Toy Review - RtS Windcharger

[Lint]

This toy is pure love from Hasbro. It's not until you get him out of the packaging and play around with him that you realise how beautifully constructed he really is. Unlike Breacher whose joins were horribly tight and (imo) a bit cheap feeling, every joint on WC is smooth as silk. Some smaller Transformers can feel a bit brittle or fragile but that's not the case here, WC feels nice and solid allowing for great playability, and less worrying about breakages. 10/10!

Picked up breacher yesterday to replace the absolute junker I recieved from evilbay. I totally agree though, Breacher makes Windcharger look like one smooth operator.

[dirge]

Awesome.

Buy. Now.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

What everyone else has said - aside from the roof not staying flush he's a very cool toy indeed, and for $8 he's a must-buy.

[GoktimusPrime]

Funny, the same thing happened to me. I bought a Breacher off eBay, and when I got him he was partially melted and had two left hands. Feels like someone is grabbing the factory QC rejects and selling them.

Allegedly a replacement has been sent, but it is well overdue

Wow... the first Drift toy I got (from Uncle Petes - soon brought that back for a refund) had two left hands, and just a few days ago an overseas fan reported getting a RtS Jazz with two left hands. I wonder what became of the Breachers, Jazzes and Drifts with two right hands?!

What everyone else has said - aside from the roof not staying flush he's a very cool toy indeed, and for $8 he's a must-buy.

The roof stays flush if you transform the toes correctly. It wouldn't stay flush for me when I first got the toy until I worked it out. It's fiddly, but it does sit reasonably flush once it's done properly.

FLUSH LIO CONVOOOOY!

[Oilspill]

Picked up breacher yesterday to replace the absolute junker I recieved from evilbay. I totally agree though, Breacher makes Windcharger look like one smooth operator.

Funny, the same thing happened to me. I bought a Breacher off eBay, and when I got him he was partially melted and had two left hands. Feels like someone is grabbing the factory QC rejects and selling them.

Allegedly a replacement has been sent, but it is well overdue

Anyway, Windcharger is effing awesome. I had issues getting the feet to align with the roof the first time I transformed him (which was w/o instructions), but was fine after that. Do it in the order the instructions do it and it seems to work better. I think the instructions forget to mention that his legs slide inward/outward too.

[Lint]

Funny, the same thing happened to me. I bought a Breacher off eBay, and when I got him he was partially melted and had two left hands. Feels like someone is grabbing the factory QC rejects and selling them.

Allegedly a replacement has been sent, but it is well overdue

We probably bought it off the same seller, the bottom half of my breacher was completely fused together. I got my money back instead of opting for the replacement.

One thing I did notice about dear Windcharger though is that if you turn him over in car mode he looks exactly like an RPM/Speedstar

[SharkyMcShark]

Picked this up yesterday. We've really been spoiled with some killer Scout class cars in the last year odd (Breakdown and Hubcap as well as this). Aside from the head and the shins the robot mode is kind of generic, but not really in a bad way. I mean to convey that the robot mode doesn't really scream Windcharger aside from these features (meaning it could easily be used for another character). Articulation is great, colours are great (there's red, two shades of grey, black and silver in play). Minor gripe, the top of the car and half the bonnet just sort of hangs off his back in a solid chunk. It's not pretty but its hardly a deal breaker.

Car mode is decent. That's it really. The silver headlight paint is kind of iffy (I had to dig through a few at my local K mart before finding a bunch that I was happy with). The back end is kind of a mess - your mileage will vary on whether you can get it to clip together properly and the 'toes' that are meant to form part of the roof aren't the greatest. Even if you can get them to line up properly they'll recess down into the body of the car if you play with it a bit. The lack of painted tail lights is an annoyance (unlike on Breakdown)

Overall this is second to RotF Breakdown (which has as good a robot mode, and a better executed car mode in that it holds together much better and has better paint), but still worth a buy.

[Tallestblue]

I got him yesterday, and while he's neat little guy I was kind of undelwhelmed as I really feel like i've bought this toy before and had more fun with it.

I'm hoping this new G1 inspired scout class leadfs to new stuff like a Scout class Wheelie, Huffer, Cosmos, Cliffjumper and Bumblebee.

[GoktimusPrime]

Aside from the head and the shins the robot mode is kind of generic, but not really in a bad way. I mean to convey that the robot mode doesn't really scream Windcharger aside from these features (meaning it could easily be used for another character).

I think what happened was that RtS Windcharger is influenced by G1 Windcharger's Marvel/Sunbow model, which almost all Classicsverse toys are anyway - but it just so happens that Windcharger's G1 MAR/SUN model just happens to look pretty generic looking. The head looks kinda Megatronish to me, but I reckon it's more coincidental rather than intentional (when you take a head like this and translate it as a toy, it's not too surprising if it looks a bit like Megatron).

At least this toy doesn't scream, "OVERDRIVE!"

The back end is kind of a mess - your mileage will vary on whether you can get it to clip together properly and the 'toes' that are meant to form part of the roof aren't the greatest. Even if you can get them to line up properly they'll recess down into the body of the car if you play with it a bit.

I initially experienced this problem too and I used to think it was a flaw, but after playing around with the toy more I figured that I just needed to align the toes properly and they do align flush with the roof. It can be a bit tricky, but once you get the hang of it it's okay.

I guess I was really stoked with this toy cos I got it shortly after it came out when Kmart were selling Scouts for $8 each. So at that price I have no real complaints (other than the flash on the forehead; sloppy QC much)

[Tabias Prime]

Funny, the same thing happened to me. I bought a Breacher off eBay, and when I got him he was partially melted and had two left hands. Feels like someone is grabbing the factory QC rejects and selling them.

I also picked one off ebay and the only problem I had with him was his upper half wouldnt clip in, but I have since fixed that with a small mode...but there was no melting or 2 left hands with mine, cant whine, i got him for $5.00...

also picked up windcharger yesterday and I was very happy....