Thanks to Dorkside Toys we can share for you new stock images of the new Transformers Cyberverse Deluxe Build-A-Figure Arcee.
We have a look at the packaging, robot and alt modes as well as Maccadam’s parts included with Arcee. You get both shoulders and Maccadam’s Battle axe.
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Stygian360
Picked up a Cyberverse Arcee from secondary market recently as it's not been at my local Target and due to COVID I'm limited to the one store that I have in my area. Great figure! Definitely tighter joints than I was expecting and that's universal across the entire figure. A little concerning actually as I worry I might grab a part and pull when I'm not giving the proper support, but fortunately this hasn't happened yet and here's hoping it doesn't. Anyway, my only concern (and it's an ironic one) is that this figure is so good it makes the others pale by comparison.
On a related note, I hope the show doesn't end after the current season because I really need a Wheeljack and Perceptor in this line.
EDIT: I just discovered that this figure has ankle tilt! As mentioned everything is so tight that I just figured Arcee didn't get it for some reason, but sure enough it's there.
Venixion
No Arcee today. Barely any CV TFs on the shelf at all, except Grimlock, Optimus and Megatron.
bearytrek
finally found one in the wild at Target…vehicle looks better than the upcoming Earthrise version because of the colors…more visual interest…
Tfcollector97
Cyberverse arcee review video
SaberPrime
How did we go from "I love this character in the show but it's a shame their toys are shit" to "I love the design of this figure but it's a shame he doesn't do much in the show" within the same series/toy line?
The first part is about Shadow Striker who still does not have any decent figures. I would love two figures of her, one pre-accident and one after being rebuilt by Shockwave. She's such a great tragic villain with an interesting back story and a cool design but her toys are shit.
The second part is about Thunderhowl. I will be getting that Deluxe figure, not just because I want to complete Maccadam but because it actually looks like a good figure and I really like his design. But it seems after his introduction episode he was just kind of there and even his introduction wasn't a very good episode. He's just given nothing to do other than exist and look cool.
This has happened before of course but it's usually across an entire series or toy line. I think this is the first time there has been a shift within the same series/toy line where it started out I hate the toys but like the show to I like the toys but don't really care for the show.
There's a few other characters like that too. I have Hammerbyte I picked that one up a while ago just cause I like the design and I was also kind of disapointed to find out he only appears in one kind of poorly written episode only to never be seen again.
Anyway… main point here… I can't wait to get my hands on that Thunderhowl.
jestermon
Man, I might have to break down and get her
SPLIT LIP
As a Hot Rod fan it really saddened me that he got the cheap end of the stick so bad.
STRAKER454
No that's what I meant as well.
Flash1087
I'm usually not a dude to complain much about paint apps, but I gotta say I agree here. Hot Rod was the first Cyberverse toy I had because I'll buy any Hot Rod they make, and while I loved his design and enjoyed how posable he was (all things considered), but I was sort of…sad to see just how monochromatic he was. He's a pretty busy design on the cartoon, by Cyberverse standards, so I wasn't expecting them to hit all of it, but dang, they couldn't even get his spoiler the right color?
Gryph
Hotrod is just weird. The actual toy is really good. It's not just the lack of paint that's the problem. Half the paint that is on it is wrong. The legs being orange instead of yellow. The chest headlights and shoulders not being light blue. The autobot symbol on the roof of the car instead of the hood.
8bitboy
*Faints gleefully*
Venixion
*ushers 8bitboy to a posh sofa for his dramatic faint*
SoundwaveSuperior
That must vary by location, because all Deluxes (WFC, SS, Cyberverse) are $20 at my local Targets.
Gepard
And in the US, they're actually more expensive at Target stores. ($22.99 for the Cyberverse deluxes vs $19.99 for the Siege/Earthrise/Studio Series deluxes.) And the MSRP is the same regardless. It's just madness for how fucking chintzo the Cyberverse stuff looks.
SPLIT LIP
Yet, in Canada at least, they're sold for the same price.
I'd have collected the whole Cyberverse BAF series if they were, say, $15 each and not $30.
There's no way that the blast effect and BAF parts cannibalized that much from the budget. Hot Rod is two moulded colours of plastic, with barely any paint work to break it up. His wheels aren't even a different colour.
There's some Legends class figures that manage better than that.
ziltama
It's not just the budget. BAF parts, and blast effects to a lesser extent, have compromised the figures. Those parts are not "free". It would have been significantly better without the BAF parts.
Gryph
They're very good toys. You just have to remember they don't have the same budget as Generations or Studio Series. I'd probably put them a half step between the old warrior class, and regular deluxes. They have a slightly higher parts count, but still have the limited paint apps.
I wasn't really meaning the specific transformation. More that part of the car actually goes into her legs, like a real Transformer.
STRAKER454
Eh, I think it could be adapted. Not exactly but I can see how and where it would work, though not 1 for 1 like when people were putting G1 Arcee heads on their Animated figures and calling that good, lol. I just think it would be better than unfolding a robot from inside a car shell and either taking 2/3rds of the car off or folding it in half on her back. I understand I don't have a popular opinion of ER Arcee but I just think for the price point Hasbro could have done better. Also, I wouldn't necessarily say that Animated Arcee was more complex than we have today, even compared to certain aspects of ER Arcee. Animated Arcee was far less complex than her Generations counterpart and compared to many Siege figures like say Hound for example, I see more complexity there than Animated Arcee. I mean we get ankle tilts and wrist joints across the line now, that hardly ever happened in Animated.
Eh, I dunno. I just think Hasbro could have done something with that transformation even if it was just for Cyberverse.
T-Hybrid
Because the animated vehicle mode wasn't her G1 mode (so ER is out the window) and, in general, molds can't have that level of complexity at the $20 price point.
STRAKER454
Oh, right! Lol, sorry. Well, Elita-1 I suppose has some bulk in a similar way, so maybe her? Yeah now that I think of it, Strongarm really is an outlier like that. She's Kind of the Gina Carano of female Transformers. I DO hope they bring her back, even if it's not the same continuity. Sorta like they did with Bulkhead.