@burningsirius You are certainly the first person to ever bring that up, which I had never once anticipated, and you have won a prize that is already on your doorstep!
I remember being really into this video for some reason back when it came out even though I never got a copy of the toy (I did recently get the GoD Laserbeak version of the mold which is basically the same thing and love it because it's kinda what movie Laserbeak should have looked like IMO), upon this rewatch I guess it's just because of how much gushing you do and how lovingly honest the whole piece comes off.
Just picked up the my delivery from Amazon of this badboy from the Mail Office after leaving work today. and he indeed does look awesome , yet much smaller then I imagined. still worth it , though.
Probably the most iconic toy-exclusive movie design ever. We all know which Skystalker they were thinking of when they wrote him into Allspark Almanac II. Why do people still talk about G1 Skystalker again? He should be at Blackout levels of “usurped by superior descendant”. Call him “Skystalkor” if you have to, this guy needs to be the eternal rival to Scattorshot like Lockdown to Ratchet.
Yes! The mindwipe review is next. I would buy a repaint of skystalker. Maybe in shockwave purple with a yellow eye. Or blue with yellow thunderbolts on the wings. (decepticon afterburner) Its probably the robotech aesthetics that make this toy so attractive. That and servicing the fans of Transforming planes in a line that really favored cars.
@Angeia00 I was thinking the exact same thing. I've had fun clipping weapons around. Skystalker is prety neat with his axes clipped in reverse when he's not using them ;)
I have to agree. This is definitely one of the best scout-class ROTF figures (and I might even go as far as saying one of the best scout-class TF figures overall). Also not a big fan of the feet, but they're fun at the same time; I have no explanation for that. Can't say I would army-build this particular one, but I certainly wouldn't mind a repaint either.
@zygas25 Okay, okay. ONE combination mode was (predictably) to just put one plane on top of another. However, the robot combiner looks pretty nice without compensating either robot. I like it! :)
I'd love it if they gave the mold a B.A.T. repaint... sure its still mostly black.. but it would be a DARKER black lol, and yellow and silver and who would begrudge this mold being the first official TF with Cobra Logos on the wings... they could even have M.A.R.S. on the 'arms' instead of BOB
skystalkers transformation in sine eh? i wonder if any other transformers have "cosine" or "tangent" as their transformations? (yes i've been doing trig in math recently, i cant help myself) lol i wasnt too sure of this guy at first, but now i want him as my desk buddy :3
Ha HA! I got a name drop! And YES! I have been army building them...I got 3 and was SOOO tempted to get more when they were $5 on clearance but I was hooking up people who didn't have them yet...damn people pleasing concept. Needless to say all TRUs in the area are now dry of them and I'm left wanting more....hopeful future cheap convention purchases.
Just for nostalgia's sake, you should totally review GDO Laserbeak. This is my first foray into this mold, and I dare say using it as Laserbeak makes it even more brilliant.
Man am i kicking myself for not getting this guy, brimstone and ransack when they were out. I want them so bad but damn these aftermarket eBay prices are rediculous
This figure was full of awesome the day I bought him, he's excellent on detail and his Gerwalk mode is unique. Great work as always Big V! btw, loved the ending lol.
Honestly, I'm shocked I've never seen this guy on shelves when he was released, though I honestly don't know if I would have bought him at the time. If there's anything I can say aesthetically is iffy with me, it's the way the knees are constructed. Offset knees have always been a confusing sort of "why would you do this?" area for me, though this guy otherwise does look really damn cool. I'll probably find one used to see how I like him.
Yeah, Skystalker was pretty heavily scalped. In his case, the offset knees actually do serve a purpose; they basically let his knee rotate 360 degrees, which helps the bird mode.
If they mess with the head a little and upscale it to Deluxe size, this could make a damned good Seeker mold.
And he finally did get a repaint as Generations Laserbeak! :D
It's brutal when he tilts it.
Skystalker is the Decepticon's HAL 2000: "Good morning, Dave. What are you doing there, Dave?"
the axes also peg onto the pole parts of his arms, so they hang off his arms, which end up looking like they are part of his arm
for a few minutes there i forgot he had those axes!
This guy screams "Shockwave!"
S H O C K W A V E !
@burningsirius You are certainly the first person to ever bring that up, which I had never once anticipated, and you have won a prize that is already on your doorstep!
thank you for turning me into an alcohalic
Repaint is forthcoming for both these guys as G2 Smokescreen and Dreadwind. See July issue of Hobby Japan magazine.
