RiD Warrior Class Quillfire

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  1. megatroptimus

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    I noticed tonight that his head could turn left and right a few degrees. I was somehow convinced it was fixed, but no, the whole assembly is on a pivot.
     
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    I got him today, the Hasbro vers!

    Love him because he is so unique, but kinda hate how little everything locks in bot mode :( 
     
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    I also found him at my local Wal-Mart. Really fun little toy that's completely unique. I'm not even collecting RID, but I had to get this toy. I really like how fun and different this mold is.
     
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    Agreed!

    An unfortunate that mine seems to not be able to close completely away (the front part) if you flushed the door part :( 
     
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    I bought the Takara version during HLJ's sale a couple of months back and it just arrived yesterday along with Fracture and the mini Strongarm.

    I love the design on this toy. Not being a standard robot really allowed Has/Tak the freedom to design a cool toy. Being so short and compact really works to his advantage to where he really doesn't have the "hollow" and lightweight appearance many of the other warriors have.
     
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    Not sure what can be done about the Quasimodo stance/head assembly, but yeah - not much else needed to Strongarm this figure into a Bulkhead.

    New head, hands & chest plate (in fact, I could see Strongarm's chest with very little modification), and you gotta new Bulkhead.
     
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    Through a quirk of fate the local stores have graced me with offering Quillfire and his direct repaint Scatterspike simultaneously. I decided to side with Scatterspike, but as Scatterspike doesn't have her own review thread (and deserving so since she's just a straight repaint of Quillfire) I'll just attach my thoughts here.

    Now, unless you absolutely have to have Quillfire because of his cartoon portrayal, which I admit I like, Scatterspike's color scheme is more eye-pleasing between the two. Or, perhaps it's because Scatterspike is more reminiscent of Stunticon Dead End.

    I really like how the car compacts on this figure, it's just the roof just kind of hangs there in the back without tabbing into anything.

    Quillfire obviously has the needle spine dagger, which at least can fit in with the rest of the quills in the back as storage, but that's a bit of an annoyance in car mode. The gun at least seats nicely and can be removed and replaced trivially.

    Scatterspike being a fem-bot is obviously an informed attribute (such as Blackarachnia's original Beast Wars toy). It is somewhat helped by the fact that Animated Strika has a rather similar build and color scheme. Said color scheme is different enough from Quillfire that I could reasonably believe it (doubly so since Quillfire's toy color scheme is a little uninspired), but I wonder if painting a crest on Scatterspike's head would help with that (I suspect just glueing on a crest would interfere with transformation which is why Hasbro opted not to give her a new head).

    While this figure is interesting to look at, it being an animal creature is almost an afterthought seeing as how that's only really conveyed by the bed of quills hanging out the back. You could easily drop those entirely and Quillfire/Scatterspike could look like a normal bot. Perhaps for that reason I'm not as "blown away" with it as I have with some of the other animal Decepticons as after a fashion this guy looks a little on the generic side.