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Sometimes, you need to wait for the right repaint to come along before grabbing a figure, like me with this particular Grimlock. Let’s look at a little release timeline, and why I held off until now:
Time-travel with me to the Space Future Year 2021.
It all starts with Studio Series 86 Grimlock, pictured above, who came out back in 2021, and aimed to be a perfect replica of the big, tough brute’s appearance in the 1986 animated film. But honestly, he didn’t appeal to me, just because I already owned, and still own, Masterpiece Grimlock, pictured below.
He’ll show up in some photos below, but here’s the Transformer Wiki’s stock photo.
The Masterpiece is a great figure, and fits in pretty well with my mainline collection already, which is why he’s the only official Masterpiece I still own after selling them off. Plus, word on the street was that the Studio Series 86 figure was basically the same design, just downscaled a little bit. So, I felt like there was no reason for me to grab one.
“But what if he was purple?” they asked.
Next, they repainted him in Trypticon-style colors, as the evil Shattered Glass Grimlock, above. I’m not really a Shattered Glass collector, except for Flamewar (reviewed here) (who doesn’t count), and if I was going to get into Shattered Glass, I wouldn’t start with Grimlock, so again, it was a pass from me. Then, he got an eye-searing repaint in yellow for the Toxitron Collection, pictured below, based on an unused Generation 2 repaint concept, and I said hell yes, this is the one I’ll get.
Lemon-raspberry goodness.
But the Toxitron Collection version was a dreaded Wal-Mart exclusive, which meant that I just never saw any stock of it show up locally. And when I saw a couple at TFCon, the price markup on them was insane, so I had to let him pass me by, regretfully.
He looked at Darth Maul, and said, “I can do you one better.”
After that, he got one more release, seen above, in the Generations Comic Edition collection, with a big pile of swords, and a deco made to look like he was dramatically inked and shaded. But, as I said when I reviewed Straxus from the same series, I don’t actually like how these “comic book panel” paint jobs look, with Straxus only being the exception, because it was so subtle on him. That, and the fact that Comic Edition Grimlock was premium-priced Hasbro Pulse import, meant I passed one more time. Well, it took four years, but they’ve finally put out a version of the Dinobot leader that’s just right for me: Age of the Primes G2 Universe Grimlock, who has nothing at all to do with this brand-new toyline’s actual theme, and is instead based on the deep blue 1993 Generation 2 repaint of the G1 original. I actually own, and reviewed the vintage Generation 2 figure on this blog, giving me a very direct basis of comparison.
Turns out, the key to getting my money is to go back to 1993.
As someone that started Transformers with Generation 2, a shout-out to that era of Transformers is always a winner with me, so it’s time to belatedly have a look at this big blue bully. But first, let’s talk about his little companion.
Wheelie
I’m not going to be doing any rhymes.
Because this started out as an ‘86 movie figure, and Wheelie saddled up on Grimlock’s head in the movie, he’s represented here by a little non-transforming minifigure, which, in toymaker parlance, is apparently called a “slug figure.”
“Who are you?” “You, but bendier.”
So, back when this set of figures was originally released, fans talked a lot of trash on this guy, mostly because his legs are stuck in a bent-at-the-knees pose. Me, I say, if you pretend he’s from the 90s, like this Grimlock is, then you can contextualize it as the kind of action-squat the anti-heroes of the decade liked to assume, instead.
For Arcee, it’s like herding sheep.
Aside from that, Wheelie’s smaller than most Core-class Transformers, but bigger than a Battle Master, or other modern minifigure. His sculpt is going for cartoon accuracy, and aside from being pre-posed in that squat, his arms are also pre-posed, with his right one holding a slingshot, and his left one bent at the elbow, with his hand doing some kind of pointing gesture.
Dramatically hailing a taxi!
To me, more than the pre-posing, the real big problem he’s incredibly hollow from some very obvious angles, including the back of his head. They were really trying to save plastic, here.
The back of his head is sad about it.
Now, the really interesting thing about this Age of the Primes version of Wheelie is his colors. There was no Generation 2 Wheelie to accompany Grimlock, so instead, they based his colors here on his appearance in The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson, a 1986 storybook, with painted illustrations from artist Earl Norem that gave him an odd, seemingly made-up colorscheme.
As seen here.
This means he’s got orange arms, legs, and an orange face, with yellow paint on the arms, torso, eyes, and inside the helmet, and then a bunch of bright blue on the helmet and chest. He’s also got a sketched-on black Autobrand, and a black back of the torso. It’s a really clever deep cut to do as a colorscheme, and more importantly, feels like something from Generation 2, making him fit with Grimlock.
Honestly, his headsculpt fits the Earl Norem vibes, too.
For build quality, he’s solid enough, just really hollow. More importantly, he can stand just fine on his bent legs, you’ve just gotta make sure his stance is wide enough. Also, I say Wheelie is pre-posed, but he’s also got more articulation than I’d expect. His shoulders and hips are both on fairly tight balljoints, and he’s got a swivel waist and neck, which is…not bad? Like, you can actually pose him a bit.
Just a bit, though.
For other features, you can actually take his little gray slingshot out of his hand. It’s small enough that my Titans Return Wheelie can’t hold it, but it fits in the hands of all of the Core-Class figures and Prime Masters that I checked, so it probably works with the Studio Series 86 Wheelie I never bothered to get.
Arcee just got more lethal.
There’s also a few ways he can interact with Grimlock, but I’ll save that for the main event.
Don’t think about this too hard.
Overall, Wheelie’s got a lot more going on than I expected, and I like his deep-cut color scheme, but I can see why people were underwhelmed. I’ll get into this with the main figure, but at times, I wish they’d included a different accessory instead of this Wheelie.
Grimlock, Robot Mode
YO LISTEN UP, HERE’S A STORY….
Now, this is a big guy (for you). On one hand, I don’t judge modern Leader-class figures for being a bit on the small side, since they tent to spend their budget on other things, but on the other hand, it’s good to handle a Leader-class figure that’s just huge, like an older Prime Wars-era Leader. Grimlock feels chunkier than any Leader-class I’ve handled in a very long time, and he’s got immediate presence because of it.
He towers over any squad of Neo-G2 guys.
Visually, it’s true what they say: He’s more or less a downscaling of Masterpiece Grimlock, which was aiming to be “the cartoon design, but with some added details from the G1 toy.” There’s a couple different details here and there, but it’s clear that they started from the MP.
Which is Junior, and which is Senior here?
This is an interesting choice conceptually, because Studio Series is usually about heavy animation accuracy. I don’t mind, though, because it basically just means he’s got extra detailing on him, not just the smooth, empty surfaces of the animation model. Importantly, he looks like the guy he’s supposed to be. It helps that Grimlock’s G1 toy was already pretty animation-accurate (or rather, the cartoon didn’t take too many liberties,) so this guy’s pretty much just a more proportionate version of the G1 toy, with the biggest change being that the tail halves hanging down the sides of the original’s legs are hidden. Even the dino parts hanging off of the back of him don’t feel like bad design choices, since I’m so used to seeing them.
It’s called *fashion.*
And uptop, he’s got a well-sculpted cartoon-style head, even if it’s in toy colors.
Y’know, he never looked as fierce to me as he was supposed to be.
His colors are, of course, homaging the third, and final, Generation 2 release of the original figure. This means he’s got a lot of deep blue on him. Something particularly impressive to me is that it’s a perfect color-match to the blue on the G2 original, which I can confirm as an owner of the vintage version.
A pretty direct update.
His non-blue other colors are a bit different from the original, though, since the gold chrome’s been swapped out for metallic gold paint, and the silver chrome is now flat gray, both of which are more durable choices of material than chrome, which loves to scratch, flake, and wear off. Between those colors, and some red and black, he’s got a very subdued, very cool color scheme, where the bright gold and red really pops against the darker elements. He’s got a red Autobrand on his chest, beneath smokey clear plastic, and a couple of silver and red details on his arms, imitating stickers from the original toy. If I did have an issue with the colors, though, it’s that he’s mostly just a straight pallette-swap of his Studio Series 86 release’s colors, which were shooting for animation accuracy, when I feel like there’s a bit more they could have done here to match his layout to the G2 toy, beyond the couple sticker details on his arms. For example, the green, red, and black accents on his lower legs are an animation model detail, instead. Still, it’s hard to really complain, when the vibes his color scheme gives off are just so good.
