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Y’know what we need more of in these times of economic insecurity? Action figures that cost less than ten dollars. That’s what led me to collect the first two waves of Hasbro’s Spider-Man Epic Hero Series figures, which I reviewed last year, over here.
As I’ll get into later, most of these guys are still on the shelves, so it’s worth re-reading.
To recap, Epic Hero’s a mixed-brand line of 4-inch action figures (i.e GI Joe Scale), mostly made up of various Marvel brands, but with a Star Wars imprint as well. My love of the wall-crawler’s well-documented on here, so I went in on one of their Spider-guys, and then another, and then another (often while grocery shopping), and eventually I wound up going completist on the smaller guys. I ignored the vehicles and mechs and things, though, because Pete and friends shouldn’t have the money for that stuff.
“Pay my rent, or buy a fancy branded motorcycle to fight crime with?”
Now, a thing about cheap toylines like this is that they tend to not have legs. They’ll last for a couple waves, and then quietly be retired. But, oddly enough, the Spider-Man line’s got a lot of legs (makes sense, I guess). As of this writing, it’s still going, with the whole size class having been slightly rebranded as Epic World of Action. Granted, the line’s very heavy on reissues and slight repaints (the third wave consisted entirely of re-releases in new packaging, and no new figures), but that just means you can jump in right now, and not have missed much.
(Almost) everyone is (still) here (as of Wave 4)!
So! The point of this review. Basically, I’m just going to run through the stuff I’ve gotten since last time I looked at this line. Funny enough, most of it cost more than ten dollars, but that’s only because most of it was multipacks. So, without further adieu, enjoy these pictures of (and words about) Spider-Man.
Spider-Man versus Green Goblin
War for the skies!
First up, we’ve got a couple of two-packs that came out last year. They seemed to be de facto Toys R Us exclusives here in Canada, which probably means Target in the US. Either way, I see that Toys R Us still has them on their Canadian site, so they’re certainly gettable by someone in 2025.
“Who am I? I’m honestly not sure.”
Now, I’m big on media accuracy, as a collector. I like “the guy from the thing.” So, random toyline-only repaints tend to not really appeal to me, and that’s what’s going on with our default Spider-Man in this set. He’s a straight redeco of the vanilla Peter Parker that’s been available every wave of this line, which also makes him a good baseline to remind you about the key features each figure has.
New package, same product: Losers.
Sculpted to resemble the evergreen Spider-Man design we know and love, Pete scales well with Transformers at 4 inches, and has a build that’s not too bulky, more athletic, but still has defined musculature, particularly around the abs.
They don’t literally scale, but spiritually, they do.
I’d say the only downside of the sculpt is, to be blunt, that the pelvis region of these guys still look kind of odd, the way the hip joints are cut, a problem nearly every one of these figures has.
Don’t look at it too closely.
The colors are where they played with his look on this repaint. He’s still the traditional red and blue, just darker shades of both than the original release, and he’s still got the same painted black and white eyes. But the big thing is that the locations of the blue on his torso have been moved around a little bit, and there’s light blue outlines added to the edges of them around his torso, plus light blue added to the spider-logo on his back (the black logo on his chest is also a bit bigger).
He wanted to make sure we knew who he was.
It’s not an exact match by any means, but I wonder if they’re sort of loosely trying to evoke the Spider-Man of the Insomiac video games, minus the big white logo that one has on his chest.
I’m not seeing things, right?
One slight downgrade on this version, though, is that the joints in his shoulders aren’t color-matched, so he’s got bits of blue there that really stand out against what’s supposed to be a red zone.
He’s hoping to distract you from it with his Super Mario jump.
Articulation and build quality is still the selling point on this guy. Like nearly every Epic Hero release, he’s got nine points of articulation. His knees, hips, elbows, and shoulders are all universal joints, giving them a huge range of motion, including swivelling on top of bending, while his head’s on a ball joint, letting him look up and down. A slight hitch in all of this is that his shoulders and elbows use stiff ratchets as a part of these joints, so you’ve got to wrench them between static positions when posing them. Because of that, he’s not as bendable as a large Transformer, or a Marvel Legend, and standing him on his modestly-sized feet in a pose can be a bit tricky, but for 9-ish dollars, it’s above and beyond what you’d expect.
Borrowing an accessory from his predecessor.
So, accessories and features. He doesn’t have his web-shot effect anymore, but you can still clip one onto his left hand (with its sculpted web shot gesture) if you want, or put any small accessory you’ve got lying around into his right hand.
I’m assuming this was donated to him. Lord knows he can’t afford it.
What he does come with, though, is a huge, new accessory: A high-tech wingpack. It’s made out of the same rigid-but-slightly-flexible materials as the rest of him, and clips onto his shoulders and waist.
Going for the vibes of his counterpart from the Distinguished Competition.
It’s cast in the same red as his body, with paint apps in the same light blue as his highlights. The shape of it, combined with the way the wings have sculpted-in webs, makes me read it as a re-interpretation of the underarm webs he was drawn with in the earliest Spider-Man comics.
“Unlike you, I can move my arms without it looking wierd.”
Despite that, the whole thing looks high-tech in a way I wouldn’t associate with the broke Mr. Parker, so it feels a bit incongruous.
Swooshable, though.
Now, the other half of this two-pack is why you’d want this, in that it’s an entirely new tooling: It’s the Green Goblin, Spider-Man’s original arch-nemesis, when he’s not relegated to being a meme machine for Willem Dafoe movie quotes.
“I’m something of…Y’know what I sacrificed….*sigh*”
This is an extremely classically-styled Goblin. He’s not a dead ringer for how he looked in his Steve Ditko days, but that’s clearly the inspiration, between his elf-y shoes, his manic expression, his huge ears and pointed hat, all of that stuff. By the way, it’s a wicked headsculpt, and I have to mention that expression again.
Dafoe on a bad day.
The design differences mostly come down to his suit being sculpted more like plated armor than….whatever costume he had in the original comics, and it works pretty well. Green Goblin would totally sculpt fake abs into his stomache, like he’s got going on here.
“Y’know, I’ve heard the Green Goblin’s shredded.”
The most impressive bit of his construction, though, is the two satchels he’s got at his hips, which are held onto him by shoulder straps that cross his chest, because they’re actually a separate part, made of soft plastic, installed on his torso. For a cheapo toyline, that’s surprisingly elaborate.
