Headcanon: The brothers’ swords act as heatsinks for their firearms, which work like _ULTRAKILL’s_ Overheat Nailgun. It can build up enough heat and expend it for a barrage of whatever each weapon fires.
Looks grand! Would LOVE to see the 1992 Skyquake colours with a new head sculpt! Then to justify the head, repaint that retool as Machine Wars Starscream 🎉 Reckon you'd quad dip on it Gav? ...... That sounded gross sorry 😂
Great review as always. Honestly I’ve seen some digibashes of this mold as a Jet Elita 1 and now I can’t help but have a soft spot for it even if I’m not a prime fan. Good to see that Legacy continues to be fantastic.
These two have always been on my radar (like a plane's radar) as something that would be neat to get, even if I can go to the local Smyth's toys and get Skyquake for £35 while he's still there. But something about 'em I'm not quite sure about plunging into getting them right away. Now if they made a new retool to look like G1 Skyquake/Scrash more so (and maybe make a Thunderclash figure to compliment him), then I'd most certainly jive with that toy more so!
As far as Prime as series is concerned, I find it a bit overated, but some characters desighn wise, were quite nice. Whitch include Skyquake and Dredwing. And as for the Needlenose add-on, I heard that at some point, Hasbro plans to do G2 Dredwing and Smokescrean. So yea, we shall see how often this mold will see use.
I have a feeling that this mold is probably going to be repainted into his proper G2 color scheme in a 2-pack with a Needlenose repainted as one of the Euro-G1 Predators since the combining gimmic is a reference to the original toys
I really do appreciate twin characters being one myself so it's always nice to see them pop up now and again. Now is most of they time they are just slight repaints of each other, yeah but if I don't want to buy it twice I know someone who will be willing to buy the other one.
I saw the original concept art for these figures where the jet cockpit became the chest, the body was more blocky, and the alt mode was supposedly going to be a more traditional fighter jet; but the designers decided against it. I think I would have preferred that over what we got, though it wouldn't have worked as a Machine Wars Starscream at that point. I'm glad people are enjoying these figures though.
Got Skyquake off eBay for like $48 USD last week. I love his color scheme. There was a Dreadwing at my local Walmart, just sticking around, like when ya gonna take me home tightwad? Well, went to Walmart yesterday to pick up a script, and decided to check on the ol' boy, and lo, and behold he was on rollback for $27, so I said don't mind if I do. I agree, there's literally no difference in transportation that I noticed. I thought I liked Skyquake's color scheme more, but now I'm not so sure (love that blood red accent, and royal guard decipticon symbol on Dreadwing's wing) Either way, glad I have them both, and while almost identical... there's just something about each of them that makes them feel distinctly different somehow.
"If you're the type of person who likes to switch their transformers between modes, you can do that!" Wait, wait....hold up. You mean I can actually transform my transformers?! Thanks Gav! You've just unlocked a whole new level of play with my figures. Until today, they've just been standin' around on my shelves. They look fabulous, to be sure, but now they'll look even better!
My favourite power bottoms!!! Gavin when you said 'belter' you reminded of the song we play at work. I love this mould sm. I got Skyquake as a stand in for the Predator. Now, why do I, a 19 year old, care about the Preds? Cool ain't they. But when I was a kid I always thought that TFP was just TFA with a different look because I was in year 4? I think. Now lok at me, crying that we got TFP instead of s4 for TFA
I pre-ordered Skyquake, but cut him from the final order as I didn't want to spend too much money on plastic robots.. Especially not ones that I've never really seen the source material. I love TFP's designs, but the only one I've gotten was Bulkhead in Legacy.
Nice video! I always admire your ability to make videos both frequently AND in high quality. I feel the same about Needlenose. I just bought one, but haven't yet removed it from the box. It actually took me YEARS to give Prime a go, because I blamed it for the cancellation of Animated. But now here I am, the 19th or possibly 20th biggest fan of the show (but not as much on the toys).
I had the Machine Wars Starscream version of the original. It was a neat transformation, but I felt it lacked something. I guess Hasbro "cheapened" the release for later releases. These new versions look great. Great review of some great Transformers!
There is a design change that was made on the figure that made it impossible to collapse the backpack correctly, and that's why it doesn't work and it's ugly. Look on youtube on how to fix that, there is like 3 different solutions of different difficulty, but it changes radically the backpack and improves also other aspects of the figure, making it more solid
Dreadwing's sale price tempted me, but i'm holding out to see if the designers really have a G1 repaint in the cards. Maybe the designers snuck a big goofy scope into the molds that's just been gated away this whole time. Also, did you see the fan mode for the alternate torso? Looked kind of interesting.
Prime is like a whatever show and only really gets good at its last season. This toy is really-really good though! (I couldn’t connect these thoughts to each other!)
These do look much better than the original but I still think the OG has the sexiest bot mode with its slimmer build and only an APC’s version will make me replace my headless dreadwing
I definitely need Dreadwing. I can pass on SkyQuake because he died after like 10 minutes. Dreadwing was actually a main character who had a bit of a role. Absolutely tragic death though.
Is there a variant of Skyquake in G1 colours? There should be, you know Hasbro love to make money for old rope. Good toy though, good review - Keep Bitsocketin'
I don't hate the backpack. BUT I hate that Hasbro completely missed steps in their instructions on how to transform it correctly. Did Dreadwing's instructions get the steps added? Haven't gotten him so I have no clue.
I wanna get these guys, dreadwings been my boy ever since i was a kid but for more than 100 dollars idk man. And i know if i get 1 imma want both. At least i got the beast hunters fig, kinda wacky with the bird feet but its nostalgic for me
I think I'd like skyquake more if the backpack weren't so annoyingly fiddly, he looks good and so does dreadwing but I don't think I could bring myself to go in on another one unless the price was reduced
I fucking hate Transformers Prime. So much happens and yet nothing matters. Something like that. I remember pretending to like it at the time and then waking up. This Skyquake is very good though.
These things are to expensive for me to believe in myself, I'll continue to put my beliefs in believing in you big man... Thanks as always, Gavin!!! ( here's one more lick from me...)
