Toy Review - Rescue Ratchet

[griffin]

(Please post comments, photos or even a fully comprehensive review - these are just brief details to start you off)

Toy Review - Rescue Ratchet


Series - Autobot Alliance
Sub-line - Hunt for the Decepticons
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - redeco
Wave - 4
Released here - October 2010
Approximate Retail Price - $25
Approximate Size - 14cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Hummer H2
Main Features/Gimmicks - Launching Missile, socket for EMP weapon from Lockdown/Axor.
Main Colours - White, red, grey
Main Accessories - Missile, launcher

[griffin]

Just like the green Deluxe Ratchet, this just feels like a midget version, or even a KO version of the 'real' (Voyager) toy. It just doesn't feel right, after having years and several versions of the full size Voyager toy.
I like the transformation... just not the size.

[Seraphim Prime]

Like the orginal green Ratchet this figure has a really inventive transformation and amazing articulation, with arms in better proportion to the rest of his body

Like Griff said though, the size of the figure makes it seem like a bit of a Mini-Me Ratchet, on top of some way-to-spindly legs.

But this new version in the Rescue Ratchet colours is going to be my movie-verse First Aid. The black gun on the roof top even works really well as an homage to G1 First Aid's dual cannons.

[Lord_Zed]

Just like the green Deluxe Ratchet, this just feels like a midget version, or even a KO version of the 'real' (Voyager) toy. It just doesn't feel right, after having years and several versions of the full size Voyager toy.
I like the transformation... just not the size.

I prefer Ratchet Deluxe size, that way he and Ironhide. can interact with Voyager Starscream, Mixmaster, long haul and Megatron without looking silly.

That said one of this mould is enough for me.

[liegeprime]

meh, I prefer the Voyager size, although this is good as gifts to kids (nephews and godkids) and I prefer the dark green version - stealth was it? the plain white looks so dull and boring even with the red stripe highlight. It kinda looks KO.

[GoktimusPrime]

Rescue Ratchet does appear in the movie though... well, more precisely there's an emergency vehicle in the same colours as Rescue Ratchet who appears in the movie (in the scene where Lennox, Epps and other survivors of the Qatar Base attack return on US soil, in the background you can see this vehicle). Perhaps it is movie First Aid in disguise.