Modelling the latest in supervillain gear storage solutions.
For colors, he’s looking similarly elaborate in bright green, and metallic purple, with the satchels cast in brown. His face in particular’s got more deco than most of these figures, with yellow eyes, and white teeth.
Hot Steppin’.
He’s got the same 9-joint articulation as Spidey, meanwhile, but it’s hampered by the fact that his weird, pointy-toed shoes have a very small footprint, making it a challenge to stand him up.
Any excuse to get off his feet.
The poses in these pictures took a lot of really careful balancing.
He’s only having a dance-off so he doesn’t need to stay on his feet.
Luckily, his accessory negates this problem.
Even if it looks kind of nondescript.
He’s got his traditional goblin-glider, cast in dark gray. Like him, it mostly looks like its classic comics appearance, but revised a little bit to include scribbled-on techie details. There’s two braces you can slide his feet into, with the right brace having a little peg for a hole on his foot.
For all your action-figue-standing needs.
On one hand, it’s actually hard to keep that foot pegged in when you install him onto the glider, as getting both feet in there will often move it out of place. On the other hand, it’s not really needed, as the braces are tight enough to secure him to it.
This is just as stable!
Once he’s on his glider, he’s got great pick-up-and-whoosh-him energy, while also being able to use the glider as a stand to keep him secure to the ground, if you like.
This is as much as I could get him to bend.
Overall, if you can find it, this set’s definitely still worth getting, if only for the Green Goblin, who feels like he’s a cut above the rest of the line in terms of effort, and this was already a really good line in general.
He literally clobbers Spider-Man.
I’m less of a fan of the Spider-Man, since he’s got a made-up deco and a made-up accessory, and those aren’t things I’m usually here for, but he’s still a good-quality figure on his own merits. The Goblin needs someone to fight with, and do Raimi-verse memes with.
You know the GIF.
Miles Morales versus the Vulture
This time, only one of them can take to the skies.
The second of these two-packs is an unusual pairing. I’m not super-up on Miles’s comics, but I don’t think these two ever squared off in anything prominent? Better Miles than another Pete, though.
Spider-Man Beyond.
Speaking of Miles, this is, again, a straight repaint of his single-packed figure I previously reviewed. Sculptwise, he’s the same size as Peter, even though he feels like he ought to be shorter.
Pete needed some assistance hitting the Kamen Rider No. 1 Pose.
Surprisingly, he’s a mostly bespoke mold, only sharing his thigh pieces with the first Spider-Man, with even his web-shooting and accessory-holding hands flipped. He’s also got the exact same good-except-for-the-tight-ratchets universal articulation, so no complaints there.
He cuts a dynamic silhouette.
For deco, it’s a little inaccurate to call this version a repaint, as it’s more of a de-paint.
“I’m telling you, man, you want to simplify your look.”
Basically, he’s still solid black, with red accents, and white in his eyes, but a bunch of the red deco has been removed from him, specifically the web grid on his head and collar. He does have a couple extra little red highlights over his abs, but he’s still plainer than his standard release.
Plainer doesn’t equal bad, though!
It doesn’t look bad, though, the black and red is a slick look, and on this version, kind of gives me Batman Beyond vibes. They did make the same mistake as on Pete, though, where his joints aren’t color-matched, so his elbows, knees, and shoulders now all have red plastic visible.
Contemplating why his knees are red.
It’s his new accessory that’s really novel: A skateboard.
“Do…do they think this is a thing I do?”
Again, I don’t recall Miles being a skateboarder, but I’m not going to complain about something so interesting.
“OMG WHEEEE!!”
It’s cast in red, with silver on the wheels, and a big white spider-logo on top of the board (with a sculpted version on the bottom). On one hand, it doesn’t roll, since the wheels are also just sculpted in.
It makes the dismount nice and easy.
On the other hand, it’s got a peg on the top of it that fits into a peghole on his feet, so, like the Green Goblin, He’s got a nice, stable connection that facilitates some nice posing.
Imagine he did a slick trick.
And it’s compatible with pretty much any figure in the line!
A sample of the movie Goblin going “Misery, misery, misery” plays before the punk music kicks in.
That said, I discovered an embarrassingly small amount of 4-inch action figure outside of the Spiders could fit with it.
She was a skatermorph, she said “see you later, ‘morph.” / She wasn’t good enough for him… / She had a second face / They can’t hear you scream in space / He needed to come back down to Earth… (Lyrics by Firespitter).
For his opponent, we have The Vulture, a.k.a the most boring villain of the original Steve Ditko era (fight me).
Nobody cared who I was until I put on the wings. Or after, really.
This was one case where the MCU re-inventing him as an ambiguously moral scavenger and weapons dealer was a definite upgrade. The original comics version really had nothing going on in terms of character or motivation, he was a random old guy in a lab who invented a flight suit so he could do crimes, and that’s it.
Okay, the wings didn’t help. It was the Michael Keaton that did.
And I guess the toymakers agreed, because this is a brand-new design for the Vulture that definitely seems to be specifically inspired by the flying power armor of Spider-Man: Homecoming, with most of the bird traits relegated to plumage-like details on his forearms and collar, and a gasmask-like helmet (complete with tubes) that’s got a pointed end, kind of like a bird’s beak.
To be fair, it’s a really cool re-emagined headsculpt.
I’ll need to skip ahead to the accessories here, though, because they kind of define the figure. He’s got a pair of absolutely gigantic wings, each about as tall as the actual figure, which plug into brackets on his back, to complete his look, and make him dwarf most of the other figures in the line. They’re sculpted simply enough that it’s unclear if they’re high-tech, or biological, and I kind of wish they had the film’s turbines instead.
He’s a villain because he fumbled a bad Michelle Yeoh-sounding bird.
For colors, his main body’s mostly metallic blue, with a few green accents, and a mask that’s got silver tubes, and big red eyes, adding to the creepiness of him. His wings, meanwhile, are mostly dark silver, with some metallic green uptop.
It’s all about the plumage.
For articulation, he’s got the same suite of joints as the rest of the line, with a balljointed neck that’s particularly effective at looking creepy, given the sculpt of the head. It’s what he doesn’t have that bothers me. His wings have no articulation to speak of, even where they meet his body. And on top of that, they’re big and heavy enough that his stability is a running concern.
He actually needs the skateboard to stay up.
