@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.
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.
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.
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.
@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 ;)
Fantastic review as always! Rather than using the landing gear in drone mode, have you tried folding out his bot-feet? Earns the guy extra "creepy points" by becoming a plane that's able to perch on things!
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.
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.
@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 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 am also one who loves Skystalker's design a lot. Unfortunately I've only seen him ONCE, and that was the one time I didn't pick him up. : / I've checked all around me and they just all seem to be gone from this later wave of scouts. A recolor would be so nice.
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.
Looks damn awesome..i want! was this released a while ago? i've never seen it in my local stores and can't find it anywhere online atm....except amazon for 25 bucks....
@Vange1us you sir are a legend (along with whoever reviewed transformers way before 2009). where do you get your figures? the Chinese black market, Chinese mob?
Nice review! Although I get a weird feeling of dejavu. I need to stop watching different peoples' transformer reviews, I always thinkg "Didn't they do this already?" when other people review it. But I think this was a pretty thorough look, and definitely enjoyable even if I had seen the toy before. Grrwalk is cute. Can't wait to see it together with, err, the other one.
looks awesome. I hope you do a review of mindwipe because he has some pretty awesome gimmicks. The only bad thing I can say about mindwipe though is that his arms are a little weird and his head is not very possible. I really like skystalker. he looks awesome and that spring loaded feet thing looks kind of nice to me. sure it could get annoying but he looks awesome even with that.
I'm sorry but I have a question. Are the dotm and aoe figures are in the same size and I mean like Voyager figures. Cause I'm customizing my own and well I kinda need a little help wit it cause I'm also changing the arms based on the size of the character.?? Please reply it will mean a lot to me. Thank you.
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
i actully think the spring loaded feet has an action gimmick were he jump up and just fly away and the feet just going back so i actully like that love the review and if you have mp megatron can please review it.
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
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.
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
If they mess with the head a little and upscale it to Deluxe size, this could make a damned good Seeker mold.
@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.
God the Gir walk mode looks like that first boss in Metal Gear Rising Revengence. Just add a tail
@jaxom I meant people had been looking forward to him before he came out, haha
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
At around 7:00 when you drop him, Skystalker kinda lands in that cool-looking 'bring it' pose.
Repaint is forthcoming for both these guys as G2 Smokescreen and Dreadwind. See July issue of Hobby Japan magazine.
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.)
And he finally did get a repaint as Generations Laserbeak! :D
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
Skystalker is the Decepticon's HAL 2000: "Good morning, Dave. What are you doing there, Dave?"
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.
for a few minutes there i forgot he had those axes!
on a side note...that wire in the back makes his weapons remind me of a Zaku's Heat hawk axe....
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.
I have never even seen him or Mindwipe in my area. Great videos.
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.
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.
noticed you didnt add that the axeclips can clip onto his arms. for a cool look
he'd make a great laserbeak/buzzsaw repaint maybe a slight head resculpt
@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 ;)
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You forgot to show that the weapons clip onto his awesome forearms
VANGELUS
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.
DUDE! I am a HUGE jet-former fan and I been waiting AGES for this thing!
And MINDWIPE! (starts drooling)
probably because he can combine with mindwipe to form mindstalker
thank you for turning me into an alcohalic
He really looks like a kawamori mecha design, has hints of metal gear ray and jehuty
@zygas25 How does it combine? Doesn't it just sit on top of mindwipe while they are both in plane mode?
Fantastic review as always!
Rather than using the landing gear in drone mode, have you tried folding out his bot-feet? Earns the guy extra "creepy points" by becoming a plane that's able to perch on things!
Let's hope that tease at the end actually amounts so something.
Still waiting on that Hot toys Joker review haha
I have the recolor, Sunspot. He's the figure that got me back into transformers.
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.
It's brutal when he tilts it.
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.
you probably already know this by now but the clips on his axes can connect to his arms instead of his hands
"not a lot of junk hanging down there"
I was expecting a caption ;)
@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! :)
YEEEEESSS!! Vangelus you got your wish, there is a white and yellow repaint of him named SunSpot
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 am also one who loves Skystalker's design a lot. Unfortunately I've only seen him ONCE, and that was the one time I didn't pick him up. : / I've checked all around me and they just all seem to be gone from this later wave of scouts. A recolor would be so nice.
