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Ocular Max Riot and Furor - Rumble and Frenzy (or Frenzy and Rumble)

Ocular Max Riot and Furor - Rumble and Frenzy (or Frenzy and Rumble)

Although I like the Masterpiece minions for Soundwave, I've always thought they were a bit on the small side. They had to be, of course, to facilitate the tape storage gimmick. With the Ocular Max minions, we can now have the best of both worlds. Furor and Riot are the latest offerings that let me happily replace official Masterpiece figures.

Their cassette modes are back to the unpainted finish of Jaguar instead of the semi-painted finish of Volture and Buzzard. Like all the others, they are line-filled messes. This time, provided stickers let you cover both sides. I'll never have them in tape mode again so I will definitely not be bothering with the stickers.

Transformation to either mode is pretty simple. There are a lot of tabs, but everything lines up fairly easily.

Their heads are on ball joints. They can look up and down a decent amount. Their shoulders are on hinged ball joints that let them raise their arms straight up into the air. They swivel at their biceps, waists, and thighs. They do not have wrist swivels. Their thumbs are fixed and the rest of their fingers articulate as a single unit. They have double-jointed elbows and can almost perform full curls. They have an ab crunch to facilitate their pile driver gimmick. Their hips are on universal joints. They can preform full front and side splits. Their single-jointed knees only let them curl their legs to 90 degrees. Their feet are on ball joints.

Their accessories include a pair of rifles each, a pair of pile drivers each, a display base each, a spare head each, and a cassette case each. Their rifles are covered in metallic silver paint. They hinge at the barrels and wings to facilitate storage in tape mode, but drive my OCD crazy because they are always flopping to odd angles. The hammers slot over their arms and are motorized. Unfortunately, batteries are not included. Their spare heads have a more serious expression than the default smirk faces.

These guys will stand on my Ocular Max shelf and sub for Masterpiece minions. I'm really glad someone is giving us properly scaled figures for robot mode. I am more than content to leave a couple of the official ones in tape mode in Soundwave's and KFC Transistor's chests. Only a few more minions to go. I'm still crossing my fingers Blaster's minions will get the same treatment.

Generation Toy Sarge - Streetwise

Generation Toy Sarge - Streetwise

I’m surprised to say that I don’t have a proper Defensor. My Combiner Wars set is back in its packaging in my garage and Maketoys Guardia is still in various stages of unboxing. I was excited to see the Protectobots be tackled by one of my favorite new (renamed old?) companies. Generation Toy Sarge seems to be a great start to another line of figures.

I love the way vehicle mode looks. I'm not a car aficionado so I'm just going to guess it's a Nissan Z. Gun metal gray paint breaks up the expanse of white. The decals appear to be very cleanly applied. I appreciate the painted head and tail lights. Despite his head and fists being visible, the undercarriage is pretty clean. On my copy, there is a spring-mounted piece that will not stay in place. It doesn't seem to affect the car's ability to roll along smoothly on its rubber tires. He also has soft rubber sideview mirrors that are on hinges.

Transformation to robot mode is not complex, but I found that I had to flex a piece here and there to get panels to slide or rotate pass one another. Fortunately, nothing scratched or snapped. As expected, some windshield pieces are on transparent plastic hinges. Going back to vehicle mode is not too difficult. It is about on par with their Stunticons. I had less trouble with it than with GCreation Rebel.

Robot mode looks really good. I'm not familiar with his IDW incarnation, but there does not appear to be any aesthetic embellishments that would prevent him from doubling as a Masterpiece Streetwise. The few applications of metallic and red paint are cleanly applied. I like how his backpack somewhat locks into place. It does not swivel around like with the Stunticons, triggering my OCD. My only real complaint is that the soft rubber hinges of his sideview mirrors prevent them from ever sitting completely flat against his chest.

His head is on a hinge and swivel. He can look up, but not down. His shoulders are on swivels and hinges. He can raise his arms out and up parallel to the ground. He swivels at his biceps, wrists, torso, waist, and thighs. His elbows are single-jointed, but are only capable of half curls. He can also bend his wrists inwards. He has fixed thumbs and single-pinned fingers. His pointing fingers articulate separately from the others. His hips are on universal joints that allow him to perform a not quite full front or side splits. He has double-jointed knees that curl a bit past ninety degrees. His feet are on rockers and tilts.

His only accessory is his rifle that has metallic paint on the barrel. It has a hinged handle that uses a Masterpiece-styled tab. Not surprisingly, it doesn’t stay securely in place, but it doesn’t fall out either. The rifle basically becomes a third exhaust pipe in vehicle mode.

Sarge will stand on my IDW shelf and double as my Masterpiece Streetwise, at least until the Ocular Max version is released or if the rest of the line proves to be too stylized. There were a couple of nervous moments during transformation, but the figure looks great in either mode. I really liked the Generation Toy Stunticons so am glad to see them take on another large combiner that I don’t have yet.

GCreation Rebel - Prowl

Prowl is one of my favorite characters. My eight-year-old self was somewhat traumatized by his death in The Movie, but at least he had a rather awesome death scene. I'm not familiar with the IDW incarnations, but find GCreation's designs to be rather compelling. Rebel is a fun figure with and a great representation of that dearly departed Autobot (He may be alive in the comics. Don’t really know).

Vehicle mode looks pretty interesting. I really like the design of the Cybertronian police car. The metallic painted windshields is a design I wish were found on more figures. His hubcaps make a strangely hypnotic pattern while spinning. I don't like how several panels just sort of sit loosely in place and how his undercarriage makes no attempt to hide the robot. He rolls easily on rubber tires.

