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POTP Elita One | DrLockdown Reviews 86
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2024
- Not quite 'battle angel Elita', but still a quite remarkable figure.
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Intro: (0:00)
Robot mode: (2:02)
Transformation: (9:00)
Robot Mode: (11:01)
Combined mode: (15:14)
Final Thoughts: (19:09)
#Elita #ElitaArmy #WarForCybertron
I like how big she is. She is compatible in size with most Optimus’s, and I like that.
I don’t care for this figure as Elita 1 but I think the mold could have been made into a really interesting take on Strongarm from Rid 2015. I know the vehicle mode is wrong, but the proportions are spot on and the helmet even has a similar shape to it.
I love this figure, I think it works as a cool "powered up" version of the character, but yeah. It probably should have just been Strongarm.
19:36 the truck mode more closely resembles a peterrbilt 379 which was the truck used for prime in the first 3 live action movies
Netflix Elita one will be heavily custom painted
The tip of the wings can easily be popped off for combined mode and makes it infinitely better. parts forming tho
I groaned when I saw the thumbnail. This and the titans returns Galvatron almost killed my toy enthusiasm
This review made me want to buy this Elita to pair up with Galaxy Upgrade OP. They're both not so G1 accurate, flight capable and extremely chonk. I think they will be a good representation of modern take on OP/Elita1 couple.
Were the you the guy who retweeted on twitter?
@@DrLockdown yes. Sorry ;)
I just subscribed to your channel recently, and I am a newer collector. Watching a lot of your older videos, you have really made me rethink of the way I have collected. I just picked up this Elita One at my local comic shop and while I don't plan on taking out of its robot mode, I just like how she seems to be as big as Prime. Thanks for the content.
Earthrise Elita: Want to be dominated
POTP Elita: Will dominate you
Iron factory: will ask you to be gentle
Optimus prime: WE! ARE NOT! THE DECEPTICONS!
@@DrLockdown lol
I think I'll be sticking with the 2007 Elita-One. Sure, the arms are a bit weird, but considering it was redecoed from a scout-class Energon toy I think I can let that slide, and aside from that both of her modes are decent.
It is a magnificent turn of the universe that your review should go live the day I get my 2nd copy of this figure in the mail, the first copy being used exclusively for combined mode and using the very upgrade kit you mentioned incidentally. And yeah, I'll agree with ya on pretty much everything: powerful robot mode presence, tolerable jet mode, crap stickers, and really unfortunate combined mode. And then there's greenlight shafting anyone's dreams of the complete team if they didn't jump in when she was available through amazon.
Tbh I can't stand that limb mould. The thought of buying three more of them doesn't seem my thing
@@DrLockdown yeah, they ain't great. Personally I wish they weren't a combiner team at all, but what gets made gets made. I am kind of amazed the whole team got made at all, honestly. Has me wondering if it was someone on the Hasbro side pushing for them, or someone on the takara side.
Probably Hasbro. Takara would rather only make Arcee and get so horny they ruin her proportions
@@DrLockdown at least with them being combiners you can combine moonracer lancer and that with the likes of cog and sixgun just elita dont which is a shame.
Elita Thicc(Potp Elita 1) became Elita none(Netflix deluxe Elita 1)
What is the down side of this figure?
"no waist swivel"
Ok time to get the netflix one.
It's a figure from 2018. Most voyagers didn't have a waist swivel.
Plus if it's a choice between no waist swivel and no sense of reason...yeah the former sounds better.
Sorry I'm one of those people that buy toys base on possibility.
Typically I do too, but in this case the Netflix one is just the worst.
I'd recommend keeping an eye on the Sam's Forge one instead in that instance.
I looked at it, cool robot mode but the fact that it turn into a truck triggers my inner geewun self.
@@CriticalMass69 did you get the Siege Chromia?
Watching this just desperately wanting to peel the stickers off the arms.
