New Look at HFTD Voyager Highbrow

Real nice! Gonna have him.

The "battle mask" kinda make him look goofy..

Wow, that guy's face is so freaky looking. But it works.

I am digging this trend towards outdated aircraft, I hope hasbro does more.

Not just aircraft...remember Hubcap.

I think a line of early model vehicles would be awesome. Model Ts, maybe even a Zeppelin, a B-17...that would be awesome if they could do the alt-modes right.

I know the name of this plane but just can't think of it right now...and it's bugging the hell out of me.

EDIT: It's a P-38 Lightning by Lockheed! Finally remembered!

One other note: look at his torso very carefully then picture in your mind what bomber jackets looked like in WW2. His torso could be a stylization of a bomber jacket! Very, VERY cool figure.

UGHHH !!! I hate the face !!!

First-Aid wrote:I know the name of this plane but just can't think of it right now...and it's bugging the hell out of me.

I know-I searched quite a bit to try and find it before posting this. I'm still looking.

EDIT: Lockheed P-38 Lightning

I really like the look of this figure. The face looks pretty cool to me, but I have to agree that the battle mask is ugly as hell. Still, it's cool because it's an homage to old school flight helmets.

I don't know why I thought this mold was Deluxe class. The fact that it's a Voyager is only making this figure that much more awesome! Plus, I'm really surprised that Hasbro went the extra mile to give this guy fists instead of just copping out and letting him have propellor hands.

DevastaTTor wrote:

First-Aid wrote:I know the name of this plane but just can't think of it right now...and it's bugging the hell out of me.

I know-I searched quite a bit to try and find it before posting this. I'm still looking.

EDIT: Lockheed P-38 Lightning

We both got it at about the same time..LOL

I'll be getting two of this guy, dad's a big fan of the P-38 so one will stay in the box if he's packaged in vehicle mode.

Ah battle masks. Reminds me of Beast Wars. Speaking of which, wasn't this the figure that had the alternate Obsidian head?

First-Aid wrote:Not just aircraft...remember Hubcap.

I think a line of early model vehicles would be awesome. Model Ts, maybe even a Zeppelin, a B-17...that would be awesome if they could do the alt-modes right.

I know the name of this plane but just can't think of it right now...and it's bugging the hell out of me.

EDIT: It's a P-38 Lightning by Lockheed! Finally remembered!

One other note: look at his torso very carefully then picture in your mind what bomber jackets looked like in WW2. His torso could be a stylization of a bomber jacket! Very, VERY cool figure.

If they make a zeppelin(blimp, whatever) I would most like to see them use the HOS Scourge design. That thing was wicked. Come to think of it, I don't think we've had a transforming blimp since the original Machine Robo days(seems like I remember a blimp gobot). As for this guy, bought on sight. never going to use the battle mask though, makes him look like a cgi grasshopper that would be voiced by steve buscemi. That didn't make much since, i've been getting tattooed on for the past 3 hours, I think I may be getting delirious. Back to the chair!

Holy Primus does that thing have a horrible face!! It reminds me waaay too much of BW Rattrap...and I don't like it one bit. The rest of the bot is ok, and if I had never seen the face, I would have bot it just because of the alt. But erk...wow...no.

Without the mask, he looks more like a 'con with that grin, with the mask he looks like a Movie style Animated Twin, Pass!

I like to see Hasbro repaint him purple into a Classics Bugly...

I am loving it and am so glad it is a voyager.

The face is okay, but the mask is keeping me from being ecstatic about this guy. If it just looked more mechanical instead of insectoid...hmmm, maybe he trained with the Zentradi?

Still, bought on sight; '1943: The Battle of Midway' (despite occurring a year late) was always my favorite overhead shooter, and when G2 Rotor Force Ransack came out (the first vintage TF aircraft, an amphibious F4U-1A Corsair), I imagined the next year we'd see "Deluxe Rotor Force" guys with 2 launchers, warranting alt modes like PCC Searchlight's chopper mode, and a P-38 whose propellers ended up as shoulder launchers in robot mode. He may not be able to fire 'em, but for me this guy is a decade and a half overdue.

