Hasbro has produced quite a few new female Transformers character toys in the space of a few short months.
I may have to try a drawn version of this image sometime in the future.
I may have to try a drawn version of this image sometime in the future.
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She's the same height as Windblade and her head is the same size so they look in the proper scale next to each other. Strongarm is a bit blockier though, almost like a G1 style, but you can excuse it if you remember she's not supposed to be a skinny barbie doll of a femme like most female transformer designs (not as extreme as Strika though.) Her poseability is really good too, she even has a waist joint. The one thing that doesn't blend in though is her vehicle mode. The RID style is very simplistic and stylized, so her car will look like a playmobile toy next to the more realistic alt modes in the generations line, but like I said, in robot mode she SHOULD blend in well enough.
Only took them... 5 years? I mean, there was a Botcon in the 200#s where a fan made a fully transformable G1 Arcee that looked really good. He never released the plans for it, but that didn't stop Chinese knock-off houses from copying it off what pictures people took of it. All Hasbro had to do to make an official G1 Arcee was ask that one guy for rights to the design, acknowledge talent and give the guy some royalty nod while giving us the Arcee we've always wanted. No, they took the big business approach of reverse engineer-almost their own Arcee design after several sad placate attempts.
gotta say, 4 new female transformers in a single year is an AMAZING rate for hasbro, and only ONE of them is a recycled mold! (even then it's so heavily remolded there aren't really any of the original mold's parts left, only its transformation pattern remains.) Of course I think Hasbro can still milk a couple more before the novelty wears off...in the comics Chromia and Windblade hang out with another female autobot, Nautica, quite a bit. So seeing Nautica in the generations toyline could be pretty awesome (also since she turns into a submarine, a rare alt mode in the franchise, you're knocking out 2 birds with one stone!) Of course we're also getting modern versions of Beast Wars characters, already got Rhynox, Waspinator, and Rattrap, so a re-imagined Blackarachnia could be close on the horizon too. Hmmm, after that I'd like to see an Elita-1 figure, and I want to see her as a Voyager scale figure! We never had a female character larger than a deluxe and I think that's the next place to go.
OH OH!! I think you missed one! The helicopter from the minicon assault team, Windshear, I'm pretty sure she came out this year and is also female (or at least heavily coded female) if you take another group shot or draw the scene you should include her.
OH OH!! I think you missed one! The helicopter from the minicon assault team, Windshear, I'm pretty sure she came out this year and is also female (or at least heavily coded female) if you take another group shot or draw the scene you should include her.
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