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Aloha folks, today we have none other than our first WFC Kingdom review: Cyclonus! You know the drill. Let's get started!
Boxing
My very first Kingdom figure and review. Comes with a nice artwork on the box, a trading card I do believe is random per figure, never the less, I got Dinobot from Beast wars. This line is mainly going to be Beast wars and I never really had an attachment to BW, so my wallet will rest easy on this line. Galvatron is seen on the Kingdom promo artwork on the side. From what I heard, he is coming!
Standing tall with RTS Cyclonus, 86 Scourge, and TR Galvatron.
Cyclonus the warrior and his Armada! Cyclonus is the tallest of them all! I can only imagine how Galvatron (Kingdom version) will be height wise when he debuts. Hastak decided to go with a lighter shade of purple for this version. In the G1 toons, Cyclonus was often dark purple or lighter. Some people I know prefer the darker purple, like me, and some the light. He comes with a nicely silver painted Y blaster.
Cyclonus has good joints. They work very well. The paint they used all around is nice for him. No qualms really even if I preferred a darker purple. He has this huge gap behind his knee some folks have been clamoring about some time now. I'm ok with it since you aren't looking at his side or behind his knees the entire time.
No claim here on whether he is Skywarp or Bombshell. For all these years, he was Bombshell to fans due to the way his morph sequence was animated in the movie. Years later, the writers/creators/producers state it is now Skywarp. I'm ok with either or but I think the latter now does makes more sense due to Skywarp being far loyal to Megatron (reformatted into Galvatron) than Bombshell. Still, its up to you. Secretly, Cyclonus was Megaman in a previous life as well. He has arm cannons to boot.
86 Scourge looks nice here. He does have the 86 look and feel whereas Cyclonus actually doesn't. Don't get me wrong, Cyclonus looks great but just compare this figure with an 86 anime image of him. Not quite 86. Still Cyclonus is done well for this line. It's Kingdom anyway so he wasn't meant to look 86.
I was missing Nightstick on this review again, so RTS Cyclonus had to just do. As you can see, Voyager Cyclonus is miles bigger and fleshed out in comparison to RTS Cyclo. For years the latter was the classics version. I guess it is conclusive to say Cyclonus is the Kingdom one now. I guess classics can be his Armada.
Alt mode
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| More gaps! |
For the most part, this mode is easy to transform into. I did use the instructions to double check because I did transform his back thrusters wrong. So it was 85% my own and 15% instruction. I love the landing gears both the RTS version and this one had; I just found out on the RTS having landing gear actually. I did transform the RTS version wrong in this one. If you look at his knees which forms the belly, it is touching the ground. No biggie. Another issue was my version, on each side of the cockpit, the tabs don't stay in leaving a small gap on both sides. I captioned it on the pic to give you an idea. Once again, it's probably just my figure.
*Update* My TF buddy said the gaps are normal. Carry on.
Conclusion:
Overall, I did like the Kingdom version. However, if we are to compare him to the 86 Scourge, you probably be a little disappointed mainly because he doesn't have the feel or the look to his anime counterpart. However, he still plays nice and he is worth the $30. At the time of this review, he seems awfully tough to get. He was released back December in some selected stores and supposedly had a wide release by Jan/Feb but he didn't seem to show up here in Hawaii at all. Ebay became my best friend for this guy so expect to pay the extra fees. $43 bucks total shipped which includes a finder's fee wasn't bad at all. He fits well for those who love the 3rd season G1 line. See ya next time.
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| What are you gaping at? |
86 Scourge here
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