Hello all,

Sorry that I don't have more photos. I'm heading to the airport later today so barely had time to mess around with this pair.

I've got a couple of pics and this is intended to be a quick bit of feedback on these new voyagers.

Sadly I didn't get chance to take pics in Bot mode (I was very tired at the time) and couldn't finish transforming Skybyte (he is nicely intricate).






Some things I can say about both figures.

Both of mine had nicely tight joints. Roadbuster has some noticeably clickly ratchets.

I didn't have time to compare them with previous voyagers but Skybyte in particular seemed visually large - even for a voyager.

Roadbuster's transformation is simple with some nice touches especially how his feet fill in the gap between the two car windows. Also his uppers form the underneath and doors of the vehicle.

The vehicle itself is very compact whereas his robot feels nice and chunky although I can confirm no wrist swivels.

He may have enough weapons to go toe to toe with AOE hound and in my limited time with the figure it seems that there will be plenty of weapon combo options. He also has lots of places to pegs in the weapons all over the robot and vehicle.

Skybyte looks great and his transformation is quite tricky (on my first try without instructions I didn't finish). One thing I love is that his knee pads form the lower jaw of the shark. His missile launcher is his hand and isn't removable - I can't remember if this is the same as the original.

That's all in this quick review. Very limited time with both, but I'm impressed. If no-one picks these up before Monday (when I return from travels) I'll take real photos for everyone.

 

Oh man, I really want those two. Thanks for the info!

 

OOOooo thanks. Can't wait to get Roady.  

I still really don't see a need to get Sky-Byte, however. Fourteen years later, but my original Gelshark/Sky-Byte are fine as is. Also that random light blue on the shark mode's head really bugs me.

 

Did you transform them or just take vehiucle mode pics

 

Roadbuster is a win for me.

 

They come in robot mode. I was exhausted and didn't even expect to have time to take these pics.

Bots modes are excellent too. Roabuster feels like walker bruiser with too many weapons.

 

Sweet, how are his legs? Same with Sky Byte, their limbs seemed really thin,are they?

 

Legs are interesting.

Roadbusters legs need to be how they are for the transformation. They don't feel thin and folding the wheel over them adds some chunkiness to them.

Skybyte's legs are thing but stable BUT once you get him in hand you won't care. It is a very impressive transformation and I didn't even have time to finish it.

 

damn so skybyte has a gun for an arm? kinda lame.

 

Yeah I found out when I tried to remove it and almost lost an eye.

It is also the Shark tail.

His head becomes the dorsal fin. His arms become the tail and his chest and legs form the head of the shark. A very nice transformation.

 

Are Sky-Byte's shoulders decent? Pics don't seem to do them justice.

 

Wrist won't be a bi problem for me since he has all the guns don't need him yo shoot gangster style.

If e had swords or something it would be different.

We knew about the gun arm for quite a bit.

 

I'll put both figures through more extensive testing when I get back from my trip on Monday.

 

lol you do know the original skybytes head made the dorsal fin and his hand was his gun/tail right?

 

Wait, what? Have you never seen Skybyte before? It's kinda how he's always been depicted.

 

Never had the original so this is new for me. Hardly a lol moment.

 

yep i have both botcon and rid. but if it was removeable it would be nice, as he's show in the comics.

 

depending on how sky byte's bot mode turns out might customize him into a movie style sky byte. i'll have to fudge the aesthetic but it works better then the original

 

While I appreciate the reviews, this section is one toy per thread. Please start up new, separate threads for both toys when you have the time.