The head bit is actually meant to be a tessen, or Japanese war fan. Essentially it could either be a tradition fold out fan made of metal plates, or just a solid piece of metal shaped like a fan. It also comes off by pulling it backwards, not upwards.
I really hope Windblade gets another figure based on her that fixes most of the problems that this one had (maybe more influenced by Sarah Stone's art style). I also really hope Hasbro does the fan-built character again, so they can fix and refine future figures.
@@dol_mel7487 Lazy? This hypothetical figure would be a helicopter from what used to be a plane! That’d be almost as much work as making a completely new figure! And that’s not to mention the “spider mode”!
It's not a custom figure, much less of this Windblade, but here's a good look of her as Kyoshi. www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/9n04v0/noobs_edit_windblade_as_avatar_kyoshi/?
Hi I’m here from the future and I have the new wind blade mold and I have just ordered this figure and it might arrive soon. Idk if this one will hold up to the new figure
as a display piece she is awesome as a toy not so much. the robot mode is beautiful and poses well. the alt mode is where she suffers. whish she came with her own stand
She is based on a female Samurai, Onna-bugeisha, which is where the modern Geisha look comes from in the first place. My problem with the look of this figure is that they messed up her colors. She is supposed to be red with black highlights. That would have been more accurate to the comic she came from and makes her alt mode waaay better. Hasbro really needs to make a better engineered version of her.
I can see a few minor changes that can be done to the lags to help with the balance and the look. Btw have you tried resting the feet on the tale-fins in robot mode? It might make the feet and possibly the lags look weird but it should help with the balance. Also some of the problems might be getting worsened by possible case-by-case case issues or a Q.C. issues. But overall I'd have't to agree with you on this one.
This figure is proof you should never give the fans what they want. Personally I hated the alt mode, liked the unique bit mode and I keep her posed in mid air on a Tamashii stage.
Hi balmatrix I have a suggestion. You should start off the review with the toy in the box. Your reviews would be so much better and they're already really good
I have the rid version and I love her along with my beast hunters arcee but I really wish Hasbro would give the lady bots more respect I want to see Arachnid, Arcee, and Windblade with better posibilty, transformation, weapons( swords,swords,swords,and more swords) and make them a little bit bigger without losing that feminine design. Get your act together Hasbro
Well I still want to pick up this figure anyways. Just hope it is at least a little better than you make it out to be. I know you have a tendancy to be negative so I will see other reviews for other opinions. Great review as always.
i might buy her for the character and the comic she comes with. besides i could probably hack the robot form to make it look better without damaging it
Just picked this figure up today and it is the worst pile of festering dog crap Hasbro has given us in a long time. Back into the package she goes and I'll be getting my money back in the morning...
Hello baltmatrix. I am maitrecolinot and just like you I'm a fan of all that power rangers, super sentai, etc ... only unlike you I is not the financial means to enjoy my passion (I know not with you but in France the prices are obscene). But I have another passion that is the papercraft. I've created several model and now I want to make transformable zord. I want to know if you will agree to take pictures of your zord so that I can reproduce in 3D and papercraft, which will then be available free on the net for people like me who can not have their own zord. If yes I would like to start with ressha of "Ressha Sentai Toqger" or astromegazord of "Power Rangers in Space." If not I will understand it very well. I await your answer with impatience cordially Maitrecolinot Ps: it is possible that there are translation errors due to google trad so I will also put the original message if you know or read French. Bonjour baltmatrix. Je suis maitrecolinot et tout comme toi je suis fan de tout ce qui est power rangers, super sentai, etc… seulement contrairement à toi je n’est pas les moyen financier pour profiter de ma passion (je sais pas chez toi mais en France les prix sont obscène). Mais j’ai une autre passion qui est les papercraft. J‘ai déjà créée plusieurs modèle et maintenant je voudrais faire des zord transformable. Je voudrai donc savoir si tu accepterai de prendre des photos de tes zord pour que je puisse les reproduire en 3d puis en papercraft, qui serai ensuite disponible gratuitement sur le net pour les gens qui comme moi ne peuvent pas avoir leur propre zord. Si c’est oui j’aimerai commencer avec les ressha de « Ressha Sentai Toqger » ou l’astromegazord de « power rangers in space ». Si c’est non je le comprendrai très bien. J’attend ta réponse avec impatience Cordialement Maitrecolinot Ps: il est possible qu’il y est des erreurs de traduction à cause de google trad donc je te met aussi le message originale au cas ou tu sais lire le français.
I finally got around to opening her last night, and I'm severely disappointed. The plastic feels cheap, the figure is small, and the transformation is laughably terrible. The only good bit of this figure is the katana.
