Legacy United Deluxe Armada Wheeljack In-Hand Images

ZipperMan29x

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Either way, 1 or 2 less than ideal remolds out of 13 UT molds (10 of which being entirely new to their release) with very little capitalized on repaint potential is a pretty good ratio, even compared to G1

Dark Starscream

Sorry United Soundwave.

Buzzsaw can be yours for the low low price of $54.99  

Buzzsaw Worthy! Also, I don't think I saw anyone mention that the paint on Soundwave is different, I like the changes and would have kept him over the ER version even if he wasn't yellowing.

C16

There's no Buzzworthy Soundwave. And reissues would indicate the figures are Buzzworthy, down to the paint jobs.

Sorry United Soundwave.

Buzzsaw can be yours for the low low price of $54.99  

Enemy

I agree 100% with everything, but I've come to rationalize this one. While the mold will suck shit as Red, it works perfect for a Cannonball. The chest seems to draw from Botcon Cannonball, while the deco and most of the alt mode draws from Cybertron Cannonball, which since "Cannonball" is a title that a few different bots have held, this guy doesn't necessarily have to be the same Cannonball as either of the others.

Yeah, that's about where I sit on Star Raider Cannonball. I doubt its efficacy as a Red Alert mold and might not get that release, but I'm fine with it for Cannonball.

Tbh Cannonball could be a plane and most would probably be fine with it, so long as his wing decals were cool.

Logos Prime

• Metroplex is missing his Cyber Key Power (axe splitting), his Cyber Key (a primary show plot item), and Drill-Bit (egregious with every prior titan having some little dude accompanying & with the simultaneous price hike).
• Override is surprisingly solid, especially for a retool.
• Armada Starscream has a lot of problems with how he's laid out and designed, his swords especially are kinda trash.
• Armada Hot Shot is a weird mess in general.
• Armada Megatron/Galvatron has those annoying immobile shoulders, and lacks a knife to hold.
• Armada Optimus is quite nice, but his eyes are incorrect in super mode.
• Energon Megatron/Galvatron is a core class figure. Solid, but not what fits in most collections.
• Cybertron Starscream is excellent, though his blades are a touch short and he has a box strapped onto the bottom of his previously-clean vehicle mode.
• Cybertron Hot Shot is missing his missiles, often used as his primary armament in the show.
• Cybertron Vector Prime has literally every aspect of his design off in some manner, whether slightly or dramatically (and this is one of the 3-4 most important characters from Cybertron)
• Cannonball has downgraded deco on his vehicle mode and is overall proportionally off (more important for Red Alert), and then tiny shoulder cannons. Plus the chest is entirely different.
• Wheeljack has a rather different vehicle mode, his head is off, and his legs are turned around & upside down. His sticks/missiles don't even have the decency to fit into the shoulder cannon slots.

Bonus round:

• GUOP lacks even one single design detail on the core robot which adheres to the design of Cybertron Optimus, in addition to losing a mode and being the bad Ultra Magnus mold.
• Selects Hot Shot is a headswap which doesn't even have the courtesy to be from the same category of vehicle, and substantially downgrades his trademark weaponry.

The Unicron Trilogy has had things the best barring Beast Wars and G1, but it's still experienced no few errors, especially easily-avoided ones.

Never in my post did I even suggest that the figures we’ve received so far are perfect, just that aside from few exceptions, they have all been their own molds.

What I’m speaking about is specifically saying that it’s unlikely for major characters to get their own molds because one major character got a really shit round. So far yes there have been issues, but we haven’t been struggling for new molds at all.

I feel like the Unicron Trilogy retool thing is kinda overblown… out of the 10-15 figures we’ve gotten as updates in the last 3 years, how many have actually been half hearted retools? For retools in general we have Cybertron Vector Prime and Cannonball, and Armada Wheeljack. Cannonball and Wheeljack (minicon issue notwithstanding) are actually pretty decent, it’s literally just Vector that manages to miss the mark on all levels.

I really don’t think we should take that one instance as more than an exception yet, even if it is a really disappointing one.

BioSpark47

Honestly, I don’t think they’d have to alter Rook and Crosswise a ton to get them to work. They already functioned like Titan/Headmasters with an added faction symbol gimmick, but that could be altered to work independently à la Siege Jetfire

My biggest thing is I would want the horns of the Grey Decepticon head to be super accurate as it is the head I would be using the most! Because he looks so badass-"itron" with that head!

The Black Autobot head was sort of on toy model already so I am fine with whatever they go with there.

And the faction swap gimmick being seperate from the head master function means that people who want a Black head Decepticon and Grey head Autobot can have their way!  

Dark Starscream

Are you being sarcastic?

That's the only way you can get the new CHUG Buzzsaw… in a $50 set with reissues of Soundwave, Rumble, and Ravage.

Don't be surprised if the mincons aren't released the same way, as a pack-in with reissues of the main figures.

As G1 Wheeljack would say… "Diabolical!"

Hey if the figure is good you should feel honored to buy the same thing again with minor paint changes! You are clearly ungrateful!  

Aarion23

I also think comes down to what do we want more? Animation accurate heads? Or compromised heads because they have to be Minicons as well as combine.

And at the end of the day the human would probably be heavily compromised as well.

I have NOTHING against the Minicons! I love them all! I am just stating that we might have to pick and choose at the Voyager scale.

Now if he was Masterpiece, I WOULD expect Takara Wizardry and NOTHING LESS!  

Honestly, I don’t think they’d have to alter Rook and Crosswise a ton to get them to work. They already functioned like Titan/Headmasters with an added faction symbol gimmick, but that could be altered to work independently à la Siege Jetfire

Dark Starscream

I doubt they'll make it that easy.

Remember that time we had to buy a new Buzzworthy Soundwave set just to get Buzzsaw?

No, I don't.

Rojixus

If Vector Prime couldn't get one, Thrust and Sideways don't have a chance in hell.

Sideways' Minicon interaction is FAR more integral to the character than probably any other character. I could see them doing him as a Deluxe in a Voyager slot like they did with Override to budget in the two Minicons.

BioSpark47

They have more than enough to do a big Minicon multipack like they did with the Micromasters a couple times. That’s most likely what they’ll do, since it seems like they know people want the Mini-Cons

I doubt they'll make it that easy.

Remember that time we had to buy a new Buzzworthy Soundwave set just to get Buzzsaw?

Or that time we had to buy two of the Kingdom Blaster mold to get both Rewind and Eject?

Or that time we had to buy Netflix Megatron to get Crosshairs' Targetmaster?

Or that time we had to buy Siege Skywarp to get Spinister's Targetmaster?

Or that time we had to buy Legends Doublecross to get Blurr's Targetmaster?

I could go on and on.