Death's Head
17-08-11, 05:52 PM
Insecticon is based on those buzzy little creatures seen during Revenge Of The Fallen. Like a lot of toys based on their onscreen counterparts, he’s not a sterling success (see also: Scorponok, Ravage and Soundwave).
In Insect mode, Insecticon is a nicely detailed and coloured creepy little thing. I like the metallic sheen the creature has, which helps distract from the dull grey plastics. The head is suitably creepy, with mandibles and visible beady red eye. The wings are a nice, bright shade of translucent turquoise. They have very limited movement though, and a trick has been missed in making them a little more articulated.
Insecticon’s robot mode is basically the insect standing up. You just move his head/waist assembly about and jiggle the limbs about to your own design. As such, he barely transforms and quickly falls into the same underwhelming bracket as Ravage. However, the superb sculpting and detailing carries over to this mode, which goes a long way in excusing how basic Insecticon is. Indeed, so tight does Insecticon look that he seems to me to bear the hallmarks of a figure that has been scaled down from a larger size class. Shame Hasbro didn’t do this for Scorponok and Ravage really. You can excuse simplicity in a Scout Class toy, less so in a Deluxe.
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In Insect mode, Insecticon is a nicely detailed and coloured creepy little thing. I like the metallic sheen the creature has, which helps distract from the dull grey plastics. The head is suitably creepy, with mandibles and visible beady red eye. The wings are a nice, bright shade of translucent turquoise. They have very limited movement though, and a trick has been missed in making them a little more articulated.
Insecticon’s robot mode is basically the insect standing up. You just move his head/waist assembly about and jiggle the limbs about to your own design. As such, he barely transforms and quickly falls into the same underwhelming bracket as Ravage. However, the superb sculpting and detailing carries over to this mode, which goes a long way in excusing how basic Insecticon is. Indeed, so tight does Insecticon look that he seems to me to bear the hallmarks of a figure that has been scaled down from a larger size class. Shame Hasbro didn’t do this for Scorponok and Ravage really. You can excuse simplicity in a Scout Class toy, less so in a Deluxe.
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