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| Fighting Draconian measures one at a time. |
I'm on a row. Just getting off my butt to do these shoots and review. Without delay, let's get started.
I don't seem to see a location name for his map piece like Trailbreaker. Anyhow, that is your box and contents.
Standing tall
I noticed I put the engine on his back wrong.
Ankle tilting
This was one of the figures that I contemplated of getting due to me already being impressed with Henkei Sunstreaker. Not to mention, I really loved the mustard yellow the Henkei version sported. However, Hastak decided to scale figures so that really threw everything out the window had you invested in any figure prior to the Siege line.
First off, ER Streaker looks decent. I too share the complaints of some others on why he has different shades of yellow- namely his chest piece (canopy) and both his forearms. Both these areas are colored with a very light yellow while a darker shade of yellow and some blacks fill out the rest of the figure. Why? I don't know.
Then the 2nd complaint comes with his choice of weapon. Truthfully, he has none. For this release, the engine is his supposedly weapon of choice. However, he could barely hold on to it. It pegs well on his back, his forearms or even his mini shoulder stacks ( a feature that visually defined him in the G1 toys and cartoons, though over here it looks very small and obscured from certain angles.). The lack of an actual weapon is possibly the most disappointing aspect in this figure.
Last but a novel gesture, he has ankle tilting. I guess for more array of poses. Not too bad to have at all really.
Alt mode
This is where the lighter yellow is more evidently noticed and it makes you question the consistency even further. I mean what was Hastak thinking? Perhaps, like what my TF buddy would say, they probably lost the budget to paint him entirely and give him proper weapons. Worst off, Streaker is missing a wing/spoiler. I guess they really did run out of money. Another minor gripe was that his front window is halved off due to the bottom half of the window stemming from his heels. Why they decided to make it like this once again is beyond my understanding. So there is literally the jigsaw effect on his front window. There is a good thing or two and that is it is easy to transform from robot mode into this alt mode, I'll give this figure that. Plus, the design doesn't look bad overall.
With Siege Sideswipe
"I have weapons to spare"
The Lambo brothers together. As you can see, Nonnef's extra weapons came to save the day. Streaker was really happy to fire off Sideswipe's guns. Even Sideswipe had difficulty grasping the engine weapon Streaker came with. It fit well on his biceps though. Worst off is that I couldn't attach any of Sideswipe's weapons on those two empty ports of Streakers alt mode. However, I was able to mix and match a few of their weapons on one another on the canopy area. Use your imagination.
Conclusion:
Streaker is a very simple figure. However, he really feels barebones- lack of a real weapon I say? He also looks very simple in comparison to Sideswipe, whom I was wowed by his close resemblance to his G1 look. The choice of yellow baffles me as well. Because of this, he feels so random at times. I'm pretty sure we'll get him mainly just to scale with the current line of WFC figures and complete your season 1 ark characters. Just wait for Nonnef to save the day on the lack of weapons. Er Sunstreaker is possibly the closest Streaker figure to G1 if you missed out on his previous incarnations. Toodles.
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