Toy review - Generations Arcee (Deluxe)

[Sky Shadow]

Because i don't find either of her modes appealing. The only reason i'll be investing in her is to complete my MiSB/MoSC Generations line -if that wasn't the case, it would be an easy pass. While this may be the Arcee figure that everyone else has waited for, it isn't mine

I know many of us (me definitely included) have disturbing collecting/hoarding habits/issues. When I buy a toy that sucks, at least at the time I buy it I assume it's going to be good, it just turns out to suck once I've transformed it and held it in my hands. But you're saying that you're specifically buying a toy that you neither like nor want. Is that not a bit of a worry?

[Sinnertwin]

I know many of us (me definitely included) have disturbing collecting/hoarding habits/issues. When I buy a toy that sucks, at least at the time I buy it I assume it's going to be good, it just turns out to suck once I've transformed it and held it in my hands. But you're saying that you're specifically buying a toy that you neither like nor want. Is that not a bit of a worry?

A bit of a worry? Not at all. i only have two collections which i can say are 100% complete while every other line is cherry picked.
It's like those who purchase every piece from G1 so they can have a complete collection. You can't tell me that they all hit the 'buy it now' button with the same enthusiasm when they're buying Bugly as opposed to, say, Targetmaster Scourge... but they still do, to complete their collecting goal, regardles of how they feel about Bugly

[Sky Shadow]

A bit of a worry? Not at all. i only have two collections which i can say are 100% complete while every other line is cherry picked.
It's like those who purchase every piece from G1 so they can have a complete collection. You can't tell me that they all hit the 'buy it now' button with the same enthusiasm when they're buying Bugly as opposed to, say, Targetmaster Scourge... but they still do, to complete their collecting goal, regardles of how they feel about Bugly

Coolio - fair enough! (Although I think Bugly and Targetmaster Scourge are equally awesome. )

[GoktimusPrime]

I want this toy so bad. Since 1986 I've never been able to fully recreate TFTM and other G1 stories with my toys because I didn't have Arcee (or Unicron, but that desire was satiated 11 years ago ). As some of you know, several years ago I started making a photocomic adaptation of TFTM, which I've since stopped (), but I actually did have a lot of future scenes photographed (but not MSPainted with "effects" and speech bubbles), including the Junkion battle scene with Binaltech Arcee. Needless to say, BT Arcee stuck out like a sore thumb against my G1 toys. So would Animated Arcee, and yeah, so would Generations Arcee -- but I'm not expecting Hasbro to go and retro-actively give us a 1980s engineering level style Arcee toy. This toy is the closest (legitimate) representation of a G1 Arcee toy that I've ever seen, and for that reason...

[5FDP]

I have no issue with Arcees thighs / hips. Her proportions are more realistic than Barbies

This toy is the closest (legitimate) representation of a G1 Arcee toy that I've ever seen...

+1000000000000%

[Mythirax]

Case ordered from RK.

Ah, cheers.

I have no issue with Arcees thighs / hips. Her proportions are more realistic than Barbies

Rofl

[Paulbot]

Any chance of a picture of Arcee next to some of the movie cast? Particularly classics Hot Rod, Blurr, Kup and Perceptor?

[Tober]

Any chance of a picture of Arcee next to some of the movie cast? Particularly classics Hot Rod, Blurr, Kup and Perceptor?

I have Hor Rod somewhere here... Voyager Springer too. Will see if I can dig them out.

[GoktimusPrime]

I'm just amazed by the awesomeness of Generations Arcee and how close HasTak managed to get the toy to the original G1 model. Bear in mind that in the G1 cartoon, Arcee transforms from car to robot with almost all of the vehicle parts disappearing into thin air. While it's true that Gen Arcee carries about half of her vehicle kibble on her back, they've done an impressive job in incorporating it with the robot mode as well as compacting it. I'm impressed with how they've actually used some of the backpack kibble to form the pylons that sit behind Arcee's shoulders in the cartoon model. We typically see these sorts of feats being achieved with Masterpiece Transformers, but Arcee manages to achieve this with relative success at a Deluxe Class size and budget/price point! Furthermore, we know that this toy has to be intuitive to transform, as well as fun and durable to play with. Considering that this is a mass-produced toy for the general market, I think that this is one EXCELLENT toy. The backpack kibble is unfortunate, but also unavoidable, but I think that they've done a pretty good job in trying to work around it.



"Anyway, all things considered you did an amazing job lad. Amazing."
- Kup (The Transformers: The Movie)

Highly recommended.

[5FDP]

Agree with everything you said Goki.