I had him since I was a little kid but never knew who he was and didn't appreciate him until recently when he is old and rigid. I can see that I never got the transformation all the way right when I thought I did. I came here to learn and there are no problems except the chest piece rotating. I'm glad I didn't get rid of this figure!
Whether it's watching the next episode of Transformers: Prime... going on a road trip with my family... or simply watching Optibotimus reviews... I'm always eating Recess Pieces.
With some customization, this could make a cool air version of Optimus if he took a different form. Judging from the facesculpt, at least. Great review, Optibotimus. I like all of your reviews. Keep them coming!
Not in his hands on his forearms which is basically par for the course for Transformers figure a lot of different figures have missiles and/or guns on their forearms
Great review. He seems kinda like the ultra magnus of this universe, considering he's one of Optimus' commanders. He also has a similar color scheme to magnus. Great, great figure.
Hey, thanks for running down the bio for him. I bought my Skyhammer off of ebay with no box (has everything else tho') so I didn't know about his backstory. He does have a really cool character to go with a great figure.
@@ilikepigeons6101 So what's your deal? You commented on a 9 year old post, thought it was a KO because you made a mistake because you misread what I said.
am I the only one who got a Ultra Magnus feel from this guy? It's mainly why I picked him up. from his head design/paint, to his bio. I always saw this figure as Ultra Magnus. I think when I pick up the Kbb Mb10 Ultra Magnus, I'll give the sword he comes with to SkyHammer.
You literally just showed me after... I'd say.... 5 more or less years you have showed me how to properly transform this amazing toy. Thanks you. I now know why the little machine gun blade thing he has is broken and I'm still missing the rockets
2:20 Yes, thankfully Hasbro put some money into this one and made him a voyager class. He is ridiculously cool. Also, if we're talking 80's shows he'd be more a combination of Blue Thunder and Airwolf.
@optibotimus I agee about his rotor. It's nice to not see it dangle awkwardly off the back, or worse yet, half on each arm ala Blazemaster. Skyhammer is one of my favorites of all the ones I have.
Airwolf was a Bell 222 Model A. Skyhammer looks nothing like Airwolf however he does bear a striking resemblance to Blue Thunder, perhaps that is the helicopter you were thinking of? Also my Skyhammer came with the set of instructions that show that the rotor is detachable even though it clearly is not. I understand that there were some that came with different instructions that do not show the rotor as being detachable. Did they change the design after the instructions were printed?
I just picked him up today at a local comic shop, He is awesome! The only thing about him I dont like is the mectech wepon. The "Blade" is upside down IMO. when it comes out the blade should be facing down.
His face is blue because he's suffocating from flying too high up in the atmosphere XD He is one of the best voyagers to be released in the DotM line. Not a fan of his gun though, so I bought an extra of deluxe Sideswipe's rifle off of ebay and gave him that. That gun was made for him, matches his color too and he looks bad ass dual wielding them! Plus it has a blade which matches his bio. Excellent review Optibotimus, and good luck with that finger cancer :( hope everything works out good.
@optibotimus yeah ik that, it's just that i have bad luck with figures (out-of-box loose joints) and i thought the mechtech in their arms would make them collapse. turns out they're just light enough on my loose-jointed toys to work. i just don't understand the "mechtech combination weapons" since barely any of them have ports on the weapon
got this figure today i broke one peg, but it's unimportant it has something to do with the propeller in robot mode, since we all konw theres more pegs to support it, it's fine. right?
Hi. I really like to watch your reviews. But I have some problem - the lightening. I don't know if someone has the same issue, but for me the scene is too bright. For that reason I cannot see some details you are talking about. Maybe You can do some experiment and reduce the amount of light for the next review? And then we all (the subscribers) could check if it's better or worse. Best wishes to You and your wife (and the cats of course:) ) Mirczefski
Skyhammer is a very cool figure even doesn't have any movie or cartoon about this Bot i like the style of his weapon is very cool i see the photo of Skyhammer on a Chinese website , it's a very cool and a fun figure for play the best Voyager Class in Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon .
