Title:
Arcee
Description:
Arcee (Deluxe, 2010)
Takara ID number: TA-12
Takara release date: April 24, 2010
Accessories: 2 swords, left & right wings
Known designers: Alex Kubalsky (TakaraTomy)
Animated Arcee transforms into a Cybertronic "rocket car,” notable to fans as the first toy of Arcee that transforms from an approximation of the original Arcee’s character model into a car. She comes with two wings, which can be attached at the rear of her vehicle mode (or her robot mode back), and two swords, which can be held in her hands or stored securely in shafts in the rear of her vehicle mode (or atop her shoulder kibble). Some have reported the swords fit loosely, though they are designed to click into place—albeit with a certain amount of fiddling in some cases.
There is a manufacturing error with many if not all Arcee figures. The more Arcee’s swords are inserted into the hands, the more the thumbs weaken and will eventually snap off. This can be remedied by shaving down the two tabs on either side of the sword. Most Arcees have stress marks straight out of the package due to the way her thumbs peg onto her back fenders in vehicle mode. Additionally, the unfortunate placement of a tab on the back of her right knee (used to lock the front of her car mode together) prevents her lower leg from straightening out fully.
Originally intended to be part of a mass retail wave in the Hasbro line, Arcee and Cybertron Mode Ratchet were eventually released as Toys"R"Us exclusives. Arcee was notably difficult to find for many fans, leading to accusations of mass toy scalping. Additionally, Arcee was subject to a running change: original shipments had Arcee in a glossy deep magenta color plastic, whereas later shipments switched her plastic to a matte medium-dark pink. The softer matte plastic means that one can now force her lower right leg into position over the tab. At least some later shipped figures had a remolded tab that further corrected the design flaw.
Arcee was released at mass retail in the Takara Animated line, in its second wave of product. Her deco has been tweaked and expanded to make her more show-like (in theory): the most immediately-noticeable changes are that her midriff and biceps are now dark drown/burgundy, her toes have been painted white and magenta, and -like all the Takara Animated product- her faction symbols are now full-color with white outlines rather than the un-outlined metallics of the Hasbro release. Takara Arcee also sports a much brighter white plastic and lighter-pink face paint. (As to if this version has the later running changes to her legs, we don’t know at the moment.)
This mold was used as the model for the Japanese-card-reader-game-only Chromia, was redecoed for the BotCon 2011 exclusives Drag Strip and Minerva, and served as the basis for Nightbeat in the illustrated portion of BotCon 2015’s "The Return of Blurr”.
Stock photography of the toy features wings of a similar-but-different sculpt compared to the wings on the production version. They also attached at a point further from the rear of the vehicle.
Takara ID number: TA-12
Takara release date: April 24, 2010
Accessories: 2 swords, left & right wings
Known designers: Alex Kubalsky (TakaraTomy)
Animated Arcee transforms into a Cybertronic "rocket car,” notable to fans as the first toy of Arcee that transforms from an approximation of the original Arcee’s character model into a car. She comes with two wings, which can be attached at the rear of her vehicle mode (or her robot mode back), and two swords, which can be held in her hands or stored securely in shafts in the rear of her vehicle mode (or atop her shoulder kibble). Some have reported the swords fit loosely, though they are designed to click into place—albeit with a certain amount of fiddling in some cases.
There is a manufacturing error with many if not all Arcee figures. The more Arcee’s swords are inserted into the hands, the more the thumbs weaken and will eventually snap off. This can be remedied by shaving down the two tabs on either side of the sword. Most Arcees have stress marks straight out of the package due to the way her thumbs peg onto her back fenders in vehicle mode. Additionally, the unfortunate placement of a tab on the back of her right knee (used to lock the front of her car mode together) prevents her lower leg from straightening out fully.
Originally intended to be part of a mass retail wave in the Hasbro line, Arcee and Cybertron Mode Ratchet were eventually released as Toys"R"Us exclusives. Arcee was notably difficult to find for many fans, leading to accusations of mass toy scalping. Additionally, Arcee was subject to a running change: original shipments had Arcee in a glossy deep magenta color plastic, whereas later shipments switched her plastic to a matte medium-dark pink. The softer matte plastic means that one can now force her lower right leg into position over the tab. At least some later shipped figures had a remolded tab that further corrected the design flaw.
Arcee was released at mass retail in the Takara Animated line, in its second wave of product. Her deco has been tweaked and expanded to make her more show-like (in theory): the most immediately-noticeable changes are that her midriff and biceps are now dark drown/burgundy, her toes have been painted white and magenta, and -like all the Takara Animated product- her faction symbols are now full-color with white outlines rather than the un-outlined metallics of the Hasbro release. Takara Arcee also sports a much brighter white plastic and lighter-pink face paint. (As to if this version has the later running changes to her legs, we don’t know at the moment.)
This mold was used as the model for the Japanese-card-reader-game-only Chromia, was redecoed for the BotCon 2011 exclusives Drag Strip and Minerva, and served as the basis for Nightbeat in the illustrated portion of BotCon 2015’s "The Return of Blurr”.
Stock photography of the toy features wings of a similar-but-different sculpt compared to the wings on the production version. They also attached at a point further from the rear of the vehicle.
Theme:
Animated
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2010
Country:
United States
Series:
Animated
Model Number:
Red Car
Date Added:
2023-04-30 18:33:27
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2023-04-30 18:33:27
