Toy Review - Titans Return Leader Sixshot

[GoktimusPrime]

Thanks. Yep a one minute special inside a 20 minute toy commercial

Poor Rebirth. It really was meant to be a better story than it turned out to be. But The☆Headmasters' version of Sixshot definitely outshines Rebirth's. Although I'd be curious to see if the Legends versions keeps the Decepticon logos or makes their version logoless like in anime (as Sixshot was actually a neutral assassin who happened to work for the Decepticons but wasn't actually a Decepticon).

I'm on vacation so don't have the toy with me, but pretty sure it can. It's just half way between tank and wolf mode

I'm surprised you didn't bring it with you. My United Grapple arrived just as my family was about head off to the airport. I took it out of the box and carried it with me and played with it after I was aboard the plane.
Holy crap, this was over 5 years ago?!

[prjkt]

with Sixshot's head - you should be able to keep the TM in place, and flip the whole head/helmet into the chest

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with Sixshot's head - you should be able to keep the TM in place, and flip the whole head/helmet into the chest

You can. You dont even have to remove the head if you dont want to.

[doublespy]

with Sixshot's head - you should be able to keep the TM in place, and flip the whole head/helmet into the chest

You didn't get Goktimus' first joke did you

[prjkt]

You didn't get Goktimus' first joke did you

Probably not was responding to the pic with the helmet sticking out the rear of jet mode, and the TM floating about in the chest cavity

[SMHFConvoy]

Found him at tru Campbelltown today. Gotta say I like him and if they retool him he'd make a halfway decent scorponok.

[5FDP]

Love him. He's big, bulky, and imposing. Fits in really well with the MP figures. Hasbro have done the best they could with this updated version IMO. Get him now!

[GoktimusPrime]

Thoughts:

* Amazing! It's pretty much everything you'd expect from a Classicsverse Sixshot. The visual aesthetics very nicely match the G1 toy. It's also indicative of this current Generations line and shows how far CHUGUR has evolved - from modern toys based on G1 characters to what appears more to be modern toy 'translations' of G1 characters. And as others have mentioned, this higher level of G1 fidelity also means that these figures can often act as surrogate MPs.
* The silver wings are an improvement over the grey wings on the G1 figure.
* As others have mentioned, the Headmaster gimmick is pretty superfluous and can be completely ignored. I hope that more future TR figures based on non-Headmaster characters will be designed in this way.
* Stickers - I would've preferred tampographs. The stickers don't look bad per se, but tampographs look nicer than stickers. I wonder if this was done for budgetary reasons - if so then I can forgive the stickers cos stickers are better than nothing at all.
* QC: A few joints on my figure are a bit floppy/loose and I noticed that another Sixshot that I left on the shelf had a piece of paint chipped off the faceplate.
* I personally would've preferred to see white thighs over black, purely for the G1 accuracy since the rest of this toy is so G1 accurate. Seeing inaccurate black thighs feels odd. Having said that, there's nothing inherently wrong with the black thighs - it's neither better or worse but just comes down to personal preference. I wouldn't be surprised if TakaraTOMY went for white thighs.
* The submarine mode is silly and is clearly Hasbro's way of giving this toy a gun mode without calling it a gun. Obviously you just turn it upside down and it's a pistol. The way that the handle forms is far more solid than on the G1 toy which is nothing more than just the wings. On this figure the wings clip onto the wolf mode's head and neck piece forming a more solid handle. No trigger though.
* Revolver is really more of a Brainmaster than a Headmaster as he basically forms the face of Sixshot rather than the head. Revolver doesn't really have a fully formed head mode and if you placed him onto the body of another TR figure, that figure would look like it had microcephaly. In fact, Sixshot looks microcephalous when you flip his helmet top open... as if his stasis pod had contracted a robotic form of the Zika virus while carrying Sixshot.
* The two halves of the tank turret don't seem to be able to clip together. Have I missed something? Also, most of the limbs don't seem to lock in but rather just sit loosely in place. I suspect that this may also be due to budgetary constraints. This is a Leader Class Sextuple Changer after all. While the G1 toy was more solid in its alt modes it was also a complete brick in robot mode. The high degree of articulation on TR Sixshot's robot mode finally makes him feel like a ninja, which is Sixshot's Japanese function (忍者参謀).
* The tech specs bio states: "A master of all combat types, trained to take down targets in any scenario." - I find this very cool in 2 ways. Firstly it's a reference to G1 Sixshot's Anglophone function (S.T.A.G. - Solo Transformers Assault Group). Secondly it may also be a reference to IDW Sixshot's role as a Phase Sixer. This may not be so far fetched considering that Hasbro will be releasing a Generations Black Shadow and Overlord.

Enough talk, photo time!















♪"We all live in a purple-teal submarine, a purple-teal submarine, a purple-teal submarine..."♭


Unofficial (but probably authorially intended) gun mode



What if Revolver is actually Daniel!

Click here for even more action pics of Sixshot!

[FatalityPitt]

Poor Rebirth. It really was meant to be a better story than it turned out to be. But The☆Headmasters' version of Sixshot definitely outshines Rebirth's. Although I'd be curious to see if the Legends versions keeps the Decepticon logos or makes their version logoless like in anime (as Sixshot was actually a neutral assassin who happened to work for the Decepticons but wasn't actually a Decepticon).

I'd also be interested to see what happens in the pack-in comic; and whether it'll explain why Sixshot decided to be a headmaster, and more importantly (to me), why he chose to look like Jack.

I can imagine Chromedome's reaction:

Chromedome: "Sixshot! You murderer!"
Sixshot: <head transforms>
Chromedome: "Jack??? How? You died!"
Sixshot: "That was a clone.. I am the real Jack.. It was me Chromedome.. It was me all along."
Chromedome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSWiMoO8zNE
Daniel: "That's great! Uncle Sixshot and Chromedome can now be friends! Yayy!"
Chromedome: "Shaddup kid! You know nothing!"
Sixshot/Jack: "There there"