Siege Starscream
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- Опубліковано 19 лют 2022
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For longest time, I never understood why so many loved this mold. That is, until about two weeks ago I picked up Shattered Glass Starscream on a whim. And now I understand. I love how poseable it is, and while on my copy the transformation is a little finnicky, the alt mode pops. I have the seige Jetfire, and since Shattered Glass Starscream is based on Jetfire's livery, I pose them together. Jetfire and his #1 fan.
Wait till it yellows after a month like how mine did
Well…
That was an impossibly easy mystery you solved there, Sherlock.
Of course you aren’t going to understand the hype of something if you’ve never had it in hand before very recently.
So happy for you that so many brave souls had to risk financial ruin to buy nearly a dozen versions of the mold in order to afford you the opportunity to experience the mold firsthand way later than should have been necessary…
@@mew1529 Maybe if you laid off the tobacco and weed, your figure wouldn’t have yellowed.
Mine is still pristine white, which must obviously be the work of strong magic after selling my soul to Satan…
@@mew1529 that only happens when the figure is kept in bad conditions, or constantly close to a bright light bulb. Certain parts of my Earthrise Megatron and Soundwave yellowed because I left them too close to a light for too long. Try to keep white/grey plastic figures in places not directly exposed to bright lights.
@@JROD082384 I only do meth
I honestly prefer this version over the Earthrise one! It looks dope as hell plus he has better articulation and more details!
And no paint in places where it's easy to chip it. And better kibble management.
2:50 if I were to say why this figure Looks more proportionate than ER prime I think its cause the red hips blend into the chest making it appear like there is less leg. While ER prime's grey hips only add to the apparent length.
Color breaking is a powerful tool
Yeah, makes the hips more obviously hips
Siege Starscream and SSS Grimlock are my favorite figures of all time. Every single time I pick those 2 up, I remember just why I love collecting and animating. My bro also owns Siege Skywarp, and the 3 Tetrajets look spectacular together.
What is SSS Grimlock?
@@PerspectiveEnd SS86, sorry about the misspelling
Figures like this and Siege Optimus helped resurrect my love for collecting TF toys. The Prime Wars trilogy was really hit or miss for me, and I was just about done collecting outside of vintage figures. Then Siege came in and I had to get just about every figure that was available. I have at least six versions of this mold in particular (the original Seeker trio and Rainmakers). My wallet hasn’t cried this much since Transformers Animated was still on air.
I agree with you. I stopped collecting TFs after Armada. Then one day I saw a review for Seige figures on my feed, and I've been collecting just about all the WFC Trilogy figures ever since. The bulk of my credit cards purchases are mainly on TFs, especially now that I've been collecting NewAge.
if you ever really want to finish the trio one day, you could always use Hotlink as a substitute for Skywarp. he looks similar enough and sells for a much cheaper price on the aftermarket.
Theoretically, but I'm Ok. Don't feel the need to substitute.
I was lucky enough to get siege skywarp, and having all 3 of them together on a shelf is amazing. Even better when Starscream and Thundercracker are holding their accessories from the centurion pack!
Nice! That centurion pack is also something I never picked up.
It was coming across this vid that made me finally want a version of this mold and I thankfully got a Thundercracker with the head already swapped! And I LOVE HIM, like, yeah, this is one of the best molds Siege had.
I'm proud to have convinced you to pick that up, and relieved that you like it.
One of my favorites out the entirety of WfC. Love the crazy posability, proportions, details, those spring-loaded calves, and that it has an actual complete looking upper torso instead of the ER one's weird, gappy-boxxy bod. Maybe the ER Seeker mold has the more enjoyable transformation, but at the same time the elbows are almost always a glitch to transform on it. Really dig the spacejet mode too despite all the undercarriage. It might not be super toon accurate, but I like how it looks like a love child of a tetrajet and an X-wing.
Seriously though, I love posing Siegescream. The fact he can both cross his arms and do the slav squat like a boss never ceases to put smile on my face.
You just don't see Spring Loaded stuff any more on Chug Figures.
I do not think the ER one has the better transformation. There is too much of that thing that doesn't work as intended.
@@PerspectiveEnd I'd say to me it's a tossup whether I like the Siege one'stransformation or ER's more, though at the same time I've never had a problem with Siegescream's shellforming. Just like you said, there's just enough actual transformation happening where the figure doesn't justfeel like a glorified Matryoshka doll.