He can stand well in a neutral pose, but I’m disinclined to pose him in anything else, since it becomes a fight to keep him standing.
That’s how MCU Spidey really beat him.
Overall, this is the weaker of the two-packs, and it’s an easy skip unless a) you really want a Vulture, or b) you really want a skateboard accessory.
Vulture does add a badly-needed villain to the roster.
Miles is still a good figure, just not very different from his solo release, and Vulture’s got an impressive wingspan and cool design, but he’s just a bit too awkward to be fun. In fact, I’d call him the first outright miss of this line so far. But that board’s really cool.
Stuntin’ on them birds.
Ghost-Spider
So, let’s move forward in time, to stuff that’s come out this year.
Like her!
Epic Hero Collection had a name change to Epic World of Action, but otherwise kept going, and that included the Spider-Man toyline, which also now carries the “VenomVersus” branding, which, as far as I can tell, is a cross-toyline thing focusing on Symbiotes like Venom and Carnage, with an emphasis on depicting them as bonding with the heroes. When it comes to single-packed figures, though, the line’s mostly just re-releases of the first two waves of the toyline, albeit with the odd change that their accessories have mostly been repainted into funky colors.
“Why are you crying? Wait, the Green Goblin did WHAT in this universe?”
But there was one brand-new figure in the line, which I snapped up the moment I became aware it was a thing: Spider-Gwen, aka Spider-Woman, aka Ghost-Spider, if you believe the name on the packaging. I loved the Spider-Verse films as much as the next viewer with taste, and her original run of comics was pretty good, too, plus this was just a cool design.
I don’t know why, but I found myself relating to the sequel’s character beat of Miles’s feeling super cut off and out of the loop, while his love interest had seen and done incredible things he had no conception of.
As the first woman in this entire line (I know, disappointing), Gwen’s a brand new tooling, the same height as everyone else, but a lot slimmer.
It’s the ballet that does it.
Maybe it’s recency bias, but I feel like I can tell this figure was designed and engineered much later than everything else in this line. She seems more elaborate, and her sculpt seems cleaner.
She’s gona put some dirt in the Goblin’s eye, though.
Speaking of that sculpt, this is more or less the same design from the Spider-Verse films, maybe with a couple details tweaked, which means she’s wearing ballet shoes, and has a hood over her head, which is made of soft, flexible plastic.
She’s anything but soft, though.
Her colors are also far more elaborate than most figures in this line. She’s white and black, with an intricate pattern over her torso, and has blue painted shoes, purple circles around her eyes, and purple inside her hood (which feels widely lush), plus a tampographed purple and blue pattern on her upper arms, as well as some purple lines on the sides of her torso. I don’t know where they found the budget for all of this, in a line that can’t be bothered to color in Peter Parker’s web patterns, but I appreciate it.
This macro zoom isn’t doing her any favors, though.
Aside from the soft plastic on her hood, the rest of her also feels very very slightly softer than the materials this line’s typically made out of, more like mainline Marvel Legends, but not to the point of affecting her stability, which is still top-tier. Her articulation, meanwhile, is the same 9POA as everyone else.
Showing Miles how it’s done.
What’s most impressive about it is that they sculpted the hood as a part of her head specifically so she still had neck articulation, including a little bit of up and down motion.
She’s as baffled as I am.
So, her lone accessory’s an odd one, because of that aforementioned thing from the VenomVersus line, where every accessory is an odd color: It’s a shot of purple goo, in a spiral pattern. Granted, it’s probably just supposed to be webbing that got repainted, but I can’t help but look at it and see something grape-flavored.
“DELICIOUS!” -Venom.
Still, the purple pops nicely against her colorscheme, so I can’t complain. It cuffs onto the wrist of her right web-shot-posed hand, and if it bugged me too much, I could always give her one of the more normal-colored web shots included with some of my older figures.
Not that she needs it to handle the baddies.
Overall, though, this is a really, really solid little 4-inch figure. Spider-Gwen’s a great design, and it feels like more effort and money went into getting this 9-dollar figure of her just right than the rest of the line. If you see her, and you like the character even a little bit, just get one, it’s as simple as that.
“I’m LEAVING. With. SOMETHING.”
I’d go so far as to say if you only get one single-packed figure, get her.
Maybe we’ll get to see the conclusion of their story some time this century.
VenomVersus Spider-Man
Gonna be real, I’m not even sure what to call this guy, it just says Spider-Man on the package.
Spider-Man: Nights.
This is another pricier figure, costing the same amount as those two-packs above, but isn’t an exclusive this time around. Pete’s one of three premium figures in VenomVersus, where the gimmick is that they’re a normal 4-incher with extra Symbiote-related accessories. I’ll be real, though, it was the core figure here that made me decide to give this one a shot.
A little more dark, a little more serious.
So, Pete’s yet another repaint of the original, default Spider-Guy design, with the only tooling difference being that both of his hands are now accessory-holding sculpts, for the sake of his gimmick. Same good sculpt, same good articulation, but it’s the colors that got me.
Subtle, but improved.
Basically, he’s got almost the same layout as the original release (the spider logo on his chest is a bit bigger, and has different legs) but the whole thing’s been palette-swapped into something a bit darker. The blues are more navy, the red is less vibrant, and most interestingly, the lenses in his eyes are light blue, instead of white.
He’s looking into the sunset.
I don’t know why, but something about this color scheme makes me think of the 90’s animated series. Maybe it’s just that the deco looks like we’re seeing Spidey at night, or at sunset, and there was a lot of both settings on that show.
Or maybe I’m just seeing things.
Either way, I just think he looks neat in these colors.
Poses well, too.
So, same articulation, same build quality, what’s different? His accessories, which are a bunch of rubbery black goo, sculpted to look like Venom.
Get Venom’d!
They’re all soft plastic, and fit over him like armor. First of all, you’ve got a breastplate and shoulder pads, with a bunch of gooey spikes coming up from his shoulders, and a white spider-logo sculpted and painted onto his chest. It reminds me of a football jersey, or something a high-concept metal band would wear during a concert.
“Put me in, coach!”
It also inhibits his shoulder articulation, though, which is bothersome. Next up, there’s a Venom head, complete with obnoxiously long tongue, on a long, wiry stalk that attaches to the back of his armor, reminding me of how Venom would manifest in the modern Sony films whenever he wanted to speak to Eddie Brock.
