In-Hand Images - Transformers Generations Deluxe Arcee

Man that backpack just kills this figure, very torn on this one. On one hand we finally get a G1 arcee but crap engineering ruins it with a half assed transformation. Hate this over simplified crap i really do

I almost wonder if there were a bit of transformation on the backpack that go stripped out to save money. Just having the hood split and move down would help wonders.

Looks good.

... what original toy?

durroth wrote:... what original toy?

...I meant character.

Va'al wrote:

durroth wrote:... what original toy?

...I meant character.

Damn, I logged in just to say the same thing. D'oh!

This is a MUST BUY. I don't even care that she is a shellformer, My 6 yr old daughter has been looking for an Arcee toy since she was 3. It will be nice to have an arcee that she will be able to handle. The only other arcee she has is FE prime arcee (also pink).

No 5mm fistholes? Aww, that sucks.

That aside she looks pretty good. Sure she's a shellformer, but the original animation model basically relied entirely on animation magic to transform. I'm not sure I'd replace my Animated Arcee with her (especially with all the pain it took to find her) but I do like her. I'd be up for a Paradron Medic repaint.

I won't get one as I don't have a connection to the character other than from the 1986 movie, but it's so cool she's finally got a toy that does her justice. It looks really sharp! The backpack's my only niggle as well, but I imagine it helps her balance.

Nice one HasTak

Does anyone think maybe it might be mistranformed a little? There almost looks to be space between the fenders and the hood. Could the fender maybe slide in a little under the hood? Either way I have to get it as Animate Arcee has always stood out to me in my CHUG collection. Can we get a Generations Leader Class Ultra Magnus now? MP is too big to sneak in.

How will I justify her, and the two new fem-bots to my wife? The backpack doesn't bother me that much, I like the posibilty here, she'll look good next to prowl.

robotmel wrote::-?
OZFORMERS user Tober has Generations Deluxe Arcee in-hand and has been kind enough to share some pictures and a mini review for anyone still unsure about picking up this fembot!

http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=19495

A few photos...



Baby got back(pack)!


Buddha up buttercup!


Eye, eye!


Brrrm, brrrrrrrm!


Thanks to Tober for the pics!

I like the way this figure looks a lot, even with the backpack.

Valkarie had back kibble. Original cost: $80.00

Delicate Warrior had back kibble. Current cost: $110.00

Now Hasbro gives you all an official classics Arcee at less than ¼ the price and you expect a miracle of engineering ?

You all should be happy you finally got an Arcee that’s both a car and cartoon accurate pink. I personally like it and could care less about the back kibble. I pose my figures facing forward not turned around.

Rated X wrote:Valkarie had back kibble. Original cost: $80.00

Delicate Warrior had back kibble. Current cost: $110.00

Now Hasbro gives you all an official classics Arcee at less than ¼ the price and you expect a miracle of engineering ?

You all should be happy you finally got an Arcee that’s both a car and cartoon accurate pink. I personally like it and could care less about the back kibble. I pose my figures facing forward not turned around.

Agreed!

Also this Arcee would go well with G1 collections I think.

very sexy!

I was lucky enough to get both TRNSes on sale from BBTS a few years back, but was so frustrated Impossible Toys only did Arcee and Paradron Medic with the mold. They could've put some purple on her for Marvel Arcee, orange for prototype colors Arcee, even Chromedome's colors for an inversion of the aborted Headmaster Arcee toy. (Incidentally, has no 3rd party repainted a Chromedome into Arcee yet? I can't believe Code only got a cheap black repaint)

I.T. was my favorite 3rd party for cranking out stuff that HasTak will surely never touch, and I'd been hoping that they're trying to recoup a bit from their loss by selling their molds to some KO company that might give us color variations of TRNS down the road...

...but now? F@#% it! I'll just buy a handful of these on sale and repaint 'em all myself! Especially if that wave hits T.J.Marshaxx!