Also, the name Highbrow has really gone all over the place lately hasn't it? In Animated he was a stuffy Autobot elder due to the name, and now he's a young hot-shot pilot due to being the first TF with twin propellers! I love Headmaster homages, but I hope "Highbrow" doesn't get tossed around so much that it loses all meaning, like "Prowl" did starting in Beast Wars.

Sweet! Nice design. Someone to go up against movie 1's Incinerator in a to the death propeller fight. As far as the mask goes, I'm glad that they are trying different things like this as opposed to just a plain ol' robot face. It makes the character more interesting and increases display options.

Plus, he's got 2 hand held chainguns to boot! Total win!

Hasbro's been doing really well with the hand-held weapons lately. Hope the trend continues!

Hahaha, that's AWESOME! I want one of those, that's too groovy to pass up. Battery operated spinning blades, battle mask, WWII based desighn, that's perfect! I wonder what the Decepticon repaint will be?

First-Aid wrote:Not just aircraft...remember Hubcap.

I think a line of early model vehicles would be awesome. Model Ts, maybe even a Zeppelin, a B-17...that would be awesome if they could do the alt-modes right.

I know the name of this plane but just can't think of it right now...and it's bugging the hell out of me.

EDIT: It's a P-38 Lightning by Lockheed! Finally remembered!

One other note: look at his torso very carefully then picture in your mind what bomber jackets looked like in WW2. His torso could be a stylization of a bomber jacket! Very, VERY cool figure.

Dangit! Why'd you have to go mentioning the jacket?!
Now I actually like this guy. If wasn't for that head, he'd be a buy for me.

i'm loving this, but one question. how come they got his hands right on this figure, but for the movie incinerator they didn't add hands?

I'll get him, looking forward to his flight goggles feature

Really do NOT like the face mask/goggles.

First-Aid wrote:Not just aircraft...remember Hubcap.

I think a line of early model vehicles would be awesome. Model Ts, maybe even a Zeppelin, a B-17...that would be awesome if they could do the alt-modes right.

I know the name of this plane but just can't think of it right now...and it's bugging the hell out of me.

EDIT: It's a P-38 Lightning by Lockheed! Finally remembered!

One other note: look at his torso very carefully then picture in your mind what bomber jackets looked like in WW2. His torso could be a stylization of a bomber jacket! Very, VERY cool figure.

Not to nit-pick or anything, but my great-uncle flew a P-38, so I know those aircraft like the back of my hand. This looks similar, but is not a P-38.

He looks to be something designed after a plane from Crimson Skies, the video game series.

EDIT: My bad, he's a Grokhovsky G-38, a Russian Concept aircraft:

Other then that, this figure is bought on sight.

Don't like the face but he's a definent buy on sight!

The P-38 is one of the coolest aircraft of WWII.

However, @ the OP, and not to nitpick but, the P-38 wasn't just a bomber. It's a Attack Craft. Meaning it can fill multiple ground support roles. Also despite it's size and airframe the craft made a good interceptor and anti-air unit as well thanks to it's speed and firepower.

Slayershoop wrote:Not to nit-pick or anything, but my great-uncle flew a P-38, so I know those aircraft like the back of my hand. This looks similar, but is not a P-38.

Much like the other classics/extended universe toys, it's close but not an exact replica . It's definitely inspired by the P-38. Hasbro doesn't want a law suit on their hands.

I just cannot find anything to like about this guy. I mean he really makes me want to run in the other direction.

The face is ugly, the mask makes it even worse, the robot mode looks terrible with those propellers, and his vehicle mode doesn't look stable. (Though it is neat that they went old school for this one)

A giant pass for me. "meh" indeed.

DevastaTTor wrote:

Slayershoop wrote:Not to nit-pick or anything, but my great-uncle flew a P-38, so I know those aircraft like the back of my hand. This looks similar, but is not a P-38.

Much like the other classics/extended universe toys, it's close but not an exact replica . It's definitely inspired by the P-38. Hasbro doesn't want a law suit on their hands.

He does however, look quite a bit closer to the G-38, like I said, I know P-38's like the back of my hand, and the plane just is not too similar.

DevastaTTor wrote:

Slayershoop wrote:Not to nit-pick or anything, but my great-uncle flew a P-38, so I know those aircraft like the back of my hand. This looks similar, but is not a P-38.

