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Hello again. Today we’re talking about Transformers: Power Core Combiners: Skyhammer with Airlift.
A jet with a turret... the perfect disguise.
I’ll start with the vehicle. It’s a jet. It’s a blue jet. With the Mini-con attached, it’s a jet with twin Gatling guns attached to a turret. It’s a pretty standard Transformers jet, what with the legs and arms folded underneath. The parts under the jet don’t bug me as much as they bother some Transformer fans. In fact they don’t bother me at all, especially on these somewhat fanciful designs.
Say hello to my little friend! He loves meeting new people!
He even makes for a pretty dynamic robot. With the shoulder wings he’s quite literally as wide as he is tall, which leads me to I thought about what doors on Cybertron look like. Obviously they wouldn’t look like our doors as guys like Starscream couldn’t go through them. I figure every door must be like a garage door, most of the wall slides out of the way letting all manner of oddly shaped Transformer through.
Back to Skyhammer, he’s got double jointed knees which allows him to KNEEL BEFORE MEGATRON. He’s also got little gun-looking thing on his elbows, but they face backwards so I guess he can shoot things behind him if need be, these become more useful in his combined mode.
Not even his mother loved this face.
He looks a lot like Armada Cyclonus, he’s got that broken nosed henchman look. Unlike all (if not most) of his Power Core brethren Skyhammer doesn’t have a separate larger head, or a second face hidden on his head. He’s got a helmet that flips out and snaps over his head. it looks like an old aviator’s helmet. But he doesn’t have to wait to combine to wear it, no, he can wear it around the house too, or going to the store, or when out for a drive with the misses.
Oh, so you're a fancy combiner now? Too good to visit your mother then, are we?
Being a Power Core Combiner, Skyhammer can, naturally, combine with other PCC limbs. Like his regular robot mode he’s got some gams on ‘im. Here you can see the little guns on his elbows, now on his shoulders, being useful for once. All the attachment points are solid, or solid enough. I mean, look at those things, he looks like an orange on chopsticks! Crazy!
His Mini-con partner, Airlift, has four different transformations, which means he turns into a robot, and a robot doing yoga. He can turn into armor (hugging Skyhammer), a gun (his most convincing alt.), and a gun for the jet. (The turret we talked about earlier.)
My hands seem to be guns right now...
Airlift is a lovely fiery orange color, with black, very Halloween. Having guns for hands has the one drawback that you have no elbows. Kids in his class use to make fun of him for not being able to touch his face, but he showed them… he showed them all with bullets. That’s when he knew he was a Decepticon.
Sgt. Detour with Reverb accessory.
Behold: Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Mechtech: Human Alliance: Sergeant Detour with Reverb.
Well, more the other way around. I think most people are buying the robot that happens to come with a human. But I like that the human’s name is on top on the packaging, as if it’s really the human that’s the important one.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Human Alliance series, the humans are about half the size of a G.I. Joe. If you don’t know what G.I. Joe is… I-I can’t help you. No, no.
So, in that vein, let’s talk about Sgt. Detour. He’s a repaint of the earlier Spike Witwicky, as such he’s just a guy with a motocross helmet and could be a robot for all we know. (I assume unless I can see their face that everyone is a robot.) He’s apparently allied with the Autobots despite his sinister red and black color scheme. I’m continually impressed with the amount of poseability. I mean this guy’s tiny, and yet his wrists rotate!
I like to think he's Scooter from the Gobots.
On to Reverb, he’s a pretty dynamic robot. Heck, he can even kneel! I just tried it!
As my friend Nate pointed out back when this thing was first posted on the internet, it looks like the Moto Slave from Bubble Gum Crisis. Y’know with out the armored woman strapped to his chest.
The double blades on the one arm are kinda weird. Not that he shouldn’t have blades on his arms, but that there are two. Why? Why two? One on each arm sure, but on on-top of the other? It’s kinda weird. Oh the other arm he’s got two missiles. Yess, missiles. Or maybe rockets, I’m unsure of the difference.
...I mean c'mon, he looks like Scooter!
He’s got those nifty open palms that they’ve been giving to Transformers recently. I like’em. They’re much more expressive than the Block Fists™ that Transformers have had over the years.
He’s got this cool head. I’m not sure how to describe it. (Just look at the picture will yah?) But he’s got that Gundam chin. His eyes are black, like black, black, it’s pretty spooky. I enjoy the handle bars on the back of his head, they look kinda like bunny ears. (Yes, that’s a good thing for a giant robot to have.)
