After this wave being out in Asia, it has finally reached the west and we have a pictorial review of one of the most anticipated figures in this wave, Windblade.
This new Windblade sits at different extremes makes her end up quite average in the end. Compared to previous 1 blades I would say this is the best-looking one. She has as much paint as I would need especially in her face, which is gorgeous, with a really nice Sarah Stone look and the best detail we have seen so far in the west.
I like how slender yet tall she is, she stands perfectly fine and has a decent heft to her. She is four more fun to pose than any of the previous Winblades and her alt mode is also slender (unlike the chubby RID one) and doesn't have gaps the same size as the first one (yet there are some gaps still there). So in all these points she is definitely the best of the three so far.
However when it comes to other aspects she ends up at the end. For instance, the weapons. I know that Hasbro really wants to integrate the Titan Masters into these but adding that to a sword takes away the slender aspect of the weapon. They end up looking much bigger than you would be used to and definitely odd. Plus, that you can do with a Titan master doesn't look good anyway as you can see in the image below. that combined form which sits on top of the cockpit just ends up looking silly.
I also have a major issue with the fact that this is the third wind blade and they are still sticking to a very similar transformation where once again to hands are left in the open. I realize that it's because they want more slender four arms for a female robot which means that you can hide yours within the within the forearm you can try something else. That would have added a lot of innovation to a toy which ends up being very plain in the transformation department.
The transformation is my main beef with toy, it is very very simple. The fact that the head does not need to be hidden removes some steps and ingenuity. And since the hands are not hidden you end up losing that transformation step to making both Scourge and Highbrow, who have a similar transformation, seem a tad bit more complex. So the added fact that this is a reused and simplified transformation along with the fact that if uses a similar transformation to previous Windblades make that aspect of the toy very dull.
But I won't fault that the final toy looks good I just wish there was a little bit more to her
