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Hotshots part deux

Generations Select Seige Hotshot is great. The paint is good, even the often complained about battle damage. The posiblity is up to the usual seige standards.  Hotshot was a staple of early 2000s transformers which we really don't  see anymore. Which kind of annoys me. We never see this era get love anymore. Generations is usually a G1 only affair. So getting any Unicron trilogy stuff is great. 

The Hound mold kind of works. Yeah he is usually a car. But we have so many cars with the brash young speedster vibe. In a world of 'Bee, Blurr and Hotrod, Hotshot kind of gets made redundant. That's why this Jeep mode works, he's an offroad warrior who can go where the cars can't. He does his own thing outside the kid appeal car he was. This form based off his upgraded combat vehicle mode. Which makes the lack of both his pals Scattorshot and Redalert kind of glaring. Come on Hasbro... Complete the set!

The transform is a good one. Nothing finicky and the leg compression is spectacular. Kind of bummed I can't leave the ammo clip in place. Upper torso is kind of just business as usual so not much to say.  Although 30 Canadian is rough for a Hound with a new head. New weapons or an effect part would have made it feel a bit more worth the price.

Where to put him? Hotshot actually looks great with most figures. I've found this figure is kind of a chameleon. He fits with Wreckers, Autobot cars, and most of generations. In the end I recommend him, he is a good figure with that early 2000s appeal. Could be the new toy smell but I have no real complaints.

Only logical...

I think I should open on a couple things, this is just my opinion and I don’t have a scale or point system I’m going off of…

Scary right?

So Shockwave’s always been one of those “How the heck have we not seen you in the ever expanding acronym of CHUG?” kind of things. Like he’s popular, has a really distinct design, and turns into a SCI-FI thing. They don’t really have to update anything anyway, but for some reason pure G1 shockwave never really happened. We’d get a tanks, jets, and even cars before a one two punch of Combiner Wars and Masterpiece. Those were great, but not that classics Shockwave I dreamed of. Then Seige hit.

Leader class Shockwave… Who was actually a voyager. “Alright” I said in confusion. “I’ll bite, what the hell is going on?” So you remember how CW seemed to be a big old official finger to the 3rd party scene? Well this seems to be Hasbro beating people to the upgrade armor punch. The official word is for “scale” reasons, but “the scale” has always been set to bullshit. The armor’s fun. It looks goofy, can bulk up either mode or act as a goblin glider for figures. I like it, and that’s not just do to the amount of firepower currently aimed at my head. It’s that goofy “it’s a toy” kind of stuff I miss from the good mainline Transformers.

Robot mode looks and feels like a greebled off Masterpiece figure that was shrunk in the wash. He is striking, poseable, and one of those definitive version kind of figures. His spaceship mode (with and without parts) is neat. If you hold it upside down you get the SPACE GUN! Which is neat. Honestly I got no complaints. The figure is solid and there is no kibble to speak of.

Space ship mode

Space gun mode

Space gunship 

All in all, I recommend him. He is 60-70 Canadian but worth it. Even if you don't use the armor on him it's still 5mm compatible so you can always useful as a floating platform or weapons system upgrade for an unarmed figure.

Bohrok

 

Bionicle's early years were formative to the brand's feel. Tiny villagers, six toa, and a wide variety of large monsters. These aformentioned monsters were mostly limited to two per large box. 

Then the Bohrok came. 

A full wave of these strange creatures hit. A swarm of bizarre creatures bent on the obliteration of everything. Mechanical monsters controlled by strange parasitic brains assumed the price point the Toa occupied. The diminutive Bohrok Va accompanying them every step of their murderous charge. Personally I thought they made neat opposite number to the realitvly individualistic Toa. They also where a start of the hero villain cycle the line would use for most of its run and also where the poster child of the worst of the line's same figure with different weapons mentality.

Don't collect them all if your not totally fine with buying the same figure six times, but picking up maybe one or two is recommended by me. But be aware... If you wake one, you wake them all.

Well...

I actually don't really have anything too interesting to open on. I'm mostly looking to post whenever I have something I want to talk about. Not saying it'll be anything important though. Usually accompanied by some neat art or photos. 

I guess welcome to the party...