I want this guy so badly, pity none of the stores I frequent have him in stock yet.
@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.
You missed it. The axe clips attach to the thin grey parts of his forearms to be wielded like tonfas.
The only problem I have with this look is the knees. They look doofy to me.
hey since u love this mold did u get the hftd sunspot and the gdo laserbeak?
i just picked up the sunspot repaint and the firetrap(scattor shot repaint) and sunspot is diffintl my fave
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.
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
@Vange1us Is that some weird Haiku? What a wonderful prize if it is so.
Looks damn awesome..i want! was this released a while ago? i've never seen it in my local stores and can't find it anywhere online atm....except amazon for 25 bucks....
@Vange1us you sir are a legend (along with whoever reviewed transformers way before 2009). where do you get your figures? the Chinese black market, Chinese mob?
Nice review! Although I get a weird feeling of dejavu. I need to stop watching different peoples' transformer reviews, I always thinkg "Didn't they do this already?" when other people review it. But I think this was a pretty thorough look, and definitely enjoyable even if I had seen the toy before. Grrwalk is cute. Can't wait to see it together with, err, the other one.
Oh man...and to think i'm passing this guy off every time i see him! now i MUST get him!
wish i knew where to buy this still
looks awesome. I hope you do a review of mindwipe because he has some pretty awesome gimmicks. The only bad thing I can say about mindwipe though is that his arms are a little weird and his head is not very possible.
I really like skystalker. he looks awesome and that spring loaded feet thing looks kind of nice to me. sure it could get annoying but he looks awesome even with that.
I'm sorry but I have a question. Are the dotm and aoe figures are in the same size and I mean like Voyager figures. Cause I'm customizing my own and well I kinda need a little help wit it cause I'm also changing the arms based on the size of the character.?? Please reply it will mean a lot to me. Thank you.
the various scales are the same between the two lines
dude i cant find him any where
and dude did u see the combo in robot mode ???
man i "love" ur reviews
Mated painted would be great.
this guy is rare, man. he's only avalible in like, 7 states
Opposite over hypotenuse?
Awesome Batplane repaint awaits this toy. I want him.
Gerwalk wasn't the drinking game?
Why is he not in the movie?
Are you going to do a Mindwipe review, or was that part at the end just for fun?
Damn You Post-Processing!!
BTW lol luv your reviews Vangy =3
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
Yay!! I got finally a Sunspot! Now to repaint him as Skystalker...
@trewerd we dont like to talk about what shockwave did while in transylvania
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
that looks like the best scout evar!
You can clip his weapons into his forearms!
great review...great toy.....
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
Laserbeak repaint???
Gimmick was starting to be a drinking gamenear the end.
i actully think the spring loaded feet has an action gimmick were he jump up and just fly away and the feet just going back so i actully like that love the review and if you have mp megatron can please review it.
This guy screams "Shockwave!"
S H O C K W A V E !
Now i gotta get this guy and mindwipe...
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
Armybuilding Skystalker? Please stop twisting the knife in my wound, I CAN'T EVEN FIND A SINGLE ONE! ;_;
lol this is what the VF-1s will look like in the new m Bay movie: robotech!
okay what was thatat the end??
skystalker or brimstone?
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.
i call him bob (the 808 on his arms)
thats a pretty blatant Acroyer homage anybody else see the similarity?
he would make a good custom ratbat
Wait, Scattorshot has that clip too? Where?
Vange I'm baffled how you didn't mention the spine or ribcage on this guy.
@Xenocidebot hmm more like the love child of a Zaku and a VF-17 nightmare......
blue/purple repaint+new head=sweeps!!!!!
gerwalk mode: ROTF lazerbeak.
@gravehart2002 hmm i think i have seen him in my store shelves
So, did you remove those springs in his feet yet? That is, if you got another one.
Laserbeak came out. Are you going to get it?
foreshadowing..?
you know what sucks... I love this guy but I live in Iowa so we never get any of the good figures
would make a good cybertronian bumblebee
I can't find him, and online hes going 15 and over, its crazy.
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