Makeshift is a dual rotor helicopter - like G1 Highbrow and BM Obsidian. The rotors are mounted at the end of small wings projecting from the body of the plane. Makeshift shares exactly the same colours of plastic as Prowl. As we'll see later if you change one on one toy the other changes too. Since Prowl is the toy that the toymakers had ideas of what to do with Makeshift is the one who has to suffer as a consequence. (Firebot uses the same plastic too, but in much smaller quantities and his major colour is independent of the other two toys) Makeshift's body and supports for the propellers are the same white as Prowl's back & sides. His wings and rotor blades are the same clear blue as Prowl's body. The central part of the rotor, robot legs and some small connecting parts are the same colour as Prowl's wheels. The rotor blades spin - they're loose enough that you can low on them and they'll turn and the supports for the rotors turn so the rotors can be pivoted forward or back - when forward they make the toy almost look like a twin propeller plane.
He has one Minicon socket under the cockpit. When used as a Minicon add on in this mode it appears as if he's a dual spinning blade weapon.
TF (to weapon mode) Fold the tail up over the helicopter. Fold the rotor blades in and up. Tilt the rotors backwards. Attach to a larger toy with the back of the helicopter pointing forward.
Makeshift forms a twin gattling gun unit. The Gattlings formed from the rotors still spin. Unlike Prowl he can't be hand held - but see the Hellflame versions bellow.
TF (from helicopter to robot mode) Actually the first steps are to form the gattling mode: Fold the tail up over the helicopter. Fold the rotor blades in and up. Tilt the rotors backwards. Fold the underside of the helicopter out and back to form the legs. Fold the nosecone down to form the chest. Flip the head up from the top of the cockpit.Fold the wings onto the side of the chest. Fold the rotor supports back to form the arms.
Similar to his twin blade helicopter descendant Incinerator Makeshift has large hands made up of the rotor blades forming the three fingers. Each finger bends out and back, the wrists turn as do the shoulder. That's it for meaningful articulation although the legs bend out to the sides at the hips and in at the knees - neither of which is very helpful.
Good toy in all three modes.
In Japan Makeshift becomes Twist and is sold in the Emergency Team set numbered MM-20. The Emergency team do not feature in a Micron Legend giftset.
From the original Emergency team review " The Emergency team are great, 3 nice vehicles, 3 good robots.
Makeshift may appear to have long fingers at first glance but to me it looks more like he's clutching a pair of Rhinox machine guns ala his weapon mode. I've turned the guns round from in the instructions and mounted him on the peg behind Overload's head.
As I intimated above Overload has these at the moment - the white and transparent blue on Makeshift and Prowl match him well, and while Firebot (Firebolt ?) is a different shade of red (more cherry) then Overload the shape works well with him.
Good set, recommended. "
The blue and the red don't work on this toy. Better options for the red would be clear blue, the same blue as the rest of the toy or black. Best of all would be grey - then we'd have a Minicon Highbrow. Makeshift feels short-changed in this set. It won't be the last time.
Here white become orange and clear blue become black. I think they're intended to match Powerlinx Red Alert and provide him with a team of similarly coloured Minicons.
It's bright ....
Why ???? I can see little reason for this set. The green makes me think they were aiming for a military set but it just doesn't give that feel. They just feel like odd random repaints.
This release swaps white for one of the Universe favourite colours Burgundy, and the clear blue for off white, while black remains the same.
Once again I can't see any reason for the colours chosen for this set, but Makeshift does look quite cool in his new dark colours.
Unlike Quasar (Prowl), both Graviton (Firebot) and Bulge (Makeshift) get a remould for this release. Bulge acquires a 5mm peg under his tail which allows toys with a standard size fist hole to carry him.
Here white becomes black and the off white becomes grey along with the black remaining the same giving a monochrome appearance to these toys. Makeshift looks great in these colours making him appear more like a military helicopter painted for night operations.
At last the Emergency team acquire a theme to their repaints and are renamed (and labelled) the SWAT team. Scythe is SWAT team member A01. White becomes blue and clear blue become black with black remaining black. The colours work with the name & theme for the team and breathe a life into this set of repaints that the others just haven't had.
Sadly Scythe is the original version of the mould and not the adapted Hellflame version. However the SWAT colours continue to work well on Scythe in both his modes, with the blue being dominant throughout. Works well.