The best way I can describe the engineering on this Elita figure is that it was made with the thought of “what if we made a fembot that doesn’t completely rely on shellforming?”. I kinda like the look. It’s not exactly show accurate, but it has enough feminine features without it resorting to whatever Earthrise Arcee resorted to & have a more proper transformation. We shouldn’t completely hinder ourselves with show accuracy all the time, you know.

I feel like this (and arguably the blitzwing) are just like the thrilling 30 Rhinox, figures that have a lot of wrong details, but they still capture the “spirit” of the characters

The backpack is meant to be extremely customizable, And this mold is designed to be both Elita and Minerva’s body so it’s very Genericize in both robot and car mode. Hence the bizarre not faux forming.

The thing is, this figure is really meant to be Minerva. The 2nd figure to be a pre-tool, 1st being Arcee.

Seems like a mold where two characters were planned, so they made something approaching a halfway point between them. Either that, or the point was to make Elita as she appeared in her high school yearbook photo. (Or someone should make an alternate head of her 'Ariel' form.)

Legalita, sounds like LEGAL. Very nice.

Perspective, I don't know, man, this has kinda blown me away. I must admit that the front of the car has to be squished togerher, but otherwise, the alt mode holds together in my case. She gives off these both odd and wonderful action hero vibes with these large guns. Her small stature also supports the, always great, archetype of "dwarf's fight against giant". The shoulder pylons are good, despite the hollowness I didn't even notice (priorities, I guess), since they're on two separate swivels - Laser Prime, a leader, doesn't even give you that option - so I always manage to get them outta way. But, to counterbalance all the praises, I had to tighten quite few joints (outside hip movement, feet) and cut some of that de-tense plastic on those feet.

On it’s own I think this is an okay Elita-1 figure. It’s biggest crime is that it’s so clearly going to be a Minerva/Nightbeat redeco . Even before we even saw any leaks of the Minerva toy, it was pretty obvious from this design it was going to be a pre-deco. Again, it’s fine on it’s own, but it’ll probably be better as Minerva and the eventual Nightbeat toy.

I actually quite like the changes to robot mode they did with elita. Ngl her og design has never really been all that appealing to me. It always feels like a precursor to the 86 newbie designs, where you couldn't really tell it transformed unless you squinted. I've always liked transformers that use their kibble to enhance a design, and elita's shoulder kibble really do it for me

Epic review PerspectiveEnd!!! Despite her flaws, I still enjoy the fact that this is the first ever Elita-1 figure that is a new mold and not a repaint of a previously released figure. Keep on being amazing.

I got Minerva, and I found on her, if you pivot the hands during transformation, it allows the sides to peg in 100% of the time. Not sure if you've tried this, but I hope it helps

Legacy elita was obviously meant to be Minerva but no one in America know who is Minerva but they now who is Elita-one but idw published a mini series of the wreckers where Minerva is a wrecker along with alieron hot shot ricochet (stepper in Japan) circuit and thunderclash so hey another Elita-one I wonder if there any upgrade kit to make her swolelita one (I need to now)

I'm definitely looking forward to buying this mold again when it's released as Minerva.

I bought this figure recently after finding it at a home electronics store. I haven't figured out the transformation yet, because it involves aligning the back of the elbows with the tabs of the quadruple-hinged backpack pylons, with too many degrees of freedom to be intuitive, but I like the robot mode.

The hat coming off in alt mode makes me want to buy one to customize in the Minerva more because I have not spending 50 bucks on a deluxe.

I just got Legacy Clampdown, My first version of the mold and he is INCREDIBLE I understand the love for the mold now!

Her face still looks better than Mastercee (Masterpiece Arcee), who ACTUALLY looks like an unsettling doll that might move around at night to murder me in my bed

This is what I like to do: Netflix Elita-1 is Ariel and goes well with Generations Alpha Trion, Legacy Elita-1 goes well with ER/Siege Optimus Prime, and POTP Elita-1 goes well with Galaxy Upgrade or even the upcoming Aramada Optimus Prime.