As for the ER seekers, I'm perfectly content with just owning the gen. selects Ramject for its funky G2 colors. On the bright side, there's no way this will be the last Earth mode G1 seekermold we'll ever get, so there's always next time.
This mold is probably the best in my collection. I have the sparkless seeker, and I absolutely love it! I also love how the wings look like the decepticons symbol.
You know I never noticed that about the wings, but yeah they do look a bit like that.
It baffles me how a lot of collectors got this mold but when not the earthrise figure came out, everyone flocked to that one despite being inferior compared to this one. I don't care too much for one to one accuracy all the time for certain characters but this was still a really great figure, wish I got tc though, only have sc and the purple one who isnt skywarp (forgot his name sorry)
Yeah, the ER version SUCKS and it only sold so well because it was G1ish, while being bad at it. GEWUNNERS gonna GEEWUNN!!! you know.
@@PerspectiveEnd i still dont understand how ppl are ok with the SEEKERS being obeese, that makes 0% but i guess Geewuners need a new brain
You mean hotlink
without a doubt one of my favorite Generations figures ever
the presence, the articulation, the strength of the materials, the accuracy is just *chef kiss*
I'm glad you enjoy it more than I do, it does deserve it, I don't know what leaves me a little cold on it.
Can confirm this figure is amazing with a stand, air poses for days!!!
Just so you know if you didn’t already, the grey plate on the back of his head is supposed to be a gap filler for robot mode. There are notches on the side of the plate that slide into some grooves on the shoulder pylons.
What grey plate on the back of his head?
The mold broke on me, twice. The backpack is on one string, I beleive, and it snapped.
I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't even know that was something that happens with this figure. How did it break twice?
@@PerspectiveEnd I had the mold twice, broke similarly.
@@PerspectiveEnd and yet I'm buying it again... after a long period of no purchases
Besides the flaw of the chest popping off till it was fixed in later releases. And I wish hasbro giving him a smirking face expression instead of it being for Siege Thundercracker. I swear why they did that, is beyond me. Siege Starscream has a cool cybertronian design. His robot mode is great, very poseable. But his tetrajet alt mode just looks awesome. Sure, it's not the flying pyramid design from the G1 cartoon, but looks almost Star Wars like. Like how the robot folds in for tetrajet flight.
-Thundercracker on the other hand, looks great too. Really liking the bright blue color looks in both modes. And Skywarp-.... Oh right. He was a hard to get exclusive. Damn it.
-I personally had a Siege Starscream, but sold it when the Earthrise version came out. Same for my Siege Thundercracker. And luckily I eventually got the Earthrise Thundercracker and Skywarp. But it mainly came down to who wears the tetrajet alt mode better. Between Starscream or the Generations Selects Red Wing. And Red Wing won. As he has that Armada Starscream vibe.
Yeah honestly a lot of the Siege stuff was less Cybertronian, and more Starwars.
I still need a redwing and armada starscream (damn you hasbro if you make my favourite character more g1 then armada)
I love this mold because it gave us my favorite “non-character” seeker
And who is that?
@@PerspectiveEnd red wing
This is the only mould I’ve ever owned over 5 of (9 total), a figure has to be killer to make me do that, it can’t just be a seeker (0 versions of ER). My gawd does the battle damage look amazing on him, will never understand the hate for it. I kept the regular head because this to me is a younger starscream in his warrior days. And can I just say the tetra jet redesign is stellar, this looks like a true attack jet instead of a floating triangle like the G1 version. Sure it has a kibble bottom, but nobody is allowed to say the ER cleans up better, it does not
To be fair at one point I did own 5 of it, and I don't know that I can say that for anything ese except for say Masterpiece Bumblebees because everything ever is base4d on him.
Coming back to say: I just got the PF version and it is literally so good. The tolerances are perfect, and the colors are soooo nice. Like you really have to see it in hand to see just how good he looks and feels. Definitely the definitive chug Starscream
Glad to hear the Premium version doesn't feel like a waste of money.
This figure is what got me back into transformers after the abysmal prime wars trilogy.
I actually liked a lot of the Prime Wars Trillogy. The Skylynx was great, Titans Return had a lot of really good figures. I LOVE the PotP Optimus Prime.
