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Energon Cruel-Lock & Doom-Lock
and
Super Link Dinobot & Dinobot Magma Type
Review
Cruellock is one of those Dinosaurs where I'm not exactly sure what the is. My initial thoughts said raptor (with bits on), but now I'm edging towards a more
Godzillad Tyrannosaur. His head, back and tail are moulded in dark green plastic, with the body & upper limbs in dark grey, the shoulders hips & chest -
containing the spark - in light grey, the lower limbs in a lighter green and the claws on the arms & the legs as well as the Energon Star & weapons parts in
a clear pale green. He's got decent limb articulation with ball joints for shoulders, elbows & hips while his knees & ankles bend and his jaw opens.
However there's nothing in tail, that remains fixed.
You push the hips together to sort of auto tf it and then straighten the limbs while dino head hangs on robot back kibblicous stylie. Turn the head round,
then separate the tail to remove the weapon, which is a sword. There's a gun as well which I couldn't work out where to put it in the dino mode to start
with - turns out there's a section of the sword base that bends to the side to accommodate it in the tail. The gun combines with the sword to form a hilt for
it. The robot has all the articulation of the dino mode, plus the rotating head.
Not bad robot - apart from the dino head hanging there - and a very nice sword.
Cruellock was available as SD-12 Dinobot in the Superlink series in Japan. The Energon Star, sword & gun were also released in a pinkish colour with SD-21
Galvatron General.
This toy was numbered SD-17 in the Superlink series.
This is a straight colour swap for those used on Cruellock: Both dark & light green becomes red, dark grey becomes brown and the grey becomes black while he
now has a more yellow Energon instead of green/yellow.
Lovely repaint, so good that Hasbro us it as a base for the Doom-Lock colour scheme.
Doomlock is an excellent repaint - dark burgundy for the dark green, mid grey for the lighter green, very pale for the dark grey and a sort of odd pale
primrose/cream yellow for the pale grey. Orange Energon - of all the basic repaints he is the only one with radically different coloured Energon and the
orange suits him. Looks fab.
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