Toy Review - Cyberverse Acid Storm (Warrior)

[Bemblebuu]

At least they bothered to give some colour variance in the legs (unlike Cyberverse Starscream)...pretty surprising they bothered at all though.

[GoktimusPrime]

At least they bothered to give some colour variance in the legs (unlike Cyberverse Starscream)...pretty surprising they bothered at all though.

You can give this mould all the paint ops in the world and it'd be like putting makeup on a pig. You can't make a ^silk purse out of a sow's ear.

[BigTransformerTrev]

You can't make a purse out of a sow's ear.

Actually, given the dimensions and relative durability you can make a purse out of a sows ear, especially if you cure it properly.

You can’t make a silk purse out of one though

[GoktimusPrime]

You can’t make a silk purse out of one though

That too!

[GoktimusPrime]

Just watched The Basics on Acid Storm which brought up something that I didn't notice -- Cyberverse Acid Storm is gender fluid. A neat act of social progressiveness and inclusion (akin to things like the inclusion of female TFs back in the 80s cartoon, or allowing Tigatron and Airazor to be a same-gender couple in the Japanese dub of the BW show etc.).

Still doesn't convince me to buy this toy though. Maaaaaybe if I see it super cheap, as in single-digit price. Maaaybe.

[SMHFConvoy]

This is probably the one instance where I wish the figures were more show accurate with the head and chest

[BigTransformerTrev]

Just watched The Basics on Acid Storm which brought up something that I didn't notice -- Cyberverse Acid Storm is gender fluid. A neat act of social progressiveness and inclusion

Errrr.... I think you might be giving the writers too much credit. The line given ’it’s just something Acid Storm likes to do’ sounds like a fob off to me. In other words ‘you ignored the fact that Smithers on The Simpson’s first appeared as black, ignore the fact Acid Storm first appeared as male’. The writers probably had already written the Earth episodes with a female Acid Storm working under Slipstream, but those in charge of doing the palette swaps of Seekers for flashbacks didn’t get the memo and worked off the official website bio and stuck a green one in.

Don’t get me wrong, it would be cool to have a gender fluid character, but I don’t think this is it. Otherwise the interviewee would have made more of a proper statement rather than a dismissive one.