The Leader Class seekers are complete! Combiner Wars Leader Skywarp has officially dropped and we’ve done up a full gallery of the teleporting warrior. A heavy remold of the Leader Jetfire from a few years ago, Skywarp joins Thundercracker and Starscream for supremacy in the air. Skywarp should be hitting all retailers soon, he’s out via select outlets now. Hit the link below for a full gallery, with key shots attached to this story after the break. Make sure to let us know what you think and share your own pics if you have him over on the 2005 Boards!
TFW2005’s Combiner Wars Leader Skywarp Full Gallery
Key shots here, more below!
OriginalFire
I wish these guys had different heads,
ProjectShocwave
Looks Great!
He looks great! They could have made the foot area just a bit more appealing but overall, and what they were going for – I like it. He will go good with my Combiners Thundercracker and my iGear Seekers (Will get Combiners Starscream sometime this week). Cheers
Wackimus Prime
Here's what he would look like with a black chest. I didn't like the purple so I painted it. Love the Skywarp deco though. Sorry the pics aren't the best.
shadowfall1976
I had hoped Takara would do these so i could buy color correct versions as MP stand ins. Oh well, Starscream is ok, but the other two aren't G1 colored enough for me to use for that, so, no need to buy these.
Thinktank
IGear covered this a while back.
funkatron101
Sigh….I just want some voyager-sized seekers, please. This looks better than Leader Starscream, but it's too big, and the chest/torso looks like an angry troll.
fujikuro
So tired of the modern take on Skywarp. He's not black and grape, he's black and lavender. The color scheme is not nearly as nice with the grape, but clearly lavender is too girly of a color for a boys toy, so no dice.
Haywired
No shoulder intakes,
impossible to ignore fake kibble chest,
ugly hollow underside of wings visible just "in-your-face" in bot mode,
Leader-size…
I really can't talk myself into believing that this mold works for Generations Seekers.
But at least it's Skywarp. Always loved his color scheme. And photos are well made.
Between this being too big and ugly vs Classics being ok, but too small I'll take Classics just for being the lesser of two evils.
payres
Not an owner of a Decepticon Leader Jet, but I suspect the reason for that is the HUGE lump of plastic behind the head restricting the light that gets into the light pipe!
Kickshift
It's a Play Arts Kai figure stand, My Edward Kenway figure came with one, you build it from a sprue kit packaged with the figure.
Starposeidon
Is it just me, or does the chest look like an Angry Bird?
Chaotic91
He looks good but I think I'm going to get Transformers Collectors Club Armada Skywarp instead, he just looks too bad ass.
Cosmoglide
I want these, so bad, but I don't want this seeker trio in leader scale. Unfortunately, I suspect that these releases mean I can forget about seeing Voyager Seekers anytime soon.
Omega Charge
Looks like one of the stands that comes packaged with Play Arts Kai figures.
Gorgeous pics.
DesertDog
I can't wait for MP Red Bee And MP Clamp Down to hit my POL so I can get this guy on the shelf with the other two! As much as I love Thundercracker, Skywarp always steals the show. I really like the purple exhausts(purple thrusters sounds wrong somehow), they remind me of the G1 toy. I do wish the chest was black with purple on the sides of the abs, but it's no deal breaker.
Quoted for truth! I'm biased because TC was one of my first Transformers but he was always my favourite character of the three, based on his toy bio. Whereas Skywarp just looked Bad Ass and I wanted Starscream because he's F'n Starscream. I can't wait to get SS and SW in G1 form.
RodimusZero
Skywarp is my favorite Seeker as well, and I must say that chest and those purple boosters are pretty terrible.
Also, though, I might be alone on this one, but I think a yellow-ish canopy pairs much better with the purple and black, so I also don't like it when Has or TT make the canopy/faux chest this really dark orange color… too bad, no buy for me…
unicronic
Do these leader seekers have light piping as their eyes always seem black?
MasterScale
These pictures are great! They really make the figure stand out. I've also noticed that I like the recent waves of generations/combiner wars figures in hand more than in pictures.
Fallout
that's how they getcha. release three repaints, make one an important character, give one some good development, and make the other one a generic thug but with the most marketable deco of the trio. they're clever like that.