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Mastermind Creations Knight Morpher Airborne Squadron Awakening Review

Posted on 09-14-2012 at 09:05 AM by ORIO under 3rd Party Unlicensed

2005 Board member Peaugh has provided us with a video review (and a pictorial review) of the Mastermind Creations Knight Morpher Airborne Squadron Awakening figure. This figure was recently available at the San Jose Toy Show and preorders from online retailers have started to be fulfilled. This figure is based on the Hearts of Steel version of the Seeker and comes in prototype colors.

Click the title bar to check out the pictorial review or watch the video review below.

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Views: 3,205 / Credit: Peaugh of the 2005 Boards!

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Ejack37

Nice review Peaugh! Can't wait for the video review and to get a hold of mine too!

Btw...did you get a shipping notice or did your figure just arrive?

Peaugh

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Originally Posted by Ejack37

Nice review Peaugh! Can't wait for the video review and to get a hold of mine too!

Btw...did you get a shipping notice or did your figure just arrive?

I was given a shipping notice.

plowking

pretty sweet. I fell in love with them at TFCon as soon as I saw them there.

looking forward to the vid review.

TJ Duckett

Win. Can't wait for the vid. review.

Roufuss

Great review Peaugh!

For everyone who ordered one through A3U, they are going to start shipping them by next Friday.

Can't wait to get mine!

iphdtd

How's the plastic quality? I have cyclops & annihilator and while the plastic is good, it's not as strong feeling as fansproject, maketoys or tfc. Just wanted to see if they've changed anything or are using the same stuff.

phoenix88

is there a confirmed price for the painted versions?

benzscairy

Great pictorial buddy, cant wait to watch the review an yeah Hexatron is massive i reviewed the prototype and its going to be amazing

TacomaPrime

Cannot WAIT for the colored ones! Have all 3 preordered!

Hotwire

What a cool figure!!

Tiller

Bueno. He's just the height I wanted him at. Now I have to decide on one of the three...

xterry

yeah Rock~! D@mn, you have the box that I dont have it yet....T_T

stevil33

great review, great figure!

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Originally Posted by Tiller

Bueno. He's just the height I wanted him at. Now I have to decide on one of the three...

Thats the problem, if you get one you'll be wanting the rest.
Unless you get this version, then you could prolly stop right there.

xterry

all hail the seeker!

stevil33

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Originally Posted by xterry

http://acm1450.com/laven/tfpdreadwing/57.jpg
all hail the seeker!

Did you add them gold paint apps yourself? real nice addition to the figure

jbz

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Originally Posted by stevil33

great review, great figure!

Thats the problem, if you get one you'll be wanting the rest.
Unless you get this version, then you could prolly stop right there.

That's one of the reasons I bought this guy. I won't feel the need to by all 3 of the others. Hopefully.

Tiller

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Originally Posted by stevil33

great review, great figure!

Thats the problem, if you get one you'll be wanting the rest.
Unless you get this version, then you could prolly stop right there.

I don't care for repaints at all. I just want one of this mold. Since I have Alternity Cracker....and will pick up the MP...I'll probably get the blue version.

lildevilchick

Oh yeah. I'm definitely getting all three of these guys.

FatalT 71

How's the headsculpt? I'm really on the fence about getting the red one, but I'm not certain I like it just yet...opinions?

Peaugh

Video is up!

Mastermind Creations Knight Morpher Airborne Squad AWAKENING VERSION - YouTube

Cheem The Rup

can't wait to grab the classic trio

Peaugh

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Originally Posted by FatalT 71

How's the headsculpt? I'm really on the fence about getting the red one, but I'm not certain I like it just yet...opinions?

The head sculpt is great. And if you don't like the fins you can fold them back for a more classic seeker head look.

Josh

do those locomotive-like wheels swing out for landing gear or is it just random detail?

man i so need the skywarp version of this <3

Peaugh

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Originally Posted by Josh

do those locomotive-like wheels swing out for landing gear or is it just random detail?

man i so need the skywarp version of this <3

They can swing out as landing gear, yes.

Peaugh

I love finding Mech Modes for unrelated things.

