Title:
Arcee
Description:
Arcee (Deluxe Class, 2020)
Hasbro ID number: WFC-E17
TakaraTomy ID number: ER-09
TakaraTomy release date: November 28, 2020
Accessories: Blaster, hoverboard/vehicle rear
Known designers: Ken Christiansen (concept artist)
Part of a second wave of Earthrise Deluxe Class toys, this mold of Arcee transforms into her classic futuristic car mode and is armed with a clear blue blaster. In contrast to the 2014 Thrilling 30 Arcee mold which incorporated the chest and legs into the vehicle mode, this Earthrise toy is a true shellformer, the entire humanoid body folding up underneath a vehicle mode shell, which becomes a sizeable backpack for her robot mode. She utilizes a faux vehicle center-front for the chest, with the real part folding down behind her head. Part of the backpack (the rear half of her car shell) is designed to detach to act like a hoverboard that robot-mode Arcee can ride, by pegging her feet onto the 3 mm posts on the board designed to accommodate the War for Cybertron Fire Blast effect parts. Arcee has notably few such posts for her size, and has a similarly small number of 5 mm C.O.M.B.A.T. System ports. The lack of a 5 mm port on her back in both backpack configurations means she cannot on her own recreate Cog weaponizing her as seen in the War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon. A new accessory packed with Red Cog would later allow this combination.
In vehicle mode, Arcee’s blaster can be attached to either of her front fenders or stored out of sight beneath her hood. In robot mode, it can be stored on a port on her butt, or plug into the fender ports on her back once the hoverboard is removed. Though the figure has standard 5 mm fist holes, the blaster’s handle is molded in the unusual flattened shape used by Thrilling 30 and Titans Return Arcee.
Many fans have taken it upon themselves to knock out the pin holding the backpack joint together in order to have a complete vehicle mode separate from the robot mode.
The original stock renders have a few different paint applications compared to the final toy, depicting the car mode with grey coloring on the side panels, and the back half of the waist being painted pink and grey to match the front. Additionally, the connector that links the hoverboard to the rest of her backpack is colored pink instead of white and is attached to the backpack instead of the board.
Like all Earthrise toys, the inside of the back of Arcee’s package includes an exclusive clip-and-save piece of a larger space map, along with a translucent red "decoder”. Arcee’s piece contains the labeled location of DOMINUS. Like most Earthrise figures from wave 2, it is misprinted and overlays the "decodable” red graphics from the map piece included with Earthrise Hoist on top of the details unique to Arcee’s piece.
Arcee was redecoed into Lifeline and retooled into War for Cybertron Trilogy Elita-1.
Hasbro ID number: WFC-E17
TakaraTomy ID number: ER-09
TakaraTomy release date: November 28, 2020
Accessories: Blaster, hoverboard/vehicle rear
Known designers: Ken Christiansen (concept artist)
Part of a second wave of Earthrise Deluxe Class toys, this mold of Arcee transforms into her classic futuristic car mode and is armed with a clear blue blaster. In contrast to the 2014 Thrilling 30 Arcee mold which incorporated the chest and legs into the vehicle mode, this Earthrise toy is a true shellformer, the entire humanoid body folding up underneath a vehicle mode shell, which becomes a sizeable backpack for her robot mode. She utilizes a faux vehicle center-front for the chest, with the real part folding down behind her head. Part of the backpack (the rear half of her car shell) is designed to detach to act like a hoverboard that robot-mode Arcee can ride, by pegging her feet onto the 3 mm posts on the board designed to accommodate the War for Cybertron Fire Blast effect parts. Arcee has notably few such posts for her size, and has a similarly small number of 5 mm C.O.M.B.A.T. System ports. The lack of a 5 mm port on her back in both backpack configurations means she cannot on her own recreate Cog weaponizing her as seen in the War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon. A new accessory packed with Red Cog would later allow this combination.
In vehicle mode, Arcee’s blaster can be attached to either of her front fenders or stored out of sight beneath her hood. In robot mode, it can be stored on a port on her butt, or plug into the fender ports on her back once the hoverboard is removed. Though the figure has standard 5 mm fist holes, the blaster’s handle is molded in the unusual flattened shape used by Thrilling 30 and Titans Return Arcee.
Many fans have taken it upon themselves to knock out the pin holding the backpack joint together in order to have a complete vehicle mode separate from the robot mode.
The original stock renders have a few different paint applications compared to the final toy, depicting the car mode with grey coloring on the side panels, and the back half of the waist being painted pink and grey to match the front. Additionally, the connector that links the hoverboard to the rest of her backpack is colored pink instead of white and is attached to the backpack instead of the board.
Like all Earthrise toys, the inside of the back of Arcee’s package includes an exclusive clip-and-save piece of a larger space map, along with a translucent red "decoder”. Arcee’s piece contains the labeled location of DOMINUS. Like most Earthrise figures from wave 2, it is misprinted and overlays the "decodable” red graphics from the map piece included with Earthrise Hoist on top of the details unique to Arcee’s piece.
Arcee was redecoed into Lifeline and retooled into War for Cybertron Trilogy Elita-1.
Theme:
Earthrise
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2020
Country:
United States
Series:
Earthrise
Model Number:
Blue Car
Date Added:
2023-01-26 09:00:01
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2023-01-26 09:00:01