Grim Kick!
Another thing that’s so good is his build quality. Grimlock’s hefty, solid and chunky, with no obvious hollowness or lightness as the tradeoff for his size, as is usually the case. Well, he’s got gaps in his forearms, but his fists need to go there for transformation. Also, it’s a tiny thing, but I also appreciate that his dino head pegs in securely to his back, and doesn’t just hang there.
Making fun of Wheelie.
In fact, I’d actually say he feels nicer to handle than the Masterpiece he’s cribbing his design from. On the MP, there’s diecast metal bits that make his weight distribution feel a bit odd, and he’s got ratcheted joints, and a torso, that both wobble a lot. But the Age of the Primes one has none of those problems, and just feels more friendly to being picked up, posed, and played with.
Showing off his leg tat (more on that later.)
Grimlock’s articulation is really good, and in some ways, also better than the MP, since he has usable ankle tilts. But he doesn’t have opening hands like the MP, so maybe it’s actually about even. I’m not complaining, though, because Grimlock’s got all the swivels you’d expect, plus bonuses like the ability for his head to look down, poseable wings in the back, wrist swivels, the works. The only odd bit of him is his elbows, because his arms lock into a straightened position (presumably for dino mode stability), and it actually takes force to unlock them for poses. But that’s about the only issue with him.
Time for the team-up!
His accessories and features are where he starts to feel a little threadbare, but I guess that’s the tradeoff for the size of him.
He’s on there good and tight.
First off, you’ve got his interaction with the Wheelie minifigure. Big Grim’s actually got little pegholes on the top of each shoulder that fit a peg on the back of Wheelie’s left leg, so you can secure the little guy, rather than just balancing him and hoping. I like that they thought to do this, and I like how Wheelie’s brighter colors pop against Grimlock’s darker ones.
They’ve got both sides covered.
Grimlock’s only other accessory is his traditional double-barreled gun. It fits just fine in his hands, or you can peg it onto the back of one of his wings via a c-clip to his T-rex arms.
The second Generations (2010) callback in only a few weeks. And both bots were blue!
They also made the ends compatible with blast effects, if you’ve got any lying around.
As ever, Kingdom Rodimus Prime’s are a great choice.
I wish he had his sword to go along with that gun, though. The original toy still included his sword, so this update not having it feels like a lost homage.
“Me Grimlock want what you have.”
Now, granted, the original Studio Series 86 version of this tooling didn’t have a sword either, because he never used one on the cartoon, and most of the other repaints of it didn’t come with one as a result.
Asking the King if he can borrow his.
But the Comic Edition one released last year came with his sword (as well as extra swords to give to the other Studio Series 86 Dinobots), so the tooling for one exists. If it’s a budget thing, I have to admit, while Wheelie’s interesting, if omitting him would have gotten the sword in here, I’d have liked that better. I did discover that he can sort of hold the Masterpiece figure’s sword, but the sword’s hilt is so thick, that he can only hold it in a sideways whacking mode, instead of a correct slashing mode.
He’s gonna bonk his enemies on the head.
Now, for his last feature, let me first tell you that there’s been speculation in the fandom for a long time that the earliest Studio Series 86 figures, including Grimlock, were supposed to come out in the third chapter of the War for Cybertron Trilogy toyline, Kingdom, but got turned into a Studio Series imprint after Kingdom decided to shift over to updating Beast Wars characters.
I was very happy with this decision.
Speculators point to evidence like Galvatron, Rodimus and Cyclonus still coming out in Kingdom, but they also point to how Grimlock, and other early Studio 86-ers kind of look and feel like War for Cybertron toys, and I see what they mean. In Grimlock’s case, it’s partially because of how his sculpt isn’t as slavisly cartoon-accurate as this line usually is, but it’s also because he’s actually got a bunch of 5-millimeter ports on him, something Generations and Legacy figures love to do, but Studio Series usually avoids. I count 9 ports in this mode: One on his back, two on each arm, one on each lower leg, and one beneath each foot. And they’re all in good places to arm him up with weaponry.
It was the style in 1993.
I like using Powerdashers Cromar (reviewed here) and Aragon (ditto), because they’re mostly red, and it contrasts nicely against the blue.
Transformation
Grimlock’s transformation is like an alligator: It hasn’t evolved very much in eons, because they got it right the first time. Okay, it’s not 100 percent the same transformation as the original, but it’s pretty close. You still move the torso down, close up the wings and dino head, turn the arms into legs, and fold the robot legs up into a tail. It’s mostly small little changes here and there, with the biggest one being that the robot legs forming the dino tail is now a bit more complicated, thanks to the trick of hiding the back halves of the tail inside the robot legs, instead of having them hang off the sides. But that complicated tail transformation is still way simpler than the version on the Masterpiece, which I transformed at the same time, and honestly had problems figuring out. Comparatively, Age of the Primes Grimlock’s straightforward, and fun.
T-Rex Mode
…AND ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT AND EVERYTHING HE SEES, IS JUST BLUE LIKE HIM, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE….
This mode’s kind of funny to me, because I read it as straight-up cartoon Grimlock, just blue. I think it’s the head that sells it.
“Me Grimlock” lookin’ MF.
That’s a doofy cartoon head, the “no kisser, me king!” guy, down to a tee. Oddly, the headsculpt lacks front teeth for some reason? It’s a problem the Masterpiece doesn’t have.
Maybe the Masterpiece punched him in the face.
It’s not too noticeable, though. It’s more noticeable that the right side of his head is covered in screwholes.
C’mon, man.
Maybe screw covers will be the next big standardization in Transformers design, now that almost everyone’s got wrist swivels and ankle tilts.
Yaaaaay!
Below the head, though, the rest of him is a pure G1 toy-based sculpt, meaning he’s got way more detailing on him than the smoother cartoon design. This includes a bunch of computer circuitry at his neck, behind a shell of clear plastic. I think the only inaccuracy here is that his tail is kind of short and thick compared to both the animation and original figure. In fact, generally, he’s a bit chunky in this form, but in a fun way.
Legacy of Blue.
Grimlock’s deco is now way more dark blue, but he’s still got those hits of gold, gray, and red, plus the clear gold neck. I find myself really missing the G2 toy’s sticker details in this mode, though. Even if they didn’t have the budget to tampograph it all on him, there’s a lot of obvious things they could have done, like moving his Autobrand from his chest up to the top of his head. I like how it looks, I’m just really noticing how it’s mostly the G1 cartoon deco, with the hues shifted, rather than something specifically imitating the G2 toy. I say mostly, because besides his clear computer-neck, he’s got pair of G2 Autobot symbols on either side of his tail, with the word “Autobot” written next to each of them.
Just in case we weren’t clear.
It’s a toy detail that’s nice to see, but, uhh, it’s only supposed to be on one side of the tail, not both. And it’s supposed to be yellow, not gold. And the font’s wrong! It’s not that big of a deal, it was just such an easy layup for the deco artist.
Stompin’ along.
In terms of construction, Grimlock’s even more of a big, solid chunk of plastic, now that he’s all closed up. He’s just got a very pleasant sense of weight to him.
Ever been kicked by a dinosaur?
And despite that weight, you can even stand him on one foot, he’s that stable!
No matter how poseable he isn’t, he can still munch metal.
Grimlock’s articulation is a bit limited in this mode, even, in some ways, compared to the G2 figure. Firstly, his mouth opens and shuts, and his head raises, lowers, and rotates at the neck. Moving down, he’s got two joints per T-rex arm. His tail doesn’t articulate, but no surprise there, thanks to the transformation. For his legs, his hips are on universal joints, but he can only bend his knees backwards, which is odd, because even the G2 toy can bend his knees both ways, as can the Masterpiece (which also has articulated fingers). (UPDATE: Nope, he has proper knees, they just take excessive “will I break this?” levels of force to unlock.)
We’re two for two on “things the ’93 one can do that the AOTP one can’t.” Is what I said before discovering he has knees.
The limitation is a bit odd (Update: Nope, no limitation). What I do appreciate, though, is how like the original, he’s articulated enough to assume a modern, realistic, horizontal T-Rex pose.
Historical accuracy mode!
For features, Wheelie can now sit on Grimlock’s neck, in his slingshot-firing position from the ‘86 film, thanks to two pegs at the bottom of Grimlock’s neck fitting into holes on the inner edges of Wheelie’s feet.
Giddyup!