How about transformers legends windblade by takara tomy the paints are so cool😍😍😍 this figure it's cool like a IDW but not a hasbro windblade the paints are ugly!!!😞 but the takara tomy windblade figure likes better than hasbro her face is white like a IDW 👍 I love The Jet mode But the legs are not legs there spikes 😍😍😍 that I love it if she robot mode the spikes transform into legs so stop saying that but I love takara tomy transformers legends Windblade better well date it'll be 2015 and Baltmartix I think the it's cool very very very cool I love the jet mode and robot mode
She's a great figure, you should just keep her in robot mode because it looks the best. Balt can't angle the wings properly so it looks stupid in his review and he hastily judges it. It's Rhinox all over again.
If you have patience and like the character from the comics, buy her. Other than that, don't buy her. But please watch different reviews and the other reviews might change your mind with this figure.
The head bit is actually meant to be a tessen, or Japanese war fan. Essentially it could either be a tradition fold out fan made of metal plates, or just a solid piece of metal shaped like a fan. It also comes off by pulling it backwards, not upwards.
To get her to stand , you can also use the sword as a "third leg"
The face of the figure reminds me of Nijika, the female Sky-Dancer robot from Transformers Generation 1.
I remember that episode from G1: season 3!!!
I really hope Windblade gets another figure based on her that fixes most of the problems that this one had (maybe more influenced by Sarah Stone's art style).
I also really hope Hasbro does the fan-built character again, so they can fix and refine future figures.
I honestly think that they could, with a lot of effort, make an awesome Airachnid toy from this figure (that's a toy fans want to see)
Mate gonna be frank, it’d probably just be a wind blade with a different head
@@dol_mel7487 Lazy? This hypothetical figure would be a helicopter from what used to be a plane! That’d be almost as much work as making a completely new figure! And that’s not to mention the “spider mode”!
@@mechanwhal6590 yeah which is why hasbro wouldn’t even bother making it
I'd still buy a Slipstream retool. Just a WFC slipstream head, and it's bought. They don't even have to change the weapons.
She looks like Avatar Kyoshi
***** Yeah I knew I wasn't the only one who spotted that. Someone should recolour her in Greens, silvers and golds. :D
It's not a custom figure, much less of this Windblade, but here's a good look of her as Kyoshi.
www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/9n04v0/noobs_edit_windblade_as_avatar_kyoshi/?
Cartoon and comics only show the wings sticking out to the sides and personally I think she looks better with them sticking out
already preorder this in bbts, been waiting for her for quite some time now... some people like this figure, some people doesnt.
They gave us what we wanted they just didn't know how to put it together it looks awesome if you own robot mood
Hi I’m here from the future and I have the new wind blade mold and I have just ordered this figure and it might arrive soon. Idk if this one will hold up to the new figure
as a display piece she is awesome as a toy not so much. the robot mode is beautiful and poses well. the alt mode is where she suffers. whish she came with her own stand
Her vehicle mode was a F-16 Eagle VTOL
shembot
anyway i know why she has them on front in vehicle mode cuz she uses wind power
She is based on a female Samurai, Onna-bugeisha, which is where the modern Geisha look comes from in the first place.
My problem with the look of this figure is that they messed up her colors.
She is supposed to be red with black highlights.
That would have been more accurate to the comic she came from and makes her alt mode waaay better.
Hasbro really needs to make a better engineered version of her.
I can see a few minor changes that can be done to the lags to help with the balance and the look. Btw have you tried resting the feet on the tale-fins in robot mode? It might make the feet and possibly the lags look weird but it should help with the balance. Also some of the problems might be getting worsened by possible case-by-case case issues or a Q.C. issues. But overall I'd have't to agree with you on this one.
I wonder if they will make one with a Magnaboss motif, that would be awesome, getting and update on magnaboss
If I find this figure I will pick it up in heart beat.
Hasbro engineers can't think of a way to make sure that the female Transformers figures don't have stereotypical designs.
It is a good figure and she is a terrific figure and its a fine looking figure so I'm getting I don't care bout the legs at all so I'm getting her
Too bad. I was really looking forward to this one. Love the design, but oh well, they can't all be perfect.
Man the opinions from reviewers on this figure are hitting all of the spectrum.
This figure is proof you should never give the fans what they want. Personally I hated the alt mode, liked the unique bit mode and I keep her posed in mid air on a Tamashii stage.
yeah but thats just how they make main line transformers these days. no amount of pissing and moaning will change that.
There is nothing wrong with this figure
The top-heaviness of that figure is triggering me oh god.
Hi balmatrix I have a suggestion. You should start off the review with the toy in the box. Your reviews would be so much better and they're already really good
It's also an irresponsible individual.
One of the youngest members
I have the rid version and I love her along with my beast hunters arcee but I really wish Hasbro would give the lady bots more respect I want to see Arachnid, Arcee, and Windblade with better posibilty, transformation, weapons( swords,swords,swords,and more swords) and make them a little bit bigger without losing that feminine design. Get your act together Hasbro
She looks very decepticon-esque....
