View Poll Results: DotM HA Thunderhead - worth buying?

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Thread: Toy Review - DotM Human Alliance Thunderhead

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    Default Toy Review - DotM Human Alliance Thunderhead

    Toy Review - DotM Human Alliance Thunderhead

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

    Toy Review - Thunderhead w/ Major Tungston
    Series - Dark of the Moon
    Sub-line - Mechtech Human Alliance
    Size/class - Basic
    New/remould/redeco - New
    Wave - 1
    Released here - May 2011
    Approximate Retail Price - $20
    Approximate Size - 10cm
    Allegiance - Autobot
    Alt-modes - Quad-tread mobile artillery & exosuit
    Main Features/Gimmicks - Human figure interaction
    Main Colours - Grey, orange, black
    Main Accessories - gun, Major Tungston


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    +great weapon mode

    -robot mode and mechsuit mode are crap
    -bad articulation from terrible design.
    -boring transformation for all modes

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    Quote Originally Posted by kaiden View Post
    +great weapon mode

    -bad articulation from terrible design.
    This one was the most damning for me. Great looking gun, too bad he holds it to the side with no way of pivoting the elbow so he can shoot directly at someone. Makes for terrible display.
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    I was let down by this one, but that's probably because I wanted him the most.
    Tank mode looks odd. Robot mode is ok but as already stated his arns don't pivot so he holds his gun to the side. Mech armour-Meh.
    Major tungsten looks shocked.
    What is his weapon mode? His instructions don't show it

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    Quote Originally Posted by LordCyrusOmega View Post
    What is his weapon mode? His instructions don't show it
    sorry i meant - Quad-tread mobile artillery

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    Ok then. Shouldn't there be though? Aren't they all meant to become weapons for larger class toys?

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    As said by others, this is overall a disappointing figure. They have no excuses for the crappy hand design. Transformation is too predictable but I found it understandable as each the 3 modes basically has 4 limbs...I guess there just isn't really much you can do with the rest (similar to a monkey transformer design), esp. on such a small figure.

    I kinda like the mech-armor-suit-thingy mode. Granted it doesn't make any sense for a Cybertronian to have a human-piloting bot mode.

    This is how I like to display him...


    Throw in a Revoltech Alien (sold seperately and I still don't have it..) you get a pretty awesome Alien hunting scene!

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    Most of these classed HA figures arent worth the original RRP, but for 10 bucks I was quite amused. I quite like the mech suit mode and the 'realising-he-hadnt-actually-taken-a-girl-home' face is just priceless.

    Awesome gun. Actual rifles are so hard to come by these days.

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