Phil's
Legends of Cybertron Scourge,
Classics Tripticon
and
Universe Special Team Leaders Hun-Grrr
Review


Scourge

Scourge is a Wave 2 Legends of Cybertron toy. To me the name Scourge will always be Galvatron's henchman. But in recent years it's come to mean "Evil Optimus Prime" alternating in use on Black Optimus repaints with Nemesis Prime. In Japan all the planet leader toys were called Something Convoy - Convoy being the Japanese name for Optimus just in case someone reading this doesn't know that. The Beast Planet leader was called Flame Convoy and was a Decepticon so Scourge then becomes the obvious choice of name for the western version.

Scourge is effective reduction of the larger (ultra) toy in his dragon mode, but you can't pick any detail out on the dragon heads due to bright orange plastic being used - a dab of paint for the eyes would have helped. All the toy is moulded in orange save for the four beast feet which are grey. Ball joints exist on the central beast head, the shoulders/hips and the rear ankles. There's some on the front knee but the direction of bend is inwards eliminating it's use as an articulated joint.

TF: Fold the front legs out to the side and the front feet so they point back. Fold the tail up and straighten the back legs behind the toy. Fold the central beast head down onto the underside of the beast body - you may need to position the outer heads at different levels and turn the central head as it goes past them. Fold the robot head up and stand.

One of the first things that strikes you about the robot is how fat it looks - the body doesn't extend like the larger toy which emphasises that Scourge looks like he's been on the pies. Then we have the hands - folded up at right angles to the forearms. I'd have moulded the hands straight onto the back of the foot. Further up the arm the elbow only folds back which is useless. Seeing as this was joint was also the wrong way round for a knee in beast mode I can only conclude that a moulding error has been made. Move the open segment of the ball socket round to the front and we'd have a properly bending arm. The robot head, ankles, hips, shoulders and aforementioned elbows are all ball jointed.

Overall: Too many pies and two too many errors on the arms spoil the toy.


Trypticon

Trypticon is a Wave 1 Classics Legend toy.

Instead of doing the Cryo Scourge colour scheme here, the body being moulded in grey, with the feet being done in purple and the shoulders & head spikes painted a pale purple. Given the Leobreaker repaint many assumed this would be BWII Galvatron but the Trypticon name is appropriate given the dragon's 3 heads. As before the robot looks like he's had far too many good dinners ! But a nice attractive colour scheme.


Hun-Grrr

Hun-Grrr is found in the Universe Special Team leaders boxset.

The original Hun-Grrr was a two headed dragon so it's not too much of a stretch to make him a three headed dragon for Universe. Indeed a two headed mode can be formed by folding the central beast head down into it's robot mode position under the beast. Orange becomes an off white/very pale grey here with the feet moulded in a darker grey and purple highlights applied to the head & shoulder spikes. Decent use of the G1 paint scheme.


Unreleased Full Size versions

There are three version of the full size Scourge not released in the Legends line. The first is Cryo Scourge a purple & light blue repaint released late in the Cybertron line and "Sky Lynx" Flame Convoy a version done in silver, blue and red.

Possible Future Repaints

Given that the toy is called Scourge there's two routes you could take - an all blue one like the G1 character or an all black one playing on the Decpticon Optimus Prime = Black Optimus Prime theme.


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