Legacy Blitzwing: My Black Black Heart Burns 

I like how Astrotrain came out around 2 to 3 years ago and the articulation, transformation, looks, and alt modes style Blitzwing. Even the extras they included to justify leader class were better because it was more like a mini armory for other figures than himself.

It feels like every time this figure does something right, it follows it up by doing twice as many things wrong

This is the best R.E.D Figure yet, I like how you can make it kinda look like both his alt modes, it's quite cool, could make an actual great chug Blitzwing that transformed and all! All it would take is a bit of retooling.

I don’t think you understand how disappointed I am, this was the most anticipated figure for me ON PAPER. Blitzwing is my favorite decepticon design wise

G1 Blitzwing had 2 balling alt modes and a robot mode that took the hit to make the vehicle modes good. This figure took that and flipped it, giving us a killer robot mode with two suffering alt modes.

I loved the pure sheer rage during the tank mode

That scratched deception logo looks absolutely awesome looks like it's battle Damage

Even the compromises of the Titans' Return jet mode are pretty cool. The Soviets had a number of ground attack or interceptor aircraft armed with big Nudelman autocannons - the most famous being the MiG-15 - so Blitzwing having a massive gun pod under the fuselage is exaggerated but fits in with his real world counterparts.

Honestly I love the big stupid hulk hands it just feels like something Blitzwing would use like I can hear his voice just saying shit like “time to smash some Autobots into scrap metal” or and my personal favorite “Allow me to lend you a hand Autobot” it’s just fun ya know. I also really hope we get the remaining three Tripple changers soon

I'm getting this. I love how each mode looks, I like the sword and guns (not those fist though), and the Transformations looks amazing. I don't care about "show accurate" or anything like that, I get those that look and transform well and this one has done that.

You're review has convinced me that if I want this figure, to wait for it to go on clearance. Thank you PerspectiveEnd for your honest thoughts on Legacy Blitzwing. Keep on being amazing.

The old perspective is back! And congratulations to the winners of the contest.

This is going to be interesting one

I’ve been waiting for this review and you did not disappoint. Well done sir! So glad I’ve got the Takara version of the Titan’s Return mould.

10:55 "Fantastic. Now I don't have to rant about why they couldn't have made better figures right from the start"

I actually really like Blitzwing’s giant laser hand accessories. They’re soooo cool and they remind me of hand bosses that shoot lasers out of their fingers.

I personally am a fan of this figure, even with all its flaws I still think it’s a fun toy at the end of the day. However, I’m still such a big fan of your stuff, even if you are roasting a figure I like, I still laugh at the flaws that you point out. Keep up the good content!

My TR Blitzwing has a terrible QC issue where the legs can't collapse fully. It can still transform, but it causes both modes not to line up correctly. And even with that, it would not switch it for the new one

Got my hands on Sludge, and I cannot believe how each Dinobot keeps getting worse and worse. Grimlock was perfect on QC and nothing liked to pop off, then Slag is slightly loose and too tight in many areas and his back wings have a chance to pop off, plus he also has weird proportions. Now take Slags issues and double it as Sludge is a mess. Legs are very loos and barely keep him up, his wings are loose as hell and will pop off as soon as possible, proportions are worse in person than in the images with skinny arms and thick legs. Only decent thing about him is that his Dino Mode is amazing and the best part of him. Still get him if you want but Rodimus Unicronus needs to kill Sludge like in the POTP show and end his suffering as the worst Dinobot (so far)

Also I kinda like the giant fists. I like to put them in other figures like Vi’s Atlas Gauntlets from Arcane

I was not expecting that going into this review great review btw

ProspectiveEnd, I hope you enjoy the figure I recommended more than the “Leader Class” you just review. It so impressed me that I ordered the Mechanic Studios figure that preceded Thunderbolt in numbering scheme MS-27 Poison their take on a legends class G1 cartoon ver of Octane.

In my opinion the only thing keeping me from getting this is the price The figure looks okay, for a voyager, not a leader. The only reason this is a leader is the triple changing

Bang 'n' Burn with love to you and channel. Always a great time.

Oh power of the Prime's leaders why did I ever take you for granted?

I remember a while ago I asked you to review this figure. You didn't have it yet, but you did review it now. I'm kinda disappointed it isn't good

How to make it better 1. Get rid of the cockpit on the tank and make a flap to flip over that area 2. Flip in the boosters on the tank back 3. Try and compress the tank tread kibble into being part of the wings. 4. At least it’s better now

I would've waited an eternity for this..

Still so thankful for this video, because every time I look at my Siege Astrotrain, and think “man, should I get that Blitzwing to pair with him?” And get a good reminder why I haven’t gotten Blitzwing lol

I am having a bad day this made me feel better

I've been wondering if this figure is worth getting over the Titans Return, but after seeing this I think I'll save up for a tr blitzwing instead. Sweet review as always, I do miss the rage sometimes. (If anyone reading gets that reference, lol.)