Venom’s about to give him the worst advice knooooown to man.
It’s a very well-sculpted face, with a gleeful expression, though I do wish it had some articulation, or was at least the kind of bendable soft plastic that could stay bent, instead of snapping back to neutral, since it means he can’t turn and look at Spider-Man. Finally, he’s got these two long, gooey spikes, each about the length of one of Vulture’s wings, that clamp onto his forearms, and get held in his hands, hence why those hands were retooled.
“Ey! I’m Venoming here!”
His shoulders being restricted when he’s armored up do, admittedly, limit the extent to which he can flail these around.
Anyone within a meter of him is in serious trouble.
Now, I’m not the biggest spider-lore-knower, but if there was ever a story where Spider-Man and Venom teamed up to fight while half-transformed, I’m not terribly aware of it, though it does, again, remind me of some of the tricks Venom would pull in his solo movies, so I guess there’s a bit of lore precedence here. This also sort of reads to me as Spidey caught mid-transformation into his black suit, too.
START > CHANGE > FINISH
Speaking of that, there’s nothing stopping you from giving these accessories to any of the other Spider-Men in this toyline, though they have to be shaped like this guy for the stuff to really fit. I’ve found these Venom Parts look really good on Miles, and on Black Suit Spider-Man.
When Black Suited-Pete loses control.
That’s still an unfortunately-colored accessory on Miles.
Well, double Symbiote on you!
Overall, while this isn’t a bad figure at all (really, Vulture’s the only not-so-great guy in this line so far), the fancy armor doesn’t really do much for me. I wanted this release for the palette-swapped core figure, and I’m happy with how that looks, for sure, but it’s not as good of a value proposition as the two-packs, or just buying one of the single-packed guys. I think it’s also a problem of the idea here not conceptually appealing to me, too. In terms of the other two releases, I don’t think I’ll grab the Miles with Green Symbiote, but maybe the Winged Venom could get me.
Hmmm, boss monster, or snot creature?
The Whole Shebang Overall
Here’s the deal: These single-packed, sub-10-dollar, Joe-scaled Spider-guys are still good old-fashioned fun, and I think you owe it to yourself to pick up one, or two, or three (and if you see Ghost-Spider, make it her). VenomVersus has reissued most of the earlier characters, so you’ve still got an easy on-ramp for entry.
Class of 2024/2025
I think the lesson learned from this batch is that the line stumbles a bit when it ventures outside of the sub-ten-dollar zone, and I suddenly feel like I have to hold them to a higher standard. Even then, the Goblin versus Pete set’s great, and my only criticisms are Miles and the Vulture are kind of ehhhhh, and the armor-up VenomVersus guys don’t really feel like they’re better than the cheaper single-packed ones. But, again, if you see any of these, I strongly encourage you to give one or two of them a whirl, especially since it won’t break the bank!
Cappi was curious about the photo shoot.
Once again, she had to be the subject.
Gwen’s in heaven (no, not like that).
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It’s been 18 years since the first modern Transformers movie, and the first movie toyline. If there’s one thing that hasn’t changed in all that time, it’s that there’s always a range of strange little gimmick toys to go along with the regular mainline Deluxes and Voyagers and whatnot.
Going all the way back to 2007.
Revenge of the Fallen’s attempt to get into the Hot Wheels market.
Cyber Slammers, Stealth Force, One-Step Changers, Energon Igniters, whatever they’re called, these movie gimmick toys are always simpler, revolve around a single basic feature, and always seem to shelfwarm long after the rest of the movie product is gone.
Sometimes, they changed into nothing.
Sometimes, they didn’t transform at all.
I assume they have to make money, though, given that even last year’s Transformers One movie toyline still had a range of them, many of which you can still find on local shelves. Robot Battlers are one of Transformers One’s gimmick toylines, and are sort of a spin on Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots. They’re also infamous for being the only range of figures in the Transformers One toyline to have a near-complete assortment of movie characters, including bots like Elita-1 and Starscream that have little or no plastic representation outside of this.
At least Elita has model kits on the shelves right now. Starscream’s just got this, and a Titan Changer that’s not even his actual film design.
Most of the Robot Battlers are sold on their own, but since it’s a player-versus-player kind of gimmick, there was also a two-pack starter set, with Optimus and Megatron facing off. And lo and behold, I got a chance to check that set out, after some friends of mine gifted it to me. I love gifts like this, because it gives me a chance to look at something weird I wouldn’t have gotten on my own.
Robot Modes
They’ve both been working on their pecs.
I was struggling to convey the scale of these two bots, bigger than Cores, smaller than Deluxes, the size of old Beast Wars Basics, and then I realized there was a good modern way to explain it: Do you own Legacy Gears, or one of his two repaints? He’s a great figure, you ought to. These two Robot Battlers are nearly the exact same height as him.
He’s even got the same colorscheme as Optimus!
Of course, they’re a lot simpler, with a lot less plastic and partscount.
Flamewar can’t stop making fun of him.
In terms of aesthetics, like most gimmick toys, they’re both a bit stylized and exaggerated, since all Robot Battlers need to have the same barrel-chested proportions.
“A remakable likeness!”
Optimus’s details match the Studio Series figure of his final form in the movie, just stretched, compressed and warped a bit, with big shoulderpads made of truck parts at his arms.
Giving a motivational speech before the fight.
Looking at his head, though, it feels like the designers angled more for a generic Evergreen Optimus head, than his specific film design.
That’s just an Optimus, not this Optimus.
Megatron, meanwhile, has more of a hybrid design.
“Pfeh. You think I look like that?”
His detailing is also mostly a stretched and squeezed rendition of his final-form Studio Series figure, but he’s got a Decepticon logo sculpted into his chest with a bunch of scratches over it, loosely recalling the carved-on symbol given to him when he was in his Cogged D-16 form.
He’s threatening him about what’ll happen if he doesn’t win.
Both figures are decent-looking, until you turn them around and see that they’re both completely hollow from the back, including empty heads.
Proof there’s nothing going on in his head.
Optimus definitely has it worse out of the two, Megatron’s altmode treads kind of fill him in more.
Much like in the film, Megatron’s got more substance.
For colors, both bots have more on them than I’d expect. They don’t hit all their onscreen details, but their designs are already exaggerated, so they also don’t read as incomplete.
The end of a friendship.
