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War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure

It's amazing how the fandom is continually shunned by Hasbro. When Classics came out, everyone hoped to get a seeker set of Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp. They delivered on that... so long as you paid $330 for Thundercracker as part of a box set and you could find a Target that had the exclusive Skywarp. With the 6" Titanium line, Starscream and Thundercracker were released. People have crossed their fingers hoping for a Skywarp.... nope. Instead, we get Sunstorm, a character never even heard of until Dreamwave thought him up way back when.

Robot Mode

Sunstorm is done up in the War Within guise, sharing the delta seeker alt mode of Screamer and Cracker. The nosepiece is black, with the remainder of the jet being primarily yellow. Some orange accents show on the fuselage, as well as more black here and there. Strangely, these colors actually work quite well on this figure.

Besides the color change, all other aspects of this figure remain true to previous releases. This would include the huge gaping hole in the back. Transformation is identical to previous offerings.

Robot Mode

The robot mode fixes a problem I had with the previous two. HIS HEAD IS BLACK! Why they couldn't do this with Starscream or Thundercracker is beyond me, but it looks so much better this way. Some white gets added to the color scheme in the thighs and forearms.

Articulation remains the same. The legs are somewhat stiff but have good range. The arms are somewhat stubby and are limited in motion. While perhaps being the best decorated of this mold, Hasbro has again left fans with a bad taste in the mouth. This should have been a Skywarp.

Reviewer	Blitzwing
Date	September 10th 2007
Score	(8 out of 10)
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War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by BlackBumblebee on 2007-10-01 05:35:01
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Yeah guys... Dreamwave didn''t "invent" this character. If anyone did, it would be eHobby who made the first Sunstorm figure (and created his religious background, etc. for profile). He was an eHobby exclusive created the same time as the green Grapple (Hauler) and both figures were meant to representations of characters in the original G1 cartoon miniseries.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by rbailen on 2007-09-18 15:19:59
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I got this guy at the Hasbro website and he rocks fairly righteously. I hadn''t picked up the previous color incarnations so for me it was a shot at a new mold and having so much sunshiney goodness on the shelf next to Fallen is a real treat. He''s starting to show up at Target now too.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by Tramp on 2007-09-17 15:50:14
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I''m actually glad that they didn''t use this mold for Skywarp. I hated that they used it for Starscream because it isn''t Starscream''s true War Within form. It''s close for Thundercracker, but completely wrong for Starscream or Skywarp. They each need their own molds if they are to be truel accurate to their War Within designs. For Sunstorm, it isn''t a bad figure, even though Sunstorm never had a War Within design. If he had, it would be identicle to Starscream though, not Thundercracker, since Sunstorm is Starcream''s clone.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by Brainiac on 2007-09-13 20:03:33
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I''m not a big fan of the paint job on this figure. Yeah the colors are great but the application is mediocre at best. All of the orange detailing is fuzzy around the edges. Looks like a junior high art student painted it. Also the face looks to cluttered with detail. I''m not terribly impressed with this line. I''ve bought G1 Ultra Magnus and Scourge and I will get WW Grimlock because that tank just screams "Me Grimlock... Bad Ass!!" I agree with this figure being inconsistant with Sunstorm''s origin. Earth mode or STFU. As for the Skywarp issue, if I liked any of the Titanium seekers, I''d be pissed. Don''t get me started on that whole classics fiasco. Remember back when the G1 cartoon was on and you had the figures that were mail order only (Reflector.) Why doesn''t Assbro do that with figures that they don''t plan on mass marketing so they can make their product more available to people who want it? Again, the longtime fans are getting the red headed step child treatment.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by supersocialist on 2007-09-13 11:45:15
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As a fairly accompished-and-getting-better painter, the lack of complete Seeker sets is only an annoyance for me, but man, what a slap in the face. Don''t take away my Sunstorm, though! In my world there are *seven* seekers; the primary three, the Coneheads, and Sunstorm. Sunstorm is great. Sunstorm was my first custom, back when I had to special-order *Starscream* at 3x MSRP. And it was so worth it. My paint apps kicked this figure''s ass.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by orionpacks on 2007-09-13 02:58:52
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It''s hard to find Titaniums anywhere around where I live. So getting excited about this line has always been difficult. Today I just luckily happened to find a War Within Megatron @ a local Target. But that''s it. It was all they had.
NOW, to get really fanboy. This guy shouldn''t even exist in a War Within mode because he is a clone made by Shockwave using the F-15 based Starscream as a model. So Sunstorm was ''born'' and F-15 and this toy totally goes against his origin.
Should have been Skywarp or at the very least a clone trooper. But ya couldn''t even troop build because these things aren''t on any shelves!

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by shadowstitch on 2007-09-12 23:13:30
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The way Hasbro rolls these days I''m honestly surprised they didn''t just call this one "Cybertron Mode Bumblebee" and be done with it.

The 1 is because they never gave the clamoring fans their Skywarp.
Me, I could care less, TITs are garbage. I can''t find a single movie figure, but this trash is everywhere.

Me, bitter? NAH.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by blitzwing on 2007-09-12 21:06:07
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According to what was said at BotCon, after the release of WW Prowl and WW Grimlock, the 6" Titanium line will be officially dead. I believe those 2 are next on the list now that WW Meg and G1 UM are leaking out.

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Posted by Vega-Starscream on 2007-09-12 20:48:12
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I too would prefer Skywarp but still enjoy my Sunstorm, its always seem to me, a mythical caracter to have, I always wish to own the g1 ehobby version but must content with the small legend sunstorm I bought not so long ago, and now we get the titanium version, who is much better than the legend in my opinion. Its true that the colors looks good on this mold. And you were right about the fact of getting shunned by Hasbro for offering us the three seekers, in the classics line, I had to import skywarp since there is no target in canada and I will not start here about thundercraker. However, I do remember that we where offer the 3 seekers in the armada line but skywarp was impossible to find in my area, its was the end of the line and some store told me there where only one skywarp per casing.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by Transformer1973 on 2007-09-12 19:55:40
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Didn''t they show a 6" Titanium Prowl at one of the shows earlier this year? Whats the story on that.

I too would have prefered if this had been Titanium Skywarp.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by Nekoren on 2007-09-12 17:51:27
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I bet they''ll make another wave, and Skywarp''ll be the first one of ''em. Maybe a War Within Wheeljack, or some Titanium 6" movie figures like BB08, Optimus (How many OPs are going to lead this world?), and perhaps a better version of Megatron for the next film? (Who WOULDN''T want a better Megatron?)

I''ve seen this sweet dude before. He is AWESOME with the paint job.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by Blitzwing on 2007-09-12 12:48:58
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I think (at least this is my feeling) that some of the older collectors want a chance to get all 3 original G1 seekers again. The fact that Hasbro usually only gives us 2 out of 3 (or goes on a completely different tangent for the 3rd one) is why people have the outcry they do.

By the way, I did make reference being tied to G1 through the Dreamwave statement I made. Just seems like Hasbro has been using him alot lately.

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by JJohns on 2007-09-11 12:48:42
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It''s funny that people don''t realize that Sunstorm is also a G1 (sort of) character. He was a generic seeker from the first episode that Dreamwave didn''t create, but a combination of Sunbow (The production company) and eHobby (Creating the name and backstory for the character).

War Within Sunstorm - Titanium - Figure
Posted by Style92 on 2007-09-10 21:26:33
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Jeez. I honestly don''t understand the obsession with getting complete seeker sets. "HaSbLO iS EEEVel BEcaUSe tehy wont MaKE mE buY tHe SAme tOy 3 TIMeS11!!1!1!1!!!"

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