Phil's
Revenge of the Fallen Scattorshot
and
Hunt For The Decepticons Flak & Firetrap
Review

Scattorshot

Scattorshot has his origins in a few previous Transformers. The general form of blue pick up truck comes from Dropkick from the first movie, while the snowplough on the front comes from (the similarly blue) Animated Sentinel Prime . The name and twin weapons on the roof come from the (again blue !) Cybertron Scattorshot who also donates the grey and bronzey beige used for this toy. The Snowplough is stationary but the guns on the roof can rotate through 360 degrees and elevate.

TF: Pull the front of the vehicle down to form the robot's feet - the windscreen is the heel spurs, the bonnet is the toes and the snow plough folds under the car onto the robot's knees. Pull the outer halves of the cab out and forward to form the forearms - fold the hands out and fold the sides up against the forearms. Swing the guns round so they face forward and are held in the robot's hands. Separate the upper arms and fold the shoulders out to the sides. Fold the back of the truck up and then fold both shoulders back to lock round the back of the truck. Stand.

Scattorshot's robot mode is a bit top heavy with the box from his back surrounding the body and head. The head is the most annoying thing about this toy, it looks like he's wearing an American Footballer's helmet. This mode introduces grey for the upper arms and some beigey bronze for the waist, shoulder joints and cannons. The cannons are now mounted on the top of his wrists with handles that descend into his hands. For a bonus you can clip Skystalker's axes onto the gun barrels and use them as bayonets. Articulation: bending ankle, ball jointed knees & hips, turning waist, ball jointed neck & shoulders, double elbow with a bending joint at the top & a ball joint at the bottom and hands that bend in at the wrists.

Overall: Decent toy in both modes. Could do with a new head though!

Hunt For The Decepticons Flak

Flak's a straight colour swap for Scattorshot:

Dark grey - with a white & black urban camouflage pattern - replaces blue.
Black replaces grey
Burgundy brown replaces bronze.

Not the worst repaint I've seen in the last year.

Flak is sold as part of The Ravage Infiltration pack which also includes Ravage, a repaint of Revenge of The Fallen Legends Ravage and Rollbar, a repaint of Revenge of The Fallen Dune Runner 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.

Hunt For The Decepticons Firetrap

Do I really need a third version of Scattorshot? Well the answer's probably no. But I kept going into ASDA and seeing him there, probably not the same one because the Scout case is selling well and he's one per case. He's been looking at me and talking to me. "Take me home, I look nice" was wearing me down. Then today (Friday 4th Feb) we had "Take me home with you, I'm really Roadbuster" and that was it: I had to have him.

Colour swaps:

Army green replaces blue
Orangey yellow replaces silver.
Brown replaces bronze.

In some ways he's more Brawn than Roadbuster, but to me, he's Roadbuster and I love him.

Future Repaints

I feel the Firetrap name was wasted on the above: How about a red version with a white front blade and weapon as a snowploughed fire truck with water cannons on top? Or even an all white artic version ?

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