{"id":14705,"date":"2011-10-04T02:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T07:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2011-10-04T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T00:46:28","slug":"vault-review-transformers-dark-of-the-moon-laserbeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=14705","title":{"rendered":"Vault Review: Transformers
Dark of the Moon Laserbeak"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I haven\u2019t been too impressed by Transformers: Dark of the Moon toys.\u00a0 That may have something to do with the fact I haven\u2019t seen the movie yet though.\u00a0 Two designs did stand out to me in the toy aisle:\u00a0 the terror dog Hatchet, and the overgrown chicken dinosaur that is Laserbeak.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I didn\u2019t even care about Laserbeak when I first saw him.\u00a0 He was just this odd gangly looking robotic chicken that looked like he had a touch of mange.\u00a0 But then people started finding him in stores and reviews started popping up online.\u00a0 But what really got me was the random pictures people started posting.\u00a0 Laserbeak may have a freakish design, but he made for one awesomely articulated robotic chicken-thing.<\/p>\n

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Laserbeak\u2019s vehicle mode is a VTOL aircraft.\u00a0 The design itself is a bit futuristic and reminiscent of something you might see on GI Joe.\u00a0 The red rotors on the wings are able to spin, while the wings themselves swivel forward and back.\u00a0 There\u2019s also an interesting design painted on the nose that resembles a very stylized version of Laserbeaks head.\u00a0 I guess he\u2019s not only artistic, but vain.<\/p>\n

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Laserbeak\u2019s aircraft design is mostly convincing, but there are a few organic bits that stick out here and there that can break the illusion.\u00a0 His tail stands out the most for me.\u00a0 Even when transformed correctly, which the instructions do not tell you how to do, the underneath still resembles chunks of vertebrae.\u00a0 There are also the spikes that line his back, which are never completely covered.\u00a0 Last are the feathers on his legs, which just get flipped forward and don\u2019t quite blend in with the mostly gray and black vehicle.<\/p>\n

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But I don\u2019t really mind those issues with his vehicle mode since I bought him for his robot\/animal form.\u00a0 Laserbeak has an impressive ten inch wingspan with some really interesting sculpting that gives them a techno-organic feathery appearance.\u00a0 His body doubles in on itself to become bulkier, while his tail and neck extend out.\u00a0 Even his skeletal feet and backwards shins extend from his pudgy thighs.\u00a0 All of these details work together perfectly to give him great bird-like proportions.<\/p>\n

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Aside from his wings, what I love most about Laserbeaks sculpt is his head.\u00a0 His large bulbous eyes are in a perpetual slanty glare, giving him the perfect look of a bird that\u2019s studying his prey.\u00a0 This dangerous look is only enhanced by his articulation (which I\u2019ll get into in a minute), and his large sharp beak and tusks.\u00a0 My only complaint is that his head doesn\u2019t match the one on the instructions, which looks even more predatory and menacing. Continue to page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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What makes Laserbeak\u2019s personality really shine is his fantastic articulation.\u00a0 He has a hinged jaw and his head sits on a segmented neck that\u2019s connected with four ball joints.\u00a0 His tail works in a similar fashion with three ball joints and a hinge on the end for the double blades.\u00a0 Laserbeak\u2019s hips are ball joints connected to a swivel.\u00a0 He has double jointed knees and ball jointed ankles.\u00a0 The bases of Laserbeak\u2019s wings are a swivel hinge joint, while the feathery parts are made up of five different swivel joints each.<\/p>\n

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Laserbeak comes with two ridiculously oversized guns.\u00a0 Both of which have pegs and can be plugged into the tops or bottoms of his wings, the top or bottom of his nose cone, and the bottoms of both his feet.\u00a0 These two guns also have the \u201cMechTech\u201d ability and can combine to create a gigantic rifle, which looks even more comical attached to him in either form.<\/p>\n

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If I had to suggest one figure from the Dark of the Moon line, it would definitely be Laserbeak.\u00a0 His birdlike proportions and extreme amount of articulation give him a great personality and make him tremendously fun to just play around with and pose.\u00a0 Plus he\u2019s a giant robotic vulture-chicken that looks great terrorizing your other figures.<\/p>\n

-Vault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven\u2019t been too impressed by Transformers: Dark of the Moon toys.\u00a0 That may have something to do with the fact I haven\u2019t seen the movie yet though.\u00a0 Two designs did stand out to me in the toy aisle:\u00a0 the terror dog Hatchet, and the overgrown chicken dinosaur that is Laserbeak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[1176,1222,24,1223,1224,2570],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lsrbTN.jpg?fit=50%2C50","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-3Pb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16739,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=16739","url_meta":{"origin":14705,"position":0},"title":"Vault Review: Transformers Prime Soundwave (Robots in Disguise)","date":"February 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I was lucky enough to stumble upon a fresh case of the new Transformers Prime: Robots in Disguise.\u00a0 I say lucky because my favorite character, Soundwave, is apparently only one per case and I was able to snag him.\u00a0 Yeah! 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