Phil's
Universe Legends Hound
&
Hunt For The Decepticons Tracker Hound Review
Review
The G1 Hound look is captured by the robot mode, but the head looks a
little odd being set back a bit from the central axis up the body. The tires (green !) on the robot chest get in the way of swinging the arms forward, but they're ball jointed at the shoulder so can be swung to the sides a bit - the arms are likewise set a little far back. Ball jointed shoulders & hips, plus knees bend as do ankles.
TF: V similar to Jazz. Fold the windscreen up so it sticks out of the robot's back then fold up the chest piece to become the bonnet. Fold the arms into place as the underside of where the doors would be. Fold the feet up to form the seats, bring the legs together and fold the lower legs up over the upper legs to become the back of the jeep covering the hands in the process - this was a bit of a struggle with mine.
Jeep is again like the G1 version and similarly to Jazz feels a little stretched out.
Not bad toy and nice to have a new version of a character that's had little new version love over the years. Deluxe version expected imminently.
Tracker Hound
The most obvious ways to go with a Hound repaint is something desert themed as either Detritus or Strongarm. Unfortunately he's packed with Sandstorm who already uses a similar colour scheme. So what do Hasbro do? Fortunately they didn't go down the Energon Strongarm route! Instead we get an all black plastic toy with some silver and gold highlights.
For me this toy doesn't really work. The all black doesn't suit it at all. Sorry!
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