Phil's Transforers Seacon Seawing Masterforce Seacon Kraken and Beast Wars II Terrormander Review  <hr><h1><center> Phil's<br> Transforers Seacon Seawing <br> Masterforce Seacon Kraken<br> and<br> Beast Wars II Terrormander <br>Review </center></h1> <hr><h2><A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Seawing/seawing.htm">Seacon Seawing</a></h2> Seawing is a sea monster based on a Manta Ray, but with the addition of legs behind his wings which turn at the hips and bend at the ankles. The wings can fold up at the body and the jaw opens ..... which will cause some trouble later! The top of Seawing's body, his legs and jaw are the same aquamarine plastic found on other Seacons, while the wings and lower body are grey. The sides of his head, feet, tail and weapons are black. He comes with two guns, each with it's own curved wing. One gun can be pegged under each wing to form an attack mode for Seawing. <P> Like all the other Seacon limbs, Seawing has a weapons mode that can be used independently with a stand (see Overbite's review) or as a hand weapon for the combined <A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Piranacon/piranacon.htm">Piranacon</a>. Fold the legs back, fold the wings upwards, peg the guns together to form a gun that mirrors Seawing's shape and peg into the 5mm plug on Seawing's nose. To hold or mount the weapon fold down the Scramble City style connector under the toy. <P> To form Seawing's robot mode, start by folding back the wings on the beast mode. Fold the tail back. Pull the sides of the face forward and then flip them round 180 degrees. Stand on his beast mode nose. Fold the legs down to the sides to serve as robot arms. Fold the feet back to form the hands. <P> The robot mode has some very odd legs with the body coming down to near to the floor and short stubby legs to either side. Remember the mouth? Now it's on the front of the lower body with the hinge at waist level. And the mouth can still open. Oh dear. Thankfully it doesn't open too far! The legs move at the "hips" and the arms move at the shoulders in this mode while the wrists bend mainly as part of the transformation. He can hold his guns either as individual weapons or as a combined gun. There's a lot of grey in this mode with the legs, connector in the centre of the chest and hands being black and the arms the aquamarine which makes the robot mode look a little plain. <P> Seawing can form a limb for <A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Piranacon/piranacon.htm">Piranacon</a>: <P> Arm mode: Beast mode with the connector peg under the fish folded out and a hand plugged in the 5mm hole on the nose. <P> Leg mode: Robot mode, but push the legs/feet up and plug a foot into the 5mm hole between the legs. <P> You can mount Seawing's weapons under his wings in limb mode to give <A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Piranacon/piranacon.htm">Piranacon</a> a little extra armament. In all the places this toy has appeared under the Nautilator name he has served as <A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Piranacon/piranacon.htm">Piranacon's</a> left arm. <p> Seawing has a nice looking beast and weapons mode, but is a little let down by the robot mode. <P> Seawing was released as Seacon SE2 who was also available in the <A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Piranacon/piranacon.htm">Piranacon</a> Giftset. He was released in Japan as Masterforce Season D-314 Kraken and also available in the D-318 King Poseidon giftset. Seawing was re-released in 2010 as part of Generations Commemorative series Piranacon giftset where, to use the original name, he's had the Decepticon prefix added becomming <a href=http://www.tfu.info/2010/Decepticon/BBTSSeawing/seawing.htm>Decepticon Seawing</a>. This release of Seawing is very similar, if not identical to the original. <hr><h2><A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1998/Destron/Terrormander/terrormander.htm">Beast Wars II Terrormander</a></h2> Seawing is repainted as Terrormander, part of the Beast Wars II Seacons team. The following colour swaps apply on this toy: <P> White for blue & black<br> Shiny pearl grey for grey <P> In addition there's quite a lot of additional paint added including completely covering the outer halves of the head in gold paint. As a downside he looses his weapons and weapons stand like the other Beast Wars II Seacons. <P> Terrormander was available in Japan in 1998 where he was only sold in the D-21 <A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1998/Destron/GodNeptune/godneptune.htm">God Neptune</a> set. <hr><h2><A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/TFCCSeawing/seawing.htm">TFCC Seawing</a></h2> Originally intended as an exclusive to a store in the USA, possibly an Energon/Universe exclusive to Wal*Mart, the Universe Seacons were eventually released several years later through the Transformers Collectors Club. <P> Seawing uses the following colour swaps: <P> Grey becomes orange.<br> Blue becomes off white.<br> Black looks like is stay the same <p> *BUT* there's a small amount of purple plastic visible on the tail hinge on the TFU photos which makes me think the black is actually paint over purple plastic. <A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Nautilator/nautilator.htm">Nautilator</a> uses the same black for his beast legs and <A HREF="http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/TFCCNautilator/nautilator.htm">TFCC Nautilator</a> has purple legs so.... However I don't have a TFCC set in hand to check but to my eye the black looks painted. <P> Seawing again comes with all his weapons and accessories in this release. <P> Who's idea was the orange ? It looks awful and doesn't work at all! <p><hr> <a href="mailto:philip_ayres@btinternet.com">Email Philip</a> </p><p> <a href="index.html">Phil's TF Review Page</a> </p></body></html>  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://stats.hosting24.com/count.php"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.hosting24.com/"><img src="http://stats.hosting24.com/count.php" alt="web hosting" /></a></noscript>