I prefer the look of this guy than the Titan's return version. The reason why it's leader is due to engineering like Hot Rod being a voyager other than accessories

Thank God MechFansToys has that amazing blitzwing. Won't need ol' shlong tank here

One piece of articulation you missed is the waist, it turns.

I will give it this, it looks good standing next to Astrotrain on the shelf

While the venom is still fresh, did you know that up here in Canada Toys R Us is selling the new cliffjumper for the equivalent of 40usd when you you get tax in there?

As much as I love my toys being accurate to the G1 cartoon I wouldn’t mind some changes if it meant getting rid of that stupid cockpit in the front of the tank

Deep down, we're all doodle bears hoping to break free from our armor.

Gewalt with comfortably stay my go to Blitzwing. Having an actual jet mode helps.

I can’t believe the figure from the line with unnecessary head Gimmicks Is the definitive Blitzwing. I mean Megatron. I mean Blitzwing.

8:57 Not sure if the placement is intentional, but it looks like the Whippet is sad about the Jet Mode. And that's an adorable mental image.

Gotta say this has the worst accessory between voyager sized leader deceptions. Shockwave has armor that make him abit bigger, astrotrain has a coal tender that's also a launchpad. Gonna hope that the eventual octane doesn't have this.

Also the titans return one had a (pretty good) Megatron retool.

honestly the first two waves of legacy aren’t interesting to me. although if the rumors are true then i’ll probably get tarn and that’s it.

Oddly enough, the feet are what I would’ve wanted the ER Seeker mold to have, so that the alt mode could be accurate. It’d be equally inaccurate in robot mode, sure, but they wanted to give it heel support, so I think this design liberty would’ve worked better than what they actually went with.

Some already said this in the Emgo video about this guy, but if they would’ve engineered a way to make the tank kibble rotate so the middle of the tank would be a the back of the jet. This wouldn’t outright make the jet mode spectacular, but it would make it look more aerodynamic and cohesive.

I don't care what people say about the legacy blitzwing , I find it to be a great improvement over the titan and thrilling thirty blitzwing also the tank mode was all over the place in g1 cartoon because I have seen some scenes in the show where the nose of the jet sticks out like a sore thumb .

0:59 Bro looks goofy just standing there 🤣

Ideally I would transplant the Legacy Blitzwing head onto the TR body with some custom neck adaptor, but looks just a bit too wide to store in the titan master cockpits.

There’s only one blitzwing I like (in terms of character, design wise, they both are cool) that is animated blitzwing. I saw this guy in stores, and thought of picking it up, sadly I didn’t.

Hasbro pulse is selling this guy at clearance for 30 bucks right now. I also genuinely dont know what shade of purple this guy is supposed to be because some images seem to give it a lighter purple and others seem to give it a darker purple.

It looks better than i thought it would honestly. But there's so much compromise that really didn't need to be here. And a lot of it seems to lean towards "accurate to a fault" where they tried, or didn't at all, and failed on some fronts. The robot i like how it looks, but the other two modes i wish were better. At least the rest of wave 2 seems to be really good and blows this thing out of the water.

I actaully kind of want 2 other heads, so it can be like animated blitzwing, that would have been cool

One year later….those fists do nothing on Menisor, glad I spent money on Blitzwing thinking I needed the parts for the combiner.

I like how before this I just watched your opinion on him in another video

Actually titans return is more accurate due to the fact the original g1 toy before becoming blitzwing had the thrusters in the front and the cockpit in the back. The people drawing the show where just dumb when they transformed the figure.

This is blitzwing when he was gunning down beachcomber and warpath that one episode in G1 Because he doesn't have that tan part covering up his nose cone in that episode

I honestly don't understand how you see this being a shitty figure even after watching it. My only nitpicks of Legacy Blitzwing was that it was a Voyager+ figure and that it was G1 instead of Animated.

The jet cockpit in the front was a design error from the animation studio: it was supposed to go on the back while the "thrusters" stickers had to go on the front lmao The g1 box, instructions and even the diaclone version hide the cockpit on the back lmao

Funny thing, if you examined the G1 Blitzwing toy more clearly, you'll find out that it was backwards in media the whole time. The jet cockpit was supposed to be the back of the tank mode, but whoever did the lineart for the tank mode fumbled up so badly that most G1-styled Blitzwing tanks have that dingy cockpit slapped onto the front.

The ONLY good Thing about the fists is that u can make the joke that he has litteral finger guns

Not gonna lie, a tank chode isn't something that I was expecting to see here today. xD

I honestly was expecting the jet mode for Blitzwing to be goofy as hell before the leaks, but I was not expecting the tank to have an erection.

Awesome the real Perspective End came back with a vengeance! Anyways great review Perspective End!

This figure before this video: "YOU WANT HEAT!? I'll GIVE YOU HEAT! BRING IT ON!" (Insert Blitzwing's devastation theme here) afterwards: "I should have...just...stayed... a titan master...bleh... yeah I think I'll try the TR version instead

It would be so good if it was an upgraded TR Blitzwing (ankle tilts, sword wielding wrists, wrist/waist swivel) with the Takara Legends color scheme. And I’d love it if they changed the hands to random guns. Edit: THE HANDS PARTSFORM??!! I thought it was hinged similar to CW Devastator.

