Toy Review - RtS Lugnut

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

Toy Review - Lugnut

Series - Reveal the Shield
Sub-line - n/a
Size/class - Voyager
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - 1
Released here - not at this time (released globally Nov 2010)
Approximate Retail Price - $45-50
Approximate Size - 20cm
Allegiance - Decepticon
Alt-mode - Long Range Bomber
Main Features/Gimmicks - Launching Missile, Spring-loaded arm conversion (Punch Of Kill Everything - P.O.K.E.)
Main Colours - Two tone olive green, purple, red.
Main Accessories - missile




Not sure why they wasted the effort of having a missile launcher on this toy, as it's pretty much useless in both modes. It points out the back of the plane mode, and points up at the sky in robot mode (after you position the entire back-pack section to stick way out the back).
And the legs are too big for the plane mode, leaving the entire back half with a disjointed appearance of two mismatching sections and gaps.
I'm not a fan of Animated Characters being copied into the Movie Universe, especially when their Animated toys don't really need any improving. As such, this is like Classics Cheetor or Dinobot, in that the 'new and improved' isn't better than the original.