Of course, if selling a dead 3rd party's molds to a KO-maker is possible, it could still give us a lot of Quint variants I.T. never got around to, just not the 3-faced guy who made the transorganics, or the humanoid ones in F.I.A.L.T.C...

And if Delicate Warrior's price comes down because of this, I might still bite to complete the set...but I'm mostly looking forward to this one now.

Rated X wrote:Valkarie had back kibble. Original cost: $80.00

Delicate Warrior had back kibble. Current cost: $110.00

Now Hasbro gives you all an official classics Arcee at less than ¼ the price and you expect a miracle of engineering ?

You all should be happy you finally got an Arcee that’s both a car and cartoon accurate pink. I personally like it and could care less about the back kibble. I pose my figures facing forward not turned around.

100% infinity agreed!

Just got roadbuster. Very underwhelming. Probably my most disappointed figure this year. Joints were loose and stress marks everywhere. If it felt moresolid I would have liked it but it just felt cheap.

Optimizzy wrote:Just got roadbuster. Very underwhelming. Probably my most disappointed figure this year. Joints were loose and stress marks everywhere. If it felt moresolid I would have liked it but it just felt cheap.

You must have gotten a lemon in the batch. In my review thread, the RB I had was excellent.

My Asia Kids Day Protectobots shipped yesterday. I think I should have them by the weekend.

Both boxed sets are still available at Amazon, if anybody is still interested.

3-Pack

2-pack

Both $32.99

I would have liked to see slightly more accurate color schemes. Here's hoping we still get a Combiner Wars Defensor.

Agamemnon wrote:My Asia Kids Day Protectobots shipped yesterday. I think I should have them by the weekend.

Both boxed sets are still available at Amazon, if anybody is still interested.

3-Pack

2-pack

Both $32.99

I would have liked to see slightly more accurate color schemes. Here's hoping we still get a Combiner Wars Defensor.

Arent those protectobots gonna be tru or target exclusives ? I was under the assumpiion they were because those are the kind of silly sets I would expect as retailer exclusives...I kind of want them, but kinda dont. Not sure why they didnt use the hotspot head sculpt. That really bugs me. Makes him look like a faded inferno.

Rated X wrote:Arent those protectobots gonna be tru or target exclusives ?

No, they never were. They were exclusive to the Transformers Asia Kids Day event over in somewhere in Southeast Asia.

Thanks for the reminder, Rated X. You're right. It's a near-perfect Arcee, in pink, will look great on Classics or G1 shelf.... and it's running us about $15. Praise Hasbro for listening to us after all these years. Hats off!

gothsaurus wrote:Thanks for the reminder, Rated X. You're right. It's a near-perfect Arcee, in pink, will look great on Classics or G1 shelf.... and it's running us about $15. Praise Hasbro for listening to us after all these years. Hats off!

Here's hoping they were also listneing when we said we wanted a classics Devastator and Omega Supreme!

Shame we're never going to get her over here in the UK...

Oh well. I already have an Arcee so it doesn't matter. I'd be up for any repaints though.

There's a video review up of Generations Arcee -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAxUyOxaTlY

From someone with the username of Pax Cybertronia, she looks very good.

Tipped by fellow Seibertron.com user ReinaHW, we take a look at the Pax Cybertron video review of the upcoimng Generations Deluxe Arcee figure, in its pinktastic G1 mode! Check it out embedded below.

Va'al wrote:Tipped by fellow Seibertron.com user ReinaHW, we take a look at the Pax Cybertron video review of the upcoimng Generations Deluxe Arcee figure, in its pinktastic G1 mode! Check it out embedded below.

Va'Al with the quickness =D

I am seriously thinking about getting this figure. Pretty nice model. Besides a few weird parts, it's still pretty cool. Thanks for the review!!

ReinaHW wrote:There's a video review up of Generations Arcee -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAxUyOxaTlY

From someone with the username of Pax Cybertronia, she looks very good.

She looks great! So glad Hasbro gave her the attention she deserves. Also very glad I didnt go down the Impossible Toys/iGear route, this looks far superior. Now hurry up Kapow and get her sent!

