More scout class movie figures on ebay. (clocker, strongarm, skyblast)

Sweet. I love the skyblast mold so ill be getting that one. And the strongarm one looks cool so ill get him to. But i already have Cyb clocker and swerve so i wont be getting this incarnation of the mold.

I like Skyblast's camo paint job... pretty slick!

I really think I'll end up picking up the S7 color schemes of the figures... I passed on the orginals alreay, but these ones seem to catch my attention now...

Nice to see they all have proper heads.
I think Hardtop remains my favourite though, his paint scheme is probably the most "realistic" of the lot.

I really like Skyblast's paint job. He's probably the only one I'll get.

Ugh, shelfwarmmer-sense is tingling.

Not that bad... But there are better movie figures to get.

Heck of a lot nicer than the "real" movie figures. Clocker looks like Bluestreak homage, and Strongarm is Brawn.

Bonger, they won't be in the movie. They just exist in the expanded movie universe. Will have to pick up Hardtop and Strongarm. I expect most of these will get new names. I know Energon Arcee keeps her name. I have no idea if the Sector 7 toys will have traditional Transformers style names or not.

Strongarm is really the only one that jumps at me. The others are pretty blah IMO. The decos just look very dull and boring to me. Strongarm does look to be a nice Brawn homage though. I'll most likely get him. Funny, out of the three shown here that one's the only mold I don't already have a version of. I had sincerely hoped for much better from a Skyblast redeco.

i like these energon repaints a lot, and will definitely get them, ESPECIALLY Strongarm, GREAT paint job on that one.
(story-time: strongarm is one of my favorites smaller figs, anyway. right after i broke my arm, a friend saw strongarm in the universe line at family dollar and snagged it as a gift, without even realizing the irony of giving a figure named "Strongarm" to someone who just broke their arm!)

the clocker paint scheme is neat, BUT my problem is the cyberkey: it looks like its just a black version of speed planet key.... also, the 'part' that takes that key is detachable, wasn't it? why not just create a replacement "button-activated" weapon instead (and then, its something slightly new, without having to rehash the whole figure) but even still, why not create a new key that somehow ties to the movie - i'd imagine a 'sector 7' key wouldn't be bad, maybe with the same cube and S7 logo that Strongarm has?, or at least, use an autobot logo key?

big MEH to clocker, but i'll definitely be grabbing the other two.

Don't like the color of Skyblast's translucent parts, but Clocker is absolutely awesome. Strongarm, too...

Wow, I LOVE Sky Blast's colours! Hell, they all look good!

Please do a Shortround repaint, he would look great in military colours like Sky Blast... and his robot mode is like half way between the normal, traditonial bots and the more 'alien' movie designs.

Not really digging these. Skyblast looks badass, but I won't pick any of these up.

I'm waiting to see how Armorhide will look!

Strongarm's weapon is made of root beer. I must have it.

Blarg, multipost.

My internet asplode.

Brakethrough wrote:My internet asplode.

And for some reason, you have blue hair.

I like Skyblast, that figure always reminsed me of the G1 toon version of SkyFire. Strong arm looks cool too.

As for Clocker. I don't mind when the reissue figures that have been out of the loop for several years. It gives alot of people a chance to affordably catch up. But the Cybertron scouts are still all over the place.

I'm just asking that they give us time to miss the figure before bringing it back again. I can just see all 3 color variants of this guy now in a row of pegs one next to the other in Target, with the only real difference being 2 will be reduced to $4.83, while 1 is $6.99

Liege Evilmus wrote:As for Clocker. I don't mind when the reissue figures that have been out of the loop for several years. It gives alot of people a chance to affordably catch up. But the Cybertron scouts are still all over the place.

I'm just asking that they give us time to miss the figure before bringing it back again. I can just see all 3 color variants of this guy now in a row of pegs one next to the other in Target, with the only real difference being 2 will be reduced to $4.83, while 1 is $6.99

Good point.

So how does this work? Are these molds that got transferred from an older line to the Movie series? The reason that I ask is because these three molds are a different a style than the other movie molds.

So Clocker has been Clocker, Swerve, Cheetor, Tigatron and now a 5th version. Even Bendy Prime hasn't had that many repaints.

Scaleface wrote:Heck of a lot nicer than the "real" movie figures. Clocker looks like Bluestreak homage, and Strongarm is Brawn.

i actually prefer to think the strongarm as hound! which i will most certainly be picking up!

Stormrider wrote:So how does this work?

They work the same way repaints have "worked" in any TF toyline. It just so happens that it's more noticeable here than in something like Energon or Cybertron.

All of these movie scouts with the different style are Energon Omnicon or Cybertron Scout repaints, that's all.

So are these Autobots or Sector 7 military?

Alright, I dont get it. Obviously a movie toy line blitz is in full effect, but why repaints of recent figures? There's already a handful of non-movie characters with movie designs, but why release repaints of these scouts? I for one like the movie toys and the non-movie characters toys and stuff, but this seems to be overkill.