This is the whole reason Wheelie’s really here, and to their credit, it works well, and looks good.
…..Giddyup again!
Meanwhile, you can stash his gun onto his back, in a way I couldn’t figure out at first. Turns out there’s little tabs on the left side of the gun that plug into little holes at the base of his tail.
For shooting enemies to the left.
A more interesting feature in this mode is that Grimlock’s got a blast effect port in his mouth, so if you’ve got any particularly impressive effects, you can put them in there for Flamethrower Action (™).
BWARGLEBWARGLE
It’s not Grimlock’s fault, but I’m sad that the fire-breath effect from Legacy Transmetal 2 Megatron (reviewed here) doesn’t fit, since they made it out of hard plastic that stopped it from fitting over ports like the one in big G’s mouth.
Gun-o-saur.
But what does work on him is Weaponizing, thanks to some of those 5-millimeter ports still being accessible. He’s got three pegs on each side of him, and something about their placement really works for adding six guns (or Six-Gun, if you’ve got him), to this T-rex, making him deadly at close and long range.
Have another angle, just because it looks cool.
Overall
Age of the Primes Grimlock’s just really fun.
It’s a toss-up between him and Sideswipe being the best of this lineup.
His simplicity is a strength, because he’s just a big chunky Dinobot, full stop. I like him better than the Masterpiece, because it feels like this downscaling of the design was used to iron out some rough patches on the bigger figure.
Smaller, but sleeker.
This version’s plenty big on its own, not too complicated, and plays well. He’s not perfect, since his deco isn’t hitting the Generation 2 homage as well as it could, but he still looks good on his own merits.
The devil on his shoulder could bring him down.
On the other hand, while I like the little Wheelie more than I thought I would, he’s still kind of anemic, and I’d still rather Grimlock have just come with a sword instead. Still, this is a fun toy, in a deco I like, and he’s big enough to feel worth the Leader-class price. I’d say it’s worth owning some version of this tooling, and this release is as good a version as any. And even if you have the Masterpiece, I’d call this a solid upgrade.
Can you say no to this face?
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Y’know, I’m not really the biggest Ninja Turtles fan, though I like what I’ve seen of it just fine. For one thing, I didn’t watch the original cartoon growing up, and I’ve just seen clips here and there. Funny enough, I think the only Ninja Turtles show I watched regularly was The Next Mutation, a live-action series from the 90’s that was tied into Power Rangers through a big crossover event, and as I understand it, it’s a contested, controversial entry in the Turtles canon.
Either way, this was wild to witness as a kid.
On the cinematic side, I liked pretty much all of the movies I’ve seen (never watched Turtles in Time, or TMNT, though), and the latest film, Mutant Mayhem, was genuinely really excellent.
Seth Rogen casting a bunch of actual teenagers and letting them ad-lib turned out to be a stroke of genius.
And I’ve played a good deal of the recent retro beat-em-up, Shredder’s Revenge, a genuinely fun game that’s even better if you’ve got friends over to join you.
It just oozes charm (and ooze).
Really, it’s my wife, and one of my good friends, that are the Turtles people, so me picking up Party Wallop, the Ninja Turtles/Transformers collaboration, was more out of respect for them. An expensive bit of respect, too, considering he costs about the same as a Leader-class mainline figure, an example of how Collaborative figures can get a bit pricey. So, let’s see if he’s worth it.
Robot Mode
Politically neutral Turtle-bot.
I’ll lead off by just talking about Party Wallop’s main gimmick, before anything else, since it affects his whole presentation: You can remove the top of his robot-turtle-head…
AAAAAAAA
and swap it out for four additional bandanna-wearing head-halves to make him “become” any one of the four Ninja Turtles, or keep him as he’s packaged, as a neutral, non-bandanna’d turtle-bot. This is accompanied by a little dial you can turn on his belt buckle, switching it to have the first letter of each turtle’s name, or keeping it blank.
Here’s a fun game: Find the few times in these photos I forgot to switch the belt’s letter to match the head I put on him.
So, right off the bat, there’s five different guys this bot can be, and they’re kind of subtly encouraging you to buy at least four of him, so you can assemble the full Ninja Turtle cast.
Leaders meditate a lot.
My Turtles-loving friend was actually considering going in on four of them, but even he didn’t go through with it (I think?).
Dance Dance Mikey-lution.
It does kind of raise the question of who, or what Party Wallop is supposed to be. Me, I like to imagine he’s a Transtector, as depicted in the 1988 Transformers anime, Masterforce. Those Transtectors were lifeless Transformer bodies that a human (or Ninja Turtle) could fuse with, and pilot. So I like to think that the bandanna and belt that Party Wallop’s wearing depends on which brother’s in the driver’s seat.
“God On, dude!”
He’s become a bot of rage.
There’s also another big visual change you can decide on when it comes to his whole torso: You can leave the front of his alternate mode plugged into it, making him look more like a transforming Transformer, or unplug it to serve as a shield, exposing the more Ninja-Turtle-y chest (and belt).
After too much pizza.
Me, I like leaving it off. However you choose to display him, Party Wallop’s a bit short for his price, but incredibly wide in each direction. The guy’s stout.
I never saw (or played) Turtles in Time, so you can’t tell me this isn’t how it starts.
The funny thing is, he’s supposed to be a ninja, but the sculpt says samurai to me, largely because of how some of his altmode exterior has been folded over his shoulders and hips. And that’s sort of the big elephant (turtle?) in the room with this guy, he’s just lousy with parts of his vehicle mode hanging off him, including a huge backpack made up of different parts of the roof, and things like lasers and headlights poking out above it. But, honestly, I don’t hate it?
Death’s Head and Raph hate everyone, so it’s got nothing to do with all the altmode parts.
They obviously put work into making it all look good, and even his big backpack sort of works if you remember he’s a turtle, and so ought to have a big shell on his back. To skip ahead again, I think another reason I don’t mind is that they were careful to engineer him so that his van parts stay out of the way of his articulation.
The better to run freely with.
As for the rest of him, they basically took the default Ninja Turtle design, and put it through a “robot” filter, which means changing all of the round, curved shapes on him into straight lines, and harsh angles. It’s a delightful childish idea, like a kid drawing a “Ninja Turtle Robot” in a notebook. The headsculpt, in particular, is basically just a Ninja Turtle head, complete with the gritted teeth of the original action figures, but made out of boxes.
Schroedinger’s Ninja Turtle.
For colors, we’re operating in a very bright, cartoony space. He’s mostly cast in solid yellow and green, with some gray bits. I do feel like he’s got too much yellow, and not enough green, to read as normal Ninja Turtle Colors, but that’s down to the needs of his transformation. He doesn’t feel like he has a ton of paint on him in this mode, but he doesn’t really need it, with most of the deco being used on a slightly darker yellow chest, adding some more green and yellow where it’s needed, and some blue for his eyes, and white for his teeth. There’s also the extra color added when you swap around turtle bandannas, and belt buckles. The vibes of the deco are very “chunky kid’s toy,” which feels just right for the rest of him.
The Raph persona is trying hard to lose his children’s toy image.
His build quality is good, but strange. It’s kind of hard to explain, or quantify, but he doesn’t “feel” like a normal Hasbro/Takara Transformer. Something about his materials, the way his joints feel, all of it’s kind of different. If you told me, sight unseen, this was actually a Playmates Ninja Turtle product, instead of a Transformer, I’d believe you. As it stands, I guess he was just designed and engineered by a different team than usual, and it shows. But not in a bad way, really, just a different way.
“So, you say you’re powered by a turtle? That might explain why you feel so different from us.”
Party Wallop’s made out of big, solid bricks of plastic, so there’s some real weight to him when you pick him up. All his joints are really tight, and in an even more impressive twist, he has no problems standing up, or even doing a one-footed kick, despite his big backpack of stuff. His only hinky part is that backpack, though. It’s supposed to plug in beneath his neck, but it’s an unstable connection, which frequently comes out of place.
This happens pretty consistently.
It’s not the worst problem, because the backpack is on a fairly tight friction joint, but it’s a black eye on an otherwise pristine slate of engineering. For articulation, he’s got everything you’d expect from a modern mainline Legacy figure: Ankle tilts, swivel knees, thigh swivels, universal hips, a waist twist, a neck swivel, universal shoulders and elbows, and best of all, wrist swivels, which are especially important when you’re using swords, and other melee weapons. And, as mentioned before, the designers made sure these joints are all unbothered by all the altmode parts, unless you’re like, twisting the waist over 90 degrees, or something extreme like that. There’s extra joints to rotate the panels on his shoulders, and the two hip-skirts that he has are on rods that can extend and contract, again, to keep them out of the way.
