Toy Review - Studio Series Blitzwing

[Kyle]

Blitzwing (Bumblebee movie)
Series - Generations
Sub-line - Studio Series
Size/class - Voyager
New/remould/redeco - New
Released here - September 2020
Approximate Retail Price - $45 - 60
Approximate Size - 17cm tall in robot mode
Allegiance - Decepticon
Alt-mode - Fighter Jet (not screen accurate to Bumblebee movie, bearing no resemblance to McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II)
Main Colours - light grey, dark grey, red, yellow
Main Accessories - null-ray blaster, electron spike blade, left hand, right hand, 2 missile pods





Very good looking robot mode, bearing good resemblance to his appearance in the Bumblebee movie. The robot mode has "standard" articulations found on current Siege and Earthrise toys, with the only ball joint being the neck. The shoulder and hip joints are pinned/screwed, with the ankles able to be hinged inwards like the Siege and Earthrise toys. Each elbow is double jointed, and can bend close to 180 degrees.

Transformation is decent, pretty good. I managed to transform between the two modes without looking at the instructions. I would say the transformation is mostly smooth, and with (mostly) good fit and tolerance on mine.

A bit of a shame that the fighter jet mode bears little resemblance to the jet as seen in the Bumblebee movie.

[Kyle]

His right palm is hinged by a pin and can open, supposedly for people to recreate the scene in the movie when he held Bumblebee up by the neck/collar.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I also saw a blog post indicating the shoulder fins are installed backwards in the box. They can be easily swapped though.

[Kyle]

I also saw a blog post indicating the shoulder fins are installed backwards in the box. They can be easily swapped though.

I did the swap after posting the pics above. They do look better. To be honest because the wings are tiny, the swap didn't feel much of a difference

And because I didn't follow the instructions, I realised later that the gun can be stored/hidden a lot better underneath the belly of the jet, instead of how I attached it in the pic above. I saw a hole and just plugged the gun in

[SharkyMcShark]

I'm really looking forward to this figure. The bot mode looks gorgeous.

The jet mode looks a bit naff, but that's just got me looking forward to what 3P/4P companies can do with the design.

A bit of a shame that the fighter jet mode bears little resemblance to the jet as seen in the Bumblebee movie.

The jet mode is the only sore point for me. I'm not particularly fussed about it not being an F4 Phantom (though that would be pretty cool if it was), but it looks kind of squat and chibified.

[Kyle]

The jet mode is the only sore point for me. I'm not particularly fussed about it not being an F4 Phantom (though that would be pretty cool if it was), but it looks kind of squat and chibified.

I really like the robot mode. If they release repaints of this as the other seekers I'll likely end up getting them as well...