Toy Review - AA Breacher

(Please post comments, photos or even a fully comprehensive review - these are just brief details to start you off)

Toy Review - Breacher


Series - Autobot Alliance
Sub-line - Hunt for the Decepticons (Movie)
Size/class - Scout
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - 2
Released here - Not yet (expected here Aug/Sep 2010)
Approximate Retail Price - $15
Approximate Size - 11cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Armoured vehicle
Main Features/Gimmicks - none
Main Colours - Blue, white, black
Main Accessories - gun


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/tftoys/hftd27.jpg

(haven't got it yet - just played with Justowen's)
Another fairly complex/fiddely-for-its-size Scout... I like it, but feel it could have been a bit simpler.

Awesome. Complex, as Griffin says, but it all comes together nicely in vehicle mode. Excellent head mold. I'm very surprised at the detail in it.

Yea, from those pictures the head and general body look like robots used to again. No vieny or wrinkled looking bay-bots. I also see ball joints again.

This guy so super Geewunny! I really hope he can fit in MP Prime's trailer.

This is a toy I want to get because the robot mode is an awesome looking action figure, regardless of the transformation. I look forward to it coming out.

Picked this guy up the other day and even after driving all over the place looking for him, it was well worth it.

Virtually kibble-less robot, good poseability, good proportions, cool design, weapons display and storage options!

Vehicle mode is just as good - no gaps, no sign of robot mode, rotating turret, raising gun.

Probably the best scout figure since ROTF began the steady stream of high quality scouts. He's kind of similar in aesthetic to Universe Ultra Onslaught - and despite my love for that toy, this one, in a quarter of the package no less, does it even better!

The body is so gappy and full of too much open space and air......

Not a bad toy, I like it. Though I should probably stop buying figures for a while so that I can play with it more!

Didn't find this toy gappy, but I'm kinda disappointed with it. A lot of panels keep popping off during transformation and handling and the upper torso doesn't seem to lock in properly. I can see where the peg and hole are, but I can get them to click in. Maybe I need to align them perfectly - and even if this is so, it makes the toy a bit too tricky (needlessly too).

Its a good figure! Love that blue, headsculpt. Nothing really bad except wish he was bigger.

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Originally Posted by Tallestblue

This guy so super Geewunny! I really hope he can fit in MP Prime's trailer.

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He probably can, given Breacher had no problem fitting in G1 Prime's trailer. ;)

This is one of my favourite figures of the year. I place it in Skyfire category.

Anyone know what the Takara version is like? More silver/chrome?

Haven't been able to find him yet. ): oh well. In time I shall (:

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Originally Posted by lcz128

Haven't been able to find him yet. ): oh well. In time I shall (:

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Me either. I think this is why:

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Originally Posted by STL

This is one of my favourite figures of the year. I place it in Skyfire category.

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;)

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. +like.
nice one paul!

Gold. Yeah, I think there are subtle differences to the Takara version, like Seaspray and Sidearm Sideswipe, all from the same recent wave.

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Originally Posted by STL

Anyone know what the Takara version is like? More silver/chrome?

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Originally Posted by jaydisc

Gold. Yeah, I think there are subtle differences to the Takara version, like Seaspray and Sidearm Sideswipe, all from the same recent wave.

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It's a darker shade of blue. Like it's just gone summer in Japan, so Insecticon and Breacher have been hitting the beaches of Okinawa. ;)

This is the first toy I've opened in ages. I wanted it as soon as I saw the robot mode in person, and IMO the robot mode is where Breacher excels. It's a great looking action figure, well proportioned with a nice colour scheme.

This is the only AA Scout I own and the transformation was much more complicated then I expected. The multiple swivels were unexepcted.

Quality control could be an issue. One of the shoulders is much tighter than the other and harder to move into position. I feared it snapping off!

Lining up the panels for vehicle mode was a little trickier than it should have been as well. So much so that I gave up and turned it back to robot mode and then looked at the instructions to see if I'd missed something in the transformation order.

Overall though, I like the robot mode so much that I'm very happy with the toy regardless.

I really like this toy!!
The transformation had me a tad stumped to begin with but I figured him out in the end and really enjoy it.

That said I think mine has a joint a tad loose(here the torso clips into the pelvis) anyone els have this issue?
I particularly enjoy transforming him without the need to remove the gun! (:

did anyone else have trouble getting the front arm panels to line up in alt mode they dont seem to pop in all the way on my one?

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Originally Posted by The_Damned

did anyone else have trouble getting the front arm panels to line up in alt mode they dont seem to pop in all the way on my one?

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Well it does get tricky aligning it, but keep trying Im sure it'll be alright, mine did look WTF the first time I retransformed him in his alt mode, but a few peeks at the instructions sheet and photo of his cardback and I finally got it right.