Toy Review - TFPrime Voyager Dreadwing

[SMHFConvoy]

One of the best voyager figures in the prid line.

[MayzaPrime]

Dreadwing and Skyquake are 2 of the best PRID figures.

[Sinnertwin]

Great review, DS. Dread and Quake are the only two voyagers i'm after to finalise my TFP collection

[GoktimusPrime]

I found this toy to be quite disappointing actually. The hip-kibble thing on the undercarriage of the jet mode is just AWFUL. A lot of people criticised Movie 1 Voyager Starscream for having a chunky undercarriage and those big gatling guns, but I honestly don't mind it because it's a fun gimmick that makes the toy fun to play with. I can forgive certain detractions to visual aesthetics if it can enhance a toy's play value, but with Voyager Dreadwing, the chunky kibble here does nothing to improve the play value of this toy. If anything it's detracting on both fronts.

Engineering-wise, even the awful Beast Hunters Dreadwing is better (that toy just really suffers from a f'ugly design... bird-jet Fuzor? Really?? Shut up Goki, you're trying to sell this toy, remember?! Oh yeah... BH Dreadwing rocks! You buy! ). And the wings on my Voyager Dreadwing keep flopping down in robot mode - there doesn't appear to be any mechanism to lock them in an upright position. I've just improvised with Blu-Tac. The Cyberverse Commander Class Dreadwing toy is actually the best toy incarnation of this character IMHO. I consider the Voyager to be the next best, primarily because I just can't stand^totally love BH Dreadwing's god awful^eccentrically charming design.

I voted "Only if..." <---only if you really want the most show-like looking toy that's in better scale to the above-Cyberverse class toys (and even then, don't pay above RRP). Otherwise, just stick with the Commander Class toy. As usual, the smaller and cheaper toys continue to outclass the bigger and more expensive figures. Gah.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Great robot mode, bollocks jet mode from every angle but directly overhead

I voted 'only if' as in 'only if you don't already have Voyager Skyquake'.

Since I do have SQ, I'll be giving this figure a miss and probably pick up the BH Dreadwing.

[SMHFConvoy]

Uhm... Gok, you do know that the thread review is for PRID Dreadwing and not BEAST HUNTERS Dreadwing?

[GoktimusPrime]

I was mentioning BH Dreadwing (and Cyberverse Dreadwing) by means of comparison with TFPRiD Voyager Dreadwing... but I can see how my initial wording might have been interpreted otherwise. I've editted my last post to try to make it more explicit.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Great robot mode, bollocks jet mode from every angle but directly overhead

I voted 'only if' as in 'only if you don't already have Voyager Skyquake'.

Since I do have SQ, I'll be giving this figure a miss and probably pick up the BH Dreadwing.

I took one look at BH Dreadwing and decided to pass since the figure looked like some kind of mutant peacock or the bad guy from Galaxy Quest

As a result, because I loved the character so much, I decided to get the Arms Micron version of him. The alt-mode still looks pretty crap from every angle except straight above, but the robot mode is bitchin! Plus the Arms Micron version comes with a beautiful paintjob and his Arms Micron partner Jigu is a really cool little cybertronic shark - one of the better looking AM partners in my opinion These guys will definetly adorn the shelf above my computer for a while