Toy Review - Earthrise Cliffjumper

[GoktimusPrime]

CLIFFJUMPER
Series - Generations
Sub-line - Earthrise
Hypo-line - War for Cybertron
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - 1
Released here - March 2020
Approximate Retail Price - $29
Approximate Size - 1dm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - 1980s style sports coupe
Main Features/Gimmicks - Not a repaint/retool of Bumblebee
Main Colours - red
Main Accessories - 3 piece glass-gas bazooka which can divide into smaller guns and skis for car mode.

[dirge]

Definitely worth buying. It still amazes me it took 14 years of various classics lines for Hasbro to give us an actual Cliffjumper.

Sure he's small for a deluxe... but 1) he scales with the other Minibots done as Legends (maybe half a head taller) and 2) with a 6 piece weapon & almost all the red being painted rather than just straight red plastic, they HAVE used the deluxe budget here.

The rear window kibble piece is my only complaint... but then Optimus Prime's trailer is kibble that doesn't go anywhere in robot mode and we all just accept that

[GoktimusPrime]

Definitely worth buying. It still amazes me it took 14 years of various classics lines for Hasbro to give us an actual Cliffjumper.

Main Features/Gimmicks - Not a repaint/retool of Bumblebee

To paraphrase Robin Hood Men In Tights: "Because, unlike some other Cliffjumpers, I'm not a repaint of Bumblebee."

Sure he's small for a deluxe... but 1) he scales with the other Minibots done as Legends (maybe half a head taller)

Plus how many other times do we get to say that a Transformer is exactly 1 decimetre tall? I should take a photo next to some Microman figures.

Approximate Size - 1dm

[dirge]

Plus how many other times do we get to say that a Transformer is exactly 1 decimetre tall?

I saw you did that... I just chose to ignore it.

[Autocon]

He looks good.

[Sutton]

The size doesn't bug me, Studio Series Jazz is fantastic at a reduced size.

But the 'shield' cop out really does. It's weak design work, the same as it is on Arcee. I could forgive it if transformed further to actually become a shield but in both cases it's an obvious piece of cars. Holding on to an old TV doesn't make it a shield, and standing on a sideways fridge doesn't make it a hoverboard. Not sure why these guys are getting passes on this point.