The better to swordfight with! Which brings me to….
Next up: The accessories and features, and boy is there a ton of them. We’ve already been over the five swappable turtle heads, and the five rotating belt buckles, but on top of that, he’s got melee weapons based on each Turtle’s loadout, all cast in solid gray.
Having failed to take over the Maximals, Dinobot goes for a group he thinks will be easier to usurp control of.
First, you’ve got two katanas for Leonardo, and two sais for Raphael, both pretty standard.
POV; You’re about to get stabbed.
See? Told you.
Next, you have two nunchuks for Michealangelo, which are, impressively, multi-part assemblies connected by a working chain.
Just imagine the technique.
I like picking him up and shaking him, to get them to spin.
They’re good for confounding his opponents.
Finally, there’s an unfolding quarterstaff for Donatello, and it’s the only one of these weapons that lets me down.
“Did they give me the lamest weapon *again*?”
Basically, it’s oddly short and stumpy for what it’s supposed to be, and can’t even really be held in both hands very well. It reads to me more like a long baton, or truncheon. In fact, I prefer to pair it up with his big shield, like he’s using riot gear.
*WHAP* “You stop that.”
Speaking of the shield, you can mount it on a 5-millimeter port on either forearm, for some defense.
He’s making some sick beats from hitting that shield.
Here’s another feature that sounds kind of boring, but is actually really interesting to me: He comes with this giant pile of accessories, and they designed him so that everything he has can store on him somewhere. The four Turtle heads that you’re not using go inside his backpack, and his quarterstaff folds up and goes underneath them, with dedicated panels that flip over it to keep it stashed away.
Let’s not examine the implications of him having a backpack of scalps.
Meanwhile, his katanas peg onto the sides of his backpack. Around front, each nunchuck clips in beneath his shoulder armor….
They’re basically emergency fidget spinners.
and finally, his sais plug into his hip panels.
I Imagine these see the most use, since they’re right at his hips.
I really appreciate this, because it means he can keep his accessories on him, instead of me throwing them into a bag. That being said, the engineering here isn’t perfect. Most of his accessories stay in securely, but his katanas and sais do like to pop out and fall off when I pose him, just enough to be irritating. And you don’t have many options to stash his shield, it either needs to become his chest, or stay deployed on one of his arms, when I’d have liked some other place to keep it, like on his backpack or something. Still, the whole setup’s impressively ambitious, even if it’s got a few issues.
“Pizza is the right of all sentient beings, dude!”
Speaking of the shield, his last feature’s just a fun extra: You can pop a green circle off the front of it, to reveal a little personal pan pizza. It’s in a green pan, but it’s sculpted and painted realistically, with pepperoni as the only topping. He can’t really interact with it, but the fact that they made sure he came with pizza is just…the icing on the cake? Nah, the cheese on the pie.
It turned out to be the key to ending the war.
Transformation
The transformation, unfortunately, is something of a low point for the figure. You see, he’s a shellformer (and yes, everyone’s made a turtle joke about that already). By shellformer, I mean he’s the kind of transformer where you’re wadding the robot up in the middle, and fitting the pieces of his vehicle mode together outside of it, like the opposite of cracking an egg. On the positive side, everything on him, including the shell parts themselves, are big, which makes them easier to work with. But, on the negative side, getting everything to snap together can be tricky, and often requires the robot parts inside of him to be in precise positions, otherwise things won’t line up.
Basically, he spends most of the transformation looking like this.
More than once, I’ve had to undo the transformation, and go back a few steps, to fiddle with a part, before doing a big panel-massage to get everything to line up. To be clear, this isn’t as complicated or tricky as, say, a Studio Series car-bot…
Studio Series Hot Rod provides a good example of what I mean.
….it’s totally doable, it’s just kind if difficult, and a real barrier to enjoying the whole figure. In terms of how his accessories are handled, you can leave the turtle heads, staff, nunchucks, and shield-chest in place during the transformation, but you remove the sais and katanas, and place them in new positions beneath the vehicle mode.
Hopefully, the cops don’t look under the van.
It can be kind of tricky getting the katanas to plug in at first, but after owning Mr. Wallop for awhile, they seem to have been broken in.
Vehicle Mode
If you see smoke coming out of this van, they’re just baking pizza inside.
Party Wallop changes into the Turtles’ vehicle of choice from the original animated series, the Party Wagon (or Turtle Van, accounts differ on the name). Me, I mostly know it from the Shredder’s Revenge game, where you’d drive it around the world map.
Like so.
It’s a kind of silly, cartoony vehicle, a big yellow van with a huge spoiler in the back, a turtle-shell roof, and a scowling mouth sculpted in the front. Plus, he’s got a bunch of techie stuff on the roof, including a couple of lasers.
Those can’t be street-legal.
It suits the bright, toyish vibes of the rest of the package, I think, in addition to being very animation-accurate, from what I can tell from screengrabs.
Looks right to me!
It sort of has the vibes of one of those banged-up VW vans, even if it’s not actually banged up, or VW-ish.
He feels like he’d hang out with these radical racers.
It’s also a very large vehicle, bigger than most Voyager-class Transformers, again justifying the Leader-class pricepoint. It’s a bit too small for my 4-inch action figures, but it kind of passes the squint test.
“Does this make us cool?” “Depends on what year it is.”
Too bad I don’t have any Ninja Turtles in that scale, just my wife’s NECA ones.
“I’m sposda fit into that?!?”
For colors, the yellow is really on display in this mode, with most of the green being relegated to the roof. The sides of the vehicle are oddly plain and uncolored, but again, that’s what it looked like on the show. There’s a big patch of gray on the roof that’s only there because of a transformation joint, which is *not* what it looked like on the show, but it’s the only obvious innacuracy. There’s generally a lot more deco visible in this mode, including painted blue windows…
The 5-millimeter tabs make me read it as a face.
…multiple shades of green on the roof, red head and taillights (including whatever’s going on with the stuff on the roof), and a front with white teeth curled into a scowl, extra white headlights, bits of silver here and there, and a little Ninja Turtles logo tampographed onto the green circular thingie on the front. Outside of the plain sides of the van, it’s very detailed-looking, and that includes the black wheels with painted silver hubcaps.
Van Bros.
As much as it’s tough and complicated to get his vehicle mode to peg together during transformation, once you actually get him together, everything is really solid, and the whole vehicle really feels like a singular, dense brick of plastic, in a really pleasant, almost G1 Transformer way. The only bit of instability is those swords stashed on the bottom, which can fall out, but they get more stable every day.
Scale? What’s that?
In terms of features, the overloaded robot mode stole all the thunder, so there’s a lot less going on here. He rolls well on his plastic tires, with a lot of ground clearance. Uptop, those laser cannon-looking things are on swivels that let them raise from forward, to skyward. They’re also exactly the right size to accept blast effects on their ends.
*Definitely* not street-legal.
You can also twist the lights on either side of the van’s roof up and down. And finally, you can still pop the circular thing on the van’s front, to reveal that personal pan pizza. Maybe the engine keeps it warm?
“Think this is, like, safe to eat, Pete?” “I’m exactly broke enough not to care, Miles.”
Overall
There’s a lot going on with Party Wallop, and that’s a good thing. Some Transformers Collaboratives are definitely overpriced, but this is one time where that doesn’t feel like the case.
“Kid, I ain’t your master.”
He costs as much as a Leader-class mainline Transformer, and there’s a Leader-class figure’s worth of stuff here, so he’s worth it, unless you just think Leader-class figures are overpriced in general (which is a valid point, too). Beyond the question of value, though, this is just a fun figure, with a real sense of creativity behind it. Whoever made this may not have been the usual HasTak team, but they were obviously having fun with the premise, and made a really complete turtle-robot experience. He just radiates good vibes, man.
With cheetah-ride-giving action!
The only real problem I have is his annoyingly shellformer-y transformation, but both of his actual modes make up for that, to me. I’m not even a huge Turtles fan, and I like the guy, and I can recommend him if you’re both a Turtles and Transformers liker. Just maybe don’t buy four of them.