Thank you thank you thank you. The bar was set so high with this when it was first released. I was so impressed with the possibility of this thing and articulation that I thought it was going to be this way through the rest of the line. Once again couldn't have said this better myself
I had bought a seige starscream a few days ago just because of how many reviews I saw said how its amazing and one of the best starscreams to ever come out. After a few days of having it I decided to transformer it and the hinge holding the backpack to the figure snapped so now it is forever stuck in its robot mode.
I'm so sorry to hear that. That sucks! I've never heard of anyone having that problem before? Did you buy it second hand or something? Did maybe the original owner break it and then repair it and sell it?
@@PerspectiveEnd Nope it was brand new
You don't have to blind yourself for light piping. Just take pics outside on a sunny day
But then everything is so bright the light eyes don't stand out.
@@PerspectiveEnd I wish I had a way to share some of the pics I've taken with you. They come out great
I wasn't expecting a video today it was a surprise but a welcome one
Honestly surprised more videos on this guy don't talk about how the null rays don't need to partsform, when I realised that I was floored.
Got this guy and the earthrise basically back to back and I am glad I got ER first because otherwise I'd be so let down.
Yeah, that's another reason why the ER Sucks so bad. This one came out just before and stomps it into the ground.
I have the hotlink version of this mold and the solidness of that mold just took it to a whole new level
He is very visually appealing. Even if he isn't screen accurate like earthrise Starscream.
I don't think the ER is Screen accurate. He's too puffy for that.
I remember getting this figure when the earthrise when it was announced. And now that I have them both I can’t believe that I thought I needed the earthrise. This figure is too good!
Yeah the Earthrise figure just doesn't hold a candle to this.
@@PerspectiveEnd exactly
I 100% agree with everything you said about this guy. Even the chest pooping off. But I done a similar fix to you, and now he's mint!
Yeah the chest was so frustrating, and drilling it out was a pain because it was such a small raised part the drill constantly wanted to slip off.
I really dig this figure, of the few Siege figures I've purchased he's definitely one of the best and just does everything with ease. Also I think most people wanted a review of this lad was due to your known distaste for the Earthrise figure and your brief mention of this figure during the Siege video.
Guess who got this figure!! I love it, the tetrajet mode the articulation is AWESOME for animating and the paint amd sculpting oh god immaculate!
Hey! Congratulations! I knew you'd like this one. The poseability is a step above so many others.
I really enjoyed this take on the Tetra-Jet, by way of Battlestar Galactica Viper. He's got a heft to him, not cheap, especially in vehicle mode. Feels like you could deliver a pointy concussion if you threw it at someone. I really like everything, with that nosecone into his shoulder vent transformation being pretty damn clever. Got this, TC, and even Hotlink because F*CK trying to get Skywarp for under 200 aftermarket.
I would still love to get a G1 Tetrajet, but there is no denying that this was just a Banger Mold.
And yes Skywarp was just stupid the way they handled it.
“I hope you all enjoyed listen to me w-“ *vanishes into the shadow realm*
I bought this figure to spite the Eatthrise version.
Also because I've never had a G1 Starscream. Plus he'll look good next to the other big 3 Cons, who are also Siege versions.
I approve this spiteful course of action.
The rightful ruler of the decepticons deserves all the praise he can get
I think everyone who has this set of seekers, which is my personal favorite seeker design "I'm a chug guy" has swapped cracker and screamers heads
I never mind how its legs crunch up on the bottom. Cybertronian alt modes are typically more for function than disguise.
Actually on my Starscream, the light piping works extremely well. Even without a super bright light source they still shine great.
I wonder how they can be so different.
As many times as this mold has been reused, I was really expecting the Coneheads from this mold but alas, I have to turn to other means to get siege Coneheads
It shocks me they never did a cone heads based on this. They did a few made up characters that weren't in the serries before, but no Coneheads.
I was never able to find the main trio in this mold, but I did find the Rainmaker 3-pack at my local Target. I picked it up only because it was 3 voyagers for the price of two and I don't have any regrets.
Edit: My fave looking one from the 3-pack is Ion Storm so I used to display it in vehicle mode on a spare figma stand I had laying around. That is until I accidentally bumped my shelf a few months ago and caused him to fall off my shelf and in the process the stand arm broke at the base.
I had that set, but I couldn't justify keeping it around when it was so expensive and they were so boring looking. If you like them more then I did I'm glad.
Finally… I’ve been waiting for a review for this figure that love so much. We need mp figure that are in their cybertronian. MP SPACE BUMBLEBEE
I'm glad I was finally able to satisfy your BURNING NEED!