Optimus is in his reds, blues and grays, with a painted chest window, and silver on his headsculpt. I’d say it’s only his legs that immediately feel like they need more color.
The start of an empire.
Megatron feels like the more colorful one of the pair, with a bunch of different shades of gray and silver on him, plus red highlights, and the very detailed pattern of scratches on his chest being also done entirely by deco.
That one bit from the movie’s denouement.
For build quality, I’ll give them this: Both bots are incredibly hollow, but they managed to make them feel way more durable than I expected, instead of fragile and flimsy. Megatron’s the heftier of the pair by a long shot, though. Still, considering that their whole gimmick involves bashing them together, I’m glad to see that they’ll be able to survive more than a few fights.
The limit of their poseability, and my hand has to stay there.
Articulation is, of course mostly nil, even by G1 brick standards. You can move their arms out sideways at the shoulder, like they’re t-posing…except the joints are loose enough that their arms don’t hold the pose. This is entirely to facilitate their gimmick, though, so I don’t hold it against them.
They can always make snow angels.
For accessories, each bot comes with two handheld weapons. Optimus has a large gray axe, loosely recalling his energy weapon from the film’s finale.
For all the questions he wants to axe.
Megatron, meanwhile, has an odd kind of cowling that fits around his arm.
For all the cudgeling he’s going to do.
I think it’s meant to recall his fusion cannon, but instead looks like he morphed his whole arm into a gun. On top of those, they both have the same generic weapon, which is a sculpted, solid-colored blast effect with a sword hilt at the end, like a really chunky lightsaber, with Optimus’s in blue, and Megatron’s in red.
This feels a little like an Animated Movie reference.
I understand every Robot Battler comes with one of these.
Then again, looking at the red and blue colors, maybe it’s just a Star Wars riff.
One interesting thing about these accessories is that they’re 5-millimeter compatible, so you can totally give them to mainline figures, who can use them a lot better than these two.
The arm-gun works a lot better here.
For all those two-on-one fights he’s going to be doing.
And these bots can, in turn, hold and use mainline accessories of their own, though the fact that they can’t point their arms forward limits what’s useful.
Not much help here.
Stealing Powerdasher limbs to make something workable.
Now, onto the big gimmick, the Robot Battling. Each of these bots comes with a big stand, with two pegs in the middle of a rotating platform that go into holes on their feet.
I think there’s more plastic here than on the actual figures.
The hero and the villain have different-shaped stands, with Megatron’s being a Decepticon silhouette in red (like Shattered Glass?), and Optimus’s being…his head, I think? In blue. Both stands have a pair of loops at the end, with sculpted-in wiring, that look to me like the handles for scissors.
Ready for battle!
To use the stand, you loop your fingers through the hoops….
Like so.
…and move the left handle out and in as fast as you can, which spins the base, and the robot on it, making their loose arms (with their weapons) wave around dangerously. Here’s a video demonstration. From there, you bash the bots together, and the first one to fall off the platform loses.
The victory conditions.
And, straight up, It’s fun. I’ve played matches against other people, and there’s some good, frantic energy to it. Sometimes, Optimus or Megatron might lose an accessory in the process, but that feels like a feature, and not a bug.
They found a safer way to settle their conflict.
I do kind of think Optimus has an unfair advantage, though, because Megatron’s gun-arm doesn’t have the same reach as Prime’s axe, so I think they’re setting him up to lose.
Megs is going to call this unfair, and he might be right.
Either way, this seems like something a younger kid would enjoy, and me, an adult man, still finds it entertaining. You know what else I realized? These bases use 5-millimeter pegs, so if you’ve got any modern Transformers with 5-millimeter ports on their feet, you can mount them on the bases, too. Ironically enough, Studio Optimus and Megs can’t fit on them, because they don’t have ports on their feet.
Gears stole another bot’s accessories, so I think that counts as cheating.
When it comes to who does fit, I’ve found that a lot of bigger, heavier figures don’t stay on them as well, though, and are prone to just flinging themselves off the base once you spin them around too quickly. Still, for an unintended feature, it’s fun. But, that’s not all these two do!
Transformations
That’s right, they transform! It feels like a 50/50 shot if a Movie Gimmick Toy actually includes a transformation, so it’s great to see it here. Neither one of their conversions is terribly complicated, though, not that they have to be. With Optimus, you flip his head and chest up and away, and close his shoulders together to form his truck cab, and then just flop him onto his back.
You can figure out how it all goes from this pre-backflop photo.
Megatron’s is way more involved, though, and oddly satisfying. He does this really interesting thing where you basically turn his whole torso inside out to move his treads and arms into place, and it’s a pleasant step to do.
A very different kind of “ooo he walkin'” mode.
From there, you fold his feet up to the back of the treads, and pop his head away to pop his tank barrel out, and you’re done. Really, just the fact that they transform at all is novel, and I’m impressed at the amount of effort here.
Vehicle Modes
A very important plot point in the actual film, so I’m glad to see them.
The most interesting thing about both of these vehicle modes is that they’re less exaggerated, and more screen-accurate than the robot modes.
Smaller, but sleeker.
Optimus is missing his smokestacks, has a bunch of ugly hollow bits in his bumper, and has his robot fists poking out of the back of his cab, but I think he comes out looking cleaner than the actual Studio Series toy of the design, and a bit less like a robot lying down.
Well, maybe it’s a tie.
Only a bit, though. Megatron is, again, the bigger success here.
As usual.
His tank barrel’s kind of short, and his robot fists are just out underneath it, but it imitates the shape of the long-treaded sci-fi tank of the film really well. His visible hollowness is at the back of his treads, where it’s less obvious.
It’s surprising how close in size these are.
He also expands a lot in this mode, and starts to get close to the Studio Series Deluxe in size, whereas Optimus is still the size of Legacy Gears.
He’s a good measuring stick.
These are definitely the modes hit hardest by a lack of color. Optimus is very plain, mostly solid red, blue, and gray, with only the painted truck windows for deco on the front of him. They did splurge for some silver paint on the sides of the truck that are only visible in this mode, which I guess is something. The fact that Megatron is already supposed to be all those different shades of gray, black and silver means that he doesn’t need any extra paint apps, though, and still manages to look less plain.
My muscles. My muscles. Involuntarily flex.
