"life could be better but right now it's still pretty good" You can't sneak that past me

Legacy Chromia is basically what animated Chromia would’ve been like

1:38 I feel that the character designers and animators should be more in sync with the toy designers, same vice versa. That way, everyone’s happy.

I kinda forgot how much people dislike Strongarm. I mean, I was pretty hot and cold on her when she first came out, those early stock photos didn't really do her any favors. But aside from some collision issues with the backpack, I really like her.

significant upgrade with camera footage - no weird bobbling and shaking, more stable. great work!

As far as strongarm goes, I actually had just watched rid for the 1st time, right before she dropped, so bought her, with the impression "wow, they've done a great job making this mold so accurate, I've got to have her. Good job Hasbro" it wasn't til later that the confusion of my opinion being the uncommon one hit me.

42:02 In case you’re still wondering, yes Chromia did indeed have the shield in Cyberverse. I remembered her using it to fight off the crystal Bumblebee in the Thunderhowl episode

"Never mind that the Objective doesn't exist in the space of reviewing toys" THIS.... THIS SO MUCH... I respect that some KZfaqrs like Perspective End want to try to justify objective by criteria for what they feel makes a figure good, but I just can't get behind ever labeling something as objectively good or bad since reviews inherently are subjective to taste.

Aight, movie night is saved! Thanks doc!

Finally someone who sees these moulds positively

I grabbed Chromia last week and even though I had been wanting to pick her up already it genuinely surprised me just how much the mold sings in the new colors.

It takes long time to make vids. But you’re really informative. You dive into figures a lot more. More than other reveiwers. You dig into complexity and everything! And I think u along with jobby, Thew Adams, and gei4mei (if you even know who they are) are genuinely probably the best transformers reviewers I have watched. All have genuine opinions that are justified (yours included). Not to mention each have humour we all relate to (u included). Gotta love thew Adam’s play on every word he says.

Doc really came for Takara Lavender in this one

Thank you so much for finally discussing these figures outside of the mild problems that don't really bring them down! Also did you know that right before chromia was released, someone posted it on TFW radicons claiming it was a custom?

The melee weapon for shadow striker is not supposed to have the bumper attached. Just the “drag knife” itself is the melee weapon. Also I’m surprised you don’t use the bumper on her arm since it gives her more of that asymmetrical look she was known for when it is displayed on her arm

6:44 I got jumpscare by how good that vehicle looked

The front of shadowstriker's car mode does drive me crazy. I wish Chromia had her big shield, but the blues and pinks are so nice to look at.

Legacy Chromia is despised? I love her! It’s so well articulated! I hoping for Lugnut/Clobber one!

awesome to see you back, Doc! looking forward for more to come ^^

The strongarm mould will always be good to me since I have a heavy bias to Elite. She was my first ever transformer and what got me sucked into the series after being an idw fangirl. So I will always defend her and the other two because even being the same mould, you can have so much verity with the backpacks.

Welcome to DrLockdown's review of Chromia, Shadowstriker, and Strongarm! Aka a 40 minute video that makes me want to spend 50 dollars (im still not getting Shadowstriker her rear end in car mode looks incomplete and disturbs me)

ngl, I still prefer the Elita 1 version of the mold just out of personal preference but I still really respect what they did for Strongarm and was quite surprised to hear that she wasnt received well, but then again I got back into transformers pretty recently so I havent really interacted with the community much

Me seeing Shadowstriker: *HeR cHeSt Is FlAt No OfFeNsE!* Also DrLockdown: *Fan modes Shadowstriker's Chest* Me: That Changes *EvErYtHiNg!*

Honestly for these three, I had a few ideas for some improvements, but I understand Hasbro execs are the design team’s biggest obstacle. For Shadow Striker, I think sculpting the front section to be more angular and adding a grille can help. Cyberverse SS had a kind of lambo look, so it would overcome the Dodge problem. Idk what could help for Strongarm other than a different mold, but I think the giant shoulder tires definitely was important to her design, so maybe something like that. For Chromia, I feel like a retool to fill out the legs would be good. If not, maybe painting the outer section of the weapons to make it pop would be neat.

Great review dude!