I scrolled through the comment section just for this. This has been a holy grail for me since he came out. I'll be ordering him Friday. He will be my movie verse Ultra Magnus , and I will put tlk hound's guns on him to really give him the ultra magnus look
I've put him with my Scout Blue Team... Breacher, Sea Spray, Beachcomber, Rollbar, and Scattorshot. He may not be blue, more of a grey, but he is definately my leader of my scouts.
one of the coolest i've seen so far in the original movie characters that more or less never appeared in the movie but i still don't know why they keep on pushing for the mech tech add ons, they don't feel natural when you plug them in and just really makes for a bad eyesore for good transformers
I like aerialbots/cons because then you can make them fly transform in the sky and crush a bot/con or vehicle when they land. (uninhabited in bots case)
@nintendopwns002 Blackout (or Grindor) doesn't hold it like a gun. He either uses his small propeller as a buzz-saw (it's on his arm) , or his main propeller (which is on his back) as a sword, according to the video game.
Oh, also, that wheel? It *is* just your figure. It's supposed to move like the other. It looks like it was overextended down though. Try pushing it back a bit. You also didn't mention that he has two definite 3mm clip points (On his forearms) and two *usable* ones on his landing gears on his hips. :)
I love mine. Wish I started watching your vid before I transformed mine because mine has a bit of the stress marks in the same place. Sigh. but otherwise fantastic. And the face, I think mine wasn't blue enough! LOL! Love the hint of blue but your copy has a better blue than mine. Really am looking for another one just because of that. Spot on on the leader look though. I made mine the leader of my Arielbots. :)
cool? Yes. Functional? probably not. The problem with engineering triple chagers is that you have to either make all the parts contribute too all modes, and those that can't contibute to a mode, out of the way. The closest thing I could think a Helicopter might work with could be a hovecraft, or possibly a hydrofoil.
This certainly does indeed seem to be one of the best of the movie-verse figures thus far (I seriously regret not picking him up from Toys R Us when I had the chance. :(). And I do look forward to getting that Drift retool, knowing that the Copter mode is actually canon as a third mode. :D Great review btw. :)
Oh I remember Airwolf. I did see it when I was young. But I tought that Macgyver, Nightrider and there was another show... Anyway they were more cooler then Airwolf. But the airwolf themesong. Man that was great!!
I think he's got a little bit of a Silverbolt vibe to him. Beast-era Silverbolt I mean. I think it's his sorta muzzle-y face. Also, I'm pretty sure it's just your figure. On mine, the forearm ports are a touch loose.
@optibotimus Well, I think this issue is only present when some bright parts of the figure is shown directly in front of the camera (I really apologize for my English - I wonder if You understand me enough :) ) And back to the topic - Your background is really bright and then the parts of the figure (that are bright, white, you know what I mean) melt with it. But that's not a compliant, Your's reviews are just great.
this is waaaay better than the sky hammer from beast wars. it would have been cool if they mad him into a leader class and had him go from the helicopter, to a water vehicle, to robot.
in some pictures i see over the net the head is actually grey with a better painting overall ......... but i believe the only version out there is the one you have .... btw great reviews optibotimus ....you save us a lot of money ...... not all of them worth it :)
Ha who'd have thunk that I might actually get a figure before you? =D Like you said, one of the best non movie figures in the whole line. Question: what's on your finger? Is that recent or has it always been there?
The thing that makes hem kinda leaderisch. Is the bulky shoulders I guess. I know what you mean about see a leader in him but it's hard to describe. Oh I read on your twitter that people commeted on your blood blister. So here goes: For a blood blister that's a mighty fine one!
I had him since I was a little kid but never knew who he was and didn't appreciate him until recently when he is old and rigid. I can see that I never got the transformation all the way right when I thought I did. I came here to learn and there are no problems except the chest piece rotating. I'm glad I didn't get rid of this figure!
This was one of the first transformers I got when the movie came out and I love this figure.
i always wondered what the hole on the bottom of autobot drifts helicopter mode was used for 😐
Ben Moreno lol repaint
i forgot posting that lmao
Whether it's watching the next episode of Transformers: Prime... going on a road trip with my family... or simply watching Optibotimus reviews... I'm always eating Recess Pieces.
With some customization, this could make a cool air version of Optimus if he took a different form. Judging from the facesculpt, at least. Great review, Optibotimus. I like all of your reviews. Keep them coming!