If this movie tanks, the merchandising end of the deal will look incredibly stupid because they're rolling out everything it seems from the last few years and repainting it. But if it's successful.....

Chosen wrote:

Stormrider wrote:So how does this work?

They work the same way repaints have "worked" in any TF toyline. It just so happens that it's more noticeable here than in something like Energon or Cybertron.

All of these movie scouts with the different style are Energon Omnicon or Cybertron Scout repaints, that's all.

Thanks Chosen.

I find myself likeing them but I doubt I'll pick them up.

Clocker reminds me of one of the Max-Cops from the OTFCC Magazine.

Strongarm looks like that cancelled BotCon Brawn remold.

And Skyblast is probably based on the G2 Cyberjet Jetfire.

I will pick them up if they're cheap.

Maybe they'll go even further back and repaint Bruticus again in S7 military colors; similar to the monochromatic WalMart exclusive.

I like the skyblast one but not to keen about the other two.

I'm totally digging Skyblast. missed him the first time around,, so I'll definitely be picking him up. Love his Energon Weapon.

The other 2, I already have their previous incarnations, so probably will pass on these. Unless Strongarm really looks good in person.

Clocker, i already have the swerve repaint, and I'm really not that fond of the mould. So that's a definite pass.

I love all three of these moulds. But I already own the best versions of each. So forget these ones...

Say... anybody spot the sector 7 logos on Skyblast or Clocker.


Strongarm's Sector 7 logo is on his shoulder. But i can't find the logo in either Skyblast nor Clocker.

Not all that impressed. I didn't paticularly like those three molds the first time around. That "Real Gear" game controller he had up also looked interesting...

Yep, definitely a hint of Diaclone Bluestreak here.

Hmm. We're sure rthese are Movie? And not Classics, by any other name, or being smuggled under the movie brand?

My guesses are that these are homages to:
Hardtop=Swindle
(Realistally, not the Club-happy repaint we got in Cyb)

StrongArm=Hound

Clocker=Blurr, or a longstretch Prowl.

Stioll workin out Arcee/Skyblast.

PS, Are these gonna be available in stores, or as Movie promos with tickets,(read it somewhere on TFW) or what?

Flashwave wrote:Hmm. We're sure rthese are Movie?

Is there something difficult to grasp about seeing these in Movie packaging? Sorry, but yeah, definitely are. Arcee and Signal Flare have already been seen in movie packaging, and if some of them sporting Sector 7 logos doesn't scream MOVIE TIE-IN, then nothing will.

They're retail releases, and the Arcee repaint (not the new-mold Deluxe) had a Target Exclusive sticker on her.

EDIT: Added pic. See it and weep.

Flashwave wrote:Hmm. We're sure rthese are Movie? And not Classics, by any other name, or being smuggled under the movie brand?

My guesses are that these are homages to:
Hardtop=Swindle
(Realistally, not the Club-happy repaint we got in Cyb)

StrongArm=Hound

Clocker=Blurr?

I think we already have a fine Classic Blurr with Cybertron Blurr. Okay, he's not a perfect match, but closer than the Clocker redeco.

I like the Clocker repaint. The blue paint really "pops" IMO. But I wouldn't call it Bluestreak. I refuse to use the name of any character that was bigger than a mini-bot in G1, such as Bluestreak, for Basic-sized figure. I could see the red version of this mold (Swerve) as the Cybertron form of Windcharger, but I don't know about the blue. I could see this as either a Cybertron version of Beachcomber or Tailgate. Could I get a vote? Which G1 mini-bot does this blue version of Clocker look the most like? Thanks in advance.

I like Skyblast. I'm not a big fan of most Energon weapons, but at least these darker weapons look better than the bright colors actully used in Energon.

I like the Strongarm mold, but I don't like the greens. I wish it was a dark green, like Hound. There are going to be two versions of Strongarm, so hopefully the other version will have a paint job I like.

Nice! This actually made a news post! thats 2 now total for the time I've been here! (and the first was only like a day ago!)

and I've been taking some more looks at these and can definetly see the g1 homages which I seemed to overlook before, but some of them definetly give a sector 7 vibe (even without the logo)

bah...the movie ain't out yet, the toys are only JUST leaking onto shelves and we're already in overused mold repaint territory?

Jaz-Zen wrote:I like the Clocker repaint. The blue paint really "pops" IMO. But I wouldn't call it Bluestreak. I refuse to use the name of any character that was bigger than a mini-bot in G1, such as Bluestreak, for Basic-sized figure.

Little trivia - Clocker and Bluestreak both stand 11 cm tall! Toys are just bigger than they were back in the 80s. Mini-Bots were the size of Mini-Cons, and Autobot Deluxe Cars were more the size of today's basics.

Besides, that Brakedown GTS is a definitel Kup homage.

Skyblast was an awesome figure, definitely getting that one.