{"id":23033,"date":"2013-03-28T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=23033"},"modified":"2013-03-28T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T14:33:40","slug":"vault-review-tf-prime-beast-hunters-twinstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=23033","title":{"rendered":"Vault Review: TF Prime Beast
Hunters Twinstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m not really planning on buying all the TF Prime Predacons, but the few that are out have interested me enough that I seem to be heading in that direction.\u00a0 So today I\u2019ve got a little review for a little figure I picked up a couple weeks ago at Target: Cyberverse Twinstrike.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t buy a lot of the Cyberverse figures.\u00a0 I think as a kid I would have had fun with them (especially since they have their own playsets now), but as an adult collector I really like my figures to have a nice amount of detail and poseability.\u00a0 (I also like scale, but we all know that\u2019s pretty laughable when it comes to Transformers.)\u00a0 I probably wouldn\u2019t have picked up Twinstrike at all if it wasn\u2019t for the nostalgia factor.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not really sure why, but as a kid I had a lot of Transformers that turned into animals.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember asking for them specifically, I think my parents just bought them for me because I liked monsters in general.\u00a0 So instead of cars, trucks and jets, I ended up with figures like Octopunch, Flamefeather, and a few Seacons.\u00a0 But one of the more interesting beasts I had was a little yellowish orange two-headed dragon named Sinnertwin.<\/p>\n

That pretty much guaranteed I\u2019d be picking up his modern day counterpart.<\/p>\n

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Sculpt wise I bought Twinstrike for his beast form alone.\u00a0 He\u2019s pretty much a perfect update of Sinnertwin\u2019s alt mode.\u00a0 His sleek body actually makes him look more dangerous, like he\u2019s built to chase down prey on the battlefield.\u00a0 His two heads also look much more dangerous with their added spiky scales and sinister smiles.\u00a0 Even his feet have been updated from paws to full on claws.<\/p>\n

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Robot mode is where Twinstrike gets to be his own bot though.\u00a0 Like his fellow Predacons, Twinstrike\u2019s head still has that animalistic feel.\u00a0 His torso and legs look much more robotic though.\u00a0 Even his clawed feet twist around to form shoes.\u00a0 But his arms are where it gets wild again.\u00a0 They\u2019re just his dragon heads pulled to the side.\u00a0 This gives him a crazy armored look, complete with mouth-hands.\u00a0 Continue to page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Color-wise Twinstrike still holds the homage, just with more vibrant blues and yellows.\u00a0 All these parts are molded in their respective colors, but there are a few painted metallic purple and teal areas that do a great job of highlighting the figure.<\/p>\n

Twinstrike comes with one accessory, a \u201cPiston Hammer\u201d.\u00a0 It can also double as an odd shaped gun and has 3mm connector ports that can attach to various parts of his body.<\/p>\n

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Articulation is where this figure comes up against some hard limits.\u00a0 The good news is that all of the joints he does have are ball joints.\u00a0 They\u2019re in each dragon neck\/robot shoulder, his hips, ankles, and both beast mode shoulders also.\u00a0 The bad news is that this still isn\u2019t enough to give him a lot of posing options.\u00a0 In robot mode his arms are too straight to look dynamic, and in beast mode his legs really need knee joints to give him more natural animal-like poses.<\/p>\n

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All around Twinstrike is a nice update to a G1 character that hasn\u2019t seen anything since his original figure.\u00a0 Even though I\u2019d prefer to have a larger figure of his character, his small stature doesn\u2019t bother me since he still looks good with his fellow dragons.\u00a0 Also as an added bonus and homage to the original Sinnertwin, Twinstrike is the first of a group of Cyberverse Predacons that can combine to form Abominus.\u00a0 So I guess I\u2019m stuck getting a few more of his Cyberverse brothers.<\/p>\n

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

I\u2019m not really planning on buying all the TF Prime Predacons, but the few that are out have interested me enough that I seem to be heading in that direction.\u00a0 So today I\u2019ve got a little review for a little figure I picked up a couple weeks ago at Target: Cyberverse Twinstrike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23034,"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":[34,10,35],"tags":[1889,1819,1177,24,349,1875,1247,2570,1888],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/twstTN.jpg?fit=50%2C50","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-5Zv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23082,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=23082","url_meta":{"origin":23033,"position":0},"title":"Vault Review: TF Prime Beast Hunters Hun-Gurrr","date":"April 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As fate would have it, a couple days after my Twinstrike review I stumbled across another Predacon on a trip to Walmart.\u00a0 So since I'm still having fun with the little guys, the next figure on the way to completing Abominus is Cyberverse Legion Hun-Gurrr. 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