Toy Review - WINGFINGER (Kingdom)
WINGFINGER
Series - Generations
Sub-line - War For Cybertron
Sub-sub-line - Kingdom
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - 3
Released here - August 2021
Approximate Retail Price - $36
Approximate Size - 12 cm
Allegiance - Maximal
Alt-mode - Skeleton/Fossil of a Pterosaur
Main Features/Gimmicks - Fossilizer (i.e partsformer)
Main Colours - Bone Yellow to Bone White
Main Accessories - bone blades, combiner face/axe head, Pteranondon skull
SUMMARY
- The sculpt on that skull rocks
- Despite being best-in-class continues the tradition of many not-terribly-useful-parts (just to squeeze in that fossilizer combiner nobody asked for)
- Despite minimal mass and stage presence,is still the swaggiest Fossilizer
https://i.imgur.com/CRk1bb9h.jpg
Part of this woooooooorldd!
https://i.imgur.com/yr7bVRAh.jpg
I'm like a Power Ranger! If they were made of bone and had fingers for heels
https://i.imgur.com/HTDepBnh.jpg
What did I say? DARE TO BE SHOOTED! Tell me what did I say? DARE TO BE SHOOTED!
THICK
Wingfinger is the coolest if not best fossilizer outright. Paleotrex had some cool weapons he could form and some cool parts, however he was clumsy in form and the bot mode needed to be killed with fire. Ractonite... just plain sucked at everything except being a Styracosaurus statue. Wingfinger looks and plays slick in both modes and that alt-mode head is sick. I've been a really big fan of whomever at Hasbro who's sculpting these dinosaurs (yeah yeah I know Pterosaurs are technically not dinosaurs). Like Ractonite and Beast Megatron before him, Wingfinger may very well be one of the best Pteranodon toys in existence. Unfortunately like the other fossilizers he still suffers from "what the hell can I do with this part" syndrome although the utility of his parts is miles above Paleotrex and Ractonite. Wingfinger can also combine with his cousins to form a giant fossil robot, which I do say is the root cause of "what the hell can I do with this part" syndrome.
The quality of the figure is also commendable. Hasbro's standards are pretty good these days. All joints are pretty tight, paint apps are on point and no misassembled parts (ha). The only criticism I can level at Wingfinger is that he feels pretty insubstantial. He is the lightest of the deluxes in the WFC trilogy line, if not the entire history of deluxes. I don't have my cocaine scales on me right now but Wingfinger feels lighter than SS Wreck Gar's two wheels. It's not hard to go "I paid $36 dollars for THIS?" when you pull him out of the box.
PROS
- Worlds coolest Fossilizer
- Unlike the others, both modes look rather quite good and play good as well
- Did I already mention the Pteranodon skull?
CONS
- World's smallest deluxe. Not a great deal of plastic or engineering for what you pay.
- He's still a fossilizer with fossilizer problems.
