What are your thoughts on IDW's radical take on Arcee's origin? Yay or Nay?

I like the direction Prime took her in. She's a nice blue with some pink sprinkled in as a throwback, but Prime Arcee is pretty badass. And she turns into a cool motorcycle. Edit: Also, having grown up with Beast Wars, I didn't think anything weird about Airrazor and Black Arachnia being prominent characters. Just made sense to me. In fact, I think Airrazor was my first BW toy as she was one of the only ones available at the time and my other option was someone who wasn't part of the show. I loved my little Airrazor toy, though. She got me to buy the other Maximals and Predacons when I could.

I think you're wrong on the first Arcee. There were one version of her in Energon that turned into a bike, her hands was garbage though. That mold even got a few repaints too but didn't bother about those.

My first Arcee was the Takara masterpiece and I absolutely love her and I have always loved G1 Arcee.

arcee was a motorcycle in energon, also rid 2015 arcee is a combination of g1 and prime, there is a rumor that she was gonna appear in rid 2015 in an episode called "2 wheeler", i hope her 2007, rid 2015, animated, and universe 2014 designs get used in a future transformers series, also hope to see Arcana (energon arcee) in a future transformers series as well

Arcee and Ultra Magnus are two of my favourite Autobots of all time. This video inspired me to order a toy of her online to add to my small collection.

I really hate Arcee's gender bending story arc... ...it really ruins my image of her awesome character. SO! To me, that story arc is REDACTED!

Like you the G1 cartoon and the marvel comics were my introduction to Transformers. Gender didn't really play a part of the stories of the cartoon... The episode with Elita-1 and the episode with Ariel (War Dawn), were the only 2...but romances did occur in Transformers G1 cartoon... even with other species, like Powerglide's "girlfriend" Carly, and Seaspray's love interest Alana. But after the G1 movie, an introduction of a love triangle between Arcee, Hotrod and Springer was created, and continued to a degree after the movie, but Hotrod became Rodimus, and Springer was off and on with Arcee... so Arcee was shifted to Daniel as a mother-like figure. The old G1 comics had no women of any sort. Gender had no presence. Modern comics added modern situations into the mix, so you have everything going on that we kinda see now... So to me it just is another take on something that was around in a very basic way in the 80s cartoon. Unfortunately, I believe Arcee of the modern comics was victimized by being a poster child of something that really didn't need to be explained one way or another, as Transformers were genderless in the original comics. Newer cartoons really didn't explore much with relationships of "female"/"male" interactions, as everyone were autobot or decepticon soldiers in a war.

I can easily see Arcee with a Pink Cadillac ElDorado as a reformatted alt mode! (Who knows what her commander, Elita-1 might shapeshift into)

ngl as a little kid in the 80s when i first saw arcee in transformers the movie, my little body felt some funny tingling...

Your right they stayed on the shelf but now today there are very few toys that time and go for north of 5.000 Dollars

Yeeeeaaaaah, her IDW version wasn't the most tastefully realized version. But I like the character, I wish the movies had used the fact she was almost human sized in some creative way, her almost maternal side shown with Daniel would've worked wonderfully had she been a human companion like Bee or Mirage.

I never see season 3 of transformers g1 when I was a little girl but I did see the episode that Elita one was in and my god it was awesome, and I heard that season 3 wasn’t that good anyways so I miss out

Actually there was female autobots before arcee they were on the original cartoon before the movie came out

Okay I get that you weren't into the Unicron trilogy but after mentioning so many versions of her how can you ignore the Energon incarnation? It is at least an important toy for the franchise since it's the 1st vehicle transformer meant to be female from the get go (previous were Transmetal Airrazor & Blackarachnia). I noticed it since you didn't mention that Energon Shockblast was the first Shockwave toy we got since action masters in his video & was the closest (up to that point) in being disloyal to Megatron. Not angry or anything but seeing that you talk about other incarnations & designs outside of G1 since they are significant I wonder why some that are relevant are ignored.

If the Bay series used typical the typical Transformers size change mcguffin(Like they did for her in Prime), she could've been a touring bike, like a Goldwing, and her rider her head, like that motorcycle in Energon, who I always forget the name of(was it Swindle or Sideways?), who also had the size change trope.

3:45 Transformers Energon

WOW Arcee is a Trans-transformer; what a fitting revelation during Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈👍

Ngl, you made me a fan of the comic RC! Minus the fact that she chose to seek violence/revenge, I love that she essentially trans in that story. As a trans woman, I am grateful to learn that fact from you (assuming it is true).

I wonder what she looked like if they released her in the original g1 toyline

nothing went wrong...she is awesome....an awesome toy...

Hahaha!! You do realize that a buxom Arcee isn't G1 accurate?

YOU ASK FOR A COOL TRANSFORMER ? HOW ABOUT BLASTER. HE A FUNNY ONE.

Arcee is a controversial topic tbh

Arcee is just typically the Barbie of Transformers. 😅😅😅😅😅

86 robot with car not robot into car XD