Phil's
Beast Wars Silverbolt
and
Beast Wars II Skywarp
Review
Silverbolt is a bird of prey, probably an Eagle. A basic bird of prey has been done before in Beast Wars - as Airazor - this is more deluxe sized. The bird is cast in a mixture of brown & gold plastic with some white making up the extremes of the toy and some yellow paint on head and feet. The tail moves up & down as do the wings at their base. The legs are ball jointed at hip & knee and bend at the ankle. The head leans forward and the mouth opens. The wings themselves are straight - no joints in them - but the wing tips fold in exposing a missile launcher. The missiles can be fired out to the sides or both wings can be pointed so the missiles fire in the same direction. The toy does an excelent job of hiding it's robot parts away with very little of the robot being visible in bird mode.
TF: Look at the underside of the beast. Fold the wings and body down from the front exposing the chest and partially pulling the arms through from under the tail. Fold the body and arms out via a hinge at the base of the body, locking them in place with a click then fold the body and wings back so they lock into the rest of the bird. Straighten the arms, and rotate at the knees so the front of the knee faces forward. Remove the backs of the wings to act as swords for the robot.
Almost all the exposed robot body uses the brown plastic with the forearms, head and lower legs in white and the feet in gold. Ball joints abound - head, shoulders, elbows, hips and knees with just the ankles being normal bending joints. The wings may be worn bent back, to the sides or bent forward for shooting.
Decent bird, decent robot, good weapons. Strongest of the Magnaboss trio overall
The only difference between Beast Wars Silverbolt and Beast Wars II Skywarp is that Skywarp has a head painted silver. I broke my Skywarp out the box and have had to patch it together with Silverbolt - when close examination revealed that was the difference I swapped the heads.
Skywarp is Beast Wars II toy C-27 and is available in the X-4 boxset with the other members of the team that combine to form Magnaboss
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