WFC Trilogy Agent Ravage pictorial review.

Spider5800 wrote:He looks great. Which actually kind of sucks, because I'm never going to get him at $53.

You got that right, buddy! Instead, you'll get him at 100$+ on eBay once it sell out.

Spider5800 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Spider5800 wrote:He looks great. Which actually kind of sucks, because I'm never going to get him at $53.

You got that right, buddy! Instead, you'll get him at 100$+ on eBay once it sell out.

I'm not helping scalpers on eBay either. If he sells out without ever going on sale, I'm just not getting him.

Again, sucks.

You're also paying for the really nice photo transformation instructions. which are honestly superior to the line art garbage they usually produce. Still not worth the extra 20 though. You'd think the box would have some cool gimmick too to justify that prince, but it doesn't.

It seems your version still has the misassembled front legs.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:It seems your version still has the misassembled front legs.

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How are they "missasembled" ? Those parts are supposed to be switched around?

Are they? How so? I've seen no evidence of that and also there are tutorials/videos of fans "fixing" the legs, I believe?

Spider5800 wrote:The official images on Pulse show the legs reversed the same way, so looks like it's intentional for whatever reason.



Not sure what the reasoning is there though, they are correct on Cheetor. That's basically the cat's bicep, it should be big in the front.




Probably simple enough to just pop the legs off and swap em if you wanted to.

Hasbro's official photos have a rep for being mistranformed and/or showing toys with QC issues though, right?

Spider5800 wrote:The official images on Pulse show the legs reversed the same way, so looks like it's intentional for whatever reason.



Not sure what the reasoning is there though, they are correct on Cheetor. That's basically the cat's bicep, it should be big in the front.




Probably simple enough to just pop the legs off and swap em if you wanted to.

That was indeed an easy fix. It's only ball joints at the shoulders so the legs were easily swapped. Now not only are the biceps facing the right way, the legs bend the right way too.

primalxconvoy wrote:Praise be to Primus!

Yeah, thank God for no pin festival like some older figures are built.

I was wondering why Ravage's front legs were bending the wrong way. But the thing that is most intriguing is that the misplaced front legs were done this way on purpose. Maybe to furthermore differentiate it from Cheetor, logic be damned?

primalxconvoy wrote:How do we know it was on purpose, though? Recently, Galvatron's shoulders were a mess.

Hasbro's ways are impenetrable.

By the way, I edited my OG post and the news article to include the fix.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:How do we know it was on purpose, though? Recently, Galvatron's shoulders were a mess.

... which Hasbro fixed on later shipments, so that was an acknowledged mistake. Ravage though... did the instructions have them reversed as well?

Looks like it's a factory mishaps, not an intentional design choice.
The instructions confirm it.



At least it's an easy fix contrary to Galvatron's shoulders.

Thanks for the review.

I have this guy sitting next to my favorite TF's so he's sitting in his box next to Unicron.

I'm glad people have an opportunity to finally get Beast Wars Ravage.

I'm still surprised with all the love this toy gets. And I'm wondering if it's just because it's the cool new thing or if they don't have X-9 Jaguar to compare it to.

I've watched Agenda part 1-3 like 2 trillion times over the years and I still remember watching the first airing.

Let's just say Ravage is in my top 5 characters/toys from my child hood. He's like the Empire Strikes back of toys for me.

As wonderful as this attempt the execution perplexes me. Ravage's inclusion in Beast Wars and Agenda was just amazing. And this set is meant to be something special based on the fact it's a special Hascon Release. I'm just wondering at the design choices, especially compared to X-9.

For those of you who don't know X-9 Jaguar was the Japanese only release of Beast Wars Ravage and it came about about 20 years go. X-9 had a weird miscoloring, instead of Silver (or grey), tan was used. And X-9 used Transmetal Cheetor as a base, just like the animation model of Ravage. Thus, below the waist of X-9 was perfect. The upper body they made some interesting design choices and it was a modified TM Cheetor, but it was nice enough. Also it had Cheetor's flight mode which was hilariously fun. When I found out that X-9 existed I immediately went on to ebay, spent too much and it's been in my collection carrying Megatron in gun mode every since.

Anyway, what perplexes me is the design choice to use Kingdom Cheetor as a base. I think most rational people would understand that it's impossible to make a show accurate transformable toy of BW Ravage. There's no way it's going to turn into a tape. So that being said: why would they use Kingdom Cheetor, was Transmetal Cheetor's mold lost?

I've seen the recent Third Part offering of Ravage and it looks amazing. They went all out to make the Robot form perfect and then they made a super simple transformation into a panther. That third party offering is $60 last I checked, only $10 more than this one. I'm just wondering why Hasbro didn't go this route. Was it really that much simpler to take Kingdom Cheetor as a base?

So again I ask, why make so many compromises with this figure with the legs and lower body when the cat mode looks like a starving leopard at best and the robot mode has legs dangling off his back. And when the X-9 toy was perfect below the waist.

Anyway, I'm glad I have this Ravage and it's exceptionally cool that it comes with a G1 reissue. I'd just hard for me to consider this a definitive version. It seems like they were going for definitive. Now if you don't take it out of the box, it does look definitive.

Maybe I'll make a cape for my Ravage to hide his back nonsense.