Toy Review - Titans Return Wheelie

[Bidoofdude]

Although in Wheelie's defence, this character has always been bad. He's only crap in the G1 cartoon, but his other incarnations are actually alright. In other media, Wheelie is a tough and stoic survivalist. Importantly, Wheelie actually contributes to the story in other continuities rather than just wasting appearance time doing nothing much of consequence (hence the comparisons with Jar Jar Binks). It also doesn't help that the G1 Wheelie toy is the worst G1 Mini Vehicle. Wheelie was the worst pegwarmer in 1986, and Hubcap proved to be a stronger seller despite have zero canonical appearance in the West.

Wheelie in both the comics and cartoon did have a killer design as well, which we see in the Legends figure. Too bad it didn't translate in 1986.

[Gasaraki]

I personally started disliking this toy, but after spending some time fiddling around I think they managed to achieve something quite good despite the glaring weaknesses, particularly in car mode. Overall I reckon much better than the last Universe Legends version, and a fair Wheelie worthy of my shelf alongside the other 1986 movie Autobots. Here's my video review: