The old "jet not cyclops" chestnut...
So apparently there's a Dreadwing figure coming out in the movie line of toys. He doesn't quite share the movie design aesthetic, which is kinda bizarre.
You can kinda see where the film production / Hasbro design breaks down with the non-film figures.
He's gotta be "filler" for the line since so much of film figures seem to be the same characters at differing price points.
His jet mode is fantastic. I like the color deco and everything.
His bot mode?
Well, it is either totally mistransformed in this pic or he's utterly craptastic!
It is like somebody really liked Armada Thrust and decided to kinda go that route but then sorta liked parts of the new movie Starscream ape-jet look and then worried that there are not enough cyclops toys on the shelves these days and did some of that here.
The bot mode is all over the place.
But man... I do love the color palette.
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He's definitely mis-transformed, at least partially. His box artwork depicts head antenna to balance out the otherwise cyclopic appearance; but the photographer has clearly not pulled them out, so who only knows what else is going on there.
I'm also thinking that his arms and possibly legs are just in a bit of a craptastic pose...
...still, this guy's no Cyb. Armorhide.
Addendum: He might look like pants, but in kudos to the designer, his transformation is totally unlike 99% of other TF jets...
He might not be the prettiest, but still, at least we're getting some rather original transformation sequences with these movie toys. Hopefully that can be a positive to take away from the whole experience...
. . . there's something about him that reminds me of autojetter.
http://www.tfu.info/1998/Destron/Autojetter/autojetter.htm
The first thing I thought when I saw this was "Whirl"...even though its not a helicopter.
He's heavily mistransformerd,play the battle for the allspark game to see what he does look like.