Toy Review - Titans Return Leader Sixshot

[doublespy]

Thoughts:

* 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.

No they don't. But I like that at least the folded wings give the arms a "stopping point" in tank mode.

After owning him for a while, the side to side hip swivel and knee joints have started loosening (which were already pretty loose when I bought him). This a bit of a design oversight: they are simple pinned through, not ratcheted. In robot mode he's quite top heavy so if leave him displayed in a wide stance dynamic pose, gravity will weaken the joints. Worse still, 5 of the 6 modes require engaging and disengaging the double knee joint, which puts a lot of force on the regular robot knee joint. I gave the joints a coat of clear nail polish, which made him hold poses better, but the knees are still quite weak because it's quite tricky to get the nail polish in the seams of the joint.

[GoktimusPrime]

I've done a quick 'n nasty MS Paint job to see what Sixshot would look like if the upper thigh pieces were more G1 accurately white. I suspect that TakaraTOMY might do this. I also reckon that they'd give Sixshot chrome hubcaps (I've just used light grey to approximate this). But otherwise there's actually not a lot that needs to cosmetically changed on this toy to make it more G1 accurate - it hits the mark pretty damn close (as opposed to say, TR Blurr ).

[shockNwave]

Had to spend a lot of time to take in all the modes on this bad boy. When it comes to defining the word; "epic" in regards to the TR series, there's sheer size as shown by Fortress Maximus and Trypticon and then there's sheer versatility and flexibility as shown by Six Shot.

P.S. I love it how Revolver can be placed behind the wolf head to create the appearance of two pairs of sinister eyes rather than one.

[M-bot]

Terrific engineering (no mode is absolutely perfect but that is the cost of having so many alt modes). Imposing in robot mode. Great paint apps and stickers (not common traits amongst modern TFs). Epic figure!