Toy Review - DEATHSAURUS (Legacy)
DEATHSAURUS
Series - Generations
Sub-line - Legacy
Hypo-line - Victory
Size/class - Commander
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - N/A
Released here - December 2023
Approximate Retail Price - $368
Approximate Size (alt mode) - 24cm (H; ground to top of wings), 36cm (L; beak tip to tail), 37cm (W; max wingspan)
Approximate Size (robot mode height) - 28.5cm to top of head, 33.5cm to tip of wings (max)
Sub-Group - Breastmaster
Breastmaster Components - Eaglechest & Tigerchest
Micromasters - Boater & Pipo (say "Peepoh"*)
Alt-mode - robotic griffin dragon
Main Features/Gimmicks - Double Breastmaster
Main Colours - blue, pale blue, gold, white, black
Main Accessories - shield, sword, arrow, cannon, flail, x6 blast effects pieces; flight stand (base, armature, connector), throne
Comparison with G1 Deszaras (photo by heroic decepticon)
https://i.ibb.co/dK9fKWB/deszaras00.jpg
Box, front and back
https://i.ibb.co/ZmchB9N/deszaras01.jpg
Rescue Patrol Team
L-R: Fire, Boater, Peepoh, Holy
https://i.ibb.co/ZBX5831/deszaras02.jpg
Boater and Peepoh come w/ Deszaras, while Fire and Holy came with Victory Sabre. Unlike Fire and Holy who are repaints of Siege Red Hot and Stakeout, Boater and Peepoh are original moulds. Having never been part of the WFC Micromaster range, they are free from having tertiary weapon modes, and are much more solid figures for it. IMO this is how CHUG Micromasters should be designed, because who seriously wanted Micromasters to transform into combinable guns?
I forgot to take photos of these Micromasters in vehicle mode. Whoops...
Deszaras in bare robot mode
https://i.ibb.co/8DMns3f/deszaras03.jpg
Deszaras with Eaglebreast (L) and Tigerbreast (R)
https://i.ibb.co/hXqyT6h/deszaras03a.jpg
On flight stand in robot mode
https://i.ibb.co/n8DTTZX/deszaras05.jpg
Shield attached to right shoulder. Unfortunately there is no connector for the shield on the left shoulder, so it can only be mounted on the right.
https://i.ibb.co/MRLsBKM/deszaras06.jpg
Sword mounted on back
https://i.ibb.co/GT8hvF9/deszaras07.jpg
Cannon
https://i.ibb.co/hxNpdb3/deszaras08.jpg
Flail
https://i.ibb.co/cY2MKBC/deszaras09.jpg
Eaglebreast and Tigerbreast in their respective weapon modes.
https://i.ibb.co/M22X35Y/deszaras10.jpg
Sitting on throne; breasts on and breasts off
https://i.ibb.co/KqLRGXG/deszaras11.jpg
Deszaras vs Victory Sabre
https://i.ibb.co/r6f64GX/deszaras12.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/PjCCR2h/deszaras13.jpg
Robotic griffin dragon mode
https://i.ibb.co/KGCxRZH/deszaras13a.jpg
On flight stand in alt mode with blast effects attached to mouth
https://i.ibb.co/wLdP4YC/deszaras15.jpg
Cannon attaches to alt mode shoulder (not very firmly though)
https://i.ibb.co/5RnCBRq/deszaras16.jpg
Deszaras gets taken down by the Rescue Patrol Team
https://i.ibb.co/8r0B22s/deszaras17.jpg
Overall
Deszaras is a massive unit; about the same size as Victory Sabre, only that he's one robot. The fists actually hold the weapons quite tightly despite having finger articulation and palm tabs; usually something that I find causes looser weapon grips. The toy looks great in both modes and all the weapons and accessories look good too. Nothing here feels unfinished like the unpainted head on Legacy Brain of Courage (Star Sabre's Brainmaster component). Both Eaglebreast and Tigerbreast look and play well. The addition of gold chrome also looks great (whereas Victory Sabre replaced the chrome with metallic paints). As mentioned before, Boater and Peepoh are really nice Micromasters that feel superior to the WFC Micromasters since they don't have weapon modes. My only minor nitpicks are:
* the griffin dragon head doesn't lock firmly onto the robot back. There's nothing to tab it into place and it just hangs there.
* the griffin dragon neck joint on mine is a bit loose and also has no locking feature
* the storage compartment for the flail is just the inside of the griffin dragon neck. It feels more like an afterthought rather than having been explicitly designed to store that weapon.
At $368, while not the most expensive Transformer ever, it would certainly be up there. I think that this is also the most expensive CHUG toy ever - Legacy Victory Sabre is $1 dearer, but not including the Micromasters that's two 'bots (Star Sabre and Victory Leo); whereas here you're basically paying $368 for a single figure. It's the most expensive Transformer I've ever bought. Is it worth buying? In the context of being a crowd-funded limited figure, which will obviously be significantly dearer than regular figures, I think it's worth the price of admission.
Recommended.
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*Peepoh's name is the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound of an emergency siren; basically the equivalent of "Nee-Naw." :)