You can put the missle pods on his hands which explains why the peg hole is tight because it's made for the missle pods
Not in his hands on his forearms which is basically par for the course for Transformers figure a lot of different figures have missiles and/or guns on their forearms
Sky Hammer along with Drift reminds me a lot to Star Saver !
Great review. He seems kinda like the ultra magnus of this universe, considering he's one of Optimus' commanders. He also has a similar color scheme to magnus. Great, great figure.
im having trouble turning the thing under the perpellors
Hey, thanks for running down the bio for him. I bought my Skyhammer off of ebay with no box (has everything else tho') so I didn't know about his backstory. He does have a really cool character to go with a great figure.
Then you prob bought a knockoff version, if your box had no text
@@ilikepigeons6101 No, I didn't have a *box*, not *a box with no text* hence the *I bought off of ebay without a box*.
@@alekesam then it was 2nd hand obviously then..?
@@ilikepigeons6101 So what's your deal? You commented on a 9 year old post, thought it was a KO because you made a mistake because you misread what I said.
@@alekesam idk i just thought you had the same problem as i did once.
Tho i am surprised you responded 9 years later, warms my heart
am I the only one who got a Ultra Magnus feel from this guy?
It's mainly why I picked him up. from his head design/paint, to his bio. I always saw this figure as Ultra Magnus.
I think when I pick up the Kbb Mb10 Ultra Magnus, I'll give the sword he comes with to SkyHammer.
Joseph Oakes agreed how much money he cost for you?
You literally just showed me after... I'd say.... 5 more or less years you have showed me how to properly transform this amazing toy. Thanks you. I now know why the little machine gun blade thing he has is broken and I'm still missing the rockets
What I like about Skyhammer is to me, he looks like a mix of movieverse and classics/generations.
Ok guys, hear me out… Bayverse Springer repaint….
I can't rotale object uner perpellers. Any one have same problem with me?
piyokung you have to first pull out the little white pole that the propellers are on. once you have done that, you can easily rotate it
oh yeh.. got it !! thank you ^ ^
both landing gear ARE supposed to rotate. maybe you can loosen your second one so that it moves.
2:20 Yes, thankfully Hasbro put some money into this one and made him a voyager class. He is ridiculously cool.
Also, if we're talking 80's shows he'd be more a combination of Blue Thunder and Airwolf.
@optibotimus I agee about his rotor. It's nice to not see it dangle awkwardly off the back, or worse yet, half on each arm ala Blazemaster. Skyhammer is one of my favorites of all the ones I have.
i cant wait to see his as drift
as a tri-tri-triple canger?
TheEnk429 that is what has being throw out to us
it happens in the movie
*him* Sorry I can't help it D:
Lenny Is A Carrot hi
Airwolf was a Bell 222 Model A. Skyhammer looks nothing like Airwolf however he does bear a striking resemblance to Blue Thunder, perhaps that is the helicopter you were thinking of?
Also my Skyhammer came with the set of instructions that show that the rotor is detachable even though it clearly is not. I understand that there were some that came with different instructions that do not show the rotor as being detachable. Did they change the design after the instructions were printed?
Bro, skyhammer is so underrated!
I just picked him up today at a local comic shop, He is awesome! The only thing about him I dont like is the mectech wepon. The "Blade" is upside down IMO. when it comes out the blade should be facing down.
@optibotimus Maybe there's extra flash jamming it? I wouldn't try to move it unless it's really annoying me.
The fancy folding on mine does not happen every time I have to do semi-helicopter
His face is blue because he's suffocating from flying too high up in the atmosphere XD
He is one of the best voyagers to be released in the DotM line. Not a fan of his gun though, so I bought an extra of deluxe Sideswipe's rifle off of ebay and gave him that. That gun was made for him, matches his color too and he looks bad ass dual wielding them! Plus it has a blade which matches his bio.
Excellent review Optibotimus, and good luck with that finger cancer :( hope everything works out good.
The best figure in DOTM series of transformers, it was much better than Voyagers class Optimus prime.
I need this! Why isn't this on sale on any online stores including Amazon? THIS IS TOO DAMN COOL TO MISS OUT ON!
penny bradley I don't really trust Ebay. Everything my family gets from it is either broken or completely different from the picture.
