Yes, you read that title correctly.
Sidearm Sideswipe has a flight mode.
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Sidearm Sideswipe Flight Mode
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Frenzy Rumble Scout Size Confirmed
Thursday, October 14th, 2010BigBadToystore.com posted pictures this morning of both the prototype deluxe class Wheeljack and a picture of either Rumble or Frenzy.
Rumble and Frenzy are being sold by Takara as a two pack at the voyager price point, which would usually mean that both figures are deluxes, similar to Animated’s Jefire and Jetstorm.
Along that same line of reasoning, if the figures were scouts, they’d just be sold at the deluxe price point, like ROTF’s Skids and Mudflap as an ice cream truck.
However, Skids and Mudflap were actually smaller than most scout class figures, whereas Frenzy\Rumble appear to be on the bigger end of scout size.
How do I know this?
Action Pose – Sidearm Sideswipe
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010Action Pose – Animated Rodimus Prime
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Action Pose – War for Cybertron Megatron
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010This just so happened to fit his hand…
Sidearm Sideswipe Head Fix Mod, Part 2
Thursday, September 30th, 2010Welcome back to the second part of my guide on how to fix Sidearm Sideswipe’s head problems. Today we fix a problem that might not happen on every Sideswipe, but is very frustrating when it does.
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Sidearm Sideswipe Head Fix Mod, Part 1
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010Sidearm Sideswipe is a great figure, easily measuring up to the original from ROTF and having a completely different transformation whose ease of transformation into alt mode surpasses the original. I even like the red paint and windows, bringing a bit of color to Sideswipe’s otherwise grayscaled color scheme.
But the figure does have a couple problems. The first is something that effects every Sidearm Sideswipe to a varying degree, as it’s an issue with the mold itself. The second is an issue that I haven’t seen a lot of people complain about, but it was a problem on mine so I’m posting the fix for it as well.
Both pertain to the figure’s head, so come take a look at my Sidearm Sideswipe Head Fix Mod!
Action Pose – Optimus vs Starscream
Friday, September 24th, 2010In the previous post, I mentioned my appreciation of Voyager Leader Prime (Hunt for the Decepticons voyager Battle Blades Optimus Prime) being in scale with deluxe Ironhide and almost in scale with deluxe Ratchet. I also mentioned that I like jet transformers being bigger than car transformers, and Decepticons being bigger than Autobots.
That brings us to today’s Action Pose.
The MOAR You Know – Movie Optimus Prime Scale
Monday, September 20th, 2010I don’t usually pay much attention to scale with my collection. For a transformers collector, that’s a very good thing.
I know people that have shelves just for planes and just for cars, people that obsess over vehicle mode scale, and people that want bot mode scale based on media appearance.
Action Pose – Optimus and Roller
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010When I was a kid, instead of the original Optimus Prime toy I had the powermaster version. It was a mighty brick of a toy, with an Optimus that could combine with his trailer, but there was no Roller with the set.
So, outside of a few G1 episodes, I didn’t pay much attention to Optimus’s third component. And aside from some more recent comics, most Transformers series did too.
But when TFC came out with their Battle Rollar figure, I found myself intrigued with the concept. While fragility issues and a high price point kept me from buying one of those, Hasbro would eventually give me a better substitution.