Series - Generations Studio Series 86
Size/class - Voyager
New/remould/redeco - New


JUNKION BIKE MODE:

Growing up I've always been a big fan of the whacky retro-futuristic style Floro Dery gave to the post Season 2 designs, so I totally love this bike mode. Some of the proportions are slightly off due it having to physically transform, but overall the accuracy is amazing. I especially like how the chest piece is angle downwards like the original design, and the nipple guns are ball jointed to compensate for this. Also appreciate how HasTak handled the wheel spikes: it's good balance between safety, playability and 'bot mode accuracy.






The turbo revving young punk looks so good with Wreck-Gar.




TRANSFORMATION:
Another master class from TT. It's amazing how simple the engineering is. The original character design of course helps, but more often than not the simpler things are harder to get right than people think. They even managed to place the robot head in the right place so the speedometer details are in the right place in both mode. I also love how the wheels are designed to fit through the spikes.




'BOT MODE:
The TV talkin, earth culture lovin' dude really comes to life here. Head sculpt is effing amazing, and the colors are not only spot on, they work so well together. Hasbro designer Aaron Brooks mentioned in the stream it was really hard the nail the colors for Wreck-Gar, I think HasTak nailed them here, they nailed the whole look. Just fantastic.






He's on the larger side of Voyager class, which probably also had the motorbike mode size factored in, to work with other figures.




Articulation is as per the high standards we've been spoiled by for a while now. How the ankle title is handled is amazing: it allows for front to back ankle articulation and doesn't break the foot sculpt as bad when used. We need see more of this used on Transformers.

Aside from the seemingly universal loose waist, my copy also has a very loose shoulder hinge. Although there's a screw on the shoulder, it looks like the joint is designed to generate friction from a detented ratchet? and the ratchet joined seems to be molded a bit undersized on mine. It doesn't look like this is a common problem, but with the quite substantial weight of the wheel, looseness could be a wide spread problem on this figure years down the road.






OVERALL:
The loose joint problem certainly stopped me from thoroughly enjoying this figure, it won't stop me from rating this as one of best this year. This is easily Kingdom Cyclonus tier pure labor of love. A solid mode that has virtually infinite potential for variants. I can already imagine the Junkions selling like hot cakes when he comes out.