Flip Sides
Another e-hobby exclusive cassette packed in with Twincast. I am glad that e-hobby is creating new characters for these reissues since it would be boring to use Rewind or Eject. The pic is edited from Eject and is mirrored. I hesitated in whether or not to draw in the stickers since e-hobby has a little robot diagram sticker (of Scorponok?) on the figure. However, I decided not to do this since the Eject artwork doesn't accurately account for the stickers that would appear on the legs anyway. I did, however, leave the outer part of her arm blue since the sticker is drawn there and is the same as Eject. Again, small details that I think I only care about. It was nice to have pink-lavender weaponry by the way. The tech bio was condensed from the nicely written bio on e-hobby's site; I hope they continue to write up full level Universe type bios. I hesitated on whether or not to give Flip Sides a Decepticon or Autobot tech. Punch-Counterpunch's uses his "true" allegiance, and the Doubledealer gets a Decepticon tech seemingly by virtue of the unsavory job of being a mercenary. Still, Flip Sides' bio seems more skewed to the Autobot side, although packaged with Twincast in a Destron box. I guess I decided to assign her faction on the basis of what she believes now. I may make another Decepticon version in the future if there is demand. But hell, I watched The Manchurian Candidate and this sleeper agent stuff never works anyway. Flip Sides will eventually choose to be an Autobot after some big traumatic stand off.
Credits
Flip Sides Image: : Botch's Transformers Box Art Archive
Flip Sides Tech Spec text: e-hobby
Base Tech Image: Beachcomber's Tech Spec from the International Transformers Tech Spec Archive