She a autobot she the new character in 2014
i think that's not a comb but a paper fan
im looking foreword to this figure
Nice review as always. Keep it up.
I sure hope they repaint/retool this figure into thrust at some point. Just those vtol fans make me think of thrust!
No it shouldn't it barely fits thrust plus we got the classics mold
Well I still want to pick up this figure anyways. Just hope it is at least a little better than you make it out to be. I know you have a tendancy to be negative so I will see other reviews for other opinions. Great review as always.
2023 GANG!!!!
All transformers collectors please reply! How much would you pay for a 3rd party deluxe-size, hand-made Sideswipe?
i might buy her for the character and the comic she comes with. besides i could probably hack the robot form to make it look better without damaging it
Would have preferred the blade to be more silvery
can you review chromia next?
And generations arcee review next
Just picked this figure up today and it is the worst pile of festering dog crap Hasbro has given us in a long time. Back into the package she goes and I'll be getting my money back in the morning...
Its not that bad :/
Hello baltmatrix. I am maitrecolinot and just like you I'm a fan of all that power rangers, super sentai, etc ... only unlike you I is not the financial means to enjoy my passion (I know not with you but in France the prices are obscene). But I have another passion that is the papercraft. I've created several model and now I want to make transformable zord. I want to know if you will agree to take pictures of your zord so that I can reproduce in 3D and papercraft, which will then be available free on the net for people like me who can not have their own zord. If yes I would like to start with ressha of "Ressha Sentai Toqger" or astromegazord of "Power Rangers in Space." If not I will understand it very well.
I await your answer with impatience
cordially
Maitrecolinot
Ps: it is possible that there are translation errors due to google trad so I will also put the original message if you know or read French.
Bonjour baltmatrix. Je suis maitrecolinot et tout comme toi je suis fan de tout ce qui est power rangers, super sentai, etc… seulement contrairement à toi je n’est pas les moyen financier pour profiter de ma passion (je sais pas chez toi mais en France les prix sont obscène). Mais j’ai une autre passion qui est les papercraft. J‘ai déjà créée plusieurs modèle et maintenant je voudrais faire des zord transformable. Je voudrai donc savoir si tu accepterai de prendre des photos de tes zord pour que je puisse les reproduire en 3d puis en papercraft, qui serai ensuite disponible gratuitement sur le net pour les gens qui comme moi ne peuvent pas avoir leur propre zord. Si c’est oui j’aimerai commencer avec les ressha de « Ressha Sentai Toqger » ou l’astromegazord de « power rangers in space ». Si c’est non je le comprendrai très bien.
J’attend ta réponse avec impatience
Cordialement
Maitrecolinot
Ps: il est possible qu’il y est des erreurs de traduction à cause de google trad donc je te met aussi le message originale au cas ou tu sais lire le français.
I really hope Arcee and Chromia get more respect than this figure.
I finally got around to opening her last night, and I'm severely disappointed. The plastic feels cheap, the figure is small, and the transformation is laughably terrible. The only good bit of this figure is the katana.
I can’t stand her up! Someone please help me
Use the Wall 🧱
Why so late
could you do grimzilla next?
I laso think this figure seem to be some kind of a flop in my eyes...
How about transformers legends windblade by takara tomy the paints are so cool😍😍😍 this figure it's cool like a IDW but not a hasbro windblade the paints are ugly!!!😞 but the takara tomy windblade figure likes better than hasbro her face is white like a IDW 👍 I love The Jet mode But the legs are not legs there spikes 😍😍😍 that I love it if she robot mode the spikes transform into legs so stop saying that but I love takara tomy transformers legends Windblade better well date it'll be 2015 and Baltmartix I think the it's cool very very very cool I love the jet mode and robot mode
The hasbro is probably based off her appearance during her first time
Damn... it seems a lot of Fembots are getting bad figures nowadays
arcee has been good its just arachnid and windblade
Arachnid was from prime :/ not generations
Jetfire48 Who said we were only talking about Generations?
Umm windblade's sword is a katana with a sheif that most samurai have on them when they use a katana so basically windblade is a female samurai
Drift has a girlfriend
Soon To Be Wife ;)
No windblade was drift's sister...that what there saying
Oh I see my bad
No. I ment she is a geisha to his samurai
They were the samurai family
Man can’t play with toy correctly, must be the toys problem 🤦🏻♂️
Baltmatrix your figure is not good when paints are looks terrible
She's a great figure, you should just keep her in robot mode because it looks the best. Balt can't angle the wings properly so it looks stupid in his review and he hastily judges it. It's Rhinox all over again.
If you have patience and like the character from the comics, buy her. Other than that, don't buy her. But please watch different reviews and the other reviews might change your mind with this figure.
The worst transformers I have ever bought
Hasbro is starting to became a little racist, first skids and mudflap from ROTF, then drift from AOE ,now generations windblade
Uh cough cough (windblade) takara, (skids and mudflap) michael bay) cough cpugh