Toy Review - Siege Skytread

[UltraMarginal]

Opened up my Skytread yesterday and couldn't get him into tank mode.
The right knee was sticking. Here's what I now have

mate, that's some proper fixing work there. Most impressive!

[Trent]

I do not understand how you could possibly rate this over Battletrap Gok.

Disappointing is how I would rate this. I loved G1 Flywheels as a kid. He was simple. He was 2 toys in 1. He was super tough and durable. Because of those things he went everywhere with me when I would’ve been too scared to take any others for fear of breakage. I gave it hell.

And after the little engineering marvel that was POTP Battletrap, I was hyped. Well there is no engineering marvel in this guy. I mean the jet mode had enough undercarriage that you could repaint him white and blue and call it Sky Lynx! And the tank mode is just... boring. The whole thing is just boring. The most exciting it gets is how the shins open up to become the top part of the tank and that not very exciting.

Definitely not worth the asking price. Maybe at 50% off. Maybe.

[SharkyMcShark]

I do not understand how you could possibly rate this over Battletrap Gok.

Disappointing is how I would rate this. I loved G1 Flywheels as a kid. He was simple. He was 2 toys in 1. He was super tough and durable. Because of those things he went everywhere with me when I would’ve been too scared to take any others for fear of breakage. I gave it hell.

And after the little engineering marvel that was POTP Battletrap, I was hyped. Well there is no engineering marvel in this guy. I mean the jet mode had enough undercarriage that you could repaint him white and blue and call it Sky Lynx! And the tank mode is just... boring. The whole thing is just boring. The most exciting it gets is how the shins open up to become the top part of the tank and that not very exciting.

Definitely not worth the asking price. Maybe at 50% off. Maybe.

This is basically how I feel.

The slightly better combined mode was not worth jettisoning the individual bot modes, especially seeing as the slightly janky looking vehicle modes were retained.

[dirge]

This is basically how I feel.

The slightly better combined mode was not worth jettisoning the individual bot modes, especially seeing as the slightly janky looking vehicle modes were retained.

I didn’t find Battletrap’s individual robot modes worthwhile at all. But I treat them as a nice throw in.

Overall for me they’re on par. Flywheels doesn’t have quite as many joints in his legs which makes him more stable. But he has less play value. I guess it depends what you prefer.

[SharkyMcShark]

I didn’t find Battletrap’s individual robot modes worthwhile at all. But I treat them as a nice throw in.

For Legends class figures I found them unobjectionable when taken alone. Not the best legends class figures, but certainly not that much worse than standalone legends like POTP Outback or CW Thundercracker (being two of the three Prime Wars era Legends figures I own).