I got the Legacy version and I love it. I had the original back in the day and it was my favorite toy so that’s probably why. It’s my official desk bot now. And you can complete the light saber look with a blast effect and it looks badass.
I really wanted to like the Legacy more and I know they can't use the Viper design anymore but the car mode just kills it for me, original all the way. Outside of Haslab Omega Prime, I've been pretty underwhelmed with the RiD 01 updates; guess it's hard to improve when the original line was and is still so good.
On sale for $15 at Target. Robot mode is good enough to get the new one. Can't imagine the transformation is any worse, never liked the original. Just too bad about the alt mode, it's awful.
I've had both the blue and red versions of the original toys since new. Glorious vehicle modes but awful transformations. I think I maybe transformed the blue one to robot and back once, and I don't think the red one has ever seen robot mode.
I straight up skipped this one and bought the original. The Legacy toy is so... *not good.* They didn't do _anything_ for Side Burn other than swap the head and colours, it's shameful. So we've got a bad Shadow Striker that was compromised to make a bad Side Burn.
OG every day! Looks sick in red too.
Can't believe we're not getting an Autobot brother next year
I hope they do the other two. Having all three with Cybertronian alt modes would be awesome.
I got the legacy version but I think the original is way better especially in vehicle mode
I got the Legacy version and I love it. I had the original back in the day and it was my favorite toy so that’s probably why. It’s my official desk bot now. And you can complete the light saber look with a blast effect and it looks badass.
Thanks for the review. I'm very happy with my Super Side Burn (and Super Prowl and Super X-Brawn)!
Great review as always! I already have Shadowstriker and prefer the colors on that one. But still tempted to pick this one up.
I really wanted to like the Legacy more and I know they can't use the Viper design anymore but the car mode just kills it for me, original all the way. Outside of Haslab Omega Prime, I've been pretty underwhelmed with the RiD 01 updates; guess it's hard to improve when the original line was and is still so good.
I feel the same, I'm hoping they at least do Skybyte right.
They could have easily done a made-up, knock-off car design, like they've done for most of the other car modes that have ever come out after G1.
On sale for $15 at Target. Robot mode is good enough to get the new one. Can't imagine the transformation is any worse, never liked the original. Just too bad about the alt mode, it's awful.
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I've had both the blue and red versions of the original toys since new. Glorious vehicle modes but awful transformations. I think I maybe transformed the blue one to robot and back
once, and I don't think the red one has ever seen robot mode.
I really wanted legacy then i got it but i really dont like it :(
How are you?
I straight up skipped this one and bought the original. The Legacy toy is so... *not good.* They didn't do _anything_ for Side Burn other than swap the head and colours, it's shameful. So we've got a bad Shadow Striker that was compromised to make a bad Side Burn.