDCC Excl Taco Deadpool box had that printed on it as well and I think it's highly unlikely that will come over here. due to it being excl to SDCC apparently.

Stranger things have happend though.

Back on topic, I must say it looks a LOT nicer than I thought it would look. I quite like that Pixel camo print, but I think the body should have been a darker green than it is at the moment.

Still, not a complete waste of plastic.:D

Oh and whats that rhyme? "Blue and green should not be seen, unless there's something in between";):p

hint hint.:D

[griffin]

:eek:I just saw this on his package .... Its funny how they printed it for the US market?..

So he be release here for sure then .. :)



I really should create an FAQ for this site... and put this one on it, because it gets asked almost every month. (I might put a post in the Matrix section for people to refer to or direct others to that ask this)


It is not a guarantee that it is being released here.
Packaging and production runs are only done in groups - USA (which we get here and in NZ), Europe (with several languages - we sometimes get excess stock dumped here), and sometimes Non-USA Americas (with French and Spanish for Canada and Mexico). Not sure about Hasbro Hong Kong though, as they should have a big enough market there now to warrant their own packaging, but items from there are still just USA versions with no HK details on them.

The AUS & NZ distribution addresses on the American Hasbro Transformers products are just part of the standard template for THEIR packaging, just in case their items are released here (at the same time as in America, or later on clearance), because we don't get unique packaging/production, as it would add more to the cost per unit.

When the Hasbro US people are designing the packaging of different toy items, they may not know if it is a regular item or a limited item that is exclusive to a store or convention.

Basically, since we don't have our own packaging/production run, it doesn't hurt to add it on the packaging somewhere just in case, so for the packaging people, it is just better to add it, than to not have it and cost Hasbro AUS time & money later putting address stickers on every item if it did end up getting released here or in NZ.


(Saying all that, it is funny to see the AUS & NZ details on Universal Studios packaging, which actually has the Universal Studios label on the packaging instead of just a sticker like SDCC, so can never be released here... unless there is a Universal Store somewhere in Australia I'm not aware of)

[Quickstrike]

I wish Universe Acid Storm was that shade of green.

[Autocon]

Isnt he a rainmaker? So shouldn't he be a bright green:D

[GoktimusPrime]

More recent incarnations of Acid Storm portray him as having darker camo green.
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/8/8f/Universe_AcidStorm_toy.jpg
http://wikialpha.org/wiki/images/2/2b/Acidstorm-idw.jpg
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/e/e8/IDWTF7-SunstormAcidstorm.jpg