Sowndwave76 wrote:Good morning,
CW has re-ignited my interest in collecting, and for the most part I'm only going after Decepticons.
So back whenever Generations Blitzwing was released, I passed on him multiple times.
I think partially because I wasn't sold on his look, and also because I had zero interest in whatever the main line was at that time.
But since I'm not going for any CW Autobots (except Hotspot), I'm considering going back and getting Blitzwing. I just checked out the gallery on this guy, but I'm still on the fence.
I'm leaning towards getting him since I don't have one in my collection.
But is he worth getting??
Well, he hasnt had the best of feedback:
The toy is renowned for two significant design flaws. The first is that tabs meant to anchor the robot shoulders to the chest never solidly lock into place—they are simply too far apart. This makes his shoulder assemblies swing up and out of his chest when the shoulders are rotated up. Pressing the shoulder slots into the chest tabs sometimes works to counter this, but it depends on the tolerances of each individual figure.
The second major flaw concerns the face-swapping feature; almost universally, this does not actually end up working because the rotating faces are rendered immobile by an excess of paint on the inside of the helmet, including the post the faces are mounted on.
I personally own the doubledealer version of the mold and while the thriple changer nature of the figure is nice, I really dont like how the shoulders dont tab in, it makes him all loosey goosey. Buy him if you can find a decent deal but I wouldnt pay inflated aftermarket prices for him.