I’m finally finding things u praise which is .. surprising. I absolutely love the mold. Whilst I don’t own it (yet) I am meaning to find it at tfcon (Toronto) I love how it looks, and the alt mode draws me to it.
I praise a lot of stuff. If you do get a hold of one of these I think you will enjoy it greatly.
@@PerspectiveEnd I will. Possibly at tfcon (Toronto)
Ok you made me love this figure even more than before. I never even realized how genius the design for the feet are. You got every single aspect that makes this figure pop, from the wings to the paint and tolerance. I might consider buying stickers for Starscream because it’s worth it for him. Just wondering, when transforming the figure is the nose cone section difficult to separate, or is it just a issue of the figure I own? I don’t transform Starscream that often just because this issue even though the rest of the conversion is pretty fun. Wonderful review of a great Starscream figure.
the head is based on g1 of course but also on the Cybertron/galaxy force Starscream
You know I never would have thought of that.
The stilleto heels on this guy may be a reference to Prime Starscream.
I was waiting the micro seconds for this.
When you talk about light piping I try to think of ways it could be done better, and I think I realized it. The Classics Prime I have is a reissue from around the time Age of Extinction came out with G1 toy colors, therefore he's got the yellow eyes. However, the lightpiping was still a light clear blue with thin yellow painted over the eyes. You can still see his eyes normally, and it works well when you cram a flashlight in his head. Otherwise uh..I dunno use a really rich color for the plastic like Kingdom Waspinator that's very visible no matter what.
On the Fanstoys Jetfire, they have eyes that are both Chromed and they can still Light Pipe.
@@PerspectiveEnd Best way to do it
Looking back at siege makes me realize that earthrise was a mistake
Yeah, it just didn't stack up at all.
@@PerspectiveEnd I mean the quality of the figures were not nearly as close as the siege toyline . Siege had one of the best plastics that have been used for transformers figures . The engineering was way better handled and smoother as well . On the other hand ,almost all figures in earthrise were made out of clear plastic which was very breakable and the paint jobs were dogshit
Because this is one of two molds that Hasbro never stopped remolding or maybe just rerelease
So, I do have Red Wing, Hotlink, Sparkless Seeker, and, at the time of writing this comment, the Rainmaker 3-pack should be on the way. (And given I don't have Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp (well, I actually do, but only their Studio Series figures, no Skywarp included there.), Red Wing, Ion Storm, and Hotlink CAN work in place of those three.)
There's a panel that connects to the head in vehicle mode that fills the gap in robot mode while you can have the thrusters on the back. (Or still in their original spot, as seen out of the box.)
And I'm one of the few souls that doesn't mind the battle damage on these figures.
(I think you'd tolerate the light piping if the color for the piping were lighter, like orange.)
I don't mind the chest not pinned, because at least you CAN put it back on the figure.
(Aaaaaaaand THERE'S NO FOTTAGE OF YOU THRASHING THE EARCEE WHILE TALKING ABOUT SHELLFORMING.)
Oh, wait.
Why do I get the feeling that other people will ask you to cover the Earthrise Starscream after this video?
A few people have asked me to do that yes.
And I can't believe I never realized that's what that panel was for. I mean it takes away the upwards range on the head, so I still wouldn't use it but man it shocks me I didn't figure that out.
@@PerspectiveEnd (And now the Rainmakers showed up, and my god, my Seeker armada is just so colorful!)
This makes me wish they made the shattered glass Optimus out of the siege mold
That would have been way better, and actually more accurate because the OG SG Optimus was based on one with a lot of Sleeve Kibble.
I love this figure, the mold is so much better than the crappy ER Seekers imo. The poseablility is unrivaled, the paint is great, the battle damage looks good, and the Tetra jet mode is one of Siege's best alts. I still hope we get a Sunstorm from this mold.
I mean we got a Novastorm who is just Sunstorm by another name.
And yes the ER mold sucks.
@@PerspectiveEnd True, but I mean like the Animated Sunstorm with color breakup instead of a neon blob of shit.
I love this mold so much it's so much fun to pose
Man, this is making me wanna get a second Starscream to make him all ghost-like.
If I were to rank all 3 parts of the War For Cybertron Trilogy, it would be this:
1. Siege
2. Kingdom
3. Earthrise
I would agree to that.
