by Wolfman Jake » Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:37 am
- Motto: ""A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller."
-Edward Hoagland"
- Weapon: Retractable Mecha-Fangs
To further right this ship, I'll gush a bit here about Unite Warriors Computron! I got my sets delivered yesterday (at last!). He's terrific, he's sturdy, and he looks fantastic along side his Autbobot combiner brethren.
In person, Afterburner still comes off as mostly red, though a much lighter shade that other red components of the team and gestalt. Some pictures had depicted him with a slightly orange-red hue, but I don't see it in hand, at least with the lighting in my apartment. The only other bummer is that the windshield and front wheel assembly doesn't collapse a little more.
Strafe is truly amazing. Though a retool of the UW Blast Off mold, you'd hardly realize it from the robot mode (or the alternate mode, for that matter). Mine seems to snap together quite a bit more securely, especially in arm mode, than my UW Blast Off, which is a big plus. I also love the attention to detail, like how the tail fins fold away in arm mode to tuck in everything, even the robot mode arms, neatly.
Scattershot is awesome, I already knew what to expect mostly from the "beta" version of him Hasbro released at retail, but the extra remolding and expert paint apps make the Takara version really shine. The new guns are nice, but somewhat awkward to attach in alt mode.
Lightspeed is just what he is. A mostly red repaint of Combiner Wars Wheeljack with a new head. That's fine. He plays the part very well, but there are no surprises here. The new guns are nice too.
Nosecone is perhaps the most fun to transform and play with. He's loaded with guns! More to the point, though, his transformation is very satisfying. The mechanisms to manipulate the huge drill piece work well and are mostly intuitive. It's nice that the drill isn't a "parts" Transformation in this regard, but integrated effectively into the whole of the figure.
Finally, for Computron himself, I'll say that I like that you can combine SOME of the Technobots' weapons into the gestalt mode gun. I was disappointed at first that not all of them are utilized, but soon found there are clever little places to stick the rest of them, to "fill out" the combined mode just a little more. It just adds to the uniqueness of the figure, which manages to feel so new, despite everything being, at best, a remold from earlier in the line.
Wolfman Jake - Spendin' the day howlin' away.
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. If you open Payload's landing gear, you can peg it into the weapon hole on Strafe. You end up with an inverted version of what CW Computron does with Scrounge, but it still looks cool and is a secure fit.
). In every other mode, it just makes everything a mess. The helicopter blades are my least favorite thing about the AB mold and four blades makes it worse.
