Japanese blog アルフェス2010 have given us a full glimpse for the recently released Encore 18 Skids figure. Included are comparison pictures with a 2003 Commemorative Skids, and detailed images of the packaging, sticker sheet, robot and Honda Jazz modes.
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Foster
I'm looking forward to the Green and Orange repaints of Skids/Crosscut! I'll pick the Encore version if I see him on sale down the road, maybe at Botcon. I have the TFC version and just got Crosscut.
lieutenantjazz
This looks sick, a DEFINITE BUY!
ninety
^ My avatar would like a word with you
I never had Skids as a kid, but picked up the TRU reissue for £8.50 at this year's Auto Assembly. Despite having pretty much no articulation apart from arms up, arms down, I like him, he has a certain charm.
He didn't feature much in the cartoon, but got more love in the comic. He featured prominently in a few stories, most notably involving RAAT, and at one point battling Ravage to save his kinda (human) girlfriend (I may not be remembering that quite correctly).
blackjkb
this will be a sweet fig!
Stormcrow
Never had this figure. Actually, I really dont even remember ever seeing it before. Looks like a pretty nice G1 figure. Unfortunatly, I'm not at all interested. I want to be, but I'm just not.
GAUGE
PASS
I have never liked this toy.
LifePincher
Same here. Traded a loose BT Alt Hound for a MISB TRU Skids+cash, here on the forum. Good deal though, but what an UGLY bot! I'm all for G1, but that is one of the bots that's on my shit list!
DecepticonSpike
Hopefully I'll get him. i never had him as a kid.
Acteon
I've always loved Skids, he's awesome. Already have 2 though (original and US reissue).
Well worth picking up in my opinion – nice, unique design.
Incesticon
Everyone seems to transform his arms wrong. They look a lot better if you turn the wheels around to face backwards and then raise his shoulders up and twist his fists around. Makes the toy look a lot better…
Smokescreen
He looks pretty cool. I might pick him up.
convoymagnus
I do not like the front wheels to be "protruding" off the sides, this is something hasbro did with the conmmemorative reissue maybe to reinforce the plastic ring that attaches the arm to the body. TFCollection skids has this deffect just half the way but hasbro really blew it, and now Takara is just using the same mold for the encore.
Anyway, nice figure to acquire if you do not have one, I already have two TFC so this one is a sure…pass!
Batman
He looks nice, but not enough to warrant me to pick up another one.
PoweredConvoy
Well technically he's a Honda Jazz Luzern which is a Honda City.
File:Honda Jazz Luzern 1980.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
SOUNDBLASTER-TFNZ
Just another SKID in the dirt
RedAlert Rescue
Well to people beat me to it but I was going to mention he's not a Honda Jazz too.
I did notice that the variation of the mold as seen in the E-hobby remold and normal skids and also the new Mudflap and Skids homages not only have different heads they also are slightly different in the carmode -one's got a bulge in the bonnette (hood) that the other one lacks.
So one is a Turbo and one isn't.
PoweredConvoy
Honda City Turbo to be precise.
Randy
Dys
I prefer the old Windshield colour, otherwise looks good, shame about the lack of the scooter, though. The frontpage is wrong, he's a Honda City, not a Honda Jazz.
frilly toothpick
looks o.k.