The Brick’s potential, however, will soon be revealed… Sadly, the Brick has no real use in robot mode, with no 5mm peg to be held by Blaster and nowhere else to mount it. Also, the joints in his ankles and feet have a bit of a rickety feel due to the odd joint placement, and can make it hard to keep him balanced.įor weapons, Blaster comes with a sweet-looking rifle that is just a little too small for him, but it’s pretty accurate to his G1 rifle, so that’s pretty cool. The lack of a waist joint is disappointing, but necessary for the cassette gimmick, which is surprisingly unobtrusive to the figure’s aesthetics. But hey, it certainly works better than Galvatron.īlaster’s got about as much articulation as you’d expect from such a chunky guy: swivel neck, biceps, and thighs ratcheted knees and elbows universal-ratchet shoulders and hips and ankle tilts. The large size of the face makes it look decent on Blaster’s body, but it also means it looks really off on deluxe figures. The underlying face is… weird, and according to TFWiki it’s based on Alternators Skids, which was redecoed into Blaster, which is just crazy enough of a reference for me to approve. Speaking of his head, Blaster does the Leader-class thing of having a helmet flip up out of his robot mode to bulk up the Titan Master head, making it look more proportional and more G1-like. The clear plastic window chest is kind of a bummer since it should really be blue, as should the visor on his head. He’s covered in original sticker-referencing paint apps and tampographs, which look way better than they have any right to be. He keeps traditional to his G1 toy by being really tall and made of boxes, and overall I don’t think he looks that bad. But hey, more on that later.īlaster’s robot mode is 100% chunk. He’s one of those weird Titan Masters that look exactly like the guy they’re forming a head for, but since Blaster becomes a base, it’s fun to reimagine the actual figure as a giant mech for tiny Blaster. Also, as you can see, other “spy tablet” Legends figures such as Rewind can happily fit into Blaster’s chest/altmode, though sadly only one at a time.ĭespite some misshapen paint apps on his eyes, Twincast is actually one of my favorite Titan Masters due to his lovely plastic colors that compliment the sculpted detail. Speaking of the cassette door, Blaster comes with something that is not a cassette nor one of his traditional partners: the Brick! It’s just a solid chunk of plastic with some painted nozzles and a seat for a Titan Master, and it serves basically no purpose on this mode other than to provide a place for the Titan Master to store while in altmode. As far as box modes go, Blaster is nicely solid and compact, and actually feels quite hefty in this mode. The door is spring-loaded and pops open with the press of a button, which is always fun. It’s pretty much a big rectangle with a handle and a door that you can shove a block into. The altmode here is… not terribly convincing, but to be fair there’s only so much you can do. I’m holding out for Ginrai instead of PM Prime, and Soundwave looks like butt, so I figured I’d give Titans Return Leader Blaster a shot.īeing a ripoff of Soundwave communications specialist, Blaster naturally turns into a boombox that plays cassette tapes. But when it was announced that Titans Return leader toys are bringing back base modes for the Titan Master figures, I felt obligated to get at least one. Maybe I think his design is boring, or maybe it’s because he hasn’t really been prominent in any fiction lately, but I just don’t have a lot of love for the character. I mostly only remember him for being the Autobot version of Soundwave (and therefore less cool) and for his scene in the Battle of Autobot City in the ’86 movie. For every Transformers fan, there’s going to be one character that everyone in the fandom seems to love that you just aren’t that into.
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