Toy Review - DotM Human Alliance Crosshairs

[griffin]

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

Toy Review - Crosshairs w/ Sergeant Cahnay
Series - Dark of the Moon
Sub-line - Mechtech Human Alliance
Size/class - Basic
New/remould/redeco - Redeco
Wave - 4
Released here - Not here at this time, so probably not expected here (released in US Jul/Aug 2011)
Approximate Retail Price - AU$20 (US$10)
Approximate Size - 10cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-modes - Quad-tread mobile artillery & exosuit
Main Features/Gimmicks - Human figure interaction
Main Colours - Green, olive, grey
Main Accessories - gun, Sergeant Cahnay.

[M-bot]

I'm a bit of a completist, but even so, having the original mold in the form of Human Alliance Basics Thunderhead, I had no desire to get Crosshairs as well. As is turns out, I got it in a larger lot, so what the heck.

As a straight-up repaint of Thunderhead, Crosshairs shares all the same failures. His robot mode is poorly proportioned, with limited articulation and possibility. It has ridiculous arms and hands, which can only be posed palms up.

The vehicle mode is completely nonsensical too - the only way the treads can be positioned is in 4 different directions. One would imagine this would make moving forward rather difficult.

The best of his 3 modes is definitely the exosuit version - a little reminiscent of the suit Sigourney Weaver wears in the climax of James Cameron's Aliens. Sadly, even this has a same palms-up issue that robot mode has, but at least It uses the human alliance figure in an intelligent way.

All in all, Crosshairs is one to avoid, whether you have Thunderhead or not.

[Sky Shadow]

I voted yes for the offspring of Sergeant Chaos and Auggie Cahnay.