He really looks like a kawamori mecha design, has hints of metal gear ray and jehuty
probably because he can combine with mindwipe to form mindstalker
You can clip his weapons into his forearms!
on a side note...that wire in the back makes his weapons remind me of a Zaku's Heat hawk axe....
i call him bob (the 808 on his arms)
he'd make a great laserbeak/buzzsaw repaint maybe a slight head resculpt
Gimmick was starting to be a drinking gamenear the end.
you can clip the axes into the thin portion of his forearm it's a perfect fit for the clip and looks better than him holding the axes with the pegs
@jaxom I meant people had been looking forward to him before he came out, haha
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You forgot to show that the weapons clip onto his awesome forearms
VANGELUS
gerwalk mode: ROTF lazerbeak.
God the Gir walk mode looks like that first boss in Metal Gear Rising Revengence. Just add a tail
I love this figure, and as an FYI, the clips on the axes can be used to attach the weapons to his forearms ( instead of being hand-held.)
I have the recolor, Sunspot. He's the figure that got me back into transformers.
I'm so getting this guy
+Shadowlord1890 Also look into Sunspot. He's the same mold and I think he looks even better.
you could get generations laser beak, same mold and the best paint in my opinion
I remember being really into this video for some reason back when it came out even though I never got a copy of the toy (I did recently get the GoD Laserbeak version of the mold which is basically the same thing and love it because it's kinda what movie Laserbeak should have looked like IMO), upon this rewatch I guess it's just because of how much gushing you do and how lovingly honest the whole piece comes off.
The only thing that is a bit meh for me, is the weird knees, but that really falls under the category of nitpicking. So am very glad I got him.
would make a good cybertronian bumblebee
he would make a good custom ratbat
Mated painted would be great.
I have never even seen him or Mindwipe in my area. Great videos.
that looks like the best scout evar!
this guy is rare, man. he's only avalible in like, 7 states
Now i gotta get this guy and mindwipe...
YEEEEESSS!! Vangelus you got your wish, there is a white and yellow repaint of him named SunSpot
hey guys its da gerwalk mode
@GodOfPlague
I think he started the drinking game thing when he reviewed the toys for BotCon '09. Everytime he said Krylon, you had to take a drink.
blue/purple repaint+new head=sweeps!!!!!
man i "love" ur reviews
DUDE! I am a HUGE jet-former fan and I been waiting AGES for this thing!
And MINDWIPE! (starts drooling)
The only problem I have with this look is the knees. They look doofy to me.
1:30
Metal gear!!!!!!!!!!
At around 7:00 when you drop him, Skystalker kinda lands in that cool-looking 'bring it' pose.
Let's hope that tease at the end actually amounts so something.
Still waiting on that Hot toys Joker review haha
"not a lot of junk hanging down there"
I was expecting a caption ;)
I want this guy so badly, pity none of the stores I frequent have him in stock yet.
type in mindstalker then press serach
Just picked up the my delivery from Amazon of this badboy from the Mail Office after leaving work today.
and he indeed does look awesome , yet much smaller then I imagined.
still worth it , though.
Probably the most iconic toy-exclusive movie design ever. We all know which Skystalker they were thinking of when they wrote him into Allspark Almanac II. Why do people still talk about G1 Skystalker again? He should be at Blackout levels of “usurped by superior descendant”. Call him “Skystalkor” if you have to, this guy needs to be the eternal rival to Scattorshot like Lockdown to Ratchet.
lol this is what the VF-1s will look like in the new m Bay movie: robotech!
Good news- he HAS a repaint coming out in the Generations line
Bad News- The paintjob is a horrendous clash of white and pale orange /yellow
thats a pretty blatant Acroyer homage anybody else see the similarity?
Yay!! I got finally a Sunspot! Now to repaint him as Skystalker...
Yes! The mindwipe review is next.
I would buy a repaint of skystalker. Maybe in shockwave purple with a yellow eye.
Or blue with yellow thunderbolts on the wings. (decepticon afterburner)
Its probably the robotech aesthetics that make this toy so attractive. That and servicing the fans of Transforming planes in a line that really favored cars.
Oh man...and to think i'm passing this guy off every time i see him! now i MUST get him!
great review...great toy.....
looks more like shockwave tbh
Sine sounds like it could have been the name for KSI from trans4mets to be honest
Armybuilding Skystalker? Please stop twisting the knife in my wound, I CAN'T EVEN FIND A SINGLE ONE! ;_;
i just picked up the sunspot repaint and the firetrap(scattor shot repaint) and sunspot is diffintl my fave
this is the most B.A. scout I've ever seen.
