Toy Review - Generations Red Alert

[jaydisc]

What about Henkei Alert... can his gun be shoulder mounted?

[GoktimusPrime]

Wow, the missile is painted red-chrome too. Damn. So Henkei Alert is evidently a straight redeco of Lambor (Sideswipe), whereas Generations Red Alert is a hybrid mould. I was glancing at Deceptic_Optic's Henkei Alert and noticed that the plastic around the head is white and not red like on Gen. Red Alert... which is pretty cool as it off-sets the red head better. Overall it seems that Henkei Alert is the nicer toy, but Gen. Red Alert is definitely easier to get atm (he seems to be peg warming in some stores I frequent).

[primatives]

i tried fitting universe sideswipes gun on his shoulder and it fit u just have to twist it as u push down and it goes in.

[Seraphim Prime]

i tried fitting universe sideswipes gun on his shoulder and it fit u just have to twist it as u push down and it goes in.

And I tested it with my Sunstreaker and found that the gun went into Sunstreaker's shoulder. i think you might just need to give it a little more work Gok.

[STL]

The one good thing about Generations Red Alert is he sits a lot nicer next to Classics 2.0 Inferno. Henkei Red Alert looked just weird next to him. The lack of bling makes the two a better pairing.

My preference though is definitely the Henkei pairing.

[jaydisc]

I concur. Consistency is king.

[GoktimusPrime]

And I tested it with my Sunstreaker and found that the gun went into Sunstreaker's shoulder. i think you might just need to give it a little more work Gok.

How easily did it go into Sunstreaker's shoulder? Cos I find that my Lambor's gun slides in heaps easy but my Henkei Sunstreaker's won't - and I don't feel like forcing it since it's chrome. I tried putting my Gen. Red Alert's gun in Lambor's shoulder and that fitted fine, but when I tried it on Sunstreaker it wouldn't fit.

I'll try jiggling Red Alert's weapon into Red Alert and Sunstreaker's shoulders. I find it curious that only Lambor's shoulder hole easily accepts Lambor's, Sunstreaker's and Red Alert's guns, but Sunstreaker and Red Alert's shoulders don't. It's led me too suspect that Red Alert may be a hybrid mould, but I'll run some more "tests" as per suggestions made here.

[Mr Ed]

I bought Red Alert Generations yesterday.

Worst of all the roof did fall off. But the red twisty thing broke.

So back to Kmart for an exchange.

Lovely toy though!

[GoktimusPrime]

I bought Red Alert Generations yesterday.

Worst of all the roof did fall off.

The roof fell off on mine initially but it was easy enough to put back on. <shrug> But yeah, I certainly never had that problem with Henkei Lambor or Sunstreaker.

But the red twisty thing broke.

quoi?

So back to Kmart for an exchange.

<thumbs.up>

[Fonecrusher]

I like him, although the Henkei version completely blows it out of the water, Generations Red Alert is still a good figure, especially for those like me who missed out on this mold a couple years back.