Hey all. If you're reading this in the USA, then happy 4th of july. anyway, its been a slow news day for the past few days at least in terms of stuff i want to comment on from TFW2005, so i figured i'd take a stab at doing a brief text review.
Now, unlike most text reviews, this was slated to be a "first impression" type of deal; in that i would give my intial thoughts on each new figure i got. i may not do this with every purchase, btu we'll see.
Anyway, so last night i got home from vacation from vacation and found a box from Amazon.com. I openend it and found War For Cybertron/Generations "Cybertronian" Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in there. Both figures are initially packaged in robot mode and Prime seems mistransformed minorly. His Wheels where splayed out to the side in robot mode, as opposed to behind his back, whihc is much more aesthetically pleasing. This was likley done to save on plastic shelling. Additionally, Prime's feet were slid forward, negating any chance he had of standing outside the shell. From reviews, i remembere his feet slide back on a hinged ball joint type deal. i hinged them back and he stood fairly well. I was initally going to leave him and Bumblebee in robot mode and then fool around wiht them today, the 4th. but after a fit of boredom hti me, i spent a decent amount of time transforming each to thier alternate modes.
Bumblebee has weapons storage on the underside of the "trunk" section of his Cybertronian car mode. My biggest down point on thie figure is that he gets aburdly panel-ly going into alt mode. tabbign the arms and front wheels in seems to be fine, but its a matter of when you bring the legs up and tab them into the underside of the arms. This wouldnt be too bad, but it get very tight when you have to port a tab on the underside of the robot mode foot to a hole that appear when the car roof and back part are straightened out. This connection is very tight and can cause a few parts to come untabbed once its done. you then have to fenagle with those until the figure looks somewhat all tabbed together. on the top of mine, i still cant get two of panels to tab together, btu its fine. The alt mode is wonderfully sleek and oddly rsembels an avocado in its shape. the translucent balck windows are really nice and the red highlights on them and on the rims are really nice as well. there's some nice molded in detailing and the yellow coloration is pretty uniform throughout. Definitly a worthy replacement for Animated bumblebee ( who i did llike) in my main display at school.
Optimus has slightly less of a fiddly transformation, but it took me a good while to figure out that his arms rotate up so the face straight back with the autobot insignia'd panels facing in. he then bends at the elbow and friction rests into the side of the wheel well on either side of the alt mode. The legs are probably about the easiest part to transfomr, once you figure out the unigure rotations his alt mode hood assembly and Waist joint do to orchestrate the transformation. Really the only gre, and its minor, i have wiht the alt mode is that when the aforementioned hood part lowers down and clips in, it makes the front window s bit hard to see, especially since thier grayness can get lost in the redness of the front and the gray of the bumper and tiny grill. while it is a cybertronian mode, i would've preferred a little bit of blue accenting on the windows in a manner that worked (in other words in a manner i dont think i can do).
In sum, these two figures are wellcome additions to my collection and and very well engineered pieces of plastic crack, especially for deluxes. given the mild compelxity of their transformations, i cant reccomend them for most child collectors. However, these toys are btoh really nice, fun to fiddle with and are a nice intoruction into the Generations toyline.
For the official reviews of the figures, check out my youtube page: zizzlerizzle8707 the reviews will both be up by this comign sunday, the 11th of July.
--Zack
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