Toy Review - DotM Human Alliance Backfire

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Toy Review - DotM Human Alliance Backfire

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

Toy Review - Backfire w/ Spike Witwicky (someone related to Sam perhaps?)
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 - 'Motortrike' & Weapon
Main Features/Gimmicks - Human figure interaction
Main Colours - Grey, black, silver
Main Accessories - gun, Spike Witwicky

[kaiden]

+great alt mode
+decent looking robot
+nice weapons
+good looking human

-annoying transformation (particularly the rear wheel)
-crap weapon mode
-crap hands
-articulation is inferior compared to sandstorm & icepick

[Pipesqueak]

What Kaiden said.

I wish these had skipped the stupid weapon modes, would have allowed for better robot designs. Still worth picking up this one on balance.

[kaiden]

What Kaiden said.

I wish these had skipped the stupid weapon modes, would have allowed for better robot designs. Still worth picking up this one on balance.

icepick's weapon mode isnt bad at all. the rest are just really ill planned. the best weapon mode is whirl's as he turns into a laser/gatling cannon

[Paulbot]

I only just noticed that this has Spike and not Sam. I'm so used to thinking of Sam as Spike. I had just thought this driver had the helmet so they didn't have to pay Shia for his likeness.

[Sky Shadow]

I only just noticed that this has Spike and not Sam.

Until you wrote this, I didn't realise the guy in the movies wasn't Spike. If Sam isn't Spike, in my head this toy just went way up in awesomeness. And Whirl's partner is Sparkplug. I want Buster too.

[GoktimusPrime]

Maybe Sergeant Chaos is really Butch Witwicky --- the forgotten son!

[STL]

This guy looks nice, but boy does he have terrible hands. I thought he would be the most promising of the lot but he's quite a letdown. Everything about him, his colour scheme to head sculpt look great. Just those hands and elbows are poor.

I should mention Spike is the best looking HA companion. Really like the helmet look.

[doublespy]

Really cool bike mode. The arm and hand design is crappy. No effecitive elbow articulation at all.

Nice head sculpt and chest design with some lovely details and great light piping on the head.

I love the weapon mode. I think his is the secon best behind Whirl's.

Looks totally bad-assy on voyager Prime:

[Lint]

I liked the way this toy looked. The transformation was okay. The clippy weapons are easily one of the best looking but unfortunately the rails were either undersized or the clips oversized because they were floppy.

Also it would have been far more impressive as a proper quad bike instead of a reverse trike.