Amazon Japan has updated their entry for the Transformers Legends Starscream Super Mode – aka Transformers Armada Thundercracker – with some higher-resolution versions of the images we saw earlier this week. These high-res, watermark-free images give us a good look at the good work Takara-Tomy is doing of this redeco, which represents the powered-up form Starscream adopted in the final arc of Transformers Armada (complete with his post-transformation exclamation of “I look like Thundercracker”, a nod to how Hasbro made the deco as a new character like the original Thundercracker, but the animation company and Takara decided to use it for a powered up Starscream rather than add another robot to the lineup).
Check out the images after the break!
ShellyJ
dogfight?
Has anyone noticed the similarity to g1 dogfight?
PoweredConvoy
The TCC is making Armada Skywarp and Universe Ramjet.
Randy
Raiyuki
These new pictures are actually making me like the figure a bit less. I get that TT wanted to be show accurate, but I REALLY hate when they go to the length of replacing black with grey.
This is why I personally don't care for light piping and why I don't mind paint over it.
Hanzkaz
Hope we get more of these Seekers.
WhiteMocha
Boy, another figure like Slipstream with the entire back half of the head made transparent, huh? That seems like kind of a steep aesthetic price to pay for slightly-improved lightpiping.
I mean, it doesn't make me regret ordering the figure, or anything. I still think he looks terrific overall, and is by far my favorite deco for this design/mold. I'm just slightly puzzled by this new transparent-head trend. Do people really care about lightpiping that much? I think I'd just as soon have the head and eyes fully painted.
TacticalBacon
Tagoal also posted his images:
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Sirtank
I got a shipping notice for mine from amiami this morning. It cost about $30 after EMS shipping. I really need to decide if I'm going to sign up for the fan club to grab Ramjet and Skywarp. I also wish I had bought the Takara version of Starscream. It makes the Hasbro version look pretty crappy.
Autovolt 127
Definitely the definitive version of this mold.
Exinferis
Nice new piccies! Mine's waiting for me along with MP Ironhide, but I can't afford to pay for them until Tuesday. Then there's the loooong wait for it to arrive. Urgh. I'll have to go and distract myself with something else. *Goes to check tracking of latest Mandarake purchase*
The Kup
The more I look at this images makes me want it even more!
The wait is killing me!
power3921
Ugh, I want this so bad. Armada Starscream's death is one of my top five moments in entire franchise, but I already have the first Japanese version of the mold, and I don't like buying expensive redecos, even if it is a really good mold.
Novaburnhilde
I love how this figure looks.
I also really enjoy the comic that comes with it. ~
Starscream Gaga
Oh, you're right. Damn. I was distracted by the white Star Saber and the lighter colours on the antlers (That LG-EX Megatron doesn't actually have).
TacticalBacon
Eh? He's still in his normal colors, the lighting might be tricking you.
On that note, I love how the comic involves that one turquoise Unicron that's so uber rare.
Starscream Gaga
Hmmm… The Legends gag comic has the Leader-class Armada Megatron redecoed as his Super Mode/Armada Galvatron. I hope that means there's one in the works as this is, iirc, the first time they've used a pre-existing mold in new colours that doesn't exist.
The Kup
New pictures:
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PoweredConvoy
IIRC Nacelle's robot mode deco was partly inspired by Armada Thundercracker.
Randy
Sammael
That's how I justified preordering him, he'll be Nacelle.