I like the siege battle damage but Starscream should be clean he’s the kinda guy who would take care of him self
When you said that you returned some seekers with nullray looseness problems, i feel like you at some point owned the skittle squad rain makers.
I love the tetrajet alt mode it looks so good and space like. Just much cool many wow
Yeah it manages to not only not look like G1, but also not look like an earth vehicle, and at the same time, NOT look like an indistinct brick on thrusters, like lots of Cybertronian altmodes are want to do.
HO LY SHIET
for someone who preferred earthrise modes before the other ones starscream was always one that followed the same premise, simple and predictable i saw ur video and went, oh maybe this might be a cool figure to own, those stickers are looking pretty fantastic, and so i go and wonder how am i going to get my hands on him or even if i need him, i sold my er screamer bc i though studio series would... you know upgrade the mold instead of just literal accesories for 20 bucks on ebay and just semi posable hands, i was very dissapointed and was about to grab the er again until your video came, and wow, just wow
i found one at 50 bucks with stickers and all and quickly snapped it, and i gotta tell you that transformation is a godsend, a literal masterpiece, and completely clears my thought on the lazy waythe er one is just classics but bigger and with more steps, this starscream has A WAIST SWIVEL, something the masterpiece couldnt even do it, and a posing only a sly and treaterous decepticon can have this is along with the buzzworthy bumblebee, siege jetfire, ss grimlock,and tr blitzwing among my favorite figure to handle and pose, they are just amazing and the fact all of those i decided to buy because of you, really cements why you might have the most unbiased opinions out of all the transformers reviewers out there
couldnt have asked for a better starscream mode, excellent video dude, now to replace my thunderwarp earthrise for the sieges, they are hella worth it
I'm glad I convinced you to get something you like so much, amazed it arrived so quickly.
Happy Halloween perspective end 🎃
Thank you so much!
@@PerspectiveEnd my pleasure
Im so glad i picked up Redwing because his deco is super nice looking in hand
Gentle reminder that any Starscream figure without a waist swivel isn’t worth paying Voyager prices for
I still think you are high af with regards to your position on light piping, but the rest of your video was relatively spot on.
Keep up the good work.
I got Siegescream for Christmas 2019, I think he was my first non-battle-master figure from WFC, and the same day Thew Adams uploaded his big Seven-Siege-Seekers review of all of them, which was awesome.
HotLink is a sick figure and perfect substitute for the skywarp exclusive... I would even say he's better than skywarp IMHO... Redwing is another great deco of this mould...
I wouldn't say perfect, especially if you are a stickler for color, but absolutely suitable as a replacement.
And yes there were many great versions of this thing.
I loved this mold but then my thundercrackers back asembly broke so I don't have one anymore
I'm sorry to hear that, I didn't know till today that the backs of Thundercracker had a problem with that.
Would you say he... ThunderCracked?... I'll leave now.
No stay I need this
Man now I really want one so ill add that to the list of things i gotta look for
There were about a Million Versions of this figure so it shouldn't be too hard to find some version for a Reasonable Price.
Awesome review! He is a fantastic figure, love the articulation! I did the head sculpt swap as well, makes a huge difference. Shame the earthrise didn't have all the same articulation and better plastic the siege one had
Actually there is a way to cover the gap with the thruster put where it's supposed to go, you take the plate that tabs I to the back of the head and put it in between the shoulder intakes which locks it and the platform the head is on in place and fills the gap in
For your question, it’s definitely because it’s the long sought for tetra jet mold that people have wanted forever.
See here's the think, I don't know if this really fills that gap. It's a good space mode for Starscream, but it's not great as a Representation of the Tetrajet.
Only character who had his cybertronian mode as seen in cartoon in this toyline
I didn't realize this video came out today, I just got this guy and a GameStop about a month ago, and I'm ready happy with him. Mostly. The null rays never stayed in, and the chest is awful, but that's nothing new as far as this mold goes. I actually had this figure taken apart before, the jet mode and the robot completely separate
I'm a little confused by that first bit. I mean you watched it today, so you did realize it came out today?
Yeah if you just drive out 1 pin you can separate these two, it looks a little plain without the backpack. That was not a pun.
