Dark Of the Moon Laserbeak

I picked this guy up as I am a bit of a sucker for Soundwave’s minions.  After all I bought the awful Revenge of the Fallen Ravage and then again when they released him with chrome.  Ravage was a crappy Transformer.  Nice figure of the character but his ‘vehicle’ mode was poor.  How does Laserbeak do?  Read on…


He doesn’t do too badly really.  His vehicle mode is a vertical take off vehicle thing, which I think is fairly pointless, after all he can fly as a bird anyway and transformation is pretty simple.  It is however a better vehicle mode than Ravage.

     

The paint applications are pretty good, although I notice he is absent of any Decepticon insignias.  This must be a first for the movie lines.  the fans in the wings can be spun, but they cover over the wing bits so they don’t spin freely.  The wings can be moved around quite a lot though if you so desire.  i do like the paint on the front nose.  It looks like an eye though, somewhat destroying the robot in disguise theme a little.

      

Transformation consists of pulling the bird legs out of the landing feet, the wings out of the wings and the head out of the head.  It isn’t a very sleek bird mode, but it is interesting.  He looks a lot like a turkey though.  Fat body and round head.  the wings can be posed in many ways and the legs have lots of articulation too, although I see them coming loose pretty soon.

     

    

The articulated tail and neck are pretty good and his mouth can be opened, he even has a painted tongue!  His head is ugly though!  Damn!  Fat head, squinty eyes, doesn’t look terribly menacing.  The instructions have an alternate head on them, so I suspect to see a re-colour as Buzzsaw.

     

General sculpting is pretty good and it looks alien enough to pass for a Movie style Transformer.


It’s really weird though with this guy, he isn’t really all that bad, but he isn’t all that great either.  I like him, but wouldn’t rave on about it it and it’s nice having it, but I could live without it.  He is also small for a deluxe size as well.

     

The Mech-Tech weapon he comes with is interesting though.  Two mini-guns that change into a Cybertronian cannon when plugged together.  They are huuuuuge and look ridiculous when mounted on Laserbeak, but they fit other Transformers quite well.

           

My one though ends up with a wonky barrel as it is spring loaded.

           

The holes in his feet and around his body allow for a variety of weapon load outs and his heel spurs can plug into the shoulder mounts for Sentinel Prime there.

                 

There is a lot of play options with this guy.  His Mech-Tech weapons are pretty cool and he interacts well with other toys, but I still have a feeling that it is just an average toy.  Nothing superb, but nothing really bad either.  Just a solid effort.  Hence my short review.  I would like to add that they have got some great silver paint on his tail.


Now for the rest of the pics.