Part of me thinks that the entire reason the laser hand things exist were to tie into the "Energon monster" listing thing. If i had to guess, they were going to have pieces of it disguised as weapons included with a bunch of figures in the line and then have them combine together to form the energon monster.

You should check out Gei4Mei's video on this figure, he basically talks about how the cockpit came to be on the front of the tank on the original toy, and even the cartoon. It's just because the designers took Blitzwing's design from the Diaclone toy, but accidentally had the turret the wrong way around. And, they just went with it.

Great Video! FOr the JEt mode, i detatch the kibble and fold it out to kinda form a flight stand and i thjink it looks fine. I totally agree that the fists are stupid. I think that they should have charged voyager price and made more than usual because people may have bought more if it was voyager and no hands

Until you pointed it out, I did realized in the cartoon he had purple on the sides of his head.

Ngl the tank ding dong reminds me of the foot ding dong that masterpiece dinobot had in his beast mode But instead blitzwings being utterly distracting

What's funny is that the Titans return figure Parts forms the head when it didn't need to and this probably should have Parts formed the head

Your heart be like: Gimme fuel Gimme fire Gimme that which i desire, oough!

Did you know that the tank mode is even wrong in g1. The cockpit is supposed to be facing backwards. It's on the g1 transformation instructions on the box.

2:36-2:41 That's funny. I like his robot mode than the Titans return one, I think it looks amazing. I actually like the tank mode on the Legacy one better if It doesn't have the stupid cockpit. The Titans Return Jet mode is way better than the Legacy's one obviously. The Fists accecories are completely unnecessary. He's not worthy of the leader class price. I don't care about G1 accuracies, never was and never will. Anyway, great review.

I picked one up yesterday, examined it this morning. I could have written your script...

Fans:make a figure that doesn’t start controversy Hasbro:*aims revolver* I don’t think I will

I think that even though this figure is extremely comprised, if you can see past it it’s a solid figure. And while they are egregious, I still subjectively love it ngl.

I love the look of this so much better than the TR!

Robot mode; unassuming but subtly off Jet mode: least aerodynamic plane since TR Broadside... no, wait, that's an insult to Broadside Tank mode: Brings a whole new meaning to "cock"pit

i bought both figure brand new to compare how did they cost to make per figure and I found out that the the legacy figure 24% less than the titans retun

Its a great figure, people just dont like to be happy

I love this guy. One of my favorites of all since siege.

Funny enough, the on G1 toy the thrusters were actually meant to be on the front, making the G1 Show Tank innacurate with the toy, and therefore giving the Legacy version G1 accuracy, that's not even accurate to itself.

I love the titans return jet mode 😍 you can use the tank turret as a display stand which was unintentional but is basically the best feature of an already pretty cool toy

So this is unrelated to blitzwing, but some info to let you in on for 86 arcee. So mine arrived a little early. It isn’t in the instructions, but the lower part of her backpack is removable. It appears to be on a friction hinge, though you have to untransform her a little bit to get it easier. Just be careful removing it

Finally, a legacy figure that is actually not good.

The step in his Leg is to be G1 accurate

The worst part about the tank was with the original diaclone figure, the plane cockpit was on the back and I’m pretty sure the same transformation was with the original g1 toy too

I saw another review that pointed out the "g1" design in the cartoon was an animation error because they had the turret backwards. The plane nose was supposed to be in the back and the box art of the original toy shows that as well. They also noted that the kibble seemed to be sort of based on contrast art, where you are supposed to pretend the purple bits aren't there in tank mode and Grey bits aren't there in jet mode.

"integrated joints almost universally look wrong" I beg to differ, only bad example i can think of is Earthrise Optimus, while good are grimlock ss86, Bumblebee optimus studio series, siege Starscream

I wish Hasbro just scrapped the Energon hands, and used the leftover budget on adding more parts to the figure itself, making all of the modes look good!

This guy is currently rotting alone at my local Walmart Like nobody wants to pay full price for this guy

The whole reason for blitzwing having a cockpit in the dead center of his tank mode is the fact that when the diaclone toys where being brought from japan someone who worked on G1 mistransformed the diaclone figure that would become blitzwing cause the original fig had the cockpit at the back of the tank.

The last good Blitzwing sword we got was with the thrilling 30 figure everyone hates

Hasbro needs to bring back ultra class which was an in-between voyager and leader size class. It was a great way to get big high quality figures for a cheaper price than a leader.

Still getting it, if the transformations are good then I can put up with everything else

Can't wait to get this figure. Recently got the figures I needed from Wave 1. Now onto Wave 2.

Got it on sale for 37 dollars still feels like the giant hands are such a waste of plastics

Man. RU-vid seems like it really tries to makes it content creators miserable