Toy Review - CW Sky Lynx

[M-bot]

I haven't been able to find this toy yet but I had a fiddle with someone else's CW Sky Lynx today. The engineering behind it is pretty neat. Having no electronic gimmick really frees up the designers to be able to utilise the "Lynx" faux-component (which is just a block in the G1 toy). Overall it's a really impressive homage to the G1 figure, although I'm still not entirely sold on the horns. Looks neat enough in robot mode, but weird in shuttle mode. My main criticism of this toy are the blue wings in robot mode which are really floppy and don't seem to be able to lock into position.

Still, I'm gonna buy this toy on sight if I can find one!

The blue wings on mine were a bit floppy as well, I tightened the 2 screws on the underside of the shuttle wings (top of the wings in robot um... beast thingy mode) and that mostly resolved it. They're not absolutely firmly in place but are not swinging in and out when I don't want them to.

[snaketales]

I took out the shuttle tail fins and flipped them so they're the right way around in shuttle mode. They're now upside side down in Sky Reign mode but I think it's acceptable. The original position in shuttle mode bugged me more.

[CHILENO20]

Mine as not arrived yet but I am curious, is Sky Reign meant to be a 6 figure combiner like all the others? And if so, where the hell does the 6th figure go?

[BigTransformerTrev]

Mine as not arrived yet but I am curious, is Sky Reign meant to be a 6 figure combiner like all the others? And if so, where the hell does the 6th figure go?

Wreck-Gar goes on the chest like Groove does for Defensor

[CHILENO20]

Wreck-Gar goes on the chest like Groove does for Defensor

Any pics to see how? I haven't been able to find any.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Any pics to see how? I haven't been able to find any.

That's because Wreck-Gar hasn't been released yet

[Krayt]

That's because Wreck-Gar hasn't been released yet

Go use your legends groove and show us then Trev.... Coz wreck-gar had the "combines with" taken off his pack...

[M-bot]

Wreck-Gar goes on the chest like Groove does for Defensor

I gave it a shot with my Groove, but I can't see how to do it. There's no obvious points to secure him on Sky Reign's body. I'd be happy to be proved wrong, but I can't work it out.

Any pics to see how? I haven't been able to find any.

There's some on Seibertron.com (and unsecured crotch plate - "crotch-gar"?), but it's not convincing or really even duplicate-able at all.

[M-bot]

I didn't mention this when I first reviewed this guy, as I hadn't tried it out - combiner torso mode looks freakin' awesome. Lovely shape and colour balance and I really like the feline head sculpt. Almost (not quite, but almost) has me wanting to make him into a combiner, rather than displaying him as a stand alone character.

[aching878]

The blue wings on mine were a bit floppy as well, I tightened the 2 screws on the underside of the shuttle wings (top of the wings in robot um... beast thingy mode) and that mostly resolved it. They're not absolutely firmly in place but are not swinging in and out when I don't want them to.

The screw won't do much as the blue wing part is not actually pressed held together by the White plastic the screw tightens, you kinda have to open it up and can see what I mean

But once open up the best way would be to take out the blue wing part then polish / thicken the blue wing inner circle slot so that when it's plugged back into the peg on the White part, it's fits more tightly thus not flop around like crazy