Toy Review - Generations Combiners & group reviews/comments

[prjkt]

so my "Brakeneck" and "Quickslinger" CW figures arrived today, quick review:

Wildrider
Pros:
He's Wildrider for those who miss the G1 team.
Holds together a little better, combiner weapon is no longer loose and floppy when plugged in.
Headsculpt is all kinds of awesome - mixes the G1 "blockhead" design with the Arms Micron version with his little ear posts.

Cons:
Red paint in no way matches the deeper red plastic, looks kind of cheap, and really jarring on the side of the altmode/bot arms.
No rear window painted (as Dead End has) so the entire back end is just a lump of grey.
Metallic grey paint on the hood is hard to tell apart from the rest of the vehicle and the lower headlights aren't painted.
Same "weapon" as Dead End. Would have been nice to have Streetwise's rifle, but could be a mould restriction so I won't hold that against him too much.

Compared to Dead End and Off-Road (who stole his deco) he's looking seriously bland tough.

Slingshot:
Pros:
He's Slingshot for those who want the full G1 team.
Joints are all nice and solid, no looseness like Skydive.
That headsculpt means business.

Cons:
The alt mode looks a little bland (being all white and all) but considering the source material, can't really fault the figure.
Arms still quite visible in altmode, and the black painted hands are painfully obvious.
Orange face looks a little out of place compared to the rest of his deco when compared to his "replacement" Alpha Bravo, who has an orange chest.

Verdict: Quickslinger/Slingshot is definitely the better of the two "nostalgia" releases, but both are solid figures in their own stead, just wish Brakeneck/Wildrider had some more paint apps.

I hope Reprolabels offer sets for these two, to fill in all the gaps on Wildrider, and extend the wing pattern on Slingshot like they have for Firefly/ight.

Now comes the question, what do I do with them? Do I replace the new bots on the teams, or just rotate? Haven't quite decided yet.

[G1Optimal]

Now comes the question, what do I do with them? Do I replace the new bots on the teams, or just rotate? Haven't quite decided yet.

Although i just want quickslinger (aka slingshot, i dont want brake-neck aka wildrider) i am keeping alpha brave as a reserve member as the aerialbots and to cover the rest of the aerialbots while they are merging to form superion.

[UltimateGalvatron]

Pics please!

[G1Optimal]

took these with my ipad

[griffin]

I love the head sculpt on this Slingshot toy. After that cartoon episode Aerial Assault which had him as the central character, his head is the most familiar to me of the Aerialbots.

[prjkt]

picture time!
Slingshot:








Wildrider:






*insert combined mode at some later date*


Bonus shot:

Now I can recreate this scene:

[prjkt]

add commentary, in the comparison shots, I think it's pretty sweet how with a simple paintjob/plastic colour change that they've been able to make:

A: Off Road and Alpha Bravo follow the colour scheme of Wild Rider/Slingshot quite faithfully in alt mode, but basically be their own character in bot mode.

B: Make Wildrider & Slingshot look different enough from Dead End & Fireflight, whose alt modes they pinched. I still wish there was *something* on Wildrider's back end of the car, all that grey plastic is just calling for a false window or something... didn't even have to be the same shape as Dead End's.... ah well, hopefully Reprolabels can fix it up a little.