Toy Review - Generations Combiners & group reviews/comments

[G1Optimal]

took these with my ipad

[griffin]

I love the head sculpt on this Slingshot toy. After that cartoon episode Aerial Assault which had him as the central character, his head is the most familiar to me of the Aerialbots.

[prjkt]

picture time!
Slingshot:








Wildrider:






*insert combined mode at some later date*


Bonus shot:

Now I can recreate this scene:

[prjkt]

add commentary, in the comparison shots, I think it's pretty sweet how with a simple paintjob/plastic colour change that they've been able to make:

A: Off Road and Alpha Bravo follow the colour scheme of Wild Rider/Slingshot quite faithfully in alt mode, but basically be their own character in bot mode.

B: Make Wildrider & Slingshot look different enough from Dead End & Fireflight, whose alt modes they pinched. I still wish there was *something* on Wildrider's back end of the car, all that grey plastic is just calling for a false window or something... didn't even have to be the same shape as Dead End's.... ah well, hopefully Reprolabels can fix it up a little.

[Zommael]

I'm not feeling Brakeneck, but Quickslinger looks pretty cool, and it's based on IMO the best Aerialbot mould in Firefly. Hope i can puck one up somewhere - if i do then Alpha Bravo will eventually replace Blades in the Protectobots, as that mould isn't really worth owning two of.

[griffin]

I finally put the Hasbro HK stickers on the Aerialbots and Stunticons...



And with the Protectobots... very, very nice.


I love these toys.


I'll get to combining them later, as I'm still in the middle of building all the Kreo I brought back with me.

[prjkt]

Wow. Never hit me just how many figures make up the three combiners so far until I saw those shots, as I've normally got mine displayed in combined mode.

[griffin]

That's what makes it so hard with these fun toys... which mode to have them in. I want/need a second set, and have to wait for the Japanese versions to do that.

[prjkt]

Will you mix and match the sets? Or keep Hasbro separate from Takara?

[griffin]

I'll keep them separate.