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Review: ROTF Voyager Demolishor Figure


Blitz-Wing

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I think the previews of this monster truck are awesome and was only too stoked to pick him up right away. Plus, he takes on whole new levels of cool when posed around the better Legends class movie figures. I've got a Legends class Optimus swinging from his neck and its too awesome as we'll see soon enough when Optimus jumps off that freeway pass onto this brute. Since we're not getting constructicons that can do it all: alt mode, robot mode, Devastator combined mode- I'm thinking this may be my one and only Constructicon. To each his own.

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One can swing as an upright pendulum. He has a smaller footprint therefore much higher speed potential and less friction allowing for a hell of a fast giant..

Or he could have two and be less than completely unstable. Not to mention: how does this guy turn? If he has one wheel on the ground, the only way to turn is to move forwards / backwards and lean to the side; whereas with two wheels side by side, he could turn 360º on the spot.

 

Plus - and I'm just going out on a limb here - I would recommend a philosophy of 'less is more' for the movie designers when it comes to deemphasizing the anthropomorphic aspects of the robots. They already replaced the guy's legs with a monowheel and moved his tiny head into his torso; there's no need to hang a giant wheel over his as well.

 

Then again, Michael Bay productions aren't exactly known for their subtlety. :)

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I was instantly a fan of him when I saw him on the trailer. The CGI model looks teriffic and deadly

 

That being said, the toy was horribly designed. Hasbro could easily have given us a great Demolishor but they cheaped out.

 

It's all in the arms. His articulation is so miserable there. And for what? A shitty gear-spinning gimmick? Don't bullshit me, hasbro! He desperately needed a way for his elbows to rotate forward so he can be posed charging forward, "claws" ready to smash something in his path.

 

Speaking of claws, how bout those bucket hands? They dont even turn into hands, they're just an excavator bucket split in half! That barely works!

 

I mean, for a figure like this, the arms are really the only part of him that would make the toy great...And hasbro failed miserably to give us that much. So what we're left with is a goofy unicycle bot that can do little more than hold himself up or swing his arms out as though he dreams of one day flying -_-

 

FAIL!

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Guest Brainiac

If his robot mode wheels would roll and if he could stand without propping him up on his hands, and if his arms had better articulation, I'd totally get him.

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While he is a balancing act, I dig this pose the best:

 

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toy...shor/1747/1/75/

 

I've also swiveled his top wheel back as far as it will go, and I can still get him to balance in this pose!

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Guest Primal-Convoy

1/ The alt mode has no free-wheeling ability, meaning that the alt mode CANNOT MOVE.

 

2/ The bot mode has no stability, meaning that the bot mode CANNOT STAND.

 

Thus, it's only common sense that most fans cannot be moved and cannot stand this figure too.

 

F A I L.

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