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A figure that I reviewed way back for my 100 subscribers special about 4 years ago. So this is a G1 review redo. And I got the idea to do these the other day, driving to work. I was thinking about how when I first started my channel, I reviewed some of my absolute favorite G1 toys back before I had an HD camera, proper editing software, proper lighting, or even knew what I was doing. Hell, I'm still not sure I know what I'm doing. So I decided if I am going to do this, I want to do Generation 1 Thunder Wing first because right here is my all-time favorite Transformers Pretender figure and one of my all-time favorite characters. Thanks to writer Simon Furman who took over writing the Transformer comic series in the later issues. Now, Thunder Wing here appearing on the toy shelves in 1989 meant he showed up way too late to appear in the animated series. Hell, he wasn't even animated in his own television commercial. But what made this character so popular was his appearance in Marvel Comics. As I said, thanks to Simon Furman. Thunder Wing first appeared in issue number 60 where it was shown that he was Lord Thunder Wing. He apparently took over leadership of the Decepticon sometime after Straxxus' death in issue 17. And he was really fleshed out in the Matrix Quest storyline where he found out that the Autobots were trying to find the Matrix that they shot off in Optimus Prime's body in the outer space because in Marvel Comics, the Matrix wasn't really as it was in the movie. Optimus Prime died in issue 24. They shot his body into space. Issue 25, 26 with the Matrix still inside. So the Autobots needed the Matrix to fight Unicron. Thunder Wing caught wind of the Matrix Quest and went out to find the Matrix himself and actually did. He was able to get the Matrix. The Matrix ended up corrupting him because the Matrix was now evil. And Thunder Wing almost beat Optimus Prime to death. So it's so cool that Thunder Wing was able to wield the Matrix. Now he probably would have killed Optimus Prime if it wasn't for Nightbeat harpooning him through the chest from a shuttlecraft and then launching the shuttlecraft out of the airlock of the Ark. So Thunder Wing went off into outer space, but he showed up later on in issue 75 completely corrupted by the Matrix to fight Unicron. Unicron, of course, wasn't going to be taken out so easy and blew Thunder Wing to pieces. So it was so cool in Marvel Comics that Thunder Wing not only was able to wield the Matrix, but he just had this great personality. He was just this awesome maniacal Decepticon leader and he was just so obsessed with finding the Matrix. He didn't care who he went through to find it. Even his own soldiers. He loved the way he was written. And any old school G1 Marvel fan probably feels the same way. This here is a great character. So enough of me rambling on about Thunder Wing in the comics. Let's go ahead and take a look at this awesome G1 Transformer. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now we'll start things off by taking a look at Thunder Wing in his robot mode since that is how he came packaged in 1989. And you want to see some great looking box art. Check out the artwork on the front of Thunder Wing's packaging. That is beautiful. Opposed to the artwork on the back of his packaging. That looks like it was drawn by a preschooler. I don't know what they was thinking because that looks awful. Thunder Wing does come with three different weapons. You've got two of these awesome, gigantic mega guns. And these are sweet. I love the looks of these things. Two of them that are completely identical. And he also comes with this smaller pistol. That is for the inner robot and ship mode. And of course you can put these giant weapons in Thunder Wing's fists. Just like so. And now you have the mighty Thunder Wing all armed and ready for battle. Now as cool as these guns are, I wish he came with the gun that he was drawn with in Marvel Comics. He had this giant quad barrel cannon. That just doesn't exist other than in Marvel Comics. Marvel took a lot of liberties with their pretenders. They gave bludgeon his sword, strangle hold the flail, and Octopunch the trident. Now let's go ahead and take the weapons back out of Thunder Wing's hands here and take a closer look at the figure. This is an awesome looking Transformers toy. Tons and tons of sculpted detail that just look fantastic. And look at that face sculpt. That is pure evil. That looks like a Japanese demon Oni mask right there. And I love it. So much better than the IDW pumpkin face look. I hated that. Now when I first got my Thunder Wing here, the black paint was all scraped off on the chest and head. So I was able to fix that. The eyes were okay, but I do wish the eyes were red instead of black because they blend right in with the visor. But still, he looks very demonic and I love it. Great gold paint there on the face. Now all the gold on Thunder Wing is paint and not gold plastic so you don't have to worry about GPS. As I said, tons and tons of molded details. He looks like he has scales right there, green pipes, gold pipes, the green for the belt, the pipes and tubes there on the legs. I mean this guy just looks awesome. A great blend of organic and robotic. He does have one heck of a backpack though, but it really doesn't look too bad. He even drew the backpack in Marvel Comics. I like that. I mean you can't tell