Third Party company Newage Toys, via their Weibo account, have shared images of their new H14C Leviathan & H15C Samael (Legends Scale Thundercracker & Skywarp).
These are special cartoon-accurate redecos of the original H14 Leviathan/Thundercracker and H15 Samael/Skywarp molds. The differences are kind of subtle but well applied to get the cartoon colors, more noticeable new head sculpt cockpit deco. They retain all the accessories and parts of the original releases.
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Mechman42
Toyhax sells some, but a full sheet for one toy may be overkill.
Snaku
It wasn't concern that it wouldn't be different. It was concern that he looked like he'd just been rubbed in dirt rather than being properly weathered.
As for symbols, I put them on Optimus and Megatron but it helps that I added my own weathering on top of what they had so I was able to go over the symbols at the same time.
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I also cut some notches into the symbols to simulate scratching.
gaseous clay
After having this on order for what seems like forever from TCP, this finally came in:
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(had some leftover flaps, which don't quite match, and I saw there are dirty flaps on ebay, though looking at the pics I'm not convinced they'll color match any better) Anyways, when this first came out, was there concern that this didn't differ much from the normal deco? Because it is definitely super dirty looking in hand. Its kinda amusing I basically paid for something that looks like it was sitting in a box of old toys in the dark dank basement of my parent's house. But gotta collect them all!
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The sucky thing about this deco is I can't badge this up because it would cover the weathering and not look weathered itself.
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Mechman42
The ball joint is the same size. Also, the reissues of Hotlink and Acid Storm include the new head.
TIKnTIN
the 1.5 mp44 heads are interchangeable with any of NA seekers and vice versa.
werewolfspice
I have the toon versions of the big three here because I love the headsculpt, but I've been thinking about getting some of the more unusual seekers and swapping the heads out, because I'm slowly gravitating toward building an "unusual" legends collection, ie a lot of shattered glass/toy/one-off repaints. Anybody know if those heads fit on the pegs for the original heads? I think they're a bit bigger than he original heads but I could be mistaken.
Sigmus Prime
Hoping for a Marvel version eventually. I have comic deco Agamemnon on the way, and I'd love to get some more major players (Soundwave, Ratchet, Prowl) in that metallic scheme. Red chest or blue chest, though…
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EndoSickness
Ex Thundercracker & Skywarp are sorely missing in my collection. :/
Phase Sixer
I think you have to have beidu or tiebo, one of the Chinese apps to contact them directly. Sorry I don’t have more info, it’s always through the retailer for us.
Brosiden31
I really hope they finished the SG seekers as well! I definitely love the mold and have been thinking about just getting new age dirge to make SG skywarp there color scheme is really close
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Currywurst
Lowkey hoped for an Ex Thundercracker reveal
Success getting the extra weapon
DoubleClouder
Anyone have contact info for newage. I purchased a set of coneheads of ali express, and it's missing one of the black weapons. Seller is not being much help and basically said it was shipped unopened (which it wasn't) and it wasn't his problem
Spiffy
Yeah they aren't great for light grey/ mid grey Starscream (original Thundercracker and Skywarp were great) and from the seller I bought from on ebay, said they were just hand painted so never gonna be perfect. That said, I found almost perfect matches in my Revell acrylics, I've previously posted them in this thread. I'm very happy with them.
gaseous clay
Some match well, some less so:
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kshgrshrm
Ok so wingflaps, from what I can see
The good- jet mode is more real
The bad- colour doesn't match 1:1 in jet mode
Anybody who has these can please tell about how much colour difference there is in these pieces?
Snaku
It's not just the points – the wings are too short (front to back). They just plain are incomplete.
Those bits that fold away on the various MP seekers are actual flaps on the real world jet (though obviously they can't fold away completely). Lucifer is missing his flaps entirely. He also has those curved tops on his intakes which isn't correct to the jet either.
Warpshard
For the wings in particular, there's a little point at the end to make the Seekers look a bit evil in robot mode, but as a consequence it looks kinda like the wing just isn't completely formed in jet mode:
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DoubleClouder
I just like the silhouette better
FieryReign
Do the wingflaps add some type of authenticity to the jet modes? I'm not familiar with military jetcraft. Do you guys like these upgrades? I have the Optimus, Megatron, Grimlock, and Smokescreen upgrades and think they're pretty crap. The paint never matches and they're warped in ways, so they don't align right with the figure.
DoubleClouder
I found a set on Ali express, but about an hour after I ordered it the seller told me it was a mistake and they were out of stock