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Some would say that the last few years of Transformers collecting have seen them make way too many Optimus Primes. Studio Series, Legacy, Missing Link, Reactivate, there’s been a big red and blue wave.
For evidence, look no further than the amount I’ve reviewed here!
But you don’t hear too many complaints about how many of them there are, because a lot of them have come out really, really good. I thought I’d take today to talk about one of the stranger Optimii to hit the market in the last while: VNR Optimus Prime, a figure without a home. See, leaked listings and cryptic comments from the designers tell us that VNR Optimus was supposed to be a branded Amazon collaboration, kind of like that Target Optimus Prime that just came out. That’s why he changes into a branded, licensed Volvo VNR 300 truck, of the model commonly used by Amazon to deliver their goods. But for whatever reason, the collab fell through, but only after HasTak had already invested in designing, engineering and making a brand-new tooling, which means they wanted to release it *somewhere,* if only to get back the money they spent making it. So, Christmas 2022 saw the strange, fun release of “Holiday Optimus Prime,” a snowy, jolly, candy-cane-wielding robot who inexplicably changed into a licensed Volvo.
A new level of real-life disguise.
The word was that he was a shockingly good figure, beneath the holiday decor! Then, in 2023, he received this normal-Optimus-colors repaint, which, by the way, got a very delayed release in Japan, only coming out in December 2024, so I’m still gonna count him as a recent release.
The toy without a line.
Anwho, the oddness around his release also extends to his packaging, which just has generic “Transformers” branding, without belonging to any specific toyline…but the instructions name him as a Transformers Collaborative.
The least exciting Collaborative ever.
Maybe they decided a Volvo collab wasn’t as exciting as Ninja Turtles, or Back to the Future, or Knight Rider. But, whoever he was, the word once again spread around that he was a real good figure, so I decided to belatedly check him out (and also, I wanted his trailer to give to Legacy Deluxe Prime, as a bonus).
Truck Mode
Available on a highway near you!
As befitting a figure where the vehicle mode is a draw, Optimus comes packaged in his truck mode. Now, I’m not a big truck-model-knowing-guy, but I have 100 percent seen this specific model of truck on my local Toronto-adjacent streets and highways, or at least models close to it, with the same diagonal slash with a circle in the middle on the grill. I’ve even seen at least one in red!
Nothing but respect for truck drivers that manage to do complicated turns and parking and whatnot in these things.
So many Transformers with licenced altmodes tend to change into flashy, luxury stuff, but there’s an appeal to seeing one change into something more mundane, that you’re more likely to see in the world outside your window. The only other time I can think of them doing this is with Chevrolet Aveo Swerve, literal decades ago.
If you ignore the scale, this is what the average Toronto highway looks like. Earthrise Hoist is here because tons of maintenance trucks around here have that exact deco.
While the concept is great, I did immediately find the actual vehicle mode a bit lacking right out of the box, if only because it’s strangely small. If it wasn’t for the really long truck bed on the back of the cab, I’d think the front section was really a Deluxe, when the figure is supposed to be a Voyager with a trailer, like Earthrise Optimus.
More cohesive, at the cost of size.
Part of it is that I’m comparing him to the old First Edition Transformers Prime Optimus (another red long-nosed truck), who absolutely dwarfs him, but to be fair, that toy’s like 15 years old (and I’m even older, sheesh). He’s also noticeably smaller than Legacy Laser Optimus, though, who’s also a longnose.
He’s smaller because he shed the 90s attitude.
Still, I think the small size happened to make room for all of the extra flourishes that the truck mode sculpt has (plus, he really expands in robot mode, but more on that later). Those extra flourishes include the nicely-sculpted grill, all the different side mirrors, lots of model-kit-like details. It’s the back of the truck that’s especially impressive.
That’s the stuff.
See, usually on an Optimus’s alternate mode, the back of the truck, and especially the truck bed, are treated like “free parking” by the designers, and used to stash as many robot mode parts as they can cram in there (with Studio Series Rise of the Beasts Optimus being the nadir of this trend).
Going from good, to iffy, to not even trying.
That’s not the case here. Ths truck bed is completely flat, with no robot details visible, and even has taillights, and mudflaps with “Volvo” written on them.
They paid for the name, after all.
The back of the cab itself is also detailed and sculpted up like a truck, instead of being made of robot parts, and in an interesting twist, actually has a clear rear window, through which you can see his hidden Matrix of Leadership. All together, this is probably one of the cleanest Optimus Truck Modes I’ve ever seen, in general.
They feel like a matching pair.
The colors, meanwhile, are mostly what you’d expect from an Optimus. I say mostly, because while he’s got a lot of red, there’s way less blue on him than usual, and a lot more black, along with some silver highlights. Most of the truck cab is bright red, and it’s all done in unpainted matte plastic that maybe doesn’t look as nice as painted red, but is also way less prone to QC problems, scratching and chipping, so I always prefer this approach.
Unlike the real trucks, he’s clean.
The dark blue’s limited to a couple of panels on his sides, and most of the truck bed’s cast in black, along with his wide mirrors, grill, and tires, with silver being used for his singular smokestack, accents on the grill, and hubcaps. Finally, he’s got clear windows, through which his robot feet kinda-sorta pretend to be seats, clear headlights, and tiny accents of yellow above his windows. It’s about as complete as it should be, and if anything’s missing, I don’t really notice.
A full package that’s used for delivering packages.
His build quality’s kind of mixed, unfortunately. A big visual issue I have with my copy is that the whole truck cab splits down the middle along a vertical seam, and no matter how many times I transform it, or adjust it, the split is a little askew, and his left side is a millimeter higher than the right. It’s not the worst problem, but I definitely notice it from the front, the way the yellow above his windows is uneven.
No matter how I try, he’s asymmetrical.
I don’t know if I rolled bad QC, or what. The other major instability is that truck bed of his, which looks nice, but is made up of a bunch of parts that don’t really lock or tab in. So, the mudflaps closer to the body, the truck hitch, even a big transformation joint in the middle of the bed all move around pretty freely, and are loose enough to come out of place when you, say, use the truck hitch.
This kind of thing happens way too easily.
It doesn’t make him unusable, but they really should have added some tabs or pegs or something here and there to keep it together.
An accessory bigger than the bot.
For features, he rolls decently, but the real feature is, of course, the trailer that he comes with. It’s a repaint of the G1-style trailer that originally came with Earthrise Optimus Prime, and in fact, I’ve never reviewed it in my writing before, just talked about it back when I stickered a copy up with some Toyhax labels. So, collector reception of the Earthrisetrailer was mixed, mostly because the designers were clearly fighting with the budget when it was made, so it wound up being kind of….anemic, features-wise.
Undersized, too.
And sure enough, it does feel like it’s made of plastic that’s thinner and more flexible than what you’d expect. Still, I think I like it better here than I did on the actual Earthrise Optimus. Part of this is because VNR Optimus’s smaller scale means that the trailer doesn’t feel too small for him, like how it also scales well with Legacy Deluxe Optimus.
Scale!
Another factor is that it’s actually got a bit more color on it than the Earthrise release, with the stripe on the side being filled in, and the back door being solid black, thanks to how the plastic on this release was sprued out.
Two-tone trailer.
For features, it attaches to the hitch of the truck just fine. An interesting thing about that attachment is that there’s a newly-tooled adapter added to the bottom of the trailer, since the hitch in VNR Optimus is further back than on Earthrise Optimus, and most other modern Optimii. The trailer still works with them, though, because they made it so you can just pop the adapter off.
VNR mode….
….and Other Primes Mode.
For other features, one relevant thing in this mode is that nobody needs to pull the trailer, because there’s two little support struts that can flip down and keep it flat when it’s not being pulled. At the back of the trailer, while you can flip down the door, you actually have to crack open the trailer first to untab it, which feels like a bad design choice.
It’s cramped in here!
Here’s one place where the trailer’s small size causes problems, though, since most Autobot Cars are too big to fit in there.
They’ll never hear the end of this.
Even most modern Deluxe Minibots don’t fit! I managed to get Netflix Bumblebee in there, but Legacy Gears was too big.
“Finally, I can breathe!”
Transformation
Something I said the last few times I reviewed an Optimus, is that most modern versions of the guy basically have the same transformation, where it’s just the G1 toy transformation, with an added waist twist, and then a ton of little extra unique steps. One novelty to VNR Optimus is that he bucks the trend, and transforms completely differently from his modern brethren. Have you ever heard of an Optimus where the truck bed doesn’t become his legs? His doesn’t. It just folds up into a backpack. Instead, the long nose of the truck is where his legs are, and unfolding them is the most complicated part of the figure.
