I have severely mixed feelings on this one.
Positives
- The robot mode is incredibly gorgeous and poseable.
- I like the null rays.
- EDIT: Forgot this yesterday - I absolutely adore the spring loaded calf panels. An entirely unnecessary but very much appreciated touch.
Middle Ground
- The alt-mode isn't as cripplingly shit as I'd thought it would be.
- The faux fake cockpit on the chest doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would. In person it looks less like a cockpit and more like a power conduit or something.
Negatives
- The transformation is incredibly boring. It's barely a step above rolling a revoletch or SCF figure into a ball and hiding it under a cape.
- The quality control on some of the engineering is absolute dogshit tier. The chest panel is the chest panel, we all know about that. The grey panel behind the neck is literally too big on my copy to allow the figure to properly transform. As I understand it this is not an uncommon problem among copies of this figure. Fortunately it is on a stiff friction joint and can be removed without tools. You don't lose any functionality (you actually gain a bit of neck articulation) but I shouldn't have to be ripping bits off my figures to make them work.
Overall I'd buy it on sale. It's a good action figure, just not a particularly interesting or well designed Transformer.
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