@@PerspectiveEnd sorry about that first part, I was watching your older videos and this one popped up and I thought it was an older one I had missed. And you don't even need to drive a pin out to remove the backpack, there's a part that can just unclip with a little bit of force. Although yeah, it definitely looks a lot better attached
I think I'll get the shattered glass version of this character and see if I can do what you did with the chest. It seems like a cool figure
I absolutely need newage to try a tetrajet. I love their seeker mold but my heart ultimately belongs to cybertronian designs.
I'd like to see MMC take a Stab at it.
@@PerspectiveEnd once u get the funds newage released a toon accurate starscream, same colors as mp. They also have a shattered glass one coming out in march
It's also interesting how, as well as shell forming, it technically faux forms in the chest, and parts-forms with the nullrays.
So it does all 3 of the cardinal TF Sins, but it uses all three of those techniques exactly how they should be used.
I tihnk the reason why the long leg thing isn’t as apparent with Starscream as it is with ER prime is because of the waist looking much more like it’s a part of the torso rather than a part of the legs and overall, the waist/hips whatever it’s called looks like one cohesive piece through a combo of it’s sculpting and the plastic colour
ER Optimus’s version of that leg configuration fails to work as well as screamer because universal hips are too skinny when compared to the crotch, making it easy to tell its 3 different pieces. The only reason I assume it’s on the figure is because no one noticed until it was too late into the design phase and changing it would require changing the whole way the arms work to give the crotch more space
Yeah it definitely helps to have a defined color break up at the thigh swivel.
The thing is I don't know if anyone ever noticed Optimus's problems. For the LONGEST time I was the only person who would talk about them, and it took explaining it like 3 times for people to see what I was talking about.
@@PerspectiveEnd I can’t say for others but I certainly noticed aswell though not until I had the thing for like, a month. I think people didn’t notice as much for multiple reasons though, from the fact that the weird gangly look kind of disappears when he’s in poses to the fact that painting the thighs a lighter grey or white and adding yellow to the middle buckle makes it much less glaring an issue.
When people say it’s a mini MP10, it _literally_ is a mini MP10 from the opening hands to the removable matrix, ion blaster, trailer and repair drone to zero faux parts anywhere but the waist section to the somewhat gimped articulation in certain areas what could’ve easily been improved right down to the fact that, it too, is somewhat proportionally wonky yet no one seems to pay attention or really care that much, likely due to people just having too much fun with an Optimus that turns into a very g1’ish looking truck to notice
This figure is an absolute work of art. The fact that people seriously prefer the ER figure blows my mind.
Another reason why ER Prime looks leggy compared to the likes of SS86 Grimlock and the Tetrajet mold who do the same hip thing is thanks to those having a longer middle crotch piece. Having that piece hanging down creates the illusion of the legs not being as long as they really are.
I think you are correct in that observation.
“I hope you all enjoyed listening to me w-“
Ironhide & Ratchet when? Also Glad You Went back To 3 videos a week, thanks
the netflix hotlink and sparkless seekers are great too as they are the improved verion of the mold with 2 battle masters and some blast effects that can be used on them
I've heard bad things about the Sparkless but yes Hotlink looks very good.
@@PerspectiveEnd i dont understand the hate for the sparkless seeker as it can make some good no-name generic seekers
Such a amazing looking figure and articulation
Even got a fun Transformation, if you fix the chest panel.
This is, in my opinion, one of the best WFC figures of all time, and is why, in my opinion, the ER Starscream fails so hard. This one just has so much personality. The posability, the silhouette, even something as simple as how the wings move all work in tandem to give this figure an incredible amount of personality that the ER one just doesn't have. I recently picked up the SG Starscream, and I was blown away how, in spite of me already having 4 versions of the mold and it being now a three year old figure, I still could have a tonne of fun with it
You and me seem to be on the exact same page when it comes to this. This is absolutely one of the best of the Trilogy and ERscream Pales in comparison.
@@PerspectiveEnd I'd really like to get my hands on Coronation Scream, just to see if his armour and cape fit onto the Siege one
(If not, hey, I get a coronation Scream plus a cool throne)
A SEEKER WITH A WAIST AT RETAIL PRICE YOU WOULD THINK IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE. lol all jokes aside, this is probably my favorite mold from the trilogy. It just excels at everything it is trying to do while packing in some amazing articulation on a robot mode that is truly updated. This mold seems to be forgotten a lot since the ER, but goddamn does this mold blow that out of the water. Like I don’t even see any competition. The only thing going for the ER Is the earth mode, everything else is substantially worse on that figure. I don’t usually go for the hasbro cashgrab premium finish stuff, but I cannot WAIT for the PF version of this guy to land, it will be my definitive Starscream and I wish we could keep getting more tetrajets.
