Review - Transformers Generation Drift

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Review - Transformers Generation Drift

Series - Transformers Generation

Size - Deluxe

New/remould/redeco - New

Wave - Wave 1; including Cyb Bumblebee, Cyb Optimus Prime, And Gen. Thrust

Released here - Unknown

Approximate Retail Price - Still unknown...got mine from a mate in Singapore paid $15 Shipped loose

Approximate Size - Approx. 16 cm / 140 mm

Allegiance - Autobots

Alt-mode - Some sort of Japanese Drift Racing Car

Main Features/Gimmicks - Two small sword that can be withdrawn from his hips which is basically car doors in vehicle mode; and the long one which can be stored from his back on robot mode

Main Colours - Mainly white / vanilla colour

Main Accessories - Two small swords and one long one

My Difficulty rating (out of 5) - 3

Stability - A very sturdy and well sculpted mode and very detailed a very good representation of the comic book character

Poseability/articulation - Excellent posability and articulation

Playability - Very durable

My Thoughts - A quite impressive toy; robotmode is A+ for me, not to mention you can actually put him on a stand (Marvel Legend Stands). Vehicle mode is ok but slightly bigger than your normal deluxe sizes (Classics/Henkeis)

Overall Recommendation Rating (out of 10) - 9.5

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Much as I dislike Drift, I have to say he looks cool as a toy.

I got to stay away from these reviews... it makes me wanna buy figures that I would have otherwise passed on thus spending more money :(

Great review and pics (as always) Deceptic_Optic :)

totallllyyyy want this heaps! :D

It does look like a neat toy. I can't wait to get one and start bagging out the character in Photocomics. :D

I saw this in person on Saturday morning and I have to say that it's a very cool figure. A figure worth considering. Hopefully the Blurr fig will at least gets a new head :)

Nice pics.
A lot better than Hasbro's 'stock photos'...

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The shoulder area looks a bit awkward/chunky. For someone who is meant to be stealthy and sleek (especially Blurr if the redeco rumour is true), the robot form looks to have suffered to get the car mode looking its best. (even still, the car form doesn't appeal to me much either, as I was expecting him to have a sleeker, racey, dynamic look)
I'd expect someone with a Sword/blade motif, would have a 'sharp', 'blade' esthetic (look) to both their modes.

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Originally Posted by griffin

The shoulder area looks a bit awkward/chunky. For someone who is meant to be stealthy and sleek

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Cos white and bright red totally work for stealth and don't paint him as a target. :p

But we all know that Drift's stealth abilities are so good that he can afford to sneak around in those colours. In fact, he could be standing right in front of you with strobe lights flashing and not get noticed... much like the TARDIS' peripheral filter, only that Drift achieves this through sheer awesomeness!

He is so not worth it. Give him to me. :p

Got him today. He's actually really good but he feels almost too large. That and he's arms are a bit weedy compared to his legs (his shins and feet are literally the entire back half of the car).

Outside of aesthetics his feet annoy me - they're immobile and the only lower leg movement you're getting is from a transformation joint that collapses his feet into his shins.

Volume wise that's a lot of whining compared to how much I actually like the figure. It's really good. Get it.

That said if you're on the fence wait for images of Blurr (I'm really hoping that they get rid of the swords entirely for Blurr - I'm not that much a fan of Transformers with swords)