Boxing and contents
Looking good here. Wheelie is very difficult to find now unless you shop at Ebay. I obtained this figure for $25 shipped. Once again, I hesitated to buy this legends toys and paid a higher price when I finally wanted him. Anyhow, same old Takara gimmick where it comes with a comic-relief style manga. Wheelie and Goshooter are playing soccer against Galvatron who is using Megatron's head. How the high and mighty have fallen. Not to mention, Wheelie is also making trouble to Arcee and the other female autobots.
Here is the full synopsis:
Out of the box (Wheelie and GoShooter):
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| Both in focus |
Shuta Go is a human that partnered up with his living transtector, GoShooter (flip those two names in reverse). Shuta is part of the Super-God masterforce G1 continuity; a continuity I am unfamiliar with. Anyone interested, click on the link for his full bio: Not much to say about GoShooter. Easily transformable and love the visor for his headmaster gimmick.
As for Wheelie the toy, I'm glad Takara/Hasbro made a legends assortment rather than the overgrown deluxe remold Jazz figure we had a few years ago. Too bad this Wheelie doesn't come with his slingshot. Wheelie is nice looking though sometimes the different shades of Orange just put me off. The glass case on his chest is superb looking. However, my Wheelie figure isn't without flaws. Sometimes Wheelie has trouble standing because his foot is just flat out straight with all that weight in his body forcing him to fall backwards from time to time. The arms would sometimes peg off as I am trying to transform him, which can be troublesome to some collectors. The idea of a arm falling off is never a good sign, but in this case it's easily re-attachable.
Transform!
Fairly easy to transform though I had to look at the box a few times to make sure I did it right. I love how you can open the hatch to insert Goshooter to make it seem as if he is a race car driver. Nice gimmick. My only real complaint is that Wheelie, or my copy that is, doesn't seem to stay pegged in vehicle mode. If you look at my pics, it seems like every open or crack is inching out. Everytime I opened, let's say a hatch, I had to peg some areas back together. Mines look sloppily transformed but I did the best I could. I spent a couple minutes trying to figure this out but you can continuously see the jig-saw like structures in my pics. I finally got it to snap together to put goshooter in eventually though I still wasn't too impressed with it's overall presentation.
Finale
Overall, I'm not a big fan of car modes for display so the positives still outweigh the negatives. Wheelie is a nice figure and a must have for G1 completionists. I'll pair him up with Legends Blurr when I get around to shooting that figure. Can't go wrong with Takara once again.
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