Toy Review - HATCHET (Studio Series)

Decepticon HATCHET
Series - Generations
Sub-line - Studio Series
Hypo-line - Dark of the Moon
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - mostly new mould with shared wheels and shared engineering from Studio Series Crowbar
Wave - 27
Released here - January 2025
Approximate Retail Price - $39.95
Approximate Size - 9cm
Allegiance - Decepticon
Sub-Group - Dreads
Alt-mode - Chevrolet Suburban police SUV
Main Features/Gimmicks - N/A
Main Colours - black and grey
Main Accessories - x1 tail

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Terrible. Just terrible. The front leg panels are very poorly secured and are highly prone to popping off. I recommend just removing them during transformation and clipping them back in at the end. The tail also doesn't secure well in his bestial robot mode. Honestly, Commander Class Hatchet is a much better toy, even if its alt mode isn't the same as what he transforms into in the movie. And Hatchet's alt mode is the same as Crowbar's anyway, so if you already have Crowbar, you don't really need this toy (and conversely, now that I have Hatchet, I don't need SS Crowbar (which I skipped)). Or if you own the Legion and Commander Class versions, you don't need either Studio Series Deluxe figure! :D

There are just no redeeming qualities in this toy. As griffin said in the Crowbar review thread, the design of these Dreads is really just getting worse each time instead of improving. And the extra annoying thing is that this toy was originally slated for a 2022 release as part of Buzzworthy Bumblebee, but it was cancelled. So they've had over two years to improve this toy; and all they needed to do was make a firmer connection slot for the tail and foreleg panels (or add metal rods for the fore leg panels).

Studio Series Hatchet is just inexcusably bad. Avoid.