Toy Review - TREDS (Legacy)

Go-Bot TREDS
Series - Generations (Selects)
Sub-line - Legacy
Hypo-line - United
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - Repaint of Kingdom Warpath
Wave - N/A (Go-Bots Guardians 3 Pack)
Released here - August 2024
Approximate Retail Price - $130
Approximate Size - 12.5cm
Allegiance - Decepticon
Affiliation - Guardian
Alt-mode - M551A1 Sheridan tank
Main Features/Gimmicks - 5mm weapon and blast effects compatible
Main Colours - green
Main Accessories - lower front plate/shield

NOTE: This toy is a repaint of Kingdom Warpath. Refer to reviews on Kingdom Warpath for comments/thoughts about the original mould. This review thread will focus on changes made.

https://i.ibb.co/CP1Z6LP/gobots-BOX.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/48d4R0r/gobots-treds01.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/cDJ6pKp/gobots-treds02.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/2K2y6gZ/gobots-treds03.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/xLVV74s/gobots-Z1.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/t2bZbTQ/gobots-Z2.jpg
(note: Combiner Wars Bad Boy is a custom)

Just like his e-Hobby counterpart, Treds' colours are based on Warpath's prototype G1 colours (see image below). I personally much prefer this deco as it looks more like a tank you'd see in combat. Some tanks use a red undercoat, but red isn't the finished colour for that tank; that's why sometimes you might find reddish tanks in museums, but I've not found any images of tanks in action coloured red.

I also do like how Treds comes with a Decepticon insignia tampographed on his chest. Something that bugged me with Kingdom Warpath was the lack of faction logo on his robot mode (hence why I put a sticker on his belly). As a straight-up repaint of Kingdom Warpath, Treds inherits all the pros and cons of the original mould. His robot mode is the most similar to Warpath's cartoon-model, but I find getting the tabs for the driver's canopy to tab in correctly to be frustratingly fiddly.

https://i.ibb.co/pnTYdRj/gobots-warpath.jpg

Overall this is a nice toy in its own right. As part of a $130 3 pack, I would have to say that it's only worth buying if you're also interested in Pathfinder and/or Smallfoot, or if you're willing to go to the effort of selling unwanted figures. I'd like to collect all of the e-Hobby Go-Bots characters as CHUG toys, so this set is great for me. Now all we need is Bad Boy!

Refer to liberator.net's page on Treds to learn about the original Go-Bot toy, which was never released in Australia.