{"id":21860,"date":"2012-11-13T01:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21860"},"modified":"2012-11-13T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:42:12","slug":"vault-review-transformers-primes-am-thundercracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21860","title":{"rendered":"Vault Review: Transformers
Prime’s AM Thundercracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s Monday night as I\u2019m writing this review.\u00a0 Like a lot of other Masters of the Universe fans, I\u2019m anxiously waiting to hear if the ultimate Castle Grayskull playset is going to be a reality, but the website must go on, and it seems I\u2019m never at a loss for a Transformers review.<\/p>\n

Ever since delving a bit deeper into my Transformers habit, I\u2019ve discovered for myself a new reason for collecting certain figures.\u00a0 Usually my purchases are dictated by a love for a certain character or team, and in a more extreme version is my love for an entire universe (I\u2019ll never forget you, Old DCU!).\u00a0 But Transformers have opened me up to the joy of collecting specific molds.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d read about other fans only buying the various versions of a design they particularly liked, but I hadn\u2019t experienced it myself until recently.\u00a0 After all, it\u2019s not like there\u2019s a lot of design variation in the MOTU, DCUC, or Marvel Legends lines.\u00a0 You can get a little taste of it in the GI Joe or Star Wars figures, but it\u2019s usually just the same character in a different deco.\u00a0 Transformers is one of the rare lines that allows you to buy different characters that share the same body design, engineering, and alt mode.<\/p>\n

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My first taste of this was with Lockdown\/Axor and Bludgeon\/Banzaitron.\u00a0 But while I enjoyed both molds at retail, I didn\u2019t love the figure designs enough to follow them into exclusives territory.\u00a0 Heck, I\u2019m not even going to buy that new Chinese Megatron (Megatron with only swords is just wrong!).\u00a0 But when it comes to the Transformers Prime: First Edition Starscream, my collector brain kicks in and I must have them all!<\/p>\n

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So here I am, with my new Takara exclusive Thundercracker.\u00a0 This figure\u2019s design and transformation is exactly the same as the previous Starscream<\/a> and Skywarp<\/a>, but I still love it.\u00a0 Most of these TF Prime figures have great articulation, but there\u2019s just something about this particular Seeker body that allows for an amazing amount of personality through its poses. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of course most of the personality is still Starscream\u2019s, but it looks great in blue and purple too.\u00a0 Continue to page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Like all great Seeker toys, the biggest difference between Thundercracker and his brothers is the paint job.\u00a0 The majority of TC is molded in metallic blue plastic, while his soft plastic bits and joints are molded in black.\u00a0 Most of the Takara figures rely on stickers instead of paint, but for some reason the Seekers seem to have a bit more.\u00a0 I feel like the silver really adds enough detail to the figure, making the stickers mostly unnecessary for me.<\/p>\n

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Since Thundercracker is technically a remold of Skywarp, he comes with an Arms Micron instead of missiles.\u00a0 This time we get another Balo in metallic chrome plastic.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s fitting that one of my favorite TF molds comes with one of my favorite minicons.\u00a0 I have to admit, this Balo looks really nice in shiny silver, unfortunately it\u2019s a coating over the original plastic.\u00a0 This makes some of the joints ill fitting, causing them to pop out easily.\u00a0 Not so bad if you\u2019re going to have him posed, but not that great for a toy.<\/p>\n

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Transformers Prime\u2019s AM Thundercracker is a great looking figure that makes a nice trio of Seekers, but unfortunately he\u2019s a bit more difficult to track down than your average Takara since he\u2019s an exclusive in Japan.\u00a0 He\u2019s definitely more of a splurge than a necessary figure.<\/p>\n

-Vault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Monday night as I\u2019m writing this review.\u00a0 Like a lot of other Masters of the Universe fans, I\u2019m anxiously waiting to hear if the ultimate Castle Grayskull playset is going to be a reality, but the website must go on, and it seems I\u2019m never at a loss for a Transformers review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[34,10,35],"tags":[1795,1077,178,24,436,1794,1371],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thcrTN.jpg?fit=50%2C50&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-5GA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22064,"url":"https:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=22064","url_meta":{"origin":21860,"position":0},"title":"iGear Mini-Warriors 4th Ann. 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