Much like the other classics/extended universe toys, it's close but not an exact replica . It's definitely inspired by the P-38. Hasbro doesn't want a law suit on their hands.

Even if Lockheed-Martin licensed the F-22 Raptor for Starscream?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

DevastaTTor wrote:

Slayershoop wrote:Not to nit-pick or anything, but my great-uncle flew a P-38, so I know those aircraft like the back of my hand. This looks similar, but is not a P-38.

Much like the other classics/extended universe toys, it's close but not an exact replica . It's definitely inspired by the P-38. Hasbro doesn't want a law suit on their hands.

Even if Lockheed-Martin licensed the F-22 Raptor for Starscream?

Good point, I highly doubt LM would care if they used the P-38...

He looks most like a P-38, but it looks like there's some German era design flavor mixed in. Maybe even a little de Havilland too.

He's not any one particular model in essence.

Pontimax 01 wrote:He looks most like a P-38, but it looks like there's some German era design flavor mixed in. Maybe even a little de Havilland too.

He's not any one particular model in essence.

True, but take a look at the Grokhovsky G-38, he's practically a dead ringer for it.

Slayershoop wrote:

Pontimax 01 wrote:He looks most like a P-38, but it looks like there's some German era design flavor mixed in. Maybe even a little de Havilland too.

He's not any one particular model in essence.

True, but take a look at the Grokhovsky G-38, he's practically a dead ringer for it.

I wouldn't be so sure. The front of the fuselage of that model is flattened, while Highbrow's is rounded:



Still, since he doesn't appear in the movie, I wouldn't be surprised if he really was a hybrid to avoid licensing fees.

Yeah he is a definate get ;D Also the new ROTF Bumblebee I saw in TRU had a lowering battle mask >D Got Cybertronian Bumblebee instead

With that battle mask down, he looks kinda familiar...




.... but I just can't seem to place it.....

oh man,im a sucker for planes.Especially ones so cool looking. BOS

Weirdly, I'm starting to see him as something of a movie-verse Springer?

I guess I always saw Springer as the autobot's chief swashbuckler, with a bit of an Indiana Jones/Han Solo-era Harrison Ford thing going on...

I love aircraft altmodes

I love weird altmodes

I ADORE this guy. The P/G-38 design is a beauty, and his bot mode is impressive to me.

Also gotta love the powered propellers.

I don't like his face, and his feet are kinda odd.
But he's still cool, maybe the face can be replaced...

Another RoTF headmaster? Headrobots, please make us some headmaster units! Very cool transformation.

Love that WWII design aircraft, but really hate the face and the legs, it looks odd. Too me theres no G1 homage there cause highbrow was a Hi-tech helicopter, not this type of aircraft. Too sum it all up, this should have been Tomahawk and the Helicopter should have been Highbrow.

I'll be passing on this. I don't see how this works for my collection.

I like this guy. I've been happy with some of the alt modes of these newer HFTD figures. Robot modes still look like a pile, but hey, 50% ain't really that bad.

Goofy face, Double Check.

Too skinny legs, Check.

Weird propeller Popeye forarms of doom, check

It's funky, too funky, Pass.

Hmm, well the face doesn't look as good as I thought from the Botcon pics, but it still looks decent. He'll just have to go with my movie figs. Had no idea about the goggles/battle mask, that's so awesome! I really love this trend of old alt-modes too, as well as the increased number of flying things. Almost makes me want to go back and get that WWI Scout from ROTF.

First-Aid wrote:I think a line of early model vehicles would be awesome. Model Ts, maybe even a Zeppelin, a B-17...that would be awesome if they could do the alt-modes right.

That would be so sweet. I was always fascinated with WWII planes as a kid, and I went through a Zeppelin phase too. Although I'm not sure if a Blimp/Zeppelin would work, it would probably end up being a shellformer of some type, like boats usually do. Planes are awesome though. I'd be all over a B-17, it was one of my favorites. Imagine a B-29! I'd love a Spitfire too...

Counterpunch wrote:I'll be passing on this. I don't see how this works for my collection.

He shall go in my cool transformers collection.

Not feeling him...