Stellar reviews man. Im among the ones who was really mixed and dissapointed by these releases but this video has made me them all in a new light and with alot more nuance. Especially shadow striker, who im picking up now! Keep up the great work and humor 💙 🗣

Bro that call out for Earthspark hurts. That show is so genuinely fucking amazing, both teaching empathy and understanding while balancing really nicely choreographed action scenes. Legit, I love how Breakdown looks in that show, to the point that I like Nacelle's red face and blue head so much more as a result

I feel that Shadow Strikers """melee weapon""" could benefit with a blast effect Both for the effect itself and to double as a royalty-free Lightsaber

I'm gonna be honest, I like the Legacy Prowl, but I really don't like the mold as Chromia. I still think the thrilling 30 figure is the perfect Chromia design. I always thought of Prime Arcee as a new interpretation of Chromia anyway (not just because she's blue) and that figure merges the prime design and the g1 as my perfect Chromia. The fact that Cyberverse Chromia's animation model is based on that toy made me wish that design could still get an update, but we got the Animated Prowl mold and i personally find that disappointing. As for the other 2, I dont care for rid 2015 in general so any thoughts i have on strongarm are negatively biased, while Shadow Striker is probably my favorite of these 3. I'm actually a fan of the combination of her different designs

You're making me want that Longarm and Chromia now.

Strongarm the issue was compared to the other girls in the show she was bulkier, especially next to characters like Windblade. in the show image reference you used, she's alot more similar in Sideswipe proportion wise, meanwhile both Grimlock and Bumblebee were larger characters

I can't believe I'm saying it but Chromia needed to be an Legacy Arcee retool to call it the Cyberverse version. That design is based on T30 Chromia, a retool of TFP Arcee. It just feels like such a missed opportunity when the Arcee mold is right there.

I still want a MP-Nancy, Elita-1 and the rest of the fembots. Lol (With better backpacks or options.)

Strongarm’s figure was one I was initially apprehensive about due to stock photos looking garbage and reviews appearing to show bad possibility, but in hand like with wind blade and for me blitzwing I was pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the figure.

love this channel, I have none of them as I didn't find shadow striker for a decent price, have the old Strong-arm and am pleased with it, and have t30 Chromia and legacy prowl, but these 3 are Great figures and stunning LOOKING

Honestly, all three of them FEEL like the characters.

Hoping Gen Selects does a Botcon Shadow Striker, I'll always accosiate her with the Cyberverse Purple (and mismatched colours from cyborg limbs) but with her design being a double homage, I'd love to see those the mold in those original colours. Hell, do a red and black one like the Rotf Legends two pack. I wish the mold didn't have the partsforming or that the vehicle mode had better sculpting, but even then, i really want to see Shadow Striker's other decos

I knew you were gonna do that in the outro

love the ending

I don’t mind Chromia being a retool of Animated Prowl. I actually think it looks better than Animated Prowl.

Kinda surprised Arcee hasn’t been given a new legacy mold or a retool of the Elite 1. Maybe they could make a legacy design out of her Earthspark design.

The full 73 yards! That’s a quality reference

Yayy new review

Yay, I have all three. All of them were much better than I expected. Personally I prefer to use the melee mode of the Shadow Striker gun with a blast effect for a "beam saber" (for now it seems it didn't affect the plastic of the gun) and I just wedge the rear bumber on the 5mm port of the shield/car roof.

Just watched the takara legends slipstream review and legacy repaint when

When i picked up chromia, i was genuinely surprised at how much i liked it since i missed the original prowl release and yea looking back i very much prefer the lavender and blues of chromia over the black and gold of prowl which i still want since i had the original as a kid

I ADORE Strongarm 🙏🥰 I think her figure is pretty great for the price point, but my points are the same as yours. I wish the head was a bit smaller to maker her look Bigger I guess? & the shoulder wheels being attached in a different way would be nice.

50 minutes of Dr Lockdown is EXACTLY what the Doctor ordered

30:12 I like to put one of the longe pieces from Jetfire’s blast effects into the weapon to act like a laser sword.

Hope you're having a good day

So I already had Strongarm but this video, along with the recently revealed Nonnef upgrade kit for Windblade getting me in a Transformers mood, has convinced me to order Shadowstriker and Chromia. For the latter I plan to dig through my loose weapons and find a good sniper rifle for her to wield and possibly a sword as well... I will the other hand was designed for weapons but she can have one strapped somewhere.

Y You You can store Shadowstriker's gun in the car mode I can't believe I never thought of that. She's the only one of these three I have, and yeah, one of the roof tabs is breaking at the base of them because I might've been too rough when transforming it. But the transformation feels so satisfying and the posing feels so nice that... yeah. Got her at the same time as Armada Megs and Prime and she almost ended up being my favourite of those three. I never even noticed the collarbone detail either! It may not be one of the best but I find the overall design, as a toy, to be clever and fun.

