Transformers DOTM Deluxe Air Raid Pictorial Review

I want this guy so bad. He looks so cool.

Nice. He kinda reminds me of Beast Wars Sky Shadow. I think I'll be picking him up .

is this some kinda sick joke?
even if that THING was given to me for free i'd shove it up the head designers arse!

my 5 year old nephew can design a better transformer than that thing.

He is pretty dam lame at first sight and looks like he has a few flaws but for some reason i like him i will have to pick him up plus hes a new mould.

I think i'm gonna...ya... i am....
oohh and now I need a new keyboard.

damn i kept ignoring news about this guy cos i mixed him up with takara air raid, the fairly-average looking breakaway repaint...

weird cos although he's undeniably somewhat...unnapealing, i actuall like him.

Obviously an acquired taste judging by the mixed opinions . Oh well, that just increases the probability that I'll be able to more easily get my hands on one .

What is the world is this? Tell me this is Kre-O because if it is Kre-O, I can fix it with many other pieces.

Has got to be the ugliest figure in a long while. Definitely a pass. HasTak fail!

Edit: Why does it look like the front section of the plane should open up or something when it seems to sit on his back without a piece moving?

WTF is that thing hanging off his right arm supposed to be? I mean, it's like they didn't even give a damn about this guy. The designers must have made it half way through the design process and just said screw it. His alt mode, which is the only good thing about this toy, has a really weird color scheme as well.

I'm sorry, I've tried to be optimistic about this DOTM line, but it's incredibly shitty. There are like 10 stand out toys in this line TOPS.

Please, Hasbro, if you're going to insult the fans like this, at least put the Prime line out now so we can have SOMETHING of quality to fall back on. December can't come soon enough...

I honestly don't get why people are raving over this - it looks like a leftover, half finished Power Core Combiner - either that or a forgotten Armada reject!

NaM3L3sS wrote:I honestly don't get why people are raving over this - it looks like a leftover, half finished Power Core Combiner - either that or a forgotten Armada reject!

Please don't insult PCC and Armada like that

mesh wrote:is this some kinda sick joke?
even if that THING was given to me for free i'd shove it up the head designers arse!

my 5 year old nephew can design a better transformer than that thing.

Chill dude, it's a jumbo jet, those are (At least in my opinon) kinda hard to make a good looking robot out of. I'm surprised HasTak was even able to pull of a jumbo jet Transformer.

The more I look at this, the more I think of the Green Ranger

an easy pass for me, dont like the lack of a 2nd hand nor do i like the cockpit backpack plus the paint is crap.

cannonfodder4000 wrote:Chill dude, it's a jumbo jet, those are (At least in my opinon) kinda hard to make a good looking robot out of. I'm surprised HasTak was even able to pull of a jumbo jet Transformer.

RTS Lugnut is sort of the same in regards to the proportions, and it looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better. I think its possible to make a commercial airliner look good in Robot form.

Not only does the figure look shockingly bad but it has a stupid name. Air Raid. That's a good name for a BOMBER but not a jumbo jet.

Mykltron wrote:Not only does the figure look shockingly bad but it has a stupid name. Air Raid. That's a good name for a BOMBER but not a jumbo jet.

ah HAH! But what if it was filled with terrorists and suicide bombers?
And now I await the mod warnings.

Nice try Kickback, but grasshoppers and aerialbots don't mix.

all right bout time we got an insectacon, not a bad grasshopper mode. oh wait,... thats his robot. hmmm

to quote a horse
No sir, I dont like it.

Man... not enjoying this one at all. I was happy that they finall had a unique character with a new mold, but this just isn't very good. I might consider a repaint, but until then, it's a definite no.

what the fuck is this piece of shit? seriously
Takara had an awesome Air Raid and we get this? damn it hasbro.

I'm LOVING this mold! To all of you who have always wanted a good sized powerglide & aren't afraid to waste a figure. this is what you've been waiting for.

don't know what to make of this gy - he's one fugly thing for sure

i used to love air raid as a kid - he transformed my fave alt mod. an f15 and an autobot rather than a seeker or a gobot.

wish they'd reserve the name for a proper homage in the generations line

i'd really have like an awacs toy but for somethin like that they defo needed a voyager class toy like lugnut or stratosphere

It's neat that they're going for some more non-car vehicles in the Deluxe line, but this should have been made into a Voyager. The spindly limbs and lack of a second hand really kill it for me. But the alt mode is nice. So, for the time being, the only Deluxe I will own from DOTM is still Laserbeak or his repaint.