that he is a jet at all unless you look at him from the side or the back. I think it hides it really well looking at him straight on. And speaking of looking at him straight on, one of the issues I have with Thunder Wing, he looks great there straight on as far as the head's concerned, but you turn him around and he's got a big old hollow noggin. No idea why he has that but even if that was filled out, it wouldn't bother transformation one bit. So yeah, people are complaining about legacy drag strip having a hollow head. Thunder Wing did it first. So articulation for Thunder Wing, this is a pretender and the articulation is the arms. They can't even do a complete 360 because they are going to hit on that hinge right there. So the arms can go all the way up. They can go all the way down and that's it. I guess he's got a little bit of toe wiggle but that's for transformation. Head doesn't turn whatsoever. Now the decals are brand new. Those are toy hacks decals and the only decals the figure has here on the front or the only decals the figure has in general in robot mode is the Decepticon insignias on the shoulders. So let's go ahead and get Thunder Wing re-armed here. All that backpack makes him a little bit back heavy. So there we go. Now there is no way to hide the mini pistol or store the miniature pistol anywhere in Thunder Wing's robot mode. The giant shell here. It looks like it would fit inside but it doesn't because it prevents the shell from completely snapping shut. So a mild complaint there too because every other pretender you could hide the secondary weapon but oh well. Now of course as I've said Thunder Wing is a pretender and pretenders hide the transformer inside. So to reveal Thunder Wing's true form reach behind the figure here lift this up fold this down so you can rotate this whole head and chest section it's going to unsnap right here to crotch rotate this up and there is Thunder Wing's inner bot. Just slide that right out push this back together snap in place and real quick once the inner bot comes out Thunder Wing has a hell of a gap right there behind his head but as usual or as I've already said you can't see it looking straight on so we'll move the shell out of the way and bring in Thunder Wing's inner bot go ahead and take the arms fold them out like so bring the feet forward straighten out the legs and pop out the head and there is Thunder Wing's true robot form and really it's not too bad it's a pretty generic looking robot toy great face sculpt though I do like that he's got a little bit more decals than the shell got decal there for the chest emblem decals on the shoulders and the thighs and like I said it's not bad it's just very generic lots of nice sculpted details all the way around articulation for this figure the arms can do a complete 360 so they're a little better than the shell the legs can go out and they can go in and there is a little bend right there but that's due to transformation he's got his little mini pistol right here and he's hand so there you have Thunder Wing's inner bot all armed and ready for battle and unlike the shell no backpack whatsoever so we'll bring in the shell here along with Thunder Wing himself and there you go they actually look really good together and one of the cool things about Marvel Comics was I like the fact that once the inner bot came out of the shell the inner bot could control the shell as a secondary partner for battle but unfortunately if the shell took any damage it was felt by the inner bot now in Marvel they never showed Thunder Wing separating so as far as anyone knew the entire shell was Thunder Wing since they didn't really stress the fact he was a pretender except for maybe one line now in the UK the inner bot was shown so now let's go ahead and get the figure transformed move the shell out of the way once again we'll bring in the little bot move the weapon bring the arms in like so you saw the head just flip down so fold the head down now you're going to bring the feet up and just squeeze the legs together like so you got these little wings right here you won't grab both of them at the same time and pull down they're actually on the same hinge so you pull one down the other goes but it's an old figure I don't want to over stress it fold those wings out flip the tail fins out and then the Thunder Wings inner jet mode and it's not too bad like I said very generic but it works a lot better than some of the other pretender figures that we've got great looking toy hacks decals on the figure right there I did put extras for the wings and the nose cone I took a bigger decal and split it down the middle with a box cutter so yeah looks really cool and then you add the extra weapon the mini gun there on top so now you have Thunder Wings inner robot all transformed and ready for battle now what makes a mega pretender a mega pretender is the shell can transform as well so to transform the shell go ahead and remove the giant guns take this section once again bring this up fold that back and then rotate this whole section up bring this back down to tab in place and we're gonna bring this down there's a little peg right there that's gonna line up with that hole peg that in fold the toes down and then bring the legs section up fold up into the shell and now you're gonna take the wings here on this back and bring those down mine are scary tight so I kinda grip it really hard bring this down as I go make sure the