It’s a panel explosion!
It’s a lengthy conversion, with a ton of steps, and a ton of little panels to adjust, but it’s intuitive enough that I can handle it without instructions, even if about half of it is spent fiddling with those lower legs, which, by the way, seem to almost double his mass in robot mode, thanks to the Great Unfolding.
How he looks all tucked in.
For a couple of tips when going back to truck mode: Make sure you remember to unfold his abs into two separate panels, otherwise his whole chest section won’t fit. Also, remember to rotate his head back around, or the truck’s back end will hold together even worse than it already does
Robot Mode:
You know him, even if he’s a little different.
VNR Optimus feels like an unlikely counterpart to Studio Series Transformers One Megatron, because of something they share in common: Their really long legs.
“I see you’ve got legs as well, Prime! But do you know how to use them?”
There’s some gams on this guy. Like Megs, Optimus doesn’t feel disproportionate, but he is probably really good at running.
Showing off the goods.
So, what we’ve got here is a Voyager-sized robot, standing just a hair taller than Earthrise Optimus, that’s recognizably the big red guy, but with a design that’s dedicated to remixing the Optimus look, in a way we haven’t really seen since the Prime Wars Trilogy.
Same size, different mission.
Granted, he’s got a (very good) Optimus headsculpt, the usual truck window chest (with visible Matrix) and grill-abs (both fake parts in this case, though the chest window does make the truck’s rear window), and a couple other signifiers, like details at his waist, but other than that, this is a very different design.
Inspiring the troops.
Even when a modern Optimus is remixing the classic look, like with Rise of the Beasts Optimus, or Transformers One Optimus, they usually keep details like the solid blue truck-bed legs with wheels on them, or the smokestacks on the shoulders. On VNR Optimus, his lower legs are big, stompy boots made out of the front of the truck, and most of his wheels are on a fairly unobtrusive backpack.
If he lies on his back, he can scoot around the room.
I think it’s the lack of stacks, or towers, or anything on his shoulders that throws me the most, because of how it changes his silhouette away from what I’m used to. Still, I’m not complaining about the changes, and it’s impressive how he still reads as the character.
This guy’s about to deliver the original “one shall stand, one shall fall.”
Like I said before, the very traditional headsculpt helps. It’s different from the Earthrise version, and feels like it’s specifically trying to be ‘86 movie Prime, in a way that even the new Studio Series 86 one isn’t. The figure’s even been designed so you can pop the head off, and give it to Earthrise Optimus if you want.
“Can…can I have your face?” “What? No! Thanks for asking first, though.”
For colors, it’s interesting how much the transformation changes the mix on him. Most of the black has been folded away into his backpack, and we’re left with a pretty traditional Optimus colorscheme of red, additional blue, and newly-exposed gray parts, with far more yellow accents to go with the silver. Not only that, but the red on his arms and chest is actually glossy paint, giving those parts a very different look from the red on the truck cab (and luckly, I got no QC problems). It’s interesting how much they used the transformation to change things up.
Having a deep moment.
For build quality, he’s way more solid in this mode than truck mode, since his cab is split between his legs, and his troublesome truck bed folds away and clicks into his back. All of his joints are nice and tight, and his stability is….interesting. So, his feet are kind of small, and while they do have heel spurs, the big piles of truck cab on the back of each leg unintentionally act as support anyway, since if he falls backwards, he’ll only tilt back like, a half a centimeter, and just rest on it instead. Probably not what they intended, but hey, it works.
I forgot to flip out his heel spurs in a bunch of these photos. Luckily, not this one.
Speaking of poseability, he’s got a lot of it, and the fact that he’s so skinny and person-shaped means that it’s all pretty unimpeded, giving him a big range of motion. He’s got ankle tilts, knee swivels, universal hips, a swivel waist, enough joints around his shoulders and elbows to make both universal, swivelling wrists (impressively), and a neck swivel. Guy can move!
Pictured: Movement.
It does seem like he ought to have double-knees, but it’s an illusion, since the second joint’s used for the transformation, and locked up tight in robot mode. If I had one criticism, it really feels like he ought to have opening and closing hands. Earthrise Optimus does, and he was the exact same size class as this guy, who’s also trying to look and feel like a premium package. I think it mostly bothers me because his having closed fists really hampers how he can interact with one of his accessories, which makes for a handy transition.
Oh look, a Matrix!
For features, firstly, you can flip Prime’s chest down to access his Matrix of Leadership, stashed in a techie-looking bed of clear plastic. While it has the same basic look as the Earthrise Matrix at a glance, it’s a lot more shallow, and made of clear plastic that’s been painted over silver, gold and blue, so it’s very much a new tooling. There’s a peghole on the back of it, that for some reason, is too big to be five-millimeter compatible, so it can’t take part in any Weaponizing fun. And, like I mentioned above, Prime’s lack of opening hands means he’s got no way to hold it, unless you, say, balanced it on one of his arms.
He can only light the darkest hour if it’s right above him, and he stands very carefully.
So, nice that it’s here, but I wish it did anything. Next up, he’s got the same Ion Blaster that Earthrise Prime had, cast in black.
A familiar friend.
It felt a little small for Earthy, but since VNR isn’t exactly the cartoon’s design, it feels more natural here.
He isn’t normal, and neither is his weapon.
You can fold it in half, and try stashing it on his back via a peg on the side of it, but it works better if you unfold it, and store it by the handle.
It’s a bit of a loose fit.
It works best if you shoot with it, instead.
Of course, the big accessory is, again, the trailer, which you can split open into a miniature Combat Deck for him to stand in and around.
A figure of controversy.
The big criticisms against this trailer were always that, firstly, it was really small, secondly, the plastic on it was oddly thin, and thirdly, that there was no color on the interior at all, it was all solid gray. And, well, most of that’s true here, still.
“You call this taking cover?”
But, they did fix the color problem, sort of, by making some of the trailer out of black plastic, so there’s some actual color blocking. It’s still a bit plain, but, much like his Ion Blaster, the fact that this isn’t a normal cartoon-style Optimus makes this whole thing read as a spin on the original combat deck, rather than an iffy recreation.
Repair mode barely works, though.
And there’s still a lot going on with it, too!
He’s got a great personality!
The repair-drone-creature-thingie at the back of it has a triple-jointed “neck,” with the top joint able to swivel sideways, too, making it very expressive. It’s got a couple little claw arms on ball joints (they’re a bit too big to hold most accessories, though), and two ports at the front of it for blast effect.
Heard u were talking smack.
All he can do is dangle the gun.
In an interesting addition, you can also just pop the entire thing out of the trailer, and it’s got enough 5 millimeter pegs on its base that you can mount it on Optimus himself, like some kind of companion creature.
“Over there, Prime!”
A handy grabby claw.
You can also pop a bit of the ramp at the front off, and have Optimus mount it on his arm as a shield.
There’s a few nubs for blast effects, too!
The trailer also has eight weapons ports inside it, for stashing accessories, though I admit, they’re all close enough together that you’re probably not getting eight whole weapons in there.
Best I could manage.
Also, technically, you’re supposed to stash his Ion Blaster on the underside of the trailer in truck mode, but a) there’s no reason you can’t fit in in the trailer, and b) it looks….kinda awkward there.
Yup.
Speaking of ports, Optimus has four of them between his forearms and shoulders, one on his back, and, oddly, four on the backs of his thighs, if you want to get creative with the weaponizing.
The rest of him isn’t yellow, but these updates are splendid.
It’s not something I’d expect from a one-off novelty figure like this, and I appreciate that they included it.
Overall
Unlike some, he appreciates his Trailer Crab Friend.
Okay, so, I mostly got this guy for the trailer, but I’m happy I got a chance to check him out. Overall, this is a good, solid take on Optimus Prime, one that’s elevated a bit by the novelties of his real-world altmode, and his unconventional design. I like that he’s very G1-styled, despite not being his G1 self, and you could easily make him the leader of your G1 Autobots.
Taking care of his son.
Heck, if I’d gone in on collecting the Legacy updates of Transformers Prime characters that shifted their designs to be more G1, I might have got this guy to be a new version of his Transformers Prime self, since it’s a similar altmode, and he even pulled a trailer in one episode of the show.
