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Classics Minicon Divebomb
Movie Minicon Torque Gain
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Universe Cloudraker& Crosshairs
Review
Divebomb is a helicopter, though unlike the similarly themed Emergency team's Makeshift he's of the single propeller variety. In fact he looks more like a strike chopper than emergency vehicle with a blue ed missile array under each wing. The blue is also used for the rear rotor & the bottom of the cockpit while the top of the cockpit, the main blades and the tail are grey. Cockpit windows are yellow & main rotor blades have red edging.
He's got one Minicon port which is under the helicopter's nose. . use this to mount him as a spinning blade weapon on a larger toy.
To TF the copter pull the nose forward and then swing it round 180 degrees so the nose is facing towards the rotor blades and then push the nose back towards them. Pull the tail apart along the middle and fold each half to the sides pausing halfway to turn the tail fins 180 degrees through the bottom of the tail. Swing the wings forward and fold the missile arrays out to form the arms. Fold the blades and mechanism back to form the top of the robot and reveal the head.
His robot mode is static with no meaningful articulation apart from some folding to the sides elbows and shoulders. The blade hat looks odd, the legs don't lock into place right and I'm against legs that go right up to their armpits anyway as per Broadside in the Demolition team.
Divebomb is one third of the Night Rescue team with Strongarm and Firebot.
Torque Gain
Torque Gain is a Justco exclusive available with the purchase of Movie Voyager Starscream or Leader Megatron. For pictures see this ad at TFormers.com Dark blue & grey switch positions as do both colours of paint. He appears to be twinned with the similarly painted Noise Effect (a recolour of the clear skies team Thunderwing) available at Ito Yokado stores.
Cloudraker
Cloudraker is a member of the Decepticon Ransack Minicon Team in the Universe 12 Pack which was exclusive to K-Mart & Woolworths. He's shortly due to be released individually carded. The blue becomes green and the grey becomes black in this military themed repaint.
Crosshairs 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.
Crosshairs is effectively a darker version of Divebomb with both the grey and blue darkened, the later nearly to black.
Inspired by: The colours used here are very similar to those used for Universe Whirl
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