Hasbro is now offering their Transformers Studio Series 86 Voyager Class Thundercracker that is inspired by the 1986 Transformers The Movie. This figure is part of the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the film, and transforms from robot mode into an unlicensed F-15 Eagle Jet.
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Availability: January 2026
Thundercracker is packaged in the standard Voyager-Class window box, with artwork, logo’s and images, and the back includes a scene from the movie on top, with images of him in both modes.
In robot mode, Thundercracker comes in his classic G1 colors, which is mostly blue, grey, red stripes, a clear clockpit, black and the Decepticon logo’s on his wings that are inside down in this mode. The tips of the wings are packaged separately along with the Null-Rays (forearm blasters), and stabilizer fins, so some minor assembly is required as this is featured in the instructions.
Apparently, there are three different facial expressions, or three different heads with the expression as this was likely planned for redecoes, which includes Starscream, Skywarp and other possible Seekers planned using this mold. His expressions include a smiling face, an open mouth, and a frown, which all seem to have slightly different variants themselves. This one here is the smiling face, and it’s unclear of the ratio of how these face variations will be offered, so if you want all of them, you’ll have a lot of hunting to do.
The head sculpt itself looks great, and he has a black helmet, red eyes and a silver face.
He includes two Null-Rays, which can be placed on his biceps or underneath his wings in jet mode using the 5mm connectors. The stabilizer fins can also be stored on his back for a more cartoon-accurate appearance, and can also be placed on his legs with a 5mm connection.
Comparing him to his Earthrise (2023) release, Thundercracker has waist and wrist swivel joints, an opening cockpit, and deployable front landing gear, but the wings can no longer fold backwards. There are also fewer sculpted details/grooves on the body compared to the Earthrise release, as this is supposed to be more film accurate, much like his Masterpiece offering, the body is mostly smooth, but still given some detailed designs throughout the body.
His articulation includes a ball jointed head, swivel-hinged shoulders, hinged elbows, swivel wrists, swivel waist, swivel-hinged hips, swivel thighs, and hinged knees.
Thundercracker’s vehicle mode is a F-15 Eagle jet, with an opening cockpit that’s too small for a figure (such as a Titan Master) to be placed inside, Decepticon logo’s on the wings, and front landing gear. This mode also keeps all of his G1 accurate colors, and he has red and grey stripes on the wings, while being mostly blue, black and light grey.
Overall, Thundercracker is given his best show-accurate figure ever released in this scale, second only to his Masterpiece offering. This one is surely going to be memorable, so make sure to grab him and additional figures now at Entertainment Earth!
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