I wish I could freakin’ FIND her. Everywhere I go, Wave 1’s keeping the shelves so warm you could cook an egg.

When i first saw this vehicle mode i thought it looked like the Car Homer Simpsons designed for his brothers car company.

Dang, I posted this just last night to the poster video, when this one was probably already in the can, but for the benefit of other commenters: OG Elita had those mini shoulder-stacks (which the PotP version turned into pistols for the Seeker mold shoulder ports, and now this one comes with two guns you can stick in shoulder pad ports... it's shoulderception!) to look more like G1 OP, but in this line we just got a remake of G2 OP -- now she has shoulder-fenders, and yeah, they were clearly because the mold was always meant for Minerva, but they also make her look more like that G2 OP. Maybe one of the aftermarket accessories companies like Matrix Workshop or Dr. Wu will take inspiration there for some filler pieces?

And yet there’s people with Minerva already…

How the hell did velocitron get a better distribution than legacy wave 2?

Lelita (Lord that sounds like a Lana Del Rey song about... well... ew) is such a great figure in my opinion! She isn't the Elita I was hoping for in Legacy (that would go to TFA), but is my favourite version I own of her. I love everything about this stumpy girl, but not the ankle tilts, too limiting. But I do agree with nearly everything you say about her, she is *wierd*

Finally a figure where I picked "it's weird" is the correct choice.

i have a lot of the same issues you do but months before this came out i decided that this figure looked like the best thing ever and i drooled over it for months so i like it a bit more than you do this thing has its flaws but the look is just on point i’m not sure why i like it so much

Yeah same here it's a nightmare on the upside though here at my local Goodwill I found Cybertron Cannonball it's a cool find

Elita suffers from being Minerva's mold mate with her shoulders, and Minerva suffers from being Elita's mold mate by having an alt mode that doesn't come close to resembling that Porche, and with the mold being intended for 2 characters that have nothing in common besides being girls, the inevitable Nightbeat retool is gonna end up looking like a blue Minerva in yellow shorts and crop top with sunglasses. I hated typing that last sentence but I wouldn't have typed it if I didn't think it's true, just a heads up if we get Nightbeat in Gen Selects.

I’ve been on the fence about the Minerva version one factor is figuring out where to find one cause shes everywhere and no where at the same time. The car bots in legacy just seem to have some type of odd backpack beside dragstrip and maybe knockout

Legacy Elita-1 looks cool. Like your idea of having the front car head lights be over her shoulders, instead of straight behind. Leave that for Minerva. Really liking the white/pink/red color scheme more in robot mode than in car mode. Speaking of. Sure, I wish her car mode looked more like this 6:25, but I'll live with her buggy car.

I have this ordered as a late birthday present, but it'll arrive in December.

I still don't have Core Shockwave or Tarantulas. I can still find Legacee and Iguanas clogging my place of work and now I'm hyped for Bomburst already.

I personally count the WfC Elita as it's own thing since it's based on the Netflix design

I love this head sculpt.

I don't really care about perfect show accuracy anyways, what I want to know about her is how she looks next to her boyfriend, her plastic quality, articulation and alt mode. Which she mostly passed, too bad I can't seem to find her on sale 💀

After playing with the Minerva version of the mold for about a week (Elita still being on preorder from Amazon) my conclusion is... it's wierd. Objectively, this is a mediorce design that has typical modern articulation or a little below and a backpack that isn't bad but does get in the way at the elbows and shoulders a little, and isn't even super fun to transform like, say, WFCE Sunstreaker... and yet, like Maximum Shellformer Cyberverse Arcee, I absolutely love her. The robot proportions, the vute little altmode, just the total package has found its way to the top tier of my favorite figures, one of the ones that jumps immediately to mind as part of why I love the franchise as a whole.