The helicopter that sky hammer is modelled after is a mi24 hind
@optibotimus yeah ik that, it's just that i have bad luck with figures (out-of-box loose joints)
and i thought the mechtech in their arms would make them collapse.
turns out they're just light enough on my loose-jointed toys to work.
i just don't understand the "mechtech combination weapons" since barely any of them have ports on the weapon
got this figure today i broke one peg, but it's unimportant it has something to do with the propeller in robot mode, since we all konw theres more pegs to support it, it's fine. right?
Hi. I really like to watch your reviews. But I have some problem - the lightening. I don't know if someone has the same issue, but for me the scene is too bright. For that reason I cannot see some details you are talking about. Maybe You can do some experiment and reduce the amount of light for the next review? And then we all (the subscribers) could check if it's better or worse.
Best wishes to You and your wife (and the cats of course:) )
Mirczefski
Is it worth it to buy a KO version of this figure??
Just picked him up yesterday, great figure. His face somehow reminds me of BW Silverbolt?
is it me, or is the cockpit for both skyhammer and tommahawk the same?
i never got the purpose of grindor and blackout holding their propellor like a gun. what are they gonna shoot, air?
Is there a mirage dark of the moon toy already? If so, can you do a review of it? :)
@optibotimus What is that song you used in the intro and outro, can I know?
You can take off the right arm and attach the mechtech weapon to hole for vehicle mode
I love this guy. I see the leader aspect you're talking about. He gave me kind of an Ultra Magnus vibe.
Can you please do a "now" review of blackout? the videos back then was hard to see the details.. please?
Picked him up for $13 at walmart, in my opinion one of the best in the DOTM toyline.
He looks like helicopter drift in transformers 4
He is
Duyphong Tran it is NO SURPRISE THERE 👍
Skyhammer is a very cool figure even doesn't have any movie or cartoon about this Bot i like the style of his weapon is very cool i see the photo of Skyhammer on a Chinese website , it's a very cool and a fun figure for play the best Voyager Class in Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon .
picked this guy up recently. Really digging him, he's definitely got a very Ultra Magnus vibe to him.
I scrolled through the comment section just for this. This has been a holy grail for me since he came out. I'll be ordering him Friday. He will be my movie verse Ultra Magnus , and I will put tlk hound's guns on him to really give him the ultra magnus look
I've put him with my Scout Blue Team... Breacher, Sea Spray, Beachcomber, Rollbar, and Scattorshot. He may not be blue, more of a grey, but he is definately my leader of my scouts.
DUDE! YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN! You convinced me to get this. At 1st I was kind of iffy, but yeah. XD
i am planing on getting the dark of the moon voyager class mech tech iron hide is that a good figure or should i pass on it?
this review brings me back to your blackout review
Easily one of the best DotM figures.
@optibotimus its just tight mine was the same way i just loosened the screw in it and it moves fine now.
can the cannons change the position in robot mode i think it can changes it in arms and not in back ..... can it do???
hey i wana ask~~ should i go for leader class bumblebee or sentinel?? which 1 better? i only afford 1..........
one of the coolest i've seen so far in the original movie characters that more or less never appeared in the movie but i still don't know why they keep on pushing for the mech tech add ons, they don't feel natural when you plug them in and just really makes for a bad eyesore for good transformers
He looks good, but how small/big is he? You didn't do a size comparison
When are you gonna get the Neca Terminator Tech Noir figure?
which should i buy Skyhammer megatron or schockwave
hay paul great review as always but wat happened to the new opening u showed in the promo for this vid
I SO want this guy and Leader class Ironhide... I kinda envy you, optibotimus
I like aerialbots/cons because then you can make them fly transform in the sky and crush a bot/con or vehicle when they land. (uninhabited in bots case)
@nintendopwns002 Blackout (or Grindor) doesn't hold it like a gun. He either uses his small propeller as a buzz-saw (it's on his arm) , or his main propeller (which is on his back) as a sword, according to the video game.
