Phil's
Classics Minicon Broadside
and
Universe Heavytread & Treadshot
Review


Broadside

Broadside is a green tank.

Good points: The turret spins and the gun barrel raises. He's got one Minicon socket underneath the tank which allows him to be mounted as an extra weapon add on.

Bad points: Everything after you start to TF it. Pull the sides of the toy out at the back to form the legs - one of them immediately fell off. Separate the rest of the back down the middle to form the arms - I think one of these will drop off too. Fold the hand and gun out from the arms. Fold the bottom of the front of the tank down and then the top - these are 2 separate pieces. Swing the turret to the front and fold the barrel all the way back to reveal the head. Pose the legs downwards and the arms to the sides if the ball joints connecting them will take even the slightest movement.

Yet another robot with legs up to it's armpits looking anatomically odd and to make it worse he's a fallaparticon. And he won't stand to save his life. The limbs are ball jointed but none of the joints has enough strength to hold the limb in place.


Heavytread

Heavytread is a member of the Safeguard Minicon Team in the Universe 12 Pack exclusive to K-Mart & Woolworths. He's shortly de to be released carded by himself. He's a red Autobot tank so it's obvious they're going for a G1 Warpath homage here, which is good, it's just such a shame the toy is such a poor design.

Treadshot

Treadshot is found in the Universe Mini-Con 10 pack exclusive to K-Mat in the USA and Tescos in the UK. He's a member of the Decepticon Ground Surveillance Mini-Con team.

Lets get the big shock out the way: I transformed this from tank mode to robot and back again without a single piece falling off ! A huge improvement on the original he now finds himself sporting a desert colour camouflage colour scheme.

Inspired by: Destron Sandstorm, Car Robots Danger (which was recoloured in RID as Armorhide), Universe Armourhide and Movie Deep Desert Brawl


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