FINALLY! After Prime, Dinobots, and such we get a Decepticon!! We have Lockdown, the antagonist in Transformers 4. This is the guy who took down Prime…who could only be taken out by a cheap shot…this is the badass of the movie…so now we have his toy in hand…
…and holy sweet mother this toy SUCKS!! I really don’t know where to begin…ok, yes I do, the entire thing is just a wad of let down. In the movie this guy was lithe, all ninja like…this guy? Stumpy legs, blocky arms…hell his body is all round and kibbley…
Oh and that one time in the movie where he turns his head into a gun? LOOK AT THIS!!! I want to put him out of his misery…
Articulation? Ok, knees check, hips? Not on ball joints? Nope, just swivels, which on mine are too loose. Elbows, yeah ok, but don’t ask for wrists nor waist.
Not all is total loss…face looks great, and his coloring is cool. I even like the pistons and such in his legs. The gun also isn’t too bad, has a friction launcher for the missile. Dagger though? Grenade? Hook? NOPE!
Oh an yeah, this is a deluxe…yet Prime is only as a Voyager or Leader. I really don’t see this guy wiping the floor with Prime. I know this is a kid’s toy, but even a kid would be like “Something isn’t right here.”
Alt mode is a spiffy sports car yes. Clean lines, and sharp angles but man I have a serious issue with this car…
NO DAMN WINDOWS! Really? Seriously? I mean how many figures have been made with that little plastic on a hinge? This is beyond cheap and shoddy in design.
Oh and the gun fits on the roof. Yaaaay…weeee!
I know I’ve enjoyed the Dinobots, I’ve enjoyed every freaking figure in the line as of now…but this guy? Just sad…I mean Drift here (I know, need to review) can hit a pretty damn decent action pose. What you see above was the best I could muster! Oh and that display stand port I’ve been gushing over? Yeah, one in car mode, but not one here! Still, that isn’t the biggest let down, oh no.
The killer is that Lockdown here has been done before, as Dark of the Moon Roadbuster! Transformation is the same, layout is the same, but we have a lot less figure! Seriously it’s honestly like they finished all the awesome Dinobots, Evasion Prime and all the rest…it was 20 minutes to deadline and the design team was "crap we forgot the actual DECEPTICON in this movie, what do we have?" So we get an inferior rehash of an older toy. I can not recommend this figure at all. Trust me, pass on this guy, he’s just a total let down.
-Starscreamer