So I found this, and I bought it and ignored the SilverbluesilverTargetstreak.

It's in a cutout box with no window, advertises 20 steps has a quarcode to scan for the tech specs, which is a new thing. The side of the box has 5 wave 1 Autobots, Laser Op, Bulkhead, Blaster, Arcee herself, and Core Hot Rod.. I guess Skids, the only left out Autobot, wasn't important enough.

She's held to the cardboard tray with 7 plastic ties, 1 of which is to hold her backpack on, which has to be removed to take her out of the tray, unless you're going to cut apart the tray.

The figure has the main robot, a disc weapon which comes apart to be 2 round blade weapons, a front wheel which comes apart to form some other kind of weapon, and the bike nose, which is a removable backpack.

In robot mode she's got neck, shoulders, elbows, waist, hips, knees, and an ankle joint that doesn't work as well as it seems it should. The waist is too loose, as the torso doesn't have a way to lock together very well She stands fine and you can mount her bike wheel in her hand,on her forearm, on her back below the bike nose, or on her back above the bike nose, and the instructions ca out each of these positions as different forms of robot.

To get to bike mode, the waist spins around, the bike nose hinges up over the robot head, the waist goes to mid-back, her thighs go over her shoulders from behind, and her lower legs hinge out on a small arm to fold over the chest and form the underside of the bike. Her arms hinge into the sides to form the bike seat behind. There is a little bit of her gauntlets sliding over her hands, but not all the way. The sides of the bike nose fold out to wrap the sides of the bike.

It's not as good as the Prime Arcee form. It's a higher price point to get a smaller robot that has a ton of places that look like they're supposed to lock together, but just don't have anything to lock to.

Her robot mode face looks fine, but the chest is just too flat I don't mean boobs,it just feels so plain and boring for a robot chest period. It's also really flat on the side, like she's wearing a big sandwich board on her front and we don't know what's behind it. It also just doesn't do much with the bike parts in robot mode. 1 wheel splits and just hangs off the sides of the boots, where the other is a weapon or a backpack, or they just keep giving us half-hearted ways to try and make it not look like a bike wheel much in the same way G1 Iguanus tried to make the bike wheel also something else.

The bike mode seems to mostly be the gauntlets, the backpack, and the wheels. The robot hips just stick out, the shoulders clearly visible on the side of the bike.

We got used to a detailed robot making a not so impressive vehicle, or a flawed robot to make a great alt mode, but this just sort of does a middling job of both which means neither mode is all that amazing.

I understand this is supposed to be a G1 re-imagining of who they call "Prime Universe Arcee" but I don't want them to use that as an excuse to be lazy and omit details at a time when we're getting more detailed version of G1 characters. There was obviously a lot of planning here that didn't pan out to give us a floppy flat robot.

On Monday, April 4, 2022 at 8:22:21 AM UTC-7, Ob1k...@att.net wrote:
> So I found this, and I bought it and ignored the SilverbluesilverTargetstreak.

I haven't seen any Legacy deluxes so far and Arcee has some incredible box art. That depiction of the motorcycle on the front of the box looks amazing..

> It's in a cutout box with no window, advertises 20 steps has a quarcode to scan for the tech specs, which is a new thing. The side of the box has 5 wave 1 Autobots, Laser Op, Bulkhead, Blaster, Arcee herself, and Core Hot Rod.

Is that really Laser Op? It's looking back over its right shoulder which is kinda impossible for Laser Op. Maybe another G1 Optimus is in the works for Legacy?

> I guess Skids, the only left out Autobot, wasn't important enough.

Just like original Skids getting left out of the '84 catalog but being included in the '84 assortments. So it's a shout out by omission.
> The figure has the main robot, a disc weapon which comes apart to be 2 round blade weapons

I saw in one review that the round blades can be attached to Skids' ax. I guess mix and match weapons are the Legacy undocumented gimmick.

> It's not as good as the Prime Arcee form. It's a higher price point to get a smaller robot that has a ton of places that look like they're supposed to lock together, but just don't have anything to lock to.

This would have been a good Those tires halves hanging off the sides of the shins are such an eyesore. But isn't this the first screen accurate bike where she has two round headlights in bike mode?

> 1 wheel splits and just hangs off the sides of the boots, where the other is a weapon or a backpack,

I do like how the one wheel can split and mount behind the head to give the impression of two circular wings, but then there's the other two halves hanging off the legs giving the impression in robot mode that she has four wheels.They may as well have gone the G1 Iguanus route and have the two wheels be a connected assembly and spare some kibble in robot mode.

> The bike mode seems to mostly be the gauntlets, the backpack, and the wheels. The robot hips just stick out, the shoulders clearly visible on the side of the bike.

Also it's weird how it looks like her robot crotch is sticking out prominently right on the spot of the bike where the rider seat would be. I would be blushing a lot if I had to ride her.