With the recent reveal of Takara's version of Arcee, I have decided to forgo getting Hasbro's in favor of waiting for Takara's super show-accurate Arcee.

Boy after seeing the paint differences between the Hasbro and the Takara one, I can not for the life of me even stomach looking at the Hasbro one. Too much black. Takara one completely show accurate. I'll take Takara.. I'm actually getting real tired of Hasbro's paint apps. They were getting better for a while, but it seems that they don't care or know proper paint schemes for these characters anymore.

Meh i like the black, after years of collecting bionicle, i hate the color grey Takara's using on Arcee, cartoon accurate or not. For those who don't know, in the later years of bionicle toys,Lego used to like to use that color of grey allot .

Rated X wrote:Valkarie had back kibble. Original cost: $80.00

Delicate Warrior had back kibble. Current cost: $110.00

Now Hasbro gives you all an official classics Arcee at less than ¼ the price and you expect a miracle of engineering ?

You all should be happy you finally got an Arcee that’s both a car and cartoon accurate pink. I personally like it and could care less about the back kibble. I pose my figures facing forward not turned around.

Post of the day, honestly this is virtually the iGear version for 1/4 of the price and people are complaining? No wonder Hasbro do half arsed molds when they get complaints about the ones they actually get right.

How did they get it so early?

K2vox wrote:Boy after seeing the paint differences between the Hasbro and the Takara one, I can not for the life of me even stomach looking at the Hasbro one. Too much black. Takara one completely show accurate. I'll take Takara.. I'm actually getting real tired of Hasbro's paint apps. They were getting better for a while, but it seems that they don't care or know proper paint schemes for these characters anymore.

Where i this picture of Takaras version? Ive done a google search but cant seem to find any.

leakin' lubricant wrote:

K2vox wrote:Boy after seeing the paint differences between the Hasbro and the Takara one, I can not for the life of me even stomach looking at the Hasbro one. Too much black. Takara one completely show accurate. I'll take Takara.. I'm actually getting real tired of Hasbro's paint apps. They were getting better for a while, but it seems that they don't care or know proper paint schemes for these characters anymore.

Where i this picture of Takaras version? Ive done a google search but cant seem to find any.

Seibertron.com Front page ;]

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-and-preorders-for-takara-legends-arcee-chromia-windblade-from-bbts/31404/

leakin' lubricant wrote:

K2vox wrote:Boy after seeing the paint differences between the Hasbro and the Takara one, I can not for the life of me even stomach looking at the Hasbro one. Too much black. Takara one completely show accurate. I'll take Takara.. I'm actually getting real tired of Hasbro's paint apps. They were getting better for a while, but it seems that they don't care or know proper paint schemes for these characters anymore.

Where i this picture of Takaras version? Ive done a google search but cant seem to find any.

not a very nice picture mind you, but the basics of their paint scheme is there. and its spot on!

after watching the video, i feel much better about the mold, especially the car mode. and even though the takara one is superior, ill get both. ive been doing that a lot lately...

mooncake623 wrote:

Va'al wrote:Tipped by fellow Seibertron.com user ReinaHW, we take a look at the Pax Cybertron video review of the upcoimng Generations Deluxe Arcee figure, in its pinktastic G1 mode! Check it out embedded below.

Va'Al with the quickness =D

My fingers are still smoking.

mooncake623 wrote:

leakin' lubricant wrote:

K2vox wrote:Boy after seeing the paint differences between the Hasbro and the Takara one, I can not for the life of me even stomach looking at the Hasbro one. Too much black. Takara one completely show accurate. I'll take Takara.. I'm actually getting real tired of Hasbro's paint apps. They were getting better for a while, but it seems that they don't care or know proper paint schemes for these characters anymore.

Where i this picture of Takaras version? Ive done a google search but cant seem to find any.

