Transformers Generations: Kingdom Voyager War for Cybertron WFC-K9 Cyclonus review!

 

People want to believe in lies rather than hear a harsh truth.

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

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. 

What are you gaping at?

86 Scourge here

3D DIY weapons wheels upgrade KIT FOR earthrise Prowl Smokescreen Bluestreak review!

 

Got both of these kits of Ebay. How do they fare? Take a look-see.

I'm going to make a quick disclaimer here but I had issues removing the reprolabels for Prowl (3rd pic from here). I mainly wanted Prowl's gun since the one I had was very brittle. With the exception of Prowl's reprolabels, both Prowl and Bluestreak's kits come with shoulder cannons (unique design to both), stomach fillers, pegs to cover the wheels, and a rifle for each. 

As for the reprolabels, I would have loved it just to get Prowls police badge insignia's off at least. I tried using a tweezer and even tried bending the flaps just to get some kind of peel, but no dice. I ended scratching part of the red stickers (part of his headlights). So this review will pretty much have no emphasis on the reprolabels. :(

The upgrades

Hasbro's on the top (Bluestreak's weapons are the grey ones and other is Prowls.)

The missiles are detachable. 

Upgraded. I brought Prowl's rifle out of retirement just for this review. They are almost similar in design though DIY's designs look much better and much sturdier imo. The shoulder cannons which are a novelty (since he never had it in the cartoons) at this point are a flawless design as well. It's pretty much taken after his G1 toy. The missiles are detachable and the cannons can be leveled to your liking. The shoulder cannon too has this very sturdy feel to it. It's really well done. 

Bluestreaks shoulder cannons look more simplistic than Prowl's but it is G1 toon accurate; It's also the reason why I got this one over the nonnef version. Though Nonnef's version is based more on the G1 toy so it's a win for those who prefer the toy look. What makes this one stand out imo, is the dot matrix scope on his shoulder blasters. The scope gives the weapon a very intricate looking design. To mention this once more, it captures the visual essence of his toon look. His weapons too has a hefty feel. As for his old weapon, I turned his rifle with his old shoulder cannons into a tri-blaster. Smokescreen can do this as well. Well done here.

The stomach fillers

Before

After

Ditto for Bluestreak

So I guess it was quite bizarre that Hastak decided to leave part of their torso another color. With this accessory, you can now make the colors more consistent. It's a novelty too but nice to have. 

Alt mode

Reference on the wheel before and after.

I had to carefully transform Prowl in this mode since I had a minor mishap the last time. As you can see, this is where the pegs for the wheel shine. It covers that crevice that originally came in all 4 wheels. It was nice to have and it definitely is a big plus if you are into alt mode. 

Conclusion:

The parts can be found on Ebay for now. It's the same title for this topic: 3D DIY weapons wheels upgrade KIT FOR earthrise Prowl Smokescreen Bluestreak

Its about $17 bucks for each kit but it's worth it. Especially if you could get Prowl's labels to work. I only wanted the weapons at first but everything else came in handy. 

Pick it up if you want Bluestreak's G1 toon blasters and Prowl's G1 toy blaster colors. Mahalos.