And now, what I wanted to get to last week. Things to do keep coming up, very busy. Without further ado:
Kingdom Tigatron certainly is interesting. He feels like Cheetor- But not like Cheetor. As Perspective end put it, it's more of similar engineering than a simple retool. I'd say more of Cheetor's Cousin than his brother. The transformation changes involve making the side flaps scary (the first time at least) and the head transforms actually INTO the head instead of just hidden by it, resulting in what little head articulation Tigatron has revealing no head. He can even pooth! (Pictures later). Nice sculpting but the Eyelash detailing (or whatever it is) has the wrong vibe to it, as if he was trying to be cute
. The crap smothered all over him doesn't look as bad in person, I just try to ignore it. No idea why they tried it after the mostly negative response from fans in Seige. And the Kingdom up and down arm transformation is quite interesting, I think Hasbro easily could use tooling from ravage and Tigatron (and the tail from kingdom cheetor) downscaled to a deluxe size with a few twists to create a Trans metal Cheetor.
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The Robot mode is pretty cool too. A notable change being you can open the tiger mouth in this mode too, which doesn't look bad. He comes with a gut gun and tail whip, but I don't think he'll be using these any time soon. Should've made one for Cheetor though, no good reason they didn't (that Tail ax doesn't count) Double jointed shoulders are nice, but the front crotch plate skirt doesn't want to unpeg, moving his legs a bit to the side (not a big deal) I never was fond of the Maximals and Grimlock having red eyes, and was very glad with the color on my Netflix Cheetor. Thankfully, In person, you can tell Tigatron actually has ORANGE eyes. He also has real nice teal like on a Nemesis Prime. Some sort of glossy white color in a few places really kicks on this figure! And the flip out heels are, of course, helpful. Not sure if 3rd parties have yet created one for Cheetor.
Over all: Pretty cool! Really getting something good out of these discounts, glad Amazon was so kind as to do this. (Last time they dropped the prices, then RAISED them over the original if you don't remember. Not a good sales pitch I don't think)
To note: I will add pictures this evening. In a day or two I will post weapon storage for SS86 Rumble combined with Legacy Soundwave. I am thinking of purchasing SSBB Arcee, but I would need a replacement head as the one included is