Great video as well, I hit send too early lol
Yeah the ER Mold doesn't hold a Candle to this, the damn thing is a Joke. It's not even because this is one of the best figures of the line. It's because that one's bad.
@@PerspectiveEnd oh yeah it’s genuinely bad. I don’t mind it as much for the coneheads as the aesthetics of that version fits how I view the coneheads, but I couldn’t push myself to like the mold. I love seekers and specifically Starscream and no matter how much I tried I just had to concede that it was just a lazy upscaling. Which was super disappointing, we could’ve had, quite possibly, the best seeker mold ever done had they put more effort into it. Luckily I don’t display my bots in vehicle mode and robot wise I’m not sure what else I could of asked for from the siege version. Though I will die on the hill that the if the SS86 screamer couldn’t be a new mold, it should’ve been a cleaner sculpted and painted version of this mold with the extra accessories. The ER is honestly far less accurate when looking at just robot mode, especially with the more “anime proportions” (if you will) of how screamer was drawn in that scene
I have no idea i like the way the nose cone works though when I saw pictures I that it would just fold up on its back…. Fan fic
I like the way the nosecone works too.
I got the shattered glass starscream for Christmas and it is amazing, like he feels like he would smash a wall
5:57 so much happened in the span of 1 second🤣
I'm glad you enjoyed that bit.
I have the Netflix zombie er spark less seeker mold & I do enjoy it even though the nose is a bit to tough to split in half but I can overlook that part of the figure
Glad you are liking that one. It's not quite rocking the popping colors, but every other factor should be about the same, and yes the nosecone is usually hard to separate.
Hot link will fill that whole in your trio dude
Hotlink isn't quite a Squwarp for me. his colors just don't hit they way they need to.
I would love to see a video of you reviewing the siege prowl and barricade
I will at some point.
The only problem I actually have with it is how much the torso doesn’t make sense for their cybertronian mode (they still have their cockpit from their earth jet mode). But then again, this is accurate to the original show (cause it would have been a waste to make those specific designs they’ll only use for at least 10 minutes of the show. Least animated had more of a reason to, even going so far as to make toys of some of them)
I just assume it's like Unicron's Stomach. It's not supposed to be a Jet Cockpit.
Gundam markers actually make chrome eye markers. If your brave enough to split a figures head in half I think you'd really like it.
Hehe, Now You reviewed Siege Starscream and Skyfire
Couple things,
Firstly, I was thinking about just using the Netflix Hotlink as Siege Skywarp, but to quote another youtuber(diamondbolt)
"When everyone has to pretend that another guy is the one they want, then you've done something wrong."
Also I think the reason this was so requested is because it's one of the few Siege figures you haven't talked about much at all from what I've seen. You might have mentioned it every now and then and briefly given your thoughts, but with reviews for Siege Optimus, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, and even Origin Bumblebee (it's basically siege bumblebee) I suppose people were wondering why you hadn't done Starscream yet
I personally have a love for this mold, probably because I have three of it and Starscream specifically was the first figure I ever bought stickers for. When people said the earthrise was better, I thought they were crazy
Man, I was a normal well-adjusted human being until I saw this video. Now I sorely regret skipping this mold. I saw plenty of them in-store when they were first released, both Starscream and Thundercracker; but I was too tight-fisted with my money and thought the alt-mode looked too blocky for my taste. Now I find myself scouring eBay to see if there's any left for a reasonable price. Good video!
You should do one of those videos where you ask yourself “If I had to keep only five figures in my collection, who would I keep?”, I think that would be an interesting video.
The only flaw I have with this figure is that the chest panel damages the tabs on the wings leaving stress marks. Which could lead to the tabs breaking off of the wings. It’s the reason why I had to return this figure 6 times and then just gave up. Which sucks because I love the articulation on the figure, along with how simple and quick the transformation is.
I ended up buying the Earthrise version in Studio Series 86 at Voyager price in my quest to complete the collection, and one of that version's exclusive null rays ended up breaking when I attempted to get out the landing gear THAT HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE! I broke an accessory, and it resulted in nothing because of how he was engineered!
I'm sorry to hear that. Yet another reason why the Earthrise version is just worse.
The Siege Starscream is much more better than Earthrise and first.