Wow....an AWACS done as a deluxe? What the........... This guy would be bigger then JETFIRE. Size fail for sure.....(pic below)

If I get it, he's going in with my Cyberverse!

This is a deluxe? it looks like an HA Basic.

I guess Hasbro doesn't care about robot mode anymore.

So deluxe class is going to be the new scout class [or commander, or whatever it's called these days]?

I'm tempted to blame the mechtech gimmick for his awfully simplistic look, but then quite a few other DOTM deluxe figs look FAR better than him. The head looks like he gutted a baby spinosaur [or whatever you call the ones with the sails on their backs], painted it in gold and wore it as a helmet.

This fig is just all kinds of wrong.

Absolute garbage. That being said, it fits in perfectly with the DOTM line as most of those toys have been garbage too.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

cannonfodder4000 wrote:Chill dude, it's a jumbo jet, those are (At least in my opinon) kinda hard to make a good looking robot out of. I'm surprised HasTak was even able to pull of a jumbo jet Transformer.

RTS Lugnut is sort of the same in regards to the proportions, and it looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better. I think its possible to make a commercial airliner look good in Robot form.

True, but his transformation is based on Animated Lugnut (Obviously ) who wasn't really like a jumbo jet (He had a good place for his arms to go). Not to mention RTS Lugnut's a voyager, and Air Raid is only a deluxe.

Can't say I'm really impressed with this one. It just seems so sparse and lanky. Not much to say about this other than that. This honestly looks like one of the worst molds I've seen this year

cannonfodder4000 wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:

cannonfodder4000 wrote:Chill dude, it's a jumbo jet, those are (At least in my opinon) kinda hard to make a good looking robot out of. I'm surprised HasTak was even able to pull of a jumbo jet Transformer.

RTS Lugnut is sort of the same in regards to the proportions, and it looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better. I think its possible to make a commercial airliner look good in Robot form.

True, but his transformation is based on Animated Lugnut (Obviously ) who wasn't really like a jumbo jet (He had a good place for his arms to go). Not to mention RTS Lugnut's a voyager, and Air Raid is only a deluxe.

Yea, thats also true. I think a good sign of bad engineering is the fact that we can all see that backpack on him that looks like it could have been better used.

Too long and skinny.

No thank you. More for the rest of you.

What the $h!t? After all the waiting of a green jet autobot for earth vehicle mode Waspinator, This freakish stick figured Cybertron Jetfire wannabe is all we get??!!

looked awesome until i hit the robot mode pics…

funeralthirst7 wrote:Absolute garbage. That being said, it fits in perfectly with the DOTM line as most of those toys have been garbage too.

Freakin' A, once again what starts out great in alt mode transformers into a POS in robot mode. Another Bayverse great...'nuff said!

somehow, he looks cute

You know what it looks like? A Unicron Trilogy reject. I don't mean that as a burn on said Trilogy, just that it's like Hasbro is taking a HUGE step back in figure design after ROTF. What the heck?

I do have to say this proves the superiority of the pictorial versus the YouTube video. Was able to scroll down to see a shit robot-mode in a few seconds and then move on to other things. Would have had to watch 5-10 minutes of poorly manicured hands before getting the same info in a video.

Thank you, pictorial!

Sh*t has just met its match...

I dub thee, Johnny two D**ks looks like shit regardless

Just no.

I've been trying to be less rude and critical, so here goes. It had potential. All i'm gonna say.

As bad as it looks, something draws me to him. Have to pick this one up.

With swapping the arms and legs to opposite sides I could see earth-mode swoop, as a canadian collector it really irks me that we have gotten jipped on C.H.U.G figures twice now for this crap. I still haven't seen scourge, kup, wheeljack, thundercracker, and warpath up here at retail. and what about the upcoming generations figures that Hasbro claims are coming? I work in retail and were I work we still have 80% of the Hunt for the decepticons crap left. Oh well atleast they are providing some okay custom/parts bin fodder

A commercial jumbo jet.....in green, nontheless. Really? Is this from the Hasbro summer intern program? This is pure crap.

Want to see an Air Raid done properly?
http://www.angelfire.com/mech/jinsaotome/JinsDangerousToys/AirRaid.html

AF

Love the plane mode. Hate the robot mode. Maybe a Decepticon repaint will be better.