Seibertron.com Front page ;]

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-and-preorders-for-takara-legends-arcee-chromia-windblade-from-bbts/31404/

Thanks

Not sure I like it considering it will be insanley priced as all Takara stuff is, I'll stick with the Hasbro one, actually quite like the black on her helps to break up the colour scheme the Takara one looks a little incipid.

I like the black as well. I'll probably have to order her online unfortunately. Generations are a complete non entity in my neck if the woods. AOE stuff is severely clogging up the shelves.
The back pack isn't so gnarly. I'd have liked it to collapse a little more but that would mean more unsightly seems in alt mode.

Some side to side ankle tilt would have been spectacular but whatever. She's a great lookin figure

I like the black on the Hasbro one, it helps to break up the pink. Hope Kapow Toys get her in stock soon, after 28 years of waiting for a G1 Arcee then I'm very eager to find out if she's been worth the wait. Looks great.

I'm getting the Hasbro version. I like the black.

leakin' lubricant wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:

leakin' lubricant wrote:

K2vox wrote:Boy after seeing the paint differences between the Hasbro and the Takara one, I can not for the life of me even stomach looking at the Hasbro one. Too much black. Takara one completely show accurate. I'll take Takara.. I'm actually getting real tired of Hasbro's paint apps. They were getting better for a while, but it seems that they don't care or know proper paint schemes for these characters anymore.

Where i this picture of Takaras version? Ive done a google search but cant seem to find any.

Seibertron.com Front page ;]

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-and-preorders-for-takara-legends-arcee-chromia-windblade-from-bbts/31404/

Thanks

Not sure I like it considering it will be insanley priced as all Takara stuff is, I'll stick with the Hasbro one, actually quite like the black on her helps to break up the colour scheme the Takara one looks a little incipid.

Have you checked BBTS? Takara ones are only 30 dollars. The way the dollar is continuing to decrease in value, our Hasbro ones will only go up in price. For 15 more dollars you get a superior product that you'll be happier with and have saved an economic cost of post-market price-gouging by scalpers later. I kind of wish now that I had done the same with a lot of the Henkei classics figures back in the day now. Thankfully an ex girlfriend got me the Henkei Optimus Prime voyager mold. Love love love that toy. But yeah, Chromia and Windblade also look a lot better. Same mold, I just don't want to have to learn to paint them myself, and that's worth 15 dollars to me. I can't wait to see Takara's Jhiaxus. Hopefully it's the more accurate deco.

leakin' lubricant wrote:

Rated X wrote:Valkarie had back kibble. Original cost: $80.00

Delicate Warrior had back kibble. Current cost: $110.00

Now Hasbro gives you all an official classics Arcee at less than ¼ the price and you expect a miracle of engineering ?

You all should be happy you finally got an Arcee that’s both a car and cartoon accurate pink. I personally like it and could care less about the back kibble. I pose my figures facing forward not turned around.

Post of the day, honestly this is virtually the iGear version for 1/4 of the price and people are complaining? No wonder Hasbro do half arsed molds when they get complaints about the ones they actually get right.

I personally don't quite understand the negativity that seems to be following this figure either. It's Arcee, it Transforms, and is unashamed to be pink! FINALLY!

Agreed. This is perfect. I do like Delicate Warrior (mainly because she looks so cute) but this is basically a perfect Arcee. If I didn't have my TFA Arcee I'd go for this.

I wonder if that "backpack" can be taken off without making a mess of things. I don't have any particular disliking for it, but it does make her look bulky. I wouldn't mind having an untouched as-Hasbro-made-it figure (so she can be transformed at leisure) and a figure for taking pictures with (because that bulky backpack seems like it might limit things, as far as composition goes).

Guess I'll get one and see what I can do picture wise first xD

not a fan of the belly and the translucent weapons. but i will still be getting two of them.

Arcee deluxe looks pretty good, except for those huge 'child-birthin' hips. I know it was probably unavoidable from a mechanical standpoint, but still....

After watching the review it seems like Hasbro was trying to cover both the G1 and IDW styles with this figure. The backpack isn't that bad and is in keeping with the G1 design.