Toy Review - DotM Deluxe Thundercracker

[Gutsman Heavy]

Blasphemer! Sell me his mech tech weapon then!

[kaiden]

Blasphemer! Sell me his mech tech weapon then!

no! you sell me your mechtech weapon! or we can swap, i'll give you the golden blade mechtech for your blue chainsaw. (then my thundercracker can dual wield chainsaws muhahaha...)

[Gutsman Heavy]

Hey! I'm trying to rip you off here dammit!

Removing the spring has made the Mech Tech weapon much better. TC now wields his chainsaw permanently!

[SharkyMcShark]

Picked it up today - I still don't really like the mold that much but the colours are very good.

Definitely get this over Starscream (who I'm hoping they re release in G1 colours to go with Skywarp because even though this mold is a bit shit it's still far better than the Classics Seeker mold)

[Grievous]

This is great deluxe size representation of the Starscream design
and he's also got a wicked color scheme...

Thundercracker is clearly a Newcastle Knights fan...

[griffin]

I voted 'only if something else' because as much as this mould is one of the better Dlx movie moulds, I'd only recommend getting Thundercracker if you plan on getting all three Seeers (with JP Skywarp if Hasbro don't end up releasing one).

There was potential for the 2nd & 3rd Movie to have Starscream's minions included, especially since they included so many "clones" to save ILM money... and they didn't need to be talking roles either - just background troops to make up numbers and cannon-fodder. It would have guaranteed sales of the Starscream redecos, and make this a definite yes for being in the movie.

Don't get me wrong, this toy is good enough on its own to be worth buying, but with so many movie toys being release, and so many new cast character toys, I'm just being selective on which ones to recommend as a definite buy.

The colourings are nice on Thundercracker, making it a good tribute to the Gen1 character. But like the Starscream toy, this one suffers from the short-legged, stumpy look, thanks to the engineering that didn't want any robot kibble sticking out of the jet mode. (one mode always has to suffer I guess)

This figure has an undocumented bonus blade weapon. I don't know why it was included... unless they wanted the jet mode more balanced with its attached weapons after it was photographed for the packaging. I remember coming back from BotCon with a box full of toys and weapons, and having this blade weapon left over... it took me ages to work it out (probably with the help of someone revealing who it belonged to).

[UltraMarginal]

I bought it cheap on sale mainly because I wanted to see what this deluxe F-22 design was like and I didn't want another starscream. the rotf voyager was pertty good and I also have the Movie Masterpiece.

I also hate the tattoo design on the screamers so the pretty blue that decorates this TC is a welcome change.

I have come to grips with the shape of the movie starscream/seeker design, I actually quite like it's alien, not so human appearance.

as such, I like the vehicle mode for it's clean lines, and lack of kibble, I found the transformation to be quite novel and elegant for a figure this size and the robot mode is stable and fairly posable, it certainly looks a lot better than the 2007 seeker mold, in either mode.

I say Only if cheap though, as I don't see a full set of seekers coming out in this mold and not being an on screen character it's not critical for a movie collection. And we already pay too much for transformers here so if you can get it on special it just means you're a little closer to paying what our international buddies pay for the same thing.
As a transformers jet tragic though I had to get at least one version of this mold and I am full up on tattood starscreams.

Very well worth it though if you are into transformers jets, the movie jets or thundercracker.