by dinogeist » Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:23 am
Toy Review,I finally transformed DOTM leader sized ironhide,Mini-highlight review inside thread.
Since this is a written up review & their's no u-tube video. i figured it belonged in this "toy forum", section.
My mini-highlights review:
1- This was a extremly pleasant transformation process for me. I didn't even need to read the instructions. So I'd rate the transformation level MEDIUM. not too hard & not too overly easy in transformation process. I did cheat a bit & look at the box pics to find out where a few parts went.
2- I was a bit scarred that the transformation into vechicle pick up truck mode would produce a fat & squat looking short pick up truck mode. THANKFULLY,The pics of the pick up truck on the back of the box art was EXTREMLY BADLY PHOTO SHOPPED. It appears the pick up truck could'nt squeeze into the box art on the back,so someone went into photo shop & distorted the pick up truck image on the back of the box art to make it squeeze into the box art. someone clearly used photo shop to distort the image by making the image tallen but less wider.
3- I honestly loved how everything pegged in so well on this toy in both modes. the designers/engineeers did a awesome job with having tons of pegs,ports & clip on parts. so that their were no loose parts dangling in both modes.
4-I really loved how the pick up truck flat bed parts lined up from robot mode to pick up truck mode. it just felt like a genious way to create the truck flat bed area.
5-Looking inside the pick up truck mode. the robot silver fist apparently do seem to form weird bucket seats. the ball joints from the shoulders appear to form somewhat weird car gas pedal/breaks.
6-the toy is very solid in both modes. so the over-all engineering seems superior in both structure,joints & moving parts.
7-I don't mind the slightly bent/distorted knees. It's not as bad as ROTF Devestator's hips nor as bad as ROTF leader sized jetfire's distortedly bent hips,legs & ankles.
8-I really love the superior joint technology structure in this toy. the toy is very poseable.
9- turning the robot head all around till you hear a breaking snap is hillarious & funny. I just find it funny & odd,takara/hasbro would go thru the trouble of created a turn around head joint,then at the last minute/decision put factory glue to make the head not turn around.
10-I like all the robot & pick up truck weapons & gimmicks. They don't appear to get in the way nor ruin any poseabilty the robot mode has.
11-deploying the pick up truck over head weapons was a bit hard to pull out into position. Perhaps the MOST FRUSTRATION part of this toy was trying to figure out how to pull back all the over head pick up truck weapons & squeeze them back into the cavities inside the truck mode. this was reallty frustration because one has to snap back together the entire front section of the alt mode again as it falls apart & beomes loose when pulling out & pulling back the over heard truck muissle launcher & gattling gun weapons.
12- I was pleasntly surprissed how long the pick up truck mode was. The badly distorted short & fat photo shopped pic on the back of the box had me worried. thamnkfully it was a bad photo shopped pic. the actual pick up truck mode is very long,slender & in decent liscensed pick up truck mode proportion.
13-I kinda wish the sword was a bit bigger & longer. I like the pop out side arm robot gattling gun. I don't like the robot mode pop out side arm missle launcher thing because it looks ugly.
14-I really like the two different faces the robot head head. I like both faces equally the same. I kinda feel like their's 2 beast mode mouths+noses. the face plate gives us a "BULL like nose+mouth. the inner/under neath face looks like a lion's nose+mouth.
15-I like the light up lights on the eyes & chest. the pop out chest gattling canon is beyond cool.
16-I don't mind that the robot legs are not black. I think the silver/turquoise blue robot legs look beyond decont & adda cybertronian robot style to the robot mode.
17- I really like how the toy doesn't have excessive kibble in neither mode.
18-This toy's transformation reminds me of a TYPICAL AEC toy's transformation. not to easy,not too hard. it's a medium transformation. I transformed this toy back & forth a dozen times in under 10 minutes. It was a extremly pleasant transformation process.
19-awesome toy,no complaints other than i wish the sword was longer. I'm seriously thinking about buying a 2nd toy.because it's so awesome.