Death's Head
17-08-11, 06:04 PM
After the fiddly and embarrassing chicken legged fiasco of Blazemaster, the Autobots have a second go with the military themed Tomahawk whom is a helicopter gunship type thing.
The alt mode is bloody fantastic. A really sleek looking design, coupled with some nice decals and paint apps and huge great missile launchers. Only the long child safe missiles spoil things somewhat. As with Blazemaster there are no dangling robot limbs visible and only the obvious swap between black and grey on the underside gives betrays the concealment of the limbs. Easily the best looking helicopter out of the entire Transformers range, I'd say. The rotor blades don't spin so freely, at least not on my example, but that's not the end of the world.
Transforming to robot mode is a very smooth and swift process. The legs drop out from underneath and the tail splits down the middle and folds forward to form the arms and the cockpit essentially drops down to form the chest and reveal the head. It won’t challenge you, and were I to accurately mark it Hasbro's complexity scale, I'd give him a '2'. It's just a great straight forward process.
Now: the robot mode. Interesting looking thing isn't it? It's a bit like someone decided to make Transmutate out of Beast Wars into a proper Transformer. He's quite an awkward and ungainly looking thing. Mainly it's those huge big feet he has, coupled with some cluttered looking forearms. He very much looks like what a helicopter might, were it able to walk about. I think it would work a lot better had Tomahawk been given a more movie-themed (and therefore alien looking) head sculpt. As it is, it looks like he's had a Lego spaceman's head plonked on his shoulders. It's quite a jarring look and I think he'd have looked awesome with a boxy camera head like 1985's Whirl (and Hasbro could have then done a cheeky light blue repaint for the Generations line...). A bit of an odd one then.
In terms of action features, in addition to the shoulder mounted missile launchers, Tomahawk's tail section also doubles as a forearm mounted scissor blade. It's a bit feeble really, when you compare it to the in-universe Sideswipe toy that has a similar set of bladed forearms. And its only the blades on the right arm that move.
As with Terradive, you may struggle to pick Tomahawk up for a reasonable price outside of the US. Which means you'll be paying a premium for a very odd looking figure. He looks nice, transforms well and is good fun to play with, but is he worth paying over £20 for? Absolutely not.
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The alt mode is bloody fantastic. A really sleek looking design, coupled with some nice decals and paint apps and huge great missile launchers. Only the long child safe missiles spoil things somewhat. As with Blazemaster there are no dangling robot limbs visible and only the obvious swap between black and grey on the underside gives betrays the concealment of the limbs. Easily the best looking helicopter out of the entire Transformers range, I'd say. The rotor blades don't spin so freely, at least not on my example, but that's not the end of the world.
Transforming to robot mode is a very smooth and swift process. The legs drop out from underneath and the tail splits down the middle and folds forward to form the arms and the cockpit essentially drops down to form the chest and reveal the head. It won’t challenge you, and were I to accurately mark it Hasbro's complexity scale, I'd give him a '2'. It's just a great straight forward process.
Now: the robot mode. Interesting looking thing isn't it? It's a bit like someone decided to make Transmutate out of Beast Wars into a proper Transformer. He's quite an awkward and ungainly looking thing. Mainly it's those huge big feet he has, coupled with some cluttered looking forearms. He very much looks like what a helicopter might, were it able to walk about. I think it would work a lot better had Tomahawk been given a more movie-themed (and therefore alien looking) head sculpt. As it is, it looks like he's had a Lego spaceman's head plonked on his shoulders. It's quite a jarring look and I think he'd have looked awesome with a boxy camera head like 1985's Whirl (and Hasbro could have then done a cheeky light blue repaint for the Generations line...). A bit of an odd one then.
In terms of action features, in addition to the shoulder mounted missile launchers, Tomahawk's tail section also doubles as a forearm mounted scissor blade. It's a bit feeble really, when you compare it to the in-universe Sideswipe toy that has a similar set of bladed forearms. And its only the blades on the right arm that move.
As with Terradive, you may struggle to pick Tomahawk up for a reasonable price outside of the US. Which means you'll be paying a premium for a very odd looking figure. He looks nice, transforms well and is good fun to play with, but is he worth paying over £20 for? Absolutely not.
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