![]() Fortunately, on the forums, I came across a member who had done some extensive modification to his own Animated Arcee to make her more G1-like, including giving her a new head and a pair of custom guns. Her original head can be seen to the left (thanks to a pic swiped from TFU.info ) and looks completely out of place if trying to p ut this figure into a G1-inspired Classics collection. I mentioned that Transformers Animated had a distinctive art style, and one of the places where this was most apparent was the distinctive head and face designs that characters in that continuity sported. Onto robot mode we go! And here we see a big difference from how Animated Arcee normally looks. ![]() Obviously, Arcee wants to see where she's come from! More on that head when we get to robot mode.) It is a bit amu sing, however, since when looking at her back end you can see her actual rather poorly hidden hands! (You can also, even more amusingly, see her head quite c learly. I am sure this is faithful to her Animated model, and fortunately i t doesn't stick out too much. There seems to be a bit of fake robot kibbl e visible, as you can see what looks like her hands sticking ou t on her front end. (The silver Sharpie covers up the yellow very well to the naked eye, but the yellow bleeds through a bit in photographs.)įinally, there is a Reprolabel on her cockpit giving her a faction symbol, placed over the painted-on faction symbol that was just a white outline over the clear plastic. The yellow I am sure was faithful to Animated Arcee, but looked a bit out of place when trying to use her as a representation o f G1 Arcee. I colored the otherwise unpainted nubs that the spoiler pieces attached to, and I also covered up some yellow paint on the front end. In addition to the removed spoiler, there is some silver Sharpie work. I was one of them! So shall we see how she looks? Even Transformers fans w ho were not specifically into Animated were happy to see her release, as desperate as they were for an Arcee that would even vaguely resemble her G1 self. Pity.īut no! Toys " Я " Us to the rescue! In 2010, as an exclusive to that retailer, a few otherwise canceled Animated to ys that fans were eager to have were able to see the light of day, and one of those was Arcee. Transformers Animated eventually included the character of Arcee, and she had an alt mode not en tirely unlike the G1 version of Arcee! Hey, think we' ll get a toy of her? May be! Oh, but it looks like she is going to suffer the fate of many toys that are supposed t o come out towards the end of a toy line, and I guess we won't see her after all. Although featuring a rather distinctive art style, many of the characters had modes that payed homage to the classic G1 characters as seen through the prism of this art style. I can't say I was into it myself, but it was apparently quite well receive d. In 2008 there was a new Transformers cartoon called Tra nsformers Animated. (It was a repaint of a character named Blackarachnia.) She also got a representation in the Binaltech line, again as a repaint of a very obviously not-Arcee toy.īut anyone wanting a decent representation of her G1 character, tough luck! She did eventually get a few token toys, such as a con vention exclusive that had her for some strange reason turning into a spider. Thus did the fandom suffer a drought of Arcee toys. And when you do, they're often shortpacked. Especially one who transformed into a p ink car! It is common toy wisdom, alas, as in most any toy line aimed at boys, even these days you can be lucky to get toys of the female characters. I suppose Hasbro, in their infinite (lack of) wisdom, just figured boys wouldn't want to buy a girl character. Yet she never got a toy! She almost got one multiple times, but these efforts never made it past the prototype phase. Arcee was a very prominent character in the 1986 Transformers film and the seasons of the television series that followed.
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