Toy Review - RtS Lugnut

[griffin]

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

Toy Review - Lugnut

Series - Reveal the Shield
Sub-line - n/a
Size/class - Voyager
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - 1
Released here - not at this time (released globally Nov 2010)
Approximate Retail Price - $45-50
Approximate Size - 20cm
Allegiance - Decepticon
Alt-mode - Long Range Bomber
Main Features/Gimmicks - Launching Missile, Spring-loaded arm conversion (Punch Of Kill Everything - P.O.K.E.)
Main Colours - Two tone olive green, purple, red.
Main Accessories - missile




Not sure why they wasted the effort of having a missile launcher on this toy, as it's pretty much useless in both modes. It points out the back of the plane mode, and points up at the sky in robot mode (after you position the entire back-pack section to stick way out the back).
And the legs are too big for the plane mode, leaving the entire back half with a disjointed appearance of two mismatching sections and gaps.
I'm not a fan of Animated Characters being copied into the Movie Universe, especially when their Animated toys don't really need any improving. As such, this is like Classics Cheetor or Dinobot, in that the 'new and improved' isn't better than the original.

[Vector Prime]

Totally agree with Griff in regards to the missile - total waste of time and resources, they should have spent the money elsewhere.

This guy is just plain awesome!

Nice transformation with probably one of the best, if not the best usage of wings converting to arms/hands seen.

He has excellent articulation and can be posed in plenty of action poses, which do need to be adjusted and balanced properly due to him being quite top heavy.

The other cool gimmick is his spring loaded fists/hands that allow him to 'punch'.

Overall, 8.5/10 - one of the better Voyager sized toys

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Comparison pic of Animated Lugnut and RtS Lugnut please? I'm curious as to how they compare size-wise, so it'd be interesting to see them side-by-side.

[Vector Prime]

Comparison pic of Animated Lugnut and RtS Lugnut please? I'm curious as to how they compare size-wise, so it'd be interesting to see them side-by-side.

If you ask Sky Shadow nicely, I'm sure he will be more than happy to share his love of Lugnut with you and fulfil your request.

[Sky Shadow]

Comparison pic of Animated Lugnut and RtS Lugnut please? I'm curious as to how they compare size-wise, so it'd be interesting to see them side-by-side.

If you ask Sky Shadow nicely, I'm sure he will be more than happy to share his love of Lugnut with you and fulfil your request.

True.

[liegeprime]

hmmm, somehow I thought the RTS one would be bigger.... guess not. SLightly taller yes but not bigger as in Voyager big.....like say Onslaught or Powerglide.... still its fine.

[Lord_Zed]

Behold the cult of Lugnut.

[Vector Prime]

....like say Onslaught or Powerglide.... still its fine.

That's because those two aren't Voyagers liege, they're Ultra Class.

[Blurrprimecoolboz2008]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYmyK9XGhZk

[SharkyMcShark]

This and Highbrow are the only two things I'm looking to get at retail before DotM hits

(MPM-01 Starscream and MP Rodimus will be ordered off t'internet at some point)