Transformers Cyberverse Deluxe Class Arcee Found At US Retail and Mini Review

aronjlove wrote:I know everyone says TR Arcee is just another Blurr retool but I think it is the best one available and wish it were easier for others to get. I say that as someone who owns the T30 figure which feels... spindly? Like it could break if I let my god kids hold it. TR Arcee's head is a great rendition of her face while looking more like a transformer than a fembot. The partsforming, which I have no problem with, gives her a functional shield that looks pretty cool. The only way to make it better would have been to include a sword that sheathes into the shield piece since the accessories with the T30 mold are not 5mm compatible.

aronjlove wrote:I know everyone says TR Arcee is just another Blurr retool but I think it is the best one available and wish it were easier for others to get. I say that as someone who owns the T30 figure which feels... spindly? Like it could break if I let my god kids hold it. TR Arcee's head is a great rendition of her face while looking more like a transformer than a fembot. The partsforming, which I have no problem with, gives her a functional shield that looks pretty cool. The only way to make it better would have been to include a sword that sheathes into the shield piece since the accessories with the T30 mold are not 5mm compatible.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Oh, that's hardly fair Kanrabat. TR Arcee is made from the most slender TR mold (one that even basically has high heels because of the foot design), was retooled to have more slender upper arms, and was allowed to have Arcee's actual face and be pink. And hey, it makes Headmaster Arcee (supported by canon before the Legends comic) a reality.

Mindmaster wrote:Wish there was a second wave of Deluxes with a real Starscream...

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Wish there was a second wave of Deluxes with a real Starscream...

Wish possibly granted:

Deluxe Starscream
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-hasbro-Tra-Cyberverse-Deluxe-Starscream/102569610?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff

Deluxe Prowl
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-hasbro-Tra-Cyberverse-Deluxe-Prowl/985823083?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff

Deluxe Soundwave
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-hasbro-Tra-Cyberverse-Deluxe-Soundwave/859888439?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Oh, wow, that backpack. Yikes.

Hasbro. Guys. It's okay to integrate car parts into Arcee's robot mold. She can have car shins or car part arms. Even Hot Rod has car parts on his shins most of the time.

william-james88 wrote:However, while Shockwave was a tank, here Iaconus is ... something else? It's not clear. You'll let us know what you think that alt mode is.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:However, while Shockwave was a tank, here Iaconus is ... something else? It's not clear. You'll let us know what you think that alt mode is.

*looks at photo*

Huh?

*enlarges photo for a closer look*

Oh. OOOH! It's a starship.

That's a very bad publicity photo. We're seeing the ship from behind with a view of the thrusters in the back.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:However, while Shockwave was a tank, here Iaconus is ... something else? It's not clear. You'll let us know what you think that alt mode is.

*looks at photo*

Huh?

*enlarges photo for a closer look*

Oh. OOOH! It's a starship.

That's a very bad publicity photo. We're seeing the ship from behind with a view of the thrusters in the back.

So the knees are a dual cockpit?

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Dear Hasbro: You do realize that publicity photos are supposed to make your products look good, yes?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Dear Hasbro: You do realize that publicity photos are supposed to make your products look good, yes?

That memo was lost in the mail since at least 35 years!

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Dear Hasbro: You do realize that publicity photos are supposed to make your products look good, yes?

That memo was lost in the mail since at least 35 years!

Nah, the catalog photos from the '80s look good and they had it at least as recently as 2009. They extra had it in 2005 - remember how dressed-up the Cybertron publicity pics were?

Emerje wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Oh, wow, that backpack. Yikes.
Hasbro. Guys. It's okay to integrate car parts into Arcee's robot mold. She can have car shins or car part arms. Even Hot Rod has car parts on his shins most of the time.

It's especially annoying when, unlike T30 Arcee, this Arcee has big square legs and big square forearms ideal for integration. Hasbro simply took the easy way out and made one of the purest shellformers we've seen since Age of Extinction.
Emerje

Sabrblade wrote:You know, with the news of another wave of Deluxes, I wonder who the next build-a-figure could be. I would imagine it would be someone in the show who doesn't have a toy yet, who couldn't be made from simply redecoing/retooling an existing mold, and who isn't too big to scale with the rest of the normal-sized bots (as in, not Croaton).

