New pics of Cyclonus and Cheetor

Cyclonus looks miles better. And all it took was to make the nosecone purple, and to change nightsticks colours.

I do wish they did use a darker shade of grey on the wings (that particular colour on the whole thing), though.

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Originally Posted by i_amtrunks

I hope the ordinary grey of Cyclonus is paintable plastic, he needs a coat or two of any colour painted there to improve his looks.

The Cheetor eye gimmick is fine, if not a little too fan orientated, it's not what I'd call a selling point to the kids. :D

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I don't care for it at all (Cheetor's eye gimmick). I don't see the point.

They both look much better in these pics, good enough to buy localy even. Unless the Henkei's have enough improvement to warrant the current price difference.

I didn't like Cheetor at first, but he is growing on me. His beast mode is closer the the cartoon, and his face while a beat to beastly is still as much like his cartoon visage as the old one.

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Originally Posted by kup

I don't care for it at all (Cheetor's eye gimmick). I don't see the point.

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The colour of Cheetor's eyes was a huge deal once upon a time. *nostalgic* :)

Both looking great actually. I'm over the whole Cyclonus colour issue and I think it's looking fine, if a little bare on the paint apps side of things.

Cheetor looks great. Is there any relevance to the eye colour changing inr egards to canon or lore?

Now the wait for local release.

Yea, in the show itself, his eyes change colour between green/yellow/red.

If Reprolabels comes to the rescue when it comes to Cyclonus as they did Sunstreaker and Prowl, I may buy the local version.

must say im not liking cheetor but will still get him

he doesnt look smooth enough

I really like how Cheetor looks. I'll be picking him up if I get the chance.

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Originally Posted by Stompy

Cheetor looks great. Is there any relevance to the eye colour changing inr egards to canon or lore?

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According to the TF Wiki's entry on Cheetor:

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There are several variations of this toy. The initial "rocky bubble" version of the toy features blue cheetah eyes and was incredibly hard to find due to delayed shipping. The "smooth bubble" release later in the year gave him red cheetah eyes. He was released again in 1997 (what with being a popular show character) in Beast Wars's second year, this time with bright green cheetah eyes.

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So, evidently, the colour-changing eyes homages the toy's variations. Obviously they had to limit themselves in the number of colours it could change to due to the size class limits and probable engineering issues.

Thanks MV and Silver for the info. At least the engineers are honouring something for the fans.