Comments on: Leader Class Ironhide!

By: Walkifer

Walkifer — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:10:36 +0000

Fun reading, it seems this Yzquierdo guy really has his priorities messed up.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_thread/thread/6c194c6cb6ece1c8/18ae632688baef6b?lnk=gst&q=seibertron+store#18ae632688baef6b

BTW, I first though his name was an intentional mispelling of “Izquierdo” (“left” in spanish).

By: Stormrunner

Stormrunner — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:35:54 +0000

Bought this Ironhide today. Mostly so I can have a decent “alt mode” for my display whenever I get my husband moved to the states and we get a home. I’ll use the other toy (movie 1) deluxe? Sorry cannot remember its packed up… along with 7 more boxes of transformers and a trunk full… I don’t think it helps that they are all still MIB and thus take up more room.

Got my husband a bit jealous cuz I kept playing with Ironhide’s gun through the box. SWOOOSH! Gimmicky :3

By: Ceric Neesh

Ceric Neesh — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:20:21 +0000

Seeing that picture, I’m sitting here wishing for a Leader-class Ratchet that’s ALSO in scale with the HA figures, like Ironhide is. I know we’ll probably never get a HA-scaled Prime (though I would spend plenty of money on one), but it’d be nice to have the rest of the first movie’s Autobot cast all in one scale. But c’mon, Ratchet deserves a leader-class figure as much as Ironhide does. Or at least a movie-accurate figure in something other than deluxe class…. okay, let’s include that, since the DOTM figure still has issues.

By: Esser-Z

Esser-Z — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:41:22 +0000

Mouthplate gimmick and turning head sure were possibly together back when they engineered Cybertron Prime!

By: ColdFusion

ColdFusion — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:15:10 +0000

such a shame.. just like Jetfire, one of my favorite characters gets a leader class toy, I expect something awesome like Starscream’s, and we get something gimmick-laden with its best, most prominent features ruined.
Though what’s really sad to me is that ‘robot replicas’ line that didn’t even do the one thing it was out to do, at least not very well..

By: Bobcat2022

Bobcat2022 — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:34:25 +0000

Nice pic, thanks… You’re right, an “Ultra” size Ironhide would be just about perfect. The new Voyager is actually smaller than the old one, right? (Stupid MechTech weapons increasing play value at the cost of screen accuracy… What are these things, for kids or something? [/sarcasm]). Crankcase is a bit small too, but I love evil police vehicle Transformers.

Yeah, the no-images makes sense there (and that reveal was one of my favorite things about the movie).

None of the new Primes out or known to be coming soon look true enough to the new CGI model to displace ROTF Leader Prime, either— and the upcoming Voyager Ratchet is to be a remold of the same old, I hear? Well, we’ll probably get delightfully screen-accurate versions of everybody in whatever they call the next post-movie line.

By: David Willis

David Willis — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:14:28 +0000

We only know about Mirage, Wheeljack, and Soundwave from image-less solicitations. Hasbro would have had them shown at BotCon, but they weren’t allowed to until after the movie released. (Soundwave’s altmode is kind of a huge spoiler, really, so that at least makes sense.)

Crankcase is ONE of the guys who chase the Autobots down the freeway. The other two are Crowbar (other humanoid) and Hatchet (the beast).

As for the relative size of Ironhide’s altmode, check out this movie 1 set photo: http://thecaveboard.yuku.com/topic/6795/Transformers-RPMs

By: David Willis

David Willis — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:11:28 +0000

Innnnnnteresting.

By: Agent Adam

Agent Adam — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:36:56 +0000

“His head also doesn’t turn, since that would make his flip-down-mouthplate gimmick impossible.”

It can! The head IS glued in position but that is easy to “fix.” After a few minutes under a hairdryer, the glue on my loosened enough to turn the head. It does not effect the mouth plate gimmick at all. His head doesn’t have a full rotation because of the mouth plate though. I also removed the spring from inside his noggin to stop popping the face plate up, but it is still able to be up if desired.

I lurv this Ironhide.

By: Bobcat2022

Bobcat2022 — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:40:10 +0000

Ironhide’s vehicle mode’s really that big? Yowza. S’what I get for never having been to BotCon. I think he just looks way too big in both modes…

Toys R Us is trying to offload their Preview Cyberverse Primes again this weekend, so I just splurged on deluxe Bumblebee (regular, not Nitro), Roadbuster, and Crankcase. Crankcase is what chased Sideswipe, etc down the freeway, right?

How are Mirage, Wheeljack, and Soundwave shaping up to look as far as screen-accuracy goes?