Well I was able to score a couple new Deluxe TF's this weekend and one of them I was pretty surprised by how cool he was, so I figured I'd take some pics and stuff. I looked for him in the gallery but didn't see him, and I can't search the threads lately, so if this has been done to death my apologies. Just thought he was pretty cool so sharing about him seemed the thing to do.
First up:
Name: DropKick
Allegience: Decepticon
Found in Transformers:The Game
Str: 6
Int: 4
Spd: 6
End: 8
Rnk: 3
Cou: 5
Fir: 5
Skl: 4
Bio:
Dropkick didn't want to come to Earth, but Megatron made him. He'd rather stay home on Cybertron sitting in the dark and being angry, but Megatron has him hauling materials all over this lame planet. He doesn't even know why the AllSpark is so important, or why the Autobots need to be getting in his way all the time. He just wishes everyone would leave him alone. Still, while he's here, he might as well blow some stuff up, that's always fun.
So first is his alt mode, a grey and purple pickup truck with a really cool, really large Decepticon logo on his roof and hood.
This was the first thing I noticed about him and thought it was really cool. I've never seen a D/con logo so large on a toy before. He's a nice looking sporty truck with smoked headlight lenses and tinted windows. All 4 tires roll on the ground with no problem and he's pretty sturdy feeling.
Only thing I didn't like about the truck, was in the bed of the truck is his weapon, which is basically a giant pair of pliers. In the bed of the truck is a little grey knob. Push it towards the back of the truck and turn it slightly and it lowers the tailgate, extends the pliers and opens them up.
Not the worst gimmick I've seen, but still a little lame.
Now for Robot mode:
I really enjoyed the tranformation from alt to robot. Not over complex by no means, but still fun. And he produces a really decent looking bot with a few things I really like, which is why I'm gonna tell ya about him.
First is that you can fully transform his legs without effecting the rest of the truck at all. Hence, Mech-Truck!
I don't know why, but I really dig planes and vehicles with legs. It's just bizarre and really cool looking to me. So right away I'm digging the guy. Giant logo? check. Mech mode? Check. Pretty cool so far. He also has toes like Barricade that stick up, another thing I find cool.
In robot mode I'm treated to a really cool looking headsculpt with a Prime'ish face shield. Another thing I really like, face shields. And he also has these 2 little antennea *sp?* that stick up next to his head. A little thing, minor detail, but it adds to the overall cool look of his head to me.
Another thing I really enjoy about him is that he has door wings. Not sure why, but I love TF's with door wings and tires on thier shoulders. These guy has both.
He's pretty posable even though he features StarScream'ish chicken legs. They do actually work with the look of this figure. His hands are fists with undermounted double cannons on each arm, which I also found rather cool looking.
His weapon is the one thing I just find a little cheesy. You lift out the box that's in his truck bed and this is what seems to become his weapon. It sits in his fist easy enough, but it presents balancing issues as well as just seems to large and boxy. Boring really, and kind of cheesy.
Beware My Pincer Arm Of DOOM!!!
Displaying him in bot mode I've just been putting his "weapon" to the side. Since he's got 2 underarm mounted guns anyway he hardly looks defenseless.
All in all I've found him to be a really fun TF and I was surprised by that. All the things I like; large logo, purple and grey, mech mode, face shield and antenea, door wings and tire shoulders, it all added up to a really unique and interesting figure to me.
I'd give him an 8 or 9 out of 10. And even then I'm only deducting a point or two because his weapons just so damn cheesy.
Hope you all enjoyed the review, it's kind of my first. But for $9.99 US I think he's a great figure and one to surely not pass up on, you'll regret it.
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