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Thread: Toy Review - Titans Return Kickback

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    Default Toy Review - Titans Return Kickback

    KICKBACK
    Series – Titans Return
    Size/class - Legends
    New/remould/redeco - New
    Wave - 3
    Released here – December 2016
    Approximate Retail Price - $20
    Approximate Size - 10.5cm w/ wings down (13.3cm w/ wings up)
    Allegiance - Decepticon
    Alt-mode – Robotic grasshopper
    Main Features/Gimmicks – Pilot compartment for Titan Master figure
    Main Colours – black, yellow, purple
    Main Accessories – None

    Thoughts: For a Legends Class figure, the robot mode is pretty accurate to G1 Kickback - I'd say it's the most G1 accurate of the CHUGUR Insecticons. And beautifully toy accurate too! TakaraTOMY may give this figure a cartoon-like red visor, but I'm chuffed with the toy-accurate black visor. The Insecticon mode is more entomologically accurate than G1 Kickback in two main ways. Firstly, the insect head is large. Secondly, and this is a big difference - Titans Return Kickback has an abdomen. G1 Kickback only has a head and thorax in insect mode, no abdomen (although G1 Ransack did, but it made his robot mode look weird). TR Kickback manages to pull off having a humanoid looking body in robot mode yet more grasshopper-looking body in Insecticon mode! This comes as a complete surprise to me... I wasn't expecting this at all!

    And to top things off, the chest window opens up and there are two pegs which you can clip a Titan Master's feet onto so that it can sit in there when Kickback's in Insecticon mode. This is of course a really neat tribute to G1 Kickback's Diaclone origin, but also gives this toy additional play value by making it interactive with Titan Master figures. My only gripe is that Kickback doesn't come with a weapon (at least CW Bombshell has gun muzzles on his hands), although his hands are compatible with 5mm port weapons, so it's easy enough to donate a weapon to him from another toy.



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    Robot mode


    Insecticon mode


    Piloted Insecticon mode


    Comparison with G1

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    How does it match with bombshell and shrapnel?

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    Quote Originally Posted by philby View Post
    How does it match with bombshell and shrapnel?
    Terribly! We can only hope that they release a 3-pack of these guys with the colours better aligned.


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    When did they release the G1 coloured Scrapnel. I have seen Chop Shop and assumed that was the third but badly coloured.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thurmus View Post
    When did they release the G1 coloured Scrapnel. I have seen Chop Shop and assumed that was the third but badly coloured.
    He was released in 2014 but was never available in Australia.
    I'll update this when I'm needing help finding particular figures

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    ^Can confirm. Australia missed out on all those Legends Class Generations figures with Mini-Con Targetmaster partners (e.g. Swerve, Gears, Cosmos etc.).

    PS: Coincidentally Australia got G1 Shrapnel in 1985 but we missed out on all the Deluxe Insections, yet in Generations we got Chop Shop but missed out on Skrapnel!

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    Can't quite figure out how to fold the robot arms for insect mode.

    Otherwise I like him and don't mind the colour differences; more consistency would have been great but better than nothing.


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    Wowser. That's fifty shades of grey & purple & yellow & black. Tad disappointing.

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    Couple more G1 comparison shots:






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    A bit of a struggle putting his abdomen together but otherwise a good toy. I do wish there was a weapon (preferably based on the G1 weapon).

    P.S. If you have the Apeface headmaster, his colors match perfectly with Kickback.
    Last edited by shockNwave; 19th February 2017 at 06:21 PM.

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