See the resemblance? c. Seibertron.com
On the other hand, the market’s crowded by Good Optimus Primes, and this isn’t on the level of, say, the Legacy Deluxe, where I go “everyone needs to own this,” and not just because VNR Optimus is more expensive and harder to get.
They need to pick which one will lead them. Cosmos is pitching a race.
He’s a good figure, make no mistake, but there’s a lot of good Optimuses, and the only things this guy really has going for him is that unique altmode and layout, plus, he’s got just enough wrong with him (the unstable altmode and such) that he’s not really a perfect 10. Still, I like him, and if you’ve got a good excuse to get one for a decent price, like I did, you’ll have fun with a solid figure, just don’t expect some kind of transcendent cultural reset, or anything. It’s just a truck-robot. Still, I can’t help but wish that the tooling wasn’t locked behind Volvo licensing, and that it was the current go-to longnosed Optimus Prime whenever Target or Godzilla or whoever needed a random repaint, instead of the inferior Legacy Laser Optimus one that’s currently seeing a lot of use.
These are some nice colors, but they’d look a lot nicer on the VNR version.
Maybe it’d be worth HasTak’s money to retool this one to remove the Volvo-ness of this one, if only so there would be more avenues to grab one.
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Part of me feels like every reviewer out there has already done a Blokees rant of some kind, but then I remember that my experiences are not universal, I only watch a handful of video reviews, and that I still run into fans wondering what Blokees are, or at lest how they work. Well, I’ve got enough of these little guys now that I figure it’s worth a rundown, as well as trying to crack just what it is that’s made them popular.
The gang in question.
To coin a phrase from an old Gundam Wing commercial from my youth, Blokees are “Action Figure Model Kits.” I’ll add the commercial here, for nostalgia.
Basically, Blokees are little guys that you build, like a model, but are far more solid in finished form. Blokees is also the name of the company (and yes, it has an S at the end, even in singular form), and making these kinds of model kits is their specialty, whether it’s for Ultraman, Sesame Street (for some reason?), Marvel, or in our case, Transformers, which does seem to be their most successful line, but I do have a ton of confirmation bias.
I wasn’t kidding about Sesame Street.
By the way, this means that these Transformers Blokees are actual “Third Party” products, produced under license by HasTak, and not the unofficial stuff that everyone calls “Third Party.”.
Back to today’s subjects. Yes, I had to put plastic on top to keep the box shut.
So, the type of Blokees that people are usually talking about are the “Galaxy Versions,” pictured above, which were the smallest size they offered, until recently.
A Series 3 Galaxy Version, compared to the Series 1 above.
And here’s one reason for their popularity: They’re surprisingly cheap. I get mine from my local comic shop, and after tax, Galaxy Versions cost less than ten Canadian dollars. They literally go for single digit dollars! The other type I’ve gotten a few of are “Shining Versions,” which are slightly more expensive (but only slightly), but come with a few more parts, and a light-up gimmick, and still basically work the same way.
They’ve got the Shinning.
A catch about both versions, though, is that, cheap as they are, they’re not as easy to come by as I’d like, since they’re not available at normal physical Transformers retailers. I’ve heard reports of some American Wal-Marts carrying them, but this doesn’t seem to be universal, and isn’t the case in Canada. It seems the only way to get Blokees is at specialty hobby shops, online, or at conventions. Honestly, if my local comic shop hadn’t started carrying them, I might not have bothered tracking them down, so I’m glad they decided to stock them.
Who you get is a roll of the dice.
Now, here’s another big catch with these Galaxy and Shining Versions, one that I’ve always found a bit hard to get around: They’re blindpacked, meaning it’s luck of the draw what character’s pieces are going to spill out of that box when you open it, and rip the little bags inside.
If it’s from the third wave, it could be any one of these.
As far as I know, there’s no way to cheat the system and check what’s there, so you’re really going in blind. Blind Boxes have never been something I’m fond of, just on a personal level. I’d rather pick a character before I buy. I find it a little bit easier to deal with when it comes to Blokees, though, mostly because I like a lot of different Transformers, so there’s never been a wave of them where I looked at the side of the box, and said “there’s someone in this set that I wouldn’t want.”
I’d have been cool getting any one of these guys.
Of course, I wouldn’t want any doubles (unless it was a Seeker, I guess), but, luckily, fellow streamer Mr. Magnus opened an entire case of them on a Children of Primus episode, so we confirmed there’s no doubles within a case. So, if you’re picking some up in person, and they’re coming out of the same little cardboard display box, you’re not going to get duplicates, unless the store, like, mixed them in or something. What you might not find in that case, though, is the ultra-rare “secret figure” that you have low odds of pulling (there wasn’t one anywhere in that full case we opened.) So, bad luck if that rare guy’s the one you want the most. For completeness sake, I’ll mention here that there’s a few other types of Transformers Blokees out there, including smaller “Galaxy Defender” versions that pack a robot in with their vehicle mode, and also a bigger scale called “Classic Class,” which actually aren’t blindpacked, and are model kits that are the size of standard, large action figures.
An example of a Classic Class, where what’s on the front of the much larger box is actually what’s inside.
Those don’t really interest me, though, because at that scale, I’d rather just get the mainline transforming Transformer versions.
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So far, I’ve gotten Jazz, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and Bonecrusher out of Galaxy Version boxes, and Beachcomber and a toy-style Optimus Prime from the Shining Version ones. Generally, the character selection in these lines has been pretty purely G1, with the occasional Shattered Glass or IDW Comics character thrown in.
Or G1 toy homage.
There was a Galaxy Version wave that was entirely Transformers One characters, though, and I hope I get a chance to crack into that eventually, especially since several of the characters in that wave, like Hound, Ironhide, and the Death Tracker, haven’t actually gotten normal mainline figures yet!
Nearly 50 percent of this wave doesn’t have mainline figures.
Anyway, open your Blokee up, tear the bags, and a bunch of sprues and loose parts will spill out, along with an instruction sheet.
Gimme the bits! The bits!
When it comes to building them, you don’t need any glue, or paint, there’s no stickers that need applying, and if you know what you’re doing, you can knock one out in something like ten to fifteen minutes. That’s if you know what you’re doing, though, because I’ve always found the instructions a little bit hard to follow. Basically, each Blokee in a wave comes with the same instruction sheet, which shows you how to build one guy in the wave, and has a separate little section for the unique bits of other figures, so you might find yourself trying to build Jazz with instructions that mostly show you how to build Optimus.
This one’s kind of a bad example, because it’s Optimus, and the instructions are for Optimus.
Still, it helps that most Blokees have pretty similar construction to each other, being made from an identical “skeleton” of a torso and limbs, with all the unique character details then built on top of it.
They all look mostly like this underneath.
At the same time, I’ve messed that skeleton up a few times, including mixing up arm and leg pieces, and assembling elbow and knee joints backwards, but honestly, I think that’s on me for mostly building these while I’m streaming, and despite all my grousing, it’s still a fun little process.
I’ve put these joints together backwards SO MANY TIMES, though.
Building an action figure is definitely a part of the appeal to these guys, sort of like Lego. In fact, they’re not so different from Bionicle, when you think about it.
“Our people have a lot of common ground.”
For those not in the know, Bionicle was Lego’s long-running foray into buildable robot action figures, and there’s a significant cross-section of Transformers fans who are also into that franchise, especially if they were a 2000’s kid. And much like Bionicle, and LEGO in general, there’s an aspect of customization here, since these figures being built over the same skeleton means swapping limbs, heads, torsos, or smaller parts is pretty easy. Me, I’m a “build it like the instructions say” kind of guy, but I appreciate that the option is there.
Forget Autobot X, this is Autobot Y, as in “why would you do this?”
Anyway, snap all the bits together, and you have a little action figure, which, according to the box, stands 10.5 Centimeters tall, or just over 4 inches, placing them firmly in the Star Wars/Gi Joe/Epic Hero scale of figure.
I took a very convenient scale picture last week!
Transformers Blokees are a good deal bulkier and wider than your average action figure in this scale, though, so they feel more substantial.
A meeting of two keen military minds.
A big part of the appeal here for me is that hese guys are surprisingly sturdy. I’m used to model kits being a bit fragile, a bit prone to bits popping off, but these guys, once you build them, mostly stay together really well.
“Don’t worry, they’re actually really sturdy.”
