I have no idea what y'all are talking about so I'll go look up what a Windblade kit is.
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That's an officially licensed product? Huh. I mean, it's not out of the scope weird, fetishistic fan art, but as an actual figure for commercial sale... yeesh.
Immediate thought is to compare it to Kiss Players, but I'm not sure it does. Kiss Players were creepy with their art and story context, but the actual figures were just little PVC baubles packaged with alternators. My point being that any given figure can repackaged with said figurines and new story context and suddenly be in weirdo territory while the primary draw is still the transformer figure*.
The windblade kit... huh. I've always argued for sexless/genderless robots in transformers because it makes them
weirder, and that any attempt to make the characters gendered in personality for the sake of story will inherently give way for some (usually very vocal) fans to reduce them to physical sex stereotypes like pin-ups or macho men. This windblade kit seems to prove exactly that point.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that, out of all things, the
Bay movie designs for Arcee(s) are some of my favorite because they're so abstract and resistant to sexualization. Of course, she/they're not really characters in that she/they barely cameo in the film, but that's beside the point.
*I do actually own the Kiss Players figures as I was an Alternator/Binaltech fanatic back in the day. Not actually sure what I did with the little figures, though...