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Thread: Toy Review - Studio Series Blitzwing

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    Default Toy Review - Studio Series Blitzwing

    Blitzwing (Bumblebee movie)
    Series - Generations
    Sub-line - Studio Series
    Size/class - Voyager
    New/remould/redeco - New
    Released here - September 2020
    Approximate Retail Price - $45 - 60
    Approximate Size - 17cm tall in robot mode
    Allegiance - Decepticon
    Alt-mode - Fighter Jet (not screen accurate to Bumblebee movie, bearing no resemblance to McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II)
    Main Colours - light grey, dark grey, red, yellow
    Main Accessories - null-ray blaster, electron spike blade, left hand, right hand, 2 missile pods





    Very good looking robot mode, bearing good resemblance to his appearance in the Bumblebee movie. The robot mode has "standard" articulations found on current Siege and Earthrise toys, with the only ball joint being the neck. The shoulder and hip joints are pinned/screwed, with the ankles able to be hinged inwards like the Siege and Earthrise toys. Each elbow is double jointed, and can bend close to 180 degrees.

    Transformation is decent, pretty good. I managed to transform between the two modes without looking at the instructions. I would say the transformation is mostly smooth, and with (mostly) good fit and tolerance on mine.

    A bit of a shame that the fighter jet mode bears little resemblance to the jet as seen in the Bumblebee movie.
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    His right palm is hinged by a pin and can open, supposedly for people to recreate the scene in the movie when he held Bumblebee up by the neck/collar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy View Post
    I also saw a blog post indicating the shoulder fins are installed backwards in the box. They can be easily swapped though.
    I did the swap after posting the pics above. They do look better. To be honest because the wings are tiny, the swap didn't feel much of a difference

    And because I didn't follow the instructions, I realised later that the gun can be stored/hidden a lot better underneath the belly of the jet, instead of how I attached it in the pic above. I saw a hole and just plugged the gun in

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    I'm really looking forward to this figure. The bot mode looks gorgeous.

    The jet mode looks a bit naff, but that's just got me looking forward to what 3P/4P companies can do with the design.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle
    A bit of a shame that the fighter jet mode bears little resemblance to the jet as seen in the Bumblebee movie.
    The jet mode is the only sore point for me. I'm not particularly fussed about it not being an F4 Phantom (though that would be pretty cool if it was), but it looks kind of squat and chibified.
    I'm really just here for the free food and open bar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SharkyMcShark View Post
    The jet mode is the only sore point for me. I'm not particularly fussed about it not being an F4 Phantom (though that would be pretty cool if it was), but it looks kind of squat and chibified.
    I really like the robot mode. If they release repaints of this as the other seekers I'll likely end up getting them as well...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle View Post
    I really like the robot mode. If they release repaints of this as the other seekers I'll likely end up getting them as well...
    I'd love to see a repaint specifically as Skywarp. That way we'd have each of the OG seekers at Voyager size with different molds in the Studio Series line.
    I'm really just here for the free food and open bar.

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    Found a Blitzwing at Big W today. Luckily he was easy to spot on the shelf with a bunch of other SS figures because he was the only one with the Bumblebee logo on the top of the box.

    A fun figure and should go well with SS Nitro Zeus and SS Thundercrack

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    was there any official reason given why the jet looks nothing like the one in the movie? i thought that was the point of studio series.

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    Quote Originally Posted by philby View Post
    was there any official reason given why the jet looks nothing like the one in the movie? i thought that was the point of studio series.
    No word on that, unfortunately.

    The only thing I can think of is that the figure's design predates the the final movie, and that Blitzwing was originally meant to be a USSR/Soviet fighter jet. In support that, I note the following:

    1. The first release retail figures after a move comes out are usually based on concept art, which is not necessarily the final design of any character in the film. Studio Series Blitzwing is the first retail release of this design in a collector's line. It's been almost two years since the film, but the figure was likely designed prior to the movie coming out.

    2. The jet mode of the figure has a sort of Sukhoi 27ish look to it. The film is set during the Cold War era, where the USSR were the Big Bad of the world. The Su27 was the USSR's leading air superiority fighter at the time. It's not dead on to an Su27, but it's certainly a lot closer to it than it is to an F4 Phantom.

    3. Boeing owns the design of the F4 Phantom after acquiring McDonnell Douglas. Earthrise Starscream was released this year, is unlicensed but is much closer in design to a real world F-15 Eagle. The F-15 is another McDonnell Douglas design that now belongs to Boeing. Clearly Hasbro could have chosen to design a figure much closer to an actual F4 if they wanted.

    It seems that the only real explanation is that a decision was made after concept art was produced, and a figure designed, to change Blitzwing to an F4 Phantom for whatever reason. None of the Blitzwing figures in the kid oriented lines (Spark Changers? Power Chargers? You know what I mean) have anything resembling an F4 for an alt mode.
    I'm really just here for the free food and open bar.

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