I’ve occasionally had a bit come off here and there (the parts that cover up the shoulders tend to be the most prone to coming out), but it’s way better than the Gundam, Flame Toys, and Figure-Rise Standard kits I’ve built. Blokees feel more like actual action figures.
Check out this trick shot!
And they pose like them, too! Each Blokee has, from bottom to top, ankle tilts, universal joints for their knees and hips, a swivel waist, universal joint shoulders and elbows, swivelling wrists, and a ball-jointed head. Basically, they can bend as much as a good modern Transformers Legacy figure.
And can be even more expressive, in some ways.
They’re also stable enough to stay standing on their own, but as a nice bonus, each Blokee comes with a stand, with four ports to plug their feet into, letting you hit a bunch of complicated poses unassisted.
Perfect for Karate Kid-ing it.
Plus, the black stands that come with the Galaxy Versions can fit together.
Well, well, if it isn’t the [REDACTED] brothers.
Even if the Big Seekers don’t.
I suppose I ought to talk a little bit about each figure that I picked up, though the photos have been doing a lot of the talking. So, the first Blokee I pulled was Jazz, from series 1 of the Galaxy Versions.
A real cool customer.
One thing I found interesting about him was that they didn’t go strictly for animation accuracy, but based him a bit more on the G1 toy, since he’s got his door wings, wheels beside his head, and tampographs across his body that recall G1 sticker details (and say “Cybertron” on his.)
He shrunk when he came to Earth.
I dig his visored headsculpt, but I don’t dig the way it bumps up against his shoulder-wheels.
“If I play it cool, they won’t notice I can’t turn my head any more than this.”
For accessories, he’s got a black laser pistol, which can actually host mainline Transformers blast effects. He’s also got some accessories that every Blokee has: Two sets of swappable hands, fists for holding accessories (they’re smaller than 5-millimeter), and open palms, and, strangely, a tiny little holdable faction symbol, with a different faction logo on each side.
Just in case you needed to know where they stood.
I don’t know why it’s there, but I don’t mind the tiny little extra.
“Man, forget you! I’m gonna go make movies.”
Next up, we’ve got Skywarp and Thundercracker, who are straight redecos of each other, which is why I’m talking about both at once. These guys feel more cartoon-style than toy-style, but still have a bunch of G1 sticker detail on them, on top of other nice tampographs for their chest-cockpits. I also appreciate the wing stripes and faction symbols on their backs, it’s something they could easily have skipped out on.
About to drop a diss track against Starscream.
They’ve both got a really funny headsculpt, though, with pursed lips and extremely defined cheekbones that make me think of certain internet memes.
Leaves the Decepticons. Becomes a director. Wins an Oscar.
For accessories, they’ve just got the hands and faction symbols, though there’s bit of bonus articulation on them in the form of null-rays that are on limited balljoints (and can also hold blast effects).
Several different pews.
Next, from series 3, I’ve got the Constructicon, Bonecrusher. This is the closest I’ve come to getting one I didn’t want, since I’ve always had trouble telling these guys apart in their robot modes, and him not being able to combine puts a damper on the whole thing.
“TELL ME WHAT MY NAME IS!! AND DON’T CHECK THE BOX!!!”
But the fact that he’s just got the angriest, meanest face does a lot for me, and makes me think of his 2007 movie counterpart, who, according to his toy bios, indiscriminately hated absolutely everything. That makes him more fun in my eyes.
Imagine those two cars are halves of a bus.
This green meanie’s also got a strange bit of engineering I can’t figure out the purpose of: His chest can flip open, but all that’s in there is additional tech detailing, and enough extra tampographs to make me wonder if it’s a specific reference that escapes me.
“WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS?!?!”
He’s also got a green laser pistol, a standard for all the non-seekers so far.
Skywarp guessed wrong.
Next up, we move onto the Shining Versions, with Beachcomber, AKA the guy I just reviewed the Legacy release of.
He likes to chill just as much as the bigger one, though.
He does sort of expose a problem with these guys: They’re all the same size, so this minibot is the same height as everyone else, including the Seekers.
It stresses him out, because he wants to be a smaller target.
On the other hand, he almost feels like he scales with mainline figures, and something about his minibot-ness makes him look a lot less chibi-fied than his Blokee brethren, unless I literally stand him next to his Power of the Primes and Legacy versions.
Bird appreciators.
As a Shining Version, Beachcomber’s got some extras with him. Firstly, his platform is yellow, and a little bit bigger. Secondly, he’s got more accessories, and they’re a highlight for me. Beyond the closed and open hands, and the blast-effect-friendly laser pistol, he also comes with a Paradise Parakeet of his own.
And like the bigger one, he’ll defend him to the end.
It’s cast in solid gray, though, but is also in a flying pose, instead of perched, and fits perfectly in his accessory-holding hands.
“So, this is indestructible now, right?”
Speaking of those, he’s also got an additional, uniquely-sculpted open-palmed right hand, cast in solid gold, replicating a plot point in “The Golden Lagoon,” his spotlight episode, when he dipped his hand in golden Electrum.
“In that case…” *SMACK*
Finally, he’s got a clear pink Energon Cube, with one side left open, to help him hold it.
“When did this become more important than this?”
I’m really impressed with how characterful these accessories are, it shows that the people making these know their stuff.
Creepycomber.
As a Shining Version, he’s got another impressive gimmick: Light-up eyes. How they work is that he’s got a light inside his robot torso, and it shines up through his clear neck joint, and into the clear center of his head. Figuring out how I was supposed to trigger this was an adventure in Googling, though, since there weren’t any instructions in the box. How it works is that you shake him a bit. Or, as I figured out, tap him on the top of the head a few times to rattle his insides. The motion triggers the light, and it automatically stays on for about 60 seconds, making his eyes glow white, a little like when he tried to talk to the Parakeet in The Golden Lagoon.
The screenshot that will live forever.
It’s a really fun, unobtrusive gimmick, and I actually find myself wishing mainline Transformers had it.
Time for the big man.
Last up, we have my most recent Blokee, another Shining Version entry, Optimus Prime himself. They did a standard version of him all the way back in the first wave of Galaxy Version, so this version’s following in the footsteps of Missing Link, and Legacy Deluxe Optimus, and doing a version sculpted specifically after the G1 toy.
A design that’s after my heart.
This mean’s he’s got slits on his mouthplate, six entire wheels on his legs and hips, and other specifically non-show-accurate details.
Showing off the goods (his tires).
It’s a good design, and I like it for the same reasons I like the Legacy one.
Toy-accurate means Marvel G1 Optimus to me, so I imagine he’s full of angst.
That said, they opted to split the difference with his colors, and make him partially animation-accurate, giving him blue eyes and chest windows, leaving off most of his sticker details, et cetera. There is a version in the wave that fixes all those things, but it’s the super-rare chase figure. Still, that doesn’t kill this one for me, he’s still got that retro-robot charm.
Pictured: Charm.
He’s a bit lighter on the accessories compared to Beachcomber, though, only coming with his two sets of hands, his (admittedly very substantial) Ion Blaster, and another Energon cube.
I forgot to take a photo of the cube, so here’s Beachcomber modelling his identical one.
I think his glowing gimmick makes up for it, though. When you tap him on his head, not only do his eyes glow blue, so do his chest windows, exposing a Matrix Chamber pattern both sculpted and painted into them.
“Why can’t I open my chest?!?”
It just looks really cool!
And makes for dramatic shots in the dark.
So, in conclusion….
“Jazz? Is that supposed to be doing that?”
I really like these guys, and I’ve spilled all this digital ink trying to articulate why, especially since they don’t transform, they’re in a different scale from the stuff I usually collect, and they do the exaggerated proportions and blindpacked distribution I usually dislike. Because of that last thing, you can’t even really aim get a specific character without playing the lottery. And yet! They compel me!
He wants to know why, too.
A part of it is just that they’re really cheap, and you can forgive a lot for under ten bucks. Another part is that building them is just a fun little activity.
An activity where you get this at the end.
And the end products are solidly built little action figures in a way model kits usually aren’t, with a good deal of characterfullness about them.
“Dude! Seriously?”
So, I’ll leave it at this: I don’t know if it’s worth going out of your way to snap order some off the internet, ans pay shipping, but if you happen to see some at your comic shop, or hobby retailer, or in an American Wal-Mart, or at a convention, go ahead and spend a couple dollars to snap a few up. They’re more fun than you think.
Can you say no to this guy?
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