Takara employee Hisashi Yuki has tweeted out a new picture of the upcoming Transformers Legends LG20 Skids figure, showing him off in both his robot and vehicle modes. As noted before, this is Takara’s version of the Hasbro Generations Deluxe figure, with many added paint apps to make him even more accurate to his More than Meets the Eye inspiration.
Check it out after the break!
Murasame
Yeah, after looking at the pictures above I noticed that the legs did not snap into the knees. Now he's standing fine. Funny how I needed to get the second figure of this mold to find out
PoweredConvoy
You probably need to adjust his lower legs.
Murasame
Finally decided that I still want the blue Skids and not the black one I bought some years ago. I love him! =)
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Anyone else having a hard time making him stand?
Olivus Prime
Age of Extinction Rollbar – Hasbro made him available in a Platinum three-pack with a semi-accurate Evasion Optimus and a Vehicon, whilst Takara released him individually as an exclusive.
MOTOGPFAN46
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Eurobeatking
Im excited to get mine here in a few days,I never owned the mold before but the darker blue looks way better then Hasbros.
I was thinking it would be so cool if they released Crosscut as well and even gave him his scooter as nice lil add on. I would buy that for sure.
Mirage232
The pink is a bit odd when you think about, especially when you consider how obsessed TakaraTomy is when it comes to capturing the G1 cartoon look.
Rewind
I'm pretty ambivalent towards the pink. I don't mind it, it's appropriate to the source material and I think it looks nice in hand, but I wouldn't have cared if they left it out.
Fenrys
Surprisingly I don't mind the pink in person, looks much worse in photos
artiepants
man, if it wasn't for that awful pink i'd be over this in a hot second. It's so classy and unnecessary ~ looks like a mistake next to the red, like they were supposed to be the same color but messed up. The blue and the paint apps are so nice (and the blue is way better then Hasbro's) but ugh, that pink.
Of their many, many sins, i think one of modern IDWs worst was picking up the "glowing lines" motif from the High Moon games. So much visual clutter.
Rewind
Got mine today. He looks dramatically better than the Hasbro version. Colors are comic-perfect and the paint alone makes the figure feel more substantial overall. Unfortunately it's still the same Skids toy underneath the paint with all of the same issues.
Overall I'm happy to replace the Hasbro version with this one in my Lost Light display, but it's not a particularly essential figure.
Fenrys
Got mine in today too, can't wait to set up a lost light shelf once I move next month
sideswipe29
Just got mine today. Never got the original Hasbro release. Wasn't into the IDW universe when it came out.
I gotta say he's a fun figure. A little fiddly but that's just how the mold is. Stuff bumps together and gets in the way. The paint comes together spectacularly and is definitely the most accurate representation of the comic.Overall this guy is great and I'm glad I picked him up. My Lost Light crew is slowly taking shape.
Edit: Sorry for the sideways pics. Mobile upload flipped them.
GizmoTron
The shoulders on this guy are the absolute worst of the entire Generations line, not to mention the poor balance issues, but he still looks really good anyway.
Markdelg
While I wouldn't say that he towers over the humans, since we're not exactly sure of the perspective in that scene, I will agree that there's room for interpretation. I was also basing the shrinking thing on the toyline, which was just a Hasbro thing and might have nothing to do with their depictions in G-2.
That's likely, although why he'd want a transtector that looks like Galvatron is a mystery to me, unless he's planning to take on Galvatron II for leadership. But I'm almost 100% positive we'll find out when Legends Galvatron is released
I'm more interested to know why Megatron is so small.
Yeah, that's the way I feel about Grand Galvatron.
I've never been a fan of AVP and basically ignore it most of the time. This may be an instance where the Legends comic writers are either ignoring it too (and making Legends Skids definitively G1 skids), or leaving it purposely ambiguous. But since the recent modus operandi for the comic writers is to show that these characters are the G1 cartoon characters in new post-G-2 bodies (Armada Starscream and Megatron being an exception), then it might be likely that he's in fact the original Skids. Plus, why would he be upset that G1 Skids only appeared twice in the cartoon if he wasn't the same guy?
Starscream Gaga
Seeing that Legends Galavtron's Titanmaster is literally Megatron rather than a new character based on Megatron as the Titan Returns version is, does that mean he belongs in my Megatron display? Perhaps piloting the cannon mode?
Jalaguy
I've only ever seen people treat them as comically giant vehicles. Plus, talking specifically JG1, there's art of Megatron in his Action Master body towering over humans.
File:G2AllianceBeginsAndEnds.jpg – Transformers Wiki
Given how Takara has traditionally treated Headmasters, the likelihood is that it's simply Megatron controlling a Galvatron-looking transtector. So, I guess, the original Galvatron, insomuch as the original Galvatron was actually Megatron.
There is, though, the argument that the reason Galvatron became Super Megatron when Dark Nova revived him out of the ice was because the Galvatron personality left his body to go possess Cyclonus and form Grand Galvatron in the recent Unite Warriors comic, so I suppose technically you could also say that this Megatron-with-a-Galvatron-transtector would be a new incarnation of Galvatron.
It's never really been clear. The Generations 2009 comic that featured green Skids and Screech had them come out a portal from "the G1 universe", but it's possible that was just where they were trying to send Starscream's ghost back to.
Ask Vector Prime, which did often colloborate with Japanese writers, stated that green Skids came from the universe of the Henkei! prose stories, whilst this new Legends comic seems to suggest he's cartoon universe Skids, by way of drawing his "origin story" panel with cartoon character models.
Markdelg
The whole Action Masters as human sized thing came directly from the toyline, as we now have robots driving cars, motorcycles, trucks, flying helicopters, etc. So unless those vehicles were incredibly larger than normal size, the prevailing thought was that the robots significantly shrunk.
I've done a little research on this for my fanfic. During the events of G-2, Megatron upgrades from being an Action Master to his purple Hero tank body. The next time we see him chronologically, he's back in his old G1 body (or his Action Master body post-Nucleon) for the eHobby Black Convoy comic. Then we see him in his new Legends tank body. So it's possible that both his Hero tank body and his Legends tank body were just transtectors for either his original body or his shrunk AM body. I guess I wont know definitively until the comic is translated or we get more info from Takara.
But yes, you're right; he's going to become the TM for Galvatron. The only question is which Galvatron is it?
Isn't the green Skids the same guy as G1 Skids? Or is he a different character?
Jalaguy
Do you have a source for that? It's not something I've ever heard, nor can I find any mention of it on the wiki.
But anyway, even if that is accurate, Megatron travelled to the Legends World after G-2, so there's unlikely to be any direct connection. It's very obviously just setup for him to get a Galvatron transtector in the LG23 pack-in comic.
Interesting note from the comic: LG20 Skids is the same Skids as the green 'Quantum Operative' Million Publishing version from 2009.
Autovolt 127
Goddamn Skids is hardcore.