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  1. 28th May 2010, 03:06 PM #1
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    Exclamation About time they came out...

    Quote Originally Posted by kurdt_the_goat View Post
    Starscream's head sculpt and eyes are interesting to say the least
    It's fugly!

    I think I'm going to leave my Skywarp sealed and open up Starscream - will try and transplant a head off the Classics/Universe mold onto him I think
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  2. 28th May 2010, 04:19 PM #2
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    Looks awesome.
    Now the decision to wait as I was originally going to until this trip of mine, or import now!
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    Question WTH???

    Quote Originally Posted by kurdt_the_goat View Post
    Starscream's head sculpt and eyes are interesting to say the least.
    Quote Originally Posted by Vector Prime View Post
    It's fugly!

    I think I'm going to leave my Skywarp sealed and open up Starscream - will try and transplant a head off the Classics/Universe mold onto him I think
    Actually, upon seeing close up pics of Skywarp vs Starscream, I think I'll end up opening Skywarp and leaving Screamer sealed... why they didn't use Skywarp's head mold for Screamer is beyond me...

    More pics of Skywarp here and Starscream here.

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  4. 29th May 2010, 01:02 AM #4
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    I too prefer Skywarp's head.
    While i'm struggling to rationalise why Screamer has what looks like 4 eyes, i think they gave them different sculpts for a couple reasons...
    • They saw how much it was appreciated for Bumblebee/Cliffjumper
    • To build on the 'snake/serpent/orochi' motif for Starscream (since he's more the backstabbing snake than Skywarp)

    I do like how they both have the flared sides of their heads..like a snake on a dodgy 80's metal album cover*


    *No offense to any Omen fans, i just found this on Google
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  5. 29th May 2010, 01:32 AM #5
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    I'm not really liking how these turned out....

    Unless I see some better photos in other poses, then I might change my opinion.
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  6. 29th May 2010, 09:43 AM #6
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    Thumbs up Everything except Screamer's head looks great!

    Quote Originally Posted by optimus1 View Post
    I'm not really liking how these turned out....
    Really? I love the look of them so far (with the exception of Screamer's head mold) and can't wait till my RK order arrives later this week (hopefully!)
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    I prefer the darker colour of Skywarp, as the white shows off too many seams and joins in the car mode. It's a necessary evil with convertable toys to have those joins, but a clean white colour highlights them as the shadow of the joins shows up a lot more.
    I think the dark purple doesn't look 'real' enough to work for me, but it seems that the classic colours of those two characters ends up being their main flaw in vehicle mode. I feel that Thundercracker in a dark 'car' blue would be the best of both worlds - realist car colour, and hides the joins.
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  8. 29th May 2010, 03:34 PM #8
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    Ewwwwww......gross! Looks sorta ok in robot mode but that car is hideous!
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    I like Starscream, repaint of Waspinator with that head anyone
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    Found some more japanese reviews/pics with the help of my wife's multi-lingual google searching ability!

    http://otakuhaiyuu.seesaa.net/article/151584513.html

    http://ameblo.jp/akikke/entry-10547140505.html

    http://ameblo.jp/akikke/entry-10548968916.html

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