arms are flat and there you have Thunder Wings shell in jet mode that thing looks glorious the colors just work so well you've got the organic and cybernetic blending all together here great looking gold paint on the back along with some fantastic looking toy hacks decals I like the cannons they're on the shoulders they actually form secondary cannons so I guess the first cannons would be the giant guns right here that you can peg on a couple of different ways you can peg them on via the handle which looks okay but I prefer using the peg right here on the side peg those in on the wings with the handle facing out do this here on the other side and there we go that looks awesome I just I prefer that look and this is actually a very large alt mode it looks awesome multiple thrusters here on the back underneath cleans up really good there is decals right here that it looks like thrusters but they're backwards because they look better in robot mode than they do vehicle mode so you got that going on but still I love this now if you think this looks good these two can actually combine together so what we're going to do is remove the blaster here fold the tail fins down and what I like to do this is my preference is I bring the arms up and around just like this and now what you're going to do see the square peg right there it's going to match up to that square hole underneath the nose of the thunder wing shell peg that in take the miniature gun peg here on top and now you have thunder wing in his combined jet mode and that thing is beautiful this is one of my all time favorite generation one jets it's huge it's colorful and it just it looks amazing I love I am speechless with this thing I love this jet mode so much and all these toy hacks decals really make it pop now unfortunately you have to have the decals for the jet to work because the decals here are the cockpit and the cockpit right there so if you didn't have any of the decals just be a lot of blue plastic so the decals combined with the fantastic looking paint job and the sculpted detail make this an amazing looking jet the one thing with this jet mode is the miniature pistol here on top if it opens fire it's going to blow the cockpit apart so not a very good design choice there now me personally why I like the wings or excuse me why I like the arms folded back is it covers up this really big gap right here if you transformed it per instructions which is with the arms down see how it's got that massive gap right there very unsightly so like I said I like to swing the arms up and over fills that gap up and it just looks so good so there you go guys Thunderwing in jet mode and now for some quick size comparisons here is 1989's generation 1 mega pretender Thunderwing with generation 1 megatron classics Thunderwing and the toy hacks age of extinction Thunderwing now this Thunderwing was actually my very first toy hacks review and it was pretty cool what they did they took the body of a age of extinction Nitro Zeus and combined it here with the Titans return Thunderwing this came in a gift set and unfortunately this was the only new Thunderwing that we got he has the IDW face that I'm not a big fan of whatsoever but toy hacks took the body and this head it made a fantastic decal set that really really works to give us a newer modern version of Thunderwing but man I really hope legacy comes out with one 1989's generation 1 mega pretender Thunderwing is by far in my opinion the best pretender figure that we got out of all of generation 1 I love the looks of this guy with the organic blended with the robotic the color scheme works so well for this guy plus he transforms into one of the best looking Decepticon jets out of all of generation 1 that being said looks aside this is not a great transformers toy by any means very limited articulation and the inner bot is very very generic this figure would be one that is easily passed over if it wasn't for Simon Furman's excellent writing in the G1 Marvel comic series so there you go guys 1989 generation 1 mega pretender Thunderwing so does the 1989 generation 1 mega pretender Thunderwing belong in your collection well if you're an old school G1 Marvel fan like I am absolutely this is a must have figure of an outstanding Marvel comics transformers character though the toy itself isn't that great it does look beautiful with the great paint job the sculpted details the fantastic jet mode I mean I love those but as I said there's no articulation and he's more or less just a very colorful brick but still he's a brick of a great transformers character big shout out to Simon Furman for really fleshing this guy out so to speak in the comic series and made him just a very memorable transformers villain now if you are going to hunt a Thunderwing down be wary finding a complete one is costly last time I looked he's about $150 complete but that being said if you just want him for the shell here which he was shown mostly as in the comics you can get that fairly cheap the most expensive part I think I've already put it back was the little pistol for the robot so if you're piecing together that's the one that's going to cost you the most but yeah if you do find one great looking figure that's going to look great back there on your shelf now guys if you enjoyed the video don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to click that bell icon to get 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