I wasn't a big fan of this figure (not a fan of the proportions) and I ended up splicing it together with a CW Scattorshot to improve it for what I wanted for combined mode when the Netflix Elita came out (She's not ideal either, but she looks better on the shelf at least.)
owning her, I popped off the wings extremities and that makes her combined mode look actually very good. not excusing the design with a ''you can pop it off'' solution, but if they made it so the wings could collapse more or go on her back, it would have been a great looking combiner
I wish Toyhax lived up to the old "Reprolabels" concept and released copies of the POTP factory stickers, but I have a feeling they've got deals with Hasbro that keep them in business(while Hasbro looks the other way on usage of copyrighted & trademarked elements) but perhaps bar them from doing that. Seriously, the only old toy to get a repro sheet in recent memory has been the new G2 Optimus Prime trailer stickers. The rest is their new fanart sets.
I reckon it's just fan demand. People wanted the more 'geewun' pink. Tragic, really
There are also some good fanmodes for Elita's combiner torso mode
Starscream's combined mode works *much better* in hand. I'm currently reworking it into an amalgam of G1 and Bayverse Starscream.
While I think the elita figure I see as fine, I hate the mold mostly due to the Starscream figure. Why the hell did I want this? (Earthrise is way better IMO). His backpack wouldn’t tab in, head was small as hell, I’m really not a fan of the stickers, his joints felt and felt like they’d snap if I moved them too quickly.
I've had nothing but issues with this figure, mostly in that, my figure showed up with the feet swapped, then she fell off the shelf (not an uncommon occurrence when I lived at home still) and that flat broke one of her feet off. I've since replaced that leg, so now she just has 2 matching feet. That said though, I actually do still like this figure. It looks a TON better than Starscream, and I find the transformation fairly good. The way the heads works is fairly interesting, and I'm okay with a backpack that at least folds up and out of the way.
On a side tangent, oh my word those crappy stickers! I got several figures with stickers on far worse than if I'd just put them on myself, and in the case of my Broadside, I flat had to remove all his stickers from the carrier mode cause the stickers were keeping him from actually transforming just from how badly they were applied.
Yeah the stickers in TR and POTP were pretty bad.
I'd rather not wait for the inevitable and peel off the stickers. On toys like voyager Prime and potp starscream especially. CW stickers were way better.
@@cyberneticgeek I've gotta order the reprolabels for Elita soon.
@@DrLockdown Would it look that bland without the stickers?
Probably
i really want to like orthia, but the problem is she’s got the loosest hip joints on record, they were not properly designed to hold up a combiner. getting her to stand up straight is a challenge, a light breeze might be enough to topple the whole thing. im very glad we got legacy elita, because after one weird yet interesting figure and an absolute dud, she needed something unambiguously good.
I really like Swole-ita, though Minerva-lita is good too. Given how bulky the Motormaster remold Optimus was in this line, maybe they were hitting the gym as a couple activity? Maybe fit lit ladies are just my thing? I dunno, but hers is the only CW/TR/PotP combiner team I really put effort into completing, even if I did end up getting a second Moonracer to paint as Greenlight, because by the time I was trying to find one tthey had hit three digit prices on the aftermarket. I'm not counting Megatronia in that, because as an event exclusive from the opposite sid eof he world she never existed in my possibility-space, but on the strength of ELita I went for it. I find that the combined form looks less awful if you turn the torso backward and hang the Legends class Groove off it sort of splatted out like it's been stepped on by Trypticon, withthe split wheels ending up like Slave GIrl Leia's pot-lid bikini top, or a mermaid's seashells. (I also used a tiny brush and a dab of red paint to give Groove lipstick, so presto Rule 63, the team is still all-female)
Still my favorite figure of all time.
Is she amazing? No, but she is amazing as a lady bot who started as a Woman in a metal suit.
This gives her presence and character, and takes it to such amazing highs that I count help but love it regardless of the lows.
I got Legacy and will always keep POTP Elita, it never stops giving her character I crave.
Kinda mixed on em.
Mainly i prefer this one due to how much more unique she is in the alt mode department, helping out her design in robot mode. That and the netflix one looked odd in its photos to me.
Tho u could just go fuck it and get both.
