Hasbro Please STOP Using This Ugly Gray |  

Besides that gray, Hasbro did an amazing job on this. It doesn't even look like cyclonus

The sword on the jet helps spread out the gray a bit more so it looks more incorporated than disruptive.

pretty cool design overall but only thing he’s missing is a whole pint of paint😀

So with the knee problem, it's probably mold degradation. I never had the original kingdom mold but apparently that wasn't a problem. I got the gen selects and have the same problem, or we have similar qc

Honestly the best part about the way his wrists fold in is that you can sort of fake a sword wielding wrist like 86 grimlock. Not well, but it works

4:46 bet you if they made it longer it would have to be rubber like blitzwing

They're giving out Metalhawks like candy at this point

I agree on the gray, I wish they'd gone more toy accurate and used a darker gray, but if you look at scenes from Masterforce, he's got this light gray/"silver" color, so I get the concept of using it. But yeah, it always looks bad and kinda cheap.

Was pretty excited to get his guy so quick and I too haven't even gotten my Tarn yet! Nor scraphook....but metalhawk is a pretty nice figure.

Grandparent reveal! 1:50

How the hell do people already have this but I haven't found shit past wave ONE of legacy anywhere in a 50 mile radius.

Everybody's gota be somwhere -Cyclonus

I don't have a HUGE issue with that gray but on an unpainted series of accessories it's not good. Those needed paint, badly.

I had no clue this was cyclonus WOW they did a great job of changing the mold

Ayy we finally get Metalhawk also yeah your right about that intro XD Well looking forward to getting this guy.

gw gray is darker

Great review! Thank you! This is a great remould of Cyclonus, but yeah, I'm with you. Not just on Boring Grey, either. I wish they'd also stop using varying shades of Earwax when they're trying to represent gold. Doesn't need to be Vac-Metal Gold, or Nnostalgic Swirly GPS Glitter Gold, or anything like that, but just something more metallic than what we've been getting with Black Zarak and Metalhawk and so on. Hello, That Toy Guy's Grandparents!

I really don't mind the gray, and it doesn't actually look like Games Workshop gray (which is quite a bit darker). I really like this bot, and this together with Twincast have been two of the rare bright spots in a tsunami of meh when it comes to recent CHUG figures imo. A very good use of the Cyclonus mold, which in my opinion may very well have been the best voyager or the entire War for Cybertron line. He has the same very solid, quality plastic feel that Cyclonus had, and I honestly find both of their transformations extremely satisfying. I kept Kingdom Cyclonus on my desk as a fidget toy for the past two years, and Metalhawk has now replaced him. Even though I'm slowly backing out of the CHUG collecting scene because I feel like too many corners have been getting cut the past year or so, I'm glad we've been getting some of the more obscure characters lately, and quite a bit of JG1: Black Zarak, Galaxy Shuttle, Twincast, Minerva, and Metalhawk? Sign me up!

I would never have expect seeing that konjac shuang on a transformers review video. One of the best snacks among me and my friends back in China.

I’m guessing you can count this as it’s own mold,like Cranckcase.

I'm so stoked to get my hands on one!! Might have to take him off my pulse order to get here quicker!

2:13 YOU COULD CUT STEEL WITH THAT BEARD

I gotta wonder why they screwed up the fore arms if it wasn't to make the arm bend look better

tbh this guy doesn’t quite work the magic like cyclonus did for me. he’s got a much more conventional g1 style than the very dery look of cyclonus, he loses a lot of the sleekness of the original. i think something like lego’s colour for silver plastic wouldve helped a lot, the grey is clearly meant to feel like silver but it’s not metallic enough. same for the yellow, i think he needed to be more golden. the lack of metallic plastic on a guy called metalhawk is a real tragedy.

People from Russia only had a few copies of LEGACY BULKHEAD (also there were few ss core class and lift ticket). So consider yourself lucky, if you got figure few days after it's announcement

Can anyone clarify what he means by games workshop grey? Grey as in the warhammer plastic or the citadel paints? Since I've never seen a games workshop mini comes in that colour.

What stand do you use for holding up the figures? I do stop motion and my current one sucks because it doesn't hold the weight of most of my transformers

Your grandfather has an awesome beard and mustache

I'm honestly surprised hasbro and takara did think to retool/remold cyclonus into Deapthcharge like that 3rd party company did

I'm shocked as I got Tarn almost 2 months ago. Didn't even realize he was available as most places still show him as a pre-order. I pre-ordered Tarn from Hasbro Pulse so that might make a difference.

