Toy Review - PATH FINDER (Legacy)

Go-Bots PATHFINDER
Series - Generations (Selects)
Sub-line - Legacy
Hypo-line - United
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - Pretool & repaint of Legacy Cosmos
Wave - N/A (Go-Bots Guardians 3 Pack)
Released here - August 2024
Approximate Retail Price - $130
Approximate Size - 11cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Affiliation - Friendly
Alt-mode - Venusian Scout Ship
Main Features/Gimmicks - 5mm weapon and blast effects compatible
Main Colours - blue
Main Accessories - x1 Adamski pistol/Guardian flag

NOTE: This toy is a repaint of Legacy Cosmos. Refer the Legacy Cosmos review thread 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/zJ79mx5/gobots-pathfinder01.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/PtqQWHZ/gobots-pathfinder02.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Bw34LgC/gobots-pathfinder03.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/xzmVx99/gobots-smallfoot01.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 her e-Hobby counterpart, Pathfinder's colours are based on Cosmos' prototype G1 colours (see image below). Pathfinder's flag has the incredibly obscure Guardians

https://i.ibb.co/MS3sK2c/gobots-cosmos.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 Treds, 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 Path Finder to learn about the original toy. Unlike many other Machine Men which had early Australian-exclusive Machine Men names that were later changed to their Go-Bot names (e.g. Porsche Man-->Crasher, Semi-Trailer Man-->Road Ranger etc.), Path Finder was only ever called "Path Finder" in Australia (and never "UFO Man").
https://www.the-liberator.net/site-f...der-gobots.htm

Is it Path Finder or Pathfinder?
The original Go-Bot and Machine Men toys were both called "Path Finder" (card front) and "Pathfinder" (card back). In the European Robo Machine line, her name was "Pathfinder." So both Path Finder and Pathfinder are correct for the original Machine Men. The e-Hobby toy was only named on the e-Hobby website as "Pasufaindaa" in Japanese Katakana. As this is the first time that Pathfinder has been released as a Transformer in English, it means that "(Go-Bots) Pathfinder" is her official TF name; all one word. Hasbro found a path. :p

Pathfinder's flag logo
I was today years old when I learnt that the Friendly Machine Men had a faction logo. It's incredibly obscure as it only appeared on two toys. The first being the Friendly Machine Men combining power suit robot called Courageous:
https://i.ibb.co/5kQrbfy/gobots-LOGO-courageous.jpg
And the other one being the Go-Bot Guardian Boomers:
https://i.ibb.co/qgfjWnJ/gobots-LOGO-boomer.jpg
I remember seeing the Machine Men Power Suits as a kid, but have no memory of the Boomers. The Liberator makes no mention of the Boomers having an Australian release, so AFAIK they never came out here. The Enemy/Renegade versions of these toys (repaints) also had their own logos.