Toy Review - GEN-2015 DLX Rook

[griffin]

(Please post comments, photos or even a fully comprehensive review - these are just some brief details to start you off)
Impressions of the group or a combiner as a whole can be posted here or in the pre-existing group review topic here.

ROOK
Series - Generations
Sub-line - Combiner Wars
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - new
Wave - 3
Released here - Not here yet (out in Asia April)
Approximate Retail Price - (probably about $30) US$17
Approximate Size - 15cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Armoured transport
Main Features/Gimmicks - Combiner limb
Main Colours - White, blue, black
Main Accessories - gun/sword, combiner fist/foot

[UltimateGalvatron]

In my opinion this is the worst protectobot, not because he is a new member (my first Stunticon from CW was Offroad!) but I think he looks ugly. His face looks like an American Football player helmet, and his feet are huge! His vehicle mode is better then robot, but I will probably still get him as Defensor is my favourite non-Devastator CW combiner.

[Trent]

Does he not have hands?

[philby]

Does he not have hands?

from those photos i think he does but the hole to peg weapons is not the 'top' of the hand as usual but the 'front'.

[prjkt]

In my opinion this is the worst protectobot, not because he is a new member (my first Stunticon from CW was Offroad!) but I think he looks ugly. His face looks like an American Football player helmet, and his feet are huge! His vehicle mode is better then robot, but I will probably still get him as Defensor is my favourite non-Devastator CW combiner.

In hand he's actually pretty decent. Not the best of the wave, but I'd rate him above Breakdown. Plenty of posability, you can pull a Hulk/Hellboy with him by giving him one or two combiner hands.

He's a little bulky as an arm, especially compared to Blades (probably the slimmest CW deluxe so far) but otherwisw I've got no issues with him. The only figure in the line so far to have ankle tilt means he can pull a few poses the others just can't.

The bulk and the headsculpt make me think Hasbro is trying to make this guy look like the typical "tough" American "footballer" - you know, the kinda guys who strap on 10kg of padding just to play a derivative of rugby - once again shoving American ideals onto an unsuspecting/uninterested world.

The backpack is what makes this guy interesting, not because of what it is, but because of what it could represent. Over two thirds of the alt-modes top half is in this one piece - swap that out for something else, say a tank turret, maybe swap the wheels on his legs for tank treads and you've got a half track tank (like Straxus) called Brawl perhaps? Or take the remould a little further (there's certainly evidence supporting HasTak's willingness to completely re-shell CW releases) and replace all the wheels with tank treads, and maybe even swap the tank turret for a Thunderbirds #4 style drill and call it Nosecone.

[tinyJazz]

Footballer? Nah dude he's totally wearing an Ushanka - you know, those Russian winter hats police in cold regions wear? I guess they beefed it up with the face grill so it looks like he's wearing riot gear as well.

I want to buy him just because of his cute hat.
Thanks for the review prjkt.

[GoktimusPrime]

Eh... we've seen similar style "armoured faces" on Transformers before.
e.g. Dreadwind, Polar Claw, Optimus Primal, Optimus Prime (RiD)/Omega Prime, Optimus Prime (CYB) (etc.) just to name a few. And I don't necessarily think that this style of guard is exclusively grid iron; many other sports including baseball and cricket also use similar style helmet guards, as did many medieval and Renaissance helmets.

Footballer? Nah dude he's totally wearing an Ushanka - you know, those Russian winter hats police in cold regions wear?

In Soviet Russia, Ushanka wears you!

[UltimateGalvatron]

Eh... we've seen similar style "armoured faces" on Transformers before.
e.g. Dreadwind, Polar Claw, Optimus Primal, Optimus Prime (RiD)/Omega Prime, Optimus Prime (CYB) (etc.) just to name a few. And I don't necessarily think that this style of guard is exclusively grid iron; many other sports including baseball and cricket also use similar style helmet guards, as did many [

It's weird, because I like most of the above characters but not Rook

[Deano85]

He's a little bulky as an arm, especially compared to Blades (probably the slimmest CW deluxe so far) but otherwisw I've got no issues with him.

If you have his backpack like in robot mode then just angle the arms back towards it you can get a slimmer arm mode. Much better than the stock transformation.

[Dimi194]

I think this is my fav of the Portectbot limbs; the blockiness is a nice contrast to Blades, and I love the head sculpt and ankle tilts! A very good DLX figure.