*_HIP HIP HORRY_*

I am HERE for the Shadowstriker love! I think she’s fantastic

I owned all 3 figures, and I love all of them. My only issues with any of them are this Shadowstriker: the bumper I didn't enjoy and I wish it came with a blade accessory to tab into the blade hilt *_(I split the bumper and super glued it so it transforms just fine. Plus it kinda gives off that put together vibe she had in the show, since I used and excato knife, pliers and super glue to do this mod)_* Strongarm: Wish she had more joints in her shoulderpads and door wings to make it so they don't clash with each other. *_(I used a mod tutorial I found on the TFW forums that helps position the backpack up a little higher so the door wings sit in a more natural place.)_* Chromia: instead of ninja stars they just made caps that sat in the storage spot of the Ninja stars and gave her regular guns to wield which can become exhaust pipes in alt mode. And that tooling could be used to slim down her thighs a bit. *_(Also I did want to mention that it is possible to swap the legs, you unscrew the shins and swap them, and for transformation, just rotate the waist in the opposite direction. She transforms just fine.)_* Despite those issues, HasTak has been killing it with the female characters, Legacy Slipstream could've used more tooling I agree, but each one has been hit after hit. I want them to tackle Shatter and use the T30 Springer sandstorm mold next. Also Doc, what are your thoughts on the Armorizers? Do you own any of them?

I actually really like Shadowstriker. A simple and unique transformation. While i understand that she doesn't look like her Cyberverse incarnation, the way that her mould looks does give off a Frankenstein's Monster feel, and i find that very important to her character.

Thank you now I might give strongarm a chance

I love the Legacy Chromia, She's next to my TR Windblade and Legacy Elita-1 (serving as a replacement for Arcee) as an homage to the Combiner Hunters team. As such I just see Legacy Chromia not as a Cyberverse figure, but an IDW 1.0 figure.

Only Fembot release I have I had a few problems with, and that was Legacy Minerva, which had a backpack that flops around, and friction joint feet, that can, and have gotten looser over time.

I wish Legacy Strongarm didn't have the inaccurate shoulder kibble. If she didn't, she would have been one of the most faithful post-2007 Legacy characters.

Wait did you actually customize Sunstreaker ?

If redecos and retools are what we have to get to fill out our ranks, then so be it.

I know people hate the Legacy Prime Arcee mold, which I don't understand because I love that thing, but Chromia would have made so much more sense as a retool of that one.

Objectively a really good, and informative review for these three. So far only have United Chromia as I like how the design carried over so effectively to the Prowl mold. Also saves me needing to buy Prowl to experience the toy, and its marvels of engineering. Really tempted to get Prowl now as the mold is just that awesome only that would mean being obligated to get both Animated Prime, and Bee as he can't really stand on a shelf alone. Never really watched RID but really liked the Strongarm toy design though the original felt to large/simplified though that what she needed to be for the target audience of the show. New one looks a bit more involved, and I like how the proportions overall are streamlined better to fit into the Legacy lineup. Seeing as she is still readily available on Amazon may get her with her mold mate Elita 1 as they look great together. No qualms/complaints about Shadowstriker other than I have no knowledge whatsoever about the show or character so just going to hold out for the Sideburn release.

Out of the three that were reviewed today, strong arm was fine If not perfect. There wasn't anything wrong with her. I just haven't picked one up yet, but I will be fixing that soon

My gripe with Shadow striker is that she is supposed to represent Cyberverse Shadow striker. Besides the head she looks nothing like her asymmetrical design. An asymmetrical colour could have really helped or make her the botcon version. Only way you could make her like her asymmetrical design would be to swap limbs from other transformers like Elita 1 and Windblade. Hope Chromia’s mold is retooled to make an armada Sideways.

