Toy Review - Titans Return Quickswitch

[Ralph Wiggum]

Quickswitch was always butt ugly. The funny thing is that he is one of my childhood Transformers as I got him for my birthday. Even funnier is that I actually asked for Sixshot and distinctly remember being disappponted unwrapping my present and finding Quickswitch instead

[doublespy]

I only noticed now that they ditched the helmet change. Agree completely that a little retool here and there would go a long way. I really wished they could retool the wolf into a rhino head.

And no with Sixshot there's no problem with the helmet blocking the eyes.

I do have a soft spot for Quickswitch as I had a KO back when I was a kid, and this mold as Sixshot is fantastic. But don't think therers enough change here on Quickswitch for me to double dip on this mold.

[ComradeRenko]

I picked up the Dr Wu Sixshot upgrade set for the figure I've got on order, and the helmet in that set works much better with Quickswitch's face than his actual helment. There might be some hope that DR Wu will do a similar set for Quickswitch with a retooled helmet, but the fact that we need a 3P manufacturer to address this problem is telling.

[GoktimusPrime]

It's a shame that Hasbro didn't bother doing any retooling of this mould. I get that Sixshot needs to be redecoed as something and there's pretty much no other choice, but as you said, a retooled helmet and beast mode head would've gone a long way. They should've gang-moulded Sixshot with variant parts of Quickswitch (which they could then repaint directly as Sixknight) and Greatshot. We know that Hasbro are more than happy to release obscure Japanese G1 characters as evidenced by Black Shadow.

It'd be interesting to see if TakaraTOMY would bother to do any retooling of this mould should they choose to release it as Sixknight or Greatshot for their market.

[Sinnertwin]

Like father like son, ey?

[Sutton]

They could have achieved a look much closer to G1 Quickswitch by going with the head retool and retooling the animal head, but also giving him the oversized red 'wing guns', and actually removing the standard Sixshot wings altogether. There's lots of places the wing guns could then have plugged in to make fairly different looking altmodes.

[Soundwarp]

Wow I've never been a real fan but that looks really well put together!