I just remove the spring
dargh still need to pick this up at somepoint, shame about his feet but he still looks very awsome, me likey
@Angeia00 I was thinking the exact same thing. I've had fun clipping weapons around. Skystalker is prety neat with his axes clipped in reverse when he's not using them ;)
My god, it's a Metal Gear!!!!!!
I have to agree. This is definitely one of the best scout-class ROTF figures (and I might even go as far as saying one of the best scout-class TF figures overall). Also not a big fan of the feet, but they're fun at the same time; I have no explanation for that. Can't say I would army-build this particular one, but I certainly wouldn't mind a repaint either.
I can't find him, and online hes going 15 and over, its crazy.
Metal Gear, huh.
You missed it. The axe clips attach to the thin grey parts of his forearms to be wielded like tonfas.
@zygas25 Okay, okay. ONE combination mode was (predictably) to just put one plane on top of another. However, the robot combiner looks pretty nice without compensating either robot. I like it! :)
I for one would actually like to see that Mindwipe review. I know there are reviews of him on the web - I want to see one done by you, Vangelus.
I Think Its AWSOME
Skystalker: *tilts head* "Come play with us Vangelus >:D"
damn, after this review I'm not sure if I want to keep mine in box or not xD
I'd love it if they gave the mold a B.A.T. repaint... sure its still mostly black.. but it would be a DARKER black lol, and yellow and silver and who would begrudge this mold being the first official TF with Cobra Logos on the wings... they could even have M.A.R.S. on the 'arms' instead of BOB
@trewerd we dont like to talk about what shockwave did while in transylvania
@Kamentoyreviewer If you tell him what to do he's not going to do it
skystalkers transformation in sine eh? i wonder if any other transformers have "cosine" or "tangent" as their transformations? (yes i've been doing trig in math recently, i cant help myself)
lol i wasnt too sure of this guy at first, but now i want him as my desk buddy :3
Ha HA! I got a name drop! And YES! I have been army building them...I got 3 and was SOOO tempted to get more when they were $5 on clearance but I was hooking up people who didn't have them yet...damn people pleasing concept. Needless to say all TRUs in the area are now dry of them and I'm left wanting more....hopeful future cheap convention purchases.
@Zekren
Just for that, I demand that Vange1us repaint his second Skystalker red.
He'll be 3x faster--er, cooler.
@Xenocidebot hmm more like the love child of a Zaku and a VF-17 nightmare......
Just for nostalgia's sake, you should totally review GDO Laserbeak. This is my first foray into this mold, and I dare say using it as Laserbeak makes it even more brilliant.
Man am i kicking myself for not getting this guy, brimstone and ransack when they were out. I want them so bad but damn these aftermarket eBay prices are rediculous
....*hic*
This guy costs about 22$ here.
I bought it today.
ONORE VANGELUS!
This figure was full of awesome the day I bought him, he's excellent on detail and his Gerwalk mode is unique. Great work as always Big V! btw, loved the ending lol.
B2 Bomber Plane
Honestly, I'm shocked I've never seen this guy on shelves when he was released, though I honestly don't know if I would have bought him at the time. If there's anything I can say aesthetically is iffy with me, it's the way the knees are constructed. Offset knees have always been a confusing sort of "why would you do this?" area for me, though this guy otherwise does look really damn cool. I'll probably find one used to see how I like him.
Yeah, Skystalker was pretty heavily scalped.
In his case, the offset knees actually do serve a purpose; they basically let his knee rotate 360 degrees, which helps the bird mode.
sweet
808? so im guessing this is where B.O.B got that airplane song from. lol just kidding
you probably already know this by now but the clips on his axes can connect to his arms instead of his hands
Is it just me or doe the head look like the Cyborg Ninja from Metal Gear?
noticed you didnt add that the axeclips can clip onto his arms. for a cool look
Damn You Post-Processing!!
BTW lol luv your reviews Vangy =3
@gravehart2002 hmm i think i have seen him in my store shelves
wish i knew where to buy this still
@shazamman25 DIRGE I have- skystalker is no where to be found on aussie shelves. believe me- I've LOOKED.
it'd be awesome if his color scheme was purple and light purple.shockwave :D
@Vange1us Is that some weird Haiku? What a wonderful prize if it is so.
OMFG HE IS COOL!!
[Dammit... I want one...]
you know what sucks... I love this guy but I live in Iowa so we never get any of the good figures