Thanks to fellow board member, BattleUpSaber, we have a new pic of TAV Stepper! This image was found on TF-TF’s Twitter Page, you can also see the image here. According to the description, the picture came from a catalog packaged with the toys, and that Stepper will use the TAV Jazz mold, feature a more G1 head sculpt, and will be packaged with a TAV Sideswipe.
So what do you think of this figure?
Join the discussion after the jump!
Stepper
I will passed on Jazz & get this Stepper
Autovolt 127
You could just give the Sideswipe away to charity.
OMG.
He has a visor. yup sold.
payres
Direct Link with clearer pictures
dardmc
Already listed on amazon japan
http://http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=sr_pg_2?rh=k%3Aトランスフォーマー%2Cn%3A13299531&page=2&keywords=トランスフォーマー&ie=UTF8&qid=1440952357
DarkWarGrimlock
I'd love to get Stepper, but my girlfriend and I each have a Hasbro RiD Sideswipe plus a Clash of the Transformers one. This would be our fourth Sideswipe, three being mostly the same deco. I'm cool with repaints, but not this many of the same character.
OriginalFire
Seems like he will be pretty cool. Some of these RID figures are looking pretty cool
SunSwipe5
I don't know what some of you are expecting out of a toyline geared towards kids. Stepper looks good for the toyline he's being presented in.
This isn't Masterpiece, a custom piece or one of the plethora of 3rd parties. It's just a kids toyline.
I preordered this set and a few other sets, to have RID represented in my collection.
Johntimus Prime
I actually rather like this. Since previous Steppers/Ricochets were all ludicrously rare club/convention exclusives, I may grab him.
NemiMonkey
Wow that deco does not work on that figure at all. Seriously can't tell if they gave him a visored head or if they just painted the visor over his eyes.
Autovolt 127
Ok Stepper's deco makes Jazz looks good honestly.
Thundershot
My logic is that Roadblock only came with one Targetmaster. I see no reason why they couldn't give the other one to Stepper. Not the end of the world, but it'd have been nice. I never bought TAV Sideswipe, because I knew he'd be available with this.
Robogeek28
I'll wait for better pics before deciding whether or not to keep my preorder.
Mudslide
Cool. If the two pack was that Drift and Stepper, I'd preorder it in a heart beat. Shame.
MartyFeeb
I think the point of the [crappy] two-packs is to sell you TWO bad toys. Cause the RID line is mostly cheap feeling, so it's hard to get excited about any of this. I like the idea of Stepper, but I loathe it has to be an RID mold. This is almost as bad as a Titan Stepper. Or maybe just do a papercraft to keep the TM and make everyone angrier!
No, you're right, and he looks pretty boss:
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Mudslide
Neat. Jazz is one of the only good molds to come out of this line. Wasn't there a white comic-inspired Drift announced or am I misremembering something again?
Gryph
Might want to make a slight alteration to the front page. It's not a "more G1 head sculpt." It's just the RiD head sculpt with the visor down.
Shin Densetsu
Looks good but this is a missed opportunity to include a Targetmaster or even a PCC Minicon.
Raiju
Hopefully Stepper does come with a new head but the blue visor is looking decent. Alt mode looks pretty good. Bot mode…. I dunno.
I feel the same way with Sideswipe, the TAV version of whom I just cracked open the other day. I am just not digging the ten-steps-backward regression in engineering with the new RID toys compared with what came before (First Edition, PRID, Arms Micron, even Beast Hunters – seeing how NuRID is technically a sequel to TF Prime). My Swipes' shoulders won't even tab securely into his chest plate, resulting in floppy arms. Car mode is solid though and does look pretty, admittedly, but the bot modes. SMH.
GizmoTron
It's a shame that all of the nice repaints TakaraTomy is putting out are only available in 2 packs. I would like Stepper, but that Sideswipe mold is pretty awful no matter how well they paint him.
NamelessOne
Yeah, same feeling here.
Doesn't help that he comes with a no-change-Sideswipe, who I already tracked down the Takara release of (and paid through the nose to get the TRU exclusive version as well off eBay)…
The white shoulders look too bright / big as well against the black… Unless more detailed pics make this look better, might be cancelling my preorder….