3:02 F’s in the chat for Ransack

Oh my god. The reason they didn’t give Minerva her headmaster was so people couldn’t steal it out of the windowless box

Oh my god, that face is gonna haunt my nightmares

This video was made on my birthday and I completely forgot to comment on it

I've been looking for her for a while to get an Elita that turns into a vehicle instead of lay on the floor with a car on top

Finally! Elita transformers into the best car in media! The Homer!

Using Ransack as a hammer and just constantly throwing him at Elita One's arm made me lol. Poor guy.

This shortstack Elita was awesome.

You may hate Blitzwing, but at least you got a Wave 2 figure, my stores still have Wave 1.

I managed to find the rest of wave 2 one day and just went for all of it, also got elita for free because target was having an offer for 25$ off of toy purchases over a 100 bucks. Also bought mpm blackout at target because fuck my wallet Elita is okay, I like her more than knockout probably but I think he’s a better figure objectively. The transformation isn’t terrible, but it isn’t satisfying at all either. I also do the thing with the kibble where I put it over the shoulders so she looks less like Minerva, which is who this mold should be.

Maybe elita has the uncanny look of feeling like her is because of the choice of vehicle mode to a degree

Same problem, same problem Like, the 3rd wave is nearly out and I never saw wave 2 except that mother****** Blitzwing. Bro, I thought only my elita had those weird issues.

Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that the time between now and Siege is longer than the time between Siege and Combiner Wars

The red part of the backpack has a tab that plugs between her shoulders. The pink part just kind of rests on top of that. The shoulders on mine aren't as tight as on yours but the hips are super loose instead. Also, the side panels in vehicle mode don't have trouble staying in place like yours do. Are you plugging the back kibble all the way in? Because on mine the square tab on the white armature always wants to push things out of place for vehicle mode, unless I give it a good push so that it seats all the way in.

WFC Elita looks like a squirrel

With a gpod Orion Pax in deluxe being a thing..can we just call this one Ariel, maybe get aftermarket head for her and go with it? :) We just need a Dion...

I love her! Thank you for talking about her problems. She's little weird but I still want her.

I mean Australia seems like it has good distribution. No Blitzwing but we have Dead End, Tarantulas, This, and Knockout.

at 3:43 could this perhaps be a reference or something out of the depths of your imagination? cause funnily enough what you described reminded me of that one short for love death and robots (that good to meh anthology animated show on Netflix) that featured an almost one to one description of what you described as the horrors of elita 1's head sculpt. If correct, nice reference since it seems no one talks about how good and horrifying of a concept that is, and if not, still a very good and haunting thought.

I have managed to find Jhihaxis (I think is close enough to his name), Red Cog, Soundwave, and Core Class Shockwave. That is all I have seen period.

Okay, i have the Minerva mold, (which i actually managed to track down in stores, right next Red Alert because Hasbro completely forgot about him and never shipped him into American Walgreens,) honestly i think Minerva looks a little bit better than Elita-1, but it doesn't matter because her backpack is the LOOSEST thing i own. It comes untabbed TOO easily and will move when i tip her upside down. I also almost lost the lightbar because i thought it'd be on the vehicle already, but it wasn't. I'm just lucky i didn't open the car door, I'd have never seen that thing again.

I already have all of wave 2 as amazon stocked everything couple months back and is still in stock at most websites here in the aussie lands. In other news I am sad to report that my Kingdom Grimlock has yellowed worse than I can deal with. It white yellowing I could handle but now some of the grey in the arms is yellowing and makes a very obvious discoloration. Shame as Kingdom Grimlock was one of my favorite Kingdom Figures and was the superior to the Dinobot in terms of tolerances which made it a personal fav. Now it shall be apart of the next lot of figures I am selling.