I also enjoy the big fan on his back. Now, before I get to vehicle mode, I’m going to talk about his third mode or “Gunner Station Mode” according to the box. It’s essentially all three of the fans (two on legs, one on back) pointed in the same direction with a handle in the back for larger Transformers to hold. Which is cool, I think of it as some sort of sonic weapon. (Other wise it’s just a big fan.) But turn it around and it still works as a Hoverbike. This is just it’s turbo-speed mode. Again, I wish I had taken a picture of this mode… silly me.
Not really sure how this doesn't just flip over as soon as you turn it on...
In vehicle mode it’s a pretty normal hover bike… yes, I’m going with that.
The two blades on the arm become two little… wings? Control flaps? Blades? What are they? The Missiles are missiles. Pretty standard stuff.
Now, the fan in the back makes sense, stops the thing from spinning. But why is the big rotor to one side? It just seems like it would flip over to me.
“Alright, Steve, turn it on!”
*VROOOM-VROOOOOM-FLIP-AARRRGGGG!!!!*
Yes, it's a Transformer that turns into a motorcycle riding on a Transformer that turns into a hoverbike.
Also, there’s a lot of room on the back… as if something’s supposed to be riding back there, and there’s two little panels as if someone’s feet are supposed to peg in there. (Directly in front of the rear rotor) It’s too big for a human to sit on… maybe two humans sand on the panels and hold on the the bars right above the seat? Seems dangerous. I mean, it’s just going to flip over again…
Possible another Transformer? There is a Human Alliance Transformer that comes with a smaller robot t hat can rind his bike mode… maybe it’s meant for that…
I dunno, the instructions didn’t say. I vote for Transformers riding back there. It makes the most sense to me. Yup.
Today we’re talking about Cyberfire Bumblebee from the movie toy line.
Michael Caine stands over your bed with a gun and watches you sleep.
This guy’s from the third film, Dark of the Moon, toy line and on the surface looks like the other ten thousand Bumblebees they’ve made for this and the other films. (Amazing how they can remake the same robot that turns into the same vehicle and come up with a hundred ways of doing it.) Similar to the previously released ‘Stealth Bumblebees’ (There were many) his colors are switched. Meaning he is predominantly black with gold highlights. (As you can see from the picture at the right.)
Compared to the other few movie Bumblebees I have this one is solidly built, he holds together well and there aren’t as many weird anomalies. I don’t really mind his backpack, it sticks out but not in an annoying way, it doesn’t interfere with anything, the thing that does bug me a little are the car-butts on his calves. He has to stand with a pretty wide stance for them not to touch and one of his thigh pieces doesn’t want to lay flat like the other. But oh well.
The windows in robot mode are just for decoration which is silly, seems to me that’s when you DON’T need windows. But still, adds to his fiery look. His cannon is also cool, when you pull back on that tab it transforms into a slightly larger gun. I enjoy this as I like to imagine regularly it’s more of a machine gun and it transforms into an energy cannon for a single large shot. It’s like in a video game, you have Light Punch and Heavy Punch. Heavy Punch takes longer, but pack more of a wallop. (Which is just stating the obvious.)
Now, let’s get to those eyes…
I met a bot by the crossroads, he was made of lightning and fire.
The burning fire of his eyes. They bore into your soul and make grown men weep. Throngs of Decepticons have thrown themselves onto their swords rather than stare, even for a moment, into those eyes. It is said he was given his eyes by Unicron himself…
It’s some of the best light piping I’ve ever seen. (Second to movie Shockwave) Even in subdued light they seem to faintly glow. He’s probably the most menacing Bumblebee I’ve ever seen… which is why I bought him! Huzza!
He transforms pretty neatly and sweetly, everything folds up rather intuitively. Legs turn into the back, chest into the front, backpack into the top. The only part that I keep forgetting about is the windows. Darned useless windows! Get off my lawn!
The lightning makes it go faster!
Now, I’m not much of a car person. In Transypoo I try to include cars just to force myself to draw some that way I’ll know how to do it should the need arise. I do on the other hand tend to like either ultra-modern cars or vintage cars. As represented by Amy’s Awesome Car. The design of the Chevy Camero, on the other hand tickles my fancy of futuristic cars. This’ll last until I see one on the street.
Anyways, what I really like about this car is the lightning deco. The slightly different colors of paint is mildly annoying. But, whacha gunna do, eh? Oh! OH! You know what would’ve made this 20% cooler? If the headlights glowed like his eyes! I don’t know how they would have pulled this off, but it would have been sweet! (I have now exhausted my alloted daily usage of hip lingo! Yo!)