Josh

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Originally Posted by Peaugh

They can swing out as landing gear, yes.

well this thing gets two hearts now

<3 <3

stevil33

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Originally Posted by Peaugh

I love finding Mech Modes for unrelated things.

http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/q...24B77B8346.jpg

http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/q...24BC0DF6D5.jpg

Steam punk ED-209!!! love it.

Cax6ton

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Originally Posted by Peaugh

The legs fold up and around:

http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/q...92F956BB37.jpg

That peg looks like it will link up to KMC's train mode

megatroptimus

Can you show the landing gear deployed?

ahro23

That's an impressive wingspan

. Awesome pictorial review! I can't wait the video at work, but is there any way you can post a close up pic of the face mold? It looks a little.... weird in the angles shown in your first post.

NICKBOT

Great review Peaugh, I am kind of getting sold on these figures. I would be ok for my Cyclops to have some buddies on a shelf. I sure hope they make Megatron.

LadyStarscream

I still can't get over how huge cyclops is in comparison. That's the only reason I haven't ordered him yet.

odeean

Thanks for the review.

I am not sold on this mold yet. I guess seeing good pics of the painted ones may change that but for now they look a bit stupid in plane mode. The robot mode is nice. After getting Cyclops recently I worry about the brittle plastic that MMC use on a figure with such small parts.

This will probably be one of those things I pick up during a lul in other more desirable figures.

As a side note, my Cyclops came missing the head of the mini sub. That is one mark against MMC for me now.

NICKBOT

I haven't watched the video review just yet so this may have been addressed but I am concerned with the plastic and the overall tolerances. That's one of my only complaints with Cyclops.

lildevilchick

Can't wait to get all of the colored versions. This looks fantastic and the video got me super excited. ^o^

Transbot90210

Thanks for the video review. This Airborne Squadron set has me very excited.

I can not wait to have the three coloured versions in my HoS display.

TacomaPrime

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Originally Posted by lildevilchick

Can't wait to get all of the colored versions. This looks fantastic and the video got me super excited. ^o^

Same here. Already have them all 3 preordered, and they can't come in soon enough! I think I am going to have a dedicated HOS shelf, since I have shockwave and the red and black optimus's.

Sentinel

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Originally Posted by stevil33

Steam punk ED-209!!! love it.

Ok, that is pretty freaking sweet.

CodeXCDM

The alt mode is a bit... weak... but that bot mode is just quite awesome. Three sets of weapons... wish all versions had them (or you could buy all separately). Didn't realize they had specific weapons til this review.

The caution tags all over that page bugs me a tad.

Bit smaller than I expected... but still good. Wish I could get the Cyclops to go with them... not enough moolah.

Chaosbringer

Wake me up when they decide to do war within seekers (not the titanium simplified POS!)

gothsaurus

I'm glad to see some happy customers on these! Looks like the craftsmanship, head sculpt, detail. are spot on. I think if these were all in scale a little better (even though they may be accurate to the comic) I might have jumped in to get a complete set. As is, Prime and Shockwave are so far apart... and the price high enough... that I jumped ship. Mind you, I'd really like to see someone's set in person. Might change my mind.

ZEGR

they look phenomenal! arent these supposed to come in 2 different size classes?

Timesynch

Looks very nice but I'll have to pass on the whole HoS line. There's just too much stuff coming out and my wallet is already crying uncle. Have to draw the line somewhere. XD

RapidBlast

Veeeeeeeery niiiiiiice. I really like the blades and the guns.

snip312

thanks for the review

Peaugh

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Originally Posted by NICKBOT

I haven't watched the video review just yet so this may have been addressed but I am concerned with the plastic and the overall tolerances. That's one of my only complaints with Cyclops.

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Originally Posted by CodeXCDM

The caution tags all over that page bugs me a tad.

The plastic and tolerances on mine are just fine. The caution poster, as I mentioned on my review, is just that. A quick look at some areas that you don't want to handle roughly. After my first transformation through it and taking care to note which areas were possibly fragile, I've had no issues whatsoever with anything.

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Originally Posted by megatroptimus

Can you show the landing gear deployed?

It's hard to get a good shot of them deployed and in actual use, but here's a couple showing them flipped out and being used.