
Thundercracker is cast in five different colors: blue, black, silver, translucent yellow and translucent red. If you love the sculpt and colors don't really matter to you, this is already a win. My first thought was to look at his face, but nope, it's the same grim expression as Starscream's.

This Thundercracker sculpt uses the same sculpt as Starscream, with no retooling. Several months after the release of Starscream, another Seeker has joined the Decepticon ranks in the form of Thundercracker, the Decepticon aerial warrior! This review will focus on the changes made to the Starscream figure for this release, so check out my Starscream review for details on the sculpt. In essence, this figure serves two purposes, you can interpret it as a "Fall of Cybertron" Thundercracker and/or the "IDW Publishing" Thundercracker. This figure comes packaged with "Spotlight Thundercracker", a comic book featuring the character. Some of these designs would later appear in the IDW Publishing comic books. In concert with the release of this game, a segment of the "Generations" toy line was dedicated to "Fall of Cybertron" action figures.

Following up on the success of "War for Cybertron", High Moon Studios released "Fall of Cybertron", a game telling the tale of the exodus of the Transformers from their dying homeworld. Thundercracker2012's big "Transformers" multimedia event was not a movie, but rather a video game. Keep converting him back and forth so he can handle whatever his Autobot enemies dish out. When he needs to do recon or launch an attack from above, convert him to Cybertronian fighter jet mode.
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Your Thunder cracker figure is a hardcore Decepticon with spinning assault cannons that will make any Autobot think twice before taking him on. The battle between Autobot and Decepticon is never over and this Thunder cracker figure is the next generation of awesome Transformers action. He's unsure of himself as a warrior, doubts his commitment to the Decepticon cause and suffers an almost crippling fear of someday being trapped on the ground. But his sneering superiority hides deep insecurity. He proves this to himself over and over by taking every opportunity to attack those below him.

He views all those without it as inferior beings, doomed to crawl and struggle in the dust. Thundercracker believes that the ability to fly is the ultimate expression of evolution among his kind. *Images above with asterisks(*) and text in italics below from : Retailer: General Release (Toys R Us, Target, Wal-Mart etc.)
