Since we are celebrating Robots in Disguise in today's chapter of the 30 years of Transformers in 30 days, we thought now would be a great time to take a look at one of the many cool homages to Robots in Disguise that has come out across the last few years - the Transformers Collectors Club 2011 membership exclusive, Sideburn! Sideburn was a redeco of the Transformers Classics Rodimus, which is a nice bit of self-referencing given that the Robots in Disguise Super Sideburn deco was itself based on Hot Rod's own deco. The deco is particularly well-suited to the mold and does a good job of evoking the character, and a clever paint job on the robot mode head helps to give Sideburn his own identity. Overall, the TCC Sideburn was a particularly sharp deco and looked good on the Rodimus mold. If you're a fan of Robots in Disguise, you could do a lot worse than seeking this toy out for your collection. Check out SydneyY's excellent gallery and judge for yourself. Transformers Collectors Club Exclusive Sideburn TCC Sideburn Robot Mode TCC Sideburn Car Mode TCC Sideburn Car Mode, alternate view TCC Sideburn with Robots in Disguise Sideburn
Mine is still in his box bagged up. Really like the deco on him, but I have two of this mold already plus the original Sideburn, so I didn't open. These pictures kinda make me want to now.
Yeah, got a smile and a nod out of me before. Now i gotta keep reminding myself the Hot Rod mold is really showing its age now
Thanks for the compliments, but the praise should go to SydneyY! He did all the hard work on this one, I'm just the messenger
The articulation in the arms could be a lot better but the rest is imho made up for by it just being a solid and good-looking figure. I hadn't seen the Sideburn deco before but it looks a lot better to me. I guess blue and white is more my jam than red and orange.
Always thought the original Sideburn toy was pretty crappy to play with. Looks awesome in vehicle mode but a mess in robot mode and not at all fun to transform. The repaint from Rodimus look a lot better despite being a more blockier toy.
I remember when I first got him from the club, that I thought his face-paint applications were all wonky and that my version was actually missing some. It wasn't until I mentioned it in a post here on TFW2005, that someone rightly pointed out to me that the paint applications on his face are in fact pretty accurate (well, as accurate as was possible considering they had to use the Hot Rod head mold) to the paint applications on the original RID Sideburn. RID Sideburn (together with his brothers X-Brawn and Prowl) was in fact one of the Transformers that pulled me back into collecting Transformers.
