Phil's
ROTF Dirt Boss & Deadlift
Review


Dirtboss

It's always nice to find a new vehicle mode for a Transformer: Dirt Boss is a fork lift truck. Someone has obviously decided that this is a sort of construction vehicle because he's moulded in a yellow plastic with a sort of lime tint to it. He's got a grey cage cab - complete with moulded seat and steering wheel. The forklift blades - also grey - don't raise, but the lifting gear they're attached to can pivot back.

TF: Unpeg the legs from under the truck and fold down under the back of the vehicle. Fold the feet down. Separate the forks, cab and body bending each half back to the sides of the rear of the vehicle. Fold the seat back to become a backpack. Push the cab halves up to reveal the head. Fold the arms out to the side of the body with the forks becoming blades projecting out from under the arms.

The prominent features of the robot mode are a big radar dish on the figure's grey chest - I have imagination so it's a huge chest cannon :-) - and the halves of the cab cage forming *HUGE* shoulder pads towering over the robot - a hinge to enable these to fold down to the sides would have been useful as would some mechanism to lock the head & shoulders up - they tend to slip together. He's mostly ball joint articulated - shoulder, elbow, hip & knee - with the wrists and ankles bending.

Points for being a new vehicle mode but the colour isn't helping it and neither are those shoulder pads.

But why are you reading this ? There's a much better video review on The StarDub YouTube Channel !


Deadlift

Deadlift is a Wal*mart exclusive packed with Beachcomber who is a repaint of Dunerunner.

The toy is a basic colour swap with the yellow becoming orange and the grey becoming a darker grey. There's quite a bit of painting going on too with the lower limbs painted a silvery grey.

Decent repaint coloured *much* better than the original.


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