With an idea that u could use the potp one as a prime version of her. Either from the death of prime, or the fact that ones gotta command cybertron
Nice review. I actually like the combined mode. I never bothered with the combined mode upgrades and I still had a lot of fun with all the combined modes. Also, I actually liked Netflix Elita, but... then Hastak changed the colors from the stock renders. Boo. Also, the Reprolabels are pink for muh geewun cartoon. Speaking of the cartoon, the small guns included are meant to plug into her shoulders as the little barrels on her animation model.
Ah. Well I won't be doing that, since I don't have them
I like the netflix one... yikes
I actually kinda like Elita-1, Arcee and Lifeline. I mean, at least they’re not Chromia right?
Chromia is better, I reckon
@@DrLockdown If Elita needed to be a retool at all, Chromia seems like the much better choice. Taller, more strongly built in physique, actually does more transformation than simply folding up into a shell, nastier guns....
Makes you wonder, don't it?
Everyone’s just ok with fembots constantly changing alt-modes and for Elita-1 I kinda get it, her cartoon car mode looked like crap (her head stuck out of the roof), but I’m still waiting for flatbed truck Firestar. It’s a more unique alt-mode and there isn’t even much mass for the slim robot to fill up. Maybe the front of the truck folding onto the back and it’s good.
No you get a shitty combiner limb AND YOU LIKE IT!
SInce her "pistols" are pretty dinky, her giant gauntlets give me an idea for a ranged weapon...and partly the personality I assign to her.
They'd be gauntlet guns, probably rapid fire like the Arios Gundam's arm guns. For stronger shots, she actually punches them out like Yang from RWBY, plus letting her charge her punches. Similarly, she's the brawler between her and Optimus, who prefers using weapons, the Tifa to his Cloud.
Makes me want to pit her against RTS Lugnut and his own super punches. Skill vs brute force!
Woohoo!
Man they really didn't give a shit with the transformation for E-1.
Of course all Jetformers have undercarriage kibble but they at least try to hide it. Even Bayverse Starcream has a cleaner underside.
The panels on her forearms can be popped off to give her a bit slimmer arms.
Not really a fan of partsforming pieces just for the robot mode.
Plus I dig those panels personally
15:12 Well that aged as well as milk in the sahara desert
Out of the few versions of elita 1 this ones the best choice just the combine mode being a let down but yeah this is the only elita 1 i have because the jet mode does suit her unlike the car mode on the others that look like unfinished trash espically with the red paint job.
Anyone know what that 3rd party override is called?
Forget it's 3P name, but it's made by MMC
15:14 famous last words
Yeah still gotta review that one
1:49 Also famous last words with an added ingredient of holiday depression.
Will you make a grapple review ?
Surprisingly that's on the cards in a month or two, but not from the angle you'd expect
Whoops I’m an insane Orthia lover 😅
The legs are a bit chunky bit other then that its not bad
YAY! A POTPIE FIGURE THAT IS DECENT!
A rarity sadly
@@DrLockdown except for the combined mode
The tiny gun should be her should armor instead
POTP Elita-1 is too tall
Netflix Elita-1 is too short
Hopefully the Sam's Forge Elita-1 strikes a happy medium between the two.
Scale is an illusion
Good thing about 3D printing; you can scale to whatever size you like.
@@novemberprime453 Owning both Primes myself I feel like she is just a head too tall for what I view her character to be in relation to Optimus. Plus, I really despise this figure due to the hollowed out plastic making her feel like a flimsy paperweight, ratchet joints in the shoulders that (on my copy at least) are tearing themselves apart with any movement (my copy of POTP Starscream is even worse) and the aforementioned crappy stickers. That Sam's Forge Elita-1 though looks sublime, But I don't have access to a 3-D printer. So yeah say what you will, but I'll be sticking with the Netflix version.
Uuum... I don’t know if you noticed this but you called your segment on the vehicle mode the “robot mode”
Oops. Lol.
PE’s weird expectation
16:00 where's that dialogue from-
One of the Skyrim gamer poops, from manslayer. I forget which one.
Darn. I actually like Volcanion.
POTP may have been underwhelming, but at least it wasn't a complete disaster.
BTW, How was TFNation? (I didn't watch the livestream cause I wasn't sure if I had to pay to watch it).
Didn't watch it either :P
@@DrLockdown Also, if you made a video about the worst transformers comic, will you make one about the best? Just asking.