Wow your over 9.5 almost to that 10K you wanted. :) Thats pretty awsome mate! :) I just got the Legacy Blitzwing and though it's tank mode is a good tank it's still a shellt-tank and thats sad. :( I do like the robot mode and the transformation to get there but that jet mode is such a sad pitiful thing and I still cant figure out all the wingy bits so my episode of Blindformers might be very interesting because this jet mode is the most trashy unthought-out jet. The best part was the wing transformation I will admit that was pretty cool but still wtf is that jet?!

the veicle mode looks in line with what the G1 cartoon bots we saw transform both on cyberron and on earth approached the fact. for the rest, if you put a random head on, she looks kinda generic

Honestly I don't think there will ever be a G1 female Transformers figure that will be 100% show accurate unless you're willing to accept partsforming, a non-transforming figure or a heavily compromised vehicle mode so this is good enough for me

Try swivelling the hands so the back of the hand faces out when transforming, that fixes the side tabs not staying in for me

Can there really be a definitive representation of a character when every character has at least 4 different designs? Do we even need a definitive version of a character? Is the definitive version of a character the perfect copy of the character's most iconic design or just the version which we have the most connection with? Does it even matter?

Finnaly a good figure of her

When this figure got announce for me this was very strange and out of place, we already had previously an elita in the arcee mold not to long ago. Then suddenly this gets announce and for me this elita was a possible idea for sharing mold with another fembot but i was not sure who. Later i show this to my sister and she told me that she looks like a fembot called minerva and surprise surprise Minerva gets announce later, my sister was right. this means that this mold was meant to be minerva and she just got added as an after thought. heck she has many details that minverva has in IDW

I recently got Swole Elita. Looks cool, but it feels like something I fished out of a charity store.

So as an whole the figure is avarage, but on a good side of avarage. Especially if you're looking for something new in case of characters. And as for the question of the video... If you could create an idea for an new female transformer, what that would been? (Ex: What kind of personality she has? What kind of altmode is she? Autobot? Or Decepticon? etc.)

Omg you have to see the walmart catalog photos for the velocitron line they're horrendous

BBTS still has Tarantulas and Wildrider listed as Pre-Order, and of course I can't find them ANYWHERE, even fucking Dragstrip is still listed as a Pre-Order

The weirdness of this is why I like it.

I really like it and I rest the shoulder pilons further back so I full range at the shoulders

I normally prefer their silhouettes as sleek as possible, but her original G1 design is even harder to emulate than Arcee and Chromia's. Also good backpack fix, think they'll take note?

So I don't know if you're gonna read this, but since you don't look at the instructions I think you have her slightly mistransformed. As stupid as it sounds you need to twist her hands so her finger point up and that fixes the back panel issues you have.

Why is Elita on the rise as of late? I thought the WFC Trilogy would be the last we'd see of her for at least a good while, but then she's released in this line using Minerva's mold, which fits the idea of Elita well enough but is half baked at best. Then she's appearing in the EarthSpark cartoon coming out as well which I'm not complaining about, but I'm still just as confused, since Arcee is also appearing in that show too. Is Elita just becoming the typical fembot that needs to be added, like what Windblade was a few years ago?

*This mold was probably meant for Minerva more than Elita-1.*

I think elite one is just one of the characters who has so little screen time Hasbro can't decide how an updated one should look

Being honest if I got this figure i would stick in car mode and just use the potp elita for robot mode and just say she's a quad changer ( robot, car, jet, combiner torso )

I found transformers devastation last night as I am in love. This is the most fun I’ve had with a game for quite a while even if I only really play prime.

I found a few of these at Target and almost bought one but I just made my biggest Transformers purchase ever last week and I’ve got to give my wallet a little longer to recover. I spent $150 on a Victorion since that’s the cheapest I’ve ever seen her and I’ve never handled a combiner before.

Oh god, it doesn't lock in!? I thought we got past moving kibble on a transformers figure!?

Finally a somewhat good female transformers figure

turn into a giant spider thing and drain all your juices?.. Did black arachnia give you a thing for spiders?

