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TF Prime: Rumble
« Thread Started on Sept 17, 2012, 12:26am »

TF PRIME: Rumble

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Hi guys. Tonight I will be reviewing TF PRIME Rumble. When I first saw the sample pics of this toy I was curious and wanted to see for myself what the toy brings to the table. Got the item from a mall this afternoon and decided to create this review to express my opinions on the toy. I hope you enjoy this review and gain some idea whether you would want to purchase this or not.

(As always) I will be reviewing this toy based on three categories:

- Scuplt (Sculpt and Paint)
- Articulation (Posability and Balance)
- Fun Factor (Accesories, Gimmicks and other features)

(All pictures below are thumbnails, click to enlarge)

[SCULPT]

Rumble transforms into a blue compact car of a non-descript brand. He's painted a nice shiny blue-green with black rims on plastic wheels. The windshield is a a translucent red plastic. The grills are simple black with a decepticon logo painted purple on the front. A decepticon logo is also painted on it's back, but it's vehicle's backlights are non-painted. It has a spolier painted the same as the body. To be honest, it has nothing much to offer aside from what was described. It's very non-descript.

Transforming Rumble is not difficult to transform though I needed to look into the manual to see where the head is supposed to be since the chest panel doesn't easily open the first time. The legs has some tricks into it, but nothing that will catch you off guard. The panels found on his back which serves as the sides-skirts of the car is something I haven't seen in a long while and has made me nod my head in approval. When the chest panel is opened, the head is also spring-triggered. One thing I would like to point out is that when the figure is faced back, some hollowed parts are evident, this does cut down from the weight of the figure (and the production cost) but it does make me feel the toy's quality suffers.

While in robot mode, he still has the blue-green and black motif with a bit of yellow on the crotch and knees. Tranluscent red is found on it's chest and eyes. His arms and legs are black. The face is sculpt is nice though, sadly the camera doesn't do the toy's head justice.

[ARTICULATION]
Fairly articulated, Rumble features hips, thigh-cuts, knees, ankles, elbow, shoulders, arm-cuts and a ball-jointed head (which can have Rumble look up and down, or look up when he's bowed down). Unfortunately the huge shoulders plus the backpanel prevents some poses but it's not that bad after you get used to it. The legs have nice posability about them, however the balance of the feet suffers when placed on non-flat surfaces (like the floor of Chain Bases).

KICKTEST: Passed

[FUN FACTOR]
Rumble's accessories are two cannons that also serves as his G1's namesake's piledrivers. The accessories have 5mm pegs on one end and a 5mm socket on the other. It could fit on either Rumble's hands or on the sockets on it's backpanels (connecting it here can give Rumble side cannons). This where the toy design gets cheaty, the pegs that attaches to the arm has covers on it so when you position the cannon pointing down it looks like a pile-driver. Sure the cannon's purpose is to be used as either a gun or the piledriver, but just having it point down seems kinda cheap. When in vehicle mode, you can place the cannons on the vehicle's side.

[Overall]
I will no longer comment on the fact that this figure, as a deluxe, is smaller than previous items from the same price point. This is because as we move forward in time it is expected that the product of a specific price point would be different from an item done this year compared to an item done 5-6 years ago. The smaller size does race flags and the this trend does give us clues of what to expect in another 5-6 years and that just scares me as a collector, but this is now and this is the standard they are giving us.

PROS
- The paint app looks nice.
- Aside from the huge shoulders the toys has little kibble.

CONS
- Some hollowed parts are evident.
- The piledriver form makes me wanna say "Hey! That's cheating"

RATING: 3 out of 5.

RECOMMENDATION: TF Prime Mold collectors, TF Mold collectors, TF Prime completists

If you're okay with the size, it's an okay buy. If you like Rumble as a character, it's an okay buy. If you like cars, I would be okay if you have the extra cash.

« Last Edit: Sept 17, 2012, 7:18pm by Rohml »