Go ahead, jut try and drive slow in the fast lane... I dare you!
The other cool thing is that you can plug his huge cannon into the roof of the car! WOO! While not very disguise-y, he also has lightning painted all over him, disguise is not his forte. (How many time can I say lightning in one post, let’s find out shall we?) If you flip it around the other way, you can use it as a rocket. Yes, a rocket car with lightning on it. (AAAAH!)
Oh! Also, the very back panel of the car’s roof can flip up revealing two roundy things. I believe these are also meant to be guns of some nature. So, he’s pretty well armed…
All in all, this is one scary Autobot, and especially a scary Bubmlebee! Y’know, friendly one! The one that’s the most accessible. The one that makes friends with humans. Becomes their best friend, then when they least suspect it, takes a knife and creeps into their room at night and- well, that’s all the time we have this week! See yah!
Me. WRITE. WORDS!
Hi! So, I’ve been wanting to use this blog more, but I could never thing of a good subject, sure I could ramble about my own comic or something, but that’s kinda boring. “Hey, so I’m using blue to color Transypoo… y’know ’cause he’s blue!” See? Dull!
So, I was thinking, since I collect toys and whatnot, maybe I should talk about that. So… I’m gunna talk about that.
Hey, I just got an idea for a new sitcom!
First up: Blind Packed Lego Minifigures!
Since they’re all very small I’m gunna talk about ‘em all at once.
As a kid I almost always had a large LEGO setup in my room called Lego Town. It was a crazy town run by a scientist teetering on the edge of super-villainy. Other citizens included a Pirate named Pete (He ran a B-n-B), a crasy Skeleton named T-Bone, the reformed ghost of an malevolent king named Ghost, the mummy of KingNottocommon, a dragon named Dragon, a intergalactic criminal from the future named Blacktron,(I’m a whiz at naming things!) and a banker just trying to get through his day without being eaten by a dinosaur or somehting. So the idea that you could just buy zany characters seemed to fit with my Lego world! If I ever rebuild Lego Town, it’s going to have quite the population boost, I tell you what.
Not just a Sumo wrestler, he's a champion!
So, the first two I got I got at the same time. And strangely enough they were the Samurai and the Sumo guy. What are the odds? I got the two Japanese guys at once. When I first opened the Sumo Wrestler I first pulled out the legs. “Great, it’s Speedo-guy.” Then I got the torso. “FAT Speedo-guy.” Then I found the head. “ANGRY fat Speedo-guy!” Then I got his hair. “Oh, he’s a Sumo Wrestler.” Then his trophy. “Sumo CHAMPION!” Much better!
The Samurai seems like a slightly more detailed version of the old Samurai series. But then I never got one of those, so what do I know. I think he looks like the Last Samurai from that movie. (Not Tom Cruse, the actual last Samurai!)
The Eskimo (or whatever) is probably my least favorite of the Minifigures I’ve gotten… I do want to name him Quinn. (Quinn the Eskimo, get it? Eh?) But so far all I ever see him doing is sitting by the water fishing. Every so often he’d look up “Yo, I caught somethin’” …wait… why is he Street? Okay, so Quinn is an Eskimo from the Hood! Yo.
My dear, you look radiated tonight!
Next up is the Haz-mat suite guy. I have to say, I love the Radiation Suit guy. Either he’s just found a leak in his suit or something has just gone terribly wrong at work. Me, I like the idea that he’s just crazy! He wears this suit everywhere and is constantly spraying people with anti-radiation chemicals. Of course this radiation obsessed man’s arch nemesis would have to be…
OH! NO! THEY SAY HE'S GOT TO GO!
GODZILLA! No, seriously, look at the guy! It’s a dude in a rubber monster suit. I now totally want to build him a tiny city to destroy. And heck, here’s another guy who’d just walk around town dressed like this. This is who he is, the guy in the rubber monster suit. He’d go shopping and on dates as Godzilla… maybe he even thinks he IS Godzilla.
“So, like I said on my profile, I enjoy long walks on the beach, fine dining, and cat. I have, like, six cats at home. Do you like cats? Of course you do! Ha ha! I also like jogging and recently I took up tennis, my coach says I’m a natural. So what kind of stuff do you like to do?”
“ME LIKE DESTROY TOKYO! HATE GHIDORAH! SKREE-ONK! ME CRUSH GHIDORAH! SKREEEEEEE-OOONNNKKKK!!!!”
Then he flips the table and runs out of the restaurant… like that.
So, I think this just about wraps up my inane ramblings about toys for one day. I hope you enjoyed my inane ramblings about toys. I rather enjoyed it.