This version of Cyclonus appears to be the final one judging by the different colours on Nightstick.
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EDIT: More pics of Cyclonus!
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This version of Cyclonus appears to be the final one judging by the different colours on Nightstick.
http://www.tf08.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=89
EDIT: More pics of Cyclonus!
http://www.tf08.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=91
Last edited by FFN; 29th October 2008 at 08:18 PM. Reason: More pics
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It is indeed an improvement when it comes to Nightstick but that Cyclonus still feels very cheap. The sore point there is the base plastic gray bits and they neglected that.
If Henkei comes with a better version, I will get it. If they don't I will buy this one and paint the silver bits myself as I intend to do with Galvatron's pink bits.
On the plus side, Cheetor is looking a lot better in the paint department.
Last edited by kup; 28th October 2008 at 08:37 PM.
I don't think you'll be seeing Tomy painting all the grey plastic silver, probably different shades of greys. I would expect them to colour it like the cartoon rather than Hasbro's G1 toy-based colour scheme.
Hey, why not get both and pretend one is his Armada?
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Yeah, i'm thinking the ideal colour scheme would be if they just left the Hasbro purple the same (more evil!), but painted his grey parts silver (Henkei Prime has those beautiful silver legs compared to Classics Prime's grey+blue).
I bet the Henkei will use a shade of purple similar to their Henkei Galvatron... which might be cool anyway. Might just get both
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.
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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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More pics of Cyclonus!
http://www.tf08.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=91
In my experience, Takara rarely paints silver plastic silver.
As for fully-painted prototypes used for packaging and promotional photos, check out Galaxy Force. All the protos in that were fully painted, so you had Galaxy Convoy pics with shiny silver paint on all his silver/grey plastic, which of course, would have never made it onto the final toy due to budget.
Both companies have been doing this for years, so I don't see why it's such an exception for Hasbro to be doing business as usual now.
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It's still amazing what the purple nosecone alone does for that figure.
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