Decepticon Dropkick

by BaseGuardian in December 16th, 2007

Hi there heroes, today I went to Jusco and manage to get myself a Transformers The Movie, Decepticon Dropkick (what a lucky day today? ) at retail price! There are two left on the shelves, and from far away I saw the red and black packaging so I ran quickly to get it before the kids standing around there can took it ( ha ha). Ok,ok this figure was made by Hasbro, it cost me RM 49.90 that is about USD14.++.
Let see why I bought this toy. The packaging, like all deluxe class version of Transformers (movie or not)toys, they usually are carded type packaging (a piece of covered plastic tray glued to a thick card stock). The design of this packaging is according to the movie, the fonts and colors schemes are like in the movie posters, with Deceticon big logos on top of the front and the back of the card. There is a description (short story/origins) of the character on the back of the packaging. At the front, right bottom of the packaging, there is a Dropkick face illustration. There is an instruction leaflet inside.
This character is from the Transformers Video Game. That is why you don’t saw him on the movie . I did not have the chance to play the game yet(actualy I am waiting for the price of the PSP version to drop down a bit, cause from the reviews of the game, it seems like it is not realy a great game) . But forget about the game and see is it worth to get this toy.
The design, well it looks like Binaltech/Alternator Optimus Prime to me, when in vehicle mode.It’s a blue and silver colored pick-up truck. The blue color on this toy is a Decepticon logo actually, and it looks cool to me. From what I can see in this toy, this one got a good paint job done over it.
The conversion of tis toy is at the level 3.The TF movie toy actually uses the advance automorph technology (it means, when you moved a part it automaticly moved another parts, to make the conversion more easy and quick), but in this figure there is no mentioning on the packaging about the automorph. I personally think that the automorph is just a gimmick for kids and it just make the design of the toy lame. For me a decent toy is always accurate like in the movie, comic books or animation, take all the gimmicks out of the toys. In this toy I think the automorph is only on the torso. tell me if there are more automorph I did not mentioned . The head sculpt looks as in the ilusstrations, but the color of the face, they can do better.
Articulations are not bad for this one. Ball joint on the neck make it a so much better looking figure. The torso and upper legs also uses ball joint, so you see it is a very poseable figure.I was surprrised to see that the windshield of this toy is made from a clear plastic, it sure make a lot of differences to me.
So, is it worth to get this figure, to me yes it have a realy cool design in both vehicle or robot mode. The articulation and collorings are also great.