Honestly, id love this to be redone into a mainline star saber, bulk up the shoulders + add pylons, retool the cockpit (dare i say allow star sabres helmet to be removable and parts form into the cockpit).

Just found him this morning, if it weren’t for the transformation joints you would have an impossibly hard time convincing me this was a retool

3:57 Hello there

Hopefully toy hax makes a sticker set with alot of purple

Great review That Toy Guy!!!! Metalhawk looks like he might rival Tarn in being the best Evolution voyager class figure. :D Keep on being amazing.

Please let your grandparents know that they're cute, and I love them.

Its nice. But I can't get past the grey and yellow.

Man just got revealed like two weeks ago, and it’s out in Canada.

I see you have SS 44 now, I'd like to see a review of it. :)

Wish the accessories had a bit of paint 🎨

How the hell does this thing show up in Canada but wave 2 of regular Legacy not show up at my local Walmart? It's still being clogged by Arcee and Kickback.

So they turn the hand forward instead of backward like cyclonus

What you don't have Tarn? we don't have any of the stuntacons

They could easily turn this mold into a new seeker. But they would never do anything like that. That may almost be to easy

I was very eager to get this because of how nice the alt-mode looks but I have zero recognition for Metalhawk as a robot and I really don't like how the robot looks, so getting this for only the alt-mode feels...like something I should avoid. So I'll avoid it. But the alt-mode DOES look very good (yes, apart from that gray, I so agree with you there, Toy Guy). I feel Apeface should have used this alt-mode, it would have looked very good for him, instead of him being such a huge flying brick (which hurt me so much that I didn't get the robot at all, but I kinda regret it). I also liked Cyclonus a lot, and his transformation was and is awesome, at least to me.

i gotta say i am not a fan of that color scheme. Im not against an eye-wateringly bad color scheme, i love jihaxus, but jihaxus owns his awful colors in a way that metalhawk just... doesn't. he looks kinda KO to my eyes

I just got one today on sale at target and I shall be following your friend with painting my copy and the knee is crappy my cyclonus dosent Do this

ever since i saw the pics for this figure, the first thing that came to my mind was that legacy metalhawk looks like an outdated prime wars figure to me. which is ironic because there already is a prime wars figure that exists i believe. but yeah, something about the toy looks like one to me. maybe it the mustard yellow on the chest and head. and the busy look of the alt mode. i dunno, something about the alt just screams cheap in my eyes. and yeah, the games workshop grey looks just awful on him and shouldve been a silver. maybe its just me, idk.

Your Grandfather being quiet and just watching your grandmom eating snacks is strangely hilarious lol

You should do a review on the transformers prime rumble figure

I managed to order tarn at retail price from blue u toys, even got here a day early. No idea if they ship to canada tho, might be something to look into

the gray makes everything look like an early prototype or something you made with a 3D printer

Agreed Hasbro needs to lose the grey already. Looks like prototype plastic. My biggest complaint about Galvatron though it may have been a shade darker than here. Other that really good looking figure in both modes. Also waiting for Tarn from BBTS. Looks like an amazing figure, and not much really catches my eye these days.

Umm excuse me I’m a collector too but I’m a teenager so it’s not just adults it’s teenagers too

This and Skyquake are the two most interesting figures shown off recently.

Holy fucknuckles you’re friend’s paint job looks awesome!

Im gonna paint the gray darker on my copy

I'm shocked this is a cyclonus retool!!!!

I originally hated the jet mode but now I see that it's the colors that suck. I'm gonna get this guy & repaint the jet mode. It could actually look awesome if painted properly. That big gray chunk is just as bad looking as the Bumblebee movie Thundercracker.

Calling this grey "games workshop grey" is an insult to games workshop grey.

They should also stop using solid neon colors without any panel lining or wash. It's way too oversaturated and Bland looking like someone just spilled paint on it

Not going to get him seems bad I’ll keep my cyclones as my version of that mold and the trigger happy remold/color of him also

You know, even as a Masterforce fan, I don't hugely mind the gray on his body. The sword, though. The sword NEEDS to be silver.

