Phil's
Armada Incinerator,
Micron Legend Turbo,
Universe Roadhandler,
and
Micron Booster Wrench
Review
Incinerator's a neat race car Minicon. His vehicle mode is light blue - the colour used for Blurr's robot shoulder fronts, with a spoiler in orange the same colour as Blurr's missiles.
As an add on via the Minicon socket underneath the front of the car makes a pretty goof blade weapon when arm mounted.
The TF involves folding the rear of the car back to form the legs. Swing the nose cone out to the side and upside down, stand and swing the sides of the car down as arms.
He's a pretty standard robot slightly hampered by his car's nose dangling off one arm ! It's not a huge leap of the imagination to think it's a blade weapon or gun of some sort for the Minicon in this mode. Revealed in this mode is his chest which is in a grey similar to that used for Blurr's body (see Wrench bellow) He can balance behind Blurr's head (in robot mode) and in front of the canopy which is quite cool - Blurr's handling the heavy weaponry while employing Incinerator as a sniper.
Incinerator bends independently at both knees & hip, his shoulders turn and his right (race car front) arm has a ball jointed elbow.
Nice fun toy.
Blurr's Japanese name is Silverbolt (not Silverstreak as I said in a previous Minicon review - though you must admit Silverstreak has more of a car link as a name than Silverbolt does !) and was available together with Turbo (Incinerator) as MC-08. They also were in MS-05 with the Street Speed Team.
Roadhandler is a red (for both blue and grey) and black (for orange) repaint of Armada Incinerator.
He looks superb in these new colours casting the image of super advanced Ferraris or Lamboghinis. There's a big G1 Sideswipe vibe from him as well as Blurr which can only be a good thing.
Some yellow paint ops are revealed by the tf - the yellow is a bit see through and smudgy which doesn't matter on Swerve, but is a bit more obvious on Roadhandler's chest. Should have stuck to just black there.
Overall ? I think the Swerve & Roadhandler set is one of the best Universe repaints ! (see Big Red Robot theory)
Wrench is a repaint of Incinerator who appears in Micron Booster v3. Wrench is sort of the companion to the remoulded Galaxy Force version. Wrench and Incinerator are very similar - Wrench had lost the bright orange for white, is perhaps a slightly different shade of blue on his limbs and has a grey blue chest instead of the grey he did have. Neither the grey nor the white appear on the Galaxy Force Blurr suggesting new parts were made.
A nice little Minicon still.
If we follow the patterns above then there *should* be a Minicon for the Shattered Glass Blurr. If I interpret which parts are which right (and bear in mind the comments on Wrench above) then he's have purple limbs & car mode, blue spoiler and black robot chest.
I'd buy that !
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