4:40 Tyler1 scream 😂😂

3:02 this is probably my favorite type of female transformer toy it makes them feel like they're part of the same world as the other dudes

i find it ironic how the black deco is worse than the colorful one

I’m super excited to get my hands on Chromia and am hoping to get one for my upcoming birthday (there isn’t one figure in the entirety of the city I live near though so that’s both concerning and hilarious). I wrote off Strongarm after not being impressed with the looks of the Elita/Minerva mould, but after your video I might give the refresh a shot…maybe. I will not give any slack however to Shadow striker. Her being a pre colour of Sideburn, no problem. Super cool, but I have a big problem with the rest of the figure. For starters the proportions of both the robot mode and car mode seem to have been desired at random. The legs go beyond long, and are paired with a puny torso, alongside arms that are super far back due to the transformation. Not to mention that said transformation will come undone if you try to move the arm without pressing the backpack into the torso thanks to the weak locking tab. However, I will give credit in that the shoulder joint is an improvement over the likes of ER Hoistbreaker in that the arm can rotate forward without bringing the attached kibble strut with it. I don’t know what the idea with the car mode was. Every Shadow striker alt-mode has been an Earth car opposed a Cybertronian car, different cars, but Earth cars nonetheless. Both the Cyberverse car, and the RID car have higher side, over the wheel things (I’m not a car guy), which this alt mode completely omits, removing any connection to the previous alt-modes. I’m not asking for a 1:1 Chevrolet whatever, but a little reminiscent would have gone a long way. But my biggest problem with the car is the proportions. What is going on? The wheels are taller than the windscreen by a country mile to the point that if you were in the car you could barely see over the exposed engine. The front of the car super prominently hangs out, while the rear has Hank Hill levels of ass (that is to say, it doesn’t have anything. Combined with the lack of mechanical detail (whether to emulate the cartoon or not), it results in a car that looks like it was sculpted from a soap bar rather than plastic. This is a bad figure in my opinion. However, at least it is Shadow striker’s (and Sideburn’s) figure, and she wasn’t relegated to using the Ercee mould or something like that. So overall, it is very good that the Transformers team has moved away from the idea that all fembots are cool to have the same figures just because a large number are obscure and ill defined. I wonder what an alternate reality Oritha would have looked like if the rest of the team had gotten to use other Prime wars combiner limb moulds? I’m not familiar with what the other character’s original alt modes were like but it would have been better than the space oblong on wheels that was Moonracer (poor girl).

Hopefully we get a new Moon Racer and Fire Star too.👍

Disrespecting an absolutely awesome Jazz figure is crazy

Im adding Chromia to the Animated shelf and threat her as a new young cadet for the elite guard (taking advantage of those red marks in her shoulders) What i hope Hasbro and TT do in Legacy or whatever the next chapter is: Figures for Team Athenia (Rodimus, Ironhide, Hot Shot, Brawn and Red Alert). And of course Ratchet (probably based on Trailbraker mold) and a new Bulkhead.

First. Also I'm super hyped for Slipstream and idc what anyone says

It’s so depressing to see the fake out of calling it Cyberverse Shadow Striker. Would’ve loved to get a figure of the actual character, shame this pretool is gonna prevent that.

Yo where did you get that head for dk-3 breaker it looks cool!

I got Shadowstriker and Chromia for free because someone offloaded them to me. So since I never bought them myself I found the two to be very nice figures.

9:55 Nice Xenoblade Chronicles 3 bit there, Eunie is best girl. Though she's tied with Mio if I'm being honest.

I love the chromia figure! I think the mold works better for her than Anim Prowl. Haters gonna hate.

What version of sunstreaker is that? Is it just the bumblebee concept version with a custom paint job? It looks awesome!

I've passed on Strongarm only because I'm not as sold on the face [and don't care for the feet not locking in place in vehicle mold, an issue Elita and Minerva share]; very much looking forward to finding Chromia at retail.

Shadowstriker does look nice but I’m curious if an axlegrease retool might’ve worked better as you can swap parts with the other junkions to match how she ended up in the show, Strongarm looks nice but the head size is odd and the shoulders look to bulky, Chromia nice she got a good figure this time around but it feels like chromia not a cyberverse version nothing against that but if it helps get more cyberverse designs in the future why not. Now let’s see what I stock for other fembots……… OH COME ON (slipstream is a letdown and kinda set up for that, if she’s gotta be a deluxe the windblade retool isn’t great the ER/siege seeker is voyager but at that point why not do a legacy Prime starscream to repaint into slipstream. Idk maybe this character should’ve been left to bake maybe to get a TFP scream retool or better time to redo windblade)

When all 3 of these were leaked/revealed they weren’t really what I was hoping for but I could see them being good even while surrounded by the negativity of the fandom. Unfortunately, I despised Shadowstriker’s alt mode and her transformation was very unfun to me. The shoulders didn’t help. I posed her a couple times and haven’t really since. Strongarm I was actually really excited for. Besides being a retool of Elita I didn’t get the complaints fans were spewing and when she got into peoples hands I saw opinion on her change positively. I ended up thinking the figure was just ok. The alt and transformation were good, maybe even better than Elita's were but the shoulders broke the look of her robot and (combined with the forearm kibble) hurt playability a lot in my experience. Chromia is fantastic! The deco is so well done. The head looks great even if it’s too cylindrical for my tastes. Freed from comparisons to the original Animated Prowl this figure shines brightly.