I need to go up there

Good points

I'm not against the gray, but if i could have the option of the gray being replaced with a more anime accurate white, I'd rather have that.

ngl I don't mind the gray, but I hate this mold ngl, I am skipping this toy for the factor of thinking my issues with the mold would not be solved. Also I am generally dissappointed that they didn't take some of the armor aspects into the figure. ngl I think a new mold where this was a Deluxe at a Voyager price point could have been cool as likely you would have had more accessories with two specifically in mind for me: His Blue helmet and his chest plate, aspects that would be able to be taken off but transformed with them on or well maybe not the helmet. Also he would have had a paint budget. Ngl I can see it already, he turns into the sort of small seeker jet but transforms in a way to where realistically he could have been made into Leader 1 from Gobots. The transformation would likely have like the nose cone get folded into the backwith the sort of intakes being apart of the armor and the inner robot. The armor idea would have two configurations: Sheild and armor. In armor mode the armor sits atop the chest and is supposed to look like the robot shell of Metalhawk, while in Sheild mode it compresses downin the area that would be the chest region so the back being the panel for an arm connection, giving Metalhawk that even more gundamy feel. The Intake region on the chestplate would also have storage for the sword that would really only make sense in robot mode lol. Plus you would have the option of him having his pistols and his rifle too in this mold idea with the only thing being hard to engineer in my mind being the helmet: The helmet would slide on with the hooks of the sort of ear panels being used to keep the helmet on via friction, it has one transformation idea being the flip out of the horn and where it plugs in on the jet mode would likely be the leg region as it would be the safest spot to put it. lest you overcomplicate the toy, alternatively have it hand of to the side. With this idea, you can remold this to also become Leader One or maybe having it be remolded for the sort of off seeker mold that is Falcon of the Predators, alternatively do what Legacy does and give Overcast a G1 design through it as he is a Movie Comic character based on the Movie 1 toyline scientist. Also before someone asks: my issues are mainly in the transformation with how the chest and the legs work with the top turn around bit mixed with how the legs collapse, it just feels like there could have been a way they could have done it differently where it would have been better.

Honestly, it'd be easy to repaint those grey parts- grey is easy enough to see, so it'd be easy to not mess it up

Saw 2 of these guys at target. Both heads were ripped off.

im defo picking him up

The best part of this review was the grandparents cameo

Dude your grandpa’s beard and stach are epic

If I ever get him I'm gonna paint the gray with silver

Where the eff is Tarn?

Totally irrelevant with the review, but your Grandpa looks awesome with that beard!

Is there a rock band called Metal Hawk, I feel like there should be.

This is the new ' environment friendly'' series! Less plastic in packaging and less paint

While I wish the grey was darker, I honestly don’t mind it that much.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates that kind of gray plastic.

As a fellow Canadian where and how did you get this?

Just wanna say, your grandfather has a wicked beard!

Well for you it was roughly 50 dollars, but over here in America it’s around 34.99 USD (it’s kind of funny how every year the prices for Voyagers and Leaders from the start of Siege have just progressively gone up by 1 dollar every year) so I’d say it’s worth it for that price. I still won’t be picking it up, not because it’s not a good figure, but because I’m a decepticon and hate those filthy Autobots.

Haveng watched the video, isnt that. A cyclonus retool

"Who's heard of metalhawk?" People who watched the god masterforce anime😅

METALHAWK: You're no cyclone CYCLONUS: You're no metal or a hawk

Two words: Panel Lining. I bought a pen that can do that, and I'm going to give him those details when I finally get him

Wait that’s gray, it looks white, maybe it’s my phone or how it shows up on camera

The gray on Metalhawk works tbh

I'm normally the guy who doesn't have a problem with flat grey, but the stinky translucent grey they used here is pretty icky.

Cyclonus boring?! Yeah prob not

Yeah, this grey always looks cheap. It's why I never got Titans Return Megatron back in the day (dodged a bullet tbh). But every time I see them use this grey, I just say WHYYYYYYYYYYY??? What purpose does it serve? I guarantee they're at most, saving two cents. Which I guess is why they use it. But it's absolutely horrible. Better than the grey vinyl they used on Apeface, but it's BARELY a step up.

But the hose

RAINBOW DASH COOKIES?!!?

oh i did not know you were Indian !!!! so glad to see you having fun with your grandparents.😇

ah yes, "rancid milk gray" the ugliest transformers color

Your grandparents are so wholesome

Cyclones is not bland

I've heard of guyhawk, not metalhawk lol

Gunmetal Gray

Your grandfather has a killer mustache