Phil's
Operation Combination & Micromaster Collection Road Police
and
Universe Prowl
Review


Operation Combination Road-Police

Road Police is the team leader for the Sixturbo team and also forms the chest of the combined robot - quite right too: Sixliner's leader was the combined part that formed the robot's bottom !

As the name Road Police strongly implies his vehicle mode is a police car - mainly white with a black stripe round the bottom and a pair of moulded red lightbars on the top. A red Autobot symbol sits on the bonnet.

Transformation is typical Micromaster car: fold the back of the car back to become the legs then fold the bonnet back, stand up and bend the arms at the shoulders. The caveat here - as with his team mate Neo-Wheel - is that the bonnet doesn't fold from the neck onto the back, here it fold down from the waist almost as a skirt/cloak behind him.

While Road Police's arms & lower legs retain the white of the car the body becomes the same dark blue as Sixturbo's combined pieces with the waist & face painted in orange. In a lovely bit of sculpting which gives the toy real character the head is moulded with a Police Man's cap on it - see also Discharge for a similar master-stroke ! This extra personality raises Road Police above most of the other Micromaster cars.

As I've said Road Police forms the chest of Sixturbo: take Road Police's vehicle mode and fold the back of the vehicle back to form Road Police's robot legs. Fold the legs up 90 degrees at the hips. Peg Road Police into the chest cavity inside the body piece.

Road Police was only available in Japan in 1992's Operation Combination TF-03 Sixturbo giftset.


Micromaster Collection Road-Police

Road Police was re-released in 2002 as toy 1 in the Sixturbo Micromaster collection where he was packed with Sixturbo's head & chest.

The major changes to this toy can be found in robot mode - gone is the orange paint replaced by a much more fetching silver on the face, chest & midrift with a black painted waist. The blue of the robot is a shade lighter too matching the changes made to the head (perhaps they're gang moulded together ?)

It's a subtle change but it makes Micromaster Collection Road Police a better toy than the original.


Micromaster Collection Reverse Evolution Road Police

Reverse Evolution Road Police is a classic "paint black & make it evil" repaint with all the colours of this toy rendered in black including the head & chest of Reverse Evolution Sixturbo. A silver Decepticon symbol replaces the Autobot symbol on the bonnet. For every box of 12 Sixturbo team members - two complete sets of Sixturbo - two toys in one set would be painted black. So on average there would be one Reverse Evolution Road Police in every three boxes.

Prowl

The western Universe release of Sixturbo renames the combined robot Defensor and generally uses the Protectot names for the components. So how did the Police Car end up being called Prowl instead of Streetwise ? (The Streetwise name then gets used for the Racing Car which if you're looking for a G1 name should have been Mirage !). Deary me. For more confusion of this nature see the Neo-Wheel & Discharge reviews and scroll down to the Universe sections there.

"Prowl" comes with the same parts as Micromaster Collection Road Police - the combined robot's chest & head.


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