For features, both figures have pinned-in wheels that let them roll really well. This is impressive for two reasons. Firstly: The robot modes are the point of these, so it feels like they went the extra mile, and secondly, the larger Studio Series Megatron actually can’t roll, so this little one does something he doesn’t! He also does something the little Optimus can’t: His tank barrel has a 5-millimeter port on the end, so you can stick one of the blast-effect-sword-thingies in there, or any other accessory.
Again, most larger figures can use these accessories.
“Join them in axe-tank-tion!!” ……I’ll see my self out.
I do wish there was some way for them to interact with the bases in this form, though, since transforming these means they can’t engage with the robot-battling gimmick at all, or even use most of their accessories. Maybe I’m being greedy here, given the objectives of both figures, but it feels like some kind of missed opportunity.
Overall
While these are purely simple gimmick toys, I think they’re fun for what they are, and are surprisingly well-designed and executed. They’re both decent little replicas of the movie characters, and their big main feature is genuinely pretty fun. The fact that they properly transform is particularly impressive, making it feel like whoever was behind these gimmick toys was trying to give them as much value as possible. They don’t feel like cheapo tat.
They are what they are, but what they are is pretty fun.
Still, if you’re not a little kid, and aren’t easily amused by funny little gimmicks, I’ll admit there’s not much here for the serious collector, beyond the novelty. Me, I like the novelty, and I’m glad I got the chance to own them. I will say, this is about as much of this ecosystem as I’m getting into, though. I could complete a full movie cast if I wanted, but just the leaders are good, especially since I can replicate the film’s big final fight whenever I want, just a bit more awkwardly.
A new challenger appears.
Cappi decided the photo shoot was about her, actually.
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The Legacy trilogy has concluded, and we’re onto the next installment of the modern Transformers mainline: Age of the Primes. The big premise of this toyline is that between continuing to make updates of characters from across the franchise’s history, we’re also going to get new figures of the Thirteen Primes, the first Transformers created by Primus to defend against Unicron. And, I’ll be honest, I’m kind of lukewarm on the concept.
The Thirteen’s first full television appearance, in a flashback on Transformers Prime. Honestly, this is the role they typically have.
See, the Thirteen are a 21st century addition to Transformers lore, and it’s always felt to me like Hasbro’s simultaneously tried too hard and not hard enough to make them into a thing. Their cameo as dead guys in Transformers One’s probably the most mainstream thing they’ve been in.
Over a decade later, and still occupying the same narrative role.
Okay, a few of them, like Alpha Trion (who was retroactively made into one of them) and Alchemist Prime have had noteable solo roles in recent stuff, but as a group, most of these guys are still very ill-defined, and aren’t characters so much as they’re bullet points of backstory. See, I’m a character collector through and through, and the other Primes in this first wave, Prima and Solus Prime, are among the ones that haven’t really *done* anything, just sort of existed. But there’s a couple of exceptions, and today’s subject, The Fallen is one of them.
His first appearance.
See, before we knew that his real name was Megatronus (which sounds dumb, if you ask me), and before he was the main bad guy of the 2009 Transformers movie sequel, The Fallen made his early appearances in the pages of Dreamwave’s comic book miniseries, War Within: The Dark Ages, by Simon Furman. Set on Cybertron in the distant past, at a time in the war when Optimus and Megatron had both gone missing, the miniseries saw The Fallen arrive on the planet, on a mission to perform a mysterious ritual deep beneath the surface. Honestly, like most of Dreamwave’s output, The Dark Ages wasn’t very good, but this early version of The Fallen really stuck with me, just because of the vibes the character had. We didn’t know his name, or anything about the Thirteen, because it hadn’t been written down yet. He was just this unknown thing from some other time, so impossibly ancient that everything about him had been lost from record, and it was impossible to understand what he was or what he wanted to do, and Transformers live for millions of years already, so that was really saying something.
These are the vibes. And it was better when this was all we knew.
The more we learned about him, the less interesting he (and the 13) got, so nothing else he’s appeared in ever had those exact vibes again. And the reason I’m reminiscing about this one specific story is because HasTak made the incredible decision to specifically base this new version of The Fallen off of his original Dreamwave comics design from those issues, like they were targeting me, specifically. So, fine, they got me. Let’s have a look at this elder abomination from before time began.
Robot Mode
Unclothed.
Right out of the box, The Fallen confronts you with an impressive illusion: You look at him, and you go, whoa, this ‘bot’s huge. And, to be fair, he’s about a head taller than Kingdom Leader-Class Galvatron, as well as a bit wider. But, to scale him out with some other modern Leader-class guys, Kingdom Ultra Magnus is a head taller than he is, as is Studio Series Rise of the Beasts Scourge.The Fallen’s wavemate, G2 Universe Grimlock, is more like a head and a half bigger, and a good deal wider.
Properly scaling it out.
There’s just something about The Fallen’s sculpt that communicates heft, size, and presence. On top of that, as mentioned above, it’s a nearly dead-on copy of how he looked in the Dreamwave comics, down to tiny little surface details, like his big, three-toed feet.
Compare this to the “Cybertron, well…” comic panel higher up.
The Fallen’s whole design motif is that he’s a walking furnace-man, covered in vents and grills that reveal the flames burning within him. Uptop, he’s got a face that kinda-sorta looks like the Decepticon logo, mainly due to his forehead crest, but is dominated by a wicked-looking mouthplate with a vent on it, almost like a skeletal scowl.
He invented the 90s action figure scowl.
He’s a pretty clean robot, too, with the only altmode bits on him being some neatly folded-up treads on his back, and a couple little weapons pods on his shoulders. In fact, the missile pod on his left shoulder is a seperate piece that you pop on out of the box, because it’s a comic detail.
For once, this angle is flattering.
Let’s skip ahead to a few of his accessories, because they’re important: The Fallen comes with four fire effect parts, cast in yellow and red soft plastic. They’re important, because in The Dark Ages, The Fallen was perpetually on fire. Like, he always had flames coming out of him. So, to replicate that effect, the larger flames go on 5-millimeter ports on his shoulders, while the smaller pair go in ports behind his head. It’s a wicked-looking set of effect, that really brings the character together, and I rarely have him out without them on.
“Hrrrrngghhh…”
*SHOOM*
For colors, he’s mostly different shades of black, dark gray, and dark purple. I thought they added the purple for color variety at first, until I checked the actual comics pages, and nope, he had dark purple there, too. Also, as you can see in my photos, it’s a darker purple than a lot of the stock photography out there, so it blends nicely.
