So changed the name of this series cause its not really a first impression if i;ve had the figure(s) for a few days at least.
the figures: Generatiosn drift and Hunt for the Decepticons Seaspray.
To the uninitiated, Hunt for the decepticons (HFTD from now on) is essentially a extension of the movie-line aesthetic but wiht more a more classics feel, if that makes any sense. generations is then just the reprisal of the universe/classics lines which take classics characters and update them, or such things.
So first up, we'll go with Drift.
Bio:
His bio essentially is that he used to be a decepticon warrior named Deadlock who was insanely ruthless and cold hearted, but then had his eyes opened to the horrors of the Decpeticons when orderede to wipe out a neutral transformer colony by MEgatron. With this change of heart, he changed his form, and was given a second chance by Kup. Deadlock traded in for swords and became Drift. Drift is an IDW comicverse only charcater finally getting his due, or so comic readers say. His bio makes him sound a lot like Cyrus (do i ahve that name right?) from FFIV. anyway, Drift's packagign is stnadar, with only 1 cardboard twist tie around the main body of the car.
Alt Mode:
Drift comes packaged in alt mode, and it is a very sleep one at that. While there is nto muhc sculpted detail in this car mode outside of the rear lights, spoiler, twin rear exhausts, front headlughts and grill, this alt mode, a japanese drift car (get it?), isa thing of sheer beauty. His color scheme is pretty simple and pleasing with blue plastic windows and windeshield and painted blue rear windows. He has red patterning down the front leading to the headlights and both doors feature elegant and flowy red wavy patterning. on top of this door patterning on either door is a type of japanese writing known as Kanji. the writing on either door translates approximately to "samurai". This reference is made clear when you see the longsword that clips under the car. Made of soft, rubbery,, dark grey plastic, this sword has Kanji down the blade that Transltates roughly to " Peerless under heaven" whichc essentially means, he is unmatched. His skills as a decepticon transferred right into his sword mastery as an autobot The sword is marked with a slightly elongated handle and gold detailing at the hilt, with a circle in the middle.
Robot Mode:
The transformation to Robot mode is involved and fun. Drift is adeqautely propportioned for a deluxe in this mode. His sword clips into the same clips on his back, and the top one can even extend out. His headsculpt features some wicked blueish-white light piping and scream Tigatron. The balck made prevalent from his chest and shoulder joints as well as his feet, nicely offsets the white and read. The arm transformation is fluid and genius and because of the poability in his arms, Drift can be posed reaching up for his long swrod, or reachign to pull out his short swords a.k.a buthcer knives from the insides of his door. the handles on these swords flip otu and these feel soft, but also a bti more sturdy that the longsword. The blades are straight silver. As for detailign in robot mofe, the arms have nice slupted detial, btu the bulk resides in the legs, which are former by the back half of the car. Some of the detial in the legs is missed but the predominatn white color on the legs, but it can be piked up with a gundam marker, or paint. The elgs are intriguingly engineered, and the feet actially rotate up to the thighs to form Gundam esque Legs, or so i've heard.
Overall:
This well propoertioned deluxe shines in btoh modes and in play value wiht his 3 swords. His mian downfal, albeit minor is the last of waist movement and the leg transformation from back of the car. the toy was designed wihtout ankle posability, which you can give,but it breakes up the sculpt. This is the premiere mold of the Generations line for me so far.
Very reccomended
Toy: HFTD Seaspray
Alt mode: A massively upgraded hovercraft from his g1 self, Seaspray sport two harpoon mssile launchers, two rotating hovercraft fans (they rotate 36o degrees) and some phenomenal detialing on the lower half of the alt mode, where the inner-ubing would be on the real world counter part. He features a loading bay for most scot class figures. The mian dectrator from this mode is the "SEa S.P.Ray" detialing painted on the top and on either side in sliver. The amount fo detailing on the figure itslef is very nice.
Robot Mode: The transformation is intuitve and fun, once thigns get untabbed initally. The Legs have the typical "Chicken walker" aesthetic, but somehow that works for this figure. the white and blue color scheme prevails througbout and the hands are a bit plain. The head resembels a scuba maks, and could've benefitted from a ball jointa and more clearance behind it. He can undersling ithe guns or tab them into his heands. The only gripe i have eith the robto mode is that the way the arms were designed, the arms have to either be straight up or out at an unnatural straight-from-the-chest angle. This s=figure would be much better with better designs on the elbow engineering.
OVerall: However, eve with the flaws, i still reccommend this guy.
Have a good one guys!
--Zack B
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