Intro:
Welcome
back folks, to another edition of Transformers Reviews. Today, New Planet
Cybertron Weblog returns with the review of the Combiner Wars Combaticons
member – Blast-Off.
Blast
Off is the loner of the group, and functions as the sniper of the group. In the
original G1 continuity, Blast Off is supposed to be a space shuttle. In fact,
even his bios at the back of the box indicate, or rather gave the allusions
that he is still a space shuttle, because he flies in orbit.
It
seems that Blast Off has chosen a more Earth-based mode in order to be closer
to his team mates, and be “part of the team”.
Anyways,
let’s get on with the reviews.
Alternate
Mode:
Blast
Off shares the same mold with the Aerialbots’ Firefly/ Fireflight.
The
color scheme used harkens back to the original Blast Off, i.e. dark brown.
Blast
Off also comes with 2 other accessories: the hand/foot piece and a gun. When
used in jet mode, it kinda looks strange, because you will end up with a big
and a small weapon on each side respectively. It looks quite imbalanced.
There’s
not much you can do with this mode, save probably pulling down the front
landing gear.
A
slick mode nonetheless.
Robot
Mode:
Transformation
from vehicle mode to robot mode is very simple, and within 10 steps, you will
finally get to the robot mode.
Again
the dark color scheme fits the character quite well.
The
points of articulation are as follows:
a)
The head is on a ball joint
b)
The shoulders and hips are on
ball joints
c)
The elbows bend
d)
The arms rotate slightly above
the elbows
e)
Waist joint
f)
The legs rotate below the hips
g)
The knees bend
The points of
articulations are fairly good, and are quite tight. The accessories can be
wielded nicely by Blast Off. However, since he’s a sniper, I was kind of hoping
that he would be armed with a sniper gun instead of a normal generic-looking
gun.
That’s just a
small gripe though from me – just a minor one.
Overall, I think
this mode is rather good.
Overall:
Blast
Off is a rather good figure, but I do wish that he would stick to his original
space shuttle mode. But Hasbro being Hasbro, and I’m not really that surprised
that they were unwilling to spend money on creating another new mold, which
could only be used once.
If
you can look past that so-called inaccurate alternate mode, then I think you’d
probably love this figure.
Recommended.
Final
verdict: 7.5/10.
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