Alphastrike would be a cool option, and would give us another fembot. Though, while not gigantic, she still might be too big.

Astrotrain would probably be too big, too.

Or, hey, maybe it's the Quintesson Scientist! He'd be doable as a BAF.

Sabrblade wrote:You know, with the news of another wave of Deluxes, I wonder who the next build-a-figure could be. I would imagine it would be someone in the show who doesn't have a toy yet, who couldn't be made from simply redecoing/retooling an existing mold, and who isn't too big to scale with the rest of the normal-sized bots (as in, not Croaton).

Alphastrike would be a cool option, and would give us another fembot. Though, while not gigantic, she still might be too big.

Astrotrain would probably be too big, too.

Or, hey, maybe it's the Quintesson Scientist! He'd be doable as a BAF.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:You know, with the news of another wave of Deluxes, I wonder who the next build-a-figure could be. I would imagine it would be someone in the show who doesn't have a toy yet, who couldn't be made from simply redecoing/retooling an existing mold, and who isn't too big to scale with the rest of the normal-sized bots (as in, not Croaton).

Alphastrike would be a cool option, and would give us another fembot. Though, while not gigantic, she still might be too big.

Astrotrain would probably be too big, too.

Or, hey, maybe it's the Quintesson Scientist! He'd be doable as a BAF.

Are we certain there is a BAF component this time around?

Sabrblade wrote:less product for the same price.

lowman_x wrote:Only the toy has a reflection. The kid is a vampire.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Either you or ARCTIC_STORM is getting Wreckloose...


...mixed up with Undermine:



...Aaaand now I'm wanting an Undermine-colors redeco of TR Deluxe Repugnus. Goddamnit, brain!

-Kanrabat- wrote:Skywarp is female in Cyberverse.

After Splitstream and female Starscream in the French dub of the 1986 TF Movie, I think that the Seekers can gender-swap with absolutely no problem. And without changing body type that much if at all too!

Sabrblade wrote:First reaction: Holy snap, we're getting toys of all those Monsterbots/Energon Masters?!!!!

*rewatches episode*

Second reaction: Aw man, none of those decos in that set match with any of the Monsterbots/Energon Masters seen onscreen. Unless their names are given somewhere on the box, they're all just generics. No Repugnus, Stinkus, Coolus, Hippus, Raddus, Operatus, Affluous, Fabulous, or Teknicus.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Skywarp is female in Cyberverse.

After Splitstream and female Starscream in the French dub of the 1986 TF Movie, I think that the Seekers can gender-swap with absolutely no problem. And without changing body type that much if at all too!

Nova Storm and (most of the time) Acid Storm are female in Cyberverse too (I say "most of the time" since there were a few shots in Season 1 where Acid Storm was rendered with a male Seeker design instead of the female one that she had more often and ultimately settled on in Season 2).

And so is Cosmos.

Bounti76 wrote:
As I understood, Acid Storm was genderfluid, so that's why they switched between male and female. At least, that's what the writers said (to cover the animation inconsistencies).

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:
As I understood, Acid Storm was genderfluid, so that's why they switched between male and female. At least, that's what the writers said (to cover the animation inconsistencies).

I hope it was tongue-in-cheek sarcasm from the writers because genuinely pandering to the woke fringe never end well.

I'm still curious how Starscream (and Ratchet) would have been written if they were female since day one in G1? Would Ratchet have become a "sexy nurse"? Would Starscream still be a schemer, a coward, and Megatron's punching bag?

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Ratchet would probably have been a battleax nurse considering the character is named after Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Ratchet would probably have been a battleax nurse considering the character is named after Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

I would so love to see that. Cold, austere, dry, and mean woman who is too old to deal with this sh!t. A bit like Animated Ratchet, but meaner. Of course, she would be best doctor and always mean well in the end despite her awful attitude.

ZeroWolf wrote:So a female House then?