Toy Review - Titans Return Misfire

[GoktimusPrime]

MISFIRE
Series – Titans Return
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - Significant remould of Triggerhappy
Wave - 5
Released here – August 2017
Approximate Retail Price - $25
Approximate Size - 14cm
Allegiance - Decepticon
Alt-mode – Jet
Main Features/Gimmicks – Headmaster
Main Colours – Fuschia with white highlights
Main Accessories – 2 guns, "Aimless" Titan Master

Note: This toy is a redeco of Titans Return Triggerhappy. See Triggerhappy's review thread for comments on the original mould. This review will focus on differences made.

VEHICLE MODE



A really nice and solid vehicle mode with all parts locking into place pretty well. While the toy is predominantly fuschia, there are some white highlights throughout as well as silver and blank paint ops as well as tampographs adding further details in some places. And of course, the original G1 toy is extremely fuschia anyway. It's a huge improvement over TR Blurr who desperately needs more colours to break up all the blue. The fuschia on this toy isn't nearly as monotonous as I thought it would be. The way that the legs form the aft is very G1 accurate and it wouldn't surprise me if Triggerhappy's mould was co-conceived to be Misfire and Slugslinger all along (because G1 Triggerhappy's legs sit on the underbelly of the jet and not at all on the top aft as it does on Misfire and Slugslinger). The head also locks in firmly - no bobble-head here!

ROBOT MODE



The robot mode reveals even more whites as well as red on the chest and black, pale pink and blue from the head (and black hands and feet). This toy significantly improves over one main feature of the G1 toy -- it's lost the backpack! With G1 Misfire, literally half the bloody jet just sits on the back as a HUGE piece of kibble. The inversion of the fore and wings also makes Misfire more G1 show-accurate. Misfire's head is a blend of G1 toy and cartoon homages. The sculpt is clearly based on the cartoon model but the colours are based on the G1 toy. TakaraTOMY's Legends Misfire offers a show-accurate paint job on the head, although apparent less other colours on the body to break up the fuschia (which is show-accurate but I'd rather have a nicer looking colour scheme over slavishly cartoon-accurate blandness - plus the Legends toy is double the cost of its TR counterpart ). I'd personally prefer a more G1 toy (and IDW) accurate head sculpt though, but meh... the G1 cartoon-accurate head is still perfectly fine.

AIMLESS



Holy crap, it has colours! One thing that bugs me with a lot of the Titan Masters is the lack of colour. But TR Aimless has fuschia, white, black, blue and pale-pink! I suppose with less colours needed for the main robot Hasbro were able to reinvest it back onto the Titan Master, which is nice to see. I personally would've preferred to see this figure sculpted to resemble G1 Aimless. It is instead just a miniature Misfire... which is kinda weird. Makes it sort of feel more like a Brainmaster than a Headmaster. But the added colours is a welcome breath of fresh air! If only this were the standard for Titan Masters.

OVERALL
I'm liking this toy a whole lot more than I was expecting to. Highly recommended.