Transforming to robot mode is fairly easy because you're basically unfolding him. Transforming back to vehicle mode can be a bit of a hassle trying to line up the side panels to the tabs on his arms. His legs are a little confusing, but not too bad. Overall, it's nowhere near as hellish as Badcube War Dog or GCreation's own Ultra Maxmas.

Not surprisingly, this figure really shines in robot mode. There is plenty of line work that is highlighted by red, white, and blue paint applications. The head sculpt nails Prowl's iconic head crest. I wish his chest would lock more securely in place. It's always hinging upwards, covering his face. Reminds of the Star Trek guys having to constantly pull down on their pajama uniforms. His shoulder cannons also have a tendency to fall out. I think a little bit of putty will solve that issue.

His head is on a ball joint. He can look up but not down. His shoulders are on double swivels. He can only raise his arms out and up well shy of 90 degrees. He also has a very limited reverse butterfly joint. He swivels at his biceps, wrists, waist, and thighs. His double-jointed elbows can almost perform full curls. His thumbs are fixed. The rest of his fingers are single-pinned and articulate as a single unit. The cannons on his wrists are on swivels. He does have an ab crunch as a consequence of a transformation joint. His hips are on universal joints that allow him to perform full side splits. His backpack hinders his front splits. He has single-jointed knees that can curl 90 degrees if you move the exhaust ports on his calves out of the way. His toes are on ball joints and his heel spurs are on hinges.

His accessories include two rifles and two spikes. His rifles are two different designs, but both are grey plastic with interesting line work and some yellow paint applications. They sit securely in his hands. Unlike Fuuma and Ultra Maxmas, the rifle tabs into what would be the meaty part of his palms. I really wish that Masterpiece figures would use this option, or just about any other solution. The spikes are just grey plastic with a hinge at the top of the handle. They merely sit loosely, but securely, in his grasp. The rifles and his over-the-shoulder launchers can peg onto the back of the vehicle. I couldn't find a spot for his spikes.

My original intent was to mix and match Generation Toy and GCreation figures on an IDW shelf, but Rebel looks so different from J4zz, that I'll probably just start a new shelf. Too bad the GCreation Dinobots aren't scaled properly to be displayed here. As always, I look forward to more.

Fansproject Pinchar - Snarl

FansProject Pinchar was a long time coming. Like most others, I had wished they had completed their core set of Dinobots before releasing those previous two figures. Unfortunately, Pinchar really wasn't worth the wait.

His stegosaurus mode is a large and chunky size, but now makes Columpio look even smaller. He has a surprisingly G1 look when compared to the more stylized dinosaur modes of his teammates. As expected, the metallic gold paint and chrome plates look fantastic. His front and back sections has a tendency to separate on my copy. A tighter set of pegs would have prevented that.

His head has the slightest of nodding action. He can open his mouth a fair amount. All four limbs are on ratchets with a single joint at the knees. The rear legs also swivel at the knees and have a hinge at the toes. They can splay outwards. His tail can waggle side to side. Some of the plates along his back are hinged.

Transformation back and forth is very straight forward. It follows most of the expected motions of a Snarl figure. Be sure to pull on his torso until it clicks into place or he will be a floppy mess. I appreciate how his shoulder plates lock into place as well. 

I wish I could say I couldn't complete his transformation. Unfortunately, FansProject seems to have simply given up on the backplate kibble. According to the instructions, it simply sits there, sticking out quite annoyingly. They should have provided a swivel joint on that back plate so it would at least have pointed downward. I've seen a mod involving a dremel and some careful cutting that I might look into.

That backplate canopy is downright annoying. Otherwise, his aesthetics is similar to his teammates. The paint applications are plentiful and clean and the line work is abundant. If not for the messy backplate, I would really like how he looks. He really fits in well with the rest of the Dinobots.

His head is on a ball joint. He can't look up very far, but he can look down quite a bit. Being his rear hips, his shoulders are on the same double hinges and ratcheted swivels. Even extending the double hinges, he can only raise his arms out and to the side well shy of 90 degrees. He swivels at the biceps, wrists, waist, and thighs. He can only perform half curls with his single-jointed elbows. His thumbs are fixed while the rest of his fingers are single pinned and articulate as a single unit. He has ratchets in his waist swivel. He also has both a normal ab crunch and a reverse ab crunch. His hips are on ratcheted universals. He can perform full forward and side splits. Technically, he has ankle rockers and tilts. Unfortunately, they are both hindered by the dinosaur legs tucked inside his robot legs.

His accessories include a rifle, a sword, and his Target Master. His rifle is black plastic with some line work. His sword blade is translucent red plastic. The handle does not have any paint, but has plenty of line work. Both weapons sit securely in his hands.

His Target Master, Lepida, is a large pole arm of some sort. Unfortunately, he seems to be a step backward when compared to the Target Masters of Volar and Severo. I’ll probably leave him in weapon mode. His head is on a swivel. His shoulders are on hinged ball joints. His elbows, hips, and knees are also on ball joints.

Pinchar will stand on my FansProject shelf. For now, I'm combining them with the Maketoys Cross Dimension figures since they don't really fit anywhere else in my collection. The scale isn’t quite what I would have liked, but it will do for now. I might even turn them all back into dinosaurs so as to not deal with the kibble on three of them. This set of Dinobots took forever to complete. I appreciate that FansProject was going for an aesthetic all their own. I even really like the art direction. Unfortunately, the engineering aspects aren’t holding up. Volar and Severo are my favorite in the line. They have wonderful aesthetics and delivered on the engineering. Too bad Pinchar arrived a little too late and finished off the line with a whimper. I hope FansProject now concentrates on finishing their Function X line of Headmasters, but I’ll likely not collect anything more from them beyond that.