I can't definitively say what the best one is, however I do have ideas for a review of the full IDW run, as well as the awesome new 84 Secrets and Lies comic.
Seriously go read it. It's amazing.
I don’t mind soundeaves freighter mode
Is it a freighter? I thought it was a space brick
DrLockdown some imagination needed
@@stevehandley1 Just like in the 80's
Permit me a wild idea: a satellite a la Revenge of the Fallen Soundwave. Honestly, that was one of the handful of better ideas from THAT movie, and that's saying something.
The cassette mode is classic and all but truth be told, I never did like the idea of their mass shifting into much smaller items, and I'm honestly glad they did away with it in more recent media.
Why he wasn't a comms truck like his previous Cybertronian and current evergreen designs to begin with, though, only Primus knows.
I prefer potp elita 1, partsforming kills figures for me if there's not a reason behind it
Yeah one thing I hate these days is the constant excuses people give for it.
@@DrLockdown so true, and I agree honestly one good example of partsforming is the new Earthrise Ironhide, the whole roof disconnects to become a riot shield for him
Yeah I don't mind that form of partsforming, but everything else with that figure bugs me.
Owner of Netflix Elita 1 here, the figure is fine, I love the red over her usual pink color, the paint actually is durable, though I don’t transform her I still like her. I’m gonna get the Legacy Elita but I do wish she was red rather than pink. I actually hate pink, I would love it if Arcee would be red from now on especially since she’s my favorite fembot.
Also own both legacy and Netflix. No contest: legacy wins. Netflix isn't a transformer: it's an action master with a turtle shell
@@DrLockdown That’s cool, to each their own. Also the turtle shell thing, never noticed that and now can never unsee that. 😂
so uh, i rejoined the fandom just a bit after potp, what was the controversy with Jazz?
He wasn't the Porsche people wanted I suppose. Looked pretty good to me though I never owned him
He had a decal/decoration on his arm with an Autobot symbol and some Cybertronian writing. When translated, that writing read "MAGA"
@@Joyy_Da forgot about that lol. what an oof moment in transformers' history
@@Joyy_Da Wait, what!?
*googles*
Oh, dear, that's a thing that happened. Fuck the guy that did that.
TBH the figure isn't worth the controversy. It's so shit.
Ha ha BACK LASH
Just picked this gal up from Toymate for 39$.
Nice shirt!
Your biased.
@@mineturtledabrave3796 That's a funny way of saying, "thanks for the birthday present." XD
But it wasn't free. And my birthday is in December!
@@DrLockdown I know. I was talking about the one I got him for his birthday.
Firebyte27 you need a new pair of prescription lenses in those goggles of yours if you think that me calling you biased is the same as showing gratitude for a gift.
This design honestly needs to be redone with a more involved transformation, actual paint, and modern articulation.
...nah stupid arcee redeco instead CONSUME PRODUCT
Good thing I'm not touching that thing with a ten foot pole.
ignoring the 1 in the name elita infinite is a better name.
4:43 I don't see as the problem with them being slender, I see it as a problem with engineering. Prime Soundwave, and Animated Prowl are very slender, but their designs are in no way compromised by that. We shouldn't force every character to be bulky, I would myself prefer a variety of bulky bots, slender bots, short bots, tall bots, heavier set bots and so on. Like in Animated.
Also, I think your criticism is unfound here, because it's clear that this Elita-1 design does not suffer from that, she's not slender, she's bulky, and like with the slender fembots, it could work, but the engineering can't pull it off.
My issue is more that slender fembots is basically the only type of female transformer Hasbro does these days. Gone are the days of strika and strongarm. Now it's all the same. I want some variety
@@DrLockdown So do I. But those shouldn't be the only other fembot body type either. It shouldn't just be buff or skinny. I've been saying this for years, Bay designs were bad, but what other parts of the franchise could learn from it is that Transformers are robots, therefore they aren't bound to any shape, any number of limbs, or eyes. Look at the variety of designs in Blue Sky's Robots! You can have a fembot who doesn't even have legs, her alt mode turns into a dress. Like a rocket jet or something. Or, a speed oriented fembot, like Blurr, with long, skinny legs, instead of thicc thighs. Or some spindly creep like Prime Soundwave.