My figure does not stand up am I doing something wrong can anyone help me with this
hay optibotimus im trying to make a lego /bionicle transformer what do u think i should do
Oh, also, that wheel? It *is* just your figure. It's supposed to move like the other. It looks like it was overextended down though. Try pushing it back a bit. You also didn't mention that he has two definite 3mm clip points (On his forearms) and two *usable* ones on his landing gears on his hips. :)
I love mine. Wish I started watching your vid before I transformed mine because mine has a bit of the stress marks in the same place. Sigh. but otherwise fantastic. And the face, I think mine wasn't blue enough! LOL! Love the hint of blue but your copy has a better blue than mine. Really am looking for another one just because of that.
Spot on on the leader look though. I made mine the leader of my Arielbots. :)
I have this toy but I am missing the propellers =_=
cool? Yes. Functional? probably not. The problem with engineering triple chagers is that you have to either make all the parts contribute too all modes, and those that can't contibute to a mode, out of the way. The closest thing I could think a Helicopter might work with could be a hovecraft, or possibly a hydrofoil.
This certainly does indeed seem to be one of the best of the movie-verse figures thus far (I seriously regret not picking him up from Toys R Us when I had the chance. :(). And I do look forward to getting that Drift retool, knowing that the Copter mode is actually canon as a third mode. :D Great review btw. :)
- This is the nicest Transformer figure I've seen.
The hole in the front has it on drift version
Odd that people cant find him in stores, he is all over the place here
You should do a comparison to voyager class blackout
Oh I remember Airwolf.
I did see it when I was young.
But I tought that Macgyver, Nightrider and there was another show...
Anyway they were more cooler then Airwolf.
But the airwolf themesong. Man that was great!!
my set only dame with one of the things you attach to the mechtech weapon and his propellor base dose not rotate.
@optibotimus actually... yeah! But moving it b/c me? or is it not just me, but alot of others?
Just got him for 26 usd 2nd hand, no box! He's so awesome!!! :3
I think he's got a little bit of a Silverbolt vibe to him. Beast-era Silverbolt I mean. I think it's his sorta muzzle-y face.
Also, I'm pretty sure it's just your figure. On mine, the forearm ports are a touch loose.
@optibotimus Well, I think this issue is only present when some bright parts of the figure is shown directly in front of the camera (I really apologize for my English - I wonder if You understand me enough :) ) And back to the topic - Your background is really bright and then the parts of the figure (that are bright, white, you know what I mean) melt with it. But that's not a compliant, Your's reviews are just great.
His vehicle mode looks like a repaint of Hunt for The Decepticons Tomahawk.
TheTrojanToaster that would be a triple repaint
@optibotimus whats that on your finger
What's that black thing on your finger?
In the new transformers drift has has a helicopter mode which is a repaint of the mould
I hope I can get this guy before he costs a lot,I can't find him anywhere I live,looks amazing.
this is waaaay better than the sky hammer from beast wars. it would have been cool if they mad him into a leader class and had him go from the helicopter, to a water vehicle, to robot.
I have sky hammer and everything works perfectly so it might just be yours
he does look like a prime
@optibotimus how much is this at wal mart
Russian Hind Mil Mi-24 is the vehicle mode inspiration I would say from the cockpit.
You are my favourite optibotimus
is he bigger than shockwave?
in some pictures i see over the net the head is actually grey with a better painting overall ......... but i believe the only version out there is the one you have .... btw great reviews optibotimus ....you save us a lot of money ...... not all of them worth it :)
Cool figure, one I wish I had bought when I had the chance. But the white on his robot mode just feels... sorta off.
What is that black thing on your finger
THX NOW I KNOW HOW IM GONNA TRANSFORM IT
I used to have Skyhammer a long long time ago.
I just realized that the original AoE helicopter Drift is a repaint of this guy.
thanks for all the great videos,everytime i have problems transforming my toy´s i watch your videos haha,cuz you make such awesome reviews.
Ha who'd have thunk that I might actually get a figure before you? =D Like you said, one of the best non movie figures in the whole line. Question: what's on your finger? Is that recent or has it always been there?
ps
do you have any transformers energon figures?
this guy deserves a leader class figure
The thing that makes hem kinda leaderisch.
Is the bulky shoulders I guess.
I know what you mean about see a leader in him but it's hard to describe.
Oh I read on your twitter that people commeted on your blood blister.
So here goes:
For a blood blister that's a mighty fine one!