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26th March 2008, 12:30 PM
#5
The nice thing about a lot of Cybertron figures is that the transformations are concise but the toys are still reasonably well articulated and have detailed sculpts and paint apps (although the paint apps are better on some Galaxy Force versions).
The thing that brings it down a bit is that the vehicle modes have more limiting appeal because some of them look more like "fantasy" vehicles rather than realistic vehicles. And that's why I think Cybertron Armourhide and Downshift are such awesome figures - Armourhide is clearly a truck and Downshift is clearly a kind of muscle car. Optimus Prime doesn't really look like an actual fire engine, let's face it. It's really the ladder that gives it away. Fire Convoy (RiD OP) on the other hand you can tell straight away that it's a fire engine (a Hino Brandbilar to be precise).
Car Robot (RiD) sold phenomenally well because a lot of them were based on licensed vehicles such as Lamborghini Diablo, Dodge Viper, Mercedes ML30 (although the RiD version was stuffed up), Nozomi 500, Hikari Railstar 700 et al.
Leobreaker and Scourge's articulation is disappointing by post G2 standards.
But overall Cybertron was the best of the 'Unicron Trilogy' series (Armada, Energon, Cybertron).
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