Monday, May 23, 2011

Dark of the Moon: Starscream and Thunderhead

I haven't been following the Transformers line lately. Last TF I bought was from the Animated line since I haven't had any interests in the recent series. I really like the Classics line, but they were almost impossible to find here so I ended up forgetting about them altogether. Then come the Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon line, I saw several that I definitely wanted to pick up (ex. Shockwave), but there weren't a whole lot that I wanted, especially before I saw the movie. As luck would have it, comes a sale and I picked up some more than planned (HA!...plans...).

I only got to opening two of them though because I was playing with off camera flash and full manual settings for quite a bit (I took over 100 pics alone for these 2 guys LOL, a lot of trial and error).

First up is the Deluxe Starscream. I've always wanted to pick up a movie Starscream since the first movie. But I didn't really fancy the first voyager one, the shape looked awkward to me for some reason. The leader class one looks amazing, but I just can't afford to drop $60 + tax on that guy (not to mention the space he will take up on display!). Then comes the affordable deluxe version for TF3, I definitely had to grab this one. I can't wait for the repaints on this mold as well! Thundercracker, Skywarp...mmmm.

I just love the jet mode, I even have it displayed in this mode right now (on the stand). For a deluxe size figure, he has really nice details. He looks sweet with all the cybertronian markings.
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The gimmick for this line are the Mechtech weapons. They just end up in the scraps pile for me.
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And here he is in his robot mode. I always thought he looked like a chicken for some reason...
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The two mechtech pieces join together to form this massive blade for his robot mode. Looks pretty cool I guess...
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Next up is Thunderhead with Major Tungsten. When I saw this guy, I had to get it! In fact, I want to grab several more of this one because his alt modes are sooo coool!!! This one is from the Human Alliance Basic line.
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Tank/crawler vehicle mode...looks fun to drive!
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Looks pretty good for rock crawling too.
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He can even turn into a mech suit! How much awesome-er can he get?!?!
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All in all I am very happy with my purchases, so far (I still have several more to open). I really like the Human Alliance basic line and am looking forward to see what else they come with in the later waves. Although I initially didn't "planned" to buy a lot of this line, I can definitely see myself end up with quite a few of them haha.