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Revenge Of The Fallen Dune Runner & Beachcomber
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Hunt for the Decepticons Crankstart & Rollbar
Review


Revenge Of The Fallen Dune Runner

Dune Runner is essentially a scaled down version of the deluxe toy Landmine from the first Movie.A dark green dune buggy style jeep with black wheels he has a pair of silver/grey machine guns mounted on pale blue arms behind the driver's compartment.The arms pivot at their base and a the gun allowing the guns to always be horizontal no matter which direction the arm is positioned.

TF: Fold the lights & bumper forward to form the feet - these are silver but this is paint later revealed to be the same plastic as the robot's upper limbs.Fold the light blue heel spurs out the feet.Fold the front of the vehicle down under the cab and separate to form the robot's legs.Fold the sides of the vehicle out to the sides via a joint inside the vehicle then fold them back up via a revealed ball joint that's further away from the body.Straighten the sides of the vehicle to form the arms.Fold back the back of the vehicle to reveal the head which might need pushing back a bit.Rotate the waist 180 degrees and fold the cab's roof down to form the robot's chest.

The head on this toy is odd.It looks like some poorly moulded thing painted silver (it's moulded with the car body so would be green) you'd find on a knock off!Lower arms - beneath a double bending elbow - are revealed to be the same light blue plastic as before but the upper arms are a black plastic - the repaints show this is a different sprue to the wheels.These have ball jointed shoulders which fold forward at the body. The head turns - it's probably ball jointed, I can't be sure - as does the waist.Ball jointed hips lead to black upper legs (like the upper arms and waist) which are connected to the lower legs made from the front of the vehicle by a bending joint.Another bending joint is found at the ankle.The cannons have ended up mounted on top of the shoulders in this mode and have the same articulation as before.

Decent robot & vehicle but spoiled by the head.


Revenge Of The Fallen Beachcomber

Beachcomber appear in a Wal*Mart 2 pack with Deadlift, a repaint of Dirtboss.

Simple colour swaps here:

Blue replaces Green for the car body
Off White replaces Black for the upper limbs & waist

Obvious recolour as G1 Beachcomber.


Hunt for the Decepticons Crankstart

Crankstart is a Hunt for the Decepticons basic.

Simple colour swaps here again:

Blue replaces Green for the car body
Off White replaces Light blue for the weapon mounts & forearms
Off White replaces Black for the upper limbs & waist

Very similarly themed to the original, I won't be bothering with it.


Hunt for the Decepticons Rollbar

The fourth version of this toy has the following colour swaps:

Grey - with black & white urban camouflage - replaces Green for the car body Pinky brown replaces Light blue for the weapon mounts & forearms

Decent repaint, but I prefer Beachcomber (above).

Rollbar is sold as part of The Ravage Infiltration pack which also includes Ravage, a repaint of Revenge of The Fallen Legends Ravage and Flak, a repaint of Revenge of The Fallen Scattorshot plus some figures recycled from older Screen Battle sets.To date this set has not been released in the USA, where it was scheduled to be a Target exclusive, and is only available in the UK as an exclusive for Sainsburys, where it shelfwarmed at full price (£27 - not Surprising when a scout is £7 and a legend is £4) and is now still sitting there at half price.Curiously Sainsburys' last exclusive, a 3 pack of recycled Cybertron scouts, did the same thing.


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