I love toys! There I said it! I'm not talking about big kid toys like electronics, and such. I'm talking about figures of my favorite super heroes, Transformers, anime characters etc. Truth be told, I don't hold a figure in each and make fight sounds as I bash them together, like I used to. These days, I just display them on shelves and every once in a while I'll change their position or posture for a different look or I'll use them as photo props. Some of my favorite toys are still in the original packaging! Anyways, I thought it'd be helpful for those of you who, like me, score a lot their loot online because it's just way to hard or not possible to find them in stores anymore. Maybe some extra images or my 'take' on the toy, will help you decide if it's worth adding to your collection or not.
I like the bright yellow and teal color scheme and the general lack of stickers. The few stickers that are on are affixed pretty evenly. At least on my bot. Same goes for the paint job, I haven't noticed any paint defects. The robot head and the dragon heads are on ball joints, as are the shoulders which also have a hinge allowing them to move up and down to accommodate arm/leg mode transformations. The mouths of the dragons are hinged so the can open and close. For the arms, there's a bicep swivel as well as hinged elbows and wrists. The waist can be rotated but the head cannot. The hips are on ball joints and the knees are hinged. The knee hinges are important as they also function as the elbow joint in arm mode. There is a hole in the middle of his chest to mount the Prime Armor or you can plug it in on either shoulder. In monster mode, both necks are hinged and can move independently (up and down only). The tails, however, cannot. The front legs have hinge joints at the knees but the hind legs do not. There is a peg hole on its back for either the blaster or the Prime Armor. The thing I find most disturbing is that the joints are not uniformly tight. For example one arms bicep swivel is tighter than the other or one dragon leg is so loose that it won't stay in place while the other is really tight. Maybe it's my copy I don't know but since I won't be moving it around too much it'll be ok. Also, it doesn't take much force to pop a part off the ball joints but it's easy to pop back in. For example, the Prime Armor piece transforms into the hand by flipping out the fingers and folding down the thumbs (the two pointy parts with the holes in it). It kind of looks stupid to me, having a hand with a thumb on the top and bottom, so I pulled off the bottom thumb. More of my 'mods' below.
Hasbro's has introduced this remake of the Decepticon Sinnertwin as a Deluxe Class figure in the Transformers - Power of the Primes toy line in 2018. Sinnertwin is part of the 'combiner team' known as the Terrorcons. This five and a half inch figure comes with a collectible card, a blaster, and his Prime Armor which transforms into the hand of Abominus. What makes the combiner teams special is their 'ability' to merge into one giant robot. This means that each member of the team will have a third transformation mode, one that's specifically for the giant robot. The groups will typically consist of five members, one of them being larger than the others (Voyager Class figure) and will transform into the torso/head of the giant robot. The other four will transform into a limb, either an arm or a leg and you can place them however you like. NOTE: Most combiners, whose 3rd transformation is a limb, (when sold/purchased separately) only come with the hand attachment. The foot attachment will then be included with the torso figure. Combiners from the Combiner Wars and Power of the Primes toy lines are interchangeable. Which caused my dilemma and resulted in my "Collectibles" series of posts. I'll explain below.
Official Build:
| Terrorcons | Merge into | Abominus |
| Hun-gurrr | Transforms into | Torso |
| Blot | Transforms into | Right Arm |
| Rippersnapper | Transforms into | Left Arm |
| Sinnertwin | Transforms into | Right Leg |
| Cutthroat | Transforms into | Left Leg |
Pictured below are the Prime Armor and original feet attachments. The Prime Armor is a gimmick designed to induce more sales of toys, in my opinion. It's an add on weapon/shield/engine part or whatever you make it out to be, and meant to accommodate a Prime Master. A Prime Master is a little figure that transforms into a 'spark mode' to fit into a compatible component, like the Prime Armor. This transformation is as easy as folding it in half to make it look like a cube. It is sold with an exo suit which just opens up to fit the Prime Master inside. This exo suit transforms into some kind of weapon (different Prime Masters have different exo suits). I included this info because some Combiner teams don't have a large weapon for the merged figure so I got some of these Prime Masters to use in weapon mode.The foot attachment is from another figure that I wanted to show just as an example of roughly what some of the older hand/feet look like. The older ones are also dual purpose, they can be either hands or feet. The original one should look similar but have a Prime Master port, a swivel peg and cannot transform into a hand. Just make sure to look for a peg that sticks out from the top. That's the peg that inserts into the leg.
| Original Hand | Original Foot |
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In case you're wondering what my version looks like here's a preview (I left the extra thumb on the left hand so you can see the difference between pulling the bottom one off or not):
I'll call him "Primal Reign."
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