Marshmallows beware!
The important bit of his color scheme, though, is that all the little vents and ports on his body have yellow paint, depicting those internal flames glowing. It’s, again, a wicked effect, that looks stunning against his dark exterior, and adding the orange-yellow flames only makes it better.
POV: You’re a Prime.
For build quality, this guy’s really solidly engineered. You can tell he’s got a really high partscount, contrasting with how simple Grimlock is, but he manages not to feel fiddly, or loose. Everything tabs in, and holds together, and all of his joints are nice and tight. And he’s got some real heft to him, too. All those other modern Leader-Classes I mentioned earlier, Grimlock, Ultra Magnus, Scourge, and Galvatron? He feels heavier than all of them, in my unscientific “pick him up and wave him around” testing. And despite his weight, he stays stable in his feet, since they’ve got a wide footprint.
The Karate Kid wishes.
I’d have been fine if his articulation was a bit limited, thanks to all the other stuff he’s got going on, but The Fallen’s shockingly bendy.
Meditating on his evil deeds.
He’s got universal ankles, knees and hips, a waist swivel, wrist swivels, hands that open and close on mitten joints, and universal elbows. His shoulders are on universal joints, and have this neat feature where you can detach them a bit from his torso, to cheat a bigger range of motion.
This looks better if you’re actively posing him.
Finally, his head’s on a ball joint with enough of a range of motion that he can look down upon lesser life-forms, a very important feature.
The condescention is important.
I honestly wasn’t expecting him to have the level of jointage he’s got, and it’s really easy to get him to do a lot of expressive things.
The only one he bows to.
Megatronus meets his biggest fan.
Spreading his Evil Energies.
For accessories and features, this is another area where I’d have been fine with nothing but the flame effects, especially since he didn’t really have any weapons or anything in the Dreamwave comics. But, again, they somehow found the budget to give him a giant pile of stuff, most of which is surprisingly complex. To go back to those flames of his, you can pretty much give the pair of shoulder-mounted ones to any other Transformer with 5-millimeter ports on the sides of their shoulders.
For once, Sideswipe cares about fasion.
The smaller flames are a little more versatile, with 5-millimeter pegs on the bottom, and 5-millimeter ports on the backs of them. Sadly, they don’t have the kind of smaller hole-within-the-peg that a lot of modern Transformers blast effects have, so there’s a lot of guns that these flames can’t interact with. But any weapon with a 5-millimeter barrel on the end can instantly become a flamethrower.
Shadow Striker doesn’t need Flamewar to start one.
Now, onto the rest of his stuff. Apparently, it’s all based on things that later versions of The Fallen used, not that I’m super-familiar with his later, less-good appearances.
Time to bring out the big gun.
Firstly, he’s got a big, blockly arm cannon, colored purple, silver, and yellow, called the “Requiem Blaster,” which sticks onto his arm perfectly on a 5-millimeter peg. There’s another pair of pegs on either side of it, too, if you want to make some ridiculous weapon combinations. It’s also got a little red logo on the top of it, which, according to the packaging, the The Fallen’s personal insignia.
A faction unto himself.
It’s got a 5-millimeter port on the end that can host blast effects, but has another, cooler, undocumented feature due to his transformation: You can open the cannon up, and transform it into an even bigger, extended version of itself, in a one-step transformation that both feels and looks cool.
START>
CHANGE>
FINISH
And he comes with a black gunbarrel that you can stick on the end of it to make it even more of a ludicrously huge cannon.
For when you’ve absolutely, positively got to kill every Prime in the room.
He’s bracing for the kickback.
Speaking of that gunbarrel, it’s sculpted to look like the one that G1 Megatron has on his back. In a cool little feature, the 5-millimeter peg on this barrel can click sideways, so you can stick this barrel onto one of the ports on the Fallen’s back, again, echoing G1 Megatron. Or, use one if the ports on his forearms, for an extra gun.
Some want to watch the world burn, he wants to burn it down himself.
Next up, he’s got a big knife.
It slices! It dices!
It’s probably supposed to be a sword, but in his hands, it feels more like a Jason Voorhees-type machete.
It can be menacing, too.
It’s got techie sculpting on it, and a silver-painted blade, and just looks strangely wicked on this guy. It fits into his open hands well enough, but a flared base on the handle means that Transformers with closed fists can’t hold it, only bots with opening hands. But it’s also got 5-millimeter pegs on either side, so The Fallen, and lots of other bots, can used it as a wristblade.
“Do it, Optimus. Take their faces.”
Next up, he’s got…a trident? Like Aquaman?
“You called?”
Or maybe it’s a pitchfork, since he’s kind of got a Lucifer thing going on. It came disassembled in the box, and I needed to fit the three-pronged head on the end of a purple baton.
“….”
*POP*
That end has some silver paint on it, and is made with plastic so soft, that it’s a little bit warped out of the box. There’s a tiny little peg on the middle prong that you can use to mount a blast effect…Just not any of the ones he comes with, since they lack the right kind of connection.
It bugs him that the flame is a different color from his own.
Like the knife, it’s also got 5-millimeter pegs near its base, for forearm-mounting. Unlike the knife, it’s got the kind of handle any Transformer can hold.
Transformers Two’s about to get real interesting.
For another undocumented feature, the ends of the knife and trident are compatible, so you can connect them into a big, lengthy staff, making me think of the weapon his Bayverse iteration wielded.
It’s really the only thing about him that acknowledges the Bayverse.
And he’s got swivelling wrists, so he can totally Darth Maul it up with the full weapon.
DA DA…… DA DA DA…..
When it comes to storage, the instructions have you hang the trident and knife on pegs on his back, pointing downwards, and dangle the Requiem Blaster off of a port on the back of his shoulder, like it’s ready for a sneak attack.
How the papers tell you to do it.
Me, I like combining the melee weapons into their staff mode, and hanging them diagonally on his back, for what it does to his silhouette.
“Of course you can trust my brother. Why do you ask?”
Later, after his Shrink the Primes Plan succeeds
And that’s the thing with The Fallen: There’s enough going on with his accessories that he’s one of those figures with an aura of customizability.
He’s cross with Scourge for cribbing his style.
I count 14 5-millimeter ports on him, all on his upper torso, including, interestingly, two on each forearm. He’s got enough going on with his own accessories that you can weaponize him up in a bunch of different ways, and that’s without even adding in more accessories. Basically, he’s got a lot going on.