LU Chromia does what prime arcee (deluxes) and so many bikeformers should have done years ago: learn from prowl, improve upon prowl. Even just a new coat of paint and a new head can do wonders.

I get the complaints about the potp fembots, but I don’t see it that way. The reason I like them is because they’re pretty poseable, and look like they did in that episode. I never found them to be very sexy at all. Very feminine in form, but not super sexualized. I think they look cool. I ended up just removing all of their kibble and making them action masters. They were lazy, crappy figures anyway. I’m glad we’re getting much better female Transformers now, but I am nostalgic for the G1 cartoon and that episode in particular. I have my cartoon accurate collection, and I have collections across all the Transformers Universe. Every figure has a place in my collection. I have Elita and her squad front and center on my G1 shelf. They stayed behind on Cybertron and kept fighting the good fight. They’re heroes and that version of those characters deserves to be immortalized in plastic. We’ll probably never get accurate, transforming figures of these gals that aren’t shellformers. All that said, I am loving the Legacy fembots and I’m definitely looking forward to Slipstream. Can’t wait to see what’s next!

The whole 73 yards triggered my doctor who sense

I really wanted Shadow Striker to look like her Cyberverse incarnation so it could be retooled into a new version of the Prime Vehicon

86 road charger when?

My biggest nitpick with Shadowstriker (which is actually more of a nitpick with Sideburn) is the engine on the chest. It looks like an identity crisis between a V6 and a V8, while a Dodge Viper has a V10. Really not that big of a deal, tho

NGL i want shadowstriker the only thing stopping me is her engine chasis. Yes, it's preuse for sideburn, but I want her without the engine.

I've never understood the hatred for these figures, and I'd love to buy Strongarm if these figures would actually show up in my stores.

The alt mode looks like a fictional hot wheels from some random Chinese toy copy

I can say that they are pretty good figures, but not really good representations of the specific incarnations of them that are referenced. Of the ones in this video, I'd definitely consider Chromia to be the best even though I think they could've changed her weapons a bit. I definitely think they did Shadow Striker dirty though. Her headsculpt works but its clear that she was a pre-mold for another character. I like the figure but personally feel like they would've done better making her a Generation Selects heavy remold of the Junkion car with alternate limbs to cover both her designs. I definitely think Strongarm could've been used as a premold for a Legacy Roadbuster. Also they definitely should remold Shard into Airachnid and Reactivate Starscream would've made a good Slipstream.

My only gripe with Chromia, is that she is labeled as Cyberverse Universe, but she doesn't look like her, they could have given her a more toon accurate head, but apart from that, the toy is great as a regular Chromia Strongarm is fine, she is supposed to be bulky and it works Shadowstriker is fine,, but for some reason on my copy her roof doesn't stay tabbed in, in vehicle mode

Something I personally feel from personal experience is that the Animated Prowl mold does it's transformation far better than the Prime Arcee. While both are easy to remember I tend to enjoy Prowl's transformation alot more than I do Arcee. Arcee's transformation is alright but then making everything go together correctly is sometimes irritating. Sometimes I even think I miss-transformed something but no it's just a wierd design. Also my copy is loose and parts pop off easy

Welp, I wanted Chromia before watching this review, Now I *WANT* her

Chromia is so good she makes me wish I had skipped prowl cause I don’t wanna spend another 25 dollars on the same base toy as what I already have ;w;

Chromia’s throwing stars look like baby Yoda’s macaroons that he stole from that annoying kid

I tend to think of Legacy Shadowstriker, especially due to the head and lack of the Frankenstein look, as more a representation of her IDW incarnation, but I understand why it was easier to just say “Cyberverse”

Of the three hated (I'm not in that category of collectors, I LOVE these three), Strongarm is my least favorite because of her head mold. She has a big head, lol! For Shadowstriker, it's her shoulder placement. HATE IT. but that's it. A small gripe for an overall solid and awesome figure.