
This is the ‘Jump Shot,’ which has the toy jump up in the air as it transforms. The other two are ‘Spin shot’ and ‘Flip Shot.’ As yet to get one of those two. Anyway, enjoy the piccies and video after the jump link.
Oh Mr Silver. Perhaps the most unpopular of the Gokaigers, he is definitely the most sparkly looking. Showing up after about episode 15, Gai Ikari is an earthling that joins the Gokaigers later on as his super mode looks similar. Despite him being an over-enthusiastic fan-boy, and therefore slightly annoying, he is a needed character in this series (This series being Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger), as he kind of explains the multitude of older Sentai members to the audience who might not know who the members of Battle Fever, or Sun Vulcan are (like me). Thus he is a necessary evil.
While I ended up kind of liking him, I did think that all he would be was a Gokaiger with a different helmet. However it appears that Silver’s design goes a fair bit further than just that.
Brawl from the Combaticons was always a favourite of mine. Who doesn’t love a tank that becomes a leg with the turret off the knee? I really liked the way he had the extra twin barrels that could plug into the back of the tank. Nice.
Brawl was in the War For Cybertron game and you got to play as him a couple of times. I actually quite liked him in WFC. Onslaught was in there too, but only as an online character. Brawl as you can probably tell by the name is not a smart fellow and known for strength and firepower. This toy though based on his FOC appearance is almost the same as him in WFC. Yay!
So after enjoying Gokai Red quite immensely, I have brought out the next sculpt of the Gokaigers that differs (aside from the helmet) and will go through the female build of the Gokaigers Figuarts figure. There are only two femme fatales on the Gokaigers team, Pink and Yellow. Both were online exclusives and both came with their Gokai Darins in the box as well.
Sadly now, being online exclusives, they are now the most expensive of the Gokaigers by quite a bit Are they worth the effort?
Blast-Off from Fall of Cybertron was a character you didn’t get to play with. He flew with you as you played as Vortex and was a super fast flying guy, who pretty much provided amusement and showed you the way. Originally he was a space shuttle in the G1 series and got changed into a plane with massive bunch of jest and stuff. Which makes sense considering his name and how Transformers probably don’t think space shuttles are all tha impressive.
He is needed to form Bruticus though and here I have him in his G2 colourings. Let’s see how he is shall we?
From Fall Of Cybertron.
Mmmm, really getting my beasty on at the moment. At a little toy meet I saw these new Fall of Cybertron characters up for grabs. So being a mad nut for figures of game characters, I bought some. Kickback was always on my list, he is my favourite of the Insecticons and the robot mode looks like a good representation of his game model and now I have him in all his six-legged glory!
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Lazerback, my first try of the new line of toys from Hasbro and the Transformers Prime line. They have reinvigorated the line with beast modes and cleverly named it “Beast Hunters,” at the same time reviving the love for Predacons and yet kind of just messing about a bit. It reminds very strongly of the Snake-men line that ran with He-man and the Masters Of the Universe on the 2000s a bit too much for some reason. Especially since in regard to the Autobots and Decepticons, we are getting already released figures with a slight bit of retooling to make them look like they are from a Mad-Max movie…
I bought this guy mainly to see how the beast modes are, just to get a feel for them, plus I do quite like the look of the Beast mode and also make a sweeping judgement on how the ‘Beast Hunters’ line would hold up. How does it compare to the regular Prime line?