But he also looks good with his factory settings.
Transformation
Speaking of having a lot going on, there’s his transformation. For a figure this complicated already, I’d have been fine with him having a relatively basic transformation, like on Grimlock, but that’s not the case here. Basically, you’re unfolding one set of treads from his back, flipping and folding his lower torso around to make the other set of treads, exploding his torso out into a bunch of layers, and re-forming it so his arms form the tank turret, around the Requiem Blaster. But that ain’t the half of it. There’s just…a lot of steps. Everything requires a bunch of flips, rotations, and little adjustments.
In the thick of it.
Here’s the thing, though: It’s really fun to do, and it’s surprisingly intuitive, despite all the steps involved. You grab a chunk of plastic, and you can instantly tell what you need to do. Compare this to the Galvatron (and Straxus) tooling, which has a similarly complicated transformation, but one where I’m always forgetting bits of, whereas I have no such problems on this guy.
Snug as a bug in a flaming rug.
I think the worst I can say is when going back to robot mode, I have trouble remembering how to get his torso back together in a way that doesn’t bump different parts against each other, but that really feels like a Me Problem.
Tank Mode
A slab of destruction.
The Fallen didn’t transform in The Dark Ages, but a tank mode for him did appear in a Dreamwave profile book. However, the new figure’s tank mode doesn’t seem to be based on that one, beyond also being an H-Tank.
Maybe they didn’t copy this because they can barely tell what they’re looking at.
This doesn’t bug me, since it wasn’t used in the story at all, and his robot mode was nice and accurate.
Lineage of Tanks.
So, in Transformers fandom parlance, an H-Tank refers to a common kind of made-up tank design you see a lot of bots change into, where the tank doesn’t really have a body, just a set of two treads with a turret in the middle, so it looks like an “H” when viewed from above.
When I transformed him, I put him in “H.”
The Fallen does have a fair amount of stuff between those treads of his, but they still dominate the shape of him. And it’s an impressively beefy shape, definitely feeling like a proper Leader-class vehicle. It does a kinda-sorta-okay job of pretending it’s not a re-arranged robot, with the biggest offender being the turret itself, which is really clearly two folded-up arms with a cannon jammed in between them. Still, it’s big, it’s mean, and it comes with spikes on either side of its front treads.
With important additions.
For colors, a lot of his fiery vents are hidden in this mode, so he’s a lot more like a slab of black and purple darkness, with only a few dabs of yellow on the front and sides. It’s intimidating in a way the robot mode isn’t. You can also add flames to this form, again, with the two larger orange pieces fitting at the front of the turret, albeit in a way that doesn’t match how fire works at all.
Grimlock made a big mistake with that stomp.
Honestly, the sharp orange against the black makes it look like the tank’s got eyes, with the tank turret looking like an insectoid proboscis, which is a whole other level of freaky.
Tank to Tank Communication.
For build quality, this is the first place where the figure really stumbles. The tank body itself stays together nice and well, but the tank turret does not. The problem is that the folded-up arms only plug into the Requiem Blaster via a couple of pegs at the back of the turret, and it’s very easy for these pegs to become undone when you move the turret around.
Freely rotating the turret can make this happen.
I’ve learned to start grabbing the turret from the back to stop it from coming undone, but honestly, this could have been fixed if there were also some pegs and holes at the front of the turret. It’s a rare miss for this guy.
Ride of the Primes….
….and of their enemy.
For features, firstly, he actually does roll, albeit on four little squeaky wheels, instead of his (completely fake) treads. The wheels get the job done, though. Next, he’s got a fully rotating turret, and a barrel that you can raise and lower, though doing both of these things risks making the tank turret come apart.
He can shoot upwards, though!
Time for an underwhelming beam clash.
When it comes to accessory integration, I mentioned the two large flame effects that you can place near the front of the turret. As for the rest of them, the instructions give you the bizarre option to clip both his weapons, and his two tiny flame effect parts together on a long spear, and peg that spear to the side of the tank. Flames don’t work that way!
That’s not how any of this works!
But there’s plenty of better places you can stash them. You can make him belch flames out of the back of the turret, or at the front of his treads, or out of his sides.
He makes sure no one gets too close to him on the highway.
You can also split his sword and trident up, and mount them on his sides, or at the front of him, or on the turret. You’ve got options! He’s got eight visible weapons ports that you can arm up, and if you flip the front of his arms sideways, you can up that number to ten, by accessing the ones on his forearms.
Because he wasn’t menacing enough already.
Like the robot mode, it feels like he’s got a ton of flexibility to him.
Prime’s about to discover how flexible he is.
Overall
“Feh. I’ve been killing Primes since the universe was young.”
“All that trouble for a mere bauble.”
The thing I keep coming back to with The Fallen is how uncompromised he feels. There’s a saying, or rather, a shape in the business world, a triangle with “fast,” “cheap,” and “good” written on its corners. The idea is you can only pick two out of the three when putting out a product or service, and that one is sacrificed for the other two. With Leader-class Transformers, I think there’s a similar thing, but it’s a shape with a few more corners, and they say stuff like “size,” “high partscount,” “high articulation,” “Lots of color,” “a lot of accessories,” and a few other things, and it’s generally understood that a figure having some of them means it needs to give up a few others. But The Fallen is somehow hits every corner of the shape, with no compromises. He’s big, complex, poseable, and has a ton of features and accessories. Plus, he’s based on the first, and best version of the character.
Compare him to Grimlock, who’s bigger, but much simpler, and with fewer accessories and features.
“GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!”
Even if you don’t know who The Fallen is, he’s just an incredibly cool-looking figure, one with a ton of playability, and one that’s just very well-designed.
He speaks for himself.
I said I’m not getting any of the other Thirteen Primes, but if they’re all as good as this one, we’re in for a fun line, indeed. As for The Fallen, if you have Leader-class money to spend, he’s absolutely, positively worth picking up, and I highly recommend him. Just maybe forget the “Megatronus” part of the name, like history was supposed to have.
But what does Cappi think?
Trust me, she said he’s cool.
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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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Our Collectors in Disguise will reveal some of their recent cool finds on this weeks TelaTraan 1 segment of the Frenzy Freestyle Sunday. Join us in the chat or comments and let us know what new or old Transformers you were able to find this week.
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