And the fembots like the ones you're tlaking about haven't exactly gone away. They are just not part of the main line, which is a mistake on Hasbro's part. We have Rescue Bots Academy Whirl with her Megaman proportions, all the various fembots in Cyberverse. It's just that Hasbro focuses on recreating the older lines, and each of them have like two or three girls in them.
I want my girl Road Rage to get more representation. I love the idea of a meek, friendly bot who turns into a road rage monster when in her car mode. I even have some ideas how to update that so it's not just limited to her Transformation, she's just a nerd, who never held a gun and when thrown into the action she realizes, she's never felt more alive, and the adrenaline goes to her head a bit.
I also want a new Strika. But at least we get a character that's like her in personality with Shatter. Scary, imposing and monstrous, yet dignified intelligent woman.
Yeah I never said those are the only ones I want. I just want variety. Road rage is a good start, but mainline is pretty stagnant
@@DrLockdown I agree. I miss the days of Animated. And Prime.
This may be an exaggeration, but I think 2007 movie voyager starscream pulls of the jet mode better than this jet mode.
Still better than the Netflix one
I don’t know... you know what they say: “you won’t know unless you try it”. Besides, they made so that you can take of the majority of the backpack as an intentional feature and use it as a stand.
MUCH needed edit: I fucking regret this comment. No sympathy for the earthrise arcee mould and it’s mould mates. Fucking Burn the Netflix figure, and HELLO UPCOMING LEGACY!
@@devilwithin1738 ....eh, that's just seems completely lazy, not helped by the fact she's a total shellformer. As in, she might as well not have BEEN a Transformer. They don't need their vehicle parts to be stands. If it DID transform into something that did look like a hoverboard than just the back part of a car, I'd be more open to the idea. As is....it's barely defensible as a TRANSFORMER.
I'm glad you're very positive about it, but it REALLY just seems completely lazy. It's EASILY the worst offender of the rampant partsforming in Earthrise. Unlike Cliffjumper, so far, there's no way to fix it. And it's to the point there are some guys completely giving her new armor parts that, while sacrificing accuracy, make them actual Transformers. If the robot mode accuracy is so sacrosanct, why not just get a non-transforming statue?
thanks for reminding how much i HATE the starscream version, seriously it was a dumpster fire
It really was. This is pretty good though.
DrLockdown well I guess when you have a figure as bad as star scream you can only really go up from there
By the way have I mentioned that potp starscream is an abomination yet? Just thought I would in case I forget
@@DrLockdown bye the way are you gonna review the starscream version
Totally not asking just because I want to see the worst figure in my collection get torn limb from limb
Don't own him, and don't plan to
@@DrLockdown eh ok
I've had both versions of elita one, netflix is far superior
Would have to disagree
i kinda prefer the Netflix version
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Jokes on you; I actually like that song
@@DrLockdown finally another reviewer fell into my trap
What trap is there? It's a good song!
@@DrLockdown i know that but you are the second reviewer the first one was perspective end
I would argue Transformers into a brick with buttons isn't much better than turning into a brick with pillons. Yes, I know it's G1 accurate, I don't care, it's a lame alt mode. He literally turns into a brick. Not very challenging for the engineers, is it?
Why do fembots get like, one mold to share? Honestly, if they tried to make Elita a truck or something I doubt anyone but the G1 purists would complain, especially since it gives them more room to work with.
I think it's because Hasbro believes female characters won't sell as well, but I could be wrong.
@@DrLockdown I'd imagine it probably goes like this:
"the fembots aren't selling!"
"Could it be that our design decisions make them poor toys, and when they share a single mold most consumers won't care about the difference?"
"No, it's that people don't want to buy fembot toys"
That's unfortunately the most likely way they think
RID15 Strongarm was a step in the right direction.
FYI it is not MAH-CROSS. Macross is pronounced MAC-ROSS.
The hard C sound is a part of the first syllable.
I don't think 'ま' in Japanese has that hard rounded 'a'.
Although to be fair I'm pretty sure I pronounce Lio Convoy wrong.