Transformers Prime Deluxe Dead End Pictorial Review
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 5:01PM CDT
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Here are some of my views and pictures on Transformers Prime: Deluxe Dead End.
I got my shipment of Wave 4 from Kapow Toys in the UK. http://kapowtoys.co.uk/
Dead End is a repaint of Wheeljack with a new head so I won't bother going into articulation or transformation as it's well documented.
The package shows why he is the way he is and why not to spend too much time around Dark Energon.
The alt mode is exactly the same as Wheeljack with only colour changes. He has 1 green Decepticon logo on the right side which is more than Jackie got.
I've seen and made enough jokes about his paint scheme since it was announced. I kinda feel a Hasbro designer took a picture home and said to his kids, "colour this in and I will make it a real figure!" As with most of the line it's not too bad in person.
Like the Shadow Bumblebee the main colour isn't black but more charcoal/dark grey. It's a nice shade. The orange is nice too, not bright at all. The problem I think is the yellow. The 3 shades are too much together. If they left it black and orange it would have been much better.
The yellow on the roof isn't as vibrant as it's a different plastic I think.
The wheel rims and "lights" are a neon green shade. Another colour they didn't need to go with. The windscreen is transparent light green. This allows you to see his neon green chest through it. That's my other main problem I feel. Unlike Wheeljack which had a darker tint and a black chest this sticks out as odd and distracting for me.
It's a shame they didn't just make him mainly black and orange as it would have been a big improvement.
As for the robot mode. Pretty much what was white on Wheeljack is now yellow. He has orange shoulders and a green chest. Some of the dark grey areas are now black. The insides of his legs are now orange too.
He comes with the same Laser Swords but now in black handles and neon green blades.
So the biggest difference is the head. Great big gaping mouth with green plastic to light up with the light piping. The eyes are also green. It's ok and from the sides looks really good. Front on I'm left wishing it was filled in with inner robot mouth workings or something. It all falls back to the Dark Energon idea. Without that this could have been a great new repaint.
I believe this figure is saved from being a bad repaint because the Wheeljack mold is a good one with a lot going for it. That and Dead End is a Decepticon and gets away with it. If this was an Autobot repaint I don't think I would have been so generous.
I do recommend getting it when you see it to add to the army. I have already started doing some repainting/tweaking to the areas I don't like to improve on it. Maybe we will even see a new Dr Wu head for it. Who knows.
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Posted by craggy on June 13th, 2012 @ 5:43pm CDT
"techno techno techno!"
Posted by MINDVVIPE on June 13th, 2012 @ 5:43pm CDT
Posted by Noideaforaname on June 13th, 2012 @ 6:02pm CDT
Kinda wish the painted/opaque greens were more of a sickly yellow-green like the piping appears to be, if not piped instead (the swords in particular would've been awesome looking done like that). They're a bit minty as it is.
Posted by ILL-Star on June 13th, 2012 @ 6:22pm CDT
Posted by caked-up on June 13th, 2012 @ 6:42pm CDT
Posted by Grahf_ on June 13th, 2012 @ 6:47pm CDT
I got stopped from posting this because another post went up. I'm glad it did because it's nice to see more people appreciate this figure and its paint job.
Posted by MINDVVIPE on June 13th, 2012 @ 7:15pm CDT
Alpha Weltall wrote:Wasn't this supposed to be ANOTHER homage to beast wars Quickstrike? If you take that into account then this paint job and head make perfect sense. The only problem I have with this figure is the name. But really though, who cares? It's just a name, get over it and rename it. It's an awesome paint job on an awesome figure representing an awesome character. This thing is superspecialawesome.
I had no idea this was supposed to be a classics/Prime Quickstrike. If thats the case, and now that I see the colours are quite alike, then this is an awesome version of him, as the face does remind me of Quickstrike, and his surely attitude.
Posted by amtm on June 13th, 2012 @ 7:41pm CDT
Stands out like a sore thumb.
Posted by Doubledealer93 on June 13th, 2012 @ 8:12pm CDT
Posted by Rated X on June 13th, 2012 @ 8:53pm CDT
Posted by funklizard on June 14th, 2012 @ 12:44am CDT
I like what they did with the face and the concept for the character. But:
- The colors are just too garish. Or, at least, there are too many different garish colors. Changing either the yellow bits or the orange bits to black would have helped. Or maybe make him predominantly black with a few of those bright green highlights scattered throughout.
- Hasbro did such a good job at making this mold Wheeljack that I think any attempt to repurpose it is just going to look like NotWheeljack.
With regard to the latter point, I think they could have better sold the concept of repainting this mold as a Decepticon by calling it Makeshift.
Posted by caked-up on June 14th, 2012 @ 5:35am CDT
Posted by rpetras on June 14th, 2012 @ 12:43pm CDT
caked-up wrote:I really think they need to stop using the Dead End name since it is so iconic. They should have called him Detour like they were going to with the RotF toy. That is what I am going to do.
Or perhaps Darksteel
Or, better yet, QuickStrike
Posted by triKlops on June 14th, 2012 @ 10:05pm CDT
due to the light green having a good amount of yellow in it already and then its placement side by side with a complimentary medium yellow app makes the yellow wash out, losing edge/ line definition.
if it is a QStrike homage , cool.
if not, then i chalk it up to another interesting repaint that i will still buy
Posted by caked-up on June 14th, 2012 @ 10:11pm CDT
Posted by MINDVVIPE on June 14th, 2012 @ 10:47pm CDT
caked-up wrote:I wish they would stop making Quickstrike homages and just make a new Fuzor Quickstrike. Darksteel was pretty awesome as his own character but the homage was junk. Dead End/Detour/Makeshift looks amazing as his own character (name aside), but would suffer the same fate as Darksteel too. At least in my eyes.
I don't get it... how is it the fact that it is a homage make it crappy? Either you recognize and go with the homage, or you dismiss it and consider it a new character. What fate did he suffer being a homage?
Posted by Noideaforaname on June 14th, 2012 @ 11:51pm CDT
Posted by MINDVVIPE on July 7th, 2012 @ 10:20pm CDT
One killer Decepticon in every way. The colours are so exotic and blarring, it works so well with his cannibalistic and violent nature. The poses you can get with his head turned upwards makes him look like a screaming maniac from a nightmare. I was sort of on the fence at first with limited funds, but I'm glad I caved. If your on the fence, I highly recommend him. The head sculpt alone is enough to get him. The front holes in vehicle mode aren't nearly as annoyingly visible as they are on WJ. So glad that the only problem I had with the mould is minimized on this one.
I don't see him as Dead End, though. He is Darksteel.
Posted by Va'al on July 8th, 2012 @ 2:41am CDT
MINDVVIPE wrote:Looking forward to pics of your paint fixes.
I agree, really curious to see which bits bugged you!
I'm really looking forward to finding this guy, and still unsure about keeping the original Wheeljack.
Posted by Azrail on July 8th, 2012 @ 2:33pm CDT
Keep tinkering with something new! Lol