Very clever solution. I love reversible mods. Winner.

 

Got him from Amazon yesterday. Probably my favorite of the Legacy Stunticons. The color scheme looks great, even on a reused alt-mode. Great proportions and mine has better posability than the Wildrider does. I don't mind the alt-mode and I'll just split the spoiler and glue it into place anyway. No downside outside of three minutes of work.

 

He is fine. Yeah his car mode is lacking. I wish they did something similar to Dragstrip and Deadend. Two completely different looking figures but the transformation is like 85% the same. My biggest issue is the spoiler. Wish they did the ER Wheeljack thing. The hidden gun storage is a positive. He’s not junk but he could be a lot better.

 

He's actually my second favorite of the legacy stunticon cars, after Dragstrip. I was never really into the stunticons in general so this whole set has been pretty fun, having no expectations going into it. I might also be the only person on the planet that actually enjoys his gun/spoiler combo "axe".

 

He's fine, since I guess I'm in on Menasor now. As a calf filler, he's solid, but the hood bend for that meant that nothing interesting could be done with 1/3 of the car.

Splitting the spoiler cleanly is trivial. The car holds together well, not a given after having to boil Dead End. I don't actually like the shape of the car, yet oddly it's not the new parts- the front end is oddly lumpy and lacking in flow, a holdover from Wildrider.

The transformation is everything we've seen before, tracing back at least 8 years, and lacking anything like Dead End's interesting shoulder transformation because of the combiner transformation. The exception to this statement is how the hood splits, but that's just baffling. Is it to give clearance in transformation? A remnant of a plan to do something more with the Menasor transformation?

The robot is fine. I was hoping to find something that clicked with me in his simplicity, but no dice. And since the leg robots were the obvious way to cut costs on developing Menasor, the dullest part of this set unfortunately gets repeated twice. Dead End absolutely has his flaws, but they're all in his leg halves while his upper half is actually quite good, so he wins out.

Now, I got in late so Wildrider has been and gone. One benefit to the legs being functional clones means that getting a second copy of this would be a way to finish Menasor. It's not bad after all, and on balance I did save a lot on Motormaster, enough to make up for having to buy a couple of middling figures to complete the set.

 

I’m on the page of Breakdown and Dragstrip being my favorite two deluxe Stunticons. Motormaster is a class to himself - literally. Combined - I’m very satisfied. While not screen accurate, I wish the interior of the front legs had some color from Breakdown and Wildrider to simulate the vehicles’ presence so you just didn’t see to combination of vehicles from the backside. But I’m thrilled and CW versions will be sold off at some point. Im curious if they plan to do the other combiners. I still love my CW versions of the others as the Stunticons were the weakest, but I imagine they can improve on the others somehow with the Commander class use.

 

Even though it's not Halloween, Breakdown will always find something to be paranoid of.

 

Got my breakdown in and he’s a fine figure. Although I wish his spoiler split apart. Anyone know the best way to split it in half? Thanks

 

Some ideas from this thread

 

This was the intended look for Menasor.

 

Man, this figure is the definition of "I have to get it to complete the combiner". It's a bad remold of a bad figure... hanging out with three other really good figures.

Bummer that all 5 couldn't have been good.

 

It looks nice

 

For now....

 

Hay guyz!

So apparently there's a weird variation for Breakdown's instructions. Mine is simply vanilla "Legacy", but others have "Evolution"-style instructions for Breakdown.


Trying to figure out if there's a method to it. The Breakdown figure itself has its manufacturing date stamp on the inside of the right thigh, underneath the Hasbro product code number #7187.


Breakdown with date stamp 22531, packaging with date stamp 22621: "Evolution" instructions


Breakdown with date stamp 22631, packaging with date stamp 22641: "Legacy" instructions

Breakdown with date stamp 22771: ????

Breakdown with date stamp 22781, packaging with date stamp 22911: "Legacy" instructions

 

Did you just cut it with strength or did you slam the hammer on the back of the knife?

Anyway, it looks good. Something that should've been done in production.

 

I did this to mine last night.

I had to heat my Exacto knife slightly so I can apply pressure to the back of the spoiler and just get a groove formed. There is a raised piece on the back exactly where you need to cut; but this actually makes it difficult, because the knife slides off easily.

Once you get a little groove formed, then I just used the knife as is. It took a bit to get all the way through. Totally do-able though. Just take your time.

 

....... Yep. Whosoever holds the hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power to split delicate plastic spoilers right down the middle.

Be brave my friend


Edit: seriously though, what @gbm said. Take your time. I made a groove with a hot x-acto and lightly tapped it a few times while it sat on the groove.

 

Thanks @LongarmMagnus & @gbm  

Still not too crazy about Breakdown, but that's because since with the G1 toys him and Dead End had the same lower body transformation, i.e. the legs rotating outward with the wheels ending up on the inside, so to me HasTak should've made a new lower body to be used for Dead End and Breakdown, with a minor remould for the altmodes.

 

I bought a retail version and got one from China. The instructions for both were the purple ones, but the Chinese ones were almost glossy papered, and they included the steps to form the leg for Menasor. The US ones do not.