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Operation Combination Missile Run
Micromaster Collection Missile Run
Micromaster Collection Berserker Missile Run
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Universe Air Raid
Review
Missile Run is the blue and black B1-B Lancer Bomber jet. The colours used for this version do it no favours with the nose, wings & tail being a different colour to the centre of the body when the moulding implies it should all be the same.
TF: Fold the tail back 180 degrees to form the feet & stand. Fold the nose-cone and then both wings back. Raise the arms.
Missile Run's articulation again follows the standard Micromaster convention - turning shoulders and bending hips & knees that are joined together. His colour change in this mode - the blue remains on his feet but the upper legs are a lighter blue (The same as Chain Gun's Rotor, Flanker's body & Falcon's chest) while the body & head are grey (as per Falcon's body & Chain Gun's chest) and the arms are white (Raker & Supersonic's vehicle modes).
Missile Run forms Sixwing's Chest: From vehicle mode fold back the rear of the jet as if you were forming it's legs then bend the legs at the hips 90 degrees. Fold the arms of the robot out so they line up along the jet's nose and plug into the cavity on the chest piece. Missile Run makes one of the better Sixcombiner chest pieces with his wings forming a nice bit of detail and the lowered arms - not shown in any of TFU's pictures - filling the bottom of the chest cavity.
Nothing wrong with Missile Run that a decent repaint won't fix - make the jet all one colour and you're there.
Missile Run was sold in Japan in 1992 as part of Operation Combination's TF-02 Sixwing gift set.
Missile Run was reissued in 2003 as part of the Micromaster Collection Sixwing series where he was packed with the chest of the Sixwing robot and numbered two in that series of six. The Micromaster Collection turns all members of the Sixwing team into Destron (Decepticons). Sixwing becomes an all black jet - the swap of the blue plastic to black also helps the other toy to use it, Raker - which is a nice set of Destron colours complete with a Destron logo dead centre on the body. His robot mode has mint green legs, a grey body and bright white arms.
Lovely repaint, big improvement on the original.
Missile Run's Micromaster Collection Chase version is moulded entirely in white plastic with purple painted Autobot symbols. He comes with the white version of the chest for the combined Berserk SixWing robot. Berserk Missile Run was packed at one every 3 cases (12 toys, 2 sets of six per case) of Sixwing parts replacing a normal Micromaster Collection Missile Run in the boxes he appeared in.
The Universe version of the Sixwing team is mainly a homage to the Aerialbots/Superion. Since he's a black plane again he takes the Air Raid name. Air Raid was previously a F-16 jet in the original Aerialbots so the name might have been better suited to Flanker who becomes red here and is named Fireflight..... Vehicle mode is very similar to the Micromaster collection version but with an Autobot symbol replacing the Decepticon one. Robot mode isn't a huge change either with just the legs substantially changing colour.
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