So I've decided I'll get the Newage Hephaestus set (Toy colors) after saving up a bit more money and money I'll get from selling some funko pops (Getting the figure from Showzstore)

I never understood the obsession so many have with media accuracy. Personally I think this is a much better and more interesting character design than her show model

The design is definitely intended for Minerva. As for her face...ehhh...the box art seems like the artists went with the idea of the 🦈💩 crazy IDW version. Not sure why some of the ladies in IDW (before the 2019 reboot) had to be crazy. First Arcee, then Elita-1, then Windblade to a lesser degree (that Machinima "Prime Wars Trilogy" cartoon actually had her at IDW levels of crazy more than IDW)... I still haven't found her yet, either. But of the three, my favorite has to bee the PotP one. Sure, she's a hefty retool of the PotP Starscream (who oddly didn't get repainted into Thundercracker and Skywarp), BUT, at least she doesn't look like an escapee from a Megaman game. And she looks great next to the Voyager class Optimus Prime figures - Classics, Earthrise/Netflix, Legacy G2, maybe Titans Return G2, maybe Combiner...nah, fuck Combiner Wars cuz she sucks next to CW Motormaster, and especially the KuBianBao MP10V downsized KO of MP10. None of this dumb shit where they have her so short that she could give Optimus a BJ while standing up (PotP Elita-1 to PotP Optimus, PotP Elita-1 to TR Powermaster Optimus, Netflix & Elita-1 to literally any Voyager class Optimus). Legacy & Netflix Elita-1 have their place beside versions of her boo Optimus. Unfortunately, that place is fairly limited in options - Deluxe class Optimus Prime figures - and the only good options of those are Reveal the Shield G2 Laser Optimus, War for Cybertron videogame Optimus (called "Cybertronian Optimus Prime"), and Transformers Prime First Edition Optimus (which was only available in a two-pack with a Deluxe class Megatron for Hasbro, or as Arms Micron Orion Pax for Takara). The other options - Fall of Cybertron Optimus, Classics Deluxe class Optimus, DotM Deluxe class Optimus - suck ass. (But aside from Takara's rehashes of the RotF Leader class mold and Hasbro's Walmart exclusive reuse of the HftD Voyager class Battle Blade Optimus mold, all the DotM specific ones suck...)

Better than the Netflix one

We fans of Elita-1 have been delivered from our drought into a torrent of her new toys and media appearances. Granted, none of them have been great (including this; it gets points for trying but is still in that pre-WFC "experimental" phase you mentioned), but here's to her EarthSpark design getting a decentish Deluxe figure sometime in the future.

This thing is probably a mold for both Elita and Minerva but with more Minerva in it because this is basically Minerva in the modern day. I don’t this Hasbro would intentionally make a mold of Elita that is intentionally off from the G1 design in this day and age. So while it works for both characters but no this isn’t an Elita mold with Minerva sprinkled in, this is a mold that like 60% Minerva and 40% Elita

Since you reviewed all the fembots of 2022, would you make a video about "What's the best"?

I feel this is like legacy prime arcee where the guy wanted to make a character from a later wave (this time being minerva instead of road rocket) but the executives wanted some other character before that character so sacrifices had to be made to fit that character, overall good figure, and just so you know, I watched emgo's review on this figure like a couple of months before yours and the same goes with TM2 megs, is it usefull information? no. did I wanted to say it, yes.

When I try to find ANY figure, I can NEVER find IT!!!!😠

I have elita one and I love it and I hope I can get the Minerva version of the Mold

Much better than the earthrise figure

Oh hey, I just got her 2 days ago, was wondering when you were gonna review her

My stores still only have wave 1 :( The only one I've found that isn't wave 1 is Blitzwing

I swore I distinctly remember Elita transforming into a Cybertronian "pickup" truck... hopefully I'm not confusing her w/ Moonracer or something.

I will say it's way better than the POTP and better than the Netflix version this new elita-1 rocks

Only now u found wave 2 of legacy. I havent even seen the wfc trilogy in my stores. Hasbro's distribution Its bad

lego lego legless legalita's lego eggo

2:25 Rotate them 180 Problem solved ol