Phil's
Operation Combination Falcon,
Micromaster Collection Destron Falcon,
Micromaster Collection Berserker Falcon
and
Universe Silverbolt
Review
Falcon is a grey jet, allegedly an F-16 but the pictures I can see of a real life F-16 jet on the internet bear only superficial resemblance to Falcon.
TF: Fold the nose of the jet back and the wings up. Pull forward and Unfold the front of the jet to form the legs. Stand on the front of the jet and raise the arms at the shoulders.
Robot mode articulation (all together now): Shoulders turn, knees & hips bend but are linked together. Revealed in this mode are red arms & upper legs - the same as used for Supersonic's arms and body - and a light blue -as used on Flanker's jet mode, Missile Run's upper legs and Chain Gun's rotor blades - chest & head.
To form his combined mode - one of Sixwing's legs - Flanker has his nose cone folded back and his wings folded up before being pegged onto the feet piece - usually the left but he can use the right too - then being attached to the knees of the upper legs. When you've decided which leg he is, fold out the wing on the outside of the leg.
Falcon was sold in Japan in 1992 as part of Operation Combination's TF-02 Sixwing gift set. Another Transformer named Falcon was sold the same year - the Predator jet - but in Japan he was known as Shadowjet.
Falcon was reissued in 2003 as part of the Micromaster Collection Sixwing series where he was packed with the right foot of the Sixwing robot and numbered six in that series of six. He came with Destron Sixwing's left foot. The grey became lighter, light blue became mint green and red became light purple giving him a subtle Destron theme.
Falcon's Micromaster Collection Chase version is moulded entirely in white plastic with purple painted Autobot symbols. He comes with the white version of the left foot for the combined Berserk SixWing robot. Berserk Falcon was packed at one every 3 cases (12 toys, 2 sets of six per case) of Sixwing parts replacing a normal Micromaster Collection Falcon in the boxes he appeared in.
The Universe version of Falcon becomes Silverbolt, the name used by the leader of the original Aerialbot team. Personally I think this name is better suited to the Supersonic mould (Skydive in the Universe version) which has a similar vehicle mode to G1 Silverbolt. Here the body is white and the chest red but the arms & upper